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Belavia’s Bones, Poland’s Drones, and Ukraine’s Broken Stones · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  I'm Samuel Trapp.
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  This is International Flavor.
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  Thanks for joining me tonight.
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  Wouldn't that be great?
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  You could just listen to me.
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  Life is good.
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  You could listen to me at 9 p
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  .m. every night, Sunday through Thursday, and we
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  could discuss events of the day from an
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  international point of view.
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  Here, the news just tastes better because it
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  has an international flavor.
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  No, I don't like it.
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  Not doing it.
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  Okay.
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  Well, we're going to get started.
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  That doesn't mean you can't listen just because
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  I can't come up with a slogan or
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  a logo or anything like that, but if
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  you do want to go back and listen
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  to my shows previously and any of the
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  stuff that we talked about, I had a
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  good show last night, a decent amount of
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  commentary, even from family, and I just had
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  a discussion with my brother on some of
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  this.
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  We have a huge family of, you know,
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  the number of Trapps is, in our family,
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  there are 12 Trapp children, and I don't
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  know, my mom knows, but I couldn't tell
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  you how many grandchildren she has, how many
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  great grandchildren.
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  My father, God rest his soul, passed away,
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  I think, in 07, and the reason I
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  remember that is because today is the anniversary
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  of my own death.
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  If my sister Vicki's listening, or if she
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  does, my brother Matthew Vaughn told me that
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  she has a photo of the car I
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  was driving when I died 19 years ago
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  this very evening, and they had to jump
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  start me four times.
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  She's a flight paramedic, so she got down
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  pretty quick from the Iowa-Illinois-Missouri border,
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  where she was a flight helicopter, flight paramedic,
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  had a, you know, cool job, and I
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  remember her telling me, but I don't know
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  that I've ever seen the photo of her
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  standing next to my tiny little crushed two
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  -foot tall Corvette that I was driving when
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  I passed away.
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  I got lots of stories about that, but
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  that's not the point of this evening's show.
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  There's been horror aplenty the last few days
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  for America, and there's no need to add
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  my ridiculousness to the, my ridiculous self-mutilation
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  stories, to the, just by going fast.
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  I don't do any of those those sorts
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  of things.
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  I obviously had a very strong will to
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  survive, and did, and so I've had a
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  lot of people tell me, someone told me,
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  in fact, the just last couple of days,
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  that you know what that means, and I
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  said, no, I really don't.
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  I've been trying to figure it out, and
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  she said to me, she goes, that God
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  wants you here for a reason.
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  Well, I've had those things said to me
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  reasonably often.
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  I tend to also believe there's a purpose
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  for us all to be here, but not
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  so positive, I found mine.
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  That's number one, that I wanted to do
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  a second little bit on, and the other
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  one is, as I started with my, my
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  lengthy family ties, and the, my, another brother
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  called me, and said that one of the
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  nephews or another had put out something on
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  Facebook, basically saying, and if any of my
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  relatives are listening, and they want to call
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  in and get chewed out over this, I'm
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  happy to do it.
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  This is disgusting.
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  I don't care who you are, or, or
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  if, you know, family, not family, that is
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  not permitted.
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  You do not take joy in another person's
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  murder.
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  You, you just can't do it, and if
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  you do, you're the problem, okay?
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  That is nonsense, and you cannot take joy
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  in the fact that somebody is dead by
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  another person's hand, okay?
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  That's, if, if you don't know that, if
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  you think that someone's point of view entitles
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  someone to kill them for a point of
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  view, I tell you what, move to Israel.
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  They, you know, that, that crap's been going
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  on for centuries there.
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  Get over there, and, and see what you
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  think.
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  This is crap.
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  You, you, you can't think like that, even
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  if you are my relative.
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  You're not allowed, and I'm a pretty tolerant
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  person.
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  I'm an extremely tolerant person.
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  I don't mind, and, and you know what?
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  You could say, well, Sam, you're, you're, you're
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  contrary to exactly what you're complaining about.
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  No, I'm not, because you cannot take joy
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  in, when, when J.R. played earlier today,
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  I was truly offended.
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  I was listening to his program, and he
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  played something, I don't know what, Stacey, and
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  I don't follow the details like, like some
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  people do, or that he does, and I'm
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  much more of a spit baller than a,
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  a detail-oriented person, and I, I take
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  big picture sorts of things, the macro instead
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  of the micro, and on a macro level,
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  listening to studio, sound crew, video crew, whatever,
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  behind the scenes at a competing, or at
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  a, I don't know, left-wing network, whatever
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  you want to call it, any network, doesn't
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  matter, left-wing, right-wing, no-wing, I
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  don't care.
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  If you're going to take joy in the
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  death of someone who got murdered, you're the
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  problem, and, and, and I can't imagine that,
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  that you would feel the same if somebody
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  came into your studio, some right-wing nut
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  came into your left-wing studio and blew
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  away your producer for putting out leftist tripe.
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  I, I, I just, this is the problem,
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  America.
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  This is the problem.
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  You do not condemn people for their point
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  of view.
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  It's, it's just as bad as condemning someone
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  for allegedly who they are.
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  Frankly, I don't care who you are, or
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  who you profess to be, or who you
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  want to be.
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  You want to be a man and dress
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  up in a dress, fine.
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  You want to claim that you're a woman,
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  great, but don't claim to force me to
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  say, to, I, I honor your choice.
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  Make whatever choice you want.
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  That don't mean I don't think you're nuts.
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  I do.
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  You can think I'm nuts, you know, for,
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  I don't know, believing in God, for, you
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  know, I, I don't, I'm not a Bible
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  thumper.
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  I don't wander around talking, but I have
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  my belief structure.
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  I have my own belief structure, and I
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  do not condemn other people's belief structure, and
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  I do not condemn other countries because they
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  think differently.
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  I do not have lectured on this topic
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  a million times.
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  You do not condemn an entire culture because
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  you disagree with one part of it.
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  Nonsense.
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  You know, it's just, if you want to
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  take all Germans out because of Adolf Hitler,
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  you're the problem.
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  If you want to take all Russians out
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  because you don't like what Vladimir Putin's doing,
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  you're the problem.
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  And, and it's, it's, it's, it's nuts to
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  think this way.
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  You can't do it.
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  Anyway, I've ranted long enough, yelling into microphone,
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  getting my blood pressure up, and I'm a
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  generally healthy person, so it doesn't really matter,
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  but, you know, and apparently I've survived much
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  worse because today is the anniversary of my
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  death, and I'm here because somebody says I
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  should be.
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  Whatever you believe, I'm here for a reason,
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  and, and if I, that means I get
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  to tell my story, I'm telling it, okay?
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  Sorry to be yelling, and I hope that
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  doesn't mess up the sound any.
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  There's some pretty good stuff in here, though,
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  at the Lake Ozark Real Estate of the
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  Art Studio.
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  Uh-huh.
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  You can send me emails at live at
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  damnradio.com or even to samuelt at internationalflavor
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  .com.
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  You disagree with me?
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  You want to get in a fight over
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  that stuff by email, by words?
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  Please do.
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  You want to call in to 573-746
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  -8020 and argue with me?
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  I suppose I'll do it.
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  You know, as long as we don't, I
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  mean, you don't kill people for their damn
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  opinion, okay?
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  You just don't do it.
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  It did, I can't imagine that you have
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  to train people that this is bad behavior.
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  Why, where were your parents?
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  You got no parents?
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  You know, I wasn't the best father in
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  the world.
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  I, I got some stuff I regret.
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  Every father does, and if he doesn't, well,
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  tell you what, he was my father.
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  My father was a damn good man, and
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  he, you know, he wasn't always present, but
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  that was one good guy.
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  One of the best on the freaking planet.
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  Taken away too young, too gone, and but
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  I tell you what, when he got mad
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  at us and he did something which was
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  extremely rare, you knew you freaking deserved it.
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  If you got something from, now my mother,
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  that's a different story.
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  She was just trying to keep the place
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  in order, and you know, a nice, a
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  nice whipping, going cutting your own, what do
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  you call it, tree branch for her to
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  beat the hell out of you with.
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  These are things that were permitted back then,
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  and I think frankly are lacking now, and
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  maybe some of that is what maybe made
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  me a marginally good person.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  But my, what my point is, my father,
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  extremely nice man, but he didn't put up
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  with any BS either, and if you were
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  wrong, I got news for you.
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  He had no problem telling you you were
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  wrong.
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  He just didn't beat the crap out of
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  you like mom did, but mom had to
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  keep order.
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  You know, she was, she was, dad's off
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  trying to feed the rest of us.
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  No Festivus for the rest of us, but,
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  but dad was always off working.
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  Anyway, I didn't, this is not the topic
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  of tonight's show.
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  I watched a, and I got a lot
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  of content here for you, a pretty good,
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  pretty good review of some documents and some,
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  some shows that I did here recently, and
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  I wanted to talk about tonight several different
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  topics.
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  If you want to call and interrupt me,
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  there's nothing set in stone on here, and
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  you want to call and argue with me,
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  you know, I'm happy to do so, but
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  tonight I'm going to bring up the stuff
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  about Minsk, you know, and Belarus, where I
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  just was not two weeks ago, and visits
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  and releasing of sanctions from, from the old
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  Trump administration.
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  They're reducing some sanctions.
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  I'd like to discuss a little bit about
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  that, what that means, what it means on
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  the battlefield in, in Ukraine right now, the
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  serious losses that they are taking and are
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  hiding from the world.
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  There's talk that Sierski is, and that they
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  have taken, so there's this Ukrainian mapper, his
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  name, you know, goes by the handle Deep
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  State, and this guy Deep State, since day
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  one of this entire conflict, has been mapping
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  the ground, and he's been, he is probably
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  the most trusted on both sides.
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  People from both sides use his data, and
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  several times during the past three years, three
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  and a half, he has been blocked.
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  He has been taken down, as it were.
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  There is no freedom of the press, there
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  is no freedom of information in Ukraine.
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  It does not exist, okay?
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  If you think it does, again, you're the
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  problem.
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  He, we're not defending democracy and rights like
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  we have over here.
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  They are archaic, they are nasty, and they
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  are evil doers, okay, to their own population,
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  by the way, 1.8 million of whom
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  are dead men, young men, well, not over
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  there, because you only get mobilized from the
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  age of 25 to 60, 55, 60 if
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  you're an officer, and I think they expanded
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  that.
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  I don't, went up to 65 or 70.
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  Nonsense.
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  But they won't take the younger men.
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  Now they've allowed all the younger men to
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  leave the country.
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  There's a massive run on the border, massive
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  run on the border, by all these young
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  men trying to get out while they can.
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  Now, anyway, I'm distracting myself.
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  I don't mean to, but there was a
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  special envoy, went to Minsk, Belorussia, lifted a
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  few of the sanctions for the Trump administration.
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  There are drones over Poland, there's Pokrovsk area,
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  grinding, Russia's grinding and killing and destroying.
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  I might be able to play the clip
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  of Colonel McGregor tonight, who gave a pretty
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  good story on that, if you get on
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  and look him up.
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  And in the last couple of days, he
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  did a 45-minute update of what's going
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  on, you know, and he's always pretty informative.
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  A Ukrainian, Su-27, got shot down over
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  Zaporizhia.
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  Russian forces gave some commentary on that.
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  We're going to talk a little bit about
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  what Belarus traded for, because basically Belarus, in
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  the nature of goodwill, released 52 Western people
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  that they had taken into custody, had arrested,
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  and they let them go.
