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Corpses in Pokrovsk, Bombs in Poland, Zelensky’s Expiration Date: International Flavor Slices Through Tonight’s Comfortable Western Lies for You · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  even going to give to you there's a
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  lot of exciting things developing in Sam world
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  exciting things going on there even if it
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  never maybe just one person there but that's
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  okay because it's still highly exciting so I've
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  been doing what I do most evenings and
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  most late nights I look it's a it's
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  a lawmaker lacking leadership skills and they showed
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  a picture of Mitch McConnell that was awesome
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  have had a better a better thing I
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  think there were different topics but it said
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  some people lack leadership and there it was
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  now they're talking about the shutdown hall of
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  shame well they're all a bunch of goons
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  up there none of them have your interests
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  in mind at all I mean none so
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  at any rate the excitement that I plan
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  to get into tonight are on basically three
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  topics and we're gonna get started on the
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  first one just because I like being straight
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  with people I like being straight and you
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  know maybe I have a tiny bit of
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  a one-track mind you know that I
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  get bogged down upon but I like watching
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  morons in action and we got our share
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  of them in our government let's let's let
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  me tell you that there are those who
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  can do those who cannot join the federal
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  government or you know in some cases the
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  state government but that that's sad but true
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  so let's start tonight with a simple brutal
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  truth and a sentence that a lot of
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  people to so-called knowledgeable folks typically in
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  Washington and Brussels or the media things that
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  they just can't choke these words out but
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  they will eventually get to them by mistake
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  they'll get there anyway and that's where they're
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  going but they can't see it even on
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  their own map so I will provide for
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  you the blunt truth as it is anyway
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  because it's definitely true Ukraine is losing the
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  war hello how's the family how is it
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  going do you remember where that came from
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  the hello how's the family do you remember
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  the guy in the insane asylum on the
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  movie crazy people there was a guy in
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  there and I believe it was was it
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  Dustin Hoffman who was an ad executive who
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  went to the loony bin and then he
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  turned all the loonies into ad agent people
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  that they were passing out advertising stuff and
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  there was one guy in there this one
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  the only word he had said for years
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  was hello and it was a big deal
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  when he said hello how's the family you
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  know I need throw that on the end
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  anyway stupidity but that's from the movie crazy
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  people let's talk about crazy people so Ukraine
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  is losing the war they're not struggling they're
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  not facing challenges they're not having a setback
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  they're not you know in a period of
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  lack of victory they are losing they are
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  being defeated okay on the ground in manpower
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  in artillery in air defense in money in
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  personnel in corruption and in political will the
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  clearest evidence right now is what has been
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  happening for the last two months maybe longer
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  around Pokrovsk Myrnograd and Zaporizhia all along the
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  Zaporizhia front the exact sectors that even Washington
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  think tanks oh my god they're starting to
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  admit that some parts of the front are
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  cracking under Russian pressure I'm gonna walk you
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  through this pretty slowly and carefully on this
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  topic with some receipts not with slogans because
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  if you listen to most Western media aside
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  from me you would think that everything is
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  so it's difficult for these poor clowns but
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  it's stable that if we just send another
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  magical batch of missiles if France sells them
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  200 jets did you see that joke the
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  other day the Zelensky and Macron signed an
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  agreement for what a couple hundred jets what
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  are they gonna get them nobody has the
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  money Ukraine can't order them because they cannot
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  pay for them they're waiting for the money
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  to show up from somewhere right and these
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  the earliest any of these will show up
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  is 2027 or 2028 and that's if they
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  pay for them now they're not manufactured they're
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  not even there yeah like oh jeez France
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  has 200 airplanes just sitting around waiting to
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  get it no not so smooth but all
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  the news is well geez they're buying 200
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  planes oh yeah that's what they're doing they're
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  buying planes so it does make it difficult
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  if the magical missiles and jets and miracle
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  sanctions and you know Kiev is somehow with
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  these miracles gonna turn the tide but the
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  actual battlefield truly looks nothing like the fantasy
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  that they try to pass out for you
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  over here let us start and have a
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  look at Pokrovsk according to even pro-Ukrainian
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  forces and sources Russian troops have pushed deep
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  into the city even the Institute for the
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  study of hardly a friend of Moscow excuse
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  me the old frog in the throat concedes
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  that Russian units have made here's their words
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  significant advances in and around Pokrovsk what is
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  significant Russia's Russia's everywhere inside of Pokrovsk in
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  fact they've pushed the Ukrainians out to the
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  outskirts of a lot of it and maybe
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  trying to fix Ukrainian troops keep them trapped
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  inside of the parts of the city they're
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  still in while maneuvering to encircle them that
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  came from the Russian offensive campaign assessment November
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  18 2025 right that was just printed yesterday
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  Institute for the study of war right they
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  assessed Russian forces yep yep yep geolocated footage
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  and multiple frontline reports show Russian troops not
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  only pressing from the south in the east
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  but actually operating inside of Pokrovsk urban districts
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  to the west a separate assessment notes Russian
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  forces are advancing southeast and southeast of Myrnograd
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  also keeping Ukrainian supplies and routes under fire
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  control and steadily grinding down Ukrainian positions even
