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Welcome. Sexual predators and comprehensive sex education both break down inhibitions. That's what they start with. They also gain trust with the child and then slowly start to get them towards sexual activity.

Anything goes. You are teaching children adult child abuse, you're teaching transgender issues, and you know children are moldable and influenced by that. They said okay, now we need you and your team to be able to explain what homosexuality is to a four year old student. To introduce this kind of material at that age, frankly it's child abuse. You're going to teach our children that it's okay for any two children of any age, of any sex to have sexual intercourse with each other as long as two components are present. One's using a condom and they both give consent.

Did I hear that correctly? It's not a neutral venue. There's no such thing. The schools are doing your job. They are discipling your children, but they're not discipling them in the faith of Jesus Christ. It's only the exceptional child that even survives that system. Most do not survive.

Most have not survived. They believe that children are sexual from birth and that they deserve and have the right to be sexually active and to seek sexual pleasure. And if anyone is stopping them from that, then you are judging and oppressing them. Even kindergarten now, they're wanting to teach them more and more perverse information and acts and put that into the children's minds. And once that poison is in a child's mind, it doesn't leave. They'll always remember what they learned. And it's by design, it's orchestrated.

In my humble opinion, it will be worse before it gets better. But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people that you should shoe forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light, which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God, which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. And now Chosen Generation, where no topic is off limits and everything is filtered through biblical glasses. And now here's your host, Pastor Greg. And welcome back to chosen generation radio where no topic is off limits and everything filtered through biblical glasses. And those of you joining us for the first time on on this two hour portion of our of our day, I welcome you as well.

Thank you so much for being with me. I want to encourage you if you have not been listening along the way, you can pick up the podcast at chosengenerationradio.com. That's chosen generation radio.com. Michael Morris and I, we talked about media madness and some free speech issues. And then we had Dr. Peter Vincent Pride talking about the the the nuclear threat issues and and Putin has raised those levels. We have nuclear threat concerns with North Korea, with China, with Russia. And of course, you know, many of us believe very strongly that there's evidence that Iran already has nuclear capabilities.

And they have certainly made it very clear that they would intend to strike us as well. And yet in the midst of all of that, Admiral Haynes has has come on and yesterday testified. Nothing to see here, folks. Nothing to see. Move right along. Nothing to see.

No, no reason to be concerned whatsoever. It's it's really quite crazy to me why why we are not doing more simply just from the perspective of defense. There are a number of things that that defense programs that were killed or are are lagging that we could be doing just to simply be prepared. You know, if if the guy standing in front of you, you know, raises his hands and starts to take a swing at you, it's pretty foolish not to raise your hands and and at the very least, defend yourself. Right. Just defend yourself. Anyway, those are my thoughts.

All right. And I don't think there's anything unscriptural about defending yourself. If you're going to talk about turning the other cheek, get get get very clear in your understanding that that was very specific to community and very specific to being spoken within a community of individuals that are all on the same page. But but that may have been having disagreements. And what we're talking about is a whole different ball game.

Speaking of different ball games, we have a different ball game going on in our country. And when it comes to understanding what the Constitution says and what the Bill of Rights is about, I want to welcome my next guest. He is our constitutional attorney expert. And we welcome him each and every weekday, which is Stokas. David, welcome. Good to have you. Thanks so much.

It's good to be with you today, Greg. You just talked about that. I had my own thought. It's that it's off the Constitution thing. But, you know, it does seem like Putin in terms of conducting this this war in Ukraine is actually utilizing nuclear blackmail to do it where he has everybody frozen in place with the idea that if they take some action against him, he may just fire off a nuclear deal. And that's because it is what you see.

The reports are so horrendous. And they could so easily be stopped with a few eight to eight paper war hearts. And they could so easily put all of these guys out of commission and back down the missile bases and whatnot. But we're all frozen in place because he might fire a nuke.

Well, and we have never heard anybody talk about that. Right. And we have the capabilities and have had within our arsenal the capabilities to be able to make ourselves you know, that the kind of defense system that Israel uses to knock those rockets out of the air is the same kind of defense system that we have the capability to employ here for our country, here for the United States. And it just simply takes the will of a leader to be able to do that. And then not these changes. I'm not suggesting the same.

I'm you know, I'm not suggesting we change the way our election process is done. But everyone should be on the same page when it comes to the defense of our country. And that is a constitutional issue, David, and one that is, you know, in my mind, when you have an administration, and I was going to go ahead and brand out let me let me go ahead and bring this up. There is a a new memorandum that has been that has been put in place that has been put out that is indicating or that that clearly just straight out says that the greatest threat where did that go? This is very interesting. There we go.