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  And the US, in response, is allegedly going
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  to allow the Belavia, Belorussian Aviation, to open
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  up routes west again.
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  But the Europe doesn't agree, and they haven't
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  followed suit.
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  Now, there's a lot of talk that the
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  nonsense going on in Poland is because of
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  what the US is doing in Belarus.
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  I don't know.
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  Haven't come with any real serious commentary on
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  that myself.
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  I listened to Alexey Aristovich late last night
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  and early today.
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  He's the former, what do you call it,
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  counselor, close confidant or whatever, of the old
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  Z-Man.
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  And he is no longer.
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  He's on the outs, but he has 1
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  .7 million subscribers.
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  And since he's not, all he is is
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  on the outs with Z-Man, and he
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  doesn't go horribly anti-Z-Monster, YouTube still
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  allows him to have a channel in Russian.
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  Diane Penchenko, on the other hand, over 2
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  million subscribers, they cut her off because she
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  tells the truth.
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  I'm not saying that Aristovich's point of view
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  isn't there, but he gave some comments on
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  Charlie Kirk that I wanted to go over,
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  because I was really interested in getting something
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  of what we're hearing on the other side,
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  which was a fairly interesting commentary.
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  So let's start with Minsk and what happened,
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  who met with who, what it means, and
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  what has changed.
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  Okay.
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  A US delegation led by, and there's some
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  articles out there somewhere you can read, I
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  haven't reviewed any of them in detail, but
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  I've got a pretty good group of what
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  happened after listening to Aristovich.
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  So a lot of what I'm providing you
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  is an accumulation of some of the videos
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  I watched.
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  So Trump's envoy's name is John Cole.
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  He met with President Lukashenko, Alexander, I forget
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  his middle name.
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  I used to remember it, but Alexander, duh,
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  it's gone.
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  I can't remember.
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  Alexander Lukashenko.
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  But they always referred each other in there
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  with their patronymic too, which is their middle
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  name, father's name.
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  Belarus freed 52 prisoners, and then the US
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  eased sanctions on Belavia, Belarus's flag, governmental carrier.
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  Belarusian state agency, BelTA carried Cole's on-camera
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  line.
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  We have lifted sanctions on Belavia.
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  This is official, approved by state commerce and
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  treasury.
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  Now, when I heard this, I was immediately
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  suspicious.
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  What are we trying to do?
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  We're trying to weasel our way into creating
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  more problems for Russia, or are we trying
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  to avoid Europe and ease problems for Russia?
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  Because if Belavia is open, for example...
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  So remember, I was just there a couple
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  of weeks ago, and in order to get
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  to Russia, you got to get pretty damn
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  creative.
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  You can get there straight, but it's pretty
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  expensive, and there's a lot of delays.
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  If you want to take the poor man's
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  route, which I have to, usually you're gonna
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  fly from Miami to Istanbul, stay quite a
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  few hours in Istanbul until they get a
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  reasonable flight.
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  You can't fly direct into Moscow from there,
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  at least in one ticket.
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  You can figure out other ways, and you
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  can get to...
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  I've flown into Kazan like I did last
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  year.
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  You can get into Georgia.
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  You can get into the other places, and
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  then I took a car across the border
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  last year.
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  This time we got creative.
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  I told you that story a couple of
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  weeks ago from how you get in, but
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  it's a pain in the butt, and so
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  people from Russia aren't invited into Europe anymore.
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  But they're certainly doing a lot of vacationing,
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  and there were tons of Russians all over
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  Belarus when I was there.
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  When I went to Brest, and I told
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  you some of stories about Brest and that
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  historic place, that was wow.
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  I wish I could provide some of the
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  photos and some of the places that I've
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  seen.
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  I saw Vladimir Putin.
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  I'm distracting myself.
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  I can't tell you about that stuff.
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  We have to keep on trucking around.
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  We'll never get through the content I wanted
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  to provide today, because I already did some
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  ranting.
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  Western media said within the next couple hours,
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  Reuters and AP both reported that the release
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  numbers of 52 people, and Washington getting rid
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  of the restrictions on Belavia so that they
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  can get parts and maintenance on their own
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  planes, and they can fly some Western routes.
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  But since Europe, EU still hasn't eased sanctions.
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  So Belarus is right up against Poland and
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  south of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, right?
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  And touching Russia, and then on the bottom,
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  it's all Ukraine.
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  And so in order to get from Belarus,
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  they'd have got to fly north through Latvia,
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  Lithuania, Estonia.
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  They can't, because European airspace.
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  They can't go west into Poland, European airspace.
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  They can't go south in Ukraine.
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  They'd blow them up.
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  Although arguably, they aren't, I don't believe, restricted,
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  but nobody does.
• 20:30
  Turkish Airlines goes around, takes you six, which
• 20:33
  is that extra two and a half hours
• 20:35
  to go around the Black Sea to get
• 20:37
  into Kazan, even, or Moscow.
• 20:40
  And so Belavia would have to go through
• 20:43
  Russia, around the Black Sea, and to Turkey.
• 20:47
  And so they would, to get to Istanbul,
• 20:49
  and then go from Istanbul to points west.
• 20:52
  So if a Russian in Moscow wanted to
• 20:54
  take a train, like I did, from Moscow
• 20:56
  to Minsk, get on a plane at the
• 20:58
  Minsk airport, and fly around the Black Sea,
• 21:02
  which is crazy, because they could just fly
• 21:05
  straight from Russia to Istanbul, and then get
• 21:08
  on a Bel-Aviation flight from Istanbul to
• 21:11
  the States or something.
• 21:12
  But arguably, they could do that in a
• 21:14
  Turkish Airlines plane, if they could get past
• 21:16
  it to get to the west somewhere.
• 21:19
  So the easing, I'm not sure that the
• 21:21
  easing of aviation is going to mean all
• 21:23
  that big a difference for them, but it
• 21:25
  might mean parts, so that they can get
• 21:27
  parts for their western purchased planes and maintenance
• 21:31
  again, okay?
• 21:33
  So what's the point of these two things?
• 21:36
  I'm not positive, but I think that it's
• 21:40
  an optics opportunity.
• 21:44
  We don't concede on bigger Russian policy, and
• 21:48
  it gives the west a channel to get
• 21:50
  into Minsk.
• 21:53
  Remember, there's some Zapad 2025, which are some
• 21:56
  large military drills that are going to begin
• 21:59
  in Poland, that that's been coming on.
• 22:02
  And I think that some of the dronage
• 22:04
  from Russia, that nobody's really denied, and you
• 22:08
  know, NATO's having this.
• 22:10
  Same thing happened last year, when they had
• 22:12
  these huge western style things.
• 22:15
  And remember, the U.S. has put some
• 22:17
  major military bases in Poland that didn't exist
• 22:22
  when I was in the military, so eastern
• 22:25
  creep by the west has been pretty prevalent.
• 22:29
  So the RT frames it as linked to
• 22:32
  the exercises and regional tensions that the, you
• 22:35
  know, the U.S. wants to get into
• 22:37
  Belarus to, you know, kind of ease the
• 22:40
  tensions a little bit.
• 22:41
  I'm not so sure.
• 22:42
  I don't know.
• 22:45
  There are still sanctions, plenty of them against
• 22:47
  Belarus.
• 22:48
  September 11 and the general license 11 authorizing
• 22:52
  transactions with Belavia for parts and service in
• 22:55
  the broader programs on sanctions still remain.
• 22:59
  In the EU, the ban on Belarusian carriers
• 23:02
  overflying still stands, and so that's going to
• 23:05
  be a problem.
• 23:08
  And Washington didn't, or I don't know if
• 23:12
  it can't or didn't change that.
• 23:15
  You know, the U.S. easing lets Belavia
• 23:18
  legally source western spare parts and lease support
• 23:22
  facilities again for their aircraft and maintenance.
• 23:27
  So, but EU airspace is still closed.
• 23:30
  I don't know what it necessarily means, but
• 23:33
  Belarus is getting something tangible out of it
• 23:36
  in their aviation program, and Brussels hasn't done
• 23:40
  anything to slam it yet.
• 23:44
  I'm not saying they wouldn't, but they, you
• 23:47
  know, they're pretty evil over there, so they
• 23:49
  probably will.
• 23:51
  Washington gets the headlines of having 52 people
• 23:54
  freed.
• 23:55
  Minsky gets, you know, the little bit of
• 24:00
  a counter to the ZOPID 2025 military things
• 24:06
  going on, you know.
• 24:08
  And Kohl, his words were, do it immediately.
• 24:11
  Our decision has been made, meaning get rid
• 24:15
  of these sanctions, get this stuff.
• 24:16
  And Reuters, Belarus released 52 prisoners.
• 24:19
  U.S. agreed to ease sanctions.
• 24:21
  AP says sanctions relief allows Belavia to obtain
• 24:25
  parts.
• 24:25
  I don't know what that necessarily means, but
• 24:28
  it looks like they're trying to start working
• 24:31
  together, okay?
• 24:33
  Now, and Belarus and Lukashenko in particular are
• 24:36
  pretty big allies, you know, to Putin.
• 24:43
  And, you know, they're fairly close.
• 24:46
  And you can say that Lukashenko has been
• 24:49
  playing both sides for a little while, and
• 24:52
  that's, you know, probably true, you know, because
• 24:56
  he does play both sides.
• 24:58
  But, you know, I think that we need
• 25:07
  to pay attention to these sorts of things
• 25:09
  and know, you know, know when.
• 25:13
  Keep an eye on these sanction issues.
• 25:16
  It has nothing to do with Russia yet,
• 25:18
  but we shall see.
• 25:20
  But these, especially with next week, well, it's
• 25:23
  tomorrow, actually, the 12th to the 16th are
• 25:26
  these op-ed 25s coming up.
• 25:29
  Okay.
• 25:29
  The other thing I want to, next thing
• 25:30
  I want to talk about is, well, Russia
• 25:33
  keeps gaining on the front.
• 25:35
  Remember I told you I listened to that
• 25:36
  McGregor guy, Colonel McGregor.
• 25:38
  And you know what?
• 25:40
  I'm going to see if I can pull
• 25:41
  up the clip of him because it was
• 25:44
  a pretty good clip.
• 25:46
  And I can probably just play you the
• 25:48
  first five or six minutes of his rant,
• 25:56
  I suppose, if you want to call it.
• 25:57
  And you can get a lot of this
• 25:59
  too, because he says that the Ukrainian army
• 26:02
  is failing miserably, and there's a lot of
• 26:05
  that going on.
• 26:06
  But as I was saying, this guy Deep
• 26:08
  State, who they have been blocking, just like
• 26:12
  they got rid of Diane Panschenko, they're getting
• 26:15
  rid of Deep State guy, and they've done
• 26:19
  it to him a couple of times.
• 26:20
  And the other bloggers and the other mappers
• 26:25
  that follow him are saying that they don't
• 26:29
  believe that what he's putting out is the
• 26:31
  truth.
• 26:32
  And I heard something, I may play that
• 26:35
  too.
• 26:35
  I wonder if I should play that because,
• 26:37
  man, that was frightening.
• 26:41
  Horrifying more, not frightening, but just horror story,
• 26:45
  all the death that's going on over there
• 26:47
  because they're saying that, well, I don't know.
• 26:50
  I'm going to play McGregor for you, I
• 26:52
  think, and see if we can't put his
• 26:56
  stuff in perspective.
• 26:58
  I might let it go for the first
• 27:00
  eight minutes of the show that he put
• 27:03
  on.
• 27:03
  And it started mid-sentence.
