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Kiev Burns Before NATO: Ukraine’s Air Defense Crisis and Russia’s Strike Lists · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Hello, good morning. Welcome. I am
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  Samuel Trap. This is International
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  Flavor. You are listening to DAM radio
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  coming to you live from the Lake Ozark
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  real estate of the art studio right now
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  on one of the TVs in front of me is uh
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  on two different channels. Where are we?
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  Live Ankara, Turkey. Now, I haven't been
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  to Ankora yet. I've been Istanbul. I've
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  spent a lot of time in Istanbul and I
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  love it and I like flying in there. Um,
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  Anchora is the capital, but Istanbul is
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  where all the
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  shipping is and straights of Bosphorus.
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  It's freaking beautiful. If you get a
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  chance, you need to go and fly Turkish
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  Airlines because they give you a free
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  tour uh if you have a layover there. You
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  either get a free night stay somewhere.
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  It's part of your part of your ticket.
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  Or they'll give you uh like once I got a
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  boat trip um through the Bosphorus for
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  like six hours. They take you to lunch
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  downtown. you know, every time you go,
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  you get something else. It's part of
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  your part of your automatically included
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  as part of your flight if you have a
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  layover, right? So, they want to show
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  you um downtown uh Istanbul. And
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  Istanbul is just beautiful. And I once
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  at night, it was really cool. They took
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  me to a nighttime uh walk along the
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  Boserus at night. It was fantastic. And
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  uh so uh and they had great, you know,
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  beautiful malls down there and
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  excellent. Uh, I went to this restaurant
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  that uh the best seafood. Oh, it was
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  fantastic. And uh Oh,
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  sorry. Just saw a guy kiss a guy on the
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  TV. [laughter] It's like I don't need
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  that. Come on.
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  That's not something you want to wake up
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  to. This is great. Thanks for that being
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  on Pluto TV or whatever it is. Uh, it's
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  not good. But anyway, all the videos
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  right now are showing on the news from
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  Anchora, Turkey is that Erdogan u met
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  Trump at the uh looks like it's at the
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  palace is where they are and they're
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  taking a photo op now where the two of
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  them are together and they're uh they
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  want to talk about how close they are.
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  They're really not all that close uh to
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  be truthful, but they uh you know,
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  Erdogan has been around for a long time
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  and uh thought of as generally a pretty
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  good leader, but uh he's going to be
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  critical about what's going on in
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  Israel. No doubt there. And uh anyway, I
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  before the summit really gets kicked off
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  and I was a little I thought the summit
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  was seventh and 8th, isn't that today
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  and tomorrow? Uh because right now if
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  he's coming in there, what is it? At
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  7:30 here, uh that means it's uh uh
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  eight hours ahead there. They got to be,
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  you know, uh 3:30 and that means uh
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  you know, they're come maybe they have a
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  dinner tonight. I don't know. We I don't
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  know the schedule. I haven't paid
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  attention to I've been looking at the
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  So, this is important to me in seeing
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  what happens on the NATO thing because
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  uh you know uh old uh old money grubbing
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  uh Green Goblin will be there for
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  another 80 to 90 billion bucks. The uh
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  the propaganda is everywhere on both
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  sides. Talked quite a bit about it
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  yesterday. And uh everybody wants to
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  ignore the pattern that has been
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  developing which I'm going to go into
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  somewhat today on the eve of this uh uh
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  these talks where they're trying to get
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  Trump to come in and want him to you
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  know I don't know what to turn Russia
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  into the enemy that isn't for us and
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  they really aren't the enemy for Europe
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  that people want him. certainly not the
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  enemy for Turkey and Turkey and Russia
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  are still relatively close you know NATO
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  membership or not and uh it's um
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  uh you know they're Black Sea partners
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  they you know they have to go through
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  there they they are pretty close because
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  of that and uh you know um Turkey has
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  generally stayed pretty quiet you know
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  um about the Ukraine Russia conflict.
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  Now, that's not the Green Goblins role.
