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Ukraine Welfare, King Charles, Iran Oil & Europe’s Economic Hangover · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Hello, good morning. Welcome. I am
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  Samuel Trap. This is International
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  Flavor. You are listening to Dam Radio
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  and uh damn glad to have you. I'm damn
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  glad you are indeed listening. Um
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  tell you what, we've got some uh uh
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  you know, I really would like to find
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  out where these girls are. I listen to
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  them all, you know, fairly regularly.
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  Um, but I don't know where they're from.
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  It seems to me that they are whether
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  they they
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  it's a a musical group of girls that uh
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  I don't know 30s maybe um singing in the
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  Dvnia in the villages in the outskirts
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  of either Russia or Ukraine and uh
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  they're called Bellea Zlata and uh you
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  know basically white gold. Uh let's see.
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  Let's find out where they are from
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  though.
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  Uh because
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  uh I that would be interesting to know.
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  They uh well it's a white it's a you
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  know the white rose. They're from Oh,
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  Norilk, Siberia.
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  Wow. Well, they they're always singing
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  songs from u the um the
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  the villages. is I mean it's really
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  they're really good and um now of course
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  it's all in Russian but uh I always
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  wondered because they dress in these
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  folksy sorts of outfits and we might
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  play a song or two from theirs today
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  just because I listen to them um you
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  know rather frequently and uh they have
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  some good stuff and and I like listening
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  to stuff anyway. Um let's see we're
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  gonna get into some news today. It's
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  been
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  King Charles, you know, he's been here
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  and we've got uh US senators talking
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  about uh superpower status depending on
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  Ukrainian aid.
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  This this is entertaining. Okay. Uh of
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  course, leave it to the genius that is
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  Mitch McConnell.
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  Oh my god. This is the guy that wrote
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  the book talking about how he got into
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  politics selling pizzas to his uh you
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  know buying votes basically in uh in uh
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  uh Republican Mitch McConnell blasting
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  Donald Trump claiming he has continued
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  Joe Biden's strategy of failing to meet
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  Kiev's needs. Now what the hell does
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  McConnell know about Russia or Ukraine
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  for that matter? I mean, he's never said
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  anything reasonable about this. They
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  don't even have any current pictures of
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  this guy. Where is he these days? The US
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  must expand its support for Ukraine,
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  says he, if it wants to preserve its
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  status as a global superpower.
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  I get it. So, we lose our superpower
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  status
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  if we don't give money to a BS war to a
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  BS leader of frankly now a BS country
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  that uh uh you know they're so corrupt
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  and there if there's anything positive
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  somebody call and argue with me. I'd
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  love to hear the opposing sides of this,
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  you know, without claiming. By the way,
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  you can't claim the BS that we all know
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  is now BS. You can't claim Putin wants
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  to take over the world. Okay? He's like
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  uh uh the the the brain and uh Donald
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  Trump is Pinky. And uh what are we going
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  to do today, brain? What do we do every
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  day, Pinky? We're going to take over the
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  world. Well, Mitch McConnell, you know,
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  would be a much better pinky than the
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  old Trumpster, actually. Um, cuz it
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  implies idiocy.
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  And if you if you believe uh that uh you
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  can't be a superpower without giving
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  money to Ukraine, you got troubles. So,
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  uh, the veteran lawmaker and former
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  Senate majority leader, good glad he's
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  not any anymore, criticized military
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  officials in the administration of the
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  old Trumpster for carrying out the
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  policy of shifting the burden of Ukraine
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  assistance onto European NATO allies. in
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  an op-ed published by the Washington
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  Post yesterday.
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  This is great. Americans, according to
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  him, can't learn from a war if they
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  can't properly observe it. What the hell
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  does that mean? I mean, seriously, we
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  got to go watch it now. We got to be
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  embedded with these guys and watch them
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  lose. This is what we got to do.
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  Nonsense. Uh, we can't learn from a war
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  if we can't observe it. Right. We He's
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  calling for more military trainers to be
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  sent to Ukraine so they can witness the
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  conflict up close. You go, McConnell,
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  why don't you hike your ass over there
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  and go check it out? You want to send
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  people over there for a losing cause?
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  Let's do it. Why? Why? Why are we so
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  hellbent on losing causes in America? I
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  don't get it. Why do we got to take on
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  these uh uh war
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  postures that we can't win?
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  We can't w You can't win in Ukraine
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  against Russia. It's not happening. And
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  uh uh we're not we're not committing.
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  It's not going to happen. Americans
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  don't want to die for Ukrainians. It's
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  no longer Mr. McConnell about democracy.
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  with that fib has been gone long ago.
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  Okay. And certainly with yesterday's
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  approval of another 90 days of martial
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  law till August 2nd in Ukraine, we are
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  far from over with this war. 90 billion
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  dollar and another ask for 19 more from
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  the old Zelion Goblin. Uh the stress is
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  different. Green Goblin. Uh it would be
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  Zillion Goblin and uh so it's good
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  stuff. Maynard, he's calling for more
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  military planners
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  so they can witness the conflict up
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  close and better understand the use of
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  drones in modern warfare. If you don't
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  get it by now,
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  no trip to Ukraine's going to help you.
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  Start putting your money in drones.
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  Drones can hold off the Sixth Fleet.
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  Drones can hold off the uh Gerald Ford,
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  the uh who else is over there? Uh I
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  forget which one. The George Bush is
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  over there. The Abraham Lincoln, isn't
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  it? The three There's three aircraft
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  carriers. And they're being held off by
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  what? Drones.
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  Yeah, they're being held out of the uh
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  Straits of Hormuz by drones, people.
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  Um, so let's go witness the conflict up
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  close and better understand the use of
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  drones in modern warfare. China, no, no,
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  let's throw China in the mix, too. He
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  says, is doubtlessly watching this
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  conflict closely as it refineses its
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  military investments and plans. And what
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  is our 1 and a half trillion dollar
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  doing for this? You know, what about us
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  as we refine our own military
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  investments? Do you get did you get your
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  chunk, Mr. McConnell? We're sure you
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  did. If we're keen on remaining the
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  world's preeminent superpower,
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  we shouldn't let,
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  get this, unelected defense officials
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  determine US leadership and obstruct
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  deepening ties with Ukraine's innovative
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  military and industrial base. You're
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  picking the wrong side, you
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  This is nuts. McConnell singled out the
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  Pentagon under secretary of war for
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  policy, Elbridge KBY, accusing him of
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  withholding congressionally approved
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  assistance for Ukraine and insisting
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  that real Americans back continued
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  support. Listen, I'm a real American and
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  I know that the vast majority of us are
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  tired of these BS wars and these we do
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  not. And we're real Americans. So, are
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  you a real American? Do you even know
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  what a real American is any longer?
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  Somehow, I don't think so. Uh, real
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  Americans do not back continued support
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  for Ukraine. They might have when they
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  were foolishly wandering around in 2022
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  waving Ukrainian flags and knew nothing.
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  But now the majority of the people know
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  the scam that's been perpetrated not
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  only on us but on the rest of the world
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  that Vladimir Putin is not the bad guy.
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  You know, you don't just get to go out
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  and pick a bad guy and that's it.
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  McConnell uh well, let's wait a second.
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  Uh Trump, who ran for a second term,
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  pledging to scale back aid to Ukraine,
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  repeatedly criticized Joe Biden for
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  directing US resources toward a conflict
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  with Russia. McConnell argued that both
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  approaches
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  ultimately fail to give Ukraine what it
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  needs. They just got 90 billion. What
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  more do you need for God's sake? You
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  know what was Russia's budget last year
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  for uh what what is I forget I forget
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  the number so I'm going to look it up.
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  What is Russia's
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  annual military
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  budget? Okay, let's let's do this.
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  Russia's military spending surged due to
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  the Ukraine war with the 2024 budget at
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  6 to7% of its GDP or 125 to 149 billion.
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  2025
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  expenditures were around 160
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  billion one10enth of what the United
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  States spends. Of course, they spend it
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  far more wisely. Did you hear that?
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  Everybody's switching to uh South Korean
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  arms.
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  All the Europeans, they canceled a bunch
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  of uh of of fighter jet things from the
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  United States. Canada's uh cancelling
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  stuff and also they are running
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  scenarios now with that I I believe
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  what's going to happen is they're going
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  to expand um
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  the EU to turn it into a
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  uh military alliance as well because
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  Russia doesn't object to Ukraine being
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  part of the EU but the EU if if they're
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  they're starting to do all these
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  analysis of uh uh whatever and the the
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  defense pact of the EU is actually
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  stronger than the one of NATO. And so
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  what they're going to do is they're
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  holding all these exercises now without
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  America, without American support. and
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  they're starting to uh hold all these uh
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  there's a EU summit that went on over
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  the weekend with uh the old Green Goblin
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  showing up with his hand out as usual
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  and uh uh wonder if old uh McConnell
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  went to that
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  give Ukraine what it needs. McConnell
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  who has represented Kentucky get this
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  since 1985.
