This all sounds far too familiar

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Good afternoon. The Russian military has begun a brutal assault on the people of Ukraine. Without provocation, without justification, without necessity, this is a premeditated attack. Vladimir Putin has been planning this for months as we've been saying all along. He moved more than 175,000 troops, military equipment positions, along the Ukrainian border. He moved blood supplies into position and had built a field hospital, which tells you all you need to know about his intentions all along. He rejected every good faith effort the United States and our allies and partners made to address our mutual security concerns through dialogue to avoid needless conflict and the vert human suffering. For weeks, for weeks, we have been warning that this would happen. Now, it's unfolding largely as we predicted. In the past week, we've seen shelling and increasing the Donbass, the region in eastern Ukraine controlled by Russian back separatists. Russia, the Russian government, has perpetrated cyber attacks against Ukraine. We saw a staged political theater in Moscow outlandish and baseless claims that Ukraine was about to invade and launch a war against Russia. That Ukraine was prepared to use chemical weapons. The Ukraine committed a genocide. Without any evidence, we saw a flagrant violation of international law and attempting to unilaterally create two new so-called republics on sovereign Ukrainian territory. And at the very moment that the United Nations Security Council was meeting to stand up for Ukraine's sovereignty, to stave off invasion, Putin declared his war. Within moments, moments, missile strikes began to fall on historic cities across Ukraine. Then came the air raids, followed by tanks and troops rolling in. We've been transparent with the world. We've shared declassified evidence about Russia's plans and cyber attacks and false pretext so that there could be no confusion or cover-up about what Putin was doing. Putin is the aggressor. Putin chose this war. And now he and his country will bear the consequences. What a tale my thoughts could tell, just like a no-time movie, about a ghost from a way she and well in a castle dark, or a fortress strong, with chains upon my feet. You know that ghost is being, and I will never be sad free, as long as I'm a ghost you can't see. If I could reach your mind, love, what a tale your thoughts could tell, just like a paper back in the old, the kind the drugstore said, when you reach the part where the heart aches, come the hero would be me. Hero often fail. You won't read that book again because the ending just too hard to take. I walk away like a movie star who gets burned in a three way script into number two. A movie green to play the scene of bringing all the good things out in here, but for now, let's be real. I never thought I could act this way and I've got to say that I just don't get it. I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back. If you could read my, my love, what a tale my thoughts could tell, just like a note I'm moving, how to go from a wish in a well, in a castle dark, or a fortress strong, I've changed upon my feet, the story always ends. If you read between the lines, you'll know that I'm just trying to understand, to feel it that you left. I never thought I could be the hero. I never thought I could act this way and I've got to say that I just don't get it. I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.