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  He's going to be there to uh to with his
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  hand out for more money. They're poor.
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  They got nothing. There were articles
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  and a commanding general gave a a speech
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  yesterday. And and you want to know
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  whether Ukraine is winning or losing and
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  why this is so important is is think
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  about this. There's a a general named
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  Mikaila Fodov who's Ukraine's defense
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  minister. Um I can't reme well I don't
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  think he has rank anymore but he was
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  military now he's just a uh defense
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  minister just you know it's a it's a big
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  deal and he has several links it came
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  from Interfax the new voice of Ukraine
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  uh business insider also ran it and
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  basically what Fodorov said is Ukraine
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  is working for you want to know if
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  Ukraine's winning or losing think about
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  this and connect the dots okay
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  said Ukraine is working for the first
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  time to directly contract procurement of
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  Pac 3 anti-bballistic missiles German.
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  He said Ukraine still receives missiles
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  from the US but not enough to fully
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  supply Ukrainian air defenses.
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  And thanks to Germany, he said,
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  thanks to Germany, we concluded a large
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  contract for hundreds of these missiles
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  deliveries which will begin next year,
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  2027.
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  Ukraine still receives missiles from the
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  blah blah blah blah. But we here's
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  here's what he said. This is public.
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  This is he said this in public. Okay?
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  But we want to borrow
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  these same type of missiles
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  from some countries including Germany
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  right now, so to speak. We need to
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  borrow them right now and we will return
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  them later after we get them from
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  Germany. So the guy said this in public
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  on a public channel. Okay, this is uh
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  Ukraine has future deliveries. We got
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  those coming. But the deliveries will
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  begin next year. Meanwhile, we need the
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  part our partners to pony them up now
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  and we'll give them back to you later.
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  And if you believe that, you know, I got
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  the straits of Bosphorus in Turkey to
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  sell you. How about that? And uh uh the
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  new voice of Ukraine says the same thing
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  this way. Fodorov said Ukraine signed a
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  major contract for hundreds of pack 2
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  and PAC 3 missiles deliveries to begin
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  next year but wants to borrow missiles
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  now from some countries and return them
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  later. Business Insider says on July 6th
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  because of the KV strike where virtually
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  every Russian missile got through.
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  Ukraine did not intercept any Russian
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  ballistic missiles in that attack. And
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  Zalinsky said the reason was because
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  they have insufficient interceptor
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  supply. And Fodderov said Russia is
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  exploiting this critical shortage of
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  Patriot interceptors and these PC 2 and
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  PAC 3.
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  So Russia is bombing at will in Kiev
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  right now and they're bombing the snot
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  out of it uh to to because they're
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  retaliating number one for strikes and
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  killing of of of uh women and children
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  and stuff like that. Bombing of buses in
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  in Russia, which we'll get into in a
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  minute. So basically the plan for
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  Ukraine, here's their their brilliant
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  plan which they're selling you in NATO.
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  Okay, this is a big deal. They need that
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  80 billion to try to figure out how to
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  get the money the next 80 billion. and
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  they just got 90 billion. Couldn't have
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  been 3 4 months ago. So it's every 3 4
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  months they need another 8090 billion um
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  just to just to pay for you know all the
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  oligarchs stealing all the money all the
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  corruption over there and none of it
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  gets to the front lines. In fact none of
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  it twothirds of it never leaves Europe.
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  So they they you know the the money gets
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  filtered through Europe you know and
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  maybe into the US if you're buying some
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  of the the NATO stuff. And uh uh oh my
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  god, there's a there's a a poll right
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  now. What should the US do about NATO?
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  Withdraw or stay in? And 57% say
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  withdraw. I don't know why we're part of
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  it anyway. We're basically it. Uh now, I
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  don't know that I have concrete feelings
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  about it one way or the other. I think
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  if we're not going to dictate what's
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  going on with it, we need to get the
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  hell out of it. And uh and I think it
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  ought to focus on the North Atlantic and
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  not over in the uh Southeast Asia. I
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  don't understand what that's all about.