• 27:05
  I don't know what happened with this guy
• 27:08
  that he was interviewing with.
• 27:11
  His name is Aslan Kamara, and he's got
• 27:14
  100,000 subscribers or something on YouTube.
• 27:17
  And I want to play some of that
• 27:21
  if I can figure out how to do
• 27:23
  it.
• 27:24
  Let us see.
• 27:25
  This is Colonel Douglas McGregor on a show
• 27:28
  with Aslan Kamara quite recently, less than 24
• 27:34
  hours ago.
• 27:35
  Okay, here he goes.
• 27:37
  And eventually this went to thousands and thousands
• 27:39
  every week.
• 27:40
  We now think Ukrainians have lost somewhere in
• 27:43
  the neighborhood of 1.8 million men killed.
• 27:47
  Isn't that horrible?
• 27:48
  That's a tremendous number.
• 27:49
  And within the last six to 12 months,
• 27:51
  the losses have been very high because the
• 27:54
  Ukrainian military is disintegrating.
• 27:58
  It's collapsing.
• 27:59
  It's in the same condition.
• 28:00
  That's what I keep saying.
• 28:02
  If you watch the frontline collapse in the
• 28:06
  amount of death and destruction that is going
• 28:09
  on over there, when is somebody going to
• 28:14
  force this to end?
• 28:16
  In addition, the Wehrmacht was in the last
• 28:18
  10 months of World War II.
• 28:21
  And it's when armies begin to collapse that
• 28:24
  they take the heavy casualties because they're trying
• 28:26
  to withdraw.
• 28:27
  They're trying to avoid contact.
• 28:29
  They're trying to set up new defenses.
• 28:31
  And as they pull back, they're easy targets
• 28:34
  for the advancing enemy.
• 28:35
  And on this battlefield, where everything depends upon
• 28:38
  your ability to see who's out there, and
• 28:41
  then send in initially drones for surveillance, and
• 28:45
  then ultimately attack, and then rocket artillery and
• 28:48
  artillery that you then follow up with a
• 28:50
  very deliberate, calculated ground offensive, where for instance,
• 28:55
  tanks are not used in great numbers as
• 28:58
  mobile operational contingents.
• 29:01
  Instead, tanks, for instance, are used as assault
• 29:04
  guns to move up and finish off defenses
• 29:07
  so the infantry can go forward and claim
• 29:10
  the ground.
• 29:11
  That's what the Russians have been doing.
• 29:13
  It's worked very, very well.
• 29:14
  The Russians have taken, we think, about 120
• 29:17
  ,000 to 125,000 killed in action, plus
• 29:23
  another 300,000 or 400,000 wounded.
• 29:25
  In other words, the losses are very lopsided
• 29:28
  on the Ukrainian side.
• 29:29
  Now, another reason for that, of course, was
• 29:32
  a really bad advice that they were getting
• 29:34
  from their NATO allies and advisors, telling them
• 29:38
  to launch attacks into these defenses that they
• 29:41
  had no chance whatsoever penetrating, because the Russian
• 29:44
  defenses were very deep, with lots of reserves,
• 29:47
  all very carefully surveilled, and under constant persistent
• 29:52
  surveillance.
• 29:53
  And they had learned literally to link fire
• 29:57
  from sea-based ships in the Baltic, aircraft
• 30:01
  east of Moscow, firing batteries in White Russia,
• 30:07
  wherever, to bring within minutes tremendous concentrations.
• 30:14
  I always find that amusing for him to,
• 30:16
  he calls it White Russia.
• 30:21
  Belarus, Bely means white, and Belarus is White
• 30:26
  Russia.
• 30:27
  And there was, I looked that up one
• 30:29
  time as to why, and it's something completely
• 30:31
  innocuous.
• 30:32
  It doesn't have a whole lot to say
• 30:33
  about that on there.
• 30:35
  But he still says something very, he calls
• 30:38
  them the White Russians and the Russians, which
• 30:40
  I find amusing.
• 30:41
  Sorry.
• 30:43
  Accurate, devastating fire against the Ukrainians.
• 30:46
  And so these attempts to break through these
• 30:48
  operational defenses failed miserably.
• 30:52
  So it was a strategic defeat early on
• 30:55
  from which the Ukrainians really never recovered.
• 30:57
  But the Russians wanted to do something else
• 30:59
  for which I wasn't prepared.
• 31:01
  It wasn't enough for them to move forward
• 31:03
  and punch through and reach the Dnieper River.
• 31:07
  They've essentially behaved like a giant vacuum cleaner.
• 31:10
  They've gone through and effectively vacuumed up every
• 31:14
  bit of resistance everywhere they find it.
• 31:18
  Because there was something else in the special
• 31:20
  military operation order that I had not attached
• 31:24
  significant attention to, but it's very important.
• 31:27
  It's the annihilation of Ukrainian forces, because they
• 31:31
  are seen as the background of this alleged
• 31:34
  neo-Nazi regime in Kiev.
• 31:36
  So it's not enough just to push aside
• 31:40
  the forces in front of you and punch
• 31:41
  through.
• 31:42
  I wanted to point that out too.
• 31:44
  That's especially true in the Pokrovsk region right
• 31:47
  now.
• 31:47
  Because remember, I reported on this a couple
• 31:49
  of weeks ago that around Pokrovsk, which is
• 31:53
  basically surrounded, and now the Russians are getting
• 31:55
  in there and booting them out of there.
• 32:00
  They brought in those neo-Nazi National Guard
• 32:04
  forces from the West, who everybody believes is
• 32:08
  pushing the Z-Man to all of this,
• 32:11
  or keeping his feet to the fire regarding
• 32:13
  it.
• 32:15
  Allegedly, there have been reports that they're killing
• 32:18
  those trying to retreat.
• 32:20
  They're killing their own people who are trying
• 32:23
  to retreat.
• 32:26
  So if you're not going to go to
• 32:28
  the front and fight the Russians and die,
• 32:31
  you've got to run to the back and
• 32:32
  fight these elite Nazi brigades who are extremely
• 32:37
  strong nationalists and be killed there.
• 32:40
  I don't know.
• 32:41
  Those are stories that are coming out, both
• 32:43
  from Telegram and other places, and that you
• 32:46
  hear from former Ukrainian areas.
• 32:53
  But obviously, I'm not there.
• 32:56
  And there's people that are free to deny
• 33:00
  that.
• 33:01
  And if that's true, it's still nasty.
• 33:04
  You have to kill them all.
• 33:06
  And that's still going on.
• 33:08
  And that's why you have such a high
• 33:09
  level of people being killed, because eventually they're
• 33:13
  paralyzed.
• 33:14
  They can't move, because if they move, they're
• 33:16
  targeted and destroyed, and then eventually overwhelmed.
• 33:20
  So we're at the end, as you point
• 33:23
  out.
• 33:23
  There's no question about it.
• 33:24
  There isn't much left.
• 33:26
  The question, though, is what do the Russians
• 33:29
  do, as you say?
• 33:30
  And I think that President Putin has probably
• 33:33
  made the decision, though it's not clear yet.
• 33:36
  He has called up additional forces, another 150
• 33:40
  ,000.
• 33:40
  There's no shortage of manpower.
• 33:42
  And by the way, they don't have to
• 33:44
  force people into the Russian military.
• 33:46
  They've got plenty of volunteers.
• 33:48
  There's no shortage of that sort of thing.
• 33:50
  And that part is absolutely true, too.
• 33:52
  I was just in Moscow.
• 33:53
  And remember, I told you that last year
• 33:55
  when I was in Kazan and in Naberezhnye
• 33:58
  Chelny and Ufa.
• 34:00
  Heck, even when I was in Vladikavkaz last
• 34:03
  year, you would see these signs everywhere that
• 34:07
  what they are paying to recruit people to
• 34:10
  fight for Russia is a very large salary.
• 34:17
  And they are attracting people who are committed.
• 34:21
  And they go by contract.
• 34:23
  And you'll hear what he says here later
• 34:26
  about them going.
• 34:27
  But I wanted to point out, because he
• 34:28
  doesn't go here yet, that their contract rates
• 34:31
  are still in the range of about, man,
• 34:37
  it's a large pile of money for them,
• 34:40
  a monthly salary.
• 34:43
  And then there's a pretty good amount for
• 34:46
  them as a bonus when they first get
• 34:49
  in.
• 34:50
  So they get a bonus and then very
• 34:51
  good salaries.
• 34:52
  And no, they are not having difficulty.
• 34:55
  They haven't had to have a forced mobilization.
• 34:57
  Now, Russia always had mobilization anyway, because they've
• 35:01
  had mobilization as a historic thing.
• 35:05
  It's like calling up whatever it is, 200
• 35:09
  ,000 a year.
• 35:10
  But they could be.
• 35:12
  I met a guy who was a music.
• 35:15
  He was in the orchestra for the army.
• 35:19
  But he was a professional.
• 35:22
  But they called him up for two years
• 35:26
  of service.
• 35:27
  And he had military service in his job
• 35:31
  that he already had.
• 35:32
  You know what I mean?
• 35:34
  And so I'm not saying they're not professional.
• 35:36
  They have to go to a basic training
• 35:39
  sort of thing.
• 35:40
  But after that, it's more like a reserve
• 35:43
  sort of environment or a professional environment.
• 35:47
  And that's why, do you remember when?
• 35:49
  Well, I don't need to lecture on that.
• 35:51
  It is what it is.
• 35:53
  Let's get back to Colonel McGregor.
• 35:55
  I'll never get through all of my parts.
• 35:57
  We're about halfway through what I wanted you
• 35:59
  to hear about him.
• 36:01
  And the soldiers are being well-trained and
• 36:04
  they're being well-led.
• 36:05
  And Putin has gone to great lengths to
• 36:07
  try and ease the misery in the field,
• 36:09
  which is something, of course, that no one
• 36:11
  cared about, either in Tsarist or Soviet times.
• 36:15
  So the Russians are being cared for.
• 36:17
  Their return to duty rate, among those who
• 36:20
  are wounded, is very, very high, whereas it's
• 36:23
  almost non-existent with the Ukrainians.
• 36:26
  So we are closing in on the end.
• 36:28
  But I think he has decided that he's
• 36:30
  going to have to cross the river.
• 36:32
  Well, in fact, he has crossed the river.
• 36:34
  And by the way, the Ukrainians have abandoned
• 36:38
  the people who have abandoned.
• 36:40
  The desertion rate is well over 200,000
• 36:43
  people who have abandoned the people who have
• 36:46
  escaped while under.
• 36:49
  They are running for the gates.
• 36:52
  The Ukrainians are not into this.
• 36:54
  And to think that they are, you're sucking
• 36:57
  the wrong Kool-Aid popsicle there.
• 37:01
  You got you are not drinking the Kool
• 37:05
  -Aid.
• 37:05
  You are doing your share of damage to
• 37:08
  your own lips.
• 37:09
  Not good.
• 37:10
  Let's let's finish up with Colonel McGregor.
• 37:15
  Go into Kiev and then go down and
• 37:17
  take on Odessa.
• 37:18
  And I think he continues.
• 37:20
  I keep interrupting and I'm interrupting this time
• 37:23
  because I cocked it up the first time
• 37:25
  when I interrupted him the last time, because
• 37:27
  what he was saying was that they're going
• 37:28
  to have to cross the river.
• 37:30
  Russia's already crossed the river.
• 37:31
  You heard me say earlier that Russia crossed
• 37:33
  from Zaporizhia into Dnepropetrovsk and several couple of
• 37:38
  months ago, they had already crossed into the
• 37:40
  bottom parts, which there's a big reservoir down
• 37:42
  there that they're they're blocked up against.