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  Ukrainian leaning outlets talk about Myrnograd being pushed
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  toward the gray zone status that is no
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  longer secure as a rear area they're actually
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  overrun but a contested battlefield town one frontline
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  report bluntly says that if Russia establishes a
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  stable foothold inside Myrnograd which they have these
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  situation will just replicate what's going on in
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  Pokrovsk meaning block by block fighting in which
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  Ukraine no longer has any initiative and is
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  burning its last reserves to prevent the collapse
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  so think about that picture you got what
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  they call a major logistics hub Pokrovsk okay
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  do you remember I'll get to him later
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  because I can't remember his name never remember
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  his first name Gordon what in the world
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  is his first name and now it's pissing
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  me off so I have to go and
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  and get to it where is it Gordon
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  was a guy who in the first part
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  of the year this year he was there
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  talking in his he's he's an expert right
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  he's a Ukrainian commentator his name is Gordon
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  like why can't I remember his first name
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  I only put it in as his as
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  his last name of course but he has
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  been he called earlier in the year he
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  said Pokrovsk is a jewel in the in
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  the crown of Ukraine and a city that
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  Kiev must hold at all cost and now
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  that Russian troops are inside it suddenly well
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  what is it it's just another town you
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  ought to watch the guy it's it's pretty
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  comical but then they never say that when
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  the propaganda downgrades the importance of these very
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  key cities the jewels that they were glorifying
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  six months ago you can't really call that
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  strategy it's more like you know the latest
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  version of spin control and all sides you
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  just have to say it right you know
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  it's it's it's a terrible think about this
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  picture we just got nothing it's not Russia
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  stalled it's Russia chewing its way into the
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  heart of the defensive belt right let's look
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  at the rest of this operation front for
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  most of the year nobody in Western media
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  want to talk about that sector at all
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  because Russia's been making steady steady progress if
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  you dig into the specialist reports you see
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  an uncomfortable pattern the key of independent which
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  is absolutely on Ukraine side admit that throughout
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  2025 the part of line where Russia has
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  gained the most territory is the wide open
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  space around the junction of Donetsk Zaporizhzhia and
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  Dnipropetrovsk oblasts the exact regions now in the
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  headlines Russian and Western and analytical sources alike
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  describe how Russian troops there have broken through
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  Ukrainian defenses captured villages like who's been the
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  cup and pushing kilometers beyond the old line
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  one analysis this time from a German military
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  commentator quoted by a Russian outlet went so
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  far as to say that Ukrainian defenses in
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  Zaporizhzhia have collapsed and that Ukrainian units can
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  no longer withstand the pressure of Russian assaults
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  which are constant Ukraine's own top commander general
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  Sirsky admitted publicly the situation in Zaporizhzhia has
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  worsened he talks about intense fighting in areas
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  like Ulya Pulya and Aleksandrovka where Russian forces
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  are exploiting fog lots of that on telegram
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  and numerical superiority in troops and equipment and
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  they're biting off settlement after settlement kicking the
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  crap out of them so you got Pokrovsky
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  encircled Mirna grad dragged to the same fate
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  Zaporizhzhia bleeding ground and at the same time
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  the front line is 1200 kilometers long and
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  Russia has the advantage of manpower shells drones
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  how is this a stalemate pause pause
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  pause it's not okay now I'm I'm not
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  asking you to take my word for it
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  you know you feel like researching yourself go
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  ahead but I'm gonna talk about how the
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  people in the west spent the last three
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  years trying to ignore or silence people like
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  me because they said all of this wouldn't
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  happen but it has oh my goodness I
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  can't imagine that people would lie to us
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  retired colonel Douglas McGregor he's got a show
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  on we'll show up of a channel on
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  YouTube and he's been warned from day one
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  the Ukraine cannot win a war of attrition
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  against Russia there's a surprise everybody knew that
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  if they knew anything about war or about
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  Ukraine or about Russia but nope we have
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  experts that are paid to say certain things
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  so that the MIC military industrial complex does
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  what it wants gets what it wants to
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  Lindsey Graham's in the uh who was the
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  guy just talked about Mitch McConnell's of the
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  world uh get rich off of this stuff
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  so this is what we need uh recently
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  he put in one sentence that summed up
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  the entire situation this is Doug McGregor Zelensky
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  he said refuses to end a war in
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  Ukraine and has lost not might lose someday
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  but has lost past tense that came from
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  uh military news or a military newspaper called
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  Vienna Adela which means um military deals military
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  news and uh Zelensky refuses to end a
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  war Ukraine has lost that was uh Doug
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  McGregor McGregor's core argument you've heard him say
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  uh you know lots of versions of this
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  is simple Russia has more people more artillery
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  more industrial capacity it's fighting on its own
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  doorstep U.S. can't magically airlift an entire
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  new Ukrainian army into the Donbass all Washington
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  can do is prolong the slaughter by feeding
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  in just enough weapons to keep Kiv's leadership
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  believing in a victory that does not exist
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  then you have lieutenant colonel Daniel Davis he's
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  a step below colonel he's lieutenant colonel another
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  former U.S. officer who actually spent time
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  studying the battlefield and talking to people on
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  the ground Davis has been saying for a
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  year that Ukraine must recognize the reality of
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  war that it cannot win militarily that the
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  only way out is negotiation not fantasies about
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  sweeping Russian forces back to 1991 borders that's
