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And so anyway, my point is just to compare it to Iraq.

Who knows how big of a deal was it to poison a U.S.

president who wanted to have detente with Putin at that time?

Like maybe we could have avoided this whole thing and that the death toll – I don't know.

I've seen different reporting on it.

But it's close to Iraq.

I mean it's – I think it's more military and less civilians, which does matter.

Yeah.

Well, that's a good point.

That's a good point, too.

Yeah, that's right.

So, you know, I mean, look, it still changes the moral calculation a little bit when someone puts on a uniform and is holding a gun.

It's a little bit different than a kid or something like that.

But, you know, the the crime of of killing the potential for a president to make peace with Putin.

I mean, this is you know, this is the thing that's so like.

infuriating about all of it and something that really, you know, it's like, well, you know, I'm told like, I'm not an expert, you're just a comedian.

It's like, leave this to the serious experts here.

But the thing that's so goddamn frustrating and just like profoundly reckless

Is that look like when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 and you go back before that.

But like, let's just take that as a point to start.