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Trump’s Pirate Empire Meets Hormuz as Iran, China, Russia, and Oil Markets Break the Old World Rules Apart · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Hello and happy Monday to you. Today is Monday and first day of the week, first day of Sam,
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  first day of live damn radio, first day of international flavor of the week,
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  and so much news has gone on since we last were together last Thursday.
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  Today we're going to get into a lot of stuff. We're going to get into piracy,
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  you know, we're pirates now. What are you doing? No, no, no. What are you doing?
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  That's a, we are now.
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  We're not going to do that. That's a very bad Russian limerick that was taught to me by my
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  Russian teacher about pirates. In Russian, they're pirates.
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  Pirates. And we're going to talk about today because Trump says we are pirates.
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  We are pirates is what he should have said, but he didn't say that. We're going to get to that.
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  I think first though, I'm going to gauge the temperature because the temperature around the
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  world is getting hotter and I'm not so sure. And I have a great interview that I really
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  thought about providing the whole, the whole, and it's actually a youth kind of conference by
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  a, by Medvedev. And he, I mean, it was awesome. He's, he gets, he starts out by saying that he
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  wrote a speech for a victory day. He wrote an article actually, and he thought he would read
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  the article to this crowd. Now this crowd is young children. Well, no, no, no, no, no. I take that
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  back. Young school like the lowest one. He took a question from a ninth grader. Okay. Who they
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  went through the whole, and he took a question and he let these people talk about whatever they
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  wanted. So it's, his name is Dmitry Medvedev. He's the deputy chairman of the security council,
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  former president of Russia. And he greets the audience and says it was a large crowd because
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  it really was. And it was, but it was educators, school children, high school, middle school. Okay.
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  Let's call it high school because the lowest one was that ninth grader and everybody was young
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  adult. Right. And he asked him to get, and so I think I'm going to share that with you tomorrow
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  though. If we get started on it today, we might, but what, what it is, it's the temperature around
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  the world is what I really want to talk about today. And Trump's temperature is not, is not
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  conducive to lowering the temperature to a warm climate. It's heating it up badly. And
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  everybody knows, I like to watch Solovyov and it's hard to do. So the America, we block him
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  everywhere and they block him because, specifically because of what we're doing,
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  but YouTube blocks him. Every time I try to download his video, it's a, it's a game because,
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  and every time somebody uploads his videos, it's a game. What they have is people in Arabic
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  countries uploading his video or, or any other play it called Azerbaijan, who cares? And any,
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  but usually it's an Arabic speaking, sometimes Indian speaking that they will upload Solovyov
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  in Russian and his show. The one that I keep telling you about that is such a good format.
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  And I like the format. Do I understand it's propaganda? Sure. Do I think it needs to be
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  canceled around the world? No. And, and plus there's a lot of truth in propaganda.
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  You know, you can weed out what you think is important. And so what I thought I would do is
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  every show that Solovyov gives, especially the Sunday one. And I try to watch the Sunday one
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  because it's, he used to have on there Margarita Semenyan all the time, but her husband passed
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  away. She has children and she's, I don't know, in her late forties, maybe she's 50 and she educated
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  in the United States. She runs a large media network. And I loved it when she was on the show,
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  because if you wanted to gauge temperature, those two Solovyov and Margarita Semenyan,
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  in my view, were people that you needed to listen to. If you're going to listen to Ukraine,
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  it's best that you listen to somebody a little bit more harsh toward the regime and isn't out
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  just pumping Western BS. Right. And that is what the hell's his name now? Aristovich.
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  And I forget his first name, but Aristovich. And I reference him frequently here because I
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  listen to him too. And he broadcasts mostly in Russian as well. And for me, it is just knowing
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  that there are other points of view in the world. Big news this weekend with Trump and the pirates.
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  And so I'm going to share with you what the whole, now, no, these are not my words. These are my,
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  this is a translation, fairly accurate, you know, that well, very accurate of what he said.
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  And it's a strong speech. It tells you about the emotional Russian domestic frame.
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  Before we get into Iran, Hormuz, all the world effects of this constant warring
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  for resources, which is all this is, is we're still warring over resources. If we could force
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  Ukraine to take over Moscow, then all of the Russian resources would be ours, would be the
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  West's. And that's the goal all along. Russia will just cave like a paper tiger. They will fall over
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  because Ukraine has a million man army and Russia is the same Russia it was in the 90s.
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  Well, they found out that is not true and it's not remotely true, in fact. And so the people
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  who have been pumping that agenda are morons. And you can tell him I said that. And that is
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  not the Russia that I see every time I go over there. And I'm not led around by a, you know,
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  beast. I'm not led around by some sort of security dudes. I'm not led around by that.
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  I'm completely free to go where I want, see what I want, do what I want to see the sites,
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  to see how they live, what they do, the wonderful culture and all of those things.
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  I'm perfectly permitted to go. I tried to get on Red Square last year, though,
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  and they were having a I reported from there a little bit that they were having a
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  festival. It was the drum corps of, I don't know, 50 different countries that the military drum
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  corps showed up and did a march and they were having an exhibition of this drum corps.
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  And so I didn't get on Red Square proper because it was only for those drum corps to to organize
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  and come back. But it's really cool all the way around Red Square. People were packed everywhere
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  to watch the events and they bring out one drum corps at a time and watch them go.
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  And there was awesome food booths everywhere. I mean, it was fantastic.
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  And the country is not what is pushed over here. And so the people are not what they push over
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  here. Putin is not what they push over here and neither is Medvedev. And so I like to share their
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  words when I can. And tomorrow, because I don't think I'm going to get to it today, I'm going to
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  share the all of the questions and all of the answers from a youth perspective. With Dmitry
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  Medvedev answering them in an appearance in front of a large auditorium, I believe that that man is
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  very likely to be Putin's ultimate replacement. He's quite popular. He's very intelligent. And
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  you know, he's been around in the system for a long time. And if you think that, you know,
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  everybody thought forever these idiot experts that, oh, geez, just get rid of Putin, everything
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  will be great. Putin, I don't want to say he's loved, but he sure as hell isn't hated, you know.
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  And they recognize what he has done to that country over the last 25 years or done for
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  that country over the last, you know, 25 years he's been around. OK, much of that as president.
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  And I believe the big start started in 2007, 2008. So I'm going to share with you Solovyov and what
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  he said, because I think the temperature around the world is important. And his temperature last
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  night was pretty hot. And I'm going to I'm going to tell you why. I'm not I can't play it for you.
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  Obviously, you won't understand it. I'm going to contextualize it and say I'm not adopting these
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  terms myself. I'm telling you that this shows how hard the Russian domestic mood is, because a lot
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  of people listen to him. A lot of people around the globe listen to this guy because he speaks
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  in their in everybody's mind the truth. Now, I say that much of what he is doing is absolutely
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  the truth. Much of what he is saying is absolutely the truth. And that is why he is blocked so hard
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  in Europe and America. And they aren't allowed to listen to you if you're not afraid of what he
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  is saying. Why block him? Words, they're only words. If you if you have no fear of speech,
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  then don't block him. And why do you fear speech? Why you fear the truth is what you fear.
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  And there are kernels of truth in everything. Well, except Clinton's.
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  There is not a kernel of truth there and in most Democratic politicians. But I throw in that same
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  pile, you know, the the lifelong rhino. I received a letter in the mail the other day, and I digress,
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  of course, but I received a letter in the mail about a an agency I built. And it's not defunct.
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  It's still there. And I keep it active, but I've never done anything with it. But I own a domain.
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  I own a I started a an organization and I don't believe I ever got 501 C3 for that. I haven't
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  ever done anything with it. I started I started to organize it. I had a couple of interested
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  people that wanted to join in, but I didn't do it because I had a lot of things going on in my life.