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  from a newspaper called defense priorities he isn't
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  talking about politics he's talking about math attrition
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  manpower industrial output in a recent appearance he
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  also walked through the numbers Russian artillery firing
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  several times more shells per day than Ukraine
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  can possibly manage Russian factories ramping up production
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  while Western stockpiles run dry Russian troops rotating
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  through the front while Ukrainian units are kept
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  at the line until they're destroyed add to
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  that professor professor John Mearsheimer political scientist in
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  the Western establishment and they just love to
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  hate this guy years ago years ago he
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  warned that Ukraine would face what he called
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  an ugly victory not for Kiv but for
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  Moscow in his words Russia will win an
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  ugly victory by annexing a large swath of
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  Ukrainian territory and turning Ukraine into a dysfunctional
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  rump state that was Mearsheimer the darkness ahead
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  where Ukraine war is headed and in 2023
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  he told the South China Morning Post that
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  the West should prefer for an ugly Russian
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  victory in Ukraine rather than some Hollywood ending
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  where NATO walks triumphantly into Sevastopol that was
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  at the University of Chicago social sciences in
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  July of 2023 what do we have here
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  on one side three different figures McGregor Davis
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  Mearsheimer the real experts all saying in their
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  own language that Ukraine cannot win a war
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  of attrition against Russia and we'll end up
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  losing territory sovereignty if this continues on the
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  other side we have a bunch of goons
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  no I'm sorry we have a battlefield a
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  real battlefield but cross Myrnograd Zaporizhia Kupyansk a
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  whole mosaic of towns that are slowly battered
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  emptied and occupied by Russian forces you can
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  call this a conspiracy theory many conspiracy theorists
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  and so-called Russian apologists like me haven't
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  been contradicted by events we've been confirmed now
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  let's add a fourth voice a guy named
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  Matthew Cole a former marine and a diplomat
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  in a recent interview titled Ukraine's army is
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  collapsing everywhere very creative Ho describes not just
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  the front line but the bigger picture an
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  overextended U.S. empire talked about that last
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  night trying to fight proxy wars in Ukraine
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  threaten Venezuela posture in the Middle East and
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  encircle China all at the same time all
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  unsuccessfully he warns that Ukraine has become a
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  symbol of imperial overreach a place where Western
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  elites are willing to sacrifice an entire country's
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  population to avoid admitting that their strategy failed
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  that's brutal so when we talk about Pokrovsk
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  being nearly encircled Myrnograd turning into a gray
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  zone Zaporizhia collapsing in key sectors we're not
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  talking about battles we're watching the slow confirmation
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  of everything all of us have predicted that
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  know anything about what's going down so let
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  me bring this down to human city level
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  examples some months back this Gordon guy described
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  Pokrovsk as a jewel a city that absolutely
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  had to be held a keystone in Ukrainian
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  defense a keystone people that was the line
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  when Kiev leadership still believed they could stabilize
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  the front with Western assistance now that Russian
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  troops are fighting inside the same city planting
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  flags on top of buildings and in road
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  signs and hammering neighborhoods with artillery Gordon is
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  suddenly telling the public well you know Pokrovsk
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  what is it it's just one more town
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  it's nothing special same guy right that's that's
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  spin control under heavy bombardment this same pattern
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  has repeated over and over it was what
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  was the name of that other city that
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  they fought for for so long that everybody
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  everybody was talking about I think I have
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  it listed here somewhere but Kupyansk was heralded
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  as a symbol of Ukrainian liberation now western
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  outlets are describing it as a half-dead
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  frontline town with no life shelling is constant
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  infrastructure is shattered that's in Kupyansk so Parisian
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  villages were once backdrops for triumphant stories of
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  Ukrainian counter offenses now even Reuters and AP
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  are writing about Russia capturing settlement after settlement
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  while Ukraine's commander-in-chief says the situation
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  has significantly deteriorated that's what losing looks like
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  no big announcement no surrender ceremony just a
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  long list of places that were once strategically
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  vital and they're now not that important the
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  defenders of the official narrative which we believe
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  here in the west or we're supposed to
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  you know believe here in the west those
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  people will say yeah Russia has gained a
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  little bit of ground but the cost their
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  casualties are enormous their losses are not sustainable
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  their economy's gonna collapse any minute we've been
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  hearing that for three years straight meanwhile in
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  the real world Russia has an army a
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  very capable army in the field factories very
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  capable factories producing shells drones missiles an economy
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  that is adjusted to bone-crushing sanctions and
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  a currency that did not in fact disappear
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  but got stronger on the other hand all
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  the experts told us Ukraine was winning but
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  Ukraine is running out of men that isn't
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  Russian propaganda friends and neighbors it's what Ukrainian
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  officials themselves say when they're talking about expanding
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  mobilization maybe different age groups maybe we will
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  break into the under 25 crowd although 90
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  % of them have already run to Europe
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  and the United States they talk about closing
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  loopholes for the guys who got medical clearance
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  to not go to the front but now
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  are being sent there to die with two
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  weeks of western media is full of stories
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  about draft evasion people paying bribes to avoid
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  the front families terrified of their sons being
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  beaten on the street and hauled away and
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  two weeks later in a trench being dead
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  and look at what western officials are now
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  admitting analysts at places like critical threat project
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  and institute of the study of war concede
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  that Russian forces are pressing seriously in Pokrovsk,
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  St. Paris, Kupyansk, Limon and Ukraine is struggling
