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#392 "Tanks for Victory, Oscars So Boring, and Ben Dreyfuss Is Here to Offend You"

The Fifth Column

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Russia's Economic Problems Are Much Deeper Than Was Predicted, Right?

The collapse of the Russian economy has not happened in the way that people suspected it might, considering so many sanctions and no Western products coming into Russia. The Russians are now dealing with troops that are being pulled out of like, you know, classrooms and pulled off of jobs to be conscripted into service. So what is whatRussian going to do? It would have to be something totally crazy and rational, like a barrage of ballistic missiles onto Weimar or something. That kind of thing. There like all these people are rational actors. I mean, Kim Jong Un is a crazy person, but he's a rational actor as well.

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