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  And it was called No Lifetime Politicians. And I and one of my biggest beefs on the
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  in America is this lifetime politician, Deep State BS, funded by the same a-holes all the time.
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  And it's the exact same people. Mitch McConnell sitting there with his thumb inserted for 50
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  freaking years. You know, Lindsey Graham has been there, what, since one or something that is
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  it's just incredibly offensive to me. And they will never set a term limit. Why in the world do
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  we have a term limit for president? Why? Why? So they don't accumulate power. You think it's any
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  different in the in the judicial branch, for God's sake? What's wrong with what have you made a rule
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  that said every president could appoint two chief justices and the ones that had been there the
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  longest had to go? What's wrong with that? You wouldn't have people dying in office. You know,
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  this is nonsense. And even in the judicial branch, it's crap. And there needs to be a better way.
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  And oh, geez, you can't talk bad about system. Well, I can because I'm not a lawyer. How about
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  that? And the system sucks. Missouri's is bullshit. Missouri's is corrupt as hell. And you
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  can't stop that. And don't think it ends at Missouri. And they control the bar with an iron
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  fist by people who are unelected. They don't. It's not even the Supreme Court that controls
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  the bar. It's controlled by a family of goons who pick and choose who gets to be in charge
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  and who they destroy. And they destroyed me. And so I can tell I went all the way Supreme Court
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  fighting what is wrong. And I'm right, by the way. But nobody would listen. Why? Because it
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  affects the system. Fight from within the system. Screw you. Fix the system. Even if you're from
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  with outside. That is crap. Our system sucks and it needs to be fixed. Now I'm I'm pulling this
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  all of your fun and I'm doing what he did last night. But here's there should be anger among
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  the masses. There absolutely should be with the crappy way our government is run and what the
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  West has done is ride roughshod over the rest of the world for ever. And the old war in Hormuz is
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  all it is, is a continuation of the exact same thing by a different person. OK, the propaganda
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  here is, oh, geez, they've been riding for forty nine years, forty seven years. They've been
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  destroying people. I'll play the quote for old Trumpster. And he's he's obviously selling
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  something. And that's what he's doing. He's a deal maker and he's not a politician. If he was,
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  he would learn that what he's doing is incorrect now. And I always get, you know, I am I call it
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  like I see him. If it's a ball, it's a ball strike. It's a strike. You know, it doesn't
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  matter who's at the plate. You know, I call it like I see it. And the truth doesn't change based
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  on the audience I'm speaking to. Oh, brother, mine. We wish to talk the truth. Well, let's talk
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  about the truth for real and not as something that changes based on the audience. That's nonsense
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  or based on the goal you're trying to get. The truth is the truth. End of sentence. And you can
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  interpret the truth as you like. But basic facts are basic facts. And here are the basic facts.
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  So when I read to you what the old Solovyov monster said last night to his Russian audience
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  and to many, many people around the world, because people watch him, even the Arabic guy
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  that I uploaded it from his site. He had he had nearly 10000 views wherever he's located, you
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  know, but he's an Arabic channel and upload the Russian part of it because you can't get on YouTube
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  from Russia. It's nonsense that we're blocking all that. And so and part of it has to do with
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  this blocking, because part of Solovyov's speech was exactly about that. And so I'm going to jump
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  right in and say what he says. I want to give a little bit of a caution. He does get I don't know
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  what he he it's rhetoric, of course. But he says, you know, they're killing our people. They're
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  killing our officials. They're you know, Trump kills. He said this over and over, not in this
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  appearance, but he said, you know, Trump's killing leaders, Trump's getting rid of them. And it's in
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  the clip I'm going to play for you. Maybe we should start to act the same. Something said maybe we
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  should go in and kill all the Ukrainian leaders. You know, we could do it. We could do what Trump
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  did and go, you know, take Maduro. You know, it's basically what he's saying. We could do the same
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  to Zelensky. Zelensky wouldn't be protected and we could kill them all. You know, we could do what
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  Trump is doing and just say, well, that's the world we live in. Sorry. So anyway, here we go.
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  But I don't want to frame it, at least that this is Solovyov's language, not mine. But it does show
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  how hard the mood has become in Russia and frankly, around the world about all the turmoil
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  that America is creating. So I want to tell you about the broader platform thing. In March of 2022,
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  YouTube did announce it was blocking access globally to channels associated with the Russian
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  state funded media. But I was able to get it. Every year I'd go to Russia and it was all fine
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  until I went to the BRICS conference in late 2024 and then suddenly blocked. I was blocked, in fact.
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  And anything associated with Russian state funded media, my ass, it's not just state funded media.
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  It's any media that has anything positive to say about the Russian side. And they cite its own
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  policy on violence, right? Reuters, Euronews says that YouTube said this would apply globally and
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  take effect immediately. TechCrunch reported YouTube's move as a global block on Kremlin
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  backed state funded outlets, not a Europe only restriction. So Solovyov material survives on
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  YouTube only through fragments, reposts and the game that they play of digital whack-a-mole.
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  You know, that's how it works. And so it's hard to get this information. So I'm going to begin.
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  Here's where it starts with Solovyov. Okay. Good evening. Of course, the main problem right now
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  is security inside the country. At the same time, we need to separate things clearly here because
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  people's emotions are understandable. Everything is obvious. Tonight it was once again, extremely
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  alarming in St. Petersburg. Once again, they say the Baltics flew things at us, but not for long.
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  We need to stop talking. We really simply need to stop. Europe is terribly happy that the Luftwaffe
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  or whatever they want to call the Nazis and the current ones calling something similar
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  have reached the Ural mountains. They blew up another Russian refinery deep inside of Russia.
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  They could not reach the Urals, but the Ukrainian Nazis did reach it. The original Nazis couldn't
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  reach the Ural mountains, but the Ukrainian Nazis reached the Urals. That miserable Kayakalys
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  is delighted that the parade, the Russian Victory Day parade on the 9th will be without military
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  equipment. Fool, what are you so happy about? We will need that military equipment when we
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  trample you and your friends. Oh, forgive me, the words fool and trample. I hope Kayakalys
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  files a complaint against me. Or should I switch to Estonian language so you understand me?
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  After all, quite suddenly I've become the most popular character in Italy. Now all Italians
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  are saying, finally, Solovyov is telling the truth about all of them. Well, I can tell you
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  the truth about our governments in various languages. The truth is simple. European governments
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  do not want to see that the strikes being carried out deep inside the territory are possible only
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  because they steal money from their taxpayers and send it to Ukraine, either already in the
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  form of a finished product or in the form of what those products are later manufactured to.
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  Your reconnaissance equipment, European reconnaissance equipment, guides these weapons
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  for strikes against our cities and so that civilians can die. You hunt our civilians and
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  think we will forgive you for this? You are mistaken. So let us break this down into several
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  clear points. What is happening at the front? At the front, we are pressing forward. This is
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  absolutely true. And they're gaining lots of ground recently. So much so that Sumi is already
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  understanding that things are going to be very difficult for them. And people have started
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  running from that place. So much so that Kharkov itself understands that nothing of this is so
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  cheerful anymore. And life in Kharkov is becoming harder and harder, not quickly, but while
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  minimizing our own losses, we're advancing on a number of fronts. I want to remind you,
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  Zelensky was shouting that just a little bit more money and they would clear Kupyansk of Russians.
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  Well, how is that going? Remember Kupyansk? It's now completely Russian, far in the rear now.
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  And how is that going? Not long ago, they were also saying they had liberated 500 kilometers,
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  square kilometers. Where? They can't show it. They said, we are killing more Russians than
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  they are recruiting. Then why are they screaming that it is not even close? We have volunteers
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  coming forward while in Ukraine again and again. The map looks more and more frightening for them.
