Published 17 November 2022

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Germany's not mature. German leaders talk about a No-Fly Zone, even though they
know that Russia didn't do it. Because everybody's saying that even if Russia
didn't fire that missile, it's Russia's fault. And here's the beauty of it -
it's Russia's fault. If they hadn't invaded Ukraine, they they wouldn't be
launching missiles that the Ukrainians have to intercept and end up attacking
Poland. OK, I like that logic but, my response to that is if you didn't invite
Ukraine into NATO, we wouldn't have this problem to begin with. If you didn't
perpetrate the Maidan coup in 2014, we wouldn't have this problem. If you didn't
falsify your intent on Minsk 2, we wouldn't have this problem. Don't blame
Russia for all of your failings.

History didn't begin on February 24th 2022. History began a long time prior to
that, dating back to pre 2007 when Putin stood before the Munich Security
Conference and chided America and the collective West about what they were
doing. This is a problem decades in the making. Don't blame Russia for the
failures of American policy and the failures of NATO. It's not Russia's
fault. Russia had no option. I'm one of these guys and Jeff you know this, I
chide my government - I say "War is the last option. You have to exhaust every
possible [a]venue to avoid war before you even think about going to war and I
will challenge anybody here right now - tell me one [a]venue Russia could have
taken that they didn't take. One. Give it to me right now. Type it here if you
want to. If you don't want to do it right now, email me. I challenge you. It's
an open challenge. One thing Russia could have done that they didn't do to
prevent this war and you can't come up with one because Russia did
everything. This was literally a war of last resort. It was done to prevent an
imminent attack on the Donbass by a 60 to 100,000 strong Ukrainian military,
trained, equipped, organised and directed by NATO. Directed by NATO to attack
the Donbass! This is a NATO war! God, Russia go ahead, nuke them. I'm tired of
this shit. I don't mean that.
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