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You are listening to No PC Allowed, AKA No Political Correctness Allowed, and I am Mack Iverson.

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The Ukraine War. What's really going on?

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What really amazes me about this? How there are so many people, and I've noticed this in people in my life,

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who seem to be full-throated supporters of Ukraine and yet cannot come up with a single, solitary, persuasive reason why

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we should be backing Ukraine with all our taxpayer money to support them, even just monetarily.

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Obviously Russia would overwhelm Ukraine if we didn't support them,

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but there's no American national security interest at stake there.

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And so no one can really give me a reason why we should be there.

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For so much pain and suffering and bloodshed and death, I just find that utterly amazing.

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It's incredible, the shallowness of liberals and neocons mostly in supporting this bloody, deadly stalemate.

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It's been over a year since I've done a podcast on this Ukraine War topic,

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but things really haven't changed that much at all.

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All the fundamentals are in Russia's favor.

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They have no real interest in conquering Ukraine.

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They simply don't want NATO rubbing up against Russia through Ukraine.

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So this war is for Russia's very survival.

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Therefore, they will never voluntarily retreat.

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But Russia clearly does not want to govern Ukraine, because Ukraine is too much of a divided mess.

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It's too split. It's too difficult to govern if too much of Ukraine hates Russia.

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But these divisions in Ukraine culture make actual dividing lines easier,

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because those differences are mostly regional.

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So Russia is looking to annex roughly one-fifth of Ukraine.

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Russia is still ahead in this war.

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They have a 10 to 1 artillery advantage, and they have air superiority, and Ukraine has no real air defense.

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Access to the Black Sea, which is on Ukraine's southern border, is existential to Russian security.

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Russian national security is at great risk otherwise.

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So they absolutely must maintain control of Crimea on the Black Sea.

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Ukraine is very weak. They have lost some 10 million citizen refugees, and they may never come back.

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In this war, relatively little ground is being conquered by the Russians, but this defect is an illusion.

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Militarily speaking, holding ground is a very old-fashioned idea.

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In Vietnam, for example, major battles were still being fought early in that war,

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where thousands of lives were sacrificed for a hill in the middle of a jungle, for example.

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A battle in which the U.S. may have won, but couldn't hold that position forever.

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So a few days later, they withdrew, only to have it retaken by the Viet Cong.

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That type of warfare is in vain.

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So in Ukraine, the amount of ground held by Russia does not matter too much.

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What matters is that Russia is still fully engaged and not retreating.

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For Russia, this is a war of attrition leading inevitably to a negotiated peace.

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This is a no-brainer.

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I am predicting that there will be no peace negotiations until or unless President Trump is re-elected.

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Vice President Brandon only wants an endless stalemate for his military-industrial complex little butt buddies.

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Hard-working, middle-class taxpayer money is being wasted to continue the illusion

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that simply flushing hundreds of billions of dollars down the loo will somehow buy victory for the Ukrainians.

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In other words, this is dollar-cost averaging into a giant, dirty, bloody money pit.

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Paid with innocent blood, both Ukraine and Russia,

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those proletariat soldiers who have to die for the deep state neocon robber barons.

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That's incredible.

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This, to me, is proof that liberalism is dead.

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Liberalism means nothing anymore.

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Liberalism is what the deep state and communist-fascist China says it is.

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And they buy everything they want.

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If they want something, they just put enough money on the table and poof, they get whatever they want, more or less.

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Liberalism can now simply be termed the path of least resistance.

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Liberals have basically always been the lazy ones, the ones who emote.

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They don't fight for what they believe in.

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They fight for where all the billionaire bot emotion goes.

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Emotion and belief are two completely different things.

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Emotion can be anything that gets the blood stirring with the simpleton useful idiot fascist street rioters.

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But belief should be substantiated by reason and logic.

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Conservatives still hold onto classic liberalism, which is basically having an open mind.

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Modern liberals hate being open-minded.

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They believe in censoring anything that makes them feel uncomfortable.

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Just look at all the censorship in social media today.

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Next, let's look at some perspective on this Russia-Ukraine conflict.

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Russia is shrinking.

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It has one third of the population of its 18th century population.

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And it lost half its population in 1991 after the breakup of the Soviet Union.

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Now it's an economy only about the size of the much, much smaller country of Spain.

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As the number of pro-Western countries grow to the west of Russia and increasingly become members of NATO,

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Russia understandably grows more nervous in the event of an open conflict with these Western neighbors.

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There is also the paramount problem of economics.

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If the Russians did not take Crimea from Ukraine back in 2014,

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that would have undercut Russia's natural gas and oil reserves,

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which may contain two trillion meters worth of the 14th largest reserve in the world

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and driven their economy down dramatically.

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That is why Russia forcibly annexed Crimea and also why Ukraine wants to take it back.

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Both countries' greed for natural resources like natural gas, oil, and shell rock drives their actions.

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But again, Russia would be greatly compromised if Russia completely loses Ukraine.

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And Ukraine could never become the regional power that Zelensky envisions it as

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if Ukraine does not achieve total victory.

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NATO is bragging about Ukraine someday becoming a NATO member,

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but Russia is worried because Ukraine shares a massive border with Russia.

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Article 5 of the NATO Treaty states, and I quote,

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If a NATO ally is the victim of an armed attack,

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each and every other member of the alliance will consider this act of violence

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as an armed attack against all members

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and will take the actions it deems necessary to assist the ally attacked.

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So with NATO, if you attack one country, it's the same as attacking all.

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There are 32 NATO countries. Russia obviously could never win such a war.

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Thus, we now understand better Russia's obsession with maintaining some control over Ukraine.

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So let me ask you this. If you, dear listener, were in Putin's shoes,

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how would you play this?

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Might you too have invaded Ukraine?