Okay. It's a summary of terrorism threat to the US homeland, a bulletin that has been put out by Homeland Security. And within it, they say, key factors contributing to the current heightened threat environment include the proliferation of false or misleading narratives which sow discord or undermine public trust in US government institutions. For example, there's widespread online proliferation of false or misleading narratives regarding unsubstantiated, widespread election fraud and COVID-19. David, was there a lot of stuff that in itself is misinformation? You know, the government is that that in itself is the government itself doing propaganda. Because in fact, there has been widespread issues with the with elections and the integrity of the elections.

There's no question about it. I personally witnessed much of it in Pennsylvania. I personally witnessed much in Georgia during the course of the Senate runoffs. Of course, I've been involved in those kinds of issues.

And of course, there was 150,000 illegally open ballots in Broward County that I discovered in 2016. And I want to just really quickly jump in and say, Vimeo deplatformed me, David, and your your testimony that you shared on this program. And I and I sent you the link.

And when I know you're very busy right now, when you get a chance, but I sing is like, but your testimony about what you testified under oath before the committee in Pennsylvania and other testimonies that you have given before government entities. Vimeo said that that what you said was false and misleading information. And they deplatformed me for having it on my program. Yeah, and I don't remember seeing anybody from video at the Allegheny County ballot processing facility where we were barred from being within 25 or 30 feet of the closest ballot processor. I don't remember anybody from Vimeo being available when they rolled in the rolled in the envelopes from the mail and belt that were already open before they got to the room where they're going to be counted.

So nobody has any idea of security. I didn't see anybody from Vimeo there, you know, to be able to contest what my my own eyes observe at that particular moment in time. I didn't see anybody from Vimeo participating in the actual count of the ballots in Pennsylvania that wound up with 200,000 more votes counted than people voted. You know, I didn't see anybody from Vimeo participate in any nobody.

You know what? Nobody was from there from Vimeo when myself and three other lawyers went to check these buildings that were condemned that were stuffed with election mail because there was 35 people registered to vote in a condemned building. No, Vimeo wasn't, you know, I don't remember any Vimeo people being around. Well, Vimeo, Vimeo, you know, to my mind, based on what I read about the, you know, what's required to prove defamation, I believe that they have have defamed us.

That's what I believe. And and at some point, you know, maybe we'll have to get to that because that I do believe that there has been defamation predicated on on the definition of defamation and and them wiping wiping out these these videos and this information. Yeah, there's there's any number of potential actions under those circumstances that people will people need to consider when they when they take the when that happens often. I think what needs to be done is to look through the details of the terms of service because basically you make a deal with them. You're going to provide content.

They're going to utilize that content to generate revenue and then they're going to make your content available. And there's a it's you know, the terms of service creates a contract. And though it's mostly written 90 percent, they try to write it one one way. They always have to try and make it sound a little fair. And if they find a little fair places like very well be with a vulnerable. Right.

So that it's not a contract of adhesion. Yeah, yeah, that's exactly right. So when when the when the government is coming out and making these kinds of statements and then placing us in and you know, it's interesting because I was visiting with some folks about, you know, additional steps that they have to go through at the airport and things that are going on. And it dawned on me, David, that that in my recent travels that I that I have had the opportunity to be engaged in, that every time I am pulled aside and given extra once overs and my and when it's identified that that it's my bag that's going through the checkpoint, it it literally has to be unpacked so they can look and see what's what all is in my bag, which makes me wonder whether or not I'm I'm possibly on one of their lists. It's not impossible.

Who knows how they generate, how they keep the list. The government is way too big, way too overbearing. This is this is the problem. One among the things that we need to do to rein in the government. This is certainly among the things that I'm I'm running under because there's all these executive authorities that pretend they have authority and and exercise it until somebody somebody challenges them. You know, that's that just came up recently with the with the governor here in Illinois who pretended he had the authority to issue mass borders and and vaccine mandates. And ultimately, it was recently decided in a trial court that, wait a minute, you know, you don't have such authority, the authority, because what you're doing deprives people of due process. It deprives the people of the ability to challenge their ears written in law, things for what they call isolation and sequestration that with people with diseases. And we'll talk about that after the break.