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  Hang on a second. The old slurp in the microphone. There are images of forced recruitment
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  and that there definitely are, and they're getting worse. There are maps of cities on
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  Ukrainian territory where active hostilities are taking place against the TCC recruitment centers.
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  This is the the boosification of the Ukrainians. Here someone threw a grenade. There someone used
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  an automatic weapon. They threw a grenade at one of the recruiting centers and blew it up.
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  And then somebody else is using an automatic weapon to shoot in through the windows instead
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  of this recruiting center. They're trying to kill the recruiting people. Somewhere else in Ukraine,
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  somewhere else a recruiter was cut with a knife. Somewhere else there was shooting with pistols
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  between them. They've been allowed to carry pistols now. And so people are getting the
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  crap beat out of them and thrown into the back of vans and taken to this training place.
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  Trained, if you want to call it that, for two weeks and shipped out to the front to die.
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  You know, that is exactly what is going on. And so these things are true. And this is why they
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  don't want to hear Solovyov say them. They show how the Ukrainians attack our ships
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  and how they strike our oil refineries. Well, let us finally start showing what their cities
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  look like, their enterprises and their infrastructure centers that would that have
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  turned what they have turned into. It would be simpler. Why do we not show pictures of how many
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  ships we have sunk, where and how ships that tried to come into port? Why are we losing this
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  information battle? Europe should see pictures of what is burning on the territory of Ukraine
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  and how it is burning. Why not? Ah, because the number of our traders happily film and post
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  everything wherever they can. What he's saying is in Russia, we have freedom of speech. We can
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  take video and post it while over there, strict censorship operates. So it is impossible to get
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  pictures from there. And they've blocked everything. You know, they can't. They can't.
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  Ukrainians can only send out positive pro-Ukraine things. They're not allowed to speak.
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  You know, everybody gets banned. YouTube banned Penchenko. That's bullshit. Pardon my French.
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  She had two million followers. Why? Because she was telling the truth and they got rid of her.
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  But every time I say that those who film impacts like Russian oil places and upload them should
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  be punished in the harshest way. People say to me, how can you say that? What are you saying?
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  By the way, this is prohibited all over the world. But here in Russia, someone is always trying to
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  say, come on, what's the big deal? It's, you know, free speech. No, it is a big deal. A war is
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  underway. Solovyov is against it. And he repeats it. A war is underway. And if a war is underway,
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  then allow me to ask simple, clear questions. If strikes went on for a week against Ust-Luga,
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  all right, and on the first day impacts happened. But what about the second day and the third?
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  Why did that happen? Why were all the forces and means necessary to repel attack not transferred
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  there? He's beaten up on his own country and their defenses right now. If this is the fourth attack
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  on Tuapse. And Tuapse is the city I was talking about last week where they had whatever it was,
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  28 oil refinery tanks for export. And the Ukrainians blew virtually all of them up and
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  attacked it four days in a row. Why did concentration of forces and means like equipment
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  not happen after the first strike? If something flies 1500 kilometers, why is it not shot down?
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  I simply want to understand what is the problem? Do we not see it? Do we not understand what is
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  going on? Do we not know that something just doesn't correspond to reality? We see how
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  Moscow is defended. We know how well it is organized. But who are but those who are supposed
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  to know? No. Is there nothing to shoot with? Excuse me, but I myself went there on Thursday night.
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  We worked on Friday, Wednesday night, Thursday. While working, we worked with the system in particular.
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  The least and I don't know what the least is. He said it's a brilliant interceptor, a very promising
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  interceptor produced in large quantities. And most importantly, who is the person responsible?
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  Tell me, please. Do we have one person who is responsible for the entire air defense system
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  in our country? He's beaten up on his own military here. I want to remind you that everything is
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  still broken up among agencies. Where, how, what, who is responsible for what? Maybe it's time to
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  abandon that line of thinking. Why is the Moscow experience not being replicated everywhere else,
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  is what he meant. Why is there still no single person responsible for the entire national air
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  defense system with emergency powers? We have said that many times. Do we not understand that
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  the enemy is planning to do everything this week? And why? It's because it's victory day week,
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  because they need to distract attention. And in general, they are profoundly indifferent to lives.
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  We could wipe out all of Ukraine. This group of scoundrels, terrorists and villains who have
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  stolen every bit of money they could. They are indifferent to the fate of Ukraine. Now, I believe
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  that too. The leaders in Ukraine, the people of Ukraine are good people. The people of Russia are
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  good people. The Ukrainian military is gone, decimated, destroyed. And, you know, these
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  leaders, the West, all Western, including in the U.S., by the way, those that are, oh, we're not
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  doing enough for Ukraine. They're the idiots. Okay. And the Western leaders are also the idiots,
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  in my humble view. You know, I'll be happy to debate with them. Bring it on. But they are
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  indifferent. Now, I'm going to continue with Solovyov. They are indifferent to the fate of Ukraine.
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  They care only about their personal wealth. They care only about how much money they will continue
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  to receive. They do not need peace. And they do not need a ceasefire. And this is directly what
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  is said in the now famous Mindish tapes. Mindik was the guy who ran off to Israel with $100 million
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  in fraud that he stole from the money, from the country, from the people.
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  He's one of Zelensky's closest backers. I told you about him last year when this happened.
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  I want to say it was like November or something. And there are tapes where he says, no, no, no,
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  we need the war. We need this war. What do you mean, stop the war? Then the quote says,
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  what do you mean, stop the war? Then we will not receive any money. That's Mindik. And in reality,
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  these tapes, these Mindik tapes are the main thing now killing the Ukrainian government.
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  Here's some truths for you. That is why they are ready to do anything, shift attention,
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  shout that we're about to use nuclear weapons. Because in these tapes, it is stated clearly and
• 30:37
  plainly, Ukraine is not led by some modern Churchill, but by a vile, disgusting, lying,
• 30:46
  thieving creature. He's talking about the Green Goblin. Why is he not condemned in Europe? Because
• 30:53
  all of them live on the money that this scoundrel distributes to them from the money stolen from
• 30:59
  European and American taxpayers. That is why Kayakalis is bought and paid for. She is a bought
• 31:06
  and paid for creature maintained by Zelensky. Merz is maintained by Zelensky. Macron is maintained
• 31:13
  by Zelensky in one form or another, through different systems of foundations, through
• 31:19
  systems of kickbacks. The entire European ruling class, including the European bureaucracy
• 31:26
  with Ursula von der Leyen in the front ranks, excuse me, all of them are sitting on money
• 31:33
  in one form or another that is laundered through Ukraine and distributed just as it was with the
• 31:39
  Democratic Party of the United States, which it was. But he's mistaken there. It was the Republicans
• 31:46
  just as much as the Democrats, with all these NGOs, U.S. Agency for International Development.
• 31:52
  They filtered millions, billions through Ukraine over the years. You know, what about the famous
• 32:00
  son of Biden, the Hunter Biden Parisma BS? You know, they've been throwing money through there
• 32:08
  and laundering it to the proper people for a decade, a little more than a decade, at least
• 32:13
  since 2014, when we supported the coup on, was it Poroshenko? Yeah, I think it was. But Nate,
• 32:24
  let's see. And these schemes are being investigated. That is why there will be shouting,
• 32:31
  but no one will dare pay attention to the fact that at the head of the Ukrainian Nazi regime
• 32:37
  stands a thief who kills his own people and steals money from American and European taxpayers.
• 32:44
  Now, this is harsh, you know, but this is the temperature in Russia. The Americans
• 32:50
  in the person of Trump understood this and said, enough, not interested. But the Democrats who
• 32:58
  were sitting on the fees are shouting, no, no, no, give more. You know, they want to give money.
