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Hormuz Crisis, Iran Retaliation, Lebanon Escalation, Russia Sanctions Blowback, and the Shifting Global Order · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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Hello, good morning.
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Welcome.
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I am Samuel Trapp.
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This is International Flavor.
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You are listening to DAM Radio.
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Coming to you live this morning from the
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Lake Ozark real estate of the art studio,
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feel free to call in 573-746-8020
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if you have the urge, although I got
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a lot to talk about.
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I want to start with the fact that
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I love rain.
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Okay, let's let's go there first, because that's
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of course the most important.
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Here we are at the Lake Ozark real
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estate of the art studio and the rain
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has been beautiful all weekend.
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I just, you know what, I don't want
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to leave the house when it's raining.
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Not because I'm going to get wet.
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Not because of any of that stuff.
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I, you know, I understand the function of
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an umbrella.
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I get it.
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I just like hanging out in the house,
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putting on, I don't know, you know, I
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use the one cup coffee deal, you know,
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with push the button on the top, things
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called.
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I have a Keurig, I have a Nespresso.
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My favorite is the Nespresso.
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Tasty little milk frother there, you know, get
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a little bit of that going on.
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You sit and you get all warm and
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you put a blanket on even if it's
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not cold.
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And you hang out and you watch, I
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don't know, reruns of, I don't know, Bob
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Barker, you know, whatever, it doesn't matter.
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Whatever floats your boat.
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And yesterday, I took a drive out to
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my sister's domicile out to her residence to
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take some photos.
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Selling that, by the way, if you want
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any, you know, you'd like to buy it.
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We got some, some very beautiful four, four,
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4.6, something like that.
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Acres of pasture, a brand new steel building
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with two tall drive through on either end
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and another tall garage door.
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So you could drive a large tractor trailer
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through there if you wanted.
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You could park it inside if you wanted.
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It's like a, I think it's a 40
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by 60, might be a 30 by 60.
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There's another piece attached to it.
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That one has a 40 by 80.
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So I get confused which one's which.
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But there's a parcel with four acres of
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farmland and seven acres of woods across the
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street, across the road.
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And it's a pretty cool spot.
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And if it was somebody looking for a
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project, that would be a pretty damn cool
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project place.
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Put some cows up.
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My sister's a cow lover.
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And I love cows too.
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You drive down the road.
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What cows?
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You get cows.
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They have cows and cows.
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I mean, what better life could you have
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than being a cow?
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All you got to do is wander.
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Of course, there is the danger of getting
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hacked up and eaten by people.
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Well, maybe it's not such a good idea
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to be a cow.
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Who knows?
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But it but look at the life they
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get to get a hangout in the grass.
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Of course, they get rained on all the
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time.
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It is pretty.
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Maybe I don't like cows anymore.
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I don't know.
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Maybe I've talked myself out of it.
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But anyway, you slice it.
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It's been a raining.
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There's positive things going on on the planet.
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Well, some places on the planet.
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And I'm going to start feeding some of
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them to you.
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I finished up now.
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So last week, I also had to issue
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an apology.
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I was engaged in family drama.
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All last week for the most part had
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to go to Idaho, Utah, Idaho, Utah, and
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in Utah.
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There's a cure for boredom, right?
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We're off to Utah.
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No, I went to a hot springs with
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my sister and her husband.
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That was pretty cool.
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And I appreciate them taking me out to
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places in Salt Lake Airport.
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It's different from when I remember it as
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a kid.
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I in my very early years, I lived
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in a little suburb of Salt Lake called
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Midvale, Utah, went to Midvale Elementary up until
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my fifth grade year.
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And that is where I remember, you know,
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some of the childhood nonsensical nonsense that went
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on out there.
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And the place is, you know, vastly different
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than it was then, of course.
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And I've been back a couple of times,
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mostly just passing through.
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You know, I do like the Bonneville Salt
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Flats.
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I like Great Salt Lake.
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I remember they're going for, you know, little
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kids and stuff when I was in Cub
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Scouts or whatever I was doing out there.
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And it was there was there was some
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entertainment, but I didn't I don't recall much
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of that because I was too young.
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OK, but going back there now, my sister
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took me around some places and was her
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and her husband pretty cool people telling me
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about the bears, you know, and I'm not
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I'm not going jogging out there.
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You kidding me?
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Of course, I don't do that much anymore.
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Anyway, I'm a bicyclist and I did manage
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to get my fat rear end on my
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exercise bike this weekend and I'm really not
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fat.
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It's just I'm flabby, you know, and I'm
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tired of being flabby.
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So we're going to do something about it.
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It's a very positive week coming up.
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All I wanted to do was talk about
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a little tiny bit of my spot in
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Utah and Idaho and the cure for boredom
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and the prices for gas out there.
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Frickin ridiculous.
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Four dollars and 80 cents a gallon.
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Four eighty four seventy nine.
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You know, you can't quite lie about that.
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Four seventy nine.
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You save that penny.
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Right.
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And in my truck could be thirty five
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cents.
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I'd say thirty five gallons.
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Thirty five cents.
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But wasn't it was only in February that
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old Sammy paid two dollars and thirty nine
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cents a gallon.
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Friends and neighbor neighbors.
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I have more than one neighbor, I guess.
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Friends and neighbors right here in beautiful downtown
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Lake Ozark.
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Two dollars.
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Thirty nine freaking cents.
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And it couldn't have been.
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That was February.
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Then so February 28 come along.
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Instantly we're paying four dollars.
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Yeah.
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Wonder who's profiting off of this.
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Sure as hell isn't us.
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We're getting fleeced again.
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And how do we fleece it?
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We blame it on some obscure thing that
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nobody understands.
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Nobody cares about anyway.
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When allegedly we're supplying all our own oil.
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We got our own.
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Well, if we got our own, why are
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you charging me the global price for oil
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and not our own?
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Right.
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Because we don't use our own friends and
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neighbors or they're screwing us.
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There's only one of two possible equations there.
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Right.
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They're either screwing us and taking advantage of
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the whole deal.
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No, no, no.
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Sorry.
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You got to pay the global amount even
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though ours is only traveling from down in
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Texas.
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You got to pay that global price because
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we control the global price and you Americans
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got the most money.
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So since everybody else getting boned, why not
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bone you too?
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Because we need our billions.
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And I'm not one of those people who's
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against the rich.
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I'm not I'm against being fleeced continually.
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How many more millions do you need?
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I swear to God, if I had 2
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million bucks in a bank, I would live
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very well the rest of my life.
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Of course, maybe I don't have enough yachts
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in my in my backyard.
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Maybe I don't have seven homes.
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You know, each one one in Dubai.
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Of course, you got to have the Dubai
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home.
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If you're really going to be somebody, you
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need a house in Dubai.
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Right?
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Anyway, I'm just now I've turned it into
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a bitch in morning.
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It wasn't it was a beautiful morning.
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It's going to be a beautiful week.
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And now I'm angry over people fleecing me
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for the price of gasoline.
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See what the price of gas will do
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to your friends and neighbors.
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There was a boat Bob Obama.
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I saw a story on this.
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I'm gonna try to find it for you.
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saw a story on Let's see, there's some
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some really racist stories out there.
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But there was a here you go.
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Here's the issue.
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This story is great.
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And I have a theory on it.
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But let's get there first.
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And then we'll get to my my theory.
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A US fighter jet fired a missile at
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an Iranian bound cargo ship.
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Okay.
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Now remember that US fighter jet fired a
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missile at an Iranian bound cargo ship disabled
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the vessel attempting to breach the blockade right?
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US aircraft fired a missile at a cargo
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ship in the Gulf of Oman.
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While enforcing the blockade of Iran US CENTCOM
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has said according to CENTCOM, the Gambian flagged
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MV Leon star ignored more than 20 warnings
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on Friday, while sailing toward an Iranian port.
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So the US aircraft disabled the vessel by
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firing a Hellfire missile into the ship's engine
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room.
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After Leon stars crew failed to comply the
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ship is no longer transiting transiting to Iran.
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CENTCOM said on x on Saturday, AP reported
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citing a US official that the vessel remains
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adrift and US forces did not board it.
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So now we're bombing commercial vehicles and we've
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made that okay for Ukraine months ago.
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You know, it's okay.
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We don't we don't worry about that stuff.
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We now attack civilian vessels period.
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Okay.