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  This guy's represented Kentucky. I mean,
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  my entire adult life. I joined the Army
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  in 1985
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  and uh I was Well, Holy Schneikes. Yeah,
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  that was uh a good
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  a a a good 40 years ago.
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  Isn't that nuts?
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  Crazy sauce. He has built his reputation
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  as a political operator and mostly
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  fundraiser. He announced his intention
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  to step down. Holy crap. In February
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  2024 following a string of public house
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  episodes and now he serves as the on the
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  chair of the Senate Rules Committee.
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  Although he publicly endorsed Trump's
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  re-election bid, reports have suggested
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  that in private he is sharply critical
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  of the old Trumpster and calls him a
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  despicable human being, unfit for
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  office. Well, that's what I think you
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  are and have been for years. That's what
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  I think. And not that I'm a huge uh
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  Trump supporter. I'm not a big
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  detractor, but certainly on the
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  international side, I I am against them
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  all, but uh you know, you can't call
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  Trump a human a despicable human being
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  without looking in the freaking mirror,
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  dude. Um, and according to a biography
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  by journalist Michael Tacket, Russia
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  maintains that any Western aid to
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  Ukraine, all it does is prolong the
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  conflict, but will not alter its
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  outcome. Moscow says that Kiev has a
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  vested interest in rejecting peace talks
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  to keep getting the cash
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  to ensure the continued supply of
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  funding so that corrupt officials all
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  over the planet can benefit from it,
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  embezzle from it, and do all kinds of
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  stuff. Here, get this. Here's another
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  exciting story from another lunacy.
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  Julie Davis. Who's Julie Davis, you
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  might say? She looks like she's about
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  12. Um, so I don't know if that's a good
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  thing or a bad thing, but uh she's uh
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  uh US envoy to Ukraine, right? She's
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  going to leave her post in protest over
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  dwindling aid to Kiev. Acting US
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  ambassador to Ukraine, Julie Davis is
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  going to leave her post over
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  disagreements with Donald Trump
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  regarding his waning support for the
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  country says the Financial Times and
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  cites three people familiar with the
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  matter. State Department confirms
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  Davis's departure but denied that she
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  was leaving because of differences with
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  the president. Ambassador Davis has been
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  a steadfast proponent of the Trump
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  administration's efforts to bring about
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  a durable peace between Russia and
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  Ukraine. Well, Miss Ambassador, what the
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  hell have you done to uh stop this war?
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  Anything? Are you for it? Probably. So,
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  uh state let's see, that was a statement
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  by Tommy Pigot in a uh statement he said
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  on Tuesday. He said that Miss Davis will
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  depart Kiev in June. Davis has served as
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  charged affairs in Ukraine since May
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  2025
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  following the resignation of her
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  predecessor former ambassador Bridget
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  Brink who accused Trump of appeasement
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  toward Russia. Unfortunately, the policy
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  since the beginning of the Trump
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  administration has been to put pressure
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  on the victim. Oh, the victim. Ukraine
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  is a is nothing but a victim here,
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  right? So, bomb a bunch of Russians for
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  8 years in your own country, kill them
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  all, refuse to allow them to speak their
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  own language. In fact, the EU says they
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  can't come in unless they protect
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  minority rights, including those of
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  ethnic Russians. Yeah. Well, let's
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  figure that going to happen in Ukraine,
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  right?
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  rather than oh we don't want to blame it
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  on the victim Ukraine rather than on the
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  aggressor Russia and Brink wrote this in
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  her opet op-ed in the Detroit Free Press
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  shortly after resigning everybody has to
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  leave and then write there tell all
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  story sell a book make some money wonder
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  if she has a book Trump has angered many
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  in Kiev and the EU by suggesting that
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  Ukraine may they will there's no may
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  about
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  have to make concessions to Russia
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  including potentially see they always
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  throw it in the possible could
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  potentially maybe seeding some territory
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  that's which what Mertz said yesterday
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  or was it was it Saturday I don't
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  remember the story was yesterday he also
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  criticizes does our Trump Zalinski the
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  green goblin who he once branded a
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  dictator which he is and he's corrupt,
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  which he is. Everybody in his team has
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  been corrupt. He has to keep rotating
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  through and finding somebody that can
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  hide it a little better than the last
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  one. The US mediated several rounds of
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  negotiations between Russia and Ukraine
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  through 2025, but they did not result in
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  any breakthroughs. Big surprise if you
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  refuse to give up some territory. Trump
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  also broke with the western diplomatic
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  boycott of Russia by hosting President
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  Putin in Alaska in August of 2025.
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  Isn't that crazy?
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  Um let's let's share about Mr. Mertz who
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  said the exact same thing is as uh uh
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  Ukraine might have to seed some
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  territory now. He's really frightened
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  over what's going on in his country. So,
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  we'll give him a little bit of of pass
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  here. You know, he's normally all hawk.
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  He and Mitch McConnell and Lindsey
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  Graham would fit in the same room
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  together. You know, more more war,
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  please. And uh we got to have more war.
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  We could all let's let's we should get
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  counseling. Let's all go get counseling
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  because there's no war going on that in
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  in that we can, you know, that American
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  troops aren't on the ground in Ukraine.
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  Well, they are, but you know, secretly,
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  but uh we're in a we're we haven't sent
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  enough uh training, you know, training
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  sergeants over there. You know, I was a
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  training NCO and uh I suppose they could
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  send me over there. You know, I'll train
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  them how to surrender,
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  how to give up your territory. Let's end
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  the war. How about that? People are
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  dying who don't want to fight, who get
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  little training, and they get thrown out
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  onto the meat lines and slaughtered.
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  That's it. Russia is having similar
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  problems now. I was reading some um some
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  uh articles that said uh uh
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  uh that they're they're considering
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  um
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  uh more mobilization efforts
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  and uh there were stories one of the one
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  of the guys on um was it Soliv I can't
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  remember where I heard it but uh I was
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  watching the show and they said that
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  some of these some of these uh contracts
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  and you see signs for them when you go
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  to Russia. You see all kinds of signs
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  for them and they say uh you know $8
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  million bonus to uh to sign up. I assume
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  you don't get it till the end. I don't
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  know. But why would you want it until
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  the I mean you'd prefer it at the end I
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  would say. And uh so if you could uh
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  um
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  you know sign up then they're extending
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  contracts is what I hear that they're uh
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  extending these contracts.
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  Oh, this is really cool. Look what I'm
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  watching on on Jr's TV spread up here.
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  Um Mother's Day cookie boxes. Order them
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  now at kixie.com. And it's ke e ks i.
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  But you know what keie means? Cakes.
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  It's cakes in Russian. Cexy. And if
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  they're Russian made, they're going to
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  be good. These cookie boxes. Uh cuz they
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  have some very good treats over there.
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  Tasty. Tasty. We do too, of course. But
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  if you'd like a different sort of
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  flavor, they make them. They make
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  different
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  You'd be surprised how different the
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  food is. Um but it's very very tasty. Uh
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  let's see. But according to Mertz, an
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  eventual peace deal will require
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  concessions by Kiev. No, he said this.
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  Trump has said this. Now he said it.
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  Ukraine may have to accept the
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  territorial realities on the ground.
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  Who's been saying that? Pescov, Lavough,
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  Zaharova, Putin, uh, who else? Midv.
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  Pick a pick a number of them. Trump
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  any reasonable person has been saying it
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  for years cuz they know the realities on
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  the ground. Moscow maintains that for a
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  lasting peace Kiev must pull its
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  soldiers from the regions of Daets,
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  Klugans, Kerone, Zaparisia as well as
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  recognized Russian new territories
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  including Crimea. All the regions
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  overwhelmingly voted to join the Russian
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  Federation of 2014 2022
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  and we know all this stuff. Um, the
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  annual budgets could go back to normal.
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  Annual budgets for military spending
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  don't have to be 1.5 trillion when
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  you're nearly $40 trillion in debt.
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  I think that is sorely
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  depressing.
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  That is what I think. So, um I'm not
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  going to uh uh
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  I'm not going to I don't know what
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  make that an appropriate
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  uh
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  positive thinking because I don't think
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  positive about it at all. This war needs
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  to be over as does the one in Iran.
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  Well, don't get me started on that. I
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  had a uh well, you know what? That's
• 23:30
  going to be part two of the show. And so
• 23:32
  I either should play the song I was
• 23:34
  gonna tell you about. Now I also wanted
• 23:36
  to tell you about um uh I'm not sure
• 23:40
  when the interview is going to come up.
• 23:41
  We're still uh Heammond and Han about
• 23:43
  the interview, but I'm supposed to be
• 23:45
  interviewed by a journalist I met in
• 23:48
  Kazan. And I've had uh three of them
• 23:50
  contact me in the last several weeks.
