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OUTLINE:

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(00:00) – Introduction

(10:17) – Putin and Stalin

(21:07) – Putin vs the West

(43:59) – Response to Oliver Stone

(55:05) – Russian invasion of Ukraine

(1:34:33) – Putin’s plan for the war

(1:42:32) – Henry Kissinger

(1:48:26) – Nuclear war

(1:59:00) – Parallels to World War II

(2:21:45) – China

(2:29:54) – World War III

(2:37:23) – Navalny

(2:41:40) – Meaning of life