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The latest military action near the Strait of
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Hormuz took place as peace talks with Iran,
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of course failed to produce a breakthrough despite
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optimism expressed by US officials last week.
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That's only to get us that's only to
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keep the price of oil somewhat lower and
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to keep us shut up and and you
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know, what do you what do you want
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to call it?
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Sub submissive, we need to be we need
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to be just submissive and say this is
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the right idea.
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Kill those people in the engine room.
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Kill them.
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They're going to Iran is a stupidity all
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the way across the board.
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Iran closed the waterway which normally handles 25
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% of the global seaborne oil trade 20
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% liquefied natural gas shipments to ships from
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hostile nations in response to the US Israeli
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airstrikes launched beginning February 28 and thus my
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displeasure at the price of gasoline.
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The US imposed its own blockade on Iranian
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ports a week after the US has since
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disabled five commercial vessels and redirected 116 while
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enforcing the blockade.
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President Trump has since threatened to resume military
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operations.
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The Army of the Islamic Republic stands firmly
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and resolutely against any hostile move by the
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enemy, said Admiral Habibullah Sayyadi, the deputy commander
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of the Iranian army for coordination said Saturday
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as cited by Press TV, trying to get
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to Iran.
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Okay.
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So here's the funny part.
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Here's the part that I find.
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If it wasn't so sad, it is very
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sad that this is what we've come to,
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you know, we, the Hormuz were open on
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February 27th.
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They were all open.
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Everything was just peachy, right?
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But Iran might get a nuclear bomb.
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Who gives a rip?
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I don't.
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If Israel's got one, God bless it.
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Everyone should have one.
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Everybody can throw them at each other.
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Great.
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You know, like we should control that.
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We're the only ones who's ever used one.
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Israel's gonna be the next one.
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Virtually guaranteed from Samuel Edward Von Trapp.
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What am I the third?
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I don't remember.
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JR comes up with that, but that's it.
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The next people to lob a nuclear bomb
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at each other is it'll begin with Israel.
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They will do it.
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They already feel blessed in it.
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There's another article I wanna read to you
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about that stuff.
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But here's the funny part for me.
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Must we blow these people up?
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Okay.
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Why are we regularizing just like we did
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in Venezuela, by the way?
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Just like we are now doing in Cuba.
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And now we've done it in Iran.
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We've made force the preferred method of diplomacy.
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Force.
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We're gonna bomb the crap out of you,
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period.
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We're going to, this is the only tool
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we have left in the bag.
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That's it.
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And when that becomes the only tool you
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have left in the bag, you're failed.
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There's a decline of Europe I was gonna
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read about, but you could almost as easily
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apply it to the United States, okay?
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But the funny part to me about this
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whole thing, and this is what struck me
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initially, maybe this will put some inkling of
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you how weird I think or how strangely.
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Maybe it's not strange.
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Maybe you think this way too.
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But what I first thought when I read
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this is, very first thing, US fighter jet
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fires a missile at an Iranian bound cargo
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ship.
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Why?
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Okay.
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So the first question in your mind is
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why?
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And then we know the answer.
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And the answer is, is because you can't
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stop the ship with your Navy because your
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Navy will get bombed.
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So you can't, why didn't we board them?
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Why didn't we board them and force them
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to stop?
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Why didn't we do that?
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Because we can't.
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The US Navy will be bombed and we
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would suffer losses.
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So the best bet is to have the
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Air Force come in, or maybe it's a
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fighter jet from one of the planes in
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the Gulf, you know, that they got all
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this huge billions of dollars being wasted out
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there when you could probably just take one
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off from one of the Arabic GCC countries
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over there and fly over and bomb these
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commercial vehicles should you feel the urge.
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And all you're doing is opening up the
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conflict to further destruction like this.
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For example, Iran retaliates after US strikes and
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says, next time we're going to get even
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harsher.
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Okay.
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This came out this morning.
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The IRGC said it carried out retaliatory strikes
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on an air base used by the US
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after American forces attacked targets in southern Iran
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over the weekend, including the ship.
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The latest exchange has strained a fragile ceasefire
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reached in April after more than a month
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of fighting triggered by Israel and the US.
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Washington and Tehran are currently attempting to negotiate
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an MOU that will extend the truce for
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another 60 days and restart talks on Iran's
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nuclear program.
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That's good coffee.
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US CENTCOM said in a statement Monday that
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it conducted measured and deliberate strikes on Saturday
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and Sunday in response to aggressive Iranian actions
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that include the shooting down of an MQ
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-1 drone.
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That's aggression.
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We're not going to allow you to spy
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over our territory.
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So that's aggression.
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Shot down an MQ-1 drone Reaper that
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was operating over international waters.
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It accused Tehran of unwarranted aggression during the
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ongoing ceasefire.
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Yeah, like we bombed a ship.
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We bombed a ship.
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You answer by destroying a drone and you're
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to blame.
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Of course you are.
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Iran announced the downing of the UAV on
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Sunday saying it was hit due to violations
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of the country's airspace over the Persian Gulf
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and bombing of ships headed for Iran.
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According to CENTCOM, the self-defense strikes, this
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is self-defense, right?
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By US fighter jets targeted Iranian radar and
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command and control sites for drones in Gorakh
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and So, you're allowed to take out their
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observation like the Reapers for observation, right?
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The Reaper is for intelligence gathering.
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That's it.
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And they can bomb ships commercially.
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Those are okay.
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But by God, it's self-defense.
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If somebody takes out the US, all they
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did was, all we did was take out
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Iranian radar and command and control, right?
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That's it.
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Later in the day, the IRGC said it
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responded to what it described as an American
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strikes on communication towers on Sirik Island.
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The Iranian military targeted the air base from
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which the US attack originated and the predetermined
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targets were destroyed.
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The statement did not identify the location of
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the base although Kuwait's Kuna News Agency reported
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that the Gulf Nations air defenses had attempted
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to intercept incoming missiles and drones.
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The IRGC warns that if the aggression is
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repeated, their response will be different and the
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US would be to blame.
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I have a hard time with this blame
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game myself personally because if you're if Donald
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Trump and company, if old put me in
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coaches out there telling his people, look, go
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out there and bomb these places where they
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get radio.
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Bomb these places where they can launch drones.
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Bomb these people during a ceasefire.
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I don't see that as anything else but
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aggression.
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I don't see that as self-defense.
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I mean, that's self-defense.
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So I think you're going to hit me.
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So the next day, I walk up and
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punch you in the face and go and
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you go, wait a minute.
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Why'd you just walk?
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Do you know you're gonna hit me?
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So, you know, I'm just defending myself.
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That's all.
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This is the length of logic of the
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Trump wealth.
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Put me in coach and company.
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Put me in coach.
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Come on.
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I wanna go to war.
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We need so we need a war department.
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That guy.
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So, Tehran's been making changes to the draft
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MOU, Memorandum of Understanding, after reports of US
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President Trump sending a tougher proposal to Iran
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on Sunday.
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The exchanges on the text of the MOU
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are ongoing with both parties regularly proposing amendments.
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So, at least they're passing stuff back and
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forth through Pakistan.
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You know, god forbid you speak to each
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other or treat each other with some modicum
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of diplomacy.
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Top Iranian negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, previously, might
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be Ghalibaf, previously stressed that Tehran has no
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trust in promises made by the US.
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Well, why should they?
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And they will not approve any agreement till
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we are sure, say the Iranians, that we
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have upheld the rights of the Iranian nation.
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According to Trump, you're not even allowed to
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have an Iranian nation.
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We need to blow the crap out of
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everybody, according to him and Israel, that your
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nation's not allowed, the only nation allowed to
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exist, unencumbered, unimpeded, un, you know, un, what
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do you call it?
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Well, not able to perform their own expansion
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is Israel.
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That's it.
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They are the only ones entitled to do
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whatever they want, anytime they want, with whatever
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force they want, and we, the lapdogs, just
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follow along behind.
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That's how it's supposed to work in the
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world, and apparently we never figured that part
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out, but that's the way the world goes.
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But the UK is talking a little bit
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differently.
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Here's what the UK says.
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Israel's Lebanon escalation must end.
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The UK says the British foreign secretary has
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said that their attacks are killing civilians.
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Israel's attacks in Lebanon are killing civilians and
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must end.
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UK foreign secretary Yvette Cooper, after the Jewish
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state stepped up, yet again, military activity to
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its northern neighbor.
