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Missiles, Oil & Gatekeepers: Venezuela, Pokrovsk Black Hawks, Kaliningrad Bypass · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  ly awesome music to bring you some
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  incredibly awesome political talk on
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  >> Hello, good evening. Welcome. I am
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  Samuel Trap. This is International
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  Flavor
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  coming to you live from the Lake Ozark
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  real estate of the art studio this
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  wonderful Sunday night. The very first
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  show of the week, I believe. I think I
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  am the first one. I can't You know what?
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  I don't know if uh if um the power of
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  truth was on this evening or not. Sadly,
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  I wasn't I wasn't paying attention. Too
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  poor to pay attention as uh some people
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  are uh fond of saying. If you feel like
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  calling in, please do. 5737468020
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  and we shall proceed with some of the
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  hilarity of uh the I wasn't here
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  Thursday night. I was um trying to
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  figure out a little bit of a family
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  event. I apologize for that. But we will
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  proceed from here. Uh my article was
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  published in the Russian uh newspaper on
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  that day. Had quite a bit of uh content
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  on there. Have another one coming out
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  this week and I may uh I may write yet
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  one more. I'm getting fond of writing
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  these uh Russian uh stories and uh they
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  do continue to uh publish them. So long
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  as they'll publish them, I'll freaking
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  write them. How do you feel about that?
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  But let's get into the hilarity
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  of the [snorts] day. Do you remember me
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  telling you a little bit ago?
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  Couldn't have been more than a month um
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  about uh the Nobel Peace Prize not going
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  to uh the old Trumpster that he didn't
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  get it. There's quite a few reasons for
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  that. We'll go into some of them
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  tonight. [laughter]
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  I don't know that this guy is
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  necessarily a peace president. Uh this
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  could be a horror story of a year
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  militarily as far as regime change and
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  uh uh money, you know, attacking for oil
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  and threatening people for that. It's
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  kind of crazy. Um [snorts] let's see.
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  Um, but the the hilarity of the day
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  begins with the Nobel Prize winner,
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  Maria Karina Macado.
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  Um basically she is calling the the
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  Nobel Peace Prize
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  uh has gone to her and uh she says the
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  only way to
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  oust the illegitimate Nicholas Maduro.
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  She says is for the US to blow him up.
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  [laughter]
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  Let's start a war. Let's Let's do some
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  regime change. This is nonsense, friends
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  and neighbors. And of course, she's
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  sitting in the cat bird seat because
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  they want her to uh to uh take on over.
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  Oh, been a rough week. Oh, you know
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  what? I I um completely forgot till my
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  mother told me on the phone today
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  that it was uh fall back. We uh it
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  gained an hour. Aren't you gaining an
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  hour that way or are we losing an hour?
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  Yeah, I think we gained an hour. Yeah,
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  they're blowing up more drug boats. And
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  I'm going to tell you a little bit about
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  that. But let's uh uh you know what are
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  we up to? Like 45 people blown up with
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  no evidence. [laughter]
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  Just kill him. It's a peaceime
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  president, right? Blow up everyone.
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  [laughter]
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  I we're going to bomb everybody. I'm
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  sitting there thinking, well, maybe it's
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  some kind of a deal. You leave me alone
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  in Venezuela while I go for free oil
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  there or Nigeria while I go for more
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  free oil there. And how about
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  [clears throat] I leave you alone, Mr.
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  Vladimir Vladimir
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  in the old Ukraine? We're not going to
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  bother over there. Haven't heard a lot
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  of news on that recently. Not a whole
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  lot going on.
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  Uh, let's let's tell you about the
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  Washington's alleged anti-drug campaign
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  off of the Venezuelan coast. Uh, the US
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  military buildup off Venezuela's coast
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  will help bring about regime change,
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  says opposition figure Maria Karina
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  Maccado.
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  The Nobel Peace Prize winner this year
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  said she would welcome [laughter]
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  I welcome US strikes on the country if
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  they will remove President Nicholas
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  Maduro. [laughter]
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  Well,
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  doesn't matter. You know, if we what we
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  need is more uh Ukraine style democracy
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  somewhere else, right?
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  Oh, good stuff. And we'll get to we'll
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  get to some more stories on that.
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  Washington is Washington's accused
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  Maduro
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  again no proof you know they just accu
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  make accusation decide that's the uh
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  that's the deal and he might be I don't
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  know I don't care but but do more than
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  just say it government says a lot they
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  never get anywhere but Washington has
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  been accusing Madur Maduro of having
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  ties to drug cartels oh yeah just like
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  uh uh you know most of our uh
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  politicians have ties, connections to
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  the deep state. Um, you know, Washington
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  calls uh Maduro a
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  narco terrorist. You throw in that word
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  terrorist and all the uh all the people
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  who aren't paying attention or too dumb
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  to read. All they see is terrorist and
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  that means we can blow them up. Let's
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  blow up those ships in the in the uh
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  Caribbean. Earlier this year, the old
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  Trumpster deployed a naval armada to the
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  Western Caribbean. And since September,
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  US forces been blowing up alleged drug
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  smuggling boats off of Venezuela.
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  Media reports say that Washington is
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  expanding its naval presence, suggesting
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  that the mission could extend beyond
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  counter narcotics. It's not counter
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  narcotics. Now,
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  this is this is blowing up people to
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  make sure that we all shut up and nobody
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  says a word about it because we don't
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  care and to see politically whether
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  blowing up speedboats in the water is
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  going to bother anybody. That's why
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  we're doing it. And uh you know, Trump
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  denies
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  so far planning direct strikes in
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  Venezuela, although he did say he was
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  sending the CIA there last week.
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  Remember we talked about that? That the
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  CIA is operating inside of uh Venezuela
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  in the efforts of of uh creating some
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  further regime change, right?
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  But he's denying it. and and reportedly
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  uh is reviewing strikes inside of
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  Venezuela as a list of potential
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  targets. He uh was asked on Bloomberg's
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  Bloomberg's the Michelle Hussein show if
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  [snorts] she backs the US military
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  action and mad macado said I believe
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  escalation that's taking place is the
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  only way to force Maduro to understand
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  it's time to go. She claimed that Maduro
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  illegally seized power in last year's
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  election from which she was barred from
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  participation. Well, I don't understand
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  why we're worried about elections in
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  other countries. I mean, if we're
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  worried about elections
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  again, why don't we have a look at
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  Ukraine?
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  There are no elections there. There's no
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  democracy there. there
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  there's no uh uh alternative party
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  there. There's only the man of the
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  people uh Vladimir Zalinski. Isn't that
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  crazy? Macado also claimed that
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  opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez
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  Uruchia won the election. ousting Madur
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  Maduro, she says, will not be regime
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  change
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  since he's not the legitimate president
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  anyway. But according to her, he is the
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  head of the narco terrorist structure.
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  This is not regime change. This is
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  enforcing the will of the Venezuelan
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  people, she stressed. Now, when
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  has anybody
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  worried about the will of the people? If
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  we are worried about the will of the
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  people, I hate to say it again, but look
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  on the other side of the planet away
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  from Venezuela.
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  Let's go back into Ukraine where 76%
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  was it in our in our thing last week
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  said they're ready to end the war at the
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  current lines.
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  Did you hear about the helicopter?
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  [laughter]
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  Oh man, I got to find that one and see
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  if I can give you the uh the
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  entertainment. It's not even
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  entertaining. It's really sad. It's
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  depressing. And uh so for a limited
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  period of time, the uh Ukrainians were
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  Oh, they had a victory. A big one, but
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  we shall. It wasn't really, but that's
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  what they've been pumping all over the
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  place. It's depressing. So, let's see.
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  Anyway, let's finish with the Maduro
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  genius telling us we got to start
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  laughing. This ought to be the Samuel
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  Trap comedy hour for this because this
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  is funny. Maduro accuses Macado of
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  channeling US funds to fascist
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  anti-government groups and calls her a
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  front for Washington interference in
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  Venezuelan affairs. Maccato, surprise
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  surprise, has close contacts with the US
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  government and has for decades. In 2005,
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  President George W. Bush received her at
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  the Oval Office. Does this mean we're
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  all going to have to start wearing
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  blazers and uh you know, red ties? You
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  know, if George Bush is still in charge,
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  maybe we need to dress like him. H maybe
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  a [clears throat] pair of cowboy I have
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  a couple of pair of cowboy boots. I
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  could put them on with a pair of uh
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  jeans, but as long as you wear a blazer,
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  all is well.
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  Later asked if military force is the
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  only way to remove Maduro. Makado said
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  the threat alone might be sufficient.
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  So if we if we line up, how many
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  warships was it? Like seven or eight and
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  60,000 freaking troops on them all that
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  uh maybe that will scare him into
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  leaving. Hm. I don't know. But I sure
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  hope we don't uh
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  attack I you know that's so much for
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  getting a Nobel Peace Prize, huh? That
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  ain't going to work. She said it was
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  absolutely indispensable to have a
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  credible threat. She added that the
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  Venezuelan opposition is ready to take
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  over the government.
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  Oh, I bet she is. backed by the military
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  and the police claiming that more than
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  80% of them are joining with you know
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  her apparently and will be part of this
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  orderly transition as soon as it starts.
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  So we'll trade one, you know, alleged uh
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  drug lord for the oil lords, right?
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  We'll go in there and that's the whole
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  point. This whole thing is all about
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  oil.
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  Maduro denies US drug trafficking
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  accusations, accuses Trump of
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  fabricating a new war. Caracus called
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  the US operations a violation of their
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  sovereignty and a coup attempt
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  reportedly seeking help. Well, Caracus
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  is reportedly seeking help from Russia,
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  China, and Iran to strengthen its uh
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  defenses. Russia ratified a strategic
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  partnership treaty with Venezuela on
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  Monday, less than a week ago, and of
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  course condemns the US efforts.
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  So, what was I telling you? Um well, we
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  have this this article said there were
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  only so far um
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  16,000
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  troops off the Venezuelan coast.