• 33:06
  And this still Solovyov's took a little ways ago. Everything is complicated. Everything is
• 33:11
  complicated. NATO is falling apart without Trump. It is nothing. Zelensky shouts, I do not care
• 33:19
  about America. I am with Europe. I already bought it. I control it. Do we want to change this
• 33:25
  situation? Then let us act the way the supreme commander in chief of the Russian Federation,
• 33:31
  president of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, clearly formulated the fight
• 33:37
  against terrorists because they are terrorists. They must be wiped out. If we catch them in the
• 33:45
  toilet, then wipe them out in the toilet, wipe them out. Zelensky, Fyodorov, Budanov, and I can
• 33:53
  go on listing them by name, physically destroy them. That is the only thing they fear, the only
• 34:01
  thing they tremble over, not the lives of Ukrainians. And that they are terrorists became
• 34:10
  clear on May 2 of 2014. And we have still not avenged that. He is talking about the Union Hall
• 34:18
  massacre where they burned people alive, the Ukrainian Nazis that currently control the country
• 34:26
  burned Russian people alive who were protesting against the coup that happened in 2014. So in May
• 34:36
  of 2014, they burned them alive in the Union Hall in Odessa. And nobody talks about it. And we still
• 34:45
  haven't avenged it. We have not punished it. Memory is not enough. Revenge is necessary.
• 34:52
  Revenge is necessary. And then he passed off to one of the other speakers. And so his points,
• 35:02
  you know, could be pretty harsh. He's talking about Russian internal security,
• 35:11
  especially during Victory Week. This is a big week for them. Pervomaiya all the way through
• 35:19
  Devyatovomaiya, 1st through the 9th, is a big holiday over there. And I'd like to be there.
• 35:25
  I was there for it one year in the city of Naberezhnye Chelny. And it was actually very,
• 35:35
  I don't know how to say it. I suppose it was somewhat patriotic and even somewhat moving
• 35:44
  because at night the fireworks were going on. Okay. Imagine this, driving through, pick a city
• 35:51
  the size of Naberezhnye Chelny in America. Call it, it's bigger than Columbia, but call it about
• 35:58
  the size of Columbia, Missouri. Okay. And imagine, even in Columbia, that a fireworks
• 36:05
  display is going on citywide, multiple places around the city. Huge fireworks were seen
• 36:13
  everywhere on the city. And all the traffic stopped at like whatever it was, 9, 10 p.m.,
• 36:23
  whenever these fireworks started. And they went on for, you know, 10, 15 minutes. And then everybody
• 36:28
  got back in their car and moved. The entire place stood still. There was nothing happening
• 36:35
  except people watching the fireworks and doing, you know, thinking about it. I was in an Uber,
• 36:42
  well, Yandex over there. I was in an Uber at the time. And the driver says, well, you know,
• 36:46
  we stopped for these things. Get out and enjoy it. You know, enjoy the fireworks. Have a look at it.
• 36:52
  There were cars stopped, kids sitting on top of the car, you know, dad, mom's out. And it was
• 36:56
  a huge affair. It's freaking Victory Day. They remember what happened when the Nazis came and
• 37:04
  they lost 26 million people. They remember it. Every family was affected. Ukraine wants to forget
• 37:14
  it. Because Ukraine, if you want to talk the true Ukraine, not the Russian Ukraine, those
• 37:19
  separatists were Nazis. They were killing, they wanted to kill Russians. Stepan Bandera was a
• 37:26
  Nazi. And he killed the people. So, I mean, the truth is out there. If you just go look for it.
• 37:34
  And Ukraine is not the good guys in this thing. We have teamed up with a bunch of ultra-nationalist
• 37:42
  types in the West. And it's just wrong. First of all, we have nothing to do with these conflicts
• 37:50
  in Europe. They've been overrunning each other for centuries. We have nothing to do with it.
• 37:54
  And it's not going to stop. It should stop. But it won't. You know, they have 50 different cultures
• 38:01
  packed in a smaller area than the United States. And, well, I think it's about equal. But it's
• 38:08
  still, they have tons of different cultures in there. And those cultures don't mix.
• 38:13
  Ours is still basically American melting pot. We have troubles. You know, I mean, hell,
• 38:19
  you go to Miami, they're either speaking Russian or Cuban or now Haitian. You know,
• 38:27
  I can't get help at the freaking grocery store. Sorry, no English. You know,
• 38:33
  where, where, where, whatever, where's the coffee located? No English. Off they go. You can't get
• 38:40
  help from anybody. You got to go talk to five people before you get one that speaks English.
• 38:45
  And that's the truth, actually. So anyway, I didn't have another sip. So it's pretty harsh,
• 38:54
  pretty damn harsh. What Soloviev said, what is he really doing? He isn't talking about Iran.
• 39:01
  He's talking about internal security, escalation psychology, and domestic anger. He's telling the
• 39:09
  audience that the war is no longer over there. St. Petersburg, Ust Luga, Tuapse, Moscow, oil
• 39:16
  refining ships, Deep Strike Jones are all part of the same argument. Russia is under attack on
• 39:22
  its own territory. And the European government is and are participants, not observers.
• 39:29
  They're allowing people to fly through Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland to get to oil tankers
• 39:37
  inside of Russia. They are NATO countries are involved. They're allowing it to happen. And
• 39:46
  it's true. This is escalatory talk. And so he's first major point is European intelligence and
• 39:54
  financing makes deep strikes possible. Second point is aimed at Russia. He's complaining that
• 40:00
  Russia is losing the information war by not showing the destruction inflicted on the Ukrainian
• 40:05
  military. He contrasts this with Ukrainian or Western presentation of every strike against
• 40:10
  Russian ships and refineries. And he turns on the Russians who are filming those to say, quit it.
• 40:17
  He wants to make it a crime. His third point is direct criticism of the Russian air defense.
• 40:22
  This part is unusually important. He asked why this is going on in pretty blunt terms after
• 40:29
  1500 kilometers and we're not taking them out. What do we lack? Basically, this is an internal
• 40:35
  policy complaint. And you think he's pro Kremlin on that? Tell you what, I guarantee you he's either
• 40:43
  getting some, you know, somebody wants to twist that narrative. But people are pissed off inside
• 40:49
  of Russia. Why wouldn't you be? They would we be? You know, here we are. Here we are at the
• 40:55
  local Lake Ozark real estate of the art studio and a 1500 mile 1500 kilometer missile flies up
• 41:04
  through Mexico and bombs Osage Beach or Lake Ozark or anywhere, Jefferson City. And what would we say?
• 41:15
  Well, geez, where were our air defenses? What happened to the we're the greatest in the world?
• 41:19
  Israel's having some of the same complaints. Air defenses cannot keep up with all of these drones
• 41:26
  and this massive drone. It's a different world than it was with the missiles. Why do you think
• 41:31
  Donald Trump would spend a half a billion dollars on drone technology? He sees it coming. We are no
• 41:36
  longer the king of the mountain as far as military technology. And by the way, lots of countries are
• 41:42
  buying from other sources and backing out on U.S. military equipment. So his fourth point is
• 41:50
  Ukraine's leadership does not want peace because the war is a money machine and their corruption,
• 41:57
  the mendicant tapes, the Western funds, the European political kickbacks, the broad claim
• 42:01
  that Ukraine is a laundering mechanism for the Western political and bureaucratic interests,
• 42:05
  which, by the way, it is that gives you a bridge, you know, to talk about all the rest of the stuff.
• 42:13
  Right. Everything that goes on in government in the West is funded by Ukraine, the war and all
• 42:21
  the money, all the filthy money that gets kicked back back through the the deep state types,
• 42:28
  the military industrial complex types. His most inflammatory point was the part where I read you
• 42:36
  that he talked about killing people directly. Now, Donald Trump does that all the time. Nobody
• 42:41
  says a word, you know, how he killed them. We can't even talk to them and play his tape for
• 42:46
  you after we take a little break with it. But the fact is this, whether you agree with Solovyov's
• 42:52
  rhetoric or not, and I don't agree with all of it. I agree with a good amount of it.