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  to stretch its forces across the whole 1200
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  kilometer front line remember how we were told
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  this war would be about precision and precision
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  strikes we're gonna beat the crap out of
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  them they're ruskies talk about drones we're cyber
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  and smart missiles we got this in reality
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  it's turned to exactly what the real experts
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  McGregor Davis any serious military historian who has
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  said from the start including me I've said
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  it from the very start this will be
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  a brutal industrial war of in which to
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  side with more bodies more shells more factories
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  will grind down the other Russia has had
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  those advantages from the very beginning Ukraine does
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  not that's the core of the story now
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  even mainstream European papers are starting to wobble
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  LeMond in France recently ran a piece effectively
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  saying the quiet part quite loud this was
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  when Zelensky was there signing a deal with
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  Macron Zelensky is weak he's weak because of
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  a corruption scandal at home deteriorating military we're
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  making this propaganda show of Zelensky and Macron
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  signing this agreement for 200 new planes you
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  got no pilots folks there's not a pilot
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  you got nothing how long does it take
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  you to train a fighter pilot two weeks
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  like you are with some pork grunt on
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  the ground that you're sent into his death
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  nonsense Pokrovsk is encircled Russian strikes are hammering
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  Ukrainian logistics hard the article that they wrote
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  in LeMond paints a picture of a president
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  begging for help in Paris and his army
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  is bleeding out in the east on the
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  front lines put all that together and then
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  ask yourself is the profile of war that
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  Ukraine is winning or even when they can
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  realistically turn around there's one more detail which
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  would tell you which way the wind is
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  blowing and that is tactics critical threats and
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  institute for the study of war both describe
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  how Russian forces have adapted offensive methods around
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  Pokrovsk and Zaporizhia instead of clumsy mass assaults
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  they're using small infiltration groups that creep forward
• 26:07
  a few hundred meters a day taking advantage
• 26:10
  of fog reduced drone visibility that came from
• 26:14
  understanding war supplies are moved by drone units
• 26:18
  coordinate via encrypted links and when they reach
• 26:21
  critical position crossroads tree lines industrial zones they
• 26:25
  call in heavy fire this is not a
• 26:28
  cartoon picture of a Soviet horde blundering forward
• 26:31
  it's an army that has learned and adjusted
• 26:35
  to modern surveillance and strike systems and is
• 26:39
  steadily advancing and improving but the west still
• 26:43
  loves to repeat that Russia is taking staggering
• 26:46
  losses and maybe they are everyone in this
• 26:50
  war is taking heavy losses but on a
• 26:53
  strategic level losses only matter relative to capacity
• 26:57
  and so far the only side that has
• 27:01
  run out of men shells air defense will
• 27:06
  to fight is Ukraine Russian will is high
• 27:10
  factories are running three shifts a day on
• 27:14
  artillery western arsenals are scraping the bottom of
• 27:17
  the barrel and they're arguing in parliament in
• 27:20
  the west about whether to send the last
• 27:23
  dozen systems that still work wasn't Zelensky in
• 27:28
  Italy this past week trying to get two
• 27:31
  of the three patriot systems that they had
• 27:36
  or was it it could have been a
• 27:37
  different country I might have the country wrong
• 27:40
  but it was a funny story about him
• 27:42
  being out there hunting down uh this place
• 27:46
  this country that only had three and he
• 27:48
  wanted two of them um you don't have
• 27:51
  to like that reality but if you ignore
• 27:53
  it you're gonna end up designing policy for
• 27:55
  a fantasy war that exists on you know
• 27:57
  I don't know your your video screen you
• 28:00
  know playing uh playing uh war games on
• 28:03
  tv or Washington think tanks they get it
• 28:09
  wrong all the time western publics are oh
• 28:12
  you know they're all tired certainly in Europe
• 28:15
  they're exhausted and they don't like the Ukrainians
• 28:17
  getting all these freebies and nothing support for
• 28:21
  the endless aid has dropped across Europe it's
• 28:23
  gone in the United States petition politicians I
• 28:27
  know they see it on in the polls
• 28:29
  even if they don't talk about it on
• 28:31
  tv they respond with two tricks first they
• 28:35
  hide the real numbers behind financial engineering Trump
• 28:40
  gives loans instead of freebies right so and
• 28:44
  the same thing goes for the uh for
• 28:46
  the pentagon frozen Russian assets they're trying to
• 28:50
  get instead of taxpayer money and by increasing
• 28:55
  the propaganda they want to talk about defending
• 28:59
  democracy on the nipper more and more that
• 29:02
  way they don't have to explain why their
• 29:04
  own citizens are paying for energy food and
• 29:07
  mortgages twice what they were before and as
• 29:10
  Matthew Hope points out it isn't about helping
• 29:12
  Ukraine it's about keeping the imperial machine fed
• 29:16
  I love to hear things like that that
• 29:18
  means that my discussion last night is absolutely
• 29:21
  correct right even when the machine is running
• 29:25
  on fumes already Moscow this looks very differently
• 29:31
  Russian officials take a look at Pokrovsk at
• 29:34
  the advances around Zaporizhia the collapsing Ukrainian fortifications
• 29:39
  and they see confirmation that time is on
• 29:43
  their side they talk about the west as
• 29:46
  a decadent empire that can't tolerate pain that
• 29:49
  panics as soon as it faces a peer
• 29:52
  with real industrial capacity and a real military
• 29:57
  you know this isn't Iraq right whether you
• 30:01
  agree or disagree with Moscow's assessment you can't
• 30:05
  deny that on the ground Russian forces have
• 30:08
  been moving forward and Ukrainian commanders publicly admit
• 30:12
  they're in difficult scenarios and they're constantly begging
• 30:17
  for more air defense more money more artillery
• 30:21
  more men more more more the beggar comes
• 30:26
  wandering around in his now black t-shirts
• 30:29
  instead of green and he you know has
• 30:32
  his hand out his hat out and he's
• 30:35
  wringing his hands and give me more please
• 30:38
  and in Kiev under all the flags and
• 30:41
  slogans ordinary people see what's happening they see
• 30:46
  towns like Pokrovsk, Myrnograd, Kupyansk, dozens of villages
• 30:49
  in Zaporizhia they see other waves of mobilization
• 30:53
  they see western leaders talking confidently about fighting
• 30:56
  to the last Ukrainian while these same leaders
• 31:00
  never once say our sons and daughters will
• 31:04
  never go fight there that is why morale
• 31:08
  erodes why thousands of military-age men have
• 31:11
  slipped across the border and more and more
• 31:13
  people even inside Ukraine whisper that a negotiated
• 31:18
  end however unfair remember me telling you about
• 31:21
  the polls recently said 20 percent favors Zelensky
• 31:28
  now but people inside of Ukraine think that
• 31:32
  a negotiated end however horrible is better than
• 31:37
  two more years of meat grinder so when
• 31:40
  you look at Pokrovsk when you look at
• 31:43
  Myrnograd when you look at Zaporizhia when you
• 31:46
  look at the battlefield expression from people like
• 31:51
  McGregor Davis Mearsheimer they've been saying these things
• 31:56
  for years this is a war designed by
• 31:59
  western planners but it was unwinnable by Kiev
• 32:03
  from the very beginning remember all the talk
• 32:07
  that all you have to do is push
• 32:08
  Russia and they'll collapse like a fold like
• 32:12
  a cheap suit they're done you know Ukraine
• 32:16
  defeat is not some abstract possibility it's a
• 32:20
  reality it's uh the longer we pretend otherwise
• 32:24
  the more catastrophic and the more ugly the
• 32:28
  defeat is going to be so Kiev can
• 32:32
  either face that reality now and push for
• 32:35
  a negotiated side we push for a ceasefire
• 32:39
  some kind of settlement but Russia won't take
• 32:42
  a ceasefire some kind of settlement to stop
• 32:44
  the bleeding or we can continue to lie
• 32:47
  to ourselves about stalemates and turning points those
• 32:50
  are the choices they're not slogans not soundbites
• 32:55
  those are choices as usual the people paying
• 32:59
  the price aren't sitting in Washington D.C.
• 33:02
  they're not sitting in Brussels they're sitting in
• 33:09
  the basements of Zaporizhia listening to artillery wondering
• 33:15
  which flag is going to be flying over
• 33:18
  the city the next day that's what's going
• 33:22
  to happen did you hear the story about
• 33:26
  the two Ukrainians that blew up a train
• 33:33
  in Poland and immediately everybody jumps and says
• 33:41
  Russia Russia Russia of course and this is
• 33:44
  this is another way the atmosphere of the
• 33:48
  war any unexplained occurrence anything is Russia Russia
• 33:53
  Russia Russia did it so sometimes even after
• 33:57
  the facts contradict the headlines they still say
• 34:01
  Russia did it how many people are still
• 34:03
  saying that Russia blew up Nord Stream 2
• 34:08
  curious curious isn't it well it's not very
• 34:12
  curious when you when you put some real
• 34:14
  thought into it everybody knows who did it
• 34:18
  everybody knows it sure as hell wasn't Russia
• 34:23
  it's just foolish to think that it was
• 34:27
  so a few days ago somebody blew up
• 34:30
  a section of railway in a little village
• 34:33
  of Mika about a hundred kilometers southeast of
• 34:36
  Warsaw that that line isn't a sleepy local
• 34:39
  route it's a rail artery that's used to
• 34:42
  move supplies and equipment to Ukraine according to
• 34:44
  Polish authorities explosives were placed on the track
• 34:48
  in a way that could have caused a
• 34:49
  mass casualty derailment if a train had actually
• 34:53
  hit them the only reason no one died
• 34:56
  was because the driver of the train saw
• 34:59
