Speaking of frustrating days uh, there have been a handful of dms being sent to me that in one way or another relate to italy. So i want to cover kind of an interesting piece of news that just a little bit of a warning will probably piss you off even more so, let's quickly hop into it, apparently selling gucci loafers to oligarchs is more of a priority than hitting back at putin. Fury as italian pm demands, luxury goods are exempt from russia's sanctions, as eu nations are accused of disgracing themselves over economic uh reprisals hang on. Let me quickly zoom in on this.

Just so you can see it a little bit better. Fury was mounting today over the eu's weak and divided attempts to sanction russia over the invasion of ukraine, as it was revealed that the italian prime minister demanded and got an exemption for his country's luxury goods. Industry - hey. I know the world is burning, but can we get an exemption on my like stylish, expensive clothes? Mario draghi was accused of prioritizing posh shoes over punishing putin, as eu nations disgraced themselves, with a failure to take a hard-line approach to sanctions against russia.

They are accused of frustrating british and american efforts to kick russia out of the world's biggest financial payment system, i.e, swift, apparently not everyone aligning, and once again they would rather just their stylish shoes sources, told telegraph today that draghi won the exemption for italy luxury goods, Like shoes and designer clothes, saying, apparently, selling gucci loafers to oligarchs is more of a priority than hitting back at putin. This is wild that, like hey as long as i have my versace like who cares if we're facing world war three in the face, so that's obviously a horrible take on the situation, but it gets even worse and this one's coming to you from the u.s estimates Are 50 000 ukrainians will be dead or wounded yeah and that this is going to start a humanitarian crisis. A refugee crisis in europe we're talking about five million people that that are going to be displaced. I mean it's it's heartbreaking to hear.

Wait, pause this lady. I don't know who she is, but this one she's on she she's saying some stuff that really makes sense. We are potentially facing a massive massive refugee crisis, whether it's good, acting or not. I'd like to think that, she's being honest, you can see.

There's the emotion in her voice like her heart, goes out to people who are currently being affected by this and boy. Oh boy, does it take a turn here? What is going to happen yeah? Well, i'm scared of what's going to happen in in western europe, too. Yeah, you know you just you plan a trip. You want to go there.

I want to go to italy. For four years i haven't been able to make it because of of uh the pandemic, and now this you know it's like who's gon na. What's gon na happen, there yeah yeah estimates are 50 yeah. You.

You heard that right. What what's gon na happen in western europe, i i have tickets to go on vacation in italy. Are you kidding me? I have vacation. I bought these tickets.

I haven't been able to go because of coven, but now because of this does putin even care, i want to go on vacation. I have a chateau, i have a villa. Where am i going to drink my wine? It's just sometimes it's over the line, and it is not fair that putin could possibly disrupt my vacation. You know that was such a wild take.

I think we have to listen to it one more time. What's joy, bringing us well, i'm scared of. What's going to happen in in western europe, too yeah, you know you just you plan a trip. You want to go there.

I want to go to italy. For four years, i haven't been able to make it because of of uh the pandemic, and now this you know it's like who's gon na. What's gon na happen, there yeah estimates are fifty. I too am upset that i have not been able to go to italy in four years.

I'm i'm right there with her. Oh my god! Oh i know it's only february. I know it's only february, but potentially a strong, strong nomination for worst take of the entire year. Uh, obviously going out to joy there so between her, not getting her italian vacation in four years and then this guy, who still apparently needs to make his money off of gucci and his loafers and his versace, and all of that talking about two wild wild horrifically Stupid takes on the current situation uh, i suppose the stupidity involved in both of these uh a little bit, ideally maybe the silver lining a little bit of comedic relief, but obviously i'd love to get your thoughts on these two.

Because who knows maybe maybe it's me, maybe maybe we are all looking for that vacation italy? Maybe we all are saying no like who cares about it? I still need to buy my versace. Maybe it's just me that thinks it's a little bit off-base. So i'd love to get your particular thoughts on it, just wild, absolutely wild. You.