You bet. Well, and another thing I want to talk about after the break is is relative to the Constitution and how the Constitution frames our government. Because there's I think there's a lot of misunderstanding that when you and I and other citizens are having these kinds of conversations about the government, that somehow we're anti government when the reality is, as I read the Constitution, the Constitution is set up. We the people are the government. It's our government.

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David Shostakos. It'll take you directly over to his website. I was talking about the Constitution and, you know, it being we the people and government by consent and that these are representatives. I think that's an important point to make sure that we stay on that page. But the other page, as we were talking in the break there, David, has to do with the fact that the the the national government, one of its its number one primary purpose is the defense of this nation.

And I would suggest predicated on what's happening at our borders north and south, as well as, you know, the the the the potential issues and the threats that are being made towards us by Putin, by Rossi and by Xi. These are these are issues that constitutionally. Our federal government, this is this is why we have formed a federal government. The United States of America is is for the defense of the nation.

That's exactly right, Greg. That's that, in fact, is the prime purpose of the federal government. That was the prime purpose that the 13 states got together because they were unable to act in concert to, in fact, defend each and every each among them.

And so that that's that's exactly the purpose, to defend the borders from invasion or and certainly we have an invasion going on at the southern border. This is this is problematic. And so, yes, no, they're failing. They're failing us there, but they failed to keep us secure by securing our own energy supplies, making us vulnerable to energy blackmail, if you will.

And that's what's going on right now is energy blackmail. And so I would suggest that these are not I would suggest that these are high crimes and misdemeanors to the extent that the president, the guy that's sitting in the Oval Office, I hesitate to say president, but nevertheless, he's still going to take to take taking the oath to defend and protect the Constitution. And he has not done so.

And to the extent that you could make a case that that is, in fact, impeachable, a violation of the oath of office. When you give orders, direct orders to federal government employees to violate the law, you know, so they resume the catch and release situation at the border when in fact the law itself says that Border Patrol shall take custody of these people and the and then return them. There's directives in the immigration law.

It doesn't say may do this or may do that. It says the Border Patrol shall do this. And the administration has given orders to essentially violate the law. And one of the one of the duties of the president in the Constitution is to take care that the laws are faithfully executed. And by and failing to take care of the laws are faithfully executed, certainly in my mind, potentially constitutes an impeachable offense.

This is a this is a problem. This is a problem when the government is precisely has become flawless. But it's not it's not just when you have this kind of tyrant there, it begets all these other petty tyrants from the from the governors to the mayors who begin to pretend that they can do things that they've never been given the authority to do. And so in terms of our taking things back, we we have to be so involved in the electoral process, you know, for the effective, effective outcomes in Virginia. There was 10,000 people that participated in Virginia in terms of monitoring and being election judges and poll watchers and seem to, you know, that we've got the the only concern is involved in a program that they call eyes on every ballot. And so you cannot depend on the government to run elections.

Citizens not only have to vote, but they have to participate in running the elections themselves. And all the laws allow for that. And so we have to there's there's so many places that that's that's where you do and that's where you wind up, hopefully electing some people that will in fact, do two things, obey and enforce the law. And when the governor becomes lawless, that's that's a problem. And that's certainly one of my intent is to obey and enforce the law. And we don't we don't have too many of those people in executive positions these days.

And we have too many legislatures that legislators that are unwilling to challenge the executive. I want I want to shift back to something that you had said relative to Biden and some of his rules, laws, whatever you want to call them and mandates, which are illegal, as we've discussed here on the program with you before. But there's a ruling that just came out. Texas U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman of the Northern District of Texas enjoined the policy of exempting minors on the grounds that Biden acted arbitrarily to frustrate a policy aimed at stopping the spread of the China virus. So a federal judge has said that illegal alien minors cannot be released. Brand new story that is that is out. So that that's good news.

Again, as you suggest, you know, and this is why we need attorney generals at the state level, state attorney generals that understand the Constitution and the law. David, good luck with. Are you getting up in the morning feeling like you and your bed had a bad night? Still tired? Stop.

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And welcome back to Chosen Generation Radio, where no topic is off limits and everything is filtered through biblical glasses. And it's my sincere pleasure to welcome to the program, Claire Lopez. Claire, welcome. Good to have you. Thanks for being here today. Well, thank you, Pastor.

Good to be with you as always. Man, man, man, such a such an incredibly it's just a lot. There's a lot going on. There's a lot going on. And I know that the your primary topic that you've been talking a lot about has been what's going on between the Ukraine and Russia. And we talked a bit about that, you know, well, quite a bit about that last week, we talked about the energy issue and the natural gas issue and, and what was going on with regards to that and the Russia, China, Iran, and how that's kind of all playing a role. Kind of give me your thoughts as far as your your update, so to speak on on what you're seeing and and and where where do you think that we're at on that? I mean, the the attack on Kiev has intensified severely in the last 24 hours. No question about that, I think. Many, many different moving parts here.