  something suspicious slowed down and stopped in time
• 35:03
  prosecutors immediately classified the case as a sabotage
• 35:09
  of a terrorist nature carried out for the
• 35:11
  benefit of a foreign intelligence service Prime Minister
• 35:15
  Tusk called it an unprecedented act of sabotage
• 35:19
  and an act of state terror foreign minister
• 35:25
  Vladislav Sikorsky went even further and said it
• 35:28
  was an act of state terrorism implying that
• 35:31
  Russia was behind it that's ABC News telling
• 35:35
  us these genius events and before investigations were
• 35:39
  even finished without a trial without a court
• 35:41
  the political decision was announced the closure of
• 35:46
  the last remaining Russian consulate which is in
• 35:50
  Gdansk and mobilizing of a hundred thousand soldiers
• 35:54
  to guard key infrastructure as part of something
• 35:57
  they were calling operation horizon but here's the
• 36:02
  twist the suspects aren't Russian they're not even
• 36:06
  Belarusian they're not some phantom Wagner group they're
• 36:10
  two Ukrainians Polish prosecutors have named them there's
• 36:14
  a 39 year old and a 41 year
• 36:16
  old Alexander K and Yevgeny I and they
• 36:19
  say there's very high probability that these men
• 36:22
  were directly responsible for the bombing of the
• 36:25
  rail line as well as acts of other
• 36:28
  sabotage they're being charged with acts of sabotage
• 36:32
  according to AP in other words the people
• 36:37
  who allegedly planted the explosives are Ukrainian so
• 36:41
  how do the Polish authorities weave this tale
• 36:44
  very simple oh sure they're Ukrainian but they
• 36:47
  are working for Russian intelligence Tusk told the
• 36:51
  media the men had crossed the border from
• 36:53
  Belarus and they were recruited by Russian agencies
• 36:57
  and tried to cause an unprecedented catastrophe on
• 37:03
  the Polish soil notice the pattern here step
• 37:05
  one explosion step two immediately claim a political
• 37:11
  event this is state terrorism by Russia step
• 37:15
  three a little bit later inconvenient detail shows
• 37:18
  up the suspects are Ukrainian step four got
• 37:21
  to a justice narrative they're Ukrainian sure but
• 37:24
  don't worry about that it's still Russia they
• 37:26
  are Russian agents no evidence sounds like the
• 37:31
  U.S. and Venezuela we're told to trust
• 37:34
  that these men because they are Ukrainian and
• 37:36
  allegedly crossed from Belarus they got to be
• 37:39
  puppets of Moscow the press headlines are the
• 37:43
  same thing Russia's behind the sabotage no evidence
• 37:46
  but that's what they claim Russia's a state
• 37:49
  sponsor of terror the fact the alleged trigger
• 37:52
  men are from the very country Poland has
• 37:54
  been arming to the teeth training and sheltering
• 37:58
  for years is just a minor little uncomfortable
• 38:02
  footnote the Kremlin states the obvious Poland is
• 38:06
  using this to feed its own Russophobia pesk
• 38:10
  of Dmitry Putin's spokesperson accuses Warsaw of reflexively
• 38:17
  blaming Russia for every problem that comes up
• 38:21
  and warning that this fits a broad European
• 38:24
  trend and they shout a hybrid war every
• 38:27
  time something goes wrong you don't have to
• 38:31
  love the Kremlin to see that he has
• 38:33
  a point because this isn't the first time
• 38:35
  that they accused Russia of everything under the
• 38:39
  sun based on nothing more than suspicion and
• 38:44
  political inconvenience and the need for another narrative
• 38:50
  remember the drone saga a few weeks ago
• 38:54
  Belgium quite little EU country known for chocolate
• 38:58
  and bureaucracy has been hit by a wave
• 39:02
  of drone incidents drones were spotted over a
• 39:05
  nuclear power plant near Antwerp drones have forced
• 39:09
  flight suspensions at Brussels airport which is one
• 39:13
  of Europe's biggest cargo hubs according to Belgium's
• 39:16
  air traffic control authority there have been repeated
• 39:19
  shutdowns and interruptions because these things are buzzing
• 39:23
  around runways and cargo facilities Belgium called in
• 39:27
  the German military for help to make counter
• 39:30
  drone measures even brought in British anti-drone
• 39:34
  troops the EU in the same breath tightened
• 39:38
  visa rules for Russians officials are talking about
• 39:41
  Russian espionage hybrid warfare and even Belgian prosecutors
• 39:46
  admit they don't know who's operating the drones
• 39:49
  but the language is Belgian defense minister Theo
• 39:54
  Franken told the press that some of these
• 39:56
  flights are part of a spying operation that
• 40:00
  couldn't have been done by an amateur German
• 40:04
  defense minister Boris Pistorius went even further saying
• 40:07
  the drone wave was likely connected with the
• 40:10
  fight over the use of frozen assets of
• 40:13
  Russia's held by Belgium and he warned about
• 40:18
  Russian attempts to sow doubt about who the
• 40:22
  culprits were divide us and influence elections wow
• 40:28
  and yes there have also been real cases
• 40:31
  where Russian drones literally flew into territory in
• 40:36
  Poland forced the closure of multiple airports on
• 40:39
  the 9th of September around 20 Russian drones
• 40:43
  crossed Polish airspace shut down four airports in
• 40:49
  those cases at least though the origin was
• 40:52
  clear and the danger obvious but these confirmed
• 40:57
  incidents were used to paint every other identity
• 41:01
  unidentified drone in Belgium Denmark or Germany as
• 41:06
  part of some Russian campaign it isn't limited
• 41:12
  to Belgium Copenhagen airport main hub in Scandinavia
• 41:17
  closed its airspace because of unidentified drones flying
• 41:21
  over runways Danish officials said it was the
• 41:25
  most severe breach of national infrastructure Munich airport
• 41:29
  was shut down um so we end up
• 41:34
  where hollow mirrors Russia denies western governments accuse
• 41:40
  the own investigators hedge and ordinary people all
• 41:45
  they know is flights are delayed trains are
• 41:48
  shut down prices go up and the explanation
• 41:52
  is three simple words three simple words in
• 41:57
  the English language Russia did it and now
• 42:02
  back to Poland what makes the Polish case
• 42:04
  uniquely exciting and revealing is it here we
• 42:08
  actually do know who did it and they
• 42:10
  weren't Russians we're told that they're Ukrainians who
• 42:14
  cross from Belarus prosecutors describe the case as
• 42:17
  terrorism so logically you have three possibilities one
• 42:22
  the official story these two Ukrainians are mercenaries
• 42:25
  recruited by Russia sent to destabilize Poland and
• 42:29
  threaten Ukrainian logistics to their Ukrainian radicals acting
• 42:34
  on their own whether that's black market smuggling
• 42:37
  internal Ukrainian politics or maybe they're people who
• 42:41
  didn't want to be mobilized and so they
• 42:45
  ran to Poland maybe they're retaliating over some
• 42:49
  other grievance they don't like Zelensky and his
• 42:53
  crowd stealing 100 million bucks three there are
• 42:56
  some part of some murkier network that has
• 42:59
  nothing to do with Moscow but everything to
• 43:01
  do with chaos criminal extremists intelligence operations that
• 43:06
  use Ukraine as a cover story but we're
• 43:09
  told instead with total certainty to believe option
• 43:13
  one it was all Russia no serious discussion
• 43:17
  of option two or option three we already
• 43:20
  know there are Ukrainian groups conducting cross-border
• 43:24
  sabotage into Russia sometimes with or without sanction
• 43:28
  we know there are a huge flow of
• 43:30
  weapons and trained personnel going through Poland we
• 43:33
  know that wartime economies generate criminal structure including
• 43:37
  smuggling and violence is it really too impossible
• 43:43
  to imagine that a Ukrainian might be involved
• 43:46
  in an operation that wasn't controlled by Moscow
• 43:49
  for political politicians in Poland yes because if
• 43:56
  you admit that Ukrainian citizens not just the
• 43:59
  Kremlin are a possible source of terrorism on
• 44:03
  your own soil your whole moral narrative collapses
• 44:09
  you can't stand in front of the camera
• 44:11
  and say we're protecting Europe from Russian barbarism
• 44:15
  if the bomb in your own track comes
• 44:17
  from the people you've been telling the public
• 44:20
  are heroes so instead you get an ideological
• 44:24
  reflex every explosion is Russia every drone is
• 44:30
  Russia every cyber attack every arson any specific
• 44:35
  person near any military installation or any airport
• 44:41
  they gotta be Russian facts we'll sort them
• 44:44
  out later or not at all do we
• 44:47
  know anything truthful about Nord Stream 2 nope
• 44:51
  the political utility is immediate more sanctions more
• 44:55
  troops more people uh mobilized more NATO money
• 45:00
  more fear Russia's coming the big bad wolf
• 45:03
  is there think about what Poland did on
• 45:07
  the basis of this single blast by two
• 45:11
  Ukrainians they didn't just charge the suspect they
• 45:15
  closed the last Russian consulate in the country
• 45:18
  cutting off the final consular and diplomatic communication
• 45:23
  in the country they deployed 10,000 troops
• 45:27
  to guard infrastructure militarized public spaces even more
• 45:33
  all of this in a country that is
• 45:35
  already one of the most warlike in NATO
• 45:39
  and this all plays beautifully into the western
• 45:44
  narrative of Russian war against the entire west
• 45:50
  always a new excuse to tighten the screws
• 45:57
  I'm not gonna sit here and claim Russia
• 45:59
  is innocent of every bad deed in the
• 46:01
  world Russia runs intelligence operations I told you
• 46:05
  about Andrei Bezrukov and his wife living over
• 46:09
  here for 20 years it runs influence campaigns
• 46:12
  it has capable special forces and good cyber
• 46:15
  units that's what we do we do it
• 46:18
  too especially during wartime Moscow admits to conducting
• 46:22
  special operations in the information space and in
• 46:26
  Europe's political system question isn't about whether Russia
• 46:30
  is a bad actor always the question about
• 46:34
  whether we have any standards at all for
• 46:37
  any proof we don't and in Poland the
• 46:40
  only thing that is concrete so far is
• 46:42
  that two Ukrainian suspects damaged railway line that's
• 46:46
  it Belgian drone case same thing but they
• 46:49
  don't even have any people yeah explosive on
• 46:54
  tracks that's real people could have died you
• 46:57
  know drone violence places that's real too meanwhile
• 47:02
  the only constant is the public keeps being
• 47:04
  told to be afraid except new emergency measures
• 47:07
  accept the loss of your own rights why
• 47:10
  because Russia's coming everything that is happening in
• 47:15
  the dark as a Kremlin stamp on it
• 47:17
  and they're the bad guy that's not security
• 47:20
  that's superstition dressed up as foreign policy and
• 47:26
  the rail line at Mika the airfields in
• 47:28
  Belgium the runways of Copenhagen in Munich they're
• 47:32
  not just pieces of infrastructure they're props in
• 47:35
  a story that keeps confrontation alive forever the
• 47:41
  question smart people should be asking though is
• 47:43
  not only who planted the bomb or who
• 47:48
  flew the drone it's who benefits from a
• 47:51
  Europe where every explosion and every buzzing toy
• 47:55
  in the sky is automatically turned into another
• 47:59
  excuse to push negotiations negotiations further away and
• 48:04
  war closer to your own home you can
• 48:08
  answer that question on your own now I
• 48:12
  want to talk about a little bit about
• 48:14
  the z monster you know I want to
• 48:18
  walk you through this again because all over
• 48:21
  the news everywhere in the last two days
• 48:26
  are some pretty severe and expanding troubles and
• 48:33
  worries let's talk about the third pillar of
• 48:40
  the entire mess of what went on today
• 48:45
  Zelensky's collapsing political house the corruption explosion protests
• 48:53
  in Kiev where they're calling for him to
• 48:55
  be removed and the west now pushing him
• 48:59
  toward a surrender cash for land type let's
• 49:05