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  According to the Washington Post,
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  the American forces in the area
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  reportedly include eight Navy ships, a
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  special ops vessel, and a nuclear
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  submarine. How about that? The US is
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  deploying massive military contingent to
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  the area near Venezuela.
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  The move indicates or may indicate plans
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  to expand operations. The US has
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  repeatedly accused Venezuela of aiding
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  narco terrorists. This is an oil grab,
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  people. This has put somebody in
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  familiar
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  uh to to us all. It's happened before.
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  this is what we do. And Trump's no
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  different than the rest of them when it
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  comes to globalists seizing power assets
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  and giving them to us businesses.
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  Trump's a businessman and Trump is doing
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  the same thing that everyone else is,
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  but he's using the army to do it. You
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  know, there I assume if he gave money to
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  Maduro, what difference would it make?
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  Do you think there ought to be some sort
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  of effort to attempt to do it? No. They
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  want to control it. So we have to put in
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  according to a common belief we have to
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  engage in regime change
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  and uh then
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  then we have a puppet
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  a Zalinski Zilinski South you know
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  Zalinski South America puppet. We have
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  the same thing. So crazy crazy stuff.
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  So 8,000 or I'm sorry, eight Navy
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  warships. Um the aircraft carrier USS
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  Gerald Ford, which is expected to arrive
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  next week, will bring with it three more
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  military vessels and 4,000 more military
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  personnel. Additionally, F-35 fighter
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  jets are stationed at a US base in
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  Puerto Rico. The arrival of the carrier
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  group suggests Washington's plans extend
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  beyond to counter narcotics. No.
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  I can't believe it. You think has
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  nothing to do with narcotics. It has
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  everything to do with oil. Okay.
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  Oh boy. The director of the Americas
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  program in a center for strategic and
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  international studies added that US
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  President Trump has a month to make a
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  major decision before the group would
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  need to be redeployed. Multiple outlets
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  have reported the White House has been
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  weighing potential military action in
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  Venezuela.
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  Senator Rick Scott told CBS last night
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  that Maduro's days are numbered.
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  Remember me sharing some of that with
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  you. He's not the only one to have said
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  it. Washington Post claimed on Thursday
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  that Washington had already identified
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  potential targets including Matil
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  military facilities
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  allegedly. So you have to say it's all
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  about drugs. These military facilities
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  are allegedly used for drug smuggling.
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  When asked about the report on Friday,
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  Trump said, "No, it's not true." But
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  last month, Trump confirmed authorizing
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  the CIA to carry out lethal covert ops
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  in the region. Does that bother anyone
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  or is it just me? I mean, I suppose it's
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  just me because uh everybody I talked to
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  about it seems reasonably okay with it.
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  Nuts, nutty stuff.
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  We're going to go back to uh where were
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  we?
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  Hello. Hello. Hello. Um I included some
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  articles that I've been reviewing here.
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  And one of the things I wanted to talk
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  about was um
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  um
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  checkpoints and sea lanes and logistics
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  between Russia and Belgor and uh not
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  Belgid Russia and Bellarus
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  and Khenrad. Now, for those of you who
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  don't know, and I don't know how often
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  you look at a map or don't understand
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  it, it's um Kenrad is part of Russia,
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  but it's on the Baltic Sea. And so, it's
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  on the other side of Latvia, Lithuania,
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  um Estonia. So,
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  it's a it's a part of like a little
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  island inside of Europe, but it's not an
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  island, you know, figurative island.
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  It's a Russia outside like Transnistria
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  in Malddova which uh they're they they
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  want to be part of the Russian uh um
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  country and so Kenrad is and it's on the
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  Baltic Sea and
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  if you remember a couple of times once
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  while I was in Barus driving through to
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  Lithuania
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  I may have told the story I am 90% sure
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  I did that. Uh the stops at the border
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  are just nutty and they drag on forever.
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  And so, you know, they say, and it's
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  true because I've seen it, but uh
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  driving out of Lithuania into uh Barerus
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  doesn't take any time at all. that uh
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  you know there's a big bus load of us
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  and you know we we waited in line for a
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  little bit but not very long and then um
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  you you just get out do a bag drag they
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  check you all out and the bus goes
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  through and you hop back on and keep on
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  trucking right maybe an hour hour and a
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  half tops but on the way back from
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  Bellarus into Lithuania
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  the the passenger part, you know, like
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  buses and cars, there serious lines.
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  There are three different lines going
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  through. There are trucks
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  hauling goods. There are uh commercial
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  uh uh tourist buses and stuff like that.
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  And then there's also a line for private
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  vehicles, people um you know, driving
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  around on in their own private car. And
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  those two go fairly quickly. The buses
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  and well fairly quickly um call it four
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  to six hours. We were there like four
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  and a half if I recall.
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  um on the way out of Barus, but the
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  truckers and all the stories we heard
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  that it's not uncommon for even
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  passenger buses and uh uh vehicles to
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  wait, you know, up up to they tell you
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  to, you know, plan for 24 hours just to
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  cross the border because they're
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  limiting who can come in. Um, which is
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  really weird because a Shenhen visa
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  allows you to travel all over Europe and
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  so you'd have to if you have a shenan
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  you had to be able to get in there
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  pretty quick, right? You had to be able
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  and then once you get in you can go to
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  any European country but oh no um they
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  now it's stuck. And so I read a a rather
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  [clears throat]
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  I I don't know. It's I it it's kind of a
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  comical thing that you read and and you
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  see the logistical changes of what's
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  happened and the and I'm going to tell
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  you about how this works. There's been
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  um you know from checkpoints, sea lanes,
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  how the Baltics have tried to squeeze
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  Khenrad
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  out of the Russian Federation basically
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  and why the workarounds are faster than
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  the alternatives. A lot of people claim
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  that these blocks of Russian
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  Bellarussian truckers
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  trying to go through Lithuania to get to
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  Khenrad
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  are intentional and they're just having
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  them delayed so that they can squeeze
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  Khenrad out of the Russian Federation
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  and make them, you know, I don't know
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  what independent become an EU, I don't
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  subject, you know, something like that.
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  But it hasn't been working. So, but
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  there's been 20 years of promises, two
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  years of sanctioned lawfare, and now
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  balloons. Lithuania has shut the
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  Bellarus crossings. Thousands of trucks
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  have stacked up, and Brussels
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  reinterprets the rules of sanctions
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  again. So, we're going to look at how
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  the Baltic choke points have been built,
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  how Russia and Bellarus have begun to
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  route around them, and why the St.
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  Petersburg Kenrad sea bridge, which
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  they've built, is is here to stay. So
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  before this all started, there was a
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  Kenrad compromise. In 2002 and 2003,
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  as Lithuania was preparing to join the
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  EU,
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  Moscow and Brussels struck a transit
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  agreement so Russians could move people
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  and products goods to and from Khenrad
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  through Lithuania.
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  And the way they did this with the key
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  instrument of it all is called
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  facilitated
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  transit documents. The Colleenrad
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  compromise. And what did it really mean?
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  It meant that Lithuania got to keep its
• 23:46
  sovereignty and control of trucking. It,
• 23:49
  you know, it wasn't like a military
• 23:51
  corridor. But the EU pledged smooth
• 23:56
  transit consistent with this agreement
• 23:59
  that they had. So it set kind of a
• 24:04
  political expectation that Khenrad would
• 24:07
  not be isolated
• 24:10
  like a little island by EU borders.
• 24:13
  Right? So Brussels, the uh the EU, they
• 24:17
  promise continuity, but Vnius keeps the
• 24:21
  keys and that tension was,
• 24:26
  you know, heavy, but sat there for two
• 24:30
  decades and generally worked reasonably
• 24:34
  well, but since it was cold controlled
• 24:37
  only by Lithuania and Lithuania hates
• 24:41
  Russians and Russia and you can't even
• 24:43
  speak there, you know, um, Russian
• 24:46
  without people having a fit, you know,
• 24:48
  and, uh, cancelling you even in the back
• 24:52
  of an Uber. Like I told those stories,
• 24:55
  nonsense.
• 24:57
  Um there the Russians um were and the
• 25:02
  Bellarussian or Barerus folks were
• 25:05
  trying to create some sort of
• 25:08
  alternative plan and basically the Luga
• 25:14
  or the and the to the Baltisk rail and
• 25:17
  the ferry was you know started years and
• 25:21
  years ago 20 years ago let's call it and
• 25:24
  railway fairies
• 25:26
  began and shuttling these Luga Baltis.
• 25:31
  Um, in the in the late 2000s and 2010s,
• 25:36
  they added fairies and rail to take the
• 25:40
  things from Bellarus
• 25:43
  all the way to St. Petersburg
• 25:46
  and then put them on a ferry.
• 25:49
  and the ferry, you know, the the the a
• 25:52
  large transport ferry, not for people
• 25:56
  but for for containers would just take
• 25:59
  them from um St. Petersburg over to
• 26:03
  Colleen and Grat, right? And so it was
• 26:07
  the timetable was formalized in 2020
• 26:11
  with regular stuff and there was a
• 26:13
  modern lift added in 2022. New dual fuel
• 26:18
  ice class fairies. The marshall Rosco
• 26:22
  Ruscosovski
• 26:24
  and General Cherney Yakovski
• 26:27
  entered regular service and there were
• 26:30
  legacy units older ones Amball and
• 26:33
  Baltisque cycled in and out after they
• 26:36
  were refitted and capacity has steadily
• 26:39
  expanded and gotten you know much
• 26:42
  larger. And this this these um came from
• 26:46
  ferryshippingnews.com
• 26:49
  um back then. And then from 23 to 25
• 26:53
  operators have reported hundreds of
• 26:56
  voyages and hundreds of thousands of
• 26:58
  tons moved and Russ Morport which is uh
• 27:04
  um
• 27:05
  Russian Morscoyport. Morscoy means
• 27:08
  seapport. Russia seapport. It's a
• 27:10
  company. They plan more terminal
• 27:12
  upgrades at Baltis and Luga to raise the
• 27:16
  ceiling even further. So what's the
• 27:18
  translation of all this? The sea bridge
• 27:21
  is permanent. And so, you know, it's
• 27:23
  they don't they're trying to avoid
• 27:25
  Lithuania altogether because Lithuania
• 27:28
  isn't it's not that they're not honoring
• 27:31
  this agreement, but they're just going
• 27:34
  to make Russian truckers sit there, you
• 27:36
  know, 24 hours uh just to delay the
• 27:39
  goods. And uh you know, there didn't
• 27:42
  seem to be any real reason for it. I
• 27:45
  mean, how long does it take to check
• 27:47
  someone's uh paperwork in a uh in a uh a
• 27:54
  line? Most of us have been through the
• 27:56
  airport
• 27:57
  and see how it how you know what it
• 28:00
  takes to enter another country.