• 37:45
  And that cuts off the area in between
• 37:47
  Nikolaev and Dnepropetrovsk.
• 37:51
  Right.
• 37:51
  And so what what people are saying and
• 37:55
  what I've said in the last, I don't
• 37:56
  know, few weeks is that I believe and
• 38:01
  remember that map that they showed of the
• 38:03
  of the high ranking general when he was
• 38:06
  getting interviewed, they showed a map that he
• 38:07
  didn't put away.
• 38:09
  And this map showed the shaded areas that
• 38:11
  were already taken as Russian territories.
• 38:14
  And then it also showed Nikolaev and Odessa,
• 38:17
  which are the two that connect over into
• 38:20
  Transnistria, which is in Moldova.
• 38:23
  And so those those places would connect all
• 38:26
  of those.
• 38:27
  And he's about to tell you that he
• 38:29
  thinks Putin may have to go all the
• 38:31
  way up into the border.
• 38:33
  Well, then the Dnieper River, which all the
• 38:36
  way up to Ukraine, is to hope because
• 38:38
  he's given up now on Trump.
• 38:40
  He knows that Trump is not going to
• 38:41
  come forward.
• 38:42
  Gave up on Trump.
• 38:43
  I think that's true.
• 38:45
  And negotiate in any sort of legitimate or
• 38:49
  reasonable manner.
• 38:50
  But I think he is hopeful that you
• 38:53
  will see a big turnover in the globalist
• 38:55
  elites that are currently ruling Europe, particularly that
• 38:58
  Macron will be gone, that Metz will be
• 39:01
  gone, and ultimately Starmer will go.
• 39:04
  And the new elites that will come forward
• 39:06
  to replace them will see the wisdom and
• 39:09
  actually the critical nature of ending and disengaging
• 39:14
  from this war because it's economically suicidal for
• 39:17
  Europe.
• 39:18
  I couldn't agree more.
• 39:21
  And that is why I wanted to play
• 39:23
  that for you and and and let him
• 39:26
  tell it in his own words instead of
• 39:28
  me paraphrasing it like some parrot, puppet, whatever,
• 39:32
  a marionette, whatever you wish to refer to
• 39:35
  me as.
• 39:35
  That'll be quite a bit of fun.
• 39:37
  I did a quick search of while I
• 39:40
  was writing because I still find it amusing.
• 39:42
  The term white Russian refers to a historical
• 39:46
  group during the Russian Civil War where the
• 39:48
  color white symbolized freedom and independence.
• 39:53
  The term white Russia is itself derived from
• 39:57
  Belarus, which translate into white Russia or right
• 40:00
  white Ruthenia and may have referred to the
• 40:04
  region that were less influenced by external forces
• 40:08
  such as Mongols.
• 40:09
  The use of white also reflects the culture
• 40:11
  and political identity of the group, particularly during
• 40:15
  the conflict between the Bolsheviks and the white
• 40:18
  army, which included monarchists and conservatives.
• 40:21
  So it doesn't mean Belarus.
• 40:25
  Okay.
• 40:26
  And so I think he's a little incorrect
• 40:28
  there, but it doesn't matter.
• 40:30
  It's still an interesting term.
• 40:32
  And maybe it's because that most of them
• 40:34
  ended up in the Minsk areas or the
• 40:37
  of what do you call it?
• 40:39
  Empire, Western portions of the empire and into
• 40:43
  Poland and Lithuania and places like that.
• 40:46
  Who knows?
• 40:47
  But anyway, I always find it amusing when
• 40:49
  people say that kind of thing.
• 40:53
  Let's keep on a truck in here.
• 40:56
  Where'd my stuff go?
• 40:59
  Okay.
• 41:00
  So remember him saying that Putin has already
• 41:06
  made the decision.
• 41:07
  I'm not so sure he already really has
• 41:10
  made the decision, but he may be headed
• 41:11
  over to Odessa.
• 41:14
  I still think that him taking Odessa and
• 41:17
  blocking Ukraine from the Black Sea is a
• 41:20
  big deal.
• 41:21
  I watched that video again.
• 41:23
  I reported to you about it a week
• 41:25
  ago, and I meant to follow up on
• 41:27
  it again.
• 41:27
  The largest ship, which is a reconnaissance ship,
• 41:32
  the biggest ship in the fleet was taken
• 41:36
  out by a Russian drone a couple of
• 41:40
  weeks ago.
• 41:41
  Not that long ago, like August 28, right
• 41:43
  before the end of the month.
• 41:44
  I was over there when it went down
• 41:47
  and I reported on it from over there
• 41:49
  and they sunk it.
• 41:51
  And so I think there's a fairly good
• 41:54
  possibility that Russia continues grinding.
• 41:58
  MacGregor seems to think that within the next
• 42:01
  two months, three months, that the total collapse
• 42:04
  is going to be coming in.
• 42:05
  There are a lot of people that also
• 42:06
  think that, especially with the downgrading and the
• 42:10
  misinformation.
• 42:15
  It's not Russian misinformation, disinformation.
• 42:18
  It's Ukrainian.
• 42:19
  And they are being seriously blocked everywhere.
• 42:25
  The typical truth tellers are being blocked and
• 42:28
  taken out.
• 42:31
  What's her name?
• 42:33
  Diane Penchenko.
• 42:35
  And now this guy, the mapper, Deep State,
• 42:39
  being taken out.
• 42:40
  And he has a pretty good Telegram channel.
• 42:43
  You can go and watch his mapping over
• 42:44
  the course of the part.
• 42:48
  So basically, the latest that I have is
• 42:52
  the Russian's Vostok, which means Eastern Group, broke
• 42:56
  through.
• 42:57
  The flags are raised near Sosnovka.
• 43:00
  The supply lines have been cut in a
• 43:03
  couple of places.
• 43:04
  Heavy clashes.
• 43:05
  Here's the one where Deep State showed a
• 43:07
  huge expansion of gray zones.
• 43:10
  And, but he keeps, they think he's being
• 43:15
  pressured.
• 43:16
  Everybody that talks about what Deep State's mapping
• 43:18
  says, says that they think he's being pressured
• 43:20
  to not tell the truth because there's no
• 43:23
  confirmation from any other source.
• 43:27
  And the Russian Department of Defense people are
• 43:31
  saying that, that this is not true.
• 43:34
  The Russians have broken along certain roads and
• 43:37
  Ukraine has to fall back to other cities
• 43:40
  back beyond.
• 43:42
  So what's happening is artillery prep and drones
• 43:45
  and Russia bombing the crap out of them.
• 43:48
  That part where they say some of the
• 43:49
  drones flew over into Poland and there were
• 43:51
  18 to 20 drones, something like that.
• 43:54
  That night, 800 drones, missiles flew into Ukraine.
• 44:01
  Russia is pounding the snot out of them
• 44:05
  on all fronts.
• 44:07
  And whatever is happening, the press is being
• 44:11
  suppressed.
• 44:15
  They are, bloggers are not being allowed to
• 44:18
  tell the truth.
• 44:19
  Mappers are being coerced.
• 44:22
  And that's what people are saying on the
• 44:26
  Eastern halves of this.
• 44:28
  And that's what McGregor is saying.
• 44:31
  And he has sources.
• 44:33
  My bet is that he's still reasonably connected
• 44:37
  to people who know things.
• 44:40
  You know, me, I was, I was a
• 44:42
  lowly sergeant interpreter in the military.
• 44:44
  Had a cool job, but you know, I
• 44:46
  don't have any contacts, people that are going
• 44:49
  to tell me stuff.
• 44:50
  He does, most likely.
• 44:53
  So the fact, and he's, you know, he's
• 44:56
  been in the game forever.
• 44:58
  And so he, I would tend to believe
• 45:02
  the things that he's putting out.
• 45:04
  Now there's some other idiots, that general Keene,
• 45:07
  whatever, that guy hasn't said the truth ever.
• 45:11
  And you know, there is Zippo in the
• 45:15
  truth from that guy about, Oh geez, Ukraine's
• 45:18
  winning.
• 45:19
  Oh yeah.
• 45:20
  They're winning.
• 45:21
  All right.
• 45:21
  1.8 million dead.
• 45:23
  And I don't mean to laugh about it.
• 45:25
  It's a, it's not laughable.
• 45:26
  What is laughable is what we call experts
• 45:30
  over here.
• 45:31
  It's pretty sad that I know more than
• 45:33
  the command in general staff of the, of
• 45:37
  the level of a, of a general Keene.
• 45:40
  Nonsense.
• 45:42
  So Zaporizhia, I believe is going to be
• 45:44
  gone into, I want to tell you a
• 45:45
  little bit about the Su-27 lost over
• 45:48
  Zaporizhia.
• 45:50
  Ukrainian air force confirmed that this plane went
• 45:53
  down on September 11th in Zaporizhia.
• 45:56
  39th brigade named the pilot is Mr. Major
• 45:59
  Alexander Borovik, was killed in action.
• 46:03
  Cause was not specified.
• 46:06
  The Kiev side, that it crashed during a
• 46:09
  combat mission.
• 46:10
  The inquiry is it complete, was incomplete and
• 46:13
  no causes given.
• 46:14
  But the Russians are saying they have frequent
• 46:17
  MOD bulletin said that it was the Su
• 46:20
  -27 was shot down.
• 46:22
  They have video packages that have circulated around
• 46:25
  and specific to this incident, Russian channels, aggregators
• 46:30
  assert an air defense kill.
• 46:34
  A place called, military, military deal, military business,
• 46:41
  basically.
• 46:43
  Ukrainian Su-25 shot down in Zaporizhia.
• 46:48
  And so with the wreckage of the Ukrainian
• 46:51
  held ground, you know, they can't get to
• 46:53
  the wreckage and the pilot is, is known
• 46:56
  to be dead.
• 46:57
  Kiev's unknown cause line is, you know, questionable.
• 47:02
  Uh, but McGregor, uh, points to the broader,
• 47:05
  uh, broader themes.
• 47:08
  Airframes are coming in and are getting destroyed,
• 47:10
  you know, under Russian, um, air defense umbrellas
• 47:15
  and Russia is, is playing the long game.
• 47:17
  It's the annihilation of Ukrainian forces, according to
• 47:22
  him.
• 47:22
  And he's saying they're, they're just going to
• 47:25
  liquidate them now.
• 47:26
  And they're, they're doing it because of this.
• 47:28
  Uh, they, they have lost faith in Trump.
• 47:32
  I tend to agree on that.
• 47:34
  Remember me lamenting that, uh, after, uh, whatever
• 47:38
  it was, there was going to be, Oh,
• 47:40
  geez, let's have a meeting between, uh, uh,
• 47:43
  Zelensky and Putin later.
• 47:45
  And all that's happened in the, uh, NATO
• 47:47
  side minus Trump is, uh, any effort to
• 47:52
  derail that or to blame it on, uh,
• 47:56
  Putin.
• 47:57
  And, uh, you know, that there was such
• 48:00
  a grand opportunity squandered again, that, that just
• 48:04
  seems to be our, uh, lot in life.
• 48:08
  Uh, let's see, let's talk about these Poland
• 48:10
  drones, article four and Alexey Aristovich, uh, what
• 48:15
  he likes to call systemic pressure.
• 48:17
  Okay.
• 48:17
  Uh, Poland says that 19 Russian drones cost
• 48:22
  into its airspace on the overnight of September
• 48:25
  10th and 11 NATO jets shot some of
• 48:29
  them down.