  talk about this energy gate scandal which I
• 49:09
  covered in depth last week let's talk about
• 49:14
  the scandal and who really got caught let's
• 49:17
  talk about Zelensky and his inner circle and
• 49:20
  how they've been playing games with the anti
• 49:22
  -corruption system itself let's talk about the 28
• 49:27
  point Trump peace plan and Keith Kellogg heading
• 49:33
  for the exit he's leaving let's talk about
• 49:37
  Zelensky's Paris Ankara tour selling jets in peace
• 49:42
  while his own base is burning up so
• 49:46
  let's buckle up right the hundred million dollar
• 49:51
  story shadow managers and Zelensky's wallet Ukraine is
• 49:56
  still and it's growing daily or I wouldn't
• 49:59
  keep talking about it they're in the middle
• 50:02
  of the biggest corruption scandal of the war
• 50:05
  and it isn't about a colonel stealing some
• 50:09
  diesel or making some money this is about
• 50:12
  the core of the state energy sector at
• 50:17
  a ministerial level and Ukraine's national anti-corruption
• 50:24
  bureau has been investigating allegedly for 15 months
• 50:30
  the operation was codenamed Midas remember that they've
• 50:39
  been investigating the network inside of Energoatom and
• 50:43
  the state nuclear operator and their conclusions shadow
• 50:48
  managers infiltrated Energoatom contractors paid 10 to 15
• 50:55
  percent kickbacks hundred million dollars in bribes and
• 51:01
  embezzled funds laundered out of the company itself
• 51:05
  not a side hustle this is somebody getting
• 51:09
  super rich this is a strategic monster of
• 51:15
  a company Energoatom with four billion a year
• 51:18
  in revenue Naboo says management of the empire
• 51:22
  was effectively in the hands of outsiders not
• 51:26
  officials not elected people but private fixer uppers
• 51:30
  with no formal authority running a mafia racket
• 51:36
  in the middle of a war and at
• 51:39
  the center of it all is Zelensky's old
• 51:41
  buddy and I told you about him the
• 51:44
  other day but Naboo has charged seven people
• 51:47
  including this Zelensky wallet Mindik one was a
• 51:52
  former deputy prime minister Oleksei Chernyshev and he's
• 51:57
  jailed Mindik himself he got out and ran
• 52:02
  to Israel he left just before from the
• 52:09
  15 month probe they conducted 70 raids showed
• 52:16
  a hundred million skimmed that is a regime
• 52:21
  threatening amount of money and western press has
• 52:24
  been all over it the last week and
• 52:29
  it's getting worse Reuters says the scandal is
• 52:32
  folks tension on Kiv's battle against corruption and
• 52:37
  stirred up public anger at the exact moment
• 52:40
  Ukraine needs EU money just to survive the
• 52:45
  EU is planning on like 148 million or
• 52:48
  something like that to pump in because they
• 52:51
  say that's the shortfall for 2026 and that
• 52:55
  the US isn't playing that so far we're
• 53:00
  not giving it up right Wall Street Journal
• 53:04
  piece says that 70 residences were searched five
• 53:08
  detentions and the probe is getting closer and
• 53:12
  closer to Zelensky's inner circle everybody's calling it
• 53:18
  energy gate and it's consuming Kiv and the
• 53:25
  EU reaction isn't being made up political quotes
• 53:29
  it as saying that the revelations are revolting
• 53:34
  and saying that this won't help European taxpayers
• 53:39
  and it will certainly won't help Ukraine or
• 53:43
  Zelensky's reputation Western money's on the line Ukrainian
• 53:48
  public is outraged EU officials are muttering about
• 53:53
  corruption gee there's a surprise and at the
• 53:56
  center is Zelensky's own team but that's only
• 54:01
  half of the story because ministers fall but
• 54:07
  the real inner circle is staying when a
• 54:11
  scandal hits this hard though somebody has to
• 54:13
  be thrown under the bus so Zelensky has
• 54:17
  moved really quickly in the last couple of
• 54:19
  days he got rid of justice minister Herman
• 54:23
  Halashenko an energy minister these were announced today
• 54:27
  Svetlana Khrynchuk they're told to resign or get
• 54:31
  fired France 24 and everybody else note that
• 54:34
  their departure came immediately after Zelensky asked them
• 54:38
  to quit in connection with the Energoatom problem
• 54:42
  he approved personal sanctions against Mindig Zelensky gives
• 54:48
  a standard line there must be sentences and
• 54:52
  all steps against corruption are necessary that's in
• 54:55
  the Kiev post on paper it looks like
• 54:59
  he's being a tough guy ministers are fallen
• 55:01
  the wallet has exiled and sanctioned the courts
• 55:05
  are jailing players like Chernyshov but look at
• 55:10
  who isn't touched there's a name that keeps
• 55:14
  popping up in this story a guy named
• 55:16
  Andrey Yermak Zelensky's chief of staff the guy
• 55:23
  everybody in Kiev knows is the real gatekeeper
• 55:28
  reports investigators have mysterious guy named Ali Baba
• 55:33
  who's a figure in their case file described
• 55:36
  as influencing political pressure on Naboo the anti
• 55:41
  -corruption league and the anti-corruption prosecutor's office
• 55:46
  one opposition MP says that he believes Ali
• 55:49
  Baba is Yermak that was today came out
• 55:53
  10 hours ago who's who in Ukraine's energy
• 55:56
  corruption scandal this was two-day high level
• 56:00
  pressure same outlet told us earlier this year
• 56:04
  Ukraine's own security service and prosecutors raided Naboo's
• 56:08
  office under a convenient pretext and Zelensky justified
• 56:12
  it by saying anti-corruption bodies had to
• 56:15
  be purged of Russian influence remember that maybe
• 56:20
  you don't I do but in other words
• 56:24
  when Naboo went after the wrong people or
• 56:26
  people they didn't want to Zelensky tried to
• 56:29
  gut it and now that Naboo has nailed
• 56:31
  the right people his ex-partner and inconvenient
• 56:35
  ministers suddenly he's the champion of anti-corruption
• 56:39
  again maybe we need Kremlin analysts to to
• 56:45
  read this pattern for us it's classic anti
• 56:51
  -corruption is a weapon not a principle and
• 56:54
  it's not happening in a vacuum go back
• 56:57
  just a few months in July anti-corruption
• 57:01
  protests and Zelensky failed to grab the power
• 57:06
  he wanted to take long before an ergo
• 57:09
  atom exploded into the headlines Zelensky pushed bill
• 57:13
  12414 through parliament that was a law that
• 57:17
  stripped Naboo and Sappo the prosecutor's office of
• 57:20
  their independence and put them under the prosecutor
• 57:23
  general a loyalist serving who Zelensky human rights
• 57:30
  watch and pretty much every serious NGO said
• 57:33
  the same thing at that time the law
• 57:35
  gutted Ukraine's anti-corruption reform and concentrated control
• 57:40
  over prosecutors and put it into Zelensky's hands
• 57:45
  and the public snapped protests everywhere thousands of
• 57:50
  Ukrainians veterans young professionals Gen Z folks filled
• 57:54
  the streets of Kiev Lvov Kharkiv and other
• 57:57
  cities they called it the cardboard Maidan holding
• 58:01
  handmade signs saying that corruption you know applauds
• 58:06
  get your hands off Naboo these were the
• 58:09
  first serious anti-government protests since 2022 not
• 58:15
  pro-Russian not pro-Putin these were the
• 58:18
  same people who marched against Yanukovych 10 years
• 58:21
  ago now they're marching against the Z-man
• 58:25
  the EU weighed in EU officials warned that
• 58:28
  tampering with these programs would jeopardize Ukraine's EU
• 58:34
  hopes Transparency International called it a direct attack
• 58:39
  on Ukraine's most important reform Zelensky backed off
• 58:44
  right he promised a new bill to restore
• 58:47
  independence pushed through at the end of July
• 58:49
  AP and several others noted that this was
• 58:54
  clearly a climb down under public pressure so
• 58:59
  the timeline is clear let's go through this
• 59:01
  July Zelensky wants anti-corruption you know called
• 59:06
  to heel massive protests end of July reverses
• 59:10
  course November same agencies he tried to weaken
• 59:14
  have blown open a hundred million dollar scandal
• 59:18
  involving his own circle and we're supposed to
• 59:23
  believe this is just an unfortunate coincidence right
• 59:30
  what about real investigation from Moscow's point of
• 59:34
  view and from any neutral perspective it looks
• 59:38
  same as always Zelensky wanted to make sure
• 59:41
  Naboo and Sapo couldn't reach too far into
• 59:45
  his network but he misjudged the public mood
• 59:48
  and western red lines and had to step
• 59:50
  back now that he's been caught he has
• 59:54
  no choice but to heal and they want
• 1:00:00
  to start where where the big money is
• 1:00:02
  energy and ergo atom and the president's inner
• 1:00:07
  click that's why we keep getting stories like
• 1:00:12
  the scandals Zelensky can't escape corruption is consuming
• 1:00:16
  Kiev these are not invented scandals the scandals
• 1:00:21
  are real they're just saying you know things
• 1:00:25
  that the west has been tiptoeing around it's
• 1:00:29
  not a random rotten official this is the
• 1:00:32
  president's own ecosystem this is how it's intended
• 1:00:37
  to be right and the timing is perfect
• 1:00:42
  for one guy on the planet who is
• 1:00:46
  that Donald Trump let's talk about the 28
• 1:00:52
  -point peace plan land weapons and Kellogg's problem
• 1:00:59
  okay while Kiev is drowning in corruption and
• 1:01:04
  in a swamp of money something else is
• 1:01:08
  happening behind closed doors the Trump administration has
• 1:01:13
  been working with Russia on a 28-point
• 1:01:17
  peace plan inspired allegedly by the Gaza ceasefire
• 1:01:22
  deal to end the war in Ukraine now
• 1:01:28
  if this works I take back anything questioning
• 1:01:33
  and no I'll still question anything that if
• 1:01:37
  this was the end if this was really
• 1:01:41
  strategized by the Trumpster which we'll never know
• 1:01:44
  I would give him a big benefit let's
• 1:01:49
  put it that way will I still question
• 1:01:51
  everything I always do I can't help it
• 1:01:54
  but allegedly this 28-point plan has four
• 1:01:58
  big buckets ready peace in Ukraine bucket one
• 1:02:03
  security guarantees bucket two security of Europe bucket
• 1:02:08
  three and future U.S. relations with Russia
• 1:02:13
  and Ukraine that comes from the Hindustan Times
• 1:02:18
  U.S. is working with Russia on this
• 1:02:20
  28-point plan came out yesterday multiple reports
• 1:02:25
  also from the Telegraph Reuters Hindustan Times and
• 1:02:28
  others say Ukraine is expected to give up
• 1:02:32
  the territory they've already lost the four regions
• 1:02:35
  Russia already claims Donetsk Lugansk Kherson and Cyprus
• 1:02:39
  except limits on its own armed forces in
• 1:02:44
  Kiev effectively cut the army down and restrict
• 1:02:47
  long-range missiles and key categories of weaponry
• 1:02:50
  that was from Reuters drop NATO membership fantasy
• 1:02:57
  once and for all what they're saying in
• 1:03:00
  the east as these things are being dictated
• 1:03:04
  to the z-man even now not a
• 1:03:07
  choice we're either gonna fry your testicles or
• 1:03:11
  you're gonna accept this but either way you're
• 1:03:15
  done you know the war is done several
• 1:03:18
  outlets are quoting sources from the White House
• 1:03:21
  that say that the White House has signaled
• 1:03:24
  to Zelensky that he will have to accept
• 1:03:29
  this basic outline if he wants continued backing
• 1:03:32
  that's from Reuters too in other words Washington
• 1:03:36
  and Moscow are drawn the map and Kiv
• 1:03:38
  gets whatever is left now plug Keith Kellogg
• 1:03:42
  let's talk about this guy he's Trump's special
• 1:03:45
  envoy for Ukraine the guy who's been shuttling
• 1:03:49
  between Kiv and various summits talking up the
• 1:03:52
  need for peace and floating ideas about military
• 1:03:56
  demilitarized zones and de facto cession of territory
• 1:04:01
  earlier this year several sources quoted Kellogg is
• 1:04:06
  saying that Ukraine would have to give up
• 1:04:08
  some land to Russia and accept the current
• 1:04:11
  front line as the base of ceasefire he
• 1:04:14
  publicly admitted that from Moscow's perspective it's a
• 1:04:18