Just as you say, what the first thing that maybe needs to be said is, it's, it's really amazing that this much time later, this is two weeks since we last talked. And about that much time, a little more since the the the invasion of Ukraine by Russia has been going on that the Ukrainians are still standing, they're still fighting. Yes, I know they are getting quite a bit of assistance in terms of ammunition and weaponry. Like man pads, shoulder fired ground to air missiles that are bringing down some Russian aircraft, helicopters and fixed wing, also anti tank weapons like javelin missiles.

This is all good. Zelensky, the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has risen to the occasion as a leader of his people in a way I think very few would have expected or predicted. And the Ukrainians, as a people overall, are standing and fighting with whatever they have to hand the getting getting armed up.

Weapons are being passed out to them. Over 2 million, mostly the women and the children, the elderly perhaps, have fled the country. They are being welcomed and cared for in an amazing humanitarian effort by neighboring countries like especially Poland, also Moldova. But yes, the invasion, the onslaught continues. What Zelensky spoke about, speaks about repeatedly is that he wants air cover.

He wants a no fly zone established over Ukraine. Because just moments ago, I got news from inside of Ukraine and it's hit the newswaves now that a maternity hospital was just bombed by the Russians in Mariupol, this southern Ukrainian city with casualties, horrible casualties. I'm getting people that push back.

I get phone calls. People say, well, yeah, you know what? We're not seeing I saw something that said, oh, there's only been 200 casualties in Ukraine. I know. I mean, any casualty in an invasion of aggression is too many.

But there are thousands, unfortunately, casualties. That that's my understanding from talking. I have a pastor that I talked to on Monday live. I mean, I've been been following Pastor Vitaly because I've known him since 2014.

So I've known him for a number of years. And, you know, I mean, he talked about a checkpoint in a village 10 miles from him, where because the checkpoints of these villages, as I understand it, he said that oftentimes, the church actually is at the very entrance. You know, when you first drive in, so to speak, into the community, there's a church sitting right there.

So those become the places where the checkpoints are established is that is at the entrance to the community, and subsequently the church and 10 miles from him. He said that the priest of that church was murdered by by Russians. A lot of people have been murdered. I mean, what is happening is indiscriminate shelling by the Russians of Ukrainian population centers, that means apartment blocks, it means stores and markets and health care facilities like this maternity hospital just bombed in Mariupol. The Russians appear to be deliberately targeting deliberately bombing civilian targets, perhaps trying to break the will of the Ukrainian people.

By the way, that's not going to happen. They're going to fight for the bitter end. I don't know if people saw yesterday, again, President Zelensky appeared remotely by video in front of the British Parliament. I don't know if folks saw that.

But if not look it up online, it is an amazing talk. And in that speech, in that talk to the British Parliament, Zelensky quoted Churchill, and said, we will not give up, we will not give in, we will fight on the beaches, we will fight in the fields, we will fight in the air, we will fight everywhere, we will never give up. I mean, and the place erupted.

And the Parliament, you know, stood up as one and just cheered and, you know, clapped at me. But that's not, that's great. But what he really needs is weapons and ammunition. I can understand why a NATO-led no-fly zone is not happening, because that would put NATO pilots, Americans, others, in direct air combat with Russian planes, each shooting the other down or trying to.

I understand that. But I also understand why Ukraine needs air cover. And so of course, there was this proposal by the Poles, that they would send 28 of their MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, for their own pilots to fly and provide air cover. The Poles were going to fly these jets to Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany, where the Ukrainians were going to pick them up and fly them back to Ukraine. Well, apparently, the United States, not playing a helpful role in this at all, put a spoke on the wheel and said, well, no, because that would be direct involvement by NATO in in the war.

And so I don't know exactly where that proposal stands now. But the Ukrainians desperately need those planes, which they know how to fly, their pilots are trained on those planes, and they have things like spare parts available as needed in Ukraine for them. And then the United States was going to replenish or backfill the Poles' air squadrons with F-16 jets that we would give them.

But I think that's all on hold right now. And it seems as though a lot of this is there's this now become a fear that Putin might take some kind of a nuclear action. He has threatened that anyone else that gets involved or if he thinks that what they're doing involves them.