• 23:54
  And uh uh I got one from
• 23:59
  um this journalist who wants to
• 24:02
  interview me about my impressions of
• 24:04
  Russia last year and you know all that
• 24:06
  other stuff and and talk about what is
• 24:09
  going you know what is going on and
• 24:11
  Americans impressions of
• 24:14
  uh war and stuff like that in Ukraine
• 24:18
  and Iran. And then I had another girl
• 24:21
  start um uh swapping
• 24:26
  uh shorts with me. Um shorts is probably
• 24:30
  the wrong word. um snippets of of of uh
• 24:34
  audio and video uh
• 24:38
  conversation where since you know we're
• 24:41
  8 n hours apart depending on what area
• 24:43
  of of Russia you're in and depending
• 24:45
  upon what uh um
• 24:50
  they don't do um
• 24:53
  daylight savings time over there and so
• 24:56
  depending on what time of year it is so
• 24:58
  it changes around you got to pay
• 24:59
  attention to that thing you always miss
• 25:01
  out on what it was. And she she um ever
• 25:05
  since the Ukraine uh not Ukraine, the
• 25:09
  Iranian
• 25:10
  thing started, the call I got uh or the
• 25:14
  message I got um March 1st, you know,
• 25:17
  the day after this uh attacks by Israel
• 25:20
  shortly followed, you know, by the US
• 25:24
  jumping on board uh and been bombing the
• 25:27
  crap and decapitating and killing
• 25:29
  everybody. She she calls and um she says
• 25:33
  to me that uh you know they
• 25:37
  uh are killing civilians. How do you
• 25:40
  feel about that that uh Trump you know
• 25:44
  what do what do Americans think about
• 25:46
  this? And I really want to know. She
• 25:49
  goes do you support this? You know and
• 25:51
  and I don't never have but but it's
• 25:54
  still a question that people would want
• 25:56
  to know if they meet you over there. you
• 25:58
  know, they think you're a normal person
• 26:00
  and then uh uh oh, get this. Scientists
• 26:04
  are calling for a ban on boiling
• 26:06
  lobsters alive.
• 26:09
  H
• 26:10
  and the Justice Department is readopting
• 26:13
  the firing squad.
• 26:16
  Now, that I am not uh sure.
• 26:20
  Uh now, why would they do that? I
• 26:22
  suppose you'd put a squad because I
• 26:23
  guess you could all argue that um
• 26:27
  I didn't shoot I didn't kill him. I had
• 26:30
  blanks in my in my gun. Maybe they put I
• 26:32
  don't know how that works. I wonder how
• 26:34
  the firing squad actually works and uh
• 26:37
  that you know you want to be uh firing
• 26:41
  squad is coming back. Well, I don't know
• 26:46
  about that. Um I I'm not sure. I I I'd
• 26:50
  have to really review my uh my uh my own
• 26:54
  thoughts on that matter because um truly
• 26:58
  I'm not so positive on all of that.
• 27:01
  Where is We're going to go um take a
• 27:04
  short break and come back and I want to
• 27:07
  bring for you. I'm either going to play
• 27:09
  maybe some or even all of this. Um
• 27:14
  Vladimir Visotzki is one of my
• 27:16
  favorites. I went to a uh a
• 27:21
  u museum of his and he was very very
• 27:24
  popular in the um
• 27:27
  in the Soviet era. He died quite some
• 27:30
  time ago and uh uh but his music was
• 27:34
  always uh quite popular. Um I listen to
• 27:39
  a uh uh something called Kjira if you
• 27:42
  ever get a chance to listen to that.
• 27:44
  Yesterday I told you about OT ota the
• 27:47
  orchestra and the royal safari. That was
• 27:50
  some really good stuff. And here's a
• 27:52
  pure flamingco that I was listening to
• 27:54
  also. It kind of randomly goes through
• 27:57
  and picks some of these uh some of these
• 28:00
  songs for me and uh uh you know it just
• 28:04
  plays and I and I pick the ones that I
• 28:07
  that I think are pretty pretty cool. But
• 28:09
  I'm going to play for you the group that
• 28:12
  I was telling you about called BZ Latt.
• 28:16
  And uh it's u a Russian folk ensemble
• 28:21
  and uh there was a a lilac and here's
• 28:26
  what we're going to play. This is a a
• 28:28
  pretty song regardless if you understand
• 28:30
  the words or not. And the girls sing it
• 28:33
  quite well. So here you go.
• 28:37
  What's interesting to me is that that
• 28:40
  song is uh actually I mean seriously
• 28:44
  done live while they're walking down a
• 28:48
  village road.
• 28:51
  You hear the wind blowing in the
• 28:52
  background and whatnot. Somebody's
• 28:54
  obviously in front of them with a camera
• 28:56
  and a microphone, you know, on a on a
• 28:59
  boom or something walking in front of
• 29:01
  them. But uh it's
• 29:04
  I mean that's that's four girls, one
• 29:07
  balikica. That's it. And uh it's uh just
• 29:12
  amazing that you can come up with a
• 29:15
  sound like that, you know, of of a nice
• 29:18
  clean Russian song called uh uh Siren
• 29:23
  Serene. in uh it's u
• 29:29
  uh
• 29:31
  ble which means basically
• 29:34
  uh it's a little rose but it's white
• 29:37
  rose. Okay. And uh but there you have
• 29:40
  it. Um
• 29:43
  good stuff Maynard. We're going to go to
• 29:47
  Germany is tumbling once again into
• 29:50
  crisis. But we want to talk about the
• 29:53
  Charles the King Charles jokes about
• 29:57
  burning of the White House. The British
• 29:59
  monarch commented on Donald Trump's
• 30:02
  decision to demolish the historic East
• 30:06
  Wing to construct a ballroom.
• 30:10
  King Charles III cracked a joke about US
• 30:13
  President Trump's controversial White
• 30:16
  House ballroom, comparing it to the
• 30:18
  burning of the iconic building by the
• 30:21
  British troops in 1814.
• 30:24
  He also issued what was widely seen as a
• 30:27
  subtle rebuke of Trump's criticism of
• 30:29
  NATO amid friction in the USUK ties. So,
• 30:33
  I heard that he touched him and uh that
• 30:35
  was a big no-go that he's not supposed
• 30:38
  to touch the king and he did. In October
• 30:41
  2025, the Trump administration
• 30:43
  demolished the historic White House East
• 30:46
  Wing to build what the president said
• 30:49
  would be a privately funded grand
• 30:52
  ballroom. The project, surprise,
• 30:55
  surprise, met regulatory push back. Oh
• 30:59
  my god, regulators. They're everywhere.
• 31:02
  You can't swing a dead cat without
• 31:05
  hitting a regulator. Uh but the
• 31:08
  controversy escalated on Monday after
• 31:10
  Senator Graham, good old Senator Graham,
• 31:14
  advocated for legislation to fund the
• 31:17
  construction with more than 300 million
• 31:21
  in taxpayer money. Of course, Graham is
• 31:25
  always about spending money as long as
• 31:28
  he gets his chunk pushed back into his
• 31:32
  campaign to continue to run for office.
• 31:35
  Wouldn't that be great? He framed it as
• 31:37
  a national security imperative. after a
• 31:41
  gunman tried to storm the White House
• 31:43
  correspondents dinner at the Hilton
• 31:46
  Hotel. Speaking at the White House on
• 31:48
  Tuesday,
• 31:50
  Charles humorously mentioned the ongoing
• 31:54
  construction, saying, "I cannot help
• 31:56
  noticing the readjustments to the East
• 31:59
  Wing." I'm sorry to say that we British,
• 32:02
  of course, made our own small attempt at
• 32:05
  a real estate redevelopment of the White
• 32:07
  House in 1814. reference to the British
• 32:11
  troops burning the building during the
• 32:13
  War of 1812. But how can that be in
• 32:15
  1814? H curious. You know what we're
• 32:19
  going to do? We're going to try to hear
• 32:21
  Oh, they're still playing the music on
• 32:22
  that other thing. Hang on. Why is that
• 32:24
  happening? We didn't want that. Oh, man.
• 32:29
  Where is the old king? Let's Let's talk
• 32:31
  about the king here for just a second.
• 32:33
  Let's see if his show will come up.
• 32:35
  Ready? And if I may say so, it is a
• 32:38
  particular pleasure to be back in this
• 32:40
  wonderful building, the heart of your
• 32:42
  democracy.
• 32:44
  On this occasion, I cannot help noticing
• 32:48
  the readjustments to the east wing, Mr.
• 32:51
  President.
• 32:53
  um following your visit to Windsor
• 32:55
  Castle last year and I'm sorry to say
• 32:58
  that we British of course made our own
• 33:01
  um small attempt at real estate
• 33:03
  redevelopment of the White House in
• 33:05
  1814.
• 33:12
  Well, that was entertaining, wasn't it?