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The IDF has intensified airstrikes in days, recent
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days, and moved deeper into Lebanese territory, despite
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the ceasefire agreed to in mid-April.
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On Sunday, Israeli troops seized Beaufort Castle, a
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900-year-old crusader fortress, while Prime Minister
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Netanyahu said he instructed the military to expand
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its ground maneuvers against Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.
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Now, well, let's finish this first.
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Netanyahu's order will complicate indirect talks between the
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U.S. and Iran, with peace in Lebanon
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being among Tehran's key demands for prolonging the
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truth with Washington.
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Nobody is watching out for Lebanon.
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Nobody.
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And over here, they train you that you're
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just supposed to equate Lebanon with Hamas or
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Hezbollah or whoever.
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You're supposed to, you're supposed to equate that.
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And that's it.
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They are not people, just like Russia, are
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not people.
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Those are not people.
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We can do whatever we want over there
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because they are not people.
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And they are all lumped into one category.
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One category.
22:54
Bad.
22:55
Why?
22:56
Russian.
22:57
Why?
22:59
Iranian.
23:00
That means bad, doesn't it?
23:02
Why?
23:02
Chinese.
23:03
Those are bad people, right?
23:06
Why?
23:07
Because put me in coach says so.
23:11
And because Netanyahu says so.
23:14
And because the Green Goblin says so.
23:17
That's it.
23:18
And there's nobody who thinks for their own
23:20
or on their own goes back and, you
23:23
know, tries to say, wait a minute.
23:24
This is not what's supposed to happen.
23:27
All sides have to respect the ceasefire.
23:29
German foreign minister, Johannes Waldepoel, said in a
23:33
statement Sunday that the Israeli advances are a
23:35
cause for serious concern.
23:37
But nobody will do anything about it, you
23:39
know.
23:39
And they'll condemn them in the U.N.
23:41
They'll condemn them at the Security Council.
23:43
They'll put arrest warrants out for Netanyahu and
23:46
nothing ever happens.
23:51
This will exacerbate, according to Mr. Waldepoel, the
23:54
already tense situation and trigger new waves of
23:57
displacement within Lebanon.
23:59
Of course, so that Israel can seize more
24:02
territory.
24:04
That's what this is all about.
24:05
That's what it always has been about.
24:07
And that's that.
24:08
Twelve civilians were killed, at least, by IDF
24:11
strikes on Sunday, according to Al Jazeera News.
24:15
Data from the Lebanese authorities suggest that more
24:18
than 3,400 people have been killed and
24:21
10,000 wounded and 1.6 million displaced
24:27
since Israel launched its military operation against Lebanon
24:34
in early March, just days after they attacked
24:39
Iran.
24:41
So tell me that the attack in Iran
24:43
wasn't so that Israel could displace 1.6
24:49
million people and take that land over for
24:52
themselves.
24:54
All 1.6 million aren't terrorists.
24:58
But according to everybody here, that's it.
25:03
And here's Rubio, who's just completely impotent, spoke
25:08
with both Netanyahu and Lebanese President Joseph Woon
25:12
by phone over the weekend in an attempt
25:14
to push through a new proposal for a
25:16
gradual de-escalation.
25:19
Yeah, we've got to get rid of that
25:20
other million first.
25:22
That'll be, you know, if we gradually de
25:24
-escalate, we can keep seizing 900-year-old
25:28
fortresses.
25:29
We can take all these old places and
25:31
then just push these people out permanently.
25:34
And it'll be all Israel, all the time.
25:37
And we expand our border.
25:39
That is what you're supporting.
25:41
If you support the war against Iran, support
25:44
the war against Israel, support the morons in
25:47
our, what do you call it?
25:53
Legislature.
25:54
You know, your geniuses like put me in
25:58
coach, that guy.
26:02
This will create space for gradual de-escalation
26:07
and an effective cessation of hostilities, said the
26:11
genius Rubio.
26:12
As a first step, the genius Rubio, his
26:14
plan calls for Hezbollah to halt drone attacks
26:17
on Israel.
26:18
Why don't you call for Israel to stop
26:22
blowing up everything?
26:24
Nobody's worried about Hezbollah hitting Israel, not remotely.
26:29
They're worried about the opposite going on in
26:32
Lebanon.
26:32
That's what's going on.
26:34
So, but Rubio, his first step is, no,
26:37
we support Israel, period.
26:39
Because we have to, because I get a
26:41
lot of money from those guys and I
26:43
won't be president if I don't.
26:46
So there you go.
26:49
Let's see.
26:51
The Israelis with vigor, here's what they do
26:56
with vigor.
26:56
Get this.
26:58
Here is your latest.
27:00
Senior Israeli diplomat mocks France for calling for
27:06
a United Nations Security Council meeting on Lebanon.
27:09
Okay.
27:10
A senior Israeli diplomat is mocking Paris after
27:14
it summoned an extraordinary UN Security Council meeting
27:17
over West Jerusalem's action in Lebanon, pointing at
27:21
France's domestic, own domestic troubles.
27:23
Over the past few days, Israel has intensified
27:26
its bombing campaign in the country and advanced
27:29
deeper into Lebanese territory, despite the alleged ceasefire
27:35
announced six weeks ago, which Israel has never
27:39
honored.
27:40
The Israeli troops, I told you about the
27:42
seizing of the castle and Netanyahu said he
27:45
instructed the military to expand its ground maneuvers
27:48
in Lebanon.
27:49
Yeah, there's a ceasefire for you.
27:51
On Sunday, Paris requested an emergency meeting of
27:54
the UN Security Council, the impotent UN Security
27:57
Council over the latest developments, and their only
27:59
reason it's impotent is because the US will
28:02
not cross Israel.
28:05
Never.
28:06
All the other, they will veto any decision
28:10
that comes up.
28:11
Any decision.
28:13
I don't care if it said, you know,
28:15
we strung up so many people on camera
28:18
and put it up, and Netanyahu personally did
28:21
it.
28:22
The US would not condemn it.
28:24
They can do whatever they want, and everybody
28:27
knows it.
28:28
So Israel's political advisor to the permanent representative
28:32
of Israel on the United Nations, Walid Gadban,
28:37
took two acts to mock France's request.
28:41
He shared footage from the celebrations in Paris
28:44
after the local football club, PSG, won the
28:48
champion league, implied that Paris should focus on
28:51
its own domestic affairs.
28:54
He said, meanwhile, in Paris, they're having all
28:57
kinds of, you know, fires and stuff like
28:59
that post the other one.
29:02
And so why don't you quit worrying about
29:05
us while we destroy our neighboring countries?
29:09
And then, then you might be able to
29:13
say something about it.
29:15
Isn't that crazy?
29:18
Of course, they did injure 57 police officers.
29:22
So in France over this victory, but victory
29:27
was theirs, and they should be able to
29:31
win.
29:33
So now we're going to where'd my beautiful
29:37
stuff go?
29:38
Here we are.
29:39
We're going to share with you a bit
29:43
of a bit of a music break.
29:47
And this is the final goodbye.
29:51
Very, very interesting.
29:53
I like it a lot.
29:57
That was the long version.
30:00
I didn't mean to do that.
30:01
But I did.
30:04
That was a seven, eight minute one.
30:06
So sorry about that.
30:07
We meant to play the three minute one,
30:08
but I let it go anyway, because I
30:10
like it.
30:11
At any rate, that final goodbye is what
30:15
that's called, as you might have surmised from
30:20
the review of it.
30:22
Let's see.
30:23
We've already shared that nonsense.
30:25
I've got a list of more things to
30:27
share with you other stupidity going on on
30:30
the planet.
30:31
I wanted to, there's one here that
30:40
there's Sarah Wagenknecht has accused the chancellor of
30:47
Germany merits of applying double standards to Moscow
30:52
while damaging their own economy with sanctions.
30:56
So there's been a lot of talk over
30:57
the weekend.
30:58
I've been paying attention to a lot of
30:59
the places that normally opine on these sorts
31:03
of things.
31:03
A lot of attention talking about sanction against
31:06
Russia, the forced maximum price for Russian oil
31:12
in Europe.
31:14
So Japan called apparently, Japan called Russia.
31:19
And Japan loves the sanctions.
31:22
They're used to doing what their Western masters
31:26
tell them to do, kind of like Europe,
31:28
right?
31:29
And so they do what the US tells
31:31
them to do.