• 48:30
  Warsaw requested article four, like I told you
• 48:33
  about last night consultation, but not article five
• 48:38
  mutual defense, multiple defense desks ran live coverage.
• 48:43
  Uh, NATO secretary general Ruda says numerous drones
• 48:46
  from Russia violated Polish airspace.
• 48:49
  Our air defenses were activated.
• 48:52
  That was NATO bulletin Reuters, AP Washington post
• 48:56
  guardian, uh, gave timeline and numbers.
• 48:59
  And they agree that Poland closed their own
• 49:02
  air spaces.
• 49:03
  They banned other drones and then they held
• 49:05
  UN consultations.
• 49:08
  And I tend to think that this, of
• 49:12
  course, uh, is if, if Russia is doing
• 49:16
  this, which I, I believe, you know, I
• 49:18
  believe it is Russia didn't deny it.
• 49:19
  So, so I believe that they, uh, uh,
• 49:22
  whatever it was, whether it was, they did
• 49:25
  say something, Maria Zakharova said something about, uh,
• 49:28
  intent, you know, they, whether it was intentional
• 49:31
  or not that they crossed, um, everyone notes
• 49:37
  as, as do I, that Ukraine is always
• 49:40
  bombing into the, um, into the Russian, uh,
• 49:45
  deep into Russia, into where supply lines are,
• 49:48
  into where oil reserves are, into where military,
• 49:52
  certain military units are located that, uh, or
• 49:55
  their home location when they're not at war
• 49:58
  in Ukraine are being targeted.
• 50:01
  And then they're sending drones over there.
• 50:03
  Well, I'm not saying I justify it, but
• 50:06
  like Matt said last night, where do you
• 50:07
  stop?
• 50:08
  Where do you draw the line?
• 50:09
  Where do these things go?
• 50:11
  And you know, it is war.
• 50:13
  I, I'm not saying I agree.
• 50:14
  I don't, I, you know, I don't think
• 50:16
  Poland should be included.
• 50:17
  Just like I was saying about, uh, uh,
• 50:19
  Israel bombing the crap out of people in
• 50:22
  Qatar who has nothing to do with any
• 50:24
  of it, you know, and you know, and
• 50:26
  blatant, who's, how can we condemn Russia?
• 50:31
  Let's say they did it intentionally that, oh
• 50:34
  geez.
• 50:34
  Well, you know what we're doing?
• 50:35
  Yes, we are.
• 50:36
  We're bombing places in Poland that are supplying,
• 50:39
  uh, military things to, uh, Ukraine.
• 50:43
  Sorry.
• 50:44
  That's a, uh, a legitimate target for us.
• 50:47
  It's in Poland.
• 50:48
  You're, you're, you're accumulating stuff, passing it off
• 50:51
  to Ukraine.
• 50:51
  We say it's a, I think that's wrong.
• 50:54
  I don't, I just like, I think it's
• 50:55
  wrong for Ukraine to bomb deep inside of
• 50:58
  Russia in civilian territory where there's no war
• 51:01
  going on.
• 51:01
  Just like, I think it's wrong for Netanyahu
• 51:04
  to bomb a housing establishment, even if they
• 51:08
  think they've identified where the big bad wolf
• 51:10
  is in there.
• 51:11
  They didn't.
• 51:12
  They have now acknowledged that he got away
• 51:14
  and they're lamenting over that.
• 51:17
  So, uh, I, you know, but remember this
• 51:21
  also happened during the last set of, uh,
• 51:25
  whatever this, uh, war exercise is called, um,
• 51:28
  happened last year.
• 51:30
  So it's still going to go on.
• 51:32
  Um, Moscow downplays it.
• 51:34
  Peskov calls rhetoric from the West, nothing new.
• 51:38
  He said the military, uh, departments in Russia
• 51:42
  have already addressed any problems.
• 51:45
  RT, Russia Today packages say that, uh, Poland's
• 51:48
  claims and NATO's messaging, uh, you know, are
• 51:53
  all out there, but say that Moscow denies,
• 51:57
  not that the 19 went over, but they
• 51:59
  intentionally went over with the intent to, you
• 52:02
  know, to bomb something.
• 52:03
  Well, I find that hard to believe too,
• 52:06
  frankly, since it's 19 of them.
• 52:09
  How do you miss target 19 by going
• 52:12
  in?
• 52:12
  I think it might've been a, uh, tit
• 52:15
  for tat kind of thing.
• 52:16
  I, that I would believe, you know, with
• 52:19
  some of the things that they're talking about,
• 52:21
  but man, meanwhile, Belarus, it could have had
• 52:23
  something to do with that.
• 52:25
  Belarus me, meanwhile, uh, having this, uh, meeting
• 52:31
  with the, uh, uh, Trump's envoys we talked
• 52:36
  about earlier.
• 52:36
  I don't know.
• 52:37
  I think it's all connected.
• 52:39
  And, uh, I don't know exactly what happened
• 52:42
  in there, but there are plenty of definite
• 52:44
  or reasons for what they're doing.
• 52:46
  And one of them, which I was thinking
• 52:49
  about with our Aristovich and some of the
• 52:51
  things he said, which I'm going to get
• 52:52
  to in a minute is that remember we
• 52:57
  need from, we, I don't mean the, we
• 53:01
  part NATO needs Ukraine needs.
• 53:03
  They'll use Zelensky definitely needs to up the
• 53:08
  ante in this war.
• 53:10
  So if they can send over, uh, you
• 53:14
  know, as I told you last night, if
• 53:15
  they can send over drones into Poland, false
• 53:20
  flag sort of things, I'm not saying that
• 53:23
  that's necessarily, and there've been a few people
• 53:26
  to talk about that, but no real, no
• 53:28
  real proof of it.
• 53:30
  So, uh, Aristovich said, this is larger than
• 53:33
  any exercise.
• 53:35
  It's a strategic gesture.
• 53:37
  He's talking about the, uh, the games or
• 53:41
  the war games that they're playing and, uh,
• 53:44
  and including these drones and Russia bombing back,
• 53:47
  um, said Aristovich about the drones.
• 53:51
  And he said, uh, if raids of 200
• 53:54
  to 300, and this is Aristovich who's pro
• 53:58
  highly pro Ukraine saying that if 200 to
• 54:02
  300 Shaheed drones come regularly in like every
• 54:08
  day, which they have been for the last
• 54:10
  couple of months into Kiev and into any
• 54:13
  all over Ukraine last night, it was 800.
• 54:17
  And if they're, and they say they have
• 54:19
  the ability to do two to 300 a
• 54:21
  day easily and Aristovich's comment when he was
• 54:24
  being interviewed by this, uh, by this blogger,
• 54:28
  he said, uh, if, if two to 300
• 54:31
  Shaheeds come on a regular basis, every night,
• 54:33
  uh, NATO ends this.
• 54:36
  NATO will not have the ability themselves to
• 54:40
  end this in three months.
• 54:42
  You know, now that's him making provocations to
• 54:46
  kind of get NATO, you know, he wants,
• 54:49
  he would like it to come up.
• 54:50
  He says that, uh, uh, because he also
• 54:53
  says that NATO is prepared for an expensive
• 54:57
  boutique style, continuing the war long and massive
• 55:02
  war.
• 55:03
  And I don't know how it can be
• 55:05
  long and massive if it's still a boutique
• 55:07
  war, but the systemic pressure, um, what he's
• 55:11
  talking about, that does matter.
• 55:13
  Western outlets are arguing whether these incursions were
• 55:17
  a test by the Russians, the East sees
• 55:20
  the habit of, uh, uh, you know, forcing
• 55:25
  people to use multimillion dollar air defense systems.
• 55:31
  What if it's, what if, what if Russia
• 55:34
  sends over just like they're doing all of
• 55:36
  Ukraine, remember the, the, the best that we
• 55:40
  have is the Patriot.
• 55:43
  Okay.
• 55:43
  And these Patriots, everybody wants them, but nobody
• 55:46
  has them.
• 55:47
  We've been talking about that too.
• 55:49
  So Restovich is saying if they sent over
• 55:52
  two to 300 into Poland and into Kiev,
• 55:56
  and they keep doing it, even if they
• 55:58
  don't go to Poland and they only did
• 56:00
  it in the Western and, and, and everybody
• 56:02
  had to keep supplying all their Patriots and
• 56:04
  all their missiles into Ukraine, then NATO would
• 56:08
  be done and would not have any defense
• 56:10
  in three months.
• 56:12
  Now that I believe because Russia is pumping
• 56:15
  the crap out of these Shaheed drones and
• 56:18
  out of their regular drones.
• 56:19
  And remember at least a third of the,
• 56:21
  or two thirds of these are drone decoys.
• 56:25
  They're real, but they contain no warheads.
• 56:28
  So you're sending up a million or a
• 56:30
  $2 million warhead defense system for the Patriot,
• 56:34
  which was designed to go after big missiles.
• 56:39
  And they, you know, so they're sending, let's
• 56:41
  say they send 20 missiles a night, you
• 56:44
  know, these ICBMs, they send those in.
• 56:47
  And in meantime, they send 800, like they
• 56:50
  did 800 drones.
• 56:53
  How many Patriots arm and go and how
• 56:57
  quick do these things go?
• 57:00
  And how expensive does it get when a
• 57:02
  $5,000 drone is taken out a 1
• 57:06
  .2 or 1.4, whatever the amount was
• 57:08
  air defense system and not the system, but
• 57:11
  the counter measure that is shot off by
• 57:18
  the system.
• 57:19
  And then they've lost a hell of a
• 57:20
  large number of these Patriot systems anyway.
• 57:24
  So this systemic pressure on the Western systems,
• 57:27
  it's a big deal.
• 57:29
  And even if it was a test to
• 57:31
  go into Poland, it could mean a lot.
• 57:34
  So the jets were scrambled.
• 57:36
  We know that weapons were used.
• 57:38
  We know that operations are underway to locate
• 57:41
  the downed drones.
• 57:44
  This is the Polish talking about that Poland
• 57:47
  drone, banned drone flights, limit small aircraft along
• 57:51
  their Eastern border.
• 57:52
  So we shall see.
• 57:55
  Now you heard when McGregor was talking a
• 57:59
  little bit ago, and I played that clip
• 58:01
  for him that his argument that Putin has
• 58:06
  given up on Trump and me basically agreeing
• 58:10
  with that.
• 58:14
  I suppose the articulation that came from McGregor,
• 58:19
  because here's what he said.
• 58:21
  Putin continues to hope that Europe turns over,
• 58:26
  but he has given up now on Trump.
• 58:30
  They're not going to, the West is not
• 58:34
  going to negotiate in any reasonable manner.
• 58:37
  That's to quote from McGregor.
• 58:39
  And he welds that into a casualty and
• 58:42
  structural comment.
• 58:44
  Ukrainians have lost 1.8 million killed.
• 58:48
  The Ukrainian military is disintegrating.
• 58:52
  The Russians are behaving like a vacuum cleaner.
• 58:55
  They're annihilating Ukrainian forces.
• 58:58
  They have called up the Russians, another 150
• 59:02
  ,000, and they have plenty of volunteers.
• 59:05
  And I definitely agree with that, that more
• 59:10
  men, not a problem for Russia, a huge
• 59:14
  nightmare for Ukraine.
• 59:16
  And Seirsky is, I believe, lying his ass
• 59:20
  off.
• 59:21
  He's just telling Zelensky what he wants to
• 59:24
  hear, so he isn't the next, what's his
• 59:27
  name, Zeluzhny.