• 33:14
  His actual words. We heard him.
• 33:18
  Boy, those British always coming over to
• 33:20
  bomb us, right? or to beat us up. He
• 33:23
  saved a second lighthearted barb for
• 33:26
  Trump's habit of reminding Europeans
• 33:29
  that the US supposedly saved them from
• 33:32
  speaking German during World War II.
• 33:36
  Dare I say that if it wasn't for us,
• 33:40
  you'd be speaking French, Charles added
• 33:44
  in a nod to Britishes Britain's defeat
• 33:47
  of France in the Seven Years War, which
• 33:50
  paved the way for British control over
• 33:53
  North America.
• 33:55
  During his visit, King Charles took the
• 33:58
  opportunity to take a subtle swipe at
• 34:00
  the old Trumpster over his criticism of
• 34:04
  NATO, which escalated after the block
• 34:07
  refused to support the US in its war in
• 34:10
  Iran. Charles recalled that the only
• 34:13
  time NATO invoked a mutual defense
• 34:16
  clause was in the immediate aftermath of
• 34:20
  September 11, 2001.
• 34:23
  Despite the cordiality and jokes being
• 34:26
  taken as intended, the White House
• 34:29
  posted a video of Trump and Charles
• 34:32
  captioned, "Two kings,"
• 34:36
  which comes amid a standoff in
• 34:38
  historically close US ties. Trump has
• 34:43
  branded UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer a
• 34:47
  coward and called him no Churchill after
• 34:50
  Starmer said the Iran conflict is not
• 34:54
  our war. It isn't.
• 34:57
  I don't know how you could be any
• 35:00
  clearer about that. It's not. It's
• 35:02
  America's and Israel's mostly Israel's.
• 35:06
  It's not ours either. It shouldn't be.
• 35:08
  But here we are. In addition, Washington
• 35:11
  threatens a big tariff on British goods
• 35:14
  unless London scraps its digital
• 35:17
  services tax on US techn technology
• 35:22
  companies. Isn't that depressing?
• 35:26
  Isn't that depressing?
• 35:30
  Recent fragile estabilization of the
• 35:33
  EU's largest economy, Germany, is being
• 35:37
  erased in the Iran war.
• 35:40
  Get this. This is uh this is troubling
• 35:46
  um for Germany for sure, but for the
• 35:49
  rest of the world also.
• 35:53
  Germany's economy is struggling to stay
• 35:56
  afloat.
• 35:57
  High energy costs, partly the result of
• 36:00
  rejecting cheap Russian gas, have
• 36:02
  rendered much of the country's heavy
• 36:04
  industry uncompetitive. While its export
• 36:07
  orientation model has come under
• 36:09
  pressure from shifting economic trends,
• 36:11
  not the least being rising competition,
• 36:13
  Germany no longer sits alone in its
• 36:16
  niche and it hasn't yet adapted. Hey, um
• 36:19
  I wanted I I watched u economic analysis
• 36:23
  last night and uh I'm not sure how I how
• 36:26
  I feel about this. looking at the um
• 36:32
  I'm going to have to do a little more
• 36:33
  research on this, but I believe this my
• 36:37
  initial reaction is I believe it to be
• 36:39
  true, but uh I have to have a little uh
• 36:45
  a little more research on this, but I
• 36:48
  told you yesterday the economic
• 36:51
  aftermath of Iran and all that other
• 36:53
  stuff and um the
• 36:58
  effects of it's been 8 weeks now and the
• 37:02
  last of the
• 37:06
  shipments of
• 37:08
  oil that went through the Straits of
• 37:11
  Hormuz are arriving in foreign ports
• 37:14
  now. Okay. And there's allegedly a bunch
• 37:18
  of ports going to open up in
• 37:23
  America that more and more are coming to
• 37:25
  America. That's really not the case.
• 37:29
  They're headed north because that isn't
• 37:31
  sweet crude. That is the sour type of
• 37:34
  crude that comes from the Middle East
• 37:36
  and it's different. And the place that
• 37:39
  you get that one of your alternative
• 37:41
  places to that, you know what? I should
• 37:43
  see if I can find that that article for
• 37:46
  you because I might just play it for
• 37:48
  you.
• 37:51
  No, it was like 40. It was like 30
• 37:54
  minutes. But the but the basics of it
• 37:56
  was the following.
• 37:59
  The the and it was I watched it last
• 38:03
  night after my cuz I had heard a little
• 38:05
  bit of discussion about look and and a
• 38:09
  lot of people are talking about it how
• 38:11
  the
• 38:12
  8 weeks is ending and now the fuel has
• 38:17
  ended the free fuel that's coming up
• 38:19
  now. It's fuel that has come through and
• 38:22
  the Chinese, you know, somebody paid 2
• 38:26
  million yuan to uh or $2 million worth
• 38:30
  of yuan to Iran for a shipload in and
• 38:34
  that's uh off to far east, right? Off to
• 38:38
  u you know, Asia going over there. Okay.
• 38:42
  And um
• 38:44
  now there aren't any more coming out of
• 38:48
  the Middle East. the Middle East. Uh the
• 38:50
  UAE yesterday left NATO and NATO OPEC
• 38:54
  left OPEC and they say they're going to
• 38:57
  take a land route and and maybe build a
• 39:00
  pipeline to ship to a port south of
• 39:05
  the Straits of Hormuz and they're going
• 39:08
  to leave NATO because they don't want to
• 39:10
  have or NATO twice OPEC. They don't
• 39:13
  want to leave OPEC or they're going to
• 39:15
  leave OPEC so they can produce as much
• 39:17
  as they like.
• 39:20
  um of oil and they're going to need to
• 39:24
  change it around. So, this is having a
• 39:26
  large effect on other things. Also, the
• 39:30
  crude that comes out of the Middle East
• 39:32
  is not the same as the crude that comes
• 39:34
  out of the US or out of the out of uh
• 39:37
  Venezuela. It's not the same. And it uh
• 39:41
  uh the refineries are built to match the
• 39:43
  source, right?
• 39:45
  And where do you think the matching
• 39:48
  source comes from? Canada. So Canada has
• 39:52
  a matching source and they are
• 39:54
  developing a port to take everything
• 39:56
  west and their imports have gone up
• 39:58
  astronomically or exports I mean to
• 40:01
  China especially. They're headed west
• 40:04
  and they're creating a uh uh they
• 40:06
  they've they have a mountain pipeline
• 40:08
  that goes up and all the way to the west
• 40:10
  coast and then they're starting to ship
• 40:12
  things out of there and they're going to
• 40:14
  develop their northern ports and uh so
• 40:17
  they're going to try to get alternatives
• 40:20
  and uh this has really uh and they're
• 40:24
  not shipping it out of eastern ports.
• 40:26
  That's not happening. And they're
• 40:27
  they're not they're going to end up
• 40:28
  taking it in one before too long just
• 40:31
  like everybody else. and uh taking their
• 40:33
  money in yuan and transferring it over.
• 40:35
  This is what's going to happen. Might
• 40:38
  take a little while, but it's going to
• 40:39
  happen. And uh so Canada is going this
• 40:43
  way, the effect on the oil markets are
• 40:47
  going to be astronomical. And one of the
• 40:49
  key facts that I heard yesterday was
• 40:53
  that I that I need to verify for sure
• 40:56
  and uh uh to make sure that it is there.
• 41:00
  One of the facts that was put out on
• 41:03
  that program and on one other one was
• 41:07
  that Donald Trump what he has been
• 41:09
  saying that we and he keeps saying it
• 41:13
  this way and this is the way I always
• 41:14
  hear it too. We are a net energy
• 41:17
  exporter.
• 41:19
  We're a net energy exporter. The oil
• 41:22
  isn't going to hurt us any. We have our
• 41:24
  own.
• 41:27
  Well, according to uh several um
• 41:32
  economists, several other sources, that
• 41:35
  just isn't true. We are a net energy
• 41:40
  exporter,
• 41:41
  but we are not even remotely
• 41:47
  a net oil exporter. Natural gas, hell
• 41:51
  yeah. But we don't put natural gas in
• 41:55
  our cars. they exist. You know those
• 41:58
  type of cars over here, they do exist,
• 42:00
  natural gas cars, but
• 42:03
  uh we don't have very many of them and
• 42:06
  that's not how our cars are run. So
• 42:10
  Trump's saying that we are a net energy
• 42:14
  exporter is true and you know that's
• 42:17
  that's true, but it includes all forms
• 42:20
  of energy and not only oil. So, that I
• 42:26
  think we need to uh uh
• 42:32
  have a have a look at. And I was
• 42:34
  thinking about doing it for for uh
• 42:35
  tomorrow's show, last one of the week.