  NATO proxy war remember that and he said
• 1:04:21
  and frankly it is remember that Moscow actually
• 1:04:26
  barred him from some peace talks seeing him
• 1:04:29
  as too close to Kiev that happened too
• 1:04:31
  let's fast forward to now Reuters has reported
• 1:04:36
  that Kellogg has told associates he's stepping down
• 1:04:39
  in January now part of that is because
• 1:04:42
  without the House stepping in to a special
• 1:04:47
  envoy or as a House Senate whoever it
• 1:04:50
  is that approves him he can only serve
• 1:04:52
  like 360 days it's got to be under
• 1:04:54
  a year without that and so he can't
• 1:04:57
  be that's part of it and he doesn't
• 1:05:01
  want to go through that process apparently and
• 1:05:04
  they say this is Ukraine losing its chief
• 1:05:07
  advocate in the Trump White House right when
• 1:05:10
  the 28-point plan is coming to a
• 1:05:13
  head but the timing is pretty blunt Kellogg's
• 1:05:18
  exit according to the Telegraph emerged after hours
• 1:05:22
  it was leaked so what does it look
• 1:05:25
  like from the outside Kellogg spends months months
• 1:05:29
  months months telling Zelensky he's a brave hero
• 1:05:33
  promises him weapons praises his courage but at
• 1:05:37
  the same time he's been helping to shape
• 1:05:40
  or sell a peace framework that demands Ukraine
• 1:05:45
  surrender land limit its army and accept permanent
• 1:05:48
  constraints once the plan is out in the
• 1:05:52
  open and the backlash starts he runs he
• 1:05:57
  has to go for the I've never liked
• 1:06:00
  the guy anyway from Kiv's perspective it's a
• 1:06:03
  classic bait and switch your biggest ally turns
• 1:06:07
  out to be the guy working for the
• 1:06:08
  dark document that carves you up in little
• 1:06:11
  bits from Moscow's point of view though it
• 1:06:15
  confirms that the West has known that Ukraine
• 1:06:17
  was going to be beaten for a long
• 1:06:19
  time and is now is trying to package
• 1:06:22
  Ukrainian capitulation as its own peace initiative from
• 1:06:29
  a real person's perspective watching a corruption scandal
• 1:06:33
  and watching the protest I see it like
• 1:06:36
  this internal pressure Zelensky's own government is bleeding
• 1:06:41
  it has no credibility at home and there
• 1:06:45
  go Adam and Mindy pulled off uh you
• 1:06:48
  know all these things and the curtains are
• 1:06:51
  black and you pull them back and what's
• 1:06:56
  behind it is equally black so it's not
• 1:07:00
  good external pressure Washington and Brussels are saying
• 1:07:04
  look clean up corruption or we'll shut off
• 1:07:07
  the money and while we're at it sign
• 1:07:10
  this plan that Russia gets what it wants
• 1:07:13
  anyway because we never could have won this
• 1:07:16
  from the start and we never should have
• 1:07:18
  so what's Zelensky been doing the last few
• 1:07:20
  days this clown is wandering around and he's
• 1:07:24
  making tours he's gone to Paris he's getting
• 1:07:26
  his free 200 jets in several years maybe
• 1:07:29
  and he's gone to Ankara he's got jets
• 1:07:33
  photo ops one-sided peace plans just like
• 1:07:36
  he did last year um three days ago
• 1:07:39
  he's in Paris standing next to Macron buying
• 1:07:42
  Raphael fighters Raphael Raphael fighter jets drones air
• 1:07:47
  defense systems for the next decade right Macron's
• 1:07:52
  telling French TV we're planning 100 planes that's
• 1:07:55
  huge that's what's needed to regenerate the Ukrainian
• 1:07:59
  military so let's translate that and ergo Adam
• 1:08:04
  is being exposed as a money laundromat EU
• 1:08:06
  officials are asking how safe the funds are
• 1:08:09
  in a system like this and while the
• 1:08:11
  U.S. Russia peace plan expects Ukraine to
• 1:08:14
  shrink its army and give up territory Zelensky's
• 1:08:17
  in Paris signing a long-term debt negotiated
• 1:08:20
  instrument for jets his country might not even
• 1:08:24
  be able to control the guys to use
• 1:08:27
  Russia and its media are laughing as am
• 1:08:31
  I they're pointing out that these Raphaels are
• 1:08:36
  a 10-year project there's no money for
• 1:08:39
  them the front line's collapsing now and America's
• 1:08:42
  drafting a deal to cut Ukraine's military down
• 1:08:46
  now so then Zelensky heads off to Turkey
• 1:08:50
  and says he wants to talk to Turkey
• 1:08:53
  about peace issues but Peskov and the Kremlin
• 1:08:58
  say they weren't invited so Reuters and Hingwop
• 1:09:03
  both cover the trip he meets Erdogan and
• 1:09:06
  Ankara talks about reviving diplomacy and pushing for
• 1:09:10
  a just peace but only emphasizes global pressure
• 1:09:15
  on Russia so these are two problems right
• 1:09:18
  two problems with this little tour of his
• 1:09:22
  Russia isn't invited Kremlin has already said there's
• 1:09:26
  no new plan no new understanding besides what
• 1:09:28
  Putin laid out months ago renounced NATO give
• 1:09:33
  up the four regions or forget it we
• 1:09:36
  aren't talking real negotiating track is not in
• 1:09:40
  Ankara it's in the secret U.S. Russia
• 1:09:44
  channels that are shaping this 28 point deal
• 1:09:49
  that is going to happen so you have
• 1:09:53
  this bizarre uh split screen on one side
• 1:09:57
  Zelensky's doing his typical begging tour Paris for
• 1:10:01
  jets Ankara for mediation speeches about justice and
• 1:10:05
  the beauty of democracy Ukraine style on the
• 1:10:09
  other hand you have the U.S. and
• 1:10:11
  Russian officials hashing out a framework where Ukraine
• 1:10:15
  where Ukraine loses land weapons you know they
• 1:10:23
  can stay corrupt as they like you know
• 1:10:25
  and the but these anti-corruption agencies with
• 1:10:30
  western backing are dragging the z monsters inner
• 1:10:34
  circle into court it's like you know a
• 1:10:38
  bad movie with a terrible script the real
• 1:10:42
  script is being written elsewhere and Zelensky wasn't
• 1:10:45
  informed until the last minute where does this
• 1:10:49
  leave the z monster and what does it
• 1:10:51
  really mean so what's the actual state of
• 1:10:55
  Zelensky affairs tonight let us sum it up
• 1:10:58
  for you biggest corruption scandal of the war
• 1:11:03
  operation Midas shows Energoatoms run by shadow managers
• 1:11:07
  contractors are extorting money 100 million bucks disappears
• 1:11:13
  his own inner circle is implicated ex-partner
• 1:11:20
  and fixer-upper charged and on the run
• 1:11:22
  ministers of justice gone deputy prime minister jailed
• 1:11:28
  energy minister forced out public revolt on anti
• 1:11:33
  -corruption repeat public revolts and scandals and marching
• 1:11:41
  against him anti-corruption agencies are biting back
• 1:11:46
  EU is disgusted and uh you know your
• 1:11:50
  mock is probably in a lot of trouble
• 1:11:53
  U.S. is pressuring a peace plan we
• 1:11:57
  might be seeing the end of this loss
• 1:12:00
  of the main ally in Washington Kellogg the
• 1:12:04
  guy who praised Zelensky as courageous him gone
• 1:12:11
  who's gonna look out well besides Lindsey Graham
• 1:12:15
  I suppose but uh uh Kellogg was definitely
• 1:12:19
  on the Grahamster optics of desperation is what
• 1:12:26
  all this comes to increased begging increased hand
• 1:12:31
  -wringing this isn't a picture of a confident
• 1:12:35
  wartime leader it's a picture of a guy
• 1:12:40
  being squeezed from everywhere the army's losing ground
• 1:12:44
  the public realizes that our guys are stealing
• 1:12:48
  from us the west wants to protect its
• 1:12:52
  own narrative that we did the right thing
• 1:12:56
  but it's getting tougher isn't it from the
• 1:13:00
  Russian point of view the conclusion is pretty
• 1:13:03
  simple this is not moral awakening it's house
• 1:13:07
  cleaning before we get a deal the ministers
• 1:13:12
  Mindig the head of justice show that Brussels
• 1:13:18
  and Washington are forcing Kiev to be serious
• 1:13:22
  about corruption so that Kiev can be forced
• 1:13:25
  to sign a surrender deal without the revolt
• 1:13:29
  of European parliaments if Trump really strategized this
• 1:13:36
  he really is a genius okay but you
• 1:13:41
  don't have to strategize corruption that's a given
• 1:13:44
  in Ukraine so he did have that on
• 1:13:47
  his side so what about the liquidation of
• 1:13:52
  assets strip the anti-corruption bodies you know
• 1:13:56
  face protests and EU backlash let the um
• 1:14:03
  you know bodies hit your enemies and expendable
• 1:14:06
  allies use the scandal as proof of reform
• 1:14:10
  while you negotiate a deal Zelensky's trapped between
• 1:14:14
  two stories that's where he is internally he
• 1:14:18
  has to sell himself for he's trying to
• 1:14:20
  sell himself as an incorruptible wartime leader he's
• 1:14:25
  purging bad apples according to him externally Washington
• 1:14:31
  and Brussels see him pretty much as his
• 1:14:33
  own people do now he's damaged goods useful
• 1:14:37
  only if he can sell a land for
• 1:14:39
  peace deal to a population already angry about
• 1:14:43
  his being a traitor and as corrupt as
• 1:14:48
  all the rest of them and his own
• 1:14:50
  defeat that's why you're seeing more chatter about
• 1:14:54
  post Zelensky scenarios about alternative figures about tightening
• 1:15:00
  control around your mock who's also going to
• 1:15:04
  be charged and potential early elections or transition
• 1:15:07
  governments not because anyone in the west suddenly
• 1:15:11
  cares about Ukrainian democracy in the little quotes
• 1:15:15
  but because they need a reliable signature on
• 1:15:19
  whatever comes out of the secret 28 point
• 1:15:22
  plan so when you hear about Zelensky's courage
• 1:15:27
  about his trips to Ankara and Paris keep
• 1:15:31
  the real deal in mind on the battlefield
• 1:15:35
  Ukraine is losing hard in politics Zelensky is
• 1:15:40
  losing hard both allies and credibility in Washington
• 1:15:45
  and Moscow people are drawing maps of a
• 1:15:49
  smaller Ukraine without any input from Ukraine or
• 1:15:54
  Europe and in Kiev's own files the code
• 1:15:58
  name Alibaba is floating around the president's office
• 1:16:03
  while the man who kept the money Zelensky's
• 1:16:06
  wallet is sitting somewhere abroad probably Israel hoping
• 1:16:10
  he never has to testify that is the
• 1:16:14
  real state of affairs for the old z
• 1:16:16
  monster tonight it's not posters on a wall
• 1:16:20
  it's the bill being drafted in the back
• 1:16:23
  room the indictment on the prosecutor's desk and
• 1:16:26
  a peace plan on the table all of
• 1:16:29
  them written by somebody else with the understanding
• 1:16:33
  that this version of Ukraine and this president
• 1:16:37
  of Ukraine are already past their own expiration
• 1:16:44
  dates right that's what they are so those
• 1:16:50
  were my three topics to discuss today and
• 1:16:52
  what I did after this I was able
• 1:16:57
  to uh watch my um my show my
• 1:17:02
  uh Solovyov life and listen to all those
• 1:17:06
  political guys chatter about it and I was
• 1:17:09
  looking especially for these three topics and uh
• 1:17:13
  to see if they would add anything because
• 1:17:15
  this just came up like eight ten hours
• 1:17:18
  ago but it most time it's too long
• 1:17:21
  for me to watch or listen to but
• 1:17:24
  uh they're putting out all over the place
• 1:17:26
  several of the speakers and there's usually six
• 1:17:29
  eight of them um and a lot of
• 1:17:31
  them were saying that Ukraine is suffering colossal
• 1:17:35
  losses and the front is bursting and that
• 1:17:39
  they've taken Pokrovsk it's covered with corpses Myrnograd
• 1:17:43
  covered with corpses and Ukrainians are not evacuating
• 1:17:48
  Russian's rapid movement toward Golia Polia in Zaporizhia
• 1:17:54
  is mentioned as ongoing not hypothetical so that's
• 1:17:58
  even more so this is exactly the Pokrovsk
• 1:18:01
  Myrnograd in Zaporizhia that I've been telling you
• 1:18:04
  about today the economic and industrial angle on
• 1:18:09
  Pokrovsk um the Krasnoyarsk is right near there
• 1:18:13
  the coking and coal mine being vital for
• 1:18:16
  Ukrainian metallurgy and without it Ukrainian metallurgy cannot
• 1:18:21
  function so Pokrovsk is going to be a
• 1:18:24
  big hit for these guys so Pokrovsk isn't
• 1:18:30
  just another point on a map it's a