• 28:03
  if you've traveled anywhere and it
• 28:05
  shouldn't take much to review documents,
• 28:08
  to review shipping containers, that
• 28:11
  doesn't take very long and uh other
• 28:13
  countries do it pretty quickly, you
• 28:15
  know. [snorts] Um so they're talking
• 28:18
  about about this quite a bit, but when
• 28:21
  politics is pinching, you know, the land
• 28:24
  routes, the sea route is going to
• 28:26
  swallow all that cargo and that's what's
• 28:28
  going to happen. So from 21 to 23
• 28:33
  there were a lot of border theatrics and
• 28:35
  there was the first squeeze on the on
• 28:37
  the issue right so in 2021 there was a
• 28:41
  migration crisis and uh they they've
• 28:44
  been having all kinds of people headed
• 28:46
  into Latia, Lithuania, Estonia from uh
• 28:50
  uh Ukraine mostly and uh Latafia closed
• 28:55
  one of the two Bellarus
• 28:59
  crossings and they said that Minsk,
• 29:03
  that's Bellarus, had engineered some
• 29:06
  sort of wave of foreigners to come and
• 29:08
  get into the country. Poland and
• 29:10
  Lithuania both started hardening their
• 29:13
  controls and stopping people from come
• 29:15
  coming in, but the freight was still
• 29:17
  flowing but much slower, a lot more
• 29:21
  friction.
• 29:22
  and Bellarus
• 29:24
  um
• 29:26
  started you know they were hit with the
• 29:30
  at the ports first Lithuania moved
• 29:32
  against uh Belarus pot ash right and uh
• 29:38
  then state rail termination
• 29:41
  and it didn't target Khenrad they were
• 29:44
  targeting Bellarus to keep them from
• 29:47
  getting into Ken &rad and so it rewired
• 29:50
  the Bellarus Baltic logistics and set a
• 29:53
  you know a precedent for them. Um policy
• 29:56
  would you know by port and rail. So
• 29:59
  before anyone ever touched any Kenrad
• 30:01
  cargo
• 30:03
  you know they were
• 30:05
  firing warning shots you know we're
• 30:08
  going to we the war was ramping up at
• 30:10
  this time you know and so they're really
• 30:12
  pushing to uh to kick uh Russia out. And
• 30:16
  let's talk about the summer of 2022.
• 30:20
  And Lithuania
• 30:24
  tested a Khenrad
• 30:27
  ban.
• 30:28
  Okay, they wanted to ban it. In June and
• 30:31
  July of 2022, Lithuania began blocking
• 30:34
  rail transit of goods that were already
• 30:38
  approved by the EU,
• 30:41
  steel and iron, cement, alcohol, and
• 30:44
  more. and uh claiming that uh you know
• 30:49
  the EU was stopping it, but it wasn't
• 30:53
  EU, it was it was Lithuania itself.
• 30:55
  Moscow called it a blockade.
• 30:58
  And then in the 13th of July of 2022,
• 31:01
  the EU issued guidance. Road transit by
• 31:06
  Russian operator op operators was now
• 31:09
  banned but rail transit of goods to
• 31:13
  Khenrad is not prohibited. So they could
• 31:16
  do it by rail just not by truck but
• 31:20
  there would be volume controls and
• 31:22
  nothing that is dual use items nothing
• 31:25
  that could potentially be used by
• 31:27
  military. Lithuania said it would comply
• 31:30
  with this and then later lifted the rail
• 31:32
  ban. So the blockade tents collaped and
• 31:36
  collapsed into a rail only that was uh
• 31:40
  allowed but you couldn't do it trucking.
• 31:43
  So even at the peak political pressure
• 31:47
  EU had to accommodate Kenrad rail which
• 31:51
  is a legacy of that framework that had
• 31:53
  been in existence for 20 years. So the,
• 31:57
  you know, supposedly it was going to
• 31:59
  stay open although Vnius pulled the
• 32:02
  brakes, Brussels shifted the, you know,
• 32:04
  shifted it to rail. The trains could
• 32:07
  roll but trucks could not. And then the
• 32:11
  workarounds
• 32:12
  became a little more difficult and
• 32:15
  politics were escalating. So the ferry
• 32:18
  lines became the backbone of it all. So
• 32:22
  Rasca Ras Rascovski
• 32:26
  and Cherni Yakovski
• 32:28
  in service and you know they entered
• 32:31
  service in 23 and Baltis Gambal came
• 32:34
  back uh after repairs. So this began
• 32:39
  moving millions and millions of tons
• 32:41
  through the port and so you know they're
• 32:45
  modernizing terminals. they're uh um
• 32:49
  they're up an additional two to 300 um
• 32:54
  containers,
• 32:56
  you know, per
• 32:58
  um route that they have been able to
• 33:00
  improve because of the increased size of
• 33:03
  these fairies, right? And uh so in
• 33:06
  October of 2025, I told you about this
• 33:09
  last last month, Lithuania closed or
• 33:12
  restricted bailer crossings for a month.
• 33:16
  remember there were I don't know what
• 33:18
  was going on over there but uh uh it was
• 33:21
  it was really a pretext and they were
• 33:25
  talking about um indefinite closure
• 33:28
  because they were talking about
• 33:30
  contraband cigarettes. Remember that
• 33:32
  when I told you about that a couple of
• 33:34
  weeks ago, they called it a hybrid
• 33:37
  attack on cigarettes from Europe because
• 33:41
  they're selling the cheap Russian ones,
• 33:43
  even shutting the Vnius airports
• 33:45
  briefly. So, 2,000 trucks were stranded
• 33:49
  in Barerus and uh you know, there were
• 33:54
  very few exemptions that were allowed to
• 33:56
  uh come out. Um Moscow warned Vnius
• 34:00
  against new provocations affecting
• 34:02
  Khenrad. Um Baltic harassment you know
• 34:06
  continued although they had a legal
• 34:08
  obligation to perform. Poland 2025.
• 34:12
  Warsaw shut road and rail also with
• 34:16
  Bellarus during during these drills for
• 34:19
  remember Zaped 2025 the military drills
• 34:22
  in the west and u they were hitting the
• 34:26
  China EU artery and then reopened under
• 34:29
  pressure because uh there were a lot of
• 34:32
  things going scarce. So they keep
• 34:35
  repeating this same story. Close a
• 34:38
  border on Monday, EU pressure, carve out
• 34:42
  Colleen and grad uh results by Wednesday
• 34:45
  and then by Friday you can claim
• 34:47
  victory, you know, cuz you were able to
• 34:50
  shut down more uh transit into Kenrad.
• 34:54
  So um right now
• 34:58
  the Minsk Bellerus St. Petersburg Ken
• 35:01
  andrad corridor um Minsk is announcing
• 35:06
  that uh uh well their state forwarder
• 35:09
  anyway Belta more service is formalizing
• 35:12
  a multimodal route that completely skips
• 35:16
  Lithuania they're taking rail to St.
• 35:19
  Petersburg, then a direct ferry without
• 35:23
  reloading to [snorts] Keningrad with
• 35:26
  pre-ooked ferry slots and a less than
• 35:28
  10day delivery, removing any Baltic
• 35:32
  choke points entirely. Right? So, it's
• 35:35
  it's plugging into existing Russian
• 35:39
  ferry spines. But why does this matter?
• 35:42
  Because even if Lithuania keeps
• 35:45
  exemptions for Colleen and GRD rail,
• 35:47
  political risk is still high as you've
• 35:50
  seen from the uh from them continuing to
• 35:52
  stop it. So the T seabbridge
• 35:56
  turns into the default logistics route.
• 36:00
  So the money and and all of the movement
• 36:04
  stays in Russia and no transit fees, no
• 36:11
  um
• 36:13
  tariffs, no anything on goods because
• 36:16
  it's all going to stay Russia to Russia
• 36:19
  and and so Lithuania once again,
• 36:23
  you know, kicks itself in the foot,
• 36:25
  right?
• 36:26
  But if your neighbor keeps playing with
• 36:28
  the gate, you know, you build your own
• 36:31
  gate, get around it, right?
• 36:35
  So, with all the sanctions that are
• 36:37
  coming out and in and the the ports and
• 36:41
  rail contract pressures and now border
• 36:44
  theatrics with all these uh you know,
• 36:48
  crazy talks about cigarettes and
• 36:50
  anything else um
• 36:52
  [clears throat and snorts] coming, how
• 36:53
  can you
• 36:56
  all the workarounds. I tell you a lot
• 36:58
  about Russia getting creative to do and
• 37:01
  and and their allies getting creative to
• 37:05
  avoid these sanctions. And every time a
• 37:07
  new sanctions package comes out, Russia
• 37:10
  gets even more u creative. And uh where
• 37:14
  there's
• 37:16
  a need, the money will find a way,
• 37:19
  right? And so all of these things,
• 37:21
  they're they're doing it. and everything
• 37:24
  that the West does, not just the US, but
• 37:26
  the EU and everyone else
• 37:30
  is not. It'll be temporary hiccups,
• 37:33
  which every sanctions package has been.
