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Nuclear War Over a Non-Binary Figure Skating Team
from #287 - Drug Recognition Expert | The Tim Dillon Show · #287
5 min
Tim jokingly frames the Russia-Ukraine tension as being driven by Putin banning a non-binary Russian figure skating duo from the Olympics, riffing on wokeness as a pretext for war and NATO's encroachment on Russia.
- A non-binary Russian figure skating couple wants to compete in the Olympics, but Putin won't allow it.
- Tim suggests the U.S. might start a nuclear war with Russia over the non-binary athletes, joking this is the real reason for escalation.
- Glenn Greenwald made a point that wokeness is now used as a pretext for military intervention.
- Tim pivots to actual Ukraine crisis details: Russia won't invade but said that about Crimea, and has troops massed on the border.
- NATO is a military and political alliance; if Ukraine joins, it puts the organization right on Russia's doorstep.
- Florida National Guard soldiers have evacuated from Ukraine while the Ukrainian president says nothing will happen.
- Tim notes U.S. soldiers routinely sexually assault people in countries where they're stationed, then play dumb about complaints.
- He doesn't want Ukraine attacked but admits he sometimes wakes up uncertain about that position.
- On waking up, Tim confesses he sometimes thinks Ukraine maybe does deserve to get attacked.
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