• 42:38
  Um and then Civic Outlaws on uh
• 42:42
  on Friday, and I didn't have time to dig
• 42:45
  into it last night. I'm working on a
• 42:47
  couple of projects that uh are of a
• 42:49
  little more importance to me. But what
• 42:53
  is happening in all these markets that
• 42:56
  do not have uh the ability to
• 43:02
  uh create their own energy, you know, um
• 43:06
  they're really in bad shape. I mean, and
• 43:09
  Germany is one of them. And so after
• 43:11
  consecutive years of of negative growth
• 43:14
  in 2023 and 24, Germany was able to show
• 43:18
  a marginal gain in 2025.
• 43:22
  And this uh tenative emergence from the
• 43:25
  doldrums uh was a massive increase in
• 43:28
  government spending aimed at
• 43:31
  infrastructure and defense. But German
• 43:34
  exports declined for the third straight
• 43:37
  year in 2025. a sign that structural
• 43:40
  weakness
• 43:42
  uh has certainly
• 43:44
  uh not gone away. But whatever fragile
• 43:48
  recovery may have taken root, whether it
• 43:51
  was governmental or otherwise, it's been
• 43:54
  wiped out by the war in Iran and
• 43:56
  subsequent uh economic mayhem that that
• 44:00
  has produced worldwide. A number of
• 44:02
  indicators in Germany are flashing at a
• 44:05
  multi-year low.
• 44:08
  GFK consumer sentiment. German consumers
• 44:12
  are suddenly much less positive about
• 44:15
  where things are headed these days. The
• 44:18
  consumer climate index fell to -3.3
• 44:26
  in May, the lowest level in 2 years. The
• 44:30
  drop from April is the steepest monthly
• 44:34
  decline since 2022,
• 44:37
  driven by rising energy prices and
• 44:41
  massive geopolitical uncertainty.
• 44:44
  The data is showing that households are
• 44:46
  growing pessimistic about their
• 44:48
  finances. Income expectations are
• 44:51
  plunging and many fear inflation will
• 44:55
  once again outpace wage growth. While
• 44:58
  the willingness to spend has weakened
• 45:01
  dramatically,
• 45:03
  the propensity to buy dropped to a
• 45:05
  2-year low to uncertainty over rising
• 45:08
  energy bills. The propensity to save,
• 45:11
  however, remains elevated, indicating
• 45:13
  households are prioritizing financial
• 45:16
  security and are wary of more economic
• 45:20
  shock to come.
• 45:23
  Yes,
• 45:26
  Germany's services sector has
• 45:28
  practically fallen uh you know
• 45:31
  in April again as well with the uh
• 45:35
  plunged to record lows and the business
• 45:39
  volume with their sharpest drops in
• 45:41
  three and a half years. So things are
• 45:43
  not going well. inflation. Nothing
• 45:46
  strikes fear into consumers more than a
• 45:49
  decline in their own purchasing power.
• 45:52
  And that's what's happening. Inflation
• 45:54
  in Germany. And by the way, this is only
• 45:56
  in a representative. It's all over
• 45:58
  Europe. And it's your friend here in
• 46:00
  America, too. By the way, uh it's not
• 46:03
  your friend, but inflation in Germany is
• 46:06
  picking up again. The harmonized index
• 46:08
  of consumer prices rise in March from
• 46:11
  1.9 to 2.8 8 year onyear. This uptick
• 46:16
  comes after a period in 2025 when
• 46:19
  inflation appeal appeared to have
• 46:22
  subsided and March's uh reading was the
• 46:25
  highest since 2024.
• 46:28
  And this is the due in prices of energy
• 46:31
  which jumped by 7%
• 46:34
  compared to a year earlier and it's not
• 46:37
  looking good. human. Um, the German
• 46:39
  inflation list is way up,
• 46:45
  way the hell up. The indicator of
• 46:48
  economic sentiment, a survey of
• 46:50
  financial market experts that measures
• 46:52
  expectations for the economy over the
• 46:54
  next 6 months, tumbled 84 points in
• 46:59
  March. And the drop is notable as it is
• 47:02
  relatively stabilized through 2025, but
• 47:05
  it came right after the war was started
• 47:08
  up in Iran. Ger Germany has never really
• 47:11
  recovered from the shock of 2022, which
• 47:14
  was overlaid on top of an erosion in the
• 47:17
  country's economic competitiveness. I
• 47:19
  told you about um 3 4 months ago the um
• 47:23
  largest Volkswagen plant shutting down
• 47:27
  and u uh the tenative uh you know
• 47:31
  federal budget spending increasing by
• 47:33
  6.5% from the previous year helped them
• 47:37
  stay out of it a little bit. Um
• 47:41
  looks like the US Supreme Court
• 47:44
  reinstated the Republican map in Texas.
• 47:48
  Now, that's news. I want to, you know,
• 47:49
  I'm going to read on that. I was I did
• 47:52
  an analysis last Friday in uh on Civic
• 47:55
  Outlaws of uh the flock cameras, and
• 47:59
  I've been working on something um quite
• 48:02
  a bit more of of something that uh
• 48:06
  these video lottery terminals. And I'm
• 48:09
  going to talk some on that this week.
• 48:12
  I'm going go into another uh uh
• 48:16
  meeting this week with legislators and
• 48:19
  and company people and stuff like that.
• 48:22
  I've been working on this for a little
• 48:23
  bit and I I believe we're going to have
• 48:26
  that topic coming up on um on Friday for
• 48:30
  Civic Outlaw should you get the chance
• 48:32
  to uh to visit that day.
• 48:38
  Uh, we come on at 7 um a.m. on Fridays.
• 48:44
  Let's see. We're going to find some We
• 48:50
  got a couple more songs for you. One of
• 48:53
  my favorite um people to listen to.
• 48:56
  Where is this one I was listening to
• 48:58
  yesterday?
• 49:01
  Um,
• 49:03
  this is a little bit
• 49:05
  and and and I'm only going to play about
• 49:08
  three three four minutes of it, but it
• 49:10
  is quite good.
• 49:16
  And that song appears to go on for
• 49:18
  another six minutes. That's not going to
• 49:20
  happen. Um, that's just too long. Sorry.
• 49:24
  So, we're gonna uh start all over. I've
• 49:27
  um
• 49:29
  I've looked at some new uh uh the topics
• 49:34
  of of what I was uh
• 49:37
  thinking about last night. I've got So
• 49:40
  last night I have all of these economic
• 49:43
  posts. There were a couple of
• 49:44
  interesting ones that I went through
• 49:46
  that I wanted to talk about like this
• 49:48
  Iranian delegation talking badly about
• 49:52
  um you know a short story version of it
• 49:54
  would be that the US vice president was
• 49:58
  called 21 times by Trump and two times
• 50:02
  by Netanyahu while he was in the while
• 50:05
  they were in the uh
• 50:07
  you know alleged mediation or whatever
• 50:10
  you want to call it the like it's going
• 50:12
  to happen And I wanted to uh focus on a
• 50:16
  couple of
• 50:19
  these are important things, but think
• 50:21
  about this. The the
• 50:27
  UK
• 50:28
  is suddenly incredibly unhealthy.
• 50:34
  Britain is one of only five nations
• 50:38
  where health is significantly worsening
• 50:42
  and ranks second to last in the
• 50:46
  developed world. Healthy life expectancy
• 50:50
  in the UK has fallen by about two years
• 50:56
  to just over 60 for both men and women,
• 51:01
  making Britain one of only five wealthy
• 51:04
  nations where people live fewer years in
• 51:07
  good health. The findings based on data
• 51:10
  from the Office of National Statistics
• 51:12
  between 2012 and 2014 and 2022 and 2024
• 51:17
  show the measure dropped from 62.9 years
• 51:21
  to 60.7
• 51:22
  for men and 63.7 to 60.9 for women. Of
• 51:28
  the 21 richest countries, the UK saw the
• 51:32
  second steepest decline in healthy life
• 51:35
  expectancy. Now, that's not life
• 51:37
  expectancy. It's healthy life
• 51:39
  expectancy. Life expectancy is the
• 51:42
  amount you're supposed to live. But if
• 51:44
  the uh let's say your life expectancy
• 51:47
  years ago in America was uh 84 for
• 51:50
  women, 82 for men was was uh was what it
• 51:53
  was. And uh I'm not sure what it is
• 51:56
  today, but they're saying that the
• 51:58
  healthy portion of that would be 64 for
• 52:01
  wh women women uh at least in 2014 and
• 52:06
  uh 60 it's 60 now. So they're saying
• 52:10
  they got years of unhealthy
• 52:13
  where they're not going to be healthy.
• 52:16
  And uh so this is this is interesting.