• 37:37
  They're on their 19th sanctions package.
• 37:40
  the lunatics running the Baltics in
• 37:43
  Lithuania, Latvia, and and to some
• 37:46
  extent Poland
• 37:48
  are only kicking themselves in the uh in
• 37:51
  the rear end by stopping this transit.
• 37:58
  I mean, what do they expect Russia to
• 38:00
  do? you know the ge geography you know
• 38:04
  EU can can enforce their own rules and
• 38:07
  uh but Russia and Bellarus are are again
• 38:11
  creating more what infrastructure more
• 38:16
  ports more fairies more terminals and
• 38:19
  the long game this is going to reward
• 38:22
  hard infrastructure
• 38:24
  [sighs]
• 38:25
  you know in Russia and everybody else I
• 38:27
  mean gez [snorts] It's
• 38:31
  ideology, right? The ideology of
• 38:34
  cancelling everyone [clears throat]
• 38:36
  is just you end up cancelling yourself
• 38:40
  and uh energy, logistics,
• 38:43
  transportation,
• 38:44
  all of that
• 38:46
  um tends to
• 38:49
  uh favor Russia once again. And these uh
• 38:54
  sanctions don't really in my humble
• 38:58
  opinion
• 38:59
  uh work all that well. I don't think
• 39:02
  that they do. So I don't know what
• 39:07
  should should Colleenrad rail
• 39:10
  um
• 39:12
  fail? Well, you can just take it up to u
• 39:16
  the port in uh St. Petersburg
• 39:19
  and uh
• 39:22
  take it around there. Right.
• 39:26
  Well, let's what are we going to talk
• 39:28
  about here? We have another another
• 39:32
  story.
• 39:33
  There were u
• 39:36
  um some more
• 39:40
  talk about Pakovsk.
• 39:43
  I don't know if uh if you recall from
• 39:46
  Wednesday night when we were talking
• 39:49
  about that there were there's uh Pakovsk
• 39:54
  is completely surrounded and Vladimir
• 39:57
  Putin said that uh he would open it up
• 40:02
  for media to go in and talk to the
• 40:05
  Ukrainian soldiers that are surrounded
• 40:09
  and and said Western journalists
• 40:12
  Ukrainian Ian journalists
• 40:14
  um would all be granted u
• 40:18
  safe passage and
• 40:21
  no attack
• 40:23
  if they wanted to go and talk to him. So
• 40:27
  that has happened and there's still some
• 40:29
  surrounding of Picrosk that has some
• 40:31
  some very interesting ends and there's a
• 40:33
  couple of people while I was watching
• 40:35
  that to figure it out. There were um
• 40:40
  there's been several stories about
• 40:45
  um
• 40:47
  killing of
• 40:51
  mercenaries. Now, they wouldn't I
• 40:54
  realize that sounds like it u has to do
• 40:56
  with the uh journalists that that were
• 40:58
  going in. So far, I'm not aware of any
• 41:01
  journalists taking up Russia on the
• 41:04
  offer of going in. In order to finish
• 41:05
  that story out, I should tell you cuz I
• 41:07
  don't want it to to merge into what I'm
• 41:10
  about to tell you here because somebody
• 41:12
  is reporting there's a couple of several
• 41:15
  different outlets that uh there's
• 41:19
  Polish and French mercenaries up to 600
• 41:24
  of them. The core claim is that two
• 41:27
  Iscander M
• 41:30
  uh which is a u um strategic
• 41:33
  [clears throat]
• 41:34
  rocket hit an abandoned factory that was
• 41:38
  being used as a foreign mercenary camp
• 41:41
  near Khark.
• 41:42
  And the video showed a pretty large
• 41:45
  mushroom. It was a like cloud, you know,
• 41:48
  huge um was probably a fab fab 3000 at
• 41:54
  least. Um and it had a a huge cloud in a
• 41:59
  collapse of a reinforced building. So
• 42:01
  the target was a French Polish
• 42:05
  detachment that rotated from the Kupansk
• 42:08
  region and more than 600 were inside the
• 42:14
  halls at the time of the impact
• 42:17
  and the uh
• 42:20
  saying this was electronic intelligence,
• 42:22
  electronic warfare and recon groups from
• 42:25
  the strike detachment uh Ilansi the
• 42:28
  Irish but it's a Russian a Russian
• 42:31
  group, but they call themselves the
• 42:33
  Irish, that they had infiltrated the
• 42:35
  area days in advance.
• 42:38
  And so
• 42:40
  meanwhile, Russia is putting pressure on
• 42:43
  Kian, Kim, and Pakovsk. It's this is not
• 42:46
  random. They are there are people
• 42:50
  allegedly coming to assist Ukraine to
• 42:53
  try to bust through that line in
• 42:55
  Picrosk. and uh Russia and Russian
• 42:58
  intelligence is working to make sure
• 43:00
  that they uh aren't getting in
• 43:05
  especially on the mercenary sides. Now
• 43:07
  for a long time they have stated that
• 43:09
  they're uh the Russians have stated that
• 43:11
  they are uh
• 43:15
  um
• 43:17
  that I'm [clears throat] sorry excuse me
• 43:20
  had something in my throat there.
• 43:22
  They have said for a long time that they
• 43:25
  are not going to allow um the
• 43:29
  mercenaries to
• 43:32
  I don't know not be struck in the area.
• 43:35
  They're they're going to treat any
• 43:37
  mercenaries that show up whether they're
• 43:40
  foreigners or not, foreign detachment,
• 43:42
  whatever, they're going to blow them up
• 43:44
  anyway. They're going to treat them just
• 43:46
  like uh they would Ukrainians. And so
• 43:49
  that's not that's what that's what
• 43:51
  they're saying. And so they found this
• 43:53
  group of 600 and there's been three
• 43:55
  people or three different sources that
• 43:58
  have outlined it, but I haven't found
• 44:00
  anything about it in Western media just
• 44:03
  yet. Um, but that doesn't mean we won't
• 44:06
  find something here in a little a little
• 44:09
  bit. And uh so these Iscander M which
• 44:13
  are short range ballistic missiles less
• 44:16
  than 500 kilometers Mach six or seven
• 44:19
  they're maneuverable upon re-entry. They
• 44:22
  have multiple conventional warheads.
• 44:24
  They can do fragmentation cluster rounds
• 44:27
  penetration bunker busters. They're
• 44:30
  designed to beat area defenses and go
• 44:32
  after hard targets. Right. So, uh,
• 44:34
  they're they're they're uh they can
• 44:38
  dodge, but they're fast and they are
• 44:40
  pretty damn heavy. So, the Patriot
• 44:43
  struggles against them, and multiple
• 44:46
  sources are summarizing that the
• 44:49
  ballistic missile interceptions by
• 44:51
  Patriots fell 37%
• 44:55
  from from August to September. And
• 44:59
  Russia keeps tweaking its maneuvers and
• 45:02
  trajectory. This is bad news. if you're
• 45:05
  sheltering big fixed sites like the one
• 45:08
  that allegedly blew up full of uh full
• 45:11
  of uh French
• 45:15
  and Polish mercenaries. Right.
• 45:18
  So what we can confirm is uh EAD daily
• 45:23
  is Vestia English say that in Iscanders
• 45:26
  hit the AFU locations and foreign
• 45:28
  mercenary sites around that same time
• 45:30
  frame. Russian ministry, Ministry of
• 45:33
  Defense says that that week um and they,
• 45:38
  you know, last week they boasted uh the
• 45:41
  blowing up temporary deployment points
• 45:44
  and foreign mercenaries, but you know,
• 45:48
  Russia at Pra um Kupansk and Picrosk um
• 45:52
  are doing are doing quite well.
• 45:55
  allegedly those uh 5,500 that are
• 45:58
  surrounded in Picrosk, they're starting
• 46:00
  to uh surrender, but I haven't found any
• 46:04
  nothing mass surrender, but
• 46:08
  they're beginning to trickle in all the
• 46:11
  surrenderings. Um
• 46:14
  um
• 46:16
  nobody in the west has uh verified that
• 46:20
  600 people uh 600 mercenaries that were
• 46:25
  um that were there. But the Chinese said
• 46:28
  it occurred. their um their
• 46:33
  news news agencies said that these they
• 46:37
  had taken out a foreign fighter camp
• 46:39
  near Hark with French and Polish and
• 46:42
  about 600 present the Chinese said it.
• 46:45
  So whether the 600 number holds up or
• 46:48
  not the pattern is pretty clear.
• 46:49
  Russia's, you know, mixing infiltration,
• 46:53
  electronic warfare and ballistics and
• 46:55
  squeezing coupans and
• 46:58
  western trackers say that uh there's
• 47:01
  tons of infiltration pressure.
• 47:04
  um patriot performance is uh way
• 47:09
  uh substandard
• 47:11
  and uh so what would be the net effect
• 47:14
  to this is that foreign fighters are
• 47:16
  definitely a priority target for Russia
• 47:18
  that they find them they're going to
• 47:20
  blow them up and if you have a a huge
• 47:23
  conglomeration of them or even a I mean
• 47:26
  600 wouldn't necessarily be huge but
• 47:28
  that's a that's a bad bet to put that
• 47:31
  many in the same facility because one is
• 47:35
  Scander can take all of that out and
• 47:37
  without having any um patriot defenses.
• 47:41
  That's a fool's errand if that's what's
• 47:43
  really happening. Um
• 47:47
  I don't know. But the these rear area
• 47:50
  hammers, you know, that they're blowing
• 47:52
  up these uh people further into the
• 47:54
  rear, it's uh it's not good. And there's
• 47:57
  no air defenses. It's another note of
• 48:00
  there's zero air defense. By the way, I
• 48:02
  saw an article today about um Trump
• 48:07
  allowing
• 48:09
  starting to allow sent more attackums
• 48:12
  missiles,
• 48:13
  excuse me, to Kiev and uh that he's
• 48:16
  going to allow deeper strikes inside of
• 48:18
  Russia. So once again, our um
• 48:22
  uh nonwartim president
• 48:25
  is or non it doesn't like war. He's our
• 48:29
  alleged peace uh god is now going to
• 48:33
  escalate by sending more uh missiles. No
• 48:37
  tomahawks, but sending more attackums to
• 48:40
  uh to Ukraine. Now, I haven't seen that
• 48:44
  confirmed uh yet, but there's been a
• 48:48
  couple of good sources report it. Um
• 48:52
  not sure where that's going to end up.