31:32
If you put in sanction oil, well, and
31:36
they create themselves.
31:36
However many packages of sanctions we are on
31:39
in Europe, we don't even remember anymore.
31:42
It was 23, might be 24.
31:44
I mean, I think we'll be at 30
31:46
by the end of the year.
31:47
We always got to have some new sanctions
31:48
against Russia, right?
31:50
But they're pushing them to the side.
31:55
These sanctions aren't so critical these days because
31:59
holy crap, we're paying for gas.
32:02
We're, old Sam's paying $4 a gallon for
32:05
gas and his sister in Utah and Idaho
32:09
is paying $4.79 a gallon to fill
32:16
up the old, you know, four wheel drive
32:19
pick them up truck and haul around some
32:22
cows and whatnot.
32:25
That was kind of entertaining.
32:27
They haul around a lot of livestock out
32:29
there.
32:30
At any rate, Sarah Wagenknecht has accused the
32:36
chancellor of applying double standards because everybody's trying
32:40
to get Russia now to deliver cheap gas.
32:44
And guess what Russia's doing?
32:45
So it's pretty comical actually.
32:48
And I hope to do the same to
32:49
Europe just because to send the correct message,
32:52
you need to do this because diplomacy's dead.
32:55
It's all about force.
32:57
It's all about benefit.
32:58
It's all about it's the deal.
33:01
That's the art of the deal.
33:02
We're always winning.
33:05
You're going to win so much.
33:07
You're going to be sick of winning.
33:09
And so Europe is very sick of winning
33:11
right now.
33:12
And they're just so sick of winning.
33:14
And Japan is so sick of winning that
33:17
they're calling Russia to go, listen, we can't
33:20
pay for all this gas.
33:21
There are shortages because somebody clogged up to
33:24
straight to hormones.
33:26
And we don't, you can't get any gas.
33:30
How about we, how about Vladimir Vladimirovich?
33:33
How about you give us some?
33:36
And Vladimir Vladimirovich apparently, uh, through his office,
33:41
you know, not him directly, but somebody on
33:44
his behalf, when the, the foreign, uh, whichever
33:48
it was commerce or the foreign secretary, whoever
33:51
it was, whatever interim guy called up to
33:54
the Kremlin says, listen, we need to make
33:57
a deal to get some, some gas over
33:59
here in Japan.
34:00
Cause we're hurting.
34:01
We're hurting just like the rest of the
34:03
world is over the old, uh, Israeli bombarding
34:07
of Iran and with us support and old
34:10
put me in coach is making it tough
34:12
on us all by this stupidity.
34:15
Uh, so how about Vladimir Vladimirovich?
34:18
You do us a solid and send us
34:20
some, uh, some of your gas.
34:22
And the question back in response was, are
34:26
you going to play pay market price?
34:28
Or you're ridiculous.
34:30
No one can buy Russian fuel unless they
34:33
pay the market cap imposed by sanctions.
34:38
So Russia can't get the U S where
34:42
they can get the global market rate.
34:45
Even though remember we supply all of our
34:48
own, but we're still applying the global rate,
34:51
right?
34:52
The global rate of oil is one.
34:54
Well, wait a minute.
34:56
It's a, we're, we're just doing what everybody
34:57
else would do to make their money.
34:59
Yeah.
34:59
But we're, we're supposedly all in it together,
35:03
right?
35:03
No, we're not.
35:04
We're in it for the rich and the
35:06
powerful to continue to make all their big
35:08
piles of cash.
35:09
And the rest of us in the United
35:11
States get the shaft.
35:12
That's how it works.
35:13
And then now Russia has said, well, Japan,
35:17
you get the shaft too, you know, but,
35:20
but, but you can put sanctions on Russian
35:22
go.
35:22
Nah, most you can get for your oil.
35:25
You can't get the global rate.
35:26
All you can get is whatever the amount
35:30
was, I think it's $64 and they've been
35:32
trying to lower it steadily.
35:34
They've been keeping on pushing it lower and
35:36
lower.
35:36
We'll let you buy it, but you can't
35:38
buy it for more than $60 a barrel,
35:42
you know?
35:43
And so Russia loses all this money on
35:45
the barrels because of these sanctions and it's
35:47
still profitable for them.
35:49
So imagine how profitable it is in the
35:51
United States who isn't limited by this.
35:54
And according to certain people, they aren't important
35:56
at all anyway.
35:58
We supply that all here, right?
36:00
So we pay the global rate because it's
36:03
a global price.
36:04
And so we get shafted just as much
36:07
as the rest of the world and just
36:10
as much as Russia, because we're just people,
36:13
right?
36:14
So we shaft everyone and the, and the
36:17
same old people get, you know, Elon Musk
36:20
gets to be a trillionaire soon if he's
36:22
not already.
36:23
Right?
36:24
And I mean, seriously, what's he ever going
36:26
to do with that?
36:27
Seriously, never going to happen.
36:30
Anyway, the Russians told the Japanese guy, well,
36:34
if you're not willing to pay the market
36:36
rate, kiss our hairy white behinds.
36:39
See you later.
36:40
And that was the end of that negotiation.
36:42
Europe is in the same scenario right now.
36:45
They want to reduce sanctions, put them on
36:50
hold for a month, you know, whatever.
36:53
Why?
36:54
Or until the end of the Iranian conflict.
36:58
So you create your own conflicts all over
37:00
the world, blame other people for it all.
37:04
And then try to force the people that
37:06
you're blaming to accept your framing of how
37:10
you, how the world is supposed to be
37:13
so that the same old people can make
37:15
the same old huge piles of You want
37:17
to talk about the proper advertising for the
37:22
global order?
37:24
And the blood, you know, several days ago,
37:27
I was watching, you know, in my travels
37:29
sitting on a plane, I was watching one
37:32
of the Tom Cruise ones, I forget which
37:34
one, which Mission Impossible, there's like 80 of
37:37
them, but one of the Mission Impossibles.
37:40
And one of the bad guys was talking
37:42
about the destruction of the of the global
37:46
world order and tearing it down.
37:51
Well, that appeals to those of us who
37:53
are normal.
37:54
We're tired of this crap.
37:56
That's what we thought Donald Trump was doing.
37:59
There's still people out there who believe that's
38:01
what's going on is Donald Trump is destroying
38:03
the world order.
38:05
I was always skeptical of that.
38:07
And I'm even more so now, especially with
38:10
put me in coach and and company in
38:13
charge and the same old neocons in charge
38:17
that have been in charge all along.
38:21
There was a little bit of a hiccup
38:22
there for a while.
38:23
But Trumpster is not going to be around
38:25
forever.
38:26
And as soon as he's gone, we go
38:28
straight back to where it is.
38:29
And arguably, we're right back there now.
38:32
And I don't know, I could be convinced
38:34
J.R.'s of the planet who I just
38:38
think the guy is awesome.
38:41
J.R. I mean, I don't want to
38:44
go too far.
38:45
I know J.R. J.R. is just
38:46
a good dude.
38:48
Okay.
38:48
And the but these other people, I don't
38:52
have the same faith in let's put it
38:54
that way.
38:54
And I try to convince J.R. and
38:57
I know he tries to convince me but
38:59
you know, I respect his opinion.
39:01
I'm pretty sure he respects mine, or at
39:03
least allows me to have it without ridiculing
39:06
me too much.
39:07
I think he did last week on his
39:08
show.
39:08
And I called him on it because I
39:10
heard it, but I was only half listening
39:12
because I have him on in the background,
39:14
you know, whilst I'm working doing some other
39:16
stuff and he put something in there about
39:17
I forget what it was, but I said
39:20
something about Trumpster getting us into world wars
39:23
and not being able to get out of
39:25
them or something like that.
39:26
He's going to have us at a war
39:27
with everything and I stand by my words.
39:30
These are my words.
39:31
I make them up and I make them
39:33
up.
39:34
I don't make them up.
39:35
I consider things and put together my theories
39:38
on them and I believe we're headed for
39:40
the destruction of the same old world order
39:43
anyway.
39:44
I just don't think Trump's the one driving
39:46
the train.
39:47
That's what I don't believe.
39:49
I believe over here we're on the last
39:51
throes of globalism and we're trying hard to
39:55
keep it in place.
39:57
And what's going on in Hormuz is one
40:00
of those things that is the last of
40:03
the we're in charge of the planet sort
40:07
of thing.