• 52:20
  Britain has tumbled from 14th to 20th
• 52:23
  place in these rankings. Denmark,
• 52:26
  Portugal, and Spain have also seen their
• 52:29
  HLE numbers plummet. According to this
• 52:32
  analysis,
• 52:34
  health inequ health and wealth
• 52:36
  inequality has become a major indicator
• 52:39
  for healthy life expectancy with data
• 52:42
  showing that those in the wealthiest 10%
• 52:46
  of areas could expect to have around 20
• 52:49
  more years of good health than those in
• 52:51
  the poorest. In London's upscale suburb
• 52:55
  of Richmond, healthy life expectancy for
• 52:58
  women was 70 years, while in the
• 53:01
  industrial northern port town of
• 53:03
  Hardlepool, it's only 51 years.
• 53:07
  In more than 90% of the areas in the UK,
• 53:11
  HLE now falls short of the state pension
• 53:14
  age of 66 and is below 55 in one out of
• 53:19
  10 areas. London was the only region
• 53:22
  where the measure went up, where it
• 53:25
  improved. The Health Foundation has
• 53:27
  blamed the decline on a combination of
• 53:30
  poverty, poor housing, obesity,
• 53:35
  this one's crazy, the lingering effects
• 53:37
  of coid9.
• 53:41
  Oh boy. And a surge in mental health
• 53:44
  illnesses among young people. Andrew
• 53:47
  Mooney, the think tank's principal
• 53:49
  analyst, says uh and he warned of a
• 53:52
  significant economic cost with poor
• 53:55
  health driving people out of the
• 53:57
  workforce and locking young people out
• 54:00
  of education, employment, and training.
• 54:02
  The Health Foundation has called the
• 54:05
  findings a watershed moment and urges
• 54:08
  policymakers to treat public health as
• 54:11
  an economic priority.
• 54:15
  Russia's
• 54:16
  health
• 54:18
  life expectancy
• 54:21
  was 60
• 54:24
  3.4 four in 2024 which is above
• 54:28
  Britain's but but not by much according
• 54:31
  to Russian health minister
• 54:34
  uh Mikail Morashak Morashko
• 54:37
  and uh overall life expectancy
• 54:40
  is 74 years
• 54:44
  Kremlin has designated increasing life
• 54:46
  expectancy to 81 years by 2036
• 54:51
  as a priority. I wonder what it is in
• 54:54
  the United States today.
• 54:57
  What? Because the numbers I gave you are
• 55:00
  10 years old. The last time I looked was
• 55:03
  a long time ago.
• 55:06
  The
• 55:08
  life
• 55:10
  expectancy
• 55:12
  rate in the US,
• 55:16
  we're going to find out. Oh, it's down.
• 55:21
  Ah.
• 55:24
  Well, says it declined.
• 55:27
  It used to be a lot higher than this. US
• 55:30
  life expectancy at birth has risen to 79
• 55:36
  years in 2024 and rebounded to its
• 55:42
  highest. At age 65, individuals can
• 55:46
  expect to live an average of 19.7
• 55:50
  additional years. 18 for men and 20 for
• 55:53
  women. Wow. Let's see. Where is this
• 55:57
  chart? I want to see this chart.
• 56:00
  Boy, they're not making it very easy to
• 56:02
  see. Are you? Um, let's see. So, in
• 56:06
  2019,
• 56:08
  it was women were wonder how far this
• 56:12
  thing goes because I would have swore
• 56:14
  that uh the numbers we were using I
• 56:17
  suppose it depends on where you get your
• 56:19
  numbers. It it says it's uh pre precoid
• 56:24
  it was 81 for women and se and only 76
• 56:30
  for men 79 for if you average everyone
• 56:34
  together at 79 and Russia was saying
• 56:37
  that it was uh that theirs was uh
• 56:41
  uh 74 so about 5 years uh lower.
• 56:46
  Let's see.
• 56:48
  I wanted to talk a little bit about
• 56:50
  Bangladesh's Russianbacked nuclear power
• 56:53
  project. Okay, they have a four,
• 56:58
  this is huge. This is enormous $ 122.8
• 57:02
  billion nuclear power facility and it's
• 57:06
  a 12.8 billion roer facility. Uh
• 57:10
  Russia's backed um nuclear power project
• 57:14
  has entered the final stage. Fuel is
• 57:16
  being loaded into the first unit um on
• 57:19
  Tuesday. That was yesterday. Dhaka's
• 57:22
  Ministry of Science and Technology said
• 57:23
  the next step will be for commercial
• 57:26
  electricity generation to begin
• 57:29
  gradually on a trial basis located at
• 57:32
  160 km from the capital Dhaka. The
• 57:34
  Rupert facility is Bangladesh's first
• 57:37
  nuclear power plant and most expensive
• 57:40
  infrastructure project in South Asian
• 57:43
  country history. It is backed by Russia.
• 57:47
  Moscow has financed 11.9 billion of it
• 57:52
  in state loans for the project and
• 57:54
  estimated the total cost to be 12.8
• 57:58
  billion. The project is being
• 58:00
  implemented by the Bangladesh Atomic
• 58:03
  Energy Commission and involves the
• 58:05
  construction of two units each with a
• 58:08
  capacity of,200
• 58:10
  megaww.
• 58:12
  Um it's pretty big deal. Today,
• 58:14
  Bangladesh has joined the Club of States
• 58:16
  to use peaceful nuclear energy as a
• 58:19
  reliable source of sustainable
• 58:22
  development, said Ross Adam CEO Alexi
• 58:25
  Lihache
• 58:27
  said. Might might be Lihachov, but they
• 58:29
  didn't put a yo in front of it. Um, for
• 58:32
  Ross Adam, this project is another
• 58:34
  important step in the development of uh
• 58:36
  global nuclear power and in
• 58:38
  strengthening friendly relations with
• 58:40
  foreign partners. Now remember Russia is
• 58:45
  also building a six reactor
• 58:48
  uh nuclear power plant in India and uh
• 58:52
  this is a very big deal uh what Russia
• 58:56
  is doing. And I wonder I mean are we
• 58:58
  building any um let's see uh and
• 59:02
  remember in Bangladesh is one of the
• 59:05
  places where they are uh out of fuel
• 59:08
  basically there you ought to see the
• 59:11
  lines of uh trying to get fuel and 170
• 59:15
  million people in Bangladesh with no
• 59:18
  fuel. they can't get uh gas because of
• 59:22
  uh Iran being blocked and or or the uh
• 59:26
  straits of Hormuz.
• 59:28
  So the project is going to uh meet up to
• 59:31
  12% of Bangladesh's the whole country's
• 59:34
  electricity demand and Russian
• 59:37
  ambassador to Dhaka Alexander Quoen told
• 59:40
  uh local media this reflects the
• 59:42
  country's continued commitment to the
• 59:44
  project. Moso has agreed to the
• 59:46
  long-term supply of nuclear fuel,
• 59:48
  technical maintenance, management of
• 59:50
  spent nuclear fuel rods, fuels,
• 59:53
  full-scale electricity generation and
• 59:55
  integration of the national power grid
• 59:58
  is expected to take about 10 months to a
• 1:00:00
  year. Bangladesh imports 95%
• 1:00:05
  of its energy needs.
• 1:00:08
  Commissioning a single plant is
• 1:00:10
  estimated to save a billion annually in
• 1:00:14
  fuel imports.
• 1:00:16
  And uh so this is crazy. uh Banglad it's
• 1:00:20
  uh Dhaka expects to slash the country's
• 1:00:23
  dependence on coal and gas generation uh
• 1:00:27
  and optimize the national energy balance
• 1:00:30
  um with the launch of the Roper facility
• 1:00:33
  and coal and oil f powered plants
• 1:00:36
  function for 25 to 30 years. Nuclear
• 1:00:39
  plants last about 60 and that lifespan
• 1:00:44
  can be extended for another 30 years
• 1:00:46
  with proper maintenance and
• 1:00:48
  refurbishment.
• 1:00:50
  So, you know, you got to take care of
• 1:00:53
  them. 60 years goes by pretty quick, you
• 1:00:56
  think? Uh, crazy times the Russians are
• 1:01:01
  building and what are we doing? Um,
• 1:01:05
  time is indicated. remember me talking
• 1:01:07
  earlier in the show about the girl who
• 1:01:09
  called me about my thoughts on um what's
• 1:01:13
  going on in Iran and what Americans
• 1:01:15
  think about it and I said well just
• 1:01:17
  listen to my show of course she doesn't
• 1:01:19
  speak English so that kind of makes it a
• 1:01:21
  little difficult
• 1:01:24
  then she does listen I think she does
• 1:01:26
  listen to my uh Sunday she said she does
• 1:01:28
  that and uh and and gets uh and listens
• 1:01:30
  to my show but uh Democrats in Congress
• 1:01:34
  um and maybe we should report this to
• 1:01:36
  her. Democrats in Congress are
• 1:01:42
  discussing a lawsuit against President
• 1:01:45
  Trump over the war in Iran, says Time
• 1:01:48
  Magazine.