• 48:55
  Right.
• 48:57
  So, Maria Zakariva gave her briefing on
• 49:00
  Friday just like she does every Friday.
• 49:03
  And uh it was a long briefing. I only
• 49:08
  got to listen to the first half of it
• 49:10
  cuz I didn't have enough time. And uh
• 49:14
  these
• 49:15
  she's still talking about these civilian
• 49:19
  targeting by the Russians. I mean, I'm
• 49:22
  sorry, by the Ukrainians against the
• 49:24
  Russians that they're targeting the
• 49:26
  civilians and the Ministry of Foreign
• 49:29
  Affairs is saying that drone and
• 49:32
  artillery strikes on civilians across
• 49:35
  Belgrid, Pian, Vorane, Detsk, Herson,
• 49:38
  and Moscow.
• 49:40
  And they're killing minors again. She,
• 49:44
  like I said, she every week she talks
• 49:46
  about that. and she goes through
• 49:50
  I'll call it 15 20 incidents that
• 49:53
  occurred um and she said over the last
• 49:57
  week alone
• 49:59
  dozens of Russian civilians including
• 50:02
  children have been killed in the Belgid
• 50:05
  region um and they're using highars and
• 50:08
  um you know these they're bombing into
• 50:11
  homes of these people.
• 50:14
  She talked about the coalition of the
• 50:17
  willing.
• 50:19
  Still had a London meeting and uh
• 50:22
  they're still trying to get the asset
• 50:24
  grab. Remember talking about that in the
• 50:26
  middle of last week. So, they hosted
• 50:29
  Zalinski and they're pushing more arms
• 50:33
  out for his uh
• 50:36
  for his use.
• 50:38
  And they're all trying to figure out how
• 50:42
  to take Russian assets more than they
• 50:45
  already had. Uh Zakarova called it a
• 50:49
  cash out. You know, they're stealing
• 50:52
  money because they can't afford it to
• 50:54
  pay for it themselves. So they just
• 50:56
  steal it and they don't have money for
• 50:59
  their own voters, but they'll pledge
• 51:01
  Ukraine cash by stealing
• 51:04
  from another country. That's their
• 51:06
  business model. Um, isn't that crazy?
• 51:11
  Um,
• 51:13
  it's
• 51:15
  they want to Sweden wants to uh, you
• 51:20
  know, just like this came up at that
• 51:22
  meeting too. They want to part
• 51:26
  via the frozen frozen Russian assets is
• 51:31
  what they want to do. They want to uh
• 51:34
  help. Everybody's trying to figure out
• 51:37
  how to steal that money out of the bank
• 51:38
  and use it to uh to get just give it to
• 51:42
  Ukraine and let them it's somebody
• 51:44
  else's assets. Isn't that crazy? And uh
• 51:48
  there was a
• 51:50
  a another little scandal in Kaya Kais
• 51:55
  talking about the international criminal
• 51:57
  court. So the Ministry of Foreign
• 51:59
  Affairs says the International Criminal
• 52:02
  Court, Criminal Court is not a UN body
• 52:05
  and the EU officials are politicizing
• 52:08
  law and the um but they don't follow the
• 52:13
  ICC even though all they're all members
• 52:15
  of it and so and it's against the law
• 52:18
  what they're doing regarding Russian
• 52:20
  sanctions. So, um, Brussels gets to
• 52:24
  shout about international law, but push
• 52:27
  political tribunals and asset seizures.
• 52:32
  Do what I say, not what I not what I do.
• 52:35
  And they bend the law for their own
• 52:38
  purposes and stealing money in my view
• 52:42
  and in Maria Zakarovas and is just
• 52:46
  stealing the money. they'll take it and
• 52:49
  but that's okay because we're on the
• 52:51
  good guy side, right? So, people should
• 52:54
  be able to take it nonsense. Um,
• 53:00
  so,
• 53:02
  no, I'm not going to read that one.
• 53:03
  We're going to skip that. [sighs]
• 53:07
  Cuba embargo vote. Did you hear about
• 53:10
  that coming up that the Cuba wants to
• 53:12
  have a a new vote and uh want to have
• 53:17
  themselves removed from the US terrorist
• 53:20
  list and uh
• 53:24
  you know 165 nations agreed and told
• 53:28
  Washington to end this uh Cuba nonsense.
• 53:34
  and uh one more time that the alleged
• 53:38
  rulesbased order lost the votes and uh
• 53:44
  um
• 53:45
  I don't know we we always seem to be on
• 53:47
  the we always seem to be on the dominant
• 53:51
  side if a certain country has has uh
• 53:55
  assets you know like uh Venezuela like
• 54:00
  African countries that have lots of gold
• 54:04
  a rare earth.
• 54:07
  But Cuba can't join the world order even
• 54:12
  now. Wasn't it the Obama monster that
• 54:15
  added him in uh not to when he when when
• 54:17
  he was in office and then somehow they
• 54:19
  fell into bad um bad behavior again
• 54:23
  after that. Um let's see. I have a
• 54:27
  couple of more I wanted to try to get
• 54:31
  into. Um,
• 54:34
  old Soliv, he did a show that uh, he
• 54:39
  wanted to call, well, somebody wanted to
• 54:42
  call a large
• 54:45
  chess board. And this this show came
• 54:48
  out, it's actually um,
• 54:52
  Sunday night show, but for them the show
• 54:55
  is late at night, so it actually
• 54:57
  finishes very early in the morning. And
• 55:00
  so four or five hours ago is when this
• 55:03
  would have came out, right? And uh it's
• 55:06
  a long
• 55:08
  part of it. And I want to
• 55:12
  cover some of it, but it might take just
• 55:15
  a few minutes to
• 55:18
  pull up the part that I want and uh
• 55:24
  and see if we can get further into that.
• 55:27
  And before we go there all the way,
• 55:33
  I wanted to uh
• 55:36
  uh tell you about
• 55:39
  the
• 55:41
  new nuclear submarine. So, US sent a
• 55:45
  nuclear submarine down to Venezuela and
• 55:48
  Russia
• 55:50
  launched a new nuclear submarine as
• 55:54
  well. And uh
• 55:57
  it's um
• 56:00
  they held a ceremony
• 56:03
  today that uh unveiled the new nuclear
• 56:08
  submarine which is called the kabarovk
• 56:11
  on the Russian domin Russian defense
• 56:14
  ministry said it's designed to carry
• 56:17
  massive torpedo-shaped
• 56:20
  nuclearpowered Poseidon drones.
• 56:24
  So the ceremony took place took place in
• 56:28
  Sin Sea Dinsk and was attended by Andre
• 56:34
  Belellusov and other top brass and
• 56:37
  Belusov is the uh Russian defense
• 56:39
  minister and he said today is a
• 56:42
  significant event for us. The heavy
• 56:46
  nuclearpowered missile cruiser Kabads is
• 56:50
  being lodged from the slipway of the
• 56:52
  renowned Civ shipyard. He said,
• 56:55
  "Carrying underwater weapons and robotic
• 56:58
  systems, it will enable us to
• 57:01
  successfully accomplish missions related
• 57:04
  to ensuring the security of Russia's
• 57:07
  maritime borders and protecting national
• 57:11
  interests in various parts of the world
• 57:14
  oceans." He added that the submarine
• 57:18
  uh has to complete a series of tests and
• 57:22
  he wished the crew well. The kabads was
• 57:26
  specifically designed and built for the
• 57:28
  Poseidon. Former Chief of Russian Naval
• 57:31
  Staff Admiral Victor Kravchenko told the
• 57:35
  outlet Saturday, "The Poseidon cannot
• 57:39
  currently be intercepted by any means."
• 57:41
  According to Russian President Vladimir
• 57:44
  Putin, earlier this week, Russia carried
• 57:47
  out tests involving state-of-the-art
• 57:49
  drones as well as the unlimited range
• 57:53
  Burvestnik.
• 57:54
  The uh
• 57:57
  these announcements have come amid a
• 58:00
  stall in the peace talks.
• 58:02
  US President Trump said on Thursday
• 58:06
  that he has instructed the Department of
• 58:09
  War to start testing nuclear weapons
• 58:11
  again, citing strategic competition with
• 58:16
  Russia and China. But Russia is not so
• 58:20
  far in an arms race with the US, said
• 58:24
  Dmitri Pesco on Thursday when asked
• 58:28
  about this. Now, I haven't
• 58:32
  heard any real cover for us.
• 58:38
  um that you know I haven't seen
• 58:42
  US nuclear testing
• 58:45
  as being
• 58:47
  I've seen a couple of headlines on it
• 58:49
  but nothing from the US side that says
• 58:53
  we're getting ready to
• 58:58
  start up again with nuclear testing and
• 59:02
  the only place we do that is underground
• 59:05
  unless things have changed dramat
• 59:07
  automatically.
• 59:09
  Um, that's the way it goes, but I don't
• 59:12
  I I haven't seen it anywhere else.
• 59:15
  Um,
• 59:18
  let's see.
• 59:21
  There was
• 59:23
  Well, I already shared that with you
• 59:25
  last week because that seems to be a
• 59:28
  repeat. So, I'm not going to go there.
• 59:33
  Um,
• 59:35
  I think what we're going to do is go
• 59:39
  into
• 59:43
  further world turmoil
• 59:46
  and uh which is continual
• 59:52
  and this
• 59:54
  uh
• 59:56
  article I don't know it's a little bit
• 59:58
  long. I'm not sure I want to share it
• 1:00:00
  all.
