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But anyway, if you look at the peace deal, at the end of the peace deal, there's all this stuff tacked on about mining contracts for the US.

Um, also, there was the, um, was it the, the Armenia-Azerbaijan thing, where when the, the, uh, the deal was signed, um, Trump had extracted this deal that this road would be built.

Now, it wasn't a, a personal deal, but that this road would be built, but that the road would be called ...

I had to write this down 'cause I would forget 'cause it's so absurd, the Trump Routes for International Peace and Prosperity.

No country's won two years in a row.

There hasn't been the kind of dominance that the Soviet union once had, um, Armenia, the last country to win gold twice in a row, uh, from 18 and 20 years ago.

And so it seems like something should go wrong.

And, you know, obviously Uzbekistan, the US and China on paper can compete with the Indian team, right? Like the ratings are all in the same area.

I mean, I feel like the Olympiad is often about competition.

camaraderie.

That's why we saw the Armenian team win two Olympiads despite not being anywhere close to the rating favorites.

We saw many years of Russia being the dominant team and then not winning the Olympiad because it's a lot of pressure.

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More than 6,800 students from 295 schools in Armenia participated in the assessment, and this was in March-May of 2025, with 88% in the 10th grade.

And he was really trying to angle himself as just your average guy who loves watching basketball.

You know, it actually reminds me of the campaign by Nikol Pashinyan in Armenia, how he was so big into Instagram and TikTok.

Yes.

You know, really trying to launch his music.

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More than 6,800 students from 295 schools in Armenia participated in the assessment, and this was in March, May of 2025, with 88% in the 10th grade.

The rest of the conquests after that are much smaller in scale, and a lot of them are barely even conquests.

Uthman conquers Armenia, which he doesn't really.

I mean, that's just kind of-- Th- that's also taking advantage of a destabilized enemy, because the Armenians, for the past 700 years, have been pulled in one or the other direction by the Romans or whatever Persian threat was to the east.

So they're disorganized, and he's taking advantage of a power vacuum.

Then we get to Muawiyah.

I paid everybody's college bills off.

paid everything off for her and we separated I went and did a TV show in Armenia in 2019 and I was like oh I'm an actor full time now I got rid of a couple of shops that I made good money with I get back and we separate and we you know what I'm saying so literally all that energy I put in my kids are all grown up now I've just got all of my energy and I focused on one thing and acting and you know what's funny is she lived an hour from here she just moved three miles from here at the beginning of the year I still see her every week, every day almost.

You know what I mean? Yeah.

The lady that we got separated, we've been married 27 years.

I paid everybody's college bills off.

paid everything off for her and we separated I went and did a TV show in Armenia in 2019 and I was like oh I'm an actor full time now I got rid of a couple of shops that I made good money with I get back and we separate and we you know what I'm saying so literally all that energy I put in my kids are all grown up now I've just got all of my energy and I'm focused on one thing and acting you know what's funny is she lived an hour from here she just moved three miles from here at the beginning of the year I still see her every week, every day almost.

You know what I mean? The lady that we got separated from, we've been married 27 years.

So that pivot point in my life made me go 100% into a different art form.

And I think it's wrong.

When you talk to individuals, you know, I lived in Russia 12 years, spent a lot of time in Ukraine and Belorussia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, all over the place, separately.

But what happened is I understood it.

People are basically the same, and we better start figuring out how to live together rather than killing each other and how, you know, at some point in the not-too-distant future, you know, geologically, we're going to have to get off of this planet and do something else.