• 59:30
  Gone off to the other side.
• 59:34
  So publicly, the Kremlin says the usual thing,
• 59:38
  we'll work with whoever, meaning Trump.
• 59:42
  But the war, I've been pretty steady on
• 59:47
  this, as have they.
• 59:49
  I've been steadily repeating exactly what Peskov, Zakharova,
• 59:57
  Putin, and Lavrov have been saying.
• 1:00:00
  They've all been incredibly consistent.
• 1:00:04
  Meanwhile, we have a bunch of drama queens
• 1:00:07
  in NATO and in the West.
• 1:00:10
  And Zelensky, Jesus, that's the biggest drama queen
• 1:00:12
  of them all.
• 1:00:13
  No, I'd have to say that What's-Her
• 1:00:15
  -Name is Kaya Kallis, with a close second
• 1:00:20
  by von Butterlein, that they're all nuts over
• 1:00:22
  there.
• 1:00:23
  But let's see, Washington just did this micro
• 1:00:26
  deal with Minsk.
• 1:00:28
  Congressional hawks are trying to reboot more sanctions
• 1:00:32
  packages.
• 1:00:33
  I think they all know that Ukraine is
• 1:00:36
  lost.
• 1:00:37
  And they're trying to get these last-ditch
• 1:00:39
  efforts to, I don't know what, to create
• 1:00:44
  something new.
• 1:00:45
  But if you believe McGregor, like I do,
• 1:00:50
  90% of what he says, I completely
• 1:00:55
  agree with.
• 1:00:57
  And he may have access, obviously, he does
• 1:01:00
  have access to more information than I do.
• 1:01:03
  But I am up further than him on
• 1:01:06
  the Russian side and listening to what people
• 1:01:09
  say.
• 1:01:11
  Again, this no shortage of manpower, shoulders are
• 1:01:14
  well trained, soldiers are well trained and led,
• 1:01:17
  and that Putin is very secure.
• 1:01:20
  All of those are very true statements.
• 1:01:23
  And in the West, they're all claiming that,
• 1:01:26
  oh, geez, Putin, everybody hates him, they're going
• 1:01:28
  to take him out.
• 1:01:29
  Oh, really?
• 1:01:30
  They haven't so far.
• 1:01:31
  And you weren't around in the 90s, if
• 1:01:34
  you believe that.
• 1:01:35
  He led them like Moses led Israel to
• 1:01:41
  the promised land.
• 1:01:43
  I'm telling you, there are people who are
• 1:01:47
  not necessarily the biggest of fans, but he
• 1:01:51
  is extremely well spoken.
• 1:01:53
  He speaks it like he believes it.
• 1:01:57
  And they believe him for it.
• 1:01:59
  With him, you can choose to not believe
• 1:02:03
  him if you like, to your own detriment.
• 1:02:07
  You know how you can believe that somebody
• 1:02:10
  is telling the truth?
• 1:02:12
  They say the same thing all the time.
• 1:02:15
  Liars can't keep track of their stories.
• 1:02:16
  That's why you get a different story all
• 1:02:18
  the time from NATO and in the West.
• 1:02:20
  And they change their mind like people change
• 1:02:22
  their underwear.
• 1:02:23
  It's nonsense.
• 1:02:24
  Not so in Russia with the highest ups
• 1:02:27
  in the place.
• 1:02:30
  Let's talk about a little bit more that
• 1:02:32
  came out of this interview between Arestovich and
• 1:02:35
  Latynina.
• 1:02:36
  That was interesting in Russian.
• 1:02:38
  You'd have to read it.
• 1:02:39
  It was almost two hours long.
• 1:02:42
  And I like listening, but he's hard to
• 1:02:44
  listen to.
• 1:02:45
  He mumbles a lot.
• 1:02:46
  He doesn't open his mouth.
• 1:02:48
  He's got the classic mealy mouth with some
• 1:02:51
  of the Russians.
• 1:02:52
  There's a couple of them.
• 1:02:54
  Well, it doesn't matter.
• 1:02:55
  I don't want to get into linguistics with
• 1:02:57
  you on it, but it's always interesting.
• 1:02:59
  And some of them I just have a
• 1:03:00
  hard time listening to for that long.
• 1:03:02
  But he's an important figure because you can
• 1:03:05
  get a sort of a middle-of-the
• 1:03:07
  -road approach from this Arestovich guy because he's
• 1:03:10
  very pro-Ukraine, but he isn't saying, you
• 1:03:13
  know, Slav-Ukraine death to everybody else.
• 1:03:18
  He's not doing that.
• 1:03:21
  He's trying to figure out or to...
• 1:03:26
  He's critical of both sides.
• 1:03:28
  Let's put it that way.
• 1:03:29
  So he opened up with this cutting against
• 1:03:34
  both sides propaganda.
• 1:03:36
  Three things that I can tell you.
• 1:03:38
  Number one, Russia's weakness is symbolic capital.
• 1:03:43
  It does what it does, but at least
• 1:03:46
  it has a position.
• 1:03:48
  I find that quite interesting.
• 1:03:51
  And that was on capital and Russia's messaging,
• 1:03:55
  you know, what they do.
• 1:03:56
  There's a little gap between there.
• 1:03:58
  On continuous pressure, the main thing Russia has
• 1:04:03
  is the ability to carry out continuous pressure
• 1:04:09
  for years.
• 1:04:12
  And that is absolutely true.
• 1:04:15
  They are in no dire straits of any
• 1:04:20
  kind.
• 1:04:21
  And if you believe that in the West,
• 1:04:24
  you're just wrong.
• 1:04:26
  And you're not an expert.
• 1:04:28
  Listen to guys like McGregor.
• 1:04:30
  Hell, listen to Arestovich.
• 1:04:32
  This guy I'll tell you that, well, at
• 1:04:34
  least middle of the road, you know, but
• 1:04:36
  he still, he still leans heavy Ukraine.
• 1:04:40
  On post-war structure, his own hypothetical, I
• 1:04:44
  found this pretty interesting.
• 1:04:46
  He thinks that there should be some kind
• 1:04:49
  of a mutual neutrality, a collective security system
• 1:04:55
  in Eastern Europe, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia.
• 1:05:01
  He even throws hard provocation on mass Shaheed
• 1:05:04
  raid versus NATO.
• 1:05:06
  You heard it.
• 1:05:07
  And then, you know, the two to 300,
• 1:05:09
  he said the West will reprioritize protecting itself.
• 1:05:14
  If Russia does that, that is extremely interesting.
• 1:05:19
  And that would mean a reduction in Ukraine
• 1:05:21
  aid because if Russia did a sustained bombardment
• 1:05:25
  of drones, even drones without warheads, think about
• 1:05:31
  this from a strategic point of view.
• 1:05:33
  Let's say Russia wants to end the war.
• 1:05:36
  Okay.
• 1:05:36
  And so as Russia makes a command decision
• 1:05:39
  and goes, all right, here's what we're going
• 1:05:41
  to do.
• 1:05:41
  We manufacture enough to have in reserves at
• 1:05:46
  any given time, like two years worth of
• 1:05:49
  Shaheed drones.
• 1:05:50
  And we can send over there easily daily
• 1:05:55
  five to 800 Shaheed drones and several missiles.
• 1:05:59
  What if instead of doing it into Ukraine,
• 1:06:02
  they did it into Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia,
• 1:06:08
  the pre-Baltic or Finland who gives a
• 1:06:10
  crap, but put them into any of them.
• 1:06:12
  The other part is though they shouldn't do
• 1:06:15
  Finland because Finland isn't a former Soviet Republic
• 1:06:18
  or a former Warsaw Pact country.
• 1:06:21
  But if they did it into the others
• 1:06:22
  and everybody had to send up their, think
• 1:06:26
  about this, this is what a Restovich was
• 1:06:27
  saying, that if they did that and the
• 1:06:30
  patriots are in as short supply as they
• 1:06:32
  say in the air defense is as crappy
• 1:06:34
  as it is, which it really is, or
• 1:06:36
  Ukraine would be defending themselves and they can't,
• 1:06:39
  they're getting the crap bombed out of them
• 1:06:41
  everywhere.
• 1:06:43
  And so if they send over two to
• 1:06:45
  300 a night and it's costing the West,
• 1:06:48
  the NATO, millions daily in coming up with
• 1:06:55
  patriots, and the West has already said that
• 1:06:57
  they can't supply the, what was it, seven
• 1:06:59
  patriots?
• 1:07:00
  It would take them a year and a
• 1:07:01
  half or something like that to supply them
• 1:07:04
  with some crazy number.
• 1:07:06
  And then supplying enough of the anti-drone
• 1:07:10
  or the anti-ICBM missiles or whatever, anti
• 1:07:14
  -rocket missiles that they have to use to
• 1:07:17
  shoot out of the patriots, even if they're
• 1:07:20
  accurate, you know, with assuming no laws, if
• 1:07:24
  they did that for a sustained period of
• 1:07:26
  time, the war would be done in two
• 1:07:27
  to three months.
• 1:07:28
  That's what a Restovich said in a nutshell.
• 1:07:32
  And that's, you know, that's a Ukrainian saying
• 1:07:38
  that, okay, well, you know, if I was
• 1:07:40
  Russia, you know what I'd do?
• 1:07:41
  I'd do this.
• 1:07:42
  And if they did, this war would be
• 1:07:44
  over in three months.
• 1:07:45
  Boom.
• 1:07:45
  And he ain't even talking about anything having
• 1:07:47
  to do with Ukraine.
• 1:07:48
  He's saying, yeah, okay, well, if they wanted
• 1:07:51
  to bomb into Poland, the US, the NATO
• 1:07:53
  couldn't do anything about it.
• 1:07:55
  Talk about that as an admission from a
• 1:07:57
  Ukrainian.
• 1:08:00
  Anyway, let's talk about these flights again into
• 1:08:03
  Belarus.
• 1:08:04
  Did the US really remove the sanctions on
• 1:08:07
  Belarus wholesale?
• 1:08:08
  No, they haven't.
• 1:08:09
  The little bit of a narrower transaction, this
• 1:08:14
  just came out a little bit ago.
• 1:08:16
  And can Bolivia now fly Minsk to US
• 1:08:19
  commercial routes?
• 1:08:20
  That's probably impossible because of the way they
• 1:08:23
  have to go around the order.
• 1:08:26
  And so I doubt that.
• 1:08:28
  Now, I thought there was something, and I
• 1:08:30
  wanted to include this, and then I'm going
• 1:08:32
  to try to get to some later news.
• 1:08:39
  Restovich, again, he opened with a cynical, cynical
• 1:08:43
  amount about what happened with Charlie Kirk.
• 1:08:48
  So the host or the lady that was
• 1:08:50
  interviewing him talked about Western reactions to Charlie
• 1:08:56
  Kirk and to the Ukrainian girl that was
• 1:09:01
  killed on the subway, which we, of course,
• 1:09:05
  even me, I've been talking about him the
• 1:09:07
  last couple of nights from the point of
• 1:09:08
  view of of evil and nonsensical politics of
• 1:09:17
  whatever the hell we got going on in
• 1:09:20
  the United States at present.
• 1:09:22
  Well, he said something fairly cynical about this
• 1:09:26
  as well.
• 1:09:28
  And his quote was, he talked about PR,
• 1:09:35
  morality and the timing of these things like
• 1:09:39
  they were somehow planned.
• 1:09:42
  And in his words, if you want to
• 1:09:44
  take a moral advantage, you say it plainly
• 1:09:49
  and you own the consequences.