• 1:00:02
  I would I think I might um You know
• 1:00:05
  what? I think I'm going to skip it for
• 1:00:07
  now. Sorry I mentioned it. Um let's go
• 1:00:10
  let's go to the clown to the clown show.
• 1:00:13
  Let's go to Zalinski and see what he has
• 1:00:16
  to say these days. Uh this just came out
• 1:00:19
  today [snorts] and uh allegedly
• 1:00:23
  allegedly cuz we don't know. Kiev has
• 1:00:26
  received additional US-made Patriot air
• 1:00:30
  defense systems from Germany.
• 1:00:34
  He said Ukraine has been pressing its
• 1:00:38
  Western backers
• 1:00:40
  for more long range weapons, tom hot
• 1:00:43
  cruise missiles, and additional Patriot
• 1:00:45
  battles. The New York Times said in May
• 1:00:49
  that although the country possessed
• 1:00:51
  eight Patriot systems,
• 1:00:54
  only six were operational.
• 1:00:57
  But in a post on X on Sunday,
• 1:01:01
  Zalinski thanked German Chancellor
• 1:01:03
  Frederick Mertz by saying, "Our
• 1:01:06
  agreements have been fulfilled. More
• 1:01:09
  patriots are in Ukraine now and are
• 1:01:12
  being put into operation.
• 1:01:15
  Of course, more systems are needed to
• 1:01:18
  protect key infrastructure sites and our
• 1:01:22
  city cities across Ukraine. And we will
• 1:01:25
  continue working to obtain them not only
• 1:01:29
  at political level with states and
• 1:01:31
  leaders but directly with manufacturers
• 1:01:34
  of all necessary air defense systems and
• 1:01:37
  missiles for them. The Russian defense
• 1:01:41
  ministry has claimed to have destroyed
• 1:01:45
  about 40
• 1:01:48
  Patriot launcher systems since 2023. 40.
• 1:01:54
  Wonder how many there were in in total.
• 1:01:57
  I mean, they are expensive.
• 1:02:00
  Um, while the US President Trump has
• 1:02:03
  declined tomahawks, he is allowing NATO
• 1:02:06
  countries to purchase more American
• 1:02:08
  weapons on K's behalf. Moscow says that
• 1:02:12
  no amount of foreign aid will change the
• 1:02:15
  battlefield into Ukraine's favor. Last
• 1:02:19
  month, Silinski said the Ukraine and the
• 1:02:21
  US were preparing a contract for 25 more
• 1:02:25
  Patriot systems. And he said, [laughter]
• 1:02:29
  this is this is great, this part. He
• 1:02:32
  said that the deliveries
• 1:02:34
  could take years unless the EU states
• 1:02:39
  demonstrate goodwill by prioritizing
• 1:02:42
  Kiev or transferring their own systems
• 1:02:46
  like Germany just did.
• 1:02:49
  With each system costing approximately a
• 1:02:52
  billion dollars,
• 1:02:55
  Ukraine hopes to finance the purchases
• 1:02:58
  by using Russian assets.
• 1:03:01
  >> [laughter]
• 1:03:03
  >> I tell you what, um,
• 1:03:06
  watch out where you put your money. Put
• 1:03:09
  it in a western bank and it, you know,
• 1:03:12
  they'll just seize it. Nonsense. Did you
• 1:03:15
  hear this horrible story about um this
• 1:03:18
  people getting stabbed on a train in the
• 1:03:21
  UK? This is nuts. Multiple people were
• 1:03:25
  stabbed on a train near Cambridge in
• 1:03:28
  East England. Um, two suspects were
• 1:03:32
  detained. Um, ambulances and armed units
• 1:03:35
  were dispatched. Armed officers
• 1:03:37
  attended. A train was stopped at
• 1:03:39
  Huntington where two men were arrested
• 1:03:42
  and a number of people had to be taken
• 1:03:44
  to the hospital. Police said 10 people
• 1:03:48
  were hospitalized, all but one with
• 1:03:51
  life-threatening injuries. British
• 1:03:54
  Transport Police said the terrorism
• 1:03:56
  alert was declared at one point but was
• 1:03:58
  then rescended.
• 1:04:01
  Chief Superintendent Chris Casey said it
• 1:04:04
  would not be appropriate to speculate
• 1:04:06
  about motive. Well, why wouldn't it be?
• 1:04:09
  You know, this is nonsense. They said
• 1:04:11
  there was a 32-year-old man who was a
• 1:04:13
  black British national and a 35year-old
• 1:04:17
  man of British national of Caribbean
• 1:04:19
  descent were arrested on the suspicion
• 1:04:22
  of attempted murder. Both were born in
• 1:04:25
  the UK.
• 1:04:27
  Um, there was a video showing heavy
• 1:04:30
  police presence, but you know, it
• 1:04:32
  doesn't show any of the I mean, not that
• 1:04:34
  I'd want to see them anyway, but
• 1:04:37
  a witness told Sky News that he saw
• 1:04:40
  extremely bloodied passengers fleeing
• 1:04:43
  the asalants. The witnesses added that
• 1:04:46
  one passenger shouted, "They've got
• 1:04:48
  knives." Um, and old Kier Starmer, the
• 1:04:52
  genius, condemned the appalling incident
• 1:04:55
  and thanked emergency services for their
• 1:04:58
  response.
• 1:04:59
  And his thoughts, of course, are with
• 1:05:01
  all of those affected.
• 1:05:03
  Yeah.
• 1:05:05
  And uh, Home Secretary Shabbana Mahmud
• 1:05:09
  said she was saddened and urged the
• 1:05:11
  public to avoid comment and speculation
• 1:05:14
  at this stage. Why? Why can't we comment
• 1:05:18
  and speculate? We need to figure out
• 1:05:21
  what's going on.
• 1:05:23
  And uh you know, here we've got what
• 1:05:25
  else do we have? Protesters and
• 1:05:27
  government supporters clashing on the
• 1:05:30
  streets of Bgrade. You know, here we are
• 1:05:32
  with Serbia problems. Supporters and
• 1:05:35
  opponents of Alexander Vuch and his
• 1:05:38
  ruling party. We're clashing on the
• 1:05:40
  streets on Sunday. And this is the first
• 1:05:43
  anniversary of the train station canopy
• 1:05:45
  collapse. that killed 16 people. And
• 1:05:49
  here the protesters, many of them
• 1:05:51
  university students, are demanding
• 1:05:54
  accountability for the tragedy and have
• 1:05:58
  [snorts] accused the government of
• 1:05:59
  corruption and mismanagement. No, who
• 1:06:02
  would believe that? Um there was one
• 1:06:05
  crowd led by Dejanna Herka whose son
• 1:06:08
  died in the collapse. Um they had
• 1:06:10
  gathered outside the Serbian Parliament
• 1:06:13
  building and government supporters and
• 1:06:14
  students opposing protesters.
• 1:06:17
  Tactics of blockading universities
• 1:06:20
  rallied in Pioneers Park where they had
• 1:06:23
  been camping out since March. Tons of
• 1:06:27
  people out there, lots of police and
• 1:06:31
  then you know clashes hitting each
• 1:06:34
  other. All these things are broken out.
• 1:06:36
  this. There were a lot of videos. Vuic
• 1:06:40
  repeatedly claimed the protests were
• 1:06:42
  incited by people from abroad
• 1:06:45
  and he rejected allegations that his own
• 1:06:48
  supporters were responsible for the
• 1:06:50
  clashes and the blockaders can't
• 1:06:52
  tolerate a differing opinion. He told
• 1:06:56
  the TV station,
• 1:06:58
  "Crazy
• 1:07:00
  stuff going on in the world is what I
• 1:07:05
  say.
• 1:07:07
  Let's see. Where else are we going to go
• 1:07:10
  today?
• 1:07:12
  Did you hear about the um UK mercenary
• 1:07:17
  that was found dead in Ukraine? I think
• 1:07:20
  I said something a little bit about it
• 1:07:22
  um last week. Well, no, I didn't. I I uh
• 1:07:27
  was telling somebody else about it. This
• 1:07:28
  is a kind of a sad story, but find get
• 1:07:32
  this. So, a UK mercenary
• 1:07:37
  joins the Ukrainian army
• 1:07:41
  and
• 1:07:43
  turns up dead, but
• 1:07:48
  the mother,
• 1:07:50
  you know, his mother wants to know what
• 1:07:52
  happened to him. Get this story. So,
• 1:07:54
  there's a British mercenary killed in
• 1:07:56
  mysterious circumstances while allegedly
• 1:07:59
  fighting in Ukraine's International
• 1:08:01
  Legion. She has appealed to his former
• 1:08:05
  fellow colleagues to reveal the truth
• 1:08:08
  about his death.
• 1:08:10
  Jordan Chadwick, who was aged 31, had
• 1:08:14
  served in the Scots Guards before
• 1:08:16
  joining the Ukraine Legion in late 2022.
• 1:08:22
  He was found dead in June of 2023
• 1:08:27
  with his body bound and then dumped in a
• 1:08:31
  reservoir near Kromaturk.
• 1:08:34
  His mother
• 1:08:36
  told was told at the time the case was
• 1:08:38
  being treated as a murderer.
• 1:08:41
  On Friday, she told the Telegraph that 2
• 1:08:44
  years later, she still has no answers
• 1:08:47
  and fears that her son her son was
• 1:08:50
  killed by members of his own unit. I
• 1:08:53
  always knew Jordan would be in danger
• 1:08:55
  while serving in Ukraine, but I never
• 1:08:58
  thought the risk would come from people
• 1:09:00
  on side on the on whose side he was
• 1:09:03
  fighting. If there are witnesses to what
• 1:09:06
  happened, I would like to see them give
• 1:09:08
  evidence.