Rubio came out and made and has made statements that, you know, if we provide air defense that that now, you know, we're getting ourselves into the war and that this also could that involving Poland gives Putin an excuse to invade, to go ahead and invade Poland. Your thoughts with regards to how you deal because in my mind, having been a serving in the service as a as a Cold War veteran, in my mind, Putin has he's he's acting like a bully. And to me, the only way that you shut a bully up is, is you you punch him in the mouth. Yeah, Putin is no question about it. He's a bully. He's a thug.

He's a killer. But here is another aspect to this. And that is that, like we mentioned right at the beginning, this invasion has now been going on for for two weeks and more more than two weeks. And it has not advanced as far or the way strategically that that Putin and his top military staff plan at all. They have not taken a single major Ukrainian city yet. Kiev is still standing. By the way, that that convoy that is trying to advance on it and encircle it is completely stuck literally in the mud, not only because it's a bit warmer weather than might have been expected this time of year, but also because the Ukrainians released floodwaters from a reservoir nearby and made sure that the ground was muddy.

Yeah. But the other thing is that the Russians jammed up the roads, four across four vehicles across so that nobody can get to them through the mud on either side with food or water or gasoline. They're running out of gas. They're blocking the roads with vehicles that have run out of gas.

It's a mess of planning. So Kiev still stands. Kharkiv in the northeast still stands. Mariupol looks, I guess if you if you count Mariupol, I think Mariupol has, we'd have to say it has fallen. But Odessa is still there.

Many other places have not been taking it. So the strategic planning shows up the weaknesses of this Russian army. It's not what it's been cracked up to be. They're not six feet tall. And talking with Pastor Batali too, you know, they're hearing from, you know, because there's a lot of relational things. There's a lot of kind of civil war similarities here too. Brothers, cousins, what have you on each side of this. But they're talking about, you know, spoiled rations that the Russian soldiers don't have food. There's a lot of things that they don't have to carry out this fight as well. We can talk about some of that when we get back.

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And welcome back to Chosen Generation Radio where no topic's off limits and everything filtered through biblical glasses. Very quickly tomorrow Dr. Judy Mikovits will be with us on the program. Kalyn Doerr, Senior Spokesman for Getter will be with us tomorrow.

And Larry Klayman will be on the program with us tomorrow as well. Lots to cover tomorrow here on Chosen Generation Radio. And remember folks, we are fulfilling Psalm 94 and that is who will go for me and stand up for and speak against, stand up for good, speak against and expose the evil. Who will do that? We will do that here on this program.

That's what we will do. And we endeavor diligently to bring you guests and to talk about the questions you may have so that you can intelligently pray and intelligently engage and involve yourself. Because America I believe is a Christian nation, has been, always will be, should be, and we as believers have to make sure it stays that way.

So that there is light in the darkness which is so prevalent in this world today. So it's so important that we are engaged and it says in Hosea, my people perish for a lack of knowledge. My goal is to give you knowledge and to remind you that our declaration of independence and our constitution are still alive and well today and work together as the underpinning documents and the foundation upon which they stand is God. To that end there is a very clear evil that is present in the person of Vladimir Putin and Russia and the invasion. And something we were talking about in the break that Pastor Vitaly mentioned on Monday, I don't hear it being talked about in very many places, but I think it's important to understand that Russia has been at war with the Ukrainian people and thousands of Ukrainians have been dying for the last eight years.

Yeah, that's absolutely true. Back in 2014, those eight years ago, of course we had the Obama administration in Washington, D.C. when current President Biden was then Vice President and our adversaries, enemies, Vladimir Putin, Russia, they perceived then as they do now the weakness coming out of Washington, D.C. And weakness always invites aggression and that is when the Russians moved on the Donbas, this eastern part of Ukraine that borders Russia, and Ukrainian forces have been fighting them ever since. And then, of course, they peeled off Crimea. Now, Crimea always was a part of Russia, so I kind of put that in a different category. It was not a military conquest.

If anything, it was an Anishnus. But the Donbas, even though it's populated in the main by Russian speakers and Russian ethnic, a Russian ethnic population, it's part of Ukraine. And since 2014, Russia has had forces undercover, those quote, little green men as they call them, militias in there trying to take that part of Ukraine away. Now, the very last thing I'll say here is that I think at this point there needs to be an off-ramp for Vladimir Putin and Russia.