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  But if Ukraine uh, you know, is saying,
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  "Give us your interceptors now. When our
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  contracted interceptors arrive next
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  year, we'll replenish them. We'll give
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  them to you then." Yeah, but you're
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  going to be out of them then. You're not
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  going to have any more then. And so, so
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  when they arrive, you're going to be in
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  the same thing. And if people really
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  believe that they need them for their
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  own defenses,
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  then they're not going to give them up.
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  My my bet is nobody gives them up right
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  now. That's what I would say that nobody
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  gives them up. So if Ukraine is already
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  out, Russia's increasing the scale of
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  its ballistic and hypersonics now, what
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  does next year solve? And if next year's
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  deliveries are pledged to backfill
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  countries giving up missiles today,
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  then the future missiles aren't really a
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  new strength, are they? They're
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  repayment.
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  So let's just roll over your credit card
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  debt to [laughter] another credit card.
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  And uh meanwhile, you don't have any
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  people. You know, it's a it's a a very
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  big admission buried in the NATO air
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  defense story and uh Ukraine is losing
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  the war behind the headlines. There's
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  there's no doubt. You know, it sounds
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  clever. You know, if you wish, you know,
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  you know, it's a clever idea to go out
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  and roll your debt into something new.
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  Oh, I tell you what, we bought those
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  contracts from you that next year. How
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  about you give them to us now and you
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  take the ones that we got next year. You
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  know, that's I'll gladly pay you Tuesday
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  for a hamburger today. You know, Wimpy
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  uh from Popeye Sailor Man. You know, we
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  could do that. If Ukraine is running out
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  of interceptors in July 26 and the next
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  major contract batches don't begin
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  getting till 27 and Ukraine is asking
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  NATO to strip their own shelves today in
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  exchange for promises that they might
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  get a replacement missile later.
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  What's going to happen when next year
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  arrives and they're already spoken for
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  and they're not a new reserve, you know,
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  for Ukraine? Russia knows this. That's
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  why they're beating the snot out of Kiev
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  right now. And Russia isn't just hitting
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  targets. They're hitting the calendar.
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  They're hitting the gap between what
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  NATO promised and what NATO can actually
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  deliver. And it's the same thing we've
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  seen on the ground. So Ukraine lying
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  about this. Okay. The the latest is
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  Constantinofka, whether Constantinoka,
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  the the city we talked about yesterday,
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  has really fallen or not. In front of
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  this NATO summit, they can't admit that
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  it's gone. They can't do it. But here we
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  are. Do you remember Bachmoot? Bakmoot
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  was two and a half years ago. We never,
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  you know, the Russians u uh you know, we
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  never lost uh Bachmoot. Oh my god, we
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  didn't lose Bachmoot. Those Russians are
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  nuts. Bakmoot is 100 kilometers in the
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  rear now and nobody still admitted to
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  losing it. You know, you never admitted
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  it. Same thing with Prosk. Remember I
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  was talking about Prosk Negrad? All
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  these areas six months ago, five months
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  ago.
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  uh you know what about that have they
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  never lost those cities either meanwhile
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  now we're in Constantine and the
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  Ukrainians want to keep saying well we
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  got Constantineka and then they'll admit
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  it in a few weeks that Constifka really
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  has fallen and uh but they won't do it
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  right now because they have to have
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  something positive so what are they
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  doing that's positive uh you know the
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  same logic is as with the air defense
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  war we just have to keep the narrative
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  going to get the next batch of money.
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  That's it. We need the next pile of
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  80,000.
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  Ukraine didn't lose Picross till the map
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  quietly changed. Ukraine has not lost
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  Constantinfka. According to Kiev, Russia
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  says they have 13,500
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  dead Ukrainian soldiers in Constantinfka
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  right now. And they offered a pause for
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  them to come and collect the bodies.