• 1:09:10
  Um,
• 1:09:12
  this is a a crazy story
• 1:09:16
  because
• 1:09:18
  um
• 1:09:20
  there's there's been a couple of these.
• 1:09:22
  You know, the Telegraph's own
• 1:09:24
  investigation suggested that on the
• 1:09:27
  night of his death, Chadwick was
• 1:09:29
  drinking with other fighters at the base
• 1:09:32
  before an argument broke up. He was
• 1:09:35
  allegedly restrained with zip ties and
• 1:09:37
  driven away by the commander.
• 1:09:40
  And um the group's commander was a
• 1:09:43
  British national known by the call sign
• 1:09:46
  Hugs. Hugs confirmed to the Telegraph
• 1:09:49
  that he had been investigated by
• 1:09:51
  Ukrainian police, but was cleared. A
• 1:09:54
  [snorts] Ukrainian detective told the
• 1:09:56
  paper that Chadwick's death was more of
• 1:09:59
  a misadventure instead of a murder. But
• 1:10:02
  the Telegraph noted widespread
• 1:10:05
  speculation among foreign fighters in
• 1:10:07
  Ukraine that infighting and cover-ups
• 1:10:10
  are not at all uncommon as Ukrainian
• 1:10:13
  officials
• 1:10:15
  overlook internal disputes, even fatal
• 1:10:18
  ones. Um, Chadwick's death is one of
• 1:10:21
  several violent incidents involving
• 1:10:24
  foreign nationals. Um, there's another
• 1:10:26
  guy I'm going to tell you about named uh
• 1:10:28
  Daniel Burke was shot by an Algerian
• 1:10:33
  Australian fighter
• 1:10:35
  um who then later fled Ukraine. And uh
• 1:10:39
  in November of 2023, a brawl left
• 1:10:41
  several members of of the Legion
• 1:10:45
  uh also
• 1:10:47
  in you know in um the hospital.
• 1:10:52
  So there's another guy named Daniel
• 1:10:54
  Burke and he was shot by an Australian
• 1:10:57
  national and uh he tried to say the
• 1:11:00
  killing was an accident. So a coroner in
• 1:11:03
  the UK established that a British
• 1:11:06
  paratrooper Daniel Burke was killed in
• 1:11:09
  August 23
• 1:11:11
  by a fellow foreign fighter.
• 1:11:14
  on of the British state broadcaster BBC
• 1:11:17
  quoted the coroner Zack Gullbeck as
• 1:11:20
  saying the the 36-year-old was killed by
• 1:11:24
  cowardice and dishonor. While there is
• 1:11:27
  evidence presented that it was an
• 1:11:30
  accident, I reject that based on
• 1:11:33
  evidence gathered by Ukrainian
• 1:11:35
  authorities and the Greater Manchester
• 1:11:37
  Police Department," he said. He added
• 1:11:40
  the former paratrooper was unarmed and
• 1:11:43
  unable to defend himself at the time of
• 1:11:45
  his death. And after Burke went missing,
• 1:11:48
  Ukrainian police questioned Abdul Feda
• 1:11:51
  Adam Narin, an Australian known as
• 1:11:55
  Jihadi Adam. He told the authorities
• 1:11:58
  that he had shot Burke accidentally
• 1:12:01
  during target practice,
• 1:12:05
  but then he led officials to an
• 1:12:07
  underground pipe at a military training
• 1:12:11
  ground where Burke's corpse was buried.
• 1:12:16
  But Narin's version of events were
• 1:12:18
  contradictory to the conclusions of the
• 1:12:21
  post-mortem. In addition, according to
• 1:12:23
  the BBC, ballistics tests conducted in
• 1:12:27
  Ukraine found the weapon could not have
• 1:12:30
  been fired accidentally. According to
• 1:12:32
  the article, Narin fled Ukraine and is
• 1:12:35
  wanted by local authorities.
• 1:12:38
  In October, Sweden broadcaster SVT
• 1:12:42
  reported that a Swedish national who had
• 1:12:45
  fought alongside Kub's forces since 2022
• 1:12:49
  had also been killed in action. Several
• 1:12:52
  weeks later, the family of a 22-year-old
• 1:12:54
  British man who had also fought with a
• 1:12:58
  national told the media he uh that he
• 1:13:02
  perished at an undisclosed location.
• 1:13:06
  In November, Russia's Ria Noveasti
• 1:13:08
  reported another 22-year-old British man
• 1:13:11
  had been captured in Kursk, 5 miles from
• 1:13:14
  Russian territory. The news agency
• 1:13:16
  shared video clips showed the man who
• 1:13:19
  said he had served as a signant
• 1:13:21
  signalman in the UK army.
• 1:13:24
  And uh you know there's a lot of people
• 1:13:28
  that are that are dying over there and
• 1:13:32
  uh even if they are um the mercenaries,
• 1:13:38
  they're being thrown out to the front
• 1:13:41
  line.
• 1:13:43
  Let's see.
• 1:13:45
  I wanted to do a little bit about uh um
• 1:13:50
  Saliv
• 1:13:52
  and he had some stories that
• 1:13:56
  came up and there were
• 1:13:59
  quite a few topics in his threehour
• 1:14:03
  show, but I again I only got to watch
• 1:14:06
  about an hour of it. So I'm only going
• 1:14:09
  to give you the first the first part.
• 1:14:13
  Um,
• 1:14:16
  there was a guy named uh, where is he?
• 1:14:21
  See if I can find it.
• 1:14:26
  They talked about tactics and technology
• 1:14:30
  on the front lines. That was an
• 1:14:32
  interesting segment.
• 1:14:35
  And um, talking mostly about drones. So
• 1:14:40
  Russia
• 1:14:41
  on average
• 1:14:44
  every every day every single day is
• 1:14:49
  sending in um
• 1:14:54
  186
• 1:14:55
  on average drones shahed you know the
• 1:14:59
  the big drones
• 1:15:02
  um that look like I don't know a mini
• 1:15:04
  airplane basically and uh those those
• 1:15:08
  drones 180 86 of them a uh a day and
• 1:15:13
  Ukraine is doing it too. But uh these
• 1:15:18
  um FPV drops
• 1:15:22
  and
• 1:15:25
  have been devastating to uh what is
• 1:15:28
  going on for the Ukrainians. It's been
• 1:15:31
  pretty damn bad. And so we wanted to dig
• 1:15:37
  a little bit further into those
• 1:15:41
  and see how these tactics affect places
• 1:15:45
  like uh
• 1:15:47
  Pakovsk and Kras Nar. You know what's
• 1:15:50
  happening there is they have these UAV
• 1:15:54
  drones pressure small unit night pushes.
• 1:15:57
  I was talking to you about this a little
• 1:16:00
  bit last uh Wednesday because the
• 1:16:05
  Russians have these loitering drones and
• 1:16:08
  they get to fly in there and they are
• 1:16:12
  doing drone attacks
• 1:16:14
  on I mean they're attacking other drones
• 1:16:17
  on the Ukrainian side. I don't mean dr
• 1:16:20
  of course there are drone attacks but
• 1:16:22
  they're doing attacks on Ukrainian
• 1:16:24
  drones with their own drones and then
• 1:16:28
  they can record they have so many drones
• 1:16:30
  in the air that they can record drones
• 1:16:33
  being taken out and of the shahed v
• 1:16:36
  variant there's 168 every single night
• 1:16:40
  and that doesn't include all the FBV
• 1:16:42
  drones that are going out as well
• 1:16:46
  and uh it has helped them quite a bit
• 1:16:48
  espec especially in Pakrosk and Armes.
• 1:16:52
  Um there was an article today and a
• 1:16:55
  short story on uh of a successful
• 1:17:01
  allegedly
• 1:17:03
  according to the Ukrainian side and on
• 1:17:06
  the Russian side and quite a few other
• 1:17:09
  sides. It just I mean this is
• 1:17:14
  idiotic and foolish, right? So, when I
• 1:17:17
  was in the military, I was a
• 1:17:21
  um
• 1:17:23
  an operator on a Blackhawk helicopter.
• 1:17:29
  It was an electronic warfare helicopter.
• 1:17:31
  So, we had all kinds of electronic
• 1:17:34
  equipment in there. We could jam radio
• 1:17:36
  signals of, you know, from wherever on
• 1:17:40
  the battlefield. But our main job was
• 1:17:43
  collection of enemy intelligence, right?
• 1:17:46
  [snorts] And so it was an interesting
• 1:17:49
  concept and we could could use, you
• 1:17:52
  know, could uh pinpoint a location back
• 1:17:57
  in the day when there weren't any
• 1:17:59
  pinpoints. That was a different a
• 1:18:01
  different system. But the only reason I
• 1:18:03
  bring that up is because on our flight
• 1:18:06
  line,
• 1:18:07
  our helicopters were the only ones that
• 1:18:10
  were equipped in full with all kinds of
• 1:18:13
  electronic warfare equipment. And our
• 1:18:17
  crew consisted of the two pilots
• 1:18:21
  and the operators and two operators, one
• 1:18:25
  behind each pilot. And so there was
• 1:18:27
  nowhere for any
• 1:18:30
  other troops to be carried around,
• 1:18:34
  conveyed. There was so much electronic
• 1:18:36
  equipment that nobody could fit in there
• 1:18:39
  except the two soldiers that were in the
• 1:18:41
  back running the uh platforms. But on
• 1:18:44
  the flight line, there would be, I don't
• 1:18:46
  know, 60, 80, maybe even 100 helicopters
• 1:18:51
  out there that were a different type.
• 1:18:54
  So, I'm quite familiar with the
• 1:18:56
  Blackhawk and I also am aqualified,
• 1:18:59
  which means you jump or I was. Wouldn't
• 1:19:02
  know if I'd be much qualified today. I
• 1:19:04
  have some funny stories about that, but
• 1:19:06
  I'd rather not go into them tonight. Um,
• 1:19:08
  that was an interesting school. But the
• 1:19:12
  fact is that I'm quite familiar with the
• 1:19:16
  Blackhawk. And the Blackhawk is a pretty
• 1:19:19
  large helicopter.