• 1:09:52
  And then he fires at both sides.
• 1:09:55
  Apologies and compensation is the line he says
• 1:09:59
  Russia should eventually master to convert battlefield winds
• 1:10:05
  into its own capital.
• 1:10:09
  You know, he was cynical about what he
• 1:10:11
  said about both sides.
• 1:10:14
  He was cynical about the left and the
• 1:10:17
  right when they were talking about this black
• 1:10:21
  guy killing the Ukrainian girl on the train.
• 1:10:24
  The quote that he said that I recall
• 1:10:28
  was saying it's like a railroad and the
• 1:10:35
  only solid place to be on the railroad
• 1:10:38
  is in the middle of the rails.
• 1:10:41
  You don't want to be the ones off
• 1:10:44
  on the far right or on the far
• 1:10:46
  left of the rails because that's where the
• 1:10:49
  danger is.
• 1:10:50
  And I found that to be a pretty
• 1:10:53
  appropriate comment on what he was saying about
• 1:10:57
  both the left and the right, particularly in
• 1:11:00
  the United States.
• 1:11:01
  Basically saying he didn't believe either one of
• 1:11:04
  them or he thought they're all nuts on
• 1:11:07
  both sides.
• 1:11:08
  You know, that people are using the events
• 1:11:10
  of these horrific stories to stretch the narrative
• 1:11:15
  on both sides of the equation.
• 1:11:18
  So what to watch if there were some
• 1:11:23
  things to keep track of in the next
• 1:11:25
  week or so.
• 1:11:27
  Keep track of what happens with these Zapad,
• 1:11:31
  you know, starting probably right now, in fact,
• 1:11:35
  because the morning is coming on the morning
• 1:11:38
  of the 12th for the Zapad 2025 deals
• 1:11:43
  and see what provocations the West takes approaching
• 1:11:49
  the borders to Belarus through Poland or through
• 1:11:54
  Latvia, Lithuania.
• 1:11:56
  Last year they did a little bit in
• 1:11:57
  Finland, was it?
• 1:11:59
  Close to the Russian border because it's a
• 1:12:02
  regional NATO war games.
• 1:12:06
  And, you know, they've already talked about Article
• 1:12:09
  4 and these consent and consultation that they
• 1:12:13
  are doing regarding these missiles that came out.
• 1:12:17
  And so keep an eye on that.
• 1:12:20
  There was a lot of talk about this
• 1:12:21
  from the Russian side last year when they
• 1:12:24
  had Zapad 2024 war games going on.
• 1:12:31
  This Belavia, keep an eye on that and
• 1:12:35
  see what happens if there were some schedules
• 1:12:37
  that appear.
• 1:12:39
  You'd hear at first, you know, if they
• 1:12:45
  actually were allowed to fly over NATO, I
• 1:12:48
  don't think that's going to it's going to
• 1:12:50
  change very much on them because the U
• 1:12:53
  .S. only and maybe it was a horse
• 1:12:56
  trading, you know, we'll let you get some
• 1:12:59
  aircraft parts and we'll let you fly, you
• 1:13:02
  know, to Turkey, you know, which they could
• 1:13:05
  anyway, but we'll we'll let you.
• 1:13:08
  Belavia can come to the U.S. through
• 1:13:11
  Turkey or through whatever, but they can't come
• 1:13:13
  through Europe anyway.
• 1:13:14
  So probably just some horse trading, but keep
• 1:13:17
  an eye on that over the next week
• 1:13:18
  or so and see if there's anything else.
• 1:13:20
  Also, keep track of what I keep track
• 1:13:24
  of and I will do it for you.
• 1:13:27
  In fact, Pokrovsk is important and it looks
• 1:13:32
  like there's already a huge amount of artillery
• 1:13:36
  prep in their infantry wedging in throughout.
• 1:13:40
  It's basically surrounded on three and a half
• 1:13:43
  sides, you know, coming around there and the
• 1:13:47
  retreating ones are being forced back.
• 1:13:50
  Retreating Ukrainians are being forced back in and
• 1:13:54
  Russia is slaughtering them, I believe.
• 1:13:59
  So Seversk, look for that one too.
• 1:14:02
  And Ukraine is bleeding to try to hold
• 1:14:06
  the lines and they are taking massive casualties
• 1:14:13
  according to McGregor and according to any truthful
• 1:14:20
  source.
• 1:14:23
  And right now, all of the ones that
• 1:14:25
  have been truthful are saying that this deep
• 1:14:29
  state guy cannot tell the truth, which that
• 1:14:31
  actually happened last year too around the same
• 1:14:35
  time.
• 1:14:36
  And winter's coming.
• 1:14:37
  It's going to get cold over there far
• 1:14:39
  quicker than it's going to over here.
• 1:14:41
  And Russia's going to slog it out and
• 1:14:45
  the Ukrainians have no possibilities of maintaining heat
• 1:14:53
  easily.
• 1:14:56
  And they've made enemies in the West with
• 1:14:59
  people that are supposed to provide electricity and
• 1:15:03
  cheap gas is no longer cheap because they
• 1:15:08
  have to get it from other sources and
• 1:15:10
  they can't siphon off their freebies from Russia.
• 1:15:13
  Winter is going to be a big deal.
• 1:15:17
  And with what with McGregor saying that Russia
• 1:15:22
  can do this and Erastovich saying that Russia
• 1:15:26
  can keep this up for years, which I
• 1:15:28
  happen to agree, it's going to be a
• 1:15:32
  rough winter for those boys and girls.
• 1:15:35
  So keep an eye on all of that.
• 1:15:38
  McGregor says we're closing in on the end.
• 1:15:42
  Not so positive.
• 1:15:43
  I agree with that.
• 1:15:45
  But we shall see.
• 1:15:51
  We shall definitely see.
• 1:15:54
  There's some other cool articles that came out,
• 1:15:58
  but I think, you know, there are certainly
• 1:16:03
  interesting things we need to keep track of.
• 1:16:05
  Remember the guy I told you about last
• 1:16:07
  night?
• 1:16:10
  The Epstein love letters or whatever sent from
• 1:16:14
  this envoy to the US that sent these
• 1:16:18
  love letters to Epstein.
• 1:16:20
  Britain kicked him out of office.
• 1:16:24
  He's done.
• 1:16:26
  And so let's read a little bit about
• 1:16:28
  that because it's comical.
• 1:16:30
  The emergence of the birthday love letter and
• 1:16:33
  additional emails to Jeffrey Epstein has prompted Peter
• 1:16:37
  Mandelson's downfall.
• 1:16:40
  The UK has withdrawn Lord Mandelson as its
• 1:16:45
  ambassador to the US.
• 1:16:48
  After reviewing the newly surfaced emails about his
• 1:16:52
  relationship with the late financier and sex offender,
• 1:16:56
  Jeffrey Epstein said the foreign office in the
• 1:17:00
  emails circulated by British media.
• 1:17:02
  Wednesday, Mandelson voiced his strong support for Epstein
• 1:17:07
  after he was indicted by grand jury over
• 1:17:10
  sex, assuring the disgraced financier that his friends
• 1:17:15
  stay with you and love you.
• 1:17:18
  The email showed that the depth and extent
• 1:17:21
  of Mandelson's relationship with Epstein is materially different
• 1:17:27
  from that known at the time of his
• 1:17:29
  appointment, said the foreign office, and said that
• 1:17:33
  this Mendelson's suggestion that Epstein's first conviction was
• 1:17:38
  wrongful and should be challenged is new information.
• 1:17:43
  The publication of these emails dealt the final
• 1:17:47
  blow to Mandelson, who had already been struggling
• 1:17:50
  with the fallout from Epstein's 50th birthday book
• 1:17:55
  scandal.
• 1:17:56
  The massive bound tome was compiled by Epstein's
• 1:18:00
  associate Maxwell, well, Grazine Maswell, and contains messages
• 1:18:04
  from his acquaintances and friends, including a 10
• 1:18:08
  -page letter that I told you about from
• 1:18:11
  the former British ambassador.
• 1:18:16
  Oh, I can't stand it.
• 1:18:18
  It's terrible stuff.
• 1:18:23
  I think JR might have said something about
• 1:18:26
  this on his show, but it's about the
• 1:18:34
  Charlie Kirk murder.
• 1:18:38
  He had claimed he received death threats on
• 1:18:42
  a daily basis for speaking out on issues
• 1:18:45
  including Washington's funding of Ukraine.
• 1:18:49
  At least one assassination threat from a Ukrainian
• 1:18:52
  spokesperson could have targeted him personally, he said,
• 1:18:57
  reportedly.
• 1:18:59
  In 2023, Kyiv Center for Countering Disinformation, remember
• 1:19:04
  that, I told you about that, Mir Tvorets
• 1:19:09
  list, accused Kirk of spreading Russian propaganda.
• 1:19:14
  The following year, the Ukrainian media outlet placed
• 1:19:18
  Kirk and TPUSA on a blacklist of 386
• 1:19:24
  individuals and 76 organizations in the U.S.
• 1:19:30
  that oppose funding for Ukraine.
• 1:19:33
  Sarah Ashton Cirillo, a U.S. transgender woman
• 1:19:37
  and ex-head of the Ukrainian territorial defense
• 1:19:41
  English language propaganda, vowed to hunt down those
• 1:19:47
  she called Kremlin propagandists and added that a
• 1:19:53
  strike against an individual favored by Russian President
• 1:19:57
  Putin was imminent.
• 1:20:01
  Are they going to murder or try to
• 1:20:03
  murder Steve Bannon or Tucker Carlson or myself,
• 1:20:07
  said Kirk in response, referencing conservative American media
• 1:20:11
  and personalities.
• 1:20:12
  None of us are Putin puppets or Russian
• 1:20:16
  propagandists, but the New York Times calls us
• 1:20:20
  that.
• 1:20:21
  Twitter calls us that, said Kirk on his
• 1:20:24
  show.
• 1:20:24
  And that person, the lady who said it,
• 1:20:28
  who is funded by the U.S. Treasury,
• 1:20:31
  says we're going to come and murder you.
• 1:20:34
  Whether the U.S. government was paying Ashton
• 1:20:37
  Cirillo became a point of public debate in
• 1:20:40
  the country after her statement went viral.
• 1:20:44
  She was swiftly removed from Ukrainian forces.
• 1:20:49
  Kirk has remained a persistent critic of Zelensky,
• 1:20:53
  who he labels as ungrateful, a petulant child,
• 1:20:58
  a go-go dancer, an undeserving of a
• 1:21:02
  single U.S. tax dollar, and a puppet
• 1:21:05
  of the CIA who marches his own people
• 1:21:09
  into needless slaughter.
• 1:21:12
  So was he for that?
• 1:21:18
  I don't know.
• 1:21:20
  I wanted to play this if I could,
• 1:21:24
  but I don't know that I can hear
• 1:21:26
  it.
• 1:21:26
  Let me see.
• 1:21:27
  Well, I think we can.
• 1:21:28
  Let's listen to that.
• 1:21:29
  It's five minutes, but here's the Charlie Kirk
• 1:21:34
  show.
• 1:21:35
  Ready?
• 1:21:37
  Wait.
• 1:21:37
  Damn it.
• 1:21:38
  Stop.
• 1:21:39
  We're going to figure this out one day
• 1:21:42
  so it works correctly.
• 1:21:44
  But here we...
• 1:21:45
  Son of a nutcracker.
• 1:21:47
  Maybe we're not.
• 1:21:48
  Let's see.
• 1:21:53
  Come on.
• 1:21:54
  Now the Internet, it's spinning now.