40:08
I believe that what happened in China between
40:12
Trump and Xi Jinping wasn't necessarily positive for
40:16
the United States and it wasn't negative.
40:20
I mean it wasn't a bad trip, but
40:22
what did we get out of it?
40:23
Nothing.
40:24
Some more money for a couple of big
40:26
money people, but nothing else.
40:28
You know when I always say this, but
40:31
when Putin goes to China and they always
40:33
come out with a couple of deals between
40:36
countries, not between companies.
40:39
You know company deals Elon Musk gets to
40:43
go and get a cheaper.
40:45
I don't know widget Elon Musk gets a
40:48
cheaper widget Elon Musk and company get to
40:51
make something a little bit cheaper going to
40:54
China.
40:54
Great Boeing gets to sell 200 instead of
40:58
400 planes.
40:59
Okay.
41:00
Also great.
41:01
But what did the countries get?
41:05
Okay.
41:06
Trump's focus is always on the deal.
41:09
Today's deal.
41:10
He still equates success with deals between companies,
41:16
financial deals amongst his allies, his money people
41:21
and Elon Musk and all that.
41:24
He's still in that category.
41:27
Okay, but it's all individual money and that
41:31
little money.
41:32
It might trickle down to some of you.
41:34
Maybe you should invest in Palantir.
41:36
You know whoever everybody else is investing in,
41:39
but trust me your money that you make
41:41
off it is minuscule compared to theirs and
41:45
that is not so on the Russian people
41:49
versus in the Chinese people.
41:51
They get large infrastructure projects that will be
41:54
like I explained to you about all the
41:56
crossing the river between well the border.
42:00
I mean some of it's over a river
42:02
between Russia and China, which is some 4000
42:06
kilometers.
42:07
So it's lengthy and there's all kinds of
42:11
commerce going on there and that for generations
42:14
will be a positive scenario because they're building
42:19
trade connections, real trade connections, not company to
42:24
company, but people to people, culture to culture.
42:28
That's what's building over there and now they're
42:31
trying to change the entire face of Southeast
42:34
Asia or the Far East and having been
42:39
there personally and really, really loving it.
42:43
The countries and I want Mongolia that's on
42:46
my list and I should get my passport
42:49
back anytime.
42:50
I hope you know I sent it away
42:52
a week or so ago and they said
42:54
it would take two three weeks to finalize
42:57
so I get my visa for Russia because
43:00
I'm going back and I want to get
43:02
in and my favorite places over there.
43:05
I'd love to go to the Chinese border
43:07
and see some of this stuff next year.
43:09
The BRICS conference in China this year.
43:11
It's in India.
43:12
I'm trying to figure out the September October
43:14
visit to go to BRICS and get that
43:17
arranged to go to where is it at
43:21
New Delhi?
43:22
I can't remember and to go into India,
43:26
but they're creating they're creating long term structure.
43:30
So when the double standards of the economy
43:36
that happen everywhere when you talk about sanctions,
43:40
you know this is what we're doing to
43:41
Iran to Iran came unglued on the BRICS
43:45
stage not long ago a couple of weeks
43:47
ago.
43:48
They went for the foreign ministers appearances at
43:50
BRICS and the Iranian foreign minister went ballistic
43:54
on these people on all the BRICS countries.
43:57
In fact, the West took great pleasure in
44:00
saying look BRICS is dying.
44:03
BRICS is dead.
44:04
BRICS is not dead.
44:06
BRICS is not a defense organization.
44:10
BRICS is an economic structure and it's an
44:13
economic with a new bank.
44:15
The new development bank.
44:17
They have new payment projects where people are
44:20
allowed to have other places.
44:22
That's why Iran.
44:23
It's so important to them and why they're
44:25
so pissed off about it, but they take
44:27
most of their payments in Yuan and in
44:29
ruble and rupee and so does everybody else
44:31
in that entire area and they are short
44:34
changing the dollar and this is this is
44:37
what Trump is pissed off about.
44:39
You don't want that.
44:41
You don't want people.
44:42
What if what if to cross the Straits
44:45
of Hormuz and I can imagine and I
44:47
know it's part of the terms is all
44:50
of the Iranian things have said listen that
44:54
is not international water.
44:57
The Straits of Hormuz are not international waters
45:00
and they're not you know, it's a it's
45:02
a definition and that does not meet the
45:04
definition of international waters international waters are 23
45:09
miles across.
45:12
This is only 21 or something like that
45:14
and and your own international border stretches something
45:19
like 12 miles out right so Oman on
45:22
the one side at the at the narrowest
45:24
part Oman on the one side and I
45:27
ran on the other between the two of
45:30
them.
45:30
They have 24 miles.
45:32
Well, it's only 23 is a joint sliver
45:35
in the middle.
45:36
That is a mile that is owned by
45:38
both, you know that is actually on the
45:41
territory of both Oman and Iran.
45:47
That is your own country.
45:50
Why can't you block it off?
45:51
I'm not saying I'm all for blocking it
45:53
off.
45:53
I'm saying it's it's always been open and
45:56
if you continue to to torment and treat
45:59
people this way and you know bomb them
46:03
indiscriminately for Israel.
46:06
Somebody's bound to do something about it and
46:10
they don't like it and by the way
46:12
many other countries have similar straights where people
46:17
have to pay to get out of the
46:19
Red Sea right.
46:21
You gotta pay there to get out of
46:23
to go around.
46:25
Where is it in South Southeast Asia?
46:27
I forget the name of the straight, but
46:29
now I remember the name of the country,
46:35
but the name of the country over there.
46:39
New Zealand.
46:40
Yes.
46:41
There you go outside of New Zealand.
46:43
You try to get outside of there and
46:44
you gotta pay you can't just go through
46:47
you.
46:48
You must pay and that's and many other
46:50
places in the world where you gotta pay
46:52
and it's between the countries and the countries
46:56
make money off of that.
46:57
That's part of their deal and so why
47:01
you know it costs you a million bucks
47:03
plus to get your ship through the Panama
47:05
Canal million bucks and that place falling apart.
47:09
It's old you know and and it needs
47:11
some upgrades and so China went to do
47:13
it and in the very first part of
47:14
his term old Trumpster said that he had
47:16
a member.
47:16
He tried to boot him out or he
47:18
did boot him out of the eastern end
47:20
of the Panama Canal.
47:22
China get him out of there and made
47:26
it.
47:26
You know then he did the same thing
47:27
in Venezuela.
47:28
He's doing that you know it's stolen the
47:31
Venezuelan oil from China and you know he
47:35
just made no bones about it first.
47:38
It was narco terrorism remember that so all
47:40
these economic victories.
47:42
I wonder how long they're going to be
47:44
victories because the day is coming where the
47:48
and it's not gonna be in my lifetime
47:50
even probably and I still got some time
47:53
left a few days.
47:54
You know I got something and so, but
47:57
in but in my lifetime, it's not gonna
47:59
change from where it is, but our children
48:01
are gonna see it.
48:03
Our children are gonna see a new world
48:05
order that isn't dominated by the United States.
48:08
Maybe they can figure out how to get
48:10
along.
48:11
Maybe they can figure out that diplomacy is
48:14
really an art that has been lost and
48:17
force and the heart of the deal aren't
48:20
the way to run the planet.
48:22
You know at least not the art of
48:24
the deal of a company and several guys
48:27
making the big fortunes and everybody else losing
48:30
their ass.
48:31
You know maybe we should long for the
48:34
Star Trek next generation.
48:35
You know we don't need money anymore.
48:38
We got rid of all those disputes as
48:39
they as they claim, but everywhere they talk
48:43
about the double standards and most recently the
48:46
veteran German politician Sarah Wagenknecht tore into Mertz's
48:52
Russian policy.
48:54
Germany's policy on Russia is full of contradictions,
48:59
says Sarah.
49:01
She accuses Berlin of punishing Moscow over alleged
49:05
violations of international law, but excusing similar accusations
49:11
against the United States.
49:14
Quite true and damages its own economy in
49:19
the process, speaking at a public appearance in
49:22
Berlin this week.
49:25
Wagenknecht took aim at Chancellor Friedrich Mertz's support
49:28
for the Western sanctions on Russia and his
49:32
own stance on international law.
49:35
And I you know I wonder if this
49:37
is in English.
49:37
I should play it for you.
49:39
I think it is.