• 1:19:23
  It carries
• 1:19:25
  I believe the the total crew capacity is
• 1:19:28
  either 10 or 12 soldiers. I don't
• 1:19:31
  remember off the top of my head but uh I
• 1:19:35
  and that I think includes the two
• 1:19:38
  pilots. So, I think it's the 10, you
• 1:19:40
  know, people that can that can be
• 1:19:44
  carried easily in a crew transport
• 1:19:48
  Blackhawk, not an electronic warfare
• 1:19:51
  when you couldn't fit any troops in
• 1:19:53
  there. But
• 1:19:56
  today
• 1:19:58
  all over
• 1:20:00
  YouTube, Telegram, everywhere they were
• 1:20:04
  talking about this aerosol operation
• 1:20:09
  by
• 1:20:11
  um the Ukrainian forces inside of
• 1:20:14
  Picrosk.
• 1:20:16
  Now Petrosk is the city that is
• 1:20:19
  surrounded at present.
• 1:20:22
  And what they're saying is that the
• 1:20:25
  Ukrainians, and it's on video, it's out
• 1:20:28
  there on Telegram. You can watch this.
• 1:20:29
  And it just looks so stupid. It's like,
• 1:20:31
  who in the world would authorize this?
• 1:20:34
  And so later, Serski and uh one other
• 1:20:39
  guy were um
• 1:20:42
  were
• 1:20:44
  talking about the positive nature of
• 1:20:46
  this. I don't find it very positive. I
• 1:20:48
  think it was ridiculous that um these
• 1:20:51
  helicopter guys are um
• 1:20:56
  um
• 1:20:58
  flying in for what? the
• 1:21:03
  basically
• 1:21:08
  the
• 1:21:10
  um helicopters
• 1:21:13
  I'm trying to find the right
• 1:21:16
  fart
• 1:21:17
  facts on this. The Russian side says
• 1:21:21
  that two UH60A
• 1:21:24
  Blackhawks
• 1:21:26
  attempted to land
• 1:21:30
  um troops on the northwest edge of Prosk
• 1:21:35
  using
• 1:21:37
  two and possibly three Blackhawk
• 1:21:41
  helicopters. So remember I told you that
• 1:21:44
  5,500
• 1:21:46
  soldiers are trapped in there in the
• 1:21:49
  Prosk region encircled by Russia and
• 1:21:53
  Russia you know is picking them all off.
• 1:21:56
  Some of them are retreating but
• 1:22:01
  the Ukrainians
• 1:22:02
  fly in in these Blackhawks and drop off
• 1:22:08
  11 soldiers. You see 11 soldiers get out
• 1:22:11
  of one of the um the uh helicopters
• 1:22:15
  and then the helicopter gets blown up
• 1:22:19
  and then [laughter]
• 1:22:20
  I I don't mean to laugh about it and
• 1:22:22
  then the soldiers get attacked by
• 1:22:25
  drones, you know, and they're running
• 1:22:27
  all together and one big clump of
• 1:22:30
  people. It's like, man, that's really
• 1:22:33
  strategic, isn't it? Um you make them
• 1:22:36
  all one big target. Why would you do
• 1:22:39
  that? And and clearly not aerosol
• 1:22:42
  qualified.
• 1:22:44
  And they're they're jumping out of
• 1:22:45
  there. I mean, you look at these
• 1:22:47
  Blackhawks. The Russians say that they
• 1:22:51
  took out one of the helicopters
• 1:22:53
  quite quickly and took out 15 soldiers
• 1:22:57
  at least that were killed in this failed
• 1:23:00
  operation. And it's the second attempt
• 1:23:04
  in the last 48 hours. I'm sitting there
• 1:23:07
  wondering why in the world what what
• 1:23:09
  what tactical or strategic or any
• 1:23:14
  advantage is that sort of attack going
• 1:23:17
  to make for you?
• 1:23:20
  Nothing. I mean, what what's it going to
• 1:23:22
  make? The cumulative loss of between the
• 1:23:25
  two helicopters, the soldiers. They only
• 1:23:27
  blew up one of the helicopters. The
• 1:23:29
  other one flew out after dropping off
• 1:23:31
  its people. But allegedly that could be
• 1:23:34
  up to, you know, they say there were
• 1:23:36
  there were up to 20 soldiers and maybe
• 1:23:41
  three times this two two helicopters one
• 1:23:45
  time and then one more. And they say in
• 1:23:47
  the last 48 hours and they say they have
• 1:23:51
  taken out at least one UH60 and there
• 1:23:54
  was video of it. And this is the they
• 1:23:59
  used to call us air insertion or you
• 1:24:03
  know we were an air insertion team that
• 1:24:06
  you go in for a specific purpose whether
• 1:24:08
  it's reconnaissance whether it's
• 1:24:11
  something like that but in Prosk what
• 1:24:14
  are they going to send them in for? I
• 1:24:16
  I'm sitting there trying to find some
• 1:24:19
  kind of a strategic reason or a tactical
• 1:24:21
  reason for them to do this. And for me,
• 1:24:25
  it's just not making sense that uh you
• 1:24:29
  would fly in in an area clearly
• 1:24:33
  dominated by Russian artillery, Russian
• 1:24:37
  drones, and to land, let your guys out.
• 1:24:42
  and then all over Telegram watched the
• 1:24:45
  helicopter explode right after landing
• 1:24:48
  and watched the 11 guys be hunted down
• 1:24:52
  by uh Russian drones and all running in
• 1:24:56
  one group. It didn't take very much to
• 1:24:58
  get rid of them to kill them all. And uh
• 1:25:02
  it's who in the world is running the
• 1:25:05
  show over there? Why are you flying in
• 1:25:09
  to a region encircled by the Russians?
• 1:25:14
  What What are 11 guys going to do to get
• 1:25:18
  5500
• 1:25:20
  out? You know, oh jeez, what are you
• 1:25:22
  sending them messages? How many MREs
• 1:25:24
  could you carry in there? How much food?
• 1:25:27
  Not much. You know, how you going to
• 1:25:30
  feed them all? What are you going to
• 1:25:31
  wait for mana from heaven or what? it uh
• 1:25:35
  something seems just really stupid and
• 1:25:39
  uh there there's talk again that uh
• 1:25:43
  they're trying to extract some trapped
• 1:25:46
  NATO officers. Now, I don't know about
• 1:25:50
  that. That was mentioned on Soliv, too,
• 1:25:53
  that uh they're trying to uh assist
• 1:25:57
  somebody allegedly important in getting
• 1:25:59
  out. Well, the way to do that wouldn't
• 1:26:02
  be send in 35 people. It'd be to send in
• 1:26:06
  a Blackhawk and have that important
• 1:26:09
  person jump on the Blackhawk and fly out
• 1:26:12
  with them or uh something similar if
• 1:26:15
  you're going to do that. And I don't see
• 1:26:17
  it happening if the Russians control the
• 1:26:20
  air airspaces like they do. So, the
• 1:26:24
  pro-Russian outlets and military
• 1:26:27
  bloggers of all stripes say that there
• 1:26:31
  was a defeat of the landing and they
• 1:26:33
  showed, you know, the claims and the
• 1:26:35
  footage. I saw the footage, but you
• 1:26:38
  know, in the days of, you know, fakes
• 1:26:40
  online and everything, who who the hell
• 1:26:42
  knows, but the western analysis
• 1:26:44
  acknowledges that there were insertions,
• 1:26:48
  but they don't know whether they've been
• 1:26:50
  killed or not. And some Ukrainian
• 1:26:52
  sources are denying the kill count. Um
• 1:26:56
  they have said that there were 11
• 1:26:58
  killed, but you know they they talk
• 1:27:02
  about the fog of war.
• 1:27:05
  If Moscow's version is holds up, the
• 1:27:09
  Blackhawk insertions this close to the
• 1:27:12
  rail look like a high-risk attempt to
• 1:27:16
  get somebody important out of there.
• 1:27:20
  evidence Kiev is under pressure inside
• 1:27:22
  the city perimeter and uh you know the
• 1:27:25
  west is everybody we've talked about it
• 1:27:28
  and say that the insertions happened but
• 1:27:31
  they won't say so far whether there were
• 1:27:34
  any losses immediately after or if they
• 1:27:38
  lost any blackhawks out of it. They
• 1:27:40
  won't talk about it. And so
• 1:27:44
  I don't know. This is this is a a
• 1:27:49
  foolish
• 1:27:51
  method of attempting to win a war. Um
• 1:27:55
  because there's
• 1:27:57
  even if there are high value NATO people
• 1:28:00
  in there, how the hell are 11 guys going
• 1:28:02
  to take them out? Is it going to mean
• 1:28:05
  that somebody has to uh surrender? What
• 1:28:08
  do we know? What are we going to do
• 1:28:12
  about that? Um, we're going to search in
• 1:28:15
  that story a little bit more and see if
• 1:28:17
  we can find um anything more about it.
• 1:28:23
  Not for tonight though. That's for
• 1:28:25
  tomorrow. Let's see.
• 1:28:29
  Well, as we wind down the show for this
• 1:28:34
  evening,
• 1:28:36
  I wanted to get into one more story for
• 1:28:40
  you. Oh, oops. I moved to the wrong page
• 1:28:46
  on the analysis.
• 1:28:50
  This was rather comical as well. You
• 1:28:53
  know what? I'm not going to have time to
• 1:28:54
  go into it. It looks like we shall be
• 1:29:00
  wrapping up. Huh. I thought I still had
• 1:29:02
  a few minutes left, but I do not. It is
• 1:29:06
  um uh time to close up for tonight. I
• 1:29:10
  very much appreciate you joining me. We
• 1:29:13
  will be here tomorrow night just like we
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• 1:29:43
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• 1:29:45
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• 1:29:49
  well we'll get into I want to get into
• 1:29:52
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