I watched Joes roll-out video, just because he looked old and frail and slow...and now if you see him walking with the peons, notice how he is slow and old...
maybe he knew he was going to get blasted out of the water with China and Ukraine and somehow found himself forced into declaring..
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Yes, he is without a doubt in the Deep Kimshee.
That is an interesting take, bitt, and I could perhaps see him somehow having an overweening desire to run a third time - or as you say, perhaps he is being driven to run....but did you look at the pictures I linked to with the strange chin changes? It really IS physically different.
I did...he does look different and he looks wayyyyyy too messed up to wade into the fray!