49:40
Let me see if I can hear it
49:41
first and then we will see if it
49:43
is in in English.
49:45
No, it's only in it's only in in
49:49
German, so I can't do it unfortunately, but
49:52
I could read the the the actual for
49:55
you, but her speech.
49:56
There's a good block of it.
49:58
I'm going to read out for you ready.
49:59
Russia's oil and gas sell like hot cakes
50:03
all over the world, and we act as
50:06
if we could end this war simply by
50:08
stopping our own purchase of that oil.
50:11
People say that because Russia has violated international
50:15
law, we must impose sanctions.
50:19
But when the US violates international law, Mr
50:23
Mertz stands in front of the camera and
50:26
tells us that international law is actually outdated.
50:30
So for the US, it's outdated, but when
50:34
Russia violates it, we have to completely ruin
50:37
our own economy because we have to impose
50:40
sanctions.
50:41
Nothing adds up with this policy and she's
50:46
absolutely right.
50:48
Since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in
50:50
2022, the EU has imposed 20 rounds of
50:54
sanctions more than that 20.
50:56
I thought it was we're up to 23,
50:58
so I don't this reporting whoever I think
51:01
they're well, maybe I'm wrong.
51:02
Who knows, but the EU has imposed 20
51:04
rounds of sanctions targeting Russia's economy and energy
51:08
while seeking to phase out Russian fossil fuels.
51:13
Russia has redirected its energy exports to Russia
51:16
as we follow here all the time.
51:19
According to US Energy Information Administration data, Asia
51:23
and Oceania now account for 81% of
51:27
Russian crude exports in 2024.
51:33
And China and India have emerged as Russia's
51:35
largest customers.
51:37
And rightly so, by the way, instead of
51:39
Europe, I mean, they're right there.
51:40
They got pipelines going through.
51:42
Meanwhile, and we blow up the pipelines, you
51:45
know, Joe Biden, maybe he was the art
51:47
of the deal guy.
51:48
Joe Biden encourages the Ukrainians.
51:51
I don't even know that I believe that
51:52
story, but they blow up Nord Stream 2,
51:55
which was going to provide cheap gas to
51:57
Germany for a very long time.
52:01
And now they're trying to purchase it for
52:03
nothing.
52:04
You know, the West is, I forget the
52:06
guy's name, but he was, was it Bloomberg?
52:09
I can't remember who was going to buy
52:10
it.
52:11
Some extremely wealthy guy over here wanted to
52:13
buy Nord Stream 2 for pennies on the
52:16
dollar and then do what?
52:18
Buy Russian gas, but he's got to buy
52:20
it from Russia.
52:21
But, you know, Russia owns like 49%
52:24
of it or something.
52:26
But I can't remember.
52:27
The details on that are still crazy, but
52:29
you should take, take a charge of it.
52:33
Somebody, oh, maybe Trump will just take charge
52:35
of it and, you know, say, you know,
52:37
we're the biggest.
52:38
We'll take it and we'll put USLNG in
52:41
it.
52:41
We'll finish that pipeline all the way into
52:44
Canada because Canada is our 51st state.
52:46
We'll go through Greenland.
52:48
You know, there's supposedly some talks about the
52:50
US taking southern Greenland, by the way, and
52:52
boy, I'm all over the map today.
52:54
Let me finish this story.
52:56
Germany has entered a recession in 2023 as
53:00
industries grappled with higher energy costs after the
53:03
loss of Russian gas, much of it replaced
53:06
by more expensive, far more expensive United States
53:10
LNG imports.
53:12
Western governments accuse Russia of violating international law
53:15
in Ukraine, a charge that Moscow, of course,
53:20
rejects.
53:21
Wagenknecht contrasted this with Western responses to US
53:25
military actions, including Venezuela, including Iran.
53:32
In March, Merz declined to question the legality
53:35
of US actions in Iran.
53:37
Well, you don't even question Greenland anymore.
53:41
Allegedly, there's something the US is in talks
53:43
to take the southern chunk of Greenland and
53:46
that they say it's actually going to happen,
53:50
arguing that it was not the time to
53:52
lecture allies about international law.
53:55
This Merz opponent sees on his remarks as
53:58
evidence that Berlin applies different standards to the
54:01
US and Russia.
54:02
Well, they do.
54:02
They all do.
54:03
Wagenknecht leads the Sarah Wagenknecht Alliance, which has
54:07
become an influential voice in German debates over
54:09
Russia, sanctions, immigration, energy policy, despite narrowly missing
54:14
entry into the Bundestag in 2025 federal elections.
54:18
But they're very influential.
54:20
And this stuff is, is coming and getting
54:23
larger are the jokes of the United States
54:26
and Europe on all of this.
54:30
It's still, still the same, still the same.
54:36
Let's see here.
54:37
We want to play one more song whilst
54:43
we take a bit of a break.
54:44
How do you feel about that?
54:47
What are your thoughts on that?
54:50
Yeah, I like this one too.
54:52
This one's pretty cool.
54:54
Enjoy.
54:57
I like that.
54:58
Good stuff, Maynard.
55:00
Okay.
55:00
That was a long play song too, though,
55:03
sadly for us, because you don't get to
55:04
hear me as much as that beautiful music,
55:07
which I truly enjoy.
55:09
And I can listen to that stuff.
55:10
In fact, I do often listen to that
55:12
type of music in the background, and just
55:14
leave it up and running.
55:16
Kind of good stuff, Maynard.
55:18
So there's something I wanted to share to
55:21
you just because there are two stories that
55:24
I'm hoping to finish.
55:25
And I think I can do this.
55:27
And one has to do with Cuba and
55:29
the Scott Ritter.
55:30
It's an opinion piece.
55:31
It's pretty long.
55:33
And then the other one is a much
55:34
shorter one, but I have some commentary to
55:37
add on it.
55:38
So over the weekend, Candace Owens posted pictures
55:46
of her something on Red Square where she
55:50
was, and she talked about the unbelievably beautiful
55:54
Moscow.
55:56
And frankly, it's only Ben Shapiro that said
56:02
that what she had done is an act
56:04
of ideological subversion.
56:07
Oh, no, Russia, Russia, Russia, you got to
56:10
punish Russia, right?
56:12
Everybody.
56:13
And I'll bet you 100 bucks Shapiro hasn't
56:15
been there, or he wouldn't say stuff like
56:17
that.
56:18
I am telling you, and I challenge any
56:20
one of you, I have a very good
56:22
friend who I'm getting my Russian visa renewed.
56:27
This will be my so I had a
56:29
bunch of visas back when I was traveling
56:32
on a diplomatic passport that were taken care
56:35
of by the State Department.
56:37
And the first one they screwed up.
56:39
I told you that story already on this
56:41
channel how they not the first one, but
56:43
well, no, it had to be the first
56:45
one because they screwed it up.
56:46
And but no, it couldn't have been the
56:48
first one because I well, it doesn't matter.
56:49
But either way, you get them for a
56:51
period of time, you get them for, I
56:53
don't know, six months in there.
56:54
But the big entrance on the bottom is
56:57
nogokratnaya versus yedinokratnaya, which is basically one time
57:03
versus many times.
57:05
So you get a the word in Russian
57:11
is more than once, basically, and I can't
57:14
remember multiple entry.
57:16
There you go.
57:16
It's a multiple entry visa in America.
57:18
So you can have it a single entry
57:20
or multiple entry, right?
57:22
And but you don't want to say many
57:24
entry, it's not the right word.
57:26
So I was having trouble struggling to translate
57:28
it to English.
57:29
Anyway, it's a multiple entry visa.
57:33
And I've had and I had one in
57:35
when I was a diplomat had a diplomatic
57:37
passport.
57:38
I had one when I had a you
57:41
know, I had a one time entry also
57:44
when I got a diplomatic pass several times
57:46
with a with a visa and that one
57:48
way back when in the early 90s.
57:50
So when it was still Soviet Union, even
57:52
I had some and then I got them
57:54
again when it was Russia.
57:55
And then over the last I don't know,
58:00
eight years.
58:02
It's been I've had bunches of them, my
58:05
passport was filled.
58:06
I told you that story last week, my
58:07
I got a passport in 2019.
58:09
I had one in the other passport before
58:11
that had a couple of them.
58:13
But this one on the 2019 passport that
58:16
I got is still valid till 2029.