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  Ukraine says, "Uh-uh, we're not going to
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  come get them." So Russia will take
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  them, freeze them just like they did,
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  and then once again when they change
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  bodies, Russia will get 50 to 100 bodies
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  and they'll give up 10,000. That's what
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  had that's what's happened historically.
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  you know, back when they had the first
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  uh meetings in uh in uh Istanbul, when
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  they were talking in Istanbul, they
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  exchanged some uh 18,000 or something
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  dead dead soldiers on the Ukrainian side
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  and Russia got in exchange like 320
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  of of theirs, you know. Uh I don't know.
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  The Ukraine's plan is not a victory
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  plan. It's borrowing air defense against
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  a missile complaint uh campaign telling
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  lies right now about the status of
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  everything with replacement missiles uh
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  paying back this uh uh missile debt next
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  year, but they'll already be owed to
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  somebody else.
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  Um now last night and the night before,
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  three nights in a row now, I've been
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  watching the uh the videos and these are
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  Ukrainianade videos. These are people
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  shooting from Ukraine and posting it on
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  Telegram on the internet. There were
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  some major explosions
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  and their reports and they've take took
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  out. They say it's a uranium depleted uh
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  depleted shells that they took out and a
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  warehouse full of u
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  uh what do you call them?
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  Uh the the missiles that the the rounds
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  that scatter fragmentation uh type
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  missiles. the ones that they used on the
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  on the shores of the ocean down in
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  Crimea on that Sunday afternoon, kill
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  family. Uh you know, the Ukrainians did.
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  Uh and that was several years ago, but
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  you know, it's hard to forget that kind
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  of thing that you would attack families
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  on a Sunday afternoon. That's crap. And
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  uh so there was a another video that I
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  took in a and I'm going to share most of
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  it with you, at least a heavyduty uh
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  part of it. There's a uh the uh the
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  ambassador at large uh for the Ministry
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  of Defense of of Russia and his name is
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  Mironovitz. What the hell is his name?
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  We'll have to get to him. Ambassador at
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  large, Radon Valerovich.
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  Radon Valeriovic
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  Mironik.
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  And Rodian, I like listening to him.
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  He's uh he's been on many of these uh
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  talk programs that I listen to in in
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  Russian and he was initially connected
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  with um
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  uh Lugansk and the Lugansk people's
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  republic. He was involved in the
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  government over there like a member of
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  uh uh you know the the parliament or
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  something like that. Okay. and he's
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  right now he's assigned to uh military
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  and terrorist crimes uh by Ukraine and
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  western support structures and before
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  that he was connected with the political
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  diplomatic structure Russian foreign
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  ministry lists him as the ambassador at
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  large since 2023
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  and uh so basically he gave like a
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  20inut
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  uh discussion yesterday Because
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  like I've told you before, the only
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  thing Ukraine has left is drone warfare.
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  That's it. They need more drones. And uh
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  they they have guys in basement shooting
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  drones. I watched several videos
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  yesterday of Russians and and what
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  they're doing is they Russians have
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  their drones, their reconnaissance
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  drones are out flying around and uh I
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  saw several videos. This is really it's
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  not distressing. It's not troubling.
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  It's war. I mean, I get it, but they're
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  they're showing this on video, and you
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  don't get it. You don't see the blood
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  and the gore, but you know what happened
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  because uh this is how they show it. And
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  and several of them yesterday are how
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  they're taking out uh drone operators
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  inside of Ukraine, and they keep pushing
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  them further and further back, but the
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  drones keep getting better and better
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  and better. They sent one 2500 allegedly
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  kilometers. Now, somebody says there's
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  uh some Russian UK uh Russian
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  sympathizers of Ukraine that allowed
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  this to happen in a city. It had it was
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  way east like in Ufa or something like
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  that. It was way east inside of Russia
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  and further than that, you know, Bas
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  Bashkir and the the the uh what do you
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  call it? Um Ball, Lake Ball, north of
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  there. I mean, it was it was really far
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  east and they blew up a another the
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  Ukrainians blew up another refinery in
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  there and they're saying this wasn't due
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  to uh increases or improvements in
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  Russian or Ukrainian drones. It's
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  because somebody
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  uh
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  let a drone take off inside of Russia
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  from a local place and then the
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  Ukrainians controlled it and you know
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  flew it from there. So that's uh that's
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  Russians are putting up with that stuff
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  too. I imagine the Ukrainians are as
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  well. But uh uh there you have it. Um in
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  so these these drone strikes inside of
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  Russia are basically all that Ukraine
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  has left. They're losing the war
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  everywhere and all all we're doing is
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  delaying the inevitable by continuing to
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  fund it. Right. Um, and so
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  Russians keep talking about the
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  terrorist acts of the Ukrainians blowing
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  up civilian infrastructure. And I'm
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  going to go through that cuz Mironik
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  gave I mean it was a a troubling thing.
