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think it's a good idea to out some other head of state or a family member of a head of state? That would be a terrible idea because we would create this whole animosity with some other countries that we didn't really need to. Now, would justice be served? Nope. But when you're dealing with international relations, you end up doing all these terrible tradeoffs. You know, people die if they do this,…

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just means you have a military. If your military has not prepared for every likely or even potential war, they're not really doing their job. So would it make sense, even if we had no intention of starting a war, would it make sense for us to move a bunch of weapons into US control away from Ukraine? And the answer is it probably makes sense to move those weapons. But it also makes a good warning for Iran. So if Iran thinks we're preparing for a war, do you think they'll be a little more flexible? They should. You know, they're not super flexible right now, but it's got to feel different if the ships are sitting off the coast of your country and they're warships and you just heard that 20,000 anti-drone missiles just got delivered. Then you're going to be a little bit more worried. So I always wonder if this sort of story is planted and that the real customer for it is Iran so that they can look at it and say, "Whoa, looks li

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ke they're changing their focus to us." But it could be unrelated. Russia is apparently increasing their offensive into Ukraine and they're going into the Dnipro region. Now, if you're wondering how to pronounce that correctly, that's why you come to me. It's called the Dnipro region and that's very important. And apparently it's just above Crimea, somebody said. So if you were walking toward the…

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