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d steroids, right? Make you look puffy or something. So my take on Putin from quite a while ago was he looked like he was dying. Do you remember when I was saying — how long ago was I saying that Putin was dying? Six months ago? Can somebody give me when's the first time you heard me say it? Five months ago? Six months ago or ish? Right now when I said Putin was dying six months ago and you could…

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g to attack that town and take it even though a third of us will die. It feels like Russia started slow walking the war.

Now remember that I told you this and wait to see how long it takes for it to be in the mainstream media. How long do you think it will take? Because nobody said this yet, right? I don't believe anybody has said that the Russian military is slowing down because they also expect Putin not to last. Well, I think you'll see it by the end of today. By the end of the day.

All right. Would you like a movie recommendation? Since I've told you that all movies suck and they don't make good ones anymore, I actually watched a movie last night on my iPad. There was a good movie. It's called Uncharted. Have you seen it? And you know I'll give away the thing or anything. So who's the young actor who played Spider-Man recently? Oh, is that a — Tom Holland, right? Tom Holland. So Tom Holland is really fit. I didn't realize he was cut pretty well. And he plays a guy, a normal guy who is just really coordinated. Just really, really coordinated. And I love what they did with the action scenes because just making an ordinary guy just really coordinated, he just does lots of things that really coordinated people can do, and it's really fun to watch.

And you know I'm tired of movies. I'm tired of movies because it's all the same movie. There's somebody tied to a chair and tortured. There's a car chase. Blah, blah, blah, blah. You know, there's one person fights against 25 and beats them. It's all the same. But this movie actually found a way to create completely new action scenes in the air that were pretty impressive. It was very creative. Creative movie. I like it. But you have to still have to fast forward through all the scene-setting scenes. You know, when I come to a movie, if I'm watching it on my iPad and I'm alone, and you get to the part where two people are showing how much they love each other — like it might be same sex and they're just best friends or something — but you get to see that really tender moment when they show each other's love to each other, fast forward. I don't really need to see half a minute of these two characters loving each other. I'm like, I got it. Yeah, those two love each other. Got it. Got it. Move to the plot. I got it. I got it. And they love each other. I got it. I got that in five seconds. Got it. Move on. That's how I watch a movie now. Every time the scene is one that's gonna be five minutes of really — five seconds, fast forward.

Well, here's another thing that I'm going to claim some rightness on even though I was totally wrong about Ukraine being invaded by Russia in the first place. So that one doesn't go away from my permanent record. However, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, I guess yesterday or today, expressed hope that Ukraine will prevail against Russia as Moscow's military advance appears to be stalling. So now important people are saying out loud that Ukraine looks like they have a good chance of just winning the war. Just already winning the war.

Now, am I the rightest person in the world about this? Can anybody give me the name of anybody — let's say who does this for a living, you know, people who talk in the public domain — is there anybody you saw, anybody besides me who said that Ukraine would give them a fair fight? Anybody? But I'm sure there were a lot of individuals, but was there anybody willing to say it? I think I'm the only person who was dumb enough to say in public. Malcolm Nance. But when did he say it? Bill Barr on Ben Shapiro? Or are you saying you like that show? Yeah, I think I own that one. I believe so.

We still don't know if Ukraine will — well, at this point, let me ask you, at this point would you say as of today — just forget any opinion you've ever had before, forget all of your prior opinions. If you could start today, is Ukraine going to prevail in maintaining themselves as essentially the same country? Yes or no? Will Ukraine pre

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vail? As of today, looking at your comments, I'm seeing more yeses than no's, but less no's. And I think a no is a reasonable — you're still reasonable if you're saying no. I disagree with no, but you are not unreasonable with that opinion. Yes, without the east maybe. Define prevail. Prevail means that they're effectively still Ukraine, but they may have lost some border territory or not. So whet…

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