I'll let you go.

Well, thank you.

I appreciate your indulgence.

Look, it's not a straw man, because you have a very senior official who's made that point multiple times, including as recently just a few months ago.

So, um, you understand there's a problem with that under- with that approach.

And you're obviously a very smart man.

You have interesting information you pull across from historical context, but you don't know much about Ukraine, and you don't know much about Russia.

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