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Putin and Ukraine - We're All One People

There was this kind of weird symmetry going on because the speech that Putin made on Monday, where he basically said Ukraine was a figment of Russia's imagination. He talked a lot about, you know, we are effectively one people. That's Putin's line. It's an artificial distinction. We're all one people. Last night when the Ukrainian president made this speech, he made this speech in fluent Russian and appealed to Russians saying exactly the same thing. You could see he was appealing to them to try to stop this war. And then you compared that with Putin who just looked so dark and aggrieved. I think he's in a dark place.

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