• 1:18:33
  meat grinder with corpses all over the ground
• 1:18:36
  and a strategic industrial loss that undercuts seriously
• 1:18:41
  Ukraine's remaining heavy industry and Zelensky has been
• 1:18:46
  absent for three four days while uh panic
• 1:18:51
  is ensuing while the front fails the front
• 1:18:56
  is ripping at the seams where is Zelensky
• 1:18:59
  the parliament in Rada is actually talking about
• 1:19:03
  it too that's in Kiev they're talking about
• 1:19:07
  panic and banking in the financial crisis they
• 1:19:11
  have no money deputies have long been under
• 1:19:15
  Zelensky's yoke they see this as their historic
• 1:19:18
  chance to push for the government's resignation and
• 1:19:22
  get maximum political gain from his scandal this
• 1:19:25
  is the Verkhovna Rada which is the high
• 1:19:30
  um high houses that uh get to uh
• 1:19:34
  talk about this is a political cover story
• 1:19:36
  the front is collapsing political class smells blood
• 1:19:40
  so nobody's trying to save the front anymore
• 1:19:43
  the general staff is trying to fake alleged
• 1:19:46
  victories one of the segments said there were
• 1:19:49
  huge defeats on the front and the Ukrainian
• 1:19:51
  general staff was trying to hype long-range
• 1:19:54
  strikes to show some kind of uh resistance
• 1:20:00
  for the west so why are they yelling
• 1:20:03
  about long-range strikes because they gotta show
• 1:20:06
  something to the Americans to try to hide
• 1:20:10
  the defeat at the front this is true
• 1:20:14
  they're saying look we've hit more places deep
• 1:20:18
  inside Russia one of the um Russian uh
• 1:20:22
  states obelisks had a uh they took out
• 1:20:27
  65 percent of their capacity and 65 percent
• 1:20:31
  of the region was uh without light um
• 1:20:36
  for a while might even still be I
• 1:20:40
  don't know I saw that earlier today um
• 1:20:42
  so they're um states losing control of the
• 1:20:48
  front they're trying to chip people they want
• 1:20:52
  to fight desertion by putting chips in people
• 1:20:56
  here we are isn't that the mark of
• 1:20:58
  the beast that they told you about when
• 1:21:00
  you were a kid they're gonna put a
• 1:21:02
  little thing in you to track where you
• 1:21:04
  go it's not just your phone they're gonna
• 1:21:06
  put a chip in you and they're trying
• 1:21:09
  to do it in uh Ukraine they're talking
• 1:21:11
  about it yep an insane techno-authoritarian fantasy
• 1:21:17
  like tagging a deserter with a chip instead
• 1:21:21
  of fixing the political and military disaster wow
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  European fatigue in the financial whole of Ukraine
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  is real there was a letter that described
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  the scale of the financial whole of Ukraine
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  um the EU representative was complaining about Kyiv
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  constantly begging for money Victor Orban who explicitly
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  described as not being a friend of Russia
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  but he's a pro-Hungarian politician he criticizes
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  endless Ukrainian funding and uh military defeat and
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  financial exhaustion are converging and even Kyiv's western
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  sponsors are tired of pouring money into a
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  Ukrainian losing project and a rat hole but
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  on Russian TV they're pretty damn blunt Pokrovsk
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  is covered with corpses Mirnagrad is covered with
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  corpses South Paris is bodies they don't even
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  body to pick up bother to pick up
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  that's collapse the same Krasnoyarsk that's key for
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  coking is gone no coal no no coal
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  no metallurgy no modern Ukrainian industry that strategic
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  defeat already and while the front is ripping
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  open Zelensky is fighting not for Ukraine but
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  for his own political survivor survival crazy crazy
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  crazy times the corruption is real and it
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  ain't getting any better these people are screwed
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  there was an interesting article that uh if
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  you could look it up I'm not going
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  to share it with you but it was
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  a very good article it's probably a little
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  too long it's called Ukraine is drowning in
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  a swamp of corruption and the West is
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  trying to make it look like a good
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  thing I just told you about it right
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  and basically it's by that guy who I've
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  read uh several of his before Tariq Amar
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  he's a historian from Germany that works um
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  in Istanbul and he's a Russian Ukraine and
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  Eastern European historian and it's a pretty good
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  article so I would encourage you to look
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  it up should you get the opportunity and
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  uh let's see what else did we have
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  from today I had a couple other things
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  um so much so much so much on
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  the uh embezzlement going on in Ukraine it's
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  crazy crazy sauce they're having excuse me they're
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  having uh uh protests again in in Kyiv
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  we want your head some of these things
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  say um you wonder how long they're going
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  to be able to do it all the
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  people over there are uh quite young these
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  are very young people over there and uh
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  not a lot of old ones in the
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  in the crowd um I tell you what
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  have you heard about uh the LeMond article
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  from um from uh yesterday I think it
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  was yep von der Leyen is killing Kayakalis
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  in the EU game of thrones this is
• 1:25:24
  this is a short story so I will
• 1:25:27
  share it with you it'll be the last
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  of tonight two of the EU's most powerful
• 1:25:33
  and controversial officials European Commission President Ursula von
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  der Leyen and the bloc's foreign policy chief
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  Kayakalis are struggling for control of the EU's
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  diplomacy and intelligence services in a confrontation worthy
• 1:25:50
  of the game of thrones said the French
• 1:25:53
  newspaper LeMond von der Leyen is steadily concentrating
• 1:25:57
  authority in her own office at the expense
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  of Kalis and by creating new units such
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  as a directorate general for defense industry and
• 1:26:07
  a spy unit despite the existence of parallel
• 1:26:10
  bodies in other areas officials at intelligence and
• 1:26:15
  situation center which operates under Kalis fear von
• 1:26:19
  der Leyen's new spy agency will duplicate existing
• 1:26:22
  functions and weaken the foreign service according to
• 1:26:26
  LeMond the clash escalated this autumn when Kalis
• 1:26:30
  tried to appoint her own person as a
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  top official von der Leyen saw it as
• 1:26:36
  a declaration of war and created a lower
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  ranking post and blocked the move critics have
• 1:26:43
  accused von der Leyen of being an authoritarian
• 1:26:46
  Kalis who has secured her role largely through
• 1:26:51
  her anti-Russia rhetoric has earned herself a
• 1:26:55
  reputation for goffs with insiders arguing that her
• 1:26:59
  tone has alienated partners and undermined the EU's
• 1:27:04
  diplomatic standing one such example occurred in September
• 1:27:09
  when Kalis asserted that the Chinese are very
• 1:27:14
  good at technology but they are not that
• 1:27:17
  good in social scientists and then said the
• 1:27:20
  Russians are not good at technology at all
• 1:27:23
  but are super good in social sciences ladies
• 1:27:28
  a genius Russian she's wrong but I mean
• 1:27:33
  she's nuts Russian foreign ministry spokes spokeswoman Maria
• 1:27:37
  Zakharova ridiculed that statement and asked who launched
• 1:27:42
  rockets from Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome if it's true
• 1:27:46
  that Russians don't have any technological expertise and
• 1:27:51
  called Kalis critically uneducated and then of course
• 1:27:59
  we have to talk about Trump today signing
• 1:28:03
  the bill that's going to release the Epstein
• 1:28:06
  Epstein Epstein files yep he signed it the
• 1:28:12
  move came after uh or in spite of
• 1:28:16
  Trump opposing the measure initially Epstein blah blah
• 1:28:20
  blah was convicted of sex offenses in his
• 1:28:23
  statement on true social Wednesday Trump labeled Epstein
• 1:28:28
  a lifelong democrat I think Trump was too
• 1:28:31
  and recalled that several democratic figures including President
• 1:28:35
  Bill Clinton had ties to him suggested that
• 1:28:40
  perhaps the truth about Democrats and their associations
• 1:28:43
  with Epstein will soon be revealed because I
• 1:28:46
  have just signed the bill to release the
• 1:28:49
  files you have to yell when it's in
• 1:28:51
  all caps right isn't that what you're supposed
• 1:28:53
  to do this latest hoax will backfire on
• 1:28:57
  the Democrats just as all the rest have
• 1:29:01
  he said wow following the revelation Trump ordered
• 1:29:07
  a probe into x Epstein's ties to prominent
• 1:29:11
  Democrats and urged House Republicans to vote for
• 1:29:15
  releasing the files because he has nothing to
• 1:29:18
  hide so the House approved 427 to 1
• 1:29:24
  and the Senate passed it unanimously you know
• 1:29:28
  what that means to me that means Trump
• 1:29:30
  gets what he wants it appears extremely clear
• 1:29:34
  that he gets what he wants and more
• 1:29:36
  power to him I am Samuel Trapp this
• 1:29:39
  is International Flavor thank you for listening this
• 1:29:42
  evening join me again tomorrow night for the
• 1:29:45
  last one of the week and then uh
• 1:29:48
  in about uh 10 days I'm going to
• 1:29:51
  be going to the mornings I will hope
• 1:29:53
  to see you all then in the meantime
• 1:29:57
  good night