There's got to be a way to bring this to a conclusion and stop the slaughter. And I think Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, is beginning to move in that direction. He has announced and declared that he is willing to discuss status of the Donbas, so to Oblast of Donetsk and Luhansk, and he is willing to back away from seeking membership in NATO for Ukraine, which it doesn't qualify for and wouldn't qualify for in a very long time anyway. So I think Zelensky himself is beginning to move in this direction, but we've got to find an off-ramp for Russia. Well, and the challenge there is that I think Putin is doing exactly what Russian imperialists have done going back into the 17th century, and that is, as they've said, we want Ukraine. In total, we want Ukraine.

Well, it's kind of a buffer zone for Russia as they see it. By the way, I don't know if folks know, but the name of the country, Ukraine, is two words, very similar in both Ukrainian language and Russian, which are close. U krayna.

U means at. Krayna means the farthest border. The name of the country is the farthest border of the Russian empire.

That's the name of the country. And that's how Russians look at it. And Ukrainians look at it from the perspective that they have fought three different, well, four different revolutions in an effort to gain their freedom and gain their liberty. And and they have declared themselves independent on these multiple occasions. And and all they're saying now is, is, you know, again, when when the and part of the agreement back in what was it, 1991, when when they said, OK, we're we're we're breaking free. The Russian empire kind of fell apart.

The U.S.S. are as it was the Soviet Union. And when they agreed to give the nukes back that were stored in Ukraine, the agreement at that point in 1994, a Budapest memorandum. And so at that point, there was an agreement that Russia understood that they would not threaten Ukraine with invasion.

And in fact, Clinton said that America, if you'll give your nukes to the Russians, will make sure that you have the necessary abilities to to defend yourself. Well, the Budapest memorandum of 1994 was not a defense act. It was signed among the U.S., the U.K., Russia and Ukraine. And it was simply a kind of a memorandum, a recognition of the sovereign status of the Ukrainian nation, the Ukrainian country. It is a sovereign country with borders.

That's what that recognized and should be the premise today. Ukraine is an independent country. The people want to be free and independent of Russia. And they will fight.

They will fight this. And it should be noted, too, that that again, they don't want I know there's been some buzz about that and there may be a few independent or a little, you know, tic tocs here or what have you. I don't know that say, oh, you know, we need your help.

Send, send men, send whatever. Overall, the Ukrainians are not asking. They don't want to be an occupied country. They don't want you and men on the ground. They don't want NATO on the ground. They don't want U.S. soldiers on the ground. They don't want anybody else spilling their blood on their behalf.

They are happy, not happy, but they are they are about. Yes, they are determined. Ukrainian blood will be spilled on Ukrainian ground to defend Ukraine. That's exactly what it is.

Exactly right. And and they just are mobilizing in a way nobody I think Putin made miscalculated badly. Yeah, well, and so the question I agree with you, there has to be some kind of an out. And I think Zelensky is suggesting that there is a possibility.

The problem is, is that I don't know. You know, I think internally that that Putin may be in some trouble as well. There's some speculation that he may be in some trouble. And now he's made this miscalculation.

We don't. It could be. But here again, we've got to be super careful about the wild information operations being flung about from all sides. He very well, he could be in trouble.

Yes. And we'll remember that previous rulers, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev attempted that were or attempted to be removed after they screwed up. Khrushchev lost out, you know, in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Brezhnev got Russia bogged down in the Soviet Union, bogged down in Afghanistan. And Gorbachev obviously was moving his country in the direction of the oligarch to report that he didn't like. It could happen. It could happen to Putin.

Yes, it could. But careful about the info. No, no, no, I understand. I'm not I'm not saying that he is or he isn't. I'm just simply saying that there are some suggestions that at the end of the day, when I stand before my God, I do not want him to ask me what did you do with the world that I sent my son to die for and redeem? How did you fight the good fight to share the good news and keep evil in check?

How did you shine your light and be a beacon of truth in the darkness? Did you shrink back in fear when they demanded you change my message? Did you call evil good and good evil? Did you forsake my love for that of another, lying with the adulterer and setting up a new idol in your life? Have you defiled yourself through compromise and tolerance of that which I call an abomination? Have you innocent blood on your hands for the children murdered on your watch and the young ones perverted in their way by evil men seeking their own comfort and reviling me?

No. At the end of the day, I want him to simply say the evidence is in. Well done, thou good and faithful servant. I love my God and I love his creation and I will go to my grave telling the world that evil is evil and only God is good and Jesus came to save the world. That no matter the evil in the world, I will never give up and in spite of the hate, I will love in truth.

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