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The great fear, obviously, in the Kremlin is that Ukraine, as a NATO nation,

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will someday make conflict with Russia and force them to surrender Crimea.

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Because again, Russia can't fight all 32 nations of NATO.

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Therefore, Putin has three requests.

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Number one, Ukraine never be allowed to join NATO.

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By the way, this request is thoroughly reasonable.

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Number two, NATO withdraw all armed troops back to pre-1997 boundaries to Central Europe,

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no further east than Germany.

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This is understandable, but way too ambitious for NATO to ever agree to it.

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And number three, NATO and America agree to freeze the NATO alliance as is

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and rule out any future expansion to any new members.

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And no military exercises in Eastern Europe without Russian consent.

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Number three is really a stretch and NATO should not agree to it.

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All three together, these are highly ambitious requests and currently not likely to be accepted by NATO.

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Only request number one, freezing Ukraine out of NATO, should be considered as a part of ceasefire negotiations.

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Russia currently occupies that part of Ukraine, which is already more sympathetic to Russia.

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It looks like a natural division based on cultural history,

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regardless of this war.

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The Eastern Fifth or Donbass region of Ukraine is pro-Russia.

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The Western Four-Fifths is more anti-Russian.

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So why not make this the new final boundary and then agree to keep Ukraine out of NATO?

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It's called a compromise and it will work.

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As I said earlier, in spite of Russia's problems, the fundamentals are still greatly in Russia's favor.

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Vladimir Zelensky claims that, quote,

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if Ukraine loses, other countries will be attacked, unquote.

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The straw man fallacy here is either they win or lose.

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But a negotiated peace is neither.

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And it was stone cold obvious from day one that a negotiated peace treaty would be the only final solution for this war.

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So why does this bloody war keep dragging on and dragging on?

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If Ukraine does lose, Zelensky is finished.

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That may be what he's most worried about.

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If there's an armistice, Zelensky will also be finished.

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So he's laser-beam focused on winning, not compromising.

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On the Ukrainian side, theft is rampant.

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There are massive bribes and pocketing of U.S. taxpayer funds.

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The people behind the corruption reportedly feel no fear about facing any consequences.

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Vice President Brandon's blank check policy for a bloody, costly war with no end in sight is currently at nearly $200 billion.

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Backers have not tracked any funds, which ignores calls for transparency for what U.S. taxpayers are going into debt for.

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Nearly one million soldiers and civilians have been killed or wounded, and yet Zelensky has no desire for negotiated peace.

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But he tried for an interview with Oprah Winfrey.

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What does that tell you?

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That's a sign of him losing votes in Congress to prolong this war.

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He claims that he doesn't have enough men to use all the weapons the U.S. could provide them.

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And what does that tell you?

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Ukraine is not releasing specific numbers, but the average number of the Ukraine soldiers is about 43 years old.

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That means men from their teens to 70s are fighting.

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They're pulling them off trains and buses and sending them to the front.

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Those with means are bribing their way out of service.

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And so now they can't even find enough people to run the draft offices because you're automatically assumed to be corrupt.

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A top Zelensky advisor says, quote, people are stealing like there's no tomorrow, unquote.

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That is an obvious byproduct of a going nowhere war that just grinds on and on and on.

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Putin says he's ready to negotiate right now.

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But is Zelensky happy with that?

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No, he says Ukraine can still win.

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Well, what about the American military industrial complex and international deep state providing just enough support for Ukraine to hang on but never ever win?

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Just enough support so that no calls for a ceasefire is ever forced out in the open because victory is always just out of reach.

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In other words, the ones with the power and money continue to win and win and win and grow richer and richer and richer at everyone else's expense.

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Big surprise.

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The Ukraine war is all about NATO expansion.

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Putin has been begging for Ukraine not to be a part of NATO since 2008.

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So his armed response to Western expansion into Ukraine was absolutely not a surprise to anyone.

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The deep state knew about the coming Ukraine violence for many years and welcomed it because there's big money and armed conflict.

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And the bought off media is highly paid to hide that knowledge from you, dear listener, as much as possible.

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By the way, and this is fascinating, during Tucker Carlson's interview, Putin revealed that back in the 90s,

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he approached President Clinton on Russia becoming a member of NATO.

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Putin wanted Russia to join NATO.

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Clinton said he did not know, but he would talk to his advisors.

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Clinton got back to Putin and told him his advisors said no.

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Now, why in the world would NATO through the US turn down the country for membership whom NATO's very existence was created to guard against?

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Any ideas?

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NATO was originally made to guard Western Europe from communist Soviet Russia.

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But now that the Soviet Union was no more, why not welcome in Russia?

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It's like NATO, led by the USA, turned down total victory saying,

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Nah, we don't want to win this war against communism.

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They lie when they say the Ukraine war has nothing to do with NATO.

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Ukraine has everything to do with NATO expansion and nothing to do with Russian aggression.

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NATO needs Russia as a scapegoat to justify its massive unjustifiable growth.

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This is nothing more than the beginning of 1984's Orwellian division of the world.

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They want to drive independent Russia into China's arms.

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NATO must therefore grow rapidly in order to fight off this new Russia-China alliance.

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But that's the very thing that NATO is trying to create.

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Are you getting this?

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Are you getting this?

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In other words, only the power mad and their useful idiot B. Hotches support this vain war.

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Action step.

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Tune out all news on Ukraine except that which dives into deep analysis.

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Understand how everything corrupt in this world is interlocked together to completely destroy you and your family's chances for success and happiness in this lifetime.

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Totally ignore the bought-off deep state lying dog fake news agencies and that includes Fox spews.

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Tune into No PC Allowed instead for alternative ways of looking at this globalist created mess.

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You've been listening to No PC Allowed.

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I am Matt Iverson.

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We will meet again next week and every week.