that. four out of five russians, their primary source of news is state television. state television is pretending the war isn t happening. they re not calling it a war. they re saying this is a special military operation in donbas, ukraine, where there was previously a burning war going on for eight years. they are not being shown any destruction in cities like kyiv and kharkiv. they show them running in the center of kyiv like it s all peaceful. obviously there is a lot of unfiltered information on russian media, telegram. they have done a lot to try to stop it coming through. this will be the opportunity for them to demonstrate how much they learned from china and other countries and how capable they are of censoring the internet because this isn t syria. millions and millions and millions of russian people have relatives in ukraine. word of mouth is going to get
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war. they have been told that they have sabotaged these tankers, and nothing has come of it. last night when we were just inches away, according to the president, from a strike here, he pulled back. i think they re feeling pretty confident here and have been touting the shooting down of this drone as a major victory and as a warning to the u.s. they say this is a clear message that iran is a tough place. this isn t syria, this isn t iraq. there are going to be very serious wide-ranging ramifications if you attack this country. and they re actually feeling very confident, despite all of this pressure that s being piled on them. so i think most of the president s tactics so far to get iran back to the negotiating table or to instigate something else here have so far back fired. when the top iranian leadership is probably sitting around the table talking to each other,
there was an action. but north korea isn t syria. so you can t follow that same game plan with a north korea. you can t just, you know, strike an airstrip even with a nonnuclear weapon and then just see how it goes, right? you can t do that. fire and fury, right, is not a policy. i mean, again, this is the issue. what does that mean? you ll see. we ll see. it s a threat. right. how else can you take it? but then you have mattis and tillerson saying there s no change in the region. it could be nonnuclear, but does that matter? why would dow that? this is the problem with trump. even if he doesn t mean, nuclear, even if that was not his intent, reasonable people could think that. he did say very few countries have seen. like the world has never seen. yeah. but it only matters specifically, yes, i get china and i get this could be a great