58:18
I didn't have enough space and all of
58:20
my spots were full of being where I
58:22
wanted to travel and I couldn't travel and
58:24
Russia wouldn't take my passport because they had
58:28
no room left to put my visa.
58:30
And so they put a full a full
58:32
picture photo you got it's a process to
58:34
get a Russian visa.
58:36
And you know, I've had to do that
58:38
for single entry several times and then multiple
58:41
entry.
58:42
I got the last one I got was
58:43
a three year visa and I was damn
58:45
glad to have it.
58:46
Okay, so I've applied for another three year
58:48
visa this time.
58:49
So I can go when I feel like
58:50
it.
58:51
And Russia is freaking beautiful.
58:53
So I want to share this story with
58:54
you.
58:55
Because this is here's a Candace Owen things
58:57
can't and I challenge anyone you want to
59:00
call me up and say, Sam, schedule me
59:02
a trip to Russia, we'll go to some
59:03
fantastic spots.
59:05
There are hunting places there are Lake Baikal
59:07
where I still haven't been.
59:08
There are sanatoriums where people can go and
59:11
get medical treatment for several weeks.
59:13
We'll have to get you an interpreter for
59:14
that where I don't need one, but it's
59:16
a lot of fun.
59:17
And it's cheap.
59:18
And they take care of you.
59:19
And they I mean, it's, it's beautiful.
59:22
It's fantastic.
59:23
And so and it's believe it or not
59:28
high dollar, especially in Moscow, and you go
59:32
to Moscow, these people are living well.
59:36
And, and trust me, there is there is
59:39
nothing wrong with Moscow and Moscow is clean.
59:43
It is beautiful.
59:44
It is safe.
59:45
Now every, every place has a place where
59:48
you don't want to go, but tell you
59:49
what, you don't want to wander around at
59:51
night anywhere else.
59:52
But in Moscow, it's, it's always been, you
59:55
know, safe at night.
59:56
Even in the 90s.
59:57
I didn't feel like I was going to
59:58
be murdered on a street corner, you know,
1:00:01
but it's different than New York.
1:00:04
Hell, I wouldn't go out in New York.
1:00:05
It's disgusting and nasty.
1:00:07
I saw a guy take a dump on
1:00:09
the sidewalk.
1:00:11
Literally, he dropped trial right there and squatted
1:00:15
and let it fly.
1:00:16
And there was a cop standing not 30
1:00:18
feet away.
1:00:19
And I was like, Hey, the cop didn't
1:00:22
do anything.
1:00:24
He just, that's like, nothing.
1:00:28
Nothing.
1:00:29
I watched a guy take it.
1:00:31
I didn't watch.
1:00:32
But I saw the initial boy had some
1:00:36
problems.
1:00:37
He just, like I said, he dropped trial
1:00:40
and right there.
1:00:42
He joked in the old trousers around the
1:00:45
ankles and the dual moon rising.
1:00:49
It was not good or the dual moon
1:00:52
setting, however you want to put it.
1:00:54
But, but that was disgusting.
1:00:56
You wouldn't see that in Moscow.
1:00:58
No freaking way.
1:01:00
And so anyway, ever since that time when
1:01:04
she posted these things, she's been, Candace Owens
1:01:07
has been subject to accusations of Russian collusion.
1:01:14
Tucker Carlson is guilty of what?
1:01:17
He's a puppet for the Kremlin.
1:01:20
Oh my god.
1:01:22
He's a puppet.
1:01:25
US political conservative commentator, Candace Owens has brushed
1:01:31
off the criticism of a recent visit to
1:01:34
Russia.
1:01:35
After posting photos from what she described as
1:01:38
an unbelievably beautiful Moscow.
1:01:42
Owens described her trip to her 6 million
1:01:46
YouTube subscribers as a family vacation, but fellow
1:01:50
commentators criticized the visit visit with daily wire
1:01:55
co-founder Ben Shapiro, labeling, labeling it an
1:01:59
act of ideological subversion.
1:02:03
Now why?
1:02:04
Because you disagree.
1:02:06
You don't think don't tell me you don't
1:02:08
think Russia's beautiful.
1:02:09
That means one thing.
1:02:11
You haven't freaking been there.
1:02:14
I'm starting.
1:02:15
Here's her quote.
1:02:16
I'm starting to understand why the talking heads
1:02:20
panic and shout and lie about Russian collusion
1:02:23
when they learn an American with a platform
1:02:26
is traveling here.
1:02:28
Owens wrote on X on Sunday, sharing a
1:02:31
photo of herself on Red Square.
1:02:33
It is genuinely shocking how clean, beautiful and
1:02:37
orderly this city is.
1:02:39
It is so far from moved so far
1:02:42
removed from media depictions, she said.
1:02:45
And it's I mean, it's nuts because she's
1:02:50
absolutely right.
1:02:51
And the metro stations, the subway, which is
1:02:54
enormous, and you can get in this anywhere
1:02:58
in the entire city of Moscow, completely safe,
1:03:01
completely clean, and unbelievably beautiful.
1:03:06
Unbelievably, it is.
1:03:08
You know, I tell you what, if you
1:03:10
have it, just go to Moscow to visit
1:03:12
the subway to be impressed because it's freaking
1:03:16
fantastic.
1:03:17
And here's Laura Loomer.
1:03:18
Laura Loomer posts on May 31st.
1:03:22
Get this ready.
1:03:25
Candace Owens is 100% in communication with
1:03:29
sanctioned individuals, she said on X.
1:03:32
As I reported recently, Dugin says he wants
1:03:36
Russia to sell nuclear weapons to Iran to
1:03:39
destroy the United States.
1:03:40
The State Department, DOJ, really need to investigate
1:03:45
at real Candace O.
1:03:47
With the backing of millionaire financier Konstantin Malafeyev,
1:03:51
Dugin has even built alliances with several Trump
1:03:54
surrogates to help him amplify his message in
1:03:58
Dubbed by the Russian media as God's oligarch
1:04:00
in 2014, Malafeyev launched his own channel, Tsargrad
1:04:05
TV, and named Alexander Dugin its chief editor.
1:04:09
And here's another one.
1:04:10
Ryan Muaro, Russian state-directed Tsargrad TV, sanctioned
1:04:15
by the US government.
1:04:16
Oh, that means something.
1:04:17
Hell, you ought to wear that like a
1:04:19
freaking badge of honor.
1:04:20
Announces that Candace Owens has been interviewed by
1:04:23
a for the Russian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate.
1:04:29
Putin controlled, they say, and it will soon
1:04:32
be released on Spass TV.
1:04:34
Uh-oh, at Laura Luma.
1:04:37
Podcast, it means the podcast in the avio
1:04:43
company set itself apart again.
1:04:47
Copy everyone else.
1:04:47
And here she is on Red Square, and
1:04:50
there's her picture.
1:04:51
Owens also shared photos from a theater and
1:04:53
a church.
1:04:54
I'm not sure what I was expecting, she
1:04:56
said, but it wasn't this.
1:04:58
Moscow is an unbelievably beautiful city.
1:05:01
And if you don't think so, you're a
1:05:03
freaking idiot.
1:05:03
And not only a Russian, what do you
1:05:07
call it?
1:05:08
Propaganda artist, I suppose.
1:05:10
Republicans and Democrats alike, along with numerous media
1:05:13
figures, similarly criticized journalist Tucker Carlson for going
1:05:18
to Moscow in 2024 to record interviews with
1:05:21
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei
1:05:26
Lavrov.
1:05:27
Carlson said he found Moscow to be so
1:05:31
much nicer than cities in the US.
1:05:33
Well, it's true.
1:05:34
And argued that American media coverage of Russia
1:05:38
and the Ukraine conflict is heavily biased.
1:05:40
It is.
1:05:41
He dismissed his critics as professional liars.
1:05:44
They are.
1:05:46
Owens initially rose to prominence in the late
1:05:49
2010s, blah, blah, blah.
1:05:50
We don't care about that.
1:05:52
She joined Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire in 2020,
1:05:55
where her podcast reached millions of viewers, but
1:05:58
she was fired four years later following a
1:06:01
public dispute with Shapiro over Israel's war in
1:06:04
Gaza.
1:06:06
Owens later broke with President Trump over his
1:06:08
support for Israel.
1:06:10
Lots of people are.
1:06:13
It's funny how they justify the one and
1:06:17
condemn the other when the same rules are
1:06:19
allegedly being broken.
