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We are stealing Robin away from Batman.

That's what the made-on revolution was.

That's why the USAID and the NED poured $100 million into the street protest, right?

And so they overthrew the government, and then a bunch of the former Ukrainian prime ministers started floating out that we should tear up the Sevastopol lease.

In Crimea, because this is Russia's only year-long warm water naval port.

They've always had it.

This was their agreement.

They had like a 50-year lease or something like that.

But after the West backed a coup that overthrew the government and put in a pro-Western government, they started talking big like, well, maybe we'll tear up that lease.

And so Vladimir Putin went, no.

I'll just take it.

And that was like, so anyway, so he goes back to that, doesn't go back a few months earlier and then misses the entire point that no.

So, cause like the point is that it's not just like me being like, oh, I wish Donald Trump was into the same books I'm into or something like that.

The point is that when you don't get that piece of the chapter, then you miss what's happening right now.

So when you're talking about like these, essentially what Donald Trump was saying, the way he was trying to sell it to Zelensky was like, look, do this rare earth minerals deal with us.

And this is kind of like a security guarantee.

It's not exactly a security guarantee, but if we're in business with you and then Putin's trying to fuck up our business, hey, he's picking a fight with us too.

But the whole point is that that's exactly what caused this whole catastrophe.

Vladimir Putin and the entire Russian elite have been crystal clear about this, that they go, look, we can tolerate a neutral Ukraine.

We could tolerate NATO up to Ukraine.