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  Showed video, showed pictures of it all.
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  He showed everything. It it was pretty
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  bad news. And meanwhile, the Ukrainians
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  are saying, "Yeah, we're winning. We're
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  blowing up things inside of Russia." And
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  the Russians are are are instead the
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  Russians are are blowing up crap inside
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  of Kiev. You know, they bombed the crap
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  out of Kiev three days in a row. And the
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  Russian foreign ministry published a
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  list of companies of facilities that
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  they bombed and why. And they're all
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  militaryindustrial
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  uh like factories and stuff like that.
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  And then they're they're they're listing
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  these things. Now, nobody's saying that
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  Russia doesn't uh you know have um what
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  do you call it? Issues as well where
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  they hit some some things but uh that
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  are civilian in nature. But the
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  targeting they actually give you a list
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  of targeting. Ukrainians don't do that.
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  They never respond to the buses that are
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  blown up, you know. And uh Monroik's got
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  pictures the buses. He's got the list of
• 19:37
  the people who died on the bus. He's got
• 19:40
  each of their photos and their pictures
• 19:42
  and their family members and he's got
• 19:44
  everything. He's got the full backdrop
• 19:46
  of all of this stuff. And meanwhile,
• 19:49
  Ukraine just goes, "Yeah, you know, that
• 19:51
  wasn't us." Like starter Belk, we we
• 19:53
  didn't do that. You know, that wasn't
• 19:55
  us. Okay, who was it? Yeah,
• 19:58
  [clears throat] Russia's blowing their
• 19:59
  own stuff. Yeah, that's right. Uh you
• 20:01
  know, good call. Um, so before I get to
• 20:03
  Miro uh Mironik, I'm I will uh take a
• 20:08
  caller briefly see what he has to add to
• 20:11
  today.
• 20:13
  Hello, sir. How may I help you?
• 20:18
  Hello.
• 20:21
  Hello. Hello.
• 20:23
  Hello.
• 20:26
  I got nothing. Okay. Well, maybe not. Um
• 20:29
  I I thought we had a caller, but
• 20:31
  apparently we don't. So uh we will get
• 20:34
  into uh Mironik and what he was saying
• 20:37
  because it really was troubling. And he
• 20:40
  starts out with these claims that u in
• 20:43
  quarter 2 of 2026,
• 20:47
  quarter 2, 2026,
• 20:49
  at least 3,40
• 20:52
  Russian civilians were killed or wounded
• 20:56
  by Ukrainian action. 422 deaths. This is
• 21:00
  a 76%
• 21:02
  increase from the prior quarter. He's
• 21:04
  claiming that they uh uh since February
• 21:07
  22, civilian casualties from Ukraine
• 21:11
  uh Ukrainian drones inside of Russia uh
• 21:15
  are 30,913
• 21:19
  including 8,434
• 21:22
  deaths. These are not military deaths.
• 21:23
  These are civilians that are being
• 21:25
  targeted. Um, and under international
• 21:28
  humanitarian law, parties must under the
• 21:32
  Geneva Convention distinguish between
• 21:35
  combatants, armed combatants and
• 21:37
  civilians, and intentionally directing
• 21:39
  an attack at civilians is a war crime.
