# A Joke About Money in a Nightstand and Europe's Stance on Ukraine

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120893229491245363
- Source account: [@visegrad24](https://x.com/visegrad24)
- Source language: Russian
- Target language: English
- Duration: 2:09
- Published: 2026-11-12
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- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/27hmcp6m0vVm/en/a-joke-about-money-in-a-nightstand-and-europe-s-stance-on-ukraine
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/27hmcp6m0vVm/en/a-joke-about-money-in-a-nightstand-and-europe-s-stance-on-ukraine) You know, we have a very old joke about that.

[0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/27hmcp6m0vVm/en/a-joke-about-money-in-a-nightstand-and-europe-s-stance-on-ukraine?t=3) And we've got an ancient joke in this respect.

[0:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/27hmcp6m0vVm/en/a-joke-about-money-in-a-nightstand-and-europe-s-stance-on-ukraine?t=6) It has no spatial, I mean, no geographical connection.

[0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/27hmcp6m0vVm/en/a-joke-about-money-in-a-nightstand-and-europe-s-stance-on-ukraine?t=13) Well, it is not related to any territory.

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/27hmcp6m0vVm/en/a-joke-about-money-in-a-nightstand-and-europe-s-stance-on-ukraine?t=17) But given the realities of today, I'll put it this way: Let's say some crook who built some cottages near Kyiv is invited to the investigative authorities, to NABU itself.

[0:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/27hmcp6m0vVm/en/a-joke-about-money-in-a-nightstand-and-europe-s-stance-on-ukraine?t=32) Like, for example, just imagine, um, there's a, a, a con artist, a swindler who illegitimately built some, some houses, cottages in the Kyiv region, and all of a sudden he's summoned to, well, to the investigative bodies like the Ukrainian, uh, Security Agency.

[0:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/27hmcp6m0vVm/en/a-joke-about-money-in-a-nightstand-and-europe-s-stance-on-ukraine?t=54) They ask him, "Where did you get the money?"

[0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/27hmcp6m0vVm/en/a-joke-about-money-in-a-nightstand-and-europe-s-stance-on-ukraine?t=57) And he's inquired, "Where have you obtained the money for that?"

[1:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/27hmcp6m0vVm/en/a-joke-about-money-in-a-nightstand-and-europe-s-stance-on-ukraine?t=62) He replies, "In the nightstand." Well, and he respa—he responds, “Well, in, in, uh, in my bedroom in a case.”

[1:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/27hmcp6m0vVm/en/a-joke-about-money-in-a-nightstand-and-europe-s-stance-on-ukraine?t=71) Yes, OK. Who put the money in the nightstand?

[1:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/27hmcp6m0vVm/en/a-joke-about-money-in-a-nightstand-and-europe-s-stance-on-ukraine?t=73) And who put, uh, and who put the money in, in that, in that case?

[1:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/27hmcp6m0vVm/en/a-joke-about-money-in-a-nightstand-and-europe-s-stance-on-ukraine?t=78) My wife. My, my wife. Where did she get it?

[1:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/27hmcp6m0vVm/en/a-joke-about-money-in-a-nightstand-and-europe-s-stance-on-ukraine?t=83) And where does she have the money from? I gave it to her.

[1:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/27hmcp6m0vVm/en/a-joke-about-money-in-a-nightstand-and-europe-s-stance-on-ukraine?t=86) I gave it to her. And where did you get it from?

[1:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/27hmcp6m0vVm/en/a-joke-about-money-in-a-nightstand-and-europe-s-stance-on-ukraine?t=90) And where have you got it from? From the nightstand.

[1:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/27hmcp6m0vVm/en/a-joke-about-money-in-a-nightstand-and-europe-s-stance-on-ukraine?t=93) Out of that, uh, out of that case or closet in the bedroom.

[1:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/27hmcp6m0vVm/en/a-joke-about-money-in-a-nightstand-and-europe-s-stance-on-ukraine?t=98) The circle is complete. So it's the vicious circle once again.

[1:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/27hmcp6m0vVm/en/a-joke-about-money-in-a-nightstand-and-europe-s-stance-on-ukraine?t=102) It's the same with the Europeans. And kinda, uh, well, the same, same applies to that European approach.

[1:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/27hmcp6m0vVm/en/a-joke-about-money-in-a-nightstand-and-europe-s-stance-on-ukraine?t=109) An unusual way of putting the question, but we would very much like you, gentlemen, and the American administration as a whole to work with your European allies, so that they finally make up their minds on the question, What do they want: peace or war in Ukraine?