1:06:20
It's nonsense.
1:06:25
Little tiny coffee break.
1:06:27
Following the launch of her own show on
1:06:29
YouTube, the podcaster drew criticism for her controversial
1:06:33
statements, including suggestions that Israel could have been
1:06:36
involved in the assassination of conservative activist Charlie
1:06:40
Kirk.
1:06:41
Last year, French President Emmanuel Macron and his
1:06:44
wife, Bridget, filed a defamation lawsuit against Owens
1:06:48
after she suggested that France's first lady was
1:06:52
born a man.
1:06:54
It's quite the suggestion.
1:06:56
It's hard to ignore the similarities to manhood
1:07:00
with old Bridget there, but I don't make
1:07:04
any comment one way or the other.
1:07:07
People might look at me and say, oh,
1:07:08
that's a feminine dude.
1:07:10
Well, you know, that's what maybe I just
1:07:12
dress well.
1:07:14
What does that mean?
1:07:15
I don't know, but I really don't dress
1:07:17
well either.
1:07:18
And the final story, which I think we
1:07:20
can get to is Scott Ritter.
1:07:22
Okay.
1:07:23
Now, I interviewed the old Scott Ritter once
1:07:26
on my show.
1:07:26
I might have to contact him again because
1:07:28
it's good stuff and he's a former US
1:07:31
Marine Corps intelligence officer, same agency that I
1:07:34
worked with and then he went to the
1:07:35
UN afterward and author of Disarmament in the
1:07:39
Time of Perestroika, Arms Control in the End
1:07:42
of the Soviet Union.
1:07:43
He served in the Soviet Union as inspector
1:07:45
implementing the INF Treaty, as did I.
1:07:48
He was on General Schwarzkopf's staff during Gulf
1:07:51
War and from 1991 to 98 was a
1:07:54
US UN weapons inspector.
1:07:58
Here's the story and I think this is
1:08:00
this is written by Mr. Ritter.
1:08:02
Okay.
1:08:03
With much of the world's attention on the
1:08:06
still unresolved conflict between the US and Iran,
1:08:09
the average consumer of news may be forgiven
1:08:12
if they had forgotten that the US had
1:08:14
on January 3rd of this year launched a
1:08:17
mini invasion of Venezuela, which resulted in the
1:08:20
death of scores of people, including a number
1:08:22
of Cuban security personnel and the capture of
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife.
1:08:29
The US justified this action by noting that
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Maduro was, in its books, a fugitive from
1:08:35
justice, having been previously indicted in the US
1:08:38
federal court on narcotics trafficking.
1:08:42
The ease with which the US orchestrated to
1:08:44
collapse the Maduro regime and facilitated the transfer
1:08:49
of power to a more than compliant vice
1:08:52
president, Delcy Rodriguez, helped the administration of Trump
1:08:56
project an aura of invincibility when it came
1:09:00
to the implementation of what the president and
1:09:02
his advisors were calling the Donro Doctrine.
1:09:07
Take their take on the 19th century Monroe
1:09:10
Doctrine, which declared the Western Hemisphere to be
1:09:13
the exclusive domain of the United States.
1:09:17
A little more than a week later, on
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January 11th, President Trump posted on his true
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social account what amounted to a direct threat
1:09:25
against the government of Cuba.
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This is true, by the way.
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Cuba lived for many years on large amounts
1:09:30
of oil and money from Venezuela, the president
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wrote, stating there had been a direct relationship
1:09:36
between a Venezuelan economic support to Cuba and
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Cuban security support to Venezuela.
1:09:42
Venezuela now has the US of America, the
1:09:45
most powerful military in the world by far,
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to protect them and protect them there we
1:09:52
will.
1:09:52
There will be no more oil or money
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going to Cuba.
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Zero.
1:09:58
I strongly suggest they make a deal before
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it is too late.
1:10:02
The president then set off a firestorm of
1:10:05
speculation on American social media when responding to
1:10:10
a joke post that was made on X
1:10:12
late in the week, he said Marco Rubio
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will be the president of Cuba, he said.
1:10:19
Somebody posted that and he said, sounds good
1:10:22
to me.
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Regime change in Cuba was in the cards.
1:10:27
A month later, President Trump met with Israeli
1:10:29
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House,
1:10:33
where the decision was made to attack Iran.
1:10:36
The US and Israel launched a surprise attack
1:10:38
on February 28, starting a 37-day campaign
1:10:42
that saw the US and Israel fail to
1:10:44
achieve any of their stated military and geopolitical
1:10:48
objectives, and which left Iran in a position
1:10:51
where it dictated the fate of the global
1:10:53
economy by controlling the flow of oil and
1:10:56
gas through the Strait of Hormuz.
1:10:58
An invasion of Cuba is no longer a
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top Trump administration policy.
1:11:04
But overnight, the calculus changed.
1:11:06
On May 21st, Marco Rubio declared that Cuba
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was a leading sponsor of terrorism in the
1:11:14
entire region.
1:11:15
His comments came the same day the US
1:11:17
Department of Justice unsealed an indictment against Cuban
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President Raul Castro.
1:11:24
And I read that to you, that ridiculous
1:11:26
indictment.
1:11:27
Same old crap.
1:11:28
They're taking jurisdiction they do not have.
1:11:31
If you don't understand jurisdiction, one day I'll
1:11:33
give you an entire jurisdiction response or book
1:11:37
on this.
1:11:37
I'm not going to make it through this
1:11:39
entire article, unfortunately.
1:11:41
But I suggest to you that you go
1:11:43
out and find the Scott Ritter, Cuba could
1:11:46
be the bite Trump cannot chew that comes
1:11:51
out.
1:11:52
Let's see if I can.
1:11:53
We'll try to get through it, but I
1:11:55
don't read that fast.
1:11:56
Rubio's painting Cuba as a state sponsor of
1:11:59
terrorism carries about as much intellectual weight or
1:12:02
factor as saying that Maduro was engaged in
1:12:05
narco terrorism because that ain't what it was
1:12:07
about.
1:12:08
Bottom line is that the Trump administration is
1:12:10
laying the groundwork for a military invasion of
1:12:13
Cuba, the imposition of an even more stringent
1:12:16
campaign of economic strangulation against them, or both.
1:12:20
The impetus for such action rests not with
1:12:22
any inherent threat posed by Cuba and its
1:12:25
government, but rather the need for the Trump
1:12:27
administration to chalk up another win on its
1:12:31
national security scoreboard following the embarrassing setback with
1:12:36
Iran.
1:12:37
Midterm elections loom on the horizon, although Trump
1:12:40
has declared his foreign policy actions are formulated
1:12:43
and implemented independently of the political pressure brought
1:12:47
to bear by the consequences of the Republican
1:12:49
Party performing poorly at the polls.
1:12:52
In short, the likely event that the Republicans
1:12:54
lose control of the House of Representatives, the
1:12:57
remaining two years in office will be subject
1:13:00
to political paralysis brought on by endless impeachment
1:13:04
proceedings that will make the final two years
1:13:07
of Trump's first term in office will be
1:13:11
similar, where he was subjected to two separate
1:13:14
impeachment efforts, pale by comparison.
1:13:18
But impeachment is the least of Trump's problems.
1:13:22
Void of a Senate conviction, the impeachment proceedings
1:13:25
are simply brushed off by Trump and his
1:13:27
supporters as politically motivated action by embittered Democrats.
1:13:32
Probably true.
1:13:33
The real threat to Trump comes if the
1:13:35
Republicans lose control of the Senate, especially by
1:13:39
a margin significant enough to raise the specter
1:13:41
of conviction with at least 60 of 100
1:13:45
senators must vote in favor.
1:13:47
Here's where Trump is making a huge miscalculation
1:13:50
when it comes to the issue of Cuba
1:13:51
and domestic American politics.
1:13:53
Trump is taking guidance from Secretary of State
1:13:56
National Security Advisor Marco Rubio, a man who
1:14:00
has a lifetime of anti-Cuban angst built
1:14:03
up inside him, which colors his world view.
1:14:06
I wish I could finish this, but I'm
1:14:09
not going to be able to.
1:14:10
Perhaps we'll come to it tomorrow and I
1:14:12
shouldn't have started.
1:14:13
I didn't think I had enough time.
1:14:14
I'm Samuel Trapp.
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1:14:17
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1:14:19
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1:14:35
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1:14:37
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