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Victory Day, Putin’s Red Lines, Armenia, Hormuz, and Karaganov’s New World War Warning
Samuel Trapp hosts this May 11, 2026 edition of International Flavor, recorded before travel, with a wide-ranging look at the week’s major global developments. The episode begins with Russia’s Victory Day commemorations and reported Ukrainian ceasefire violations, then moves into front-line drone warfare, Armenia’s EU drift, Putin’s post–Victory Day press conference, and the diplomatic question of talks with Zelensky.
The show also examines the Strait of Hormuz crisis and Nigeria’s refining problem, Ukrainian draft-enforcement unrest, allegations involving an Israeli outpost in Iraq, Robert…
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