• 21:44
  So the uh database identifies the
• 21:49
  principle of distinction between these
• 21:51
  two as a fundamental rule that requires
• 21:54
  parties.
• 21:56
  You know this is a fundamental human
• 21:59
  law. You know I mean this is this is
• 22:01
  something that that everybody is signed
• 22:03
  up for. You know that they have to do
• 22:05
  it. So the probably the biggest deal is
• 22:10
  and and there were at least 6 8 10 and
• 22:15
  I've seen I've seen these over and over
• 22:17
  and over again these uh bus attacks.
• 22:22
  So Mironik is has given his speech and
• 22:25
  he's angry. I mean you you could hear
• 22:27
  him talking about this and he's talking
• 22:29
  about just the the the quarter but he's
• 22:32
  listing a whole bunch of things about
• 22:34
  buses. He discusses attacks on passenger
• 22:37
  passenger buses in in Akova and Yan
• 22:41
  Yanakova in in the Daetsk People's
• 22:44
  Republic that killed eight people and
• 22:46
  injured 12. And you should see these
• 22:49
  buses. I mean, they are blown the hell
• 22:51
  up. And uh it's a marked civilian bus
• 22:55
  hit at night while people in it are
• 22:57
  sleeping. Now, I've traveled by bus
• 22:58
  inside of Russia. It's actually pretty
• 23:00
  cool. They have beds inside of there.
• 23:03
  So, the buses, they're stacked like a
• 23:04
  bunk bed, right? And so, you get in
• 23:07
  there, there's a bathroom in the back,
• 23:08
  you know, but all this is beds and it's
• 23:10
  a it's a big bus and they um and you get
• 23:14
  in there, you got a private little uh
• 23:16
  cupboard basically you're sleeping in
• 23:19
  and it's uh you know, you got a plug in
• 23:21
  for your phone and for all it's it's
• 23:23
  pretty cool concept and it's for
• 23:25
  traveling you know, further distances
• 23:27
  and uh I took it across was it
• 23:29
  Kazakhstan, Usbekistsan? couldn't
• 23:31
  remember. Uh I can't remember but uh we
• 23:33
  might have done it in Drosni from uh
• 23:36
  from Vladikovkas. Can't remember but uh
• 23:39
  uh either way I've done it a couple of
• 23:42
  times and it's like being on a train in
• 23:43
  a train car and they have these sleeper
• 23:46
  places. Well, these are sleeper buses
• 23:48
  and you travel at night and it'll be a 6
• 23:51
  8 hour trip and and you get in there and
• 23:53
  you you go to sleep or you watch a movie
• 23:55
  or you do whatever uh while while you're
• 23:58
  uh uh you know or you know the in a
• 24:01
  perfect world you sleep you know you
• 24:03
  have to get up to cross the border if
• 24:04
  there's a border crossing involved and
• 24:06
  then uh uh but it's a cool way to travel
• 24:08
  actually and not very expensive and it's
• 24:10
  uh I mean you meet a lot of cool people
• 24:12
  that way too. It's pretty neat. Um and
• 24:14
  anyway, so these people are in a bus
• 24:16
  sleeping at night and they blow up this
• 24:18
  bus at night with these people and it's
• 24:20
  sleeping and it's got kids. Um you know,
• 24:22
  these are civilian buses and he says
• 24:25
  whether the drone uh targeting was
• 24:28
  operator controlled and then he got into
• 24:30
  a discussion about AI assisted
• 24:34
  drones that are going out. Maybe it's AI
• 24:36
  assisted drone going out and just
• 24:38
  looking for something that looks
• 24:40
  military and blowing it up. Either way,
• 24:43
  the legal problem is the same. The
• 24:45
  civilian and combatant distinction is
• 24:48
  ignored in Ukraine for sure. And they
• 24:51
  want the Russians to suffer. Uh and and
• 24:55
  that's what and not they don't they
• 24:57
  don't want Russian soldiers to suffer.
