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Chapter 1: What is the focus of Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder episode?
What's up? What's up, everybody? Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem. I am Dave Smith. He is Robbie the Fire Bernstein. And man, we got a good one to break down today. How are you, Rob?
You know, Friday was one of the most exciting media days. We do this all the time. We're commenting on things all the time, and it's always exciting. But very rarely do you get a WWF showdown like what we saw in the White House. And I did an episode about it yesterday. I'm excited to get into it with you now. And we've got fun stuff to get into.
I mean, it is. Yeah, you really can't kind of overstate how wild it is. Let me just real quick before we get into this, because there's a lot to talk about. A couple orders of business. I should mention that me and Rob will be in Buffalo, New York. on the 6th and the 7th, and then one night only in St. Catharines, Ontario on March 8th.
And then coming up a couple weeks after that, we are back at Laugh Boston in the great city of Boston, Massachusetts. Very much looking forward to all of that. ComicDaveSmith.com for all of those ticket links. And of course, I will be returning to the Soho Forum to debate Alex Norwash on immigration. thesohoforum.org for those tickets. If you want to come, it'll be a live debate in New York City.
Looking forward to that very much. Okay. So, yeah, that was this. It was a pretty incredible moment. And you just like like you said, we do not see things like that ever. I would there's there's so many different angles here to kind of break all of this down. But I guess I would have to say the starting point is that that has got to be.
The biggest political strategic blunder by Zelensky that I've ever seen. I've just never seen anything like that. And I don't, you know, I'm not going to get into like too much psychoanalysis. I like to try to stay away from that stuff. I don't know Zelensky personally. I don't know. who was in his ear or why he thought that would be a good move.
Perhaps it comes from being on the cover of Time and Vogue and just everybody kissing your ass and being treated as this hero internationally for the last three years. Perhaps there were other American fans politicians who were in his ear encouraging him to do this.
But the idea that he would that his move when he is completely dependent on Donald Trump to the point that his life might be on the line, but certainly his nation is. And when you're completely dependent on Donald Trump for your move to be. I'm going to try to alpha Donald Trump on national television in a language I don't really speak very well.
I mean, I've never seen anyone go into anything with a worse game plan than On anything. I mean, everybody knows, no matter who it is, that is the one way you cannot come at Donald Trump. And he attempted it. It went exactly as you would have predicted. And it really does seem like this was a... A huge fork in the road where things just went in a different direction.
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Chapter 2: Why was Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump considered a blunder?
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But so so essentially, just so people understand the Cold War propaganda was that we're only doing this because of the Soviet Union. We would not be. We're with you libertarians. We want to just love liberty and prosperity and be a peaceful, normal country. But there's the Soviet Union. So we have to do all of this. And then in 1989. The Berlin Wall comes down. There's reunification in Germany.
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