• 1:21:57
  That's great.
• 1:21:59
  Well, I'm supposed to be watching this on
• 1:22:01
  X and it was running just a second
• 1:22:03
  ago and now it's not.
• 1:22:05
  Let's see if it'll come in clear on
• 1:22:07
  X.
• 1:22:07
  Ready?
• 1:22:11
  And several of you don't think that video
• 1:22:12
  was real.
• 1:22:13
  They said there's no way that's real.
• 1:22:14
  No, this is what you're funding.
• 1:22:15
  We've been trying to warn you...
• 1:22:17
  Hold on.
• 1:22:17
  We're going to start at the beginning.
• 1:22:19
  It's interesting.
• 1:22:20
  In the audience, several of you don't think
• 1:22:22
  that video was real.
• 1:22:23
  They said there's no way that's real.
• 1:22:24
  No, this is what you're funding.
• 1:22:25
  We've been trying to warn you about funding
• 1:22:28
  this Ukrainian war effort, that you're not funding
• 1:22:33
  the best.
• 1:22:33
  This is not what the media has been
• 1:22:34
  telling you.
• 1:22:35
  It's not a joke.
• 1:22:37
  This is the official spokesperson.
• 1:22:39
  And again, the video was made in English
• 1:22:42
  because the video was not directed towards the
• 1:22:44
  Kremlin.
• 1:22:45
  It was directed towards us.
• 1:22:50
  Zelensky and his pack of mobsters, they are
• 1:22:55
  blaming Bannon, Tucker, Charlie Kirkshow, Jack Posobiec for
• 1:23:03
  asking questions and moving the American people away
• 1:23:08
  from just outright funding this entire thing.
• 1:23:11
  And they're very angry about it.
• 1:23:12
  And of course, the criticism is, well, Charlie,
• 1:23:15
  you're a Putin puppet.
• 1:23:16
  No, I'm an American patriot, actually.
• 1:23:19
  Couldn't care less about Putin.
• 1:23:21
  Couldn't care less about Zelensky.
• 1:23:22
  I care about America.
• 1:23:25
  Again, someone came up to me yesterday who
• 1:23:27
  was really pro-Ukraine at the pastor summit,
• 1:23:29
  wearing a Ukrainian flag.
• 1:23:30
  I said, take that off.
• 1:23:31
  It's ridiculous.
• 1:23:32
  Might as well have a gay pride flag.
• 1:23:33
  And he said, Charlie, what side are you
• 1:23:35
  on in the Russia-Ukrainian dispute?
• 1:23:37
  I said, I'm on America's side.
• 1:23:39
  It's like, why are you wearing a Ukrainian
• 1:23:40
  pin at an American pastor summit?
• 1:23:42
  Like, that's weird.
• 1:23:44
  Like, yeah, I get you should support refugees.
• 1:23:46
  I'm all on board for that.
• 1:23:47
  I'm on America's side.
• 1:23:49
  Can we all wear American?
• 1:23:50
  How about let's all wear border patrol pins?
• 1:23:53
  Because what's happening on the southern border is
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  no joke.
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  That has my concern.
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  I'm on America's side.
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  And yeah, we're getting a lot of emails.
• 1:24:02
  Charlie, please up your security and all that.
• 1:24:05
  Look, we get death threats every single day.
• 1:24:06
  In fact, someone who emails me a death
• 1:24:09
  threat almost every other day is back up
• 1:24:10
  again today.
• 1:24:11
  Charlie, I hope the Ukrainian people blow your
• 1:24:13
  head off.
• 1:24:13
  Great.
• 1:24:13
  Thanks.
• 1:24:14
  Appreciate it.
• 1:24:15
  So we spend a ton of money on
• 1:24:16
  security.
• 1:24:17
  We have to.
• 1:24:17
  It's the way it is.
• 1:24:18
  But I'm going to play this piece of
• 1:24:19
  tape again.
• 1:24:20
  It's not a joke.
• 1:24:20
  It's not Monty Python.
• 1:24:21
  It's not SNL.
• 1:24:22
  This is a trans person who's an American
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  born in English.
• 1:24:26
  Again, this is an official broadcast of the
• 1:24:28
  Ukrainian military in English.
• 1:24:30
  That does not happen unless they're trying to
• 1:24:33
  get the West's attention.
• 1:24:35
  And this person is obviously mentally deranged, but
• 1:24:38
  trans.
• 1:24:39
  So that's what you get.
• 1:24:40
  People who are trans have deep seated mental
• 1:24:42
  problems.
• 1:24:42
  That's the way it is.
• 1:24:43
  And yet we put a deep seated mental
• 1:24:45
  problem person in charge of the Ukrainian defense
• 1:24:47
  forces underwritten by the U.S. Treasury to
• 1:24:49
  then go threaten American broadcasters, American speech.
• 1:24:53
  Listen carefully to this.
• 1:24:55
  Now, with this lead up again and again,
• 1:24:57
  the timing is not by mistake.
• 1:24:59
  Zelensky is coming to Congress to try to
• 1:25:01
  get more money.
• 1:25:03
  OK, he's the gangster is coming back to
• 1:25:06
  extort more American politicians to try to get
• 1:25:08
  us further into a no win war, a
• 1:25:10
  no win quagmire.
• 1:25:12
  Zelensky saw what we did at the Turning
• 1:25:13
  Point Action Conference.
• 1:25:15
  You better believe it.
• 1:25:16
  At the Turning Point Action Conference, we pulled
• 1:25:18
  all of our attendees, thousands and thousands of
• 1:25:20
  attendees.
• 1:25:20
  Ninety five percent said no more money to
• 1:25:23
  Ukraine.
• 1:25:23
  You better believe that somebody printed this out
• 1:25:26
  and they looked at it and they said,
• 1:25:28
  oh, this is not good.
• 1:25:29
  So then they deploy the person that they
• 1:25:32
  know would get our attention, because if they
• 1:25:34
  just deployed some random, you know, overweight Ukrainian
• 1:25:37
  mobster, you know, they they used the trans
• 1:25:41
  person because they knew that that would just
• 1:25:43
  have an Internet virality wrinkle to it.
• 1:25:46
  And the intensity and the venom and the
• 1:25:49
  nastiness that this person speaks with, you just
• 1:25:51
  you just can't stop looking at it.
• 1:25:53
  It is worthy of repeating.
• 1:25:54
  And I'll play another clip from it in
• 1:25:56
  a second.
• 1:25:56
  So let's just repeat.
• 1:25:58
  This is in English for a reason directed
• 1:26:00
  at Westerners of a an American born person
• 1:26:03
  who is now the head of the Ukrainian
• 1:26:05
  Defense Force spokesperson saying that we are going
• 1:26:09
  to hunt down murder anyone who is a
• 1:26:12
  Russian propagandist.
• 1:26:13
  And in fact, they say that there is
• 1:26:15
  a hit, an assassination one could interpret.
• 1:26:19
  I'm not saying that's the case, but there
• 1:26:20
  might be an assassination that is imminent against
• 1:26:22
  your favorite Kremlin propagandist.
• 1:26:25
  Are they going to go murder or try
• 1:26:27
  to murder Steve Bannon or Tucker Carlson or
• 1:26:29
  myself or any one of these people in
• 1:26:32
  the next week?
• 1:26:33
  You could imply that, again, none of us
• 1:26:34
  are Putin puppets, a Russian propagandist.
• 1:26:36
  But The New York Times calls us that
• 1:26:37
  Twitter calls us that.
• 1:26:39
  So they put on this false label.
• 1:26:42
  Trump, they call that.
• 1:26:44
  And then the person who is funded by
• 1:26:46
  the U.S. Treasury says we're going to
• 1:26:47
  come murder you.
• 1:26:48
  Not an exaggeration.
• 1:26:50
  Listen carefully.
• 1:26:50
  PlayCut 117.
• 1:26:52
  Russia hates the truth that their obsessive focus
• 1:26:55
  on a Ukrainian volunteer is simply allowing the
• 1:26:58
  light of the Ukrainian nation's honesty to shine
• 1:27:01
  brightly.
• 1:27:02
  Next week, the teeth of the Russian devils
• 1:27:05
  will gnash ever harder and their rabid mouths
• 1:27:08
  will foam in uncontrollable frenzy as the world
• 1:27:11
  will see a favorite Kremlin propagandist pay for
• 1:27:14
  their crimes.
• 1:27:15
  And this puppet of Putin is only the
• 1:27:18
  first.
• 1:27:19
  Russia's war criminal propagandists will all be hunted
• 1:27:22
  down and justice will be served as we
• 1:27:25
  in Ukraine are led on this mission by
• 1:27:27
  faith in God, liberty and complete liberation.
• 1:27:31
  OK, we demand lawmakers get.
• 1:27:35
  What the heck does that mean?
• 1:27:38
  We will hunt them down.
• 1:27:40
  Does that mean you're going to go spend
• 1:27:41
  go send a bunch of Ukrainian secret agents
• 1:27:45
  to Denver, Colorado, and start murdering podcast hosts?
• 1:27:51
  What does that mean?
• 1:27:53
  We'll be right back.
• 1:27:55
  Isn't that a horror story right there?
• 1:28:00
  I had to play it, you know, I
• 1:28:02
  wanted to put that in and I don't
• 1:28:05
  know what to believe.
• 1:28:06
  Nobody knows what to believe, but it wouldn't
• 1:28:07
  freaking surprise me.
• 1:28:09
  Nothing does anymore.
• 1:28:11
  It's it's these are horrific days and there
• 1:28:16
  are terrible people everywhere.
• 1:28:19
  You know, I.
• 1:28:22
  Huh.
• 1:28:24
  No wonder people just shut up and move
• 1:28:26
  on with their day.
• 1:28:28
  No wonder people don't don't speak up.
• 1:28:30
  You know, no wonder people focus on staying
• 1:28:33
  at home and trying to stay safe, you
• 1:28:35
  know, and not not not pissing anybody off.
• 1:28:39
  You know, and it's no wonder we're in
• 1:28:41
  the messes that we are in.
• 1:28:43
  It's depressing, really.
• 1:28:46
  Well, I'm going to hope that that is
• 1:28:50
  not what happened.
• 1:28:53
  As far as I'm aware, nobody has outlined
• 1:28:57
  who or that they've found anybody.
• 1:29:00
  At least I haven't seen anything new on
• 1:29:03
  it on that topic.
• 1:29:05
  But certainly we will we will keep track
• 1:29:09
  of that.
• 1:29:09
  Actually, I'll just listen to J.R. because
• 1:29:11
  he always knows.
• 1:29:13
  And my name is Samuel Trapp.
• 1:29:16
  This is International Flavor.
• 1:29:21
  It's been a rough, rough few days, rough
• 1:29:24
  week.
• 1:29:24
  I'm back on Sunday night with a deep
• 1:29:26
  dive and haven't even talked about topic, but
• 1:29:29
  three hours, three hours, only two, two hours,
• 1:29:34
  9 p.m. Me and Matt might do
• 1:29:35
  something different this time.
• 1:29:36
  So because my brother's on right before mine
• 1:29:39
  and we might do a bit of a
• 1:29:41
  lead in a lead out of his lead
• 1:29:42
  into mine, something like that.
• 1:29:44
  We haven't decided yet.
• 1:29:45
  Anyway, you can hear all of my prior
• 1:29:47
  programs on internationalflavor.com, all former podcasts on
• 1:29:52
  this great station at damradio.com forward slash
• 1:29:56
  podcasts.
• 1:29:57
  Have a good night.