• 24:58
  They can't do anything about the Russian
• 25:01
  soldiers or they would, you know, and
• 25:04
  and instead they're attacking buses
• 25:07
  inside Russia. And so they're con what
• 25:10
  according to Mironik they're conducting
• 25:12
  a drone war against civilians and the
• 25:15
  briefing says it's from April 1 to June
• 25:18
  the 30th 2760
• 25:20
  civilians large and small stale
• 25:24
  radiocontrolled drone strikes
• 25:27
  with 371 people killed that the drone
• 25:31
  supply to Ukraine during that time
• 25:34
  increased sharply by NATO in the west
• 25:36
  and the result isn't any sort sort of
• 25:39
  battlefield victory in Ukraine. They're
• 25:42
  not using them there. They're bombing
• 25:45
  inside of Russia against civilian and
• 25:48
  business targets. Okay? Infrastructure
• 25:51
  targets. That's what they're doing. And
• 25:54
  uh you know, he talked about children.
• 25:56
  204 children and teenagers were killed
• 25:59
  in the second court uh or were injured.
• 26:02
  21 killed. And the example including a
• 26:05
  family car attack. They attacked a car
• 26:08
  with some kids in it and a bianc attack
• 26:11
  on the bailian passenger bus. This car
• 26:13
  had happened a couple of weeks ago that
• 26:16
  carried the athletes coming to on a on a
• 26:18
  vacation and a strike on a school
• 26:22
  um in
• 26:24
  Naminka and then repeated strikes. He he
• 26:28
  went into for quite a bit about the
• 26:30
  repeated strikes on rescue workers and
• 26:33
  medics that as soon you know they double
• 26:35
  tap it. somebody comes in and the
• 26:38
  Ukrainian forces strike the first site
• 26:42
  and then strike again when rescuers,
• 26:44
  doctors, utility workers, emergency
• 26:46
  personnel arrive. And uh over that same
• 26:49
  time period, 31 medical personnel
• 26:52
  injured, three killed, 36 rescuers
• 26:55
  injured, four killed during the last
• 26:58
  quarter. And uh so and Mironik says that
• 27:03
  the Ukrainian fire on civilian
• 27:04
  infrastructure has risen from 450 to 480
• 27:08
  munitions today to 730 to 750
• 27:12
  drones per day across Russia. More than
• 27:16
  55,000 fired at civilian facilities in
• 27:20
  the 3 months and in 42 Russian regions.
• 27:25
  And the,
• 27:28
  you know, Ukraine is using drones to
• 27:30
  place anti-personnel mines as well. And
• 27:33
  he talked about this and improvised
• 27:36
  devices in roads, sidewalks, and
• 27:38
  pedestrian paths and civilian access
• 27:41
  routes in places like Al Yoshki and in
• 27:44
  Herson. They're putting they're putting
• 27:46
  like anti-tank
• 27:49
  uh un you know the things you put on the
• 27:52
  ground and people stumble on or trip on.
• 27:54
  they're just placing him in the middle
• 27:55
  of a road and so you know with a drone
• 27:58
  and then the drone you know flies away
• 28:00
  or loses power or whatever. Um so the
• 28:04
  timing of all this that him giving this
• 28:07
  briefing
• 28:08
  is important because
• 28:11
  uh the NATO Anchora summit is coming up
• 28:15
  and
• 28:19
  NATO is listing Ukrainian support,
• 28:22
  defense, deterrence and investment more
• 28:25
  and more investment into this drone
• 28:27
  warfare
• 28:29
  is a major summit theme and Trump is
• 28:32
  expecting to meet Zalinski. You know,
• 28:34
  Zalinski will have his hand out and uh
• 28:37
  especially after his recent call with uh
• 28:41
  uh
• 28:44
  Putin and Zalinski. So, while NATO
• 28:47
  gathers an anchora to discuss it all,
• 28:50
  Russia is presenting a different uh
• 28:53
  pattern, not a battlefield file, but a
• 28:55
  civilian casualty file. The