• 1:01:50
  The debate is intensifying as a 60-day
• 1:01:53
  legal deadline, which falls on May 1st,
• 1:01:57
  right around the corner, uh the White
• 1:02:00
  House has to get congressional
• 1:02:02
  authorization for the war or halt the
• 1:02:05
  operation. White House has not indicated
• 1:02:08
  it plans to seek approval.
• 1:02:11
  Of course, they're not. Nobody's got to
• 1:02:14
  look. Um, so, uh, uh, that's not going
• 1:02:19
  to happen. Um,
• 1:02:21
  Democrats say the war violates US law
• 1:02:26
  as Trump initiated it without
• 1:02:27
  congressional approval and could
• 1:02:29
  continue operations
• 1:02:31
  beyond the legal limit. However,
• 1:02:34
  Democrats are divided over how to
• 1:02:36
  respond.
• 1:02:39
  Some, according to time, and Trump on
• 1:02:42
  screen says, "Don't rush me.
• 1:02:45
  about Iran. Don't rush me. Yeah. Well,
• 1:02:48
  uh, okay, we won't. Uh, uh, Congress
• 1:02:51
  could have a legal case under exploring
• 1:02:53
  a lawsuit if Trump ignores the deadline.
• 1:02:56
  Oh, boy. Yeah, lawsuits help, don't
• 1:02:58
  they? Others argue litigation is
• 1:03:01
  unlikely to succeed, noting the courts
• 1:03:03
  have historically dismissed such
• 1:03:05
  disputes as political questions. Party
• 1:03:09
  leaders are instead focusing on
• 1:03:11
  legislative measures. Those efforts have
• 1:03:14
  repeatedly failed. War powers
• 1:03:16
  resolutions aimed at limiting
• 1:03:18
  presidential authority have been blocked
• 1:03:20
  in both the Senate and the House and
• 1:03:22
  attempts to restrict funding through
• 1:03:24
  amendments to spending bills have also
• 1:03:27
  been rejected. House Democrats
• 1:03:30
  introduced articles of impeachments
• 1:03:32
  against against Put Secretary of War
• 1:03:36
  Pete Hegset over allegation
• 1:03:39
  of uh unauthorized military actions. But
• 1:03:42
  the measure did not advance in the
• 1:03:45
  Republicancontrolled
• 1:03:47
  chamber. So Hegath didn't get put in
• 1:03:49
  coach. Boy,
• 1:03:52
  that's terrible. The conflict,
• 1:03:54
  meanwhile, remains unresolved despite a
• 1:03:57
  temporary ceasefire. US has rejected
• 1:03:59
  Iran's latest proposal and cancelled
• 1:04:02
  planned talks. While Tran refuses to go
• 1:04:05
  negotiate under the current conditions,
• 1:04:08
  a US naval blockade of Iranian ports and
• 1:04:12
  Iranian restrictions on traffic through
• 1:04:15
  the Strait of Hormuz remain in place.
• 1:04:18
  Amid the stalled diplomacy, Trump has
• 1:04:21
  signaled that he may escalate the
• 1:04:23
  conflict, posting a militaristic image
• 1:04:26
  of himself on a social media alongside
• 1:04:31
  the caption, "No more n Mr. Nice Guy.
• 1:04:35
  Iran cannot get their act together. They
• 1:04:39
  don't know how to sign a non-nuclear
• 1:04:41
  deal. They better get smart soon."
• 1:04:46
  Trump's approval rating is around 40% in
• 1:04:50
  recent polls with the Iran war itself
• 1:04:53
  ranking among the least popular US
• 1:04:56
  military actions in modern history and
• 1:04:59
  roughly 6 in 10 Americans including
• 1:05:03
  yours truly saying it was the wrong
• 1:05:08
  decision. Now, there are some others on
• 1:05:11
  this uh uh show that uh or not this
• 1:05:15
  show, this channel that don't believe
• 1:05:17
  that. Um wonder what ever happened with
• 1:05:20
  this, you know, did he uh he's been
• 1:05:22
  arrested, you know, and he left the
• 1:05:24
  federal court building. uh this uh
• 1:05:29
  uh Ganon Ken Van Djk, the guy who
• 1:05:33
  profited off of Maduro, he bet 33,000 on
• 1:05:38
  Poly Market where he won 400,000
• 1:05:42
  and uh because he uh that was a good
• 1:05:45
  bet.
• 1:05:47
  We're going to have to figure out how to
• 1:05:48
  do that. You know, I looked into uh some
• 1:05:51
  of that. Um,
• 1:05:54
  where is this? I wonder if I can hear
• 1:05:57
  this whole story. No, I'm not going to
• 1:05:58
  play it. An anti-semitic attack in
• 1:06:02
  London. Kier Starmer has described the
• 1:06:05
  attack as appalling
• 1:06:08
  and uh
• 1:06:10
  two members of the Jewish committee uh
• 1:06:13
  community have been stabbed in an
• 1:06:15
  anti-semitic attack in London with the
• 1:06:17
  asalent now in custody. The incident
• 1:06:21
  happened in the Golders Green area where
• 1:06:24
  arsonists set fire to four ambulances
• 1:06:27
  operated by a Jewish volunteer
• 1:06:29
  organization a little over a month ago.
• 1:06:33
  Um, that's anti-Semitic.
• 1:06:36
  But we also have where did this go? Um,
• 1:06:43
  I wanted to get to Belgium's. Uh, uh, so
• 1:06:45
  Israel has been accused
• 1:06:48
  um, Israel violence against Palestinians
• 1:06:51
  is echoing the Holocaust, says an
• 1:06:54
  ex-MSSAD chief.
• 1:06:57
  This is this is so Netanyahu's taken
• 1:07:00
  some attacks, friends and neighbors.
• 1:07:02
  Violence by Israeli settlers against
• 1:07:05
  Palestinians in the West Bank echoes
• 1:07:07
  attacks on Jews during the Holocaust and
• 1:07:10
  poses an existential threat to Israel,
• 1:07:13
  says former MSAD chief Tamir Partardo.
• 1:07:16
  Israeli settlers live in communities
• 1:07:19
  built in the West Bank, a territory
• 1:07:21
  Israel captured in 1967. Palestinians
• 1:07:25
  seek as part of a future state.
• 1:07:28
  Successive Israeli governments have
• 1:07:31
  backed or tolerated the settlements.
• 1:07:34
  Partardo spoke on local media on Monday
• 1:07:36
  while touring Palestinian villages that
• 1:07:39
  have come under settler attacks. My
• 1:07:41
  mother was a Holocaust survivor and what
• 1:07:45
  I saw reminded me of the events that
• 1:07:47
  happened against Jews in the last
• 1:07:49
  century. What I saw today made me
• 1:07:53
  ashamed to be Jewish. His comments came
• 1:07:57
  amid a surge in settler violence across
• 1:08:01
  the West Bank with groups carrying out
• 1:08:04
  repeated raids on Palestinian
• 1:08:06
  communities, torching homes and
• 1:08:09
  vehicles, vandalizing property, and
• 1:08:12
  assaulting residents, according to
• 1:08:15
  witnesses and human rights
• 1:08:16
  organizations.
• 1:08:18
  In the latest incident, two
• 1:08:20
  Palestinians, including a 14-year-old
• 1:08:23
  school boy, were killed last week after
• 1:08:27
  a gunman opened fire near a school.
• 1:08:30
  Attacks occur on a near daily basis and
• 1:08:33
  intensify during the USIsraeli war in
• 1:08:36
  Iran between February 28 and April 8.
• 1:08:40
  Yeshin recorded 378
• 1:08:44
  incidents in that period. Eight
• 1:08:48
  Palestinians were killed and 200 were
• 1:08:51
  injured. Partardo said the settlers were
• 1:08:54
  behind the attacks and the Israeli
• 1:08:57
  government's failure to stop them were
• 1:09:00
  creating the condition uh for a future
• 1:09:02
  October 7st style assault from the West
• 1:09:05
  Bank referring to Hamas attack on
• 1:09:08
  southern Israel that killed about 1,200
• 1:09:10
  people and saw 250 taken hostage. Israel
• 1:09:14
  launched a military camp in Gaza in
• 1:09:16
  response.
• 1:09:18
  More than 72,000
• 1:09:20
  Palestinians were killed and 172,000
• 1:09:25
  injured in Israeli air strikes and
• 1:09:27
  ground offensive. The former MSAD chief
• 1:09:30
  warned that the violence unfolding in
• 1:09:32
  the West Bank will lead to similar
• 1:09:34
  event, albeit in a different and
• 1:09:37
  potentially more severe form given the
• 1:09:39
  region's complexity. adding that Israel
• 1:09:42
  is sewing the seeds for just such an
• 1:09:46
  outcome.
• 1:09:48
  That's really frightening and I don't
• 1:09:50
  think we should support that stuff. I I
• 1:09:53
  don't believe it. A similar topic says
• 1:09:56
  that u Israel is weaponizing water in
• 1:10:01
  Gaza according to a medical charity. Um,
• 1:10:05
  Israel is using access to water as a
• 1:10:08
  weapon and a form of collective
• 1:10:10
  punishment against Palestinians in Gaza.