• 42:57
  This what it shows is the depths of the Russian fury after all of these deep strikes and terrorist
• 43:04
  style attacks. They attacked the apartment building in Moscow yesterday. It was on the
• 43:10
  news this morning. Let's see if I can find it. They they. Where is it? Ukraine. Ukrainian drone
• 43:18
  hits a skyscraper in Moscow. Fifty two story building in Russian's capital business
• 43:27
  district. High rise residential building near the Moscow business district, according to Mayor
• 43:33
  Sergei Sobyanin. The UAV unmanned aerial vehicle struck the 52 story building known as the house
• 43:41
  on Mosfilmskaya. Mosfilmskaya is the street. A modernist landmark built in 2010. The impact
• 43:49
  reportedly occurred at the 36th floor. There were no casualties. Photos and videos from the scene
• 43:55
  show debris damage to the facade and scattered into the street. The attack took place ahead
• 44:01
  of Victory Day on May 9, one of Russia's most important public holidays marked by a military
• 44:07
  parade on Red Square. And there's debris all over the place. Eyewitnesses say they had heard a
• 44:14
  powerful explosion. Some said they saw a flash in the sky and smoke rising from the building.
• 44:18
  Ukraine is stepping up strikes deep inside of Russia, launching hundreds of kamikaze drones
• 44:24
  every day. Although successful strikes in Moscow are rare, Ukrainian drones damaged high rise
• 44:30
  buildings in Moscow City, the capital's iconic business district in 2023. Also, so there's
• 44:38
  anger, you know, about this type of stuff. They're not happy. And, oh, man, I, I want to get to the,
• 44:50
  the, uh, Solovyov. And I messed it up. I clicked the wrong screen. Sorry about that.
• 44:57
  But we're going to take a break anyway, because I was just about done with that. And I'm going to
• 45:01
  play for you some Russian music, Russian music, perhaps depending on where you put it in the
• 45:09
  sentence. And we're going to go. I really want to play again. And I think I'm going to this week
• 45:14
  that Ota Orchestra, the Royal Safari that I found last week. I've played it like 10 times since that
• 45:21
  time. And I'm going to do it one more time in the show. Maybe I'll do it if we take a second break.
• 45:25
  But right now we're going to do some soy. And we're going to play that and see what song is out
• 45:34
  here. Let's see. We're going to find the one that I want to find in the one that I like. And I like
• 45:47
  this song in particular. So I'm going to play it again for you. Just because I can. Enjoy, please,
• 45:57
  where is the right screen drag here? Sorry, I'm a little slow on the uptake today. That was a
• 46:07
  hell of a crowd there. It's Victor Tsoi and Kino is the name of the group. And it's Kukushka is the
• 46:17
  name of the song. And it's a very good song to come out in the 90s. I think Tsoi's passed away.
• 46:23
  I think he's dead from something. But I don't remember what. But anyway, I played that song,
• 46:29
  I don't know, probably once a month-ish here on the show. I like it. And it's representative of
• 46:36
  the 90s in all truth. Although I'm very much interested in this Ota, O-T-T-A, I think it is
• 46:44
  called. And it is, you know, I may play that for us later as well. But right now, I want to
• 46:56
  play something for you that was troubling for me. I didn't like it. And whether we can get through
• 47:09
  the whole five minutes or not remains to be seen because I didn't like it. And maybe I'm a softy,
• 47:18
  I don't know. But I don't like this callous, cavalier, warmongering and discussion of things,
• 47:29
  of theft and of stuff like that. And you can have your own opinion of it, but I don't like it.
• 47:36
  I think it plays very poorly, especially on the world stage and mostly in the United States.
• 47:44
  It's not, you know, you got your people out there, we showed them. Okay, great. But
• 47:52
  this is not how you run a country. It's not how you do it. And, you know, this is red meat for
• 47:59
  the hungry, basically, the warmongering. I imagine Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell sitting up
• 48:06
  there slobbering on the hill because of speech like this, because it means more money for them
• 48:12
  and their friends. And they like to hear this stuff. But let us see what shall be seen here.
• 48:19
  And I hope it's at the right spot in it. But here's the old Trumpster over the weekend.
• 48:25
  Problem, because we are too far. Hold on. See, I gotta figure out how to do this correctly.
• 48:32
  See, if I whisper, I could, you know, I don't know what it may be. It's stronger,
• 48:35
  according to some people who like to whisper when they say things.
• 48:39
  But anyway, here's the old Donald Javich. And here he goes, that go over the ocean,
• 48:44
  and they hear him from two miles away. Turn your ship around. Turn your ship around. And
• 48:50
  all of a sudden, yes, yes, we are going back to Iran. We are going back. They turned it around.
• 48:57
  Takes 10 miles to turn this sucker. You know, it's not like turning around a bicycle. It's like
• 49:03
  it's big stuff. And then we had the other one you saw from four days ago where they were going to
• 49:08
  ram the the we call it an iron wall. It's essentially an iron wall. We have such great
• 49:12
  military and great Navy. And they were going straight through. And they said, turn your ship
• 49:18
  around. And there was no response. Turn your ship around. Evacuate your engine room immediately.
• 49:27
  And you see all these guys running out of it. Now, they're five miles away and one shot
• 49:34
  into the engine room, blew up the engine room. The ship stopped.
• 49:38
  They used tugboats. And then we landed on top of it, on top of everything else. We then land
• 49:42
  on top of it. And we took over the ship. We took over the cargo, took over the oil.
• 49:48
  It's a very profitable business. Who would have thought we were doing that? We're like pirates.
• 49:52
  We're sort of like pirates. But we're not playing games because, you know,
• 49:58
  for 47 years, Iran has been pushing everybody around. They're the bully of the Middle East.
• 50:03
  They've been scaring everybody. Israel and Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait,
• 50:11
  all of them. They're all it was the bully of the Middle East. I understand it.
• 50:16
  Bush made a mistake. He took out Iraq. You know,
• 50:19
  Iraq — and by the way, I congratulate the new president of Iraq. I endorsed him. I'm now in
• 50:26
  the business of endorsing political leaders from foreign countries, countries that nobody's ever
• 50:31
  seen before. And we have a pretty infallible record. We've won a lot of them. But I endorsed
• 50:37
  the man because we didn't like the man that was the president of Iraq. And we endorsed somebody
• 50:41
  that not a lot of people have heard of. And he won in a landslide. So we just — I just spoke to
• 50:46
  him yesterday. But the relationships we have, we have relationships that are very, very strong,
• 50:52
  very powerful relationships. And I think the Middle East is going to be taken care of.
• 50:56
  We had a lot of conversations with the leaders. I call them the new leaders. I call them the —
• 51:02
  OK, the rest of that is, you know, him crowing about — well, maybe I should play it for you,
• 51:08
  because he crows about the killing of people. This I do not like. This is highly offensive to
• 51:16
  me, every bit of it. And there was scattered applause at the forum club where he was doing
• 51:22
  this, but not very much. There's a lot of people not clapping. The new regime, you know, they kept
• 51:29
  saying, the radical left, where is regime change? Well, if this isn't regime change, there's no
• 51:35
  such thing. Because Khomeini in the first tier was gone. The second tier is gone. Half of the
• 51:41
  third tier is gone, which is a problem. That's a problem, because we are trying to figure out
• 51:46
  the right one to talk to. We talk to one, and then another one calls up. Let's make a deal.
• 51:51
  But we're — I think we're in a very — well, I mean, I know we're in a very strong position.
• 51:56
  There's the expression that we've all heard, or many of us have heard, if you like the fights,
• 52:00
  if this were a fight, they'd stop it. But again, their military is — they have some missiles left.
• 52:06
  They have some missile-making capacity left. We've knocked about 85 percent of their
• 52:12
  manufacturing capacity for new missiles out. We've knocked about 82 percent. But that means
• 52:17
  they have missiles left. We knocked out most of their drone-making factories, but they have some
• 52:22
  drone capacity left. And drones are pretty effective. But we've also developed — in the
• 52:27
  meantime, you know, if you remember, the German U-boats were a horror. Nobody could stop them.
• 52:33
  And then, all of a sudden, they come up with sonar, and it went from nobody could stop them
• 52:37
  that it was the worst place in the world to be is in a U-boat. The drone — anti-drone
• 52:44
  capacity that we have now is fantastic. They have new weapons, lasers. You're going to see
• 52:49
  the lasers. They go into a laser, they just burn like a — they just boom. And we have that,
• 52:54
  and we have very special machine guns with large-scale bullets operated by a computer.
• 53:03
  And as they come in, it just knocks them out like — it's amazing. But with all of that being said,
• 53:07
  there's still danger. There's always danger with war. With war, you never know what happens.
• 53:12
  I thought the war was over. He declared last week that the war was over. So he could get — he
• 53:19
  called it a military exercise or action. It's a small military action. It's over.
• 53:29
  You know, that way, he doesn't have to get war powers from Congress. But I find that entire
• 53:37
  rhetorical statement quite offensive, and I don't like that. This is war. These are people,
• 53:47
  OK? And it's just as offensive as the stuff that Solovyov said about killing the heads of state.
• 53:58
  And theft isn't good in any — piracy, oh, geez, we're proud of it. It's very profitable. We're
• 54:04
  going to go steal their stuff. OK. So we are the thieves of the world. We are the pirates.
• 54:10
  So now we're glorifying what we're doing. Well, trust me, the rest of the world is not.
• 54:17
  And they don't see it that way. And I tell you, let's go to
• 54:26
  some of the thought processes around the world, OK? Economically, let's talk about this. So
• 54:36
  there's U.S. Treasury — like, this is reality, OK? This is no longer just an Iran war.
• 54:45
  And Trump wants to talk about the glory of what the military is doing and make them feel positive
• 54:51
  about this B.S. war that we are involved in, that we never should have been involved in,
• 54:56
  and that he can't get out of. And he's having trouble. He learned that Ukraine didn't depend
• 55:03
  on him. I could get rid of that in one day, yeah? Why are we, you know, a year and a half in,
• 55:09
  and there's nothing been done? This isn't just an Iran war. It's a test about whether or not
• 55:18
  Washington still commands the world economy by threatening everyone else's shipping, banks,
• 55:27
  oil supply, and sovereignty, right? So Trump says he wants peace. But every operational move —
• 55:38
  blockade, sanctions, piracy, and public humiliation — is his bag. He wants to
• 55:45
  publicly humiliate whoever he's against. And that's not deal-making. That's bullying. That's
• 55:54
  piracy. Reuters reports that oil remains still above $100 a barrel, no peace deal in sight,
• 56:02
  Iran has proposed setting aside nuclear issues until after the war ends, and the opposing
• 56:08
  shipping blockades are lifted. Washington Post says Iran's plan calls for cessation of hostilities,
• 56:16
  30-day period for detailed negotiation, gradual reopening of the strait, mine clearing,
• 56:22
  a lifting of U.S. sanctions, all while Iran is denying media claims that the proposal contains
• 56:30
  any nuclear concessions. Iran has been offering, and they appear to still be offering, a path to
• 56:37
  stop the bleeding first and negotiate a deeper nuclear issue secondary. Trump is demanding
• 56:43
  surrender first and calling it diplomacy. Well, this is exactly what Putin has been saying in
• 56:51
  Ukraine. The Ukrainians, the Europeans, the Americans all want capitulation of Russia first,
• 57:01
  cease fire first, then let's talk. And all that does is allow them — and Trump knows that. He
• 57:09
  knows that if he doesn't continue the war, Iran will continue to rebuild and do what it's doing.
• 57:15
  Iran doesn't want to stop this war either, not without knowing that the real bully of the Middle
• 57:22
  East, which is nowhere close to Iran, that they can't just start war again two weeks later on a
• 57:28
  whim and Trump can jump right back in and follow Netanyahu. That's the issue. Nobody believes us.
• 57:36
  Nobody. And nobody believes the rhetoric that Iran is the bad guy. Iran, I'm not calling them good
• 57:43
  guys, but the bad guys are us and Israel. And, you know, the nuclear threat isn't Iran, it's Israel.
• 57:53
  That's what it is. And there's no doubt every time something is started, it's very rarely
• 57:59
  started by others. It's usually started by Netanyahu and Kraut. And then at least the last
• 58:09
  two big ones certainly have been. They are opportunistic. They know that they could,
• 58:14
  you know, manhandle Trump into doing it. And so they did. That's what happened. And so it's
• 58:22
  the world economy, you know, this sanctions in the war on the world economy. This is where
• 58:29
  the core point is that the world economy is not just experiencing a temporary disruption.
• 58:38
  It is absolutely fragmenting. The US-China trade and investment will never return
• 58:45
  to the old pattern of what it was. Trump says he's going to sanction
• 58:50
  any country that buys Iranian oil. Well, the largest supplier of China is Iran.
• 58:58
  And European and Russian links are going to be damaged for at least a generation.
• 59:03
  You know, that's it's going to take a long time for that to be repaired. If ever, Asia is
• 59:10
  integrating into itself. Europe has left a drift economically with no resources from either side,
• 59:16
  except high dollar American ones. They can't get it from the Middle East now. They can't get it
• 59:22
  from Russia. So they have to get it from the US and they're trying to get it from Canada.
• 59:27
  And Canada is going to make a buttload of money about it. If your own allies don't trust you,
• 59:33
  which is what's going on now, our own allies don't trust us, certainly don't trust Trump.
• 59:39
  And they're all making alternatives. They're buying military equipment from other manufacturers,
• 59:46
  European, Asian, Russian. They're buying oil from different suppliers, Canada, Russia,
• 59:54
  Middle East. OPEC is fragmenting. OK, now that's a scary thought. Think about that.
• 1:00:01
  We'll get to that in a few seconds. So the US, I mean, US trade with China will never go back
• 1:00:08
  to the way it was. It's just not going to happen. The damage to it is enormous and everyone is
• 1:00:17
  fragmenting. Secondary sanctions only work when the rest of the world is afraid enough to obey them.
• 1:00:25
  And they're not. Now they're not going to obey them. And secondary sanctions, OK, a regular
• 1:00:32
  sanction is sanctioning Russian oil. A secondary sanction is sanctioning a company that buys
• 1:00:39
  Russian oil or continues to buy Russian oil. This is, you know, I'm going to beat up your brother
• 1:00:47
  because you're dating my sister. You know, this is this is, you know, you're picking something
• 1:00:52
  somebody who's not involved in your war or in your game playing and you're going to sanction
• 1:00:59
  them to put pressure because they have an ally in the third party or they don't have any problem
• 1:01:05
  with the third party. So you're trying to create the problem with the third party with secondary
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  sanctions. And those are failing and they have been failing. The more we use it as a tool,
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  the more it fails and it's and it's failing. People are going, screw you. We're not interested.
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  And China made that move. And the move is changing the psychology for a lot of players.
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  Washington isn't just sanctioning Iran. It's threatening the buyer, the shipper, the insurer,
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  the bank, the refiner and any payment channels, treasury that I am no fan of that guy, Besson,
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  that guy. Well, don't get me started. I'll lose track of where I'm going and I don't want to do
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  that. Treasury released it, saying it targeting for a network of vessels, intermediaries and buyers
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  that Iran uses to move oils. This is not ordinary diplomacy. It's an economic siege warfare.
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  Our old American Western Empire worked because people feared being cut off from the dollar,
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  from the dollar, the new world. And this is what Trump is trying to save. And it ain't working.
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  The new world begins when major countries decide that being bullied by the dollar system itself
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  is the greater risk. And this is where China matters in the order that they made matters.
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  It is not just about five refiners that they have that Besson decided he's going to sanction.
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  This is a test case. If China tells its own companies, which they have not to obey the
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  U.S. sanctions and those companies keep trading with Iran, then the sanctions system either
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  escalates toward Chinese banks or starts looking like an old sheriff who has no hat or a horse or
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  anything else. So the sheriff's going to do so. What's he going to do? What is Sheriff Trump
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  going to do? And Europe is completely trapped. So this is like a tragic comedy.
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  Europe is the big loser because it broke with its natural partner, the resources of Russia,
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  and trusted a United States that treats allies like a subcontractor with bad credit, right?
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  Europe make the same basic point from a Russian side, okay? The Iran war has exposed Europe's
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  vulnerability to energy shock, refined product dependence, manufacturing disruption,
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  their manufacturing's in bad shape, food price pressure and massive inflation.
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  The Iran war has further poisoned transatlantic relations. Europe is economically exposed from
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  Ukraine already. And now Iran is piling another shock on top of that. And that Trump is eventually
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  going to blame Europe for failing to open the strait just as Europe and Ukraine are going to
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  be blamed for the failure in Ukraine. That was Biden's war and I just couldn't end it.
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  Europe keeps acting as if geography is an optional part of your analysis. It's not.
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  It cut itself off from Russia, the only natural energy and resource partner it had.
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  It subordinated itself to Washington for years and Washington that now demands loyalty but
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  offers only instability in return. And Europe is watching the Gulf burn, oil rise, trade routes
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  are destroyed, and Washington is telling them to help police the crisis and Europe had nothing to
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  do with it. They didn't control it. They didn't benefit from it and they can't afford to do it.
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  This is not strategy. This is a very bad dependency thing. You got to buy them some
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  of the adult diapers maybe. China, on the other hand, is acting like a superpower.
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  The US is trying to build a maritime freedom construct around Hormuz and it's excluding
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  Russia and China as adversaries. Beijing is not begging for permission though. It's protecting
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  its own energy flow and telling its companies we're not going to honor unilateral US restrictions.
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  Europe keeps asking Washington, what can we do? China tells Washington we're not doing that.
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  And so I tell you what, they're threatening. These threats are happening. So
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  I'm telling you, the breaking the Hormuz stuff, there were a couple of videos that I watched
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  a tanker was struck by an unknown projectile north of Fallujah. The crew is safe, but the
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  Reuters report that on May 4, a tanker was hit about 78 miles north of Fallujah. The same
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  what do they call it, US escort operations that they're going to call Project Freedom.
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  And tell you what, I'm not sure what's going to happen there, but Trump's Project Freedom includes
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  guided missile destroyers, a hundred aircraft drones, 15,000 service members, and Trump is
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  warning that interference with it would be handled forcefully. So Washington's calling it a humanitarian
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  escort, but if your humanitarian mission comes with missiles and destroyers, aircraft, drones,
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  threats of force, the other side is going to read it as a military operation, which it absolutely is.
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  So then I watched a guy named Mikhail Khazin, the Russian dude, and that was extremely interesting,
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  very analytical. He's an economist, and I like listening to this guy because tell you what,
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  he is a very smart Jeffrey Sachs level economist type, right? And he's changing what he's talking.
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  He isn't talking about necessarily war with Iran. He's more talking about the structure
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  of the old system and how it's disappearing. The core point is that the petrodollar wasn't about
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  selling oil in dollars. It was about the oil export surplus being recycled into the United
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  States treasury bonds, U.S. assets, U.S. financial markets, and the broader dollar system. And oil
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  revenues generated surplus dollars that couldn't be used domestically by countries like Bahrain,
• 1:07:44
  by Saudi Arabia, Qatar. So the dollars flowed back into the United States because they would
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  take payment in what? The petrodollar, which is basically U.S. treasury bonds and assets, right?
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  Well, they're not doing that anymore. They are backing away from that. And this is key because
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  this is important. The Iran war threatens oil flow. The U.S. sanctions threaten oil buyers.
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  China is telling refiners not to obey U.S. sanctions, and China's Ministry of Commerce
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  instructed domestic companies, do not apply. And they're targeting our refineries, and we're not
• 1:08:20
  going to do that because here's what Beijing says. They're trying to use the system. Beijing
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  is saying that sanctions without a U.N. mandate are illegal and interfere with normal trade,
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  and the conflict is not just over Iran's oil. It's over the big system. Then the UAE is doing
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  what? Leaving OPEC. Now remember, this is not a side story. What is it? Petroleum exporting
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  countries, organization of petroleum exporting countries. This is about petroleum. And they all
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  act as one. Enerdata reports that the UAE announced its withdrawal from OPEC and OPEC
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  plus effective May 1 after 59 years, citing their own national interest and expanded domestic
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  production capacity. Plus they're building a pipeline to avoid going through the Straits of
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  Hormuz. They're building it to go south of Oman on their own territory still. And the UAE OPEC
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  issue is a big deal, and it's going to lead to the collapse of the old pricing system, okay?
• 1:09:33
  So the pricing system is what OPEC controls the most. And so if that system, if the collapse of
• 1:09:42
  the pricing system and the system breaks, oil pricing is going to split into separate currency
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  zones, New York, Beijing, Moscow, Delhi, Mumbai, instead of one unified dollar-centered model.
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  That is enormous. That's huge. And if you don't understand it, you might look into it some.
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  The point is not simply that America has too much debt, because it does, and that oil prices are
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  too high. That's true. And Trump is trying to corner the world market. He is a pirate.
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  He wants to corner the market, and he must control all the oil or the Western-dominated dollar
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  disappears. And it's a risk game, and it's a big risk. Why is he being so, I don't know,
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  disgusting, in my view, in what he's saying about decapitation strikes and being a pirate.
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  And I don't think our flag should be a pirate flag. I am a patriot, and I'm not a patriot for
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  pirates. I'm not a patriot for theft. I'm not a patriot for doing what Donald Trump is doing.
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  I'm just not. I disagree wholeheartedly with this approach. I don't like it.
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  The old petrodollar arrangement worked, because oil exporters, they weren't pirates. They sold
• 1:11:17
  energy. They accumulated dollars and recycled those dollars back into the American financial
• 1:11:24
  system. Why do you think we have such large debt that we never worried about? Because there's
• 1:11:28
  always a way to pay it back on the backs of other countries forced to trade through the dollar.
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  This helped finance American debt, American markets, American consumption, and American
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  power. But if the oil system continues to fracture, which it already has, if Iran controls
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  Hormuz, if they end up controlling Hormuz, if China refuses U.S. sanctions and the UAE leaves
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  OPEC, more importantly, if oil begins to be priced differently in Beijing, Moscow, Delhi,
• 1:12:01
  and New York, the petrodollar is no longer a universal plumbing system. Remember, people are,
• 1:12:08
  yuan is what the Chinese are trading with with Iran. No dollar. This is the real fight. It's
• 1:12:17
  over the dollar. It becomes, you know, one regional system among quite a few different
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  regions. And once that happens, Washington can threaten, sanction, and shout. But the question
• 1:12:30
  becomes whether the rest of the world has to listen to them. You know, it's, there were other
• 1:12:39
  usable arguments. Washington has mistaken tactical damage for strategic success. You know, you heard
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  him talk about the Pentagon-style reporting, you know, targets, tons, ships destroyed, you know,
• 1:12:53
  the body counts, you know, we killed, we killed all this. We have this, we got rid of this bigger
• 1:12:58
  percentage. And U.S. can win metrics, but they're losing the war. And who was that that, you know,
• 1:13:05
  I listened to McGregor and his point was, he tried to equate it to what's going on in, what's going
• 1:13:12
  on in Iran to what went on in Vietnam. He says that Vietnam, you know, body counts just rose, but
• 1:13:20
  allegedly the U.S. forces won every battle and lost the war. You know, if you don't have people
• 1:13:29
  that are going to comply at any level, you know, forget it. You're not going to win. And Iran's
• 1:13:37
  goal is survival, not beauty, not beauty points. Iran has spent years preparing to withstand U.S.