• 1:10:13
  According to a report by International
• 1:10:15
  Medical Charity Doctors, without
• 1:10:17
  borders, Israel has rejected the claims.
• 1:10:20
  Of course, they they don't give a crap,
• 1:10:23
  you know, let them die. You know, the
• 1:10:25
  organization said in a report released
• 1:10:28
  Tuesday that Israel has engineered water
• 1:10:31
  scarcity in the strip, creating
• 1:10:34
  conditions incompatible with human
• 1:10:36
  dignity and survival. Access to water,
• 1:10:38
  sanitation, and hygiene has been
• 1:10:40
  severely undermined since the start of
• 1:10:42
  the Israeli offensive in Gaza. The
• 1:10:45
  report highlights a sharp rise in water
• 1:10:47
  shortage related diseases, including
• 1:10:50
  diarrhea, skin infection, lice, and
• 1:10:52
  infected wounds. Additionally, the lack
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  of clean water and sanitation is
• 1:10:57
  worsening malnutrition and severely
• 1:10:59
  affecting mental health. Gaza has no
• 1:11:01
  natural freshwater source and relies on
• 1:11:04
  groundwater and seawater, both of which
• 1:11:06
  require treatment. Much of the
• 1:11:08
  infrastructure, including desalinization
• 1:11:11
  plants, bore holes, pipelines, sewer
• 1:11:13
  systems have been rendered inoperable or
• 1:11:16
  inaccessible. According to MSF, amid the
• 1:11:20
  collapse in the public system, NSMSF
• 1:11:23
  has become the largest non-governmental
• 1:11:26
  water producing
• 1:11:28
  and desalinating
• 1:11:31
  groundwater through mobile units and
• 1:11:32
  distributing it by truck to affected
• 1:11:35
  areas. The report notes that multiple
• 1:11:37
  MSF tax trucks have been attacked by
• 1:11:41
  Israeli forces. The minimum humanitarian
• 1:11:45
  threshold is 15 L of water per person
• 1:11:48
  per day, including 6 L for drinking and
• 1:11:51
  9 liters for domestic use. In Gaza,
• 1:11:54
  people are receiving this bare survival
• 1:11:58
  level at best, with many unable to
• 1:12:02
  access even the minimum safe amount of
• 1:12:06
  drinking water. Israel's coordinator of
• 1:12:09
  government activities in the territory
• 1:12:12
  rejects the report of course in a series
• 1:12:14
  of posts calling them baseless and
• 1:12:17
  factually incorrect. They say that
• 1:12:19
  Israel is facilitating not restricting
• 1:12:22
  water access and cite the operation of
• 1:12:24
  four supply lines infrastructure repair
• 1:12:27
  and provision of fuel and electricity
• 1:12:29
  for water and they accuse MSF of biased
• 1:12:33
  reporting.
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  Hm.
• 1:12:39
  On the same or similar topic,
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  Naft Napali Bennett and Yer Lapid
• 1:12:50
  combine their parties ahead of elections
• 1:12:52
  planned this year. Former Israeli PMs
• 1:12:55
  are uniting against Netanyahu
• 1:12:59
  and they formed a unified party to get
• 1:13:02
  rid of Benjamin Netanyahu.
• 1:13:05
  So uh uh Bennett let's see 2026 and
• 1:13:11
  yesid into a single titled together led
• 1:13:14
  by Bennett which they described as an
• 1:13:17
  effort to consolidate the opposition and
• 1:13:19
  improve the chances of the vote which
• 1:13:21
  will be held low no later than the end
• 1:13:23
  of October. Bennett told reporters that
• 1:13:26
  joining forces was the most Zionist and
• 1:13:29
  patriotic act we have ever done for the
• 1:13:31
  sake of our country. he said uh adding
• 1:13:34
  that the era of division is over. We are
• 1:13:37
  standing here together for the sake of
• 1:13:39
  our children. The state of Israel must
• 1:13:42
  change direction
• 1:13:45
  and uh widely seen as Netanyahu's most
• 1:13:49
  formidical formidable political rival
• 1:13:53
  that they have joined forces before
• 1:13:56
  ending his 12-year tenure after the 2010
• 1:13:59
  election by forming the short-lived
• 1:14:02
  government of change.
• 1:14:04
  Uh that alliance included the Arab party
• 1:14:07
  Ram led by Mansour Abbas making it the
• 1:14:10
  first time party representing Israelis
• 1:14:13
  Palestinian minority joined a government
• 1:14:16
  coalition. Netanyahu returned to power
• 1:14:19
  after winning the November 2022
• 1:14:24
  election. new partnership will run as a
• 1:14:27
  unified list without formally merging
• 1:14:29
  parties and both have said they would
• 1:14:31
  seek a form of government only with
• 1:14:33
  Zionist oppositions excluding Arab
• 1:14:37
  factions. Bennett also said his
• 1:14:39
  government would advance a universal
• 1:14:41
  conscription law, halt funding for draft
• 1:14:44
  evasion, and introduce an 8-year term
• 1:14:47
  limit for prime minister. Well, that
• 1:14:49
  would be nice.
• 1:14:51
  Um
• 1:14:54
  because Israel is trapped in its own
• 1:14:57
  security doctrine. You know they can't
• 1:15:00
  get out of it. Uh they you know the
• 1:15:03
  promise of lasting security is certainly
• 1:15:06
  uncertain. We
• 1:15:09
  should form a portion of the rampart of
• 1:15:12
  Europe and Asia as an outpost of
• 1:15:15
  civilization as opposed to barbarism.
• 1:15:18
  The sanctuaries of Christendom would be
• 1:15:20
  safeguarded by assigning them to an extr
• 1:15:23
  territorial status such as is well known
• 1:15:27
  to the law of nations. Right.
• 1:15:32
  Palestine is our ever memorable historic
• 1:15:35
  home. The very name of Palestine would
• 1:15:37
  attract our people with a force of a
• 1:15:40
  marvelous potency. Theodore Herzel wrote
• 1:15:43
  in 1896 in the Jewish state and he
• 1:15:47
  imagined a place where Jews would
• 1:15:50
  finally be safe.
• 1:15:53
  We should form a guard of honor about
• 1:15:56
  these sanctuaries answering the
• 1:15:58
  fulfillment of this duty with our
• 1:16:00
  existence. A Jewish state in Palestine
• 1:16:03
  would serve as a sanctuary and a
• 1:16:05
  frontier protecting its people while
• 1:16:07
  embedding itself with a wider moral and
• 1:16:09
  political order.
• 1:16:12
  More than seven decades after Israel's
• 1:16:14
  first prime minister, David Bengurian
• 1:16:17
  declared independence, that promise is
• 1:16:20
  unsettled. Israel exists, thrives,
• 1:16:22
  endures. It has built powerful
• 1:16:25
  institutions, an economy, and one of the
• 1:16:27
  most capable militaries in the world. It
• 1:16:30
  has in many respects achieved the core
• 1:16:33
  aim of political sovereignty. Jews are
• 1:16:36
  no longer dependent upon others for
• 1:16:39
  survival. Now, I disagree with that. I
• 1:16:43
  don't think that's correct. They are
• 1:16:46
  dependent on us or we wouldn't always be
• 1:16:51
  dragged into their nonsense.
• 1:16:56
  Um,
• 1:16:59
  I tell you what, it's been a hell of a
• 1:17:03
  month, hasn't it?
• 1:17:05
  US is supposedly in stagflation for the
• 1:17:08
  first time in decades. According to the
• 1:17:10
  2008 crash, prophet Ray Dalio, his
• 1:17:14
  warnings are coming amid a consumer
• 1:17:16
  price hike triggered by Iran war and
• 1:17:18
  economic downturn. These are frightening
• 1:17:21
  times indeed. People pay attention. Uh
• 1:17:25
  be safe out there. We could possibly be
• 1:17:28
  in a stagflation period. And he warned
• 1:17:31
  the US Federal Reserve against cutting
• 1:17:33
  interest rates, arguing that you will
• 1:17:35
  lose credibility. It's a toxic
• 1:17:37
  combination of stagnant economy,
• 1:17:42
  high inflation, and rising unemployment
• 1:17:46
  gripped the US in the 70s and the early
• 1:17:49
  80s when an OPEC oil embargo sent energy
• 1:17:53
  prices spiraling.
• 1:17:55
  took the US Federal Reserve a series of
• 1:17:57
  brutal rate hikes, pushing borrowing
• 1:18:00
  costs above 20% to finally break the
• 1:18:03
  cycle at the cost of a severe downturn.
• 1:18:07
  Crazy stuff, friends and neighbor
• 1:18:08
  neighbors. Pay attention.
• 1:18:11
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