• 1:13:44
  and Israeli attacks, 47 years. They have spent trying to defend themselves. You know, you take
• 1:13:52
  the opposite position. They are no danger if you leave them alone. They aren't a danger if you leave
• 1:13:59
  them alone. Oh, no, they fund all these other people in Hamas. What's Israel do? Israel's doing
• 1:14:04
  the same damn thing in reverse. And they threaten everybody with nuclear weapon all the time.
• 1:14:09
  They aren't a part of the nonproliferation treaty. Why do people ignore that? But only for Israel.
• 1:14:17
  Israel doesn't have to play by anybody's rules. Israel does what it wants, when it wants,
• 1:14:24
  and U.S. jumps on board almost every single time. Certainly Donald Trump does. So I don't know. The
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  Iran doesn't need to look untouched to win. It only has to keep standing. It only has to keep
• 1:14:44
  pressure on shipping. And then it can prove that the U.S. force cannot dictate all the outcomes.
• 1:14:53
  It's true. And the, you know, the Israel policy, the lobby pressure, U.S. strategic
• 1:15:00
  interest, the military industrial complex interests, you know, it's a, you know, a very,
• 1:15:08
  a very scary time that we're living in economically. Europe isn't leading. Vucic said
• 1:15:17
  that he says the U.S.-EU relationships have reached a point of no return. And he warns that,
• 1:15:25
  you know, countries like Serbia are tied to economically and politically to both. But Europe
• 1:15:32
  isn't leading. Europe is reacting. It reacted to Ukraine by cutting itself off from Russia.
• 1:15:39
  It reacted to Iran by absorbing higher energy costs and not crying too much about it.
• 1:15:45
  It reacted to Trump by complaining, but then waiting to see what daddy in Washington does
• 1:15:51
  next. And Vucic's point is that the U.S. and Europe no longer have common or identical interests.
• 1:15:59
  That's not anti-American propaganda. It's reality. The U.S. can pull troops out of Europe,
• 1:16:05
  sanction oil pressure, sanction buyers, pressure China, and militarize the Straits of Hormuz.
• 1:16:13
  Europe gets the bill. They get the inflation, the industrial pressure,
• 1:16:16
  and more political instability. It's not an alliance of equals between Europe and America.
• 1:16:24
  It's, you know, Trump's the landlord and these are the tenants who got to comply. So, you know,
• 1:16:32
  the tanker being hit near Fallujah, the end of the automatic obedience. I tell you what,
• 1:16:40
  the Iran war began as an attempt to discipline Tehran. Alleged discipline somehow forced it,
• 1:16:48
  whether you believe it, they were had nuclear capability right now or not. I don't believe that.
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  And by the way, neither did the leader of the IAEA, who I told you about on my show on Thursday.
• 1:17:01
  They don't believe that. They don't believe that Iran was dangerously close to a nuclear weapon.
• 1:17:08
  They had it. No, they didn't. And your experts know they didn't. Netanyahu can twist you however
• 1:17:16
  he'd like to. But this war started to discipline and control Tehran, wipe out the top leaders.
• 1:17:25
  Trump can be disgusting and say, oh, geez, we love regime change. That's what we want.
• 1:17:32
  I tell you what, it didn't help him and he did it. Iran is still standing. And as long as they're
• 1:17:38
  still standing, America loses and the world economy loses. And now whether or not Washington
• 1:17:47
  can still discipline the world is a very large question. China's refusing these sanctions.
• 1:17:54
  They're saying, well, screw you, tough. We're not doing it. Iran is using Hormuz as leverage.
• 1:18:00
  The UAE is walking away from OPEC. Understand how big that is or try to. And Iran gets to
• 1:18:15
  control Hormuz. And I think ultimately that there was a story a couple of last week,
• 1:18:22
  and I haven't been able to find any confirmation of it, that I'd like to see what's really going on
• 1:18:31
  in the Straits of Hormuz, because I don't I mean, we're not getting accurate reporting
• 1:18:36
  what's going on over there. Nobody is. I don't think there's not enough
• 1:18:42
  telegram style reporting people running around with cameras over there trying to
• 1:18:46
  show what's happening. And you can't get into the to the Straits of Hormuz.
• 1:18:51
  And so it's a place where you can make up your own results. But if you're watching the bigger
• 1:18:59
  picture of what's happening since the fracturing of economics worldwide, listen to Jeffrey Sachs,
• 1:19:08
  listen to that guy. And he's on a much larger scale. I enjoy economics. I have a degree in
• 1:19:16
  economics, but I never really used it like he did. And I like one of the things I always liked was
• 1:19:24
  analysis of events, how one thing affects another, because that's all it is, is economics, is seeing
• 1:19:33
  if something is affected by another and whether it is or isn't. And probability tables and,
• 1:19:39
  you know, whether or not this is really affected by, you know,
• 1:19:47
  the professor would always have you take some sort of analysis and say,
• 1:19:51
  you know, there are a million cats in the world and I don't know, 20 percent of them are white.
• 1:20:02
  How often do two cats get born white that have parents that have no white on them?
• 1:20:11
  See what, you know, you'd come up with something like that, whether or not heritage has anything
• 1:20:15
  to do with the color of your, you know, what color your cat has or eye color or anything,
• 1:20:21
  maybe that's a bad example, but whatever the effect is, this is what you have, you know,
• 1:20:25
  this is how we do it. So I wonder about these sanctions on a small scale, you take a sanction
• 1:20:33
  of five countries and this is the first volley at China directly, okay, saying in China's not
• 1:20:42
  playing, they're refusing. And I think once China refuses, everyone else will refuse and go,
• 1:20:50
  well, how'd China do that? How can we get into the system that China is using and more people
• 1:20:55
  are going to go that way? That's what I believe. Meanwhile, the UAE is out of OPEC, Europe is
• 1:21:01
  split from the United States in interests, even if not yet a formal policy. The broader point is
• 1:21:08
  that the petro dollar order is not collapsing because one country gave a speech. It's weakening
• 1:21:16
  because the political system below it, oil flow, maritime control, surplus reef cycling,
• 1:21:24
  and the fear of us sanctions are all being contested at the same time. That is what is
• 1:21:31
  going on. And I think it's going to be interesting at a minimum to watch how this
• 1:21:39
  results. Tomorrow, I plan to start the show with Dmitry Medvedev and his appearance and talk about
• 1:21:49
  some of the issues that are important because you'd notice how some, it's very well put together.
• 1:21:56
  And I like to see how young people are considering things and asking questions
• 1:22:03
  about their own future and how the events of the world discusses it. I'd like to find a similar US
• 1:22:11
  sort of thing, but our politicians don't, of the Dmitry Medvedev level,
• 1:22:17
  don't necessarily hold such events. And so this is a unique deal for me. I'm Samuel Trapp. This
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  is International Flavor. Hope you join us every day, 7.30am to 9am. Happy Monday to you. And I
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  will plan on seeing you tomorrow. Shield Maidens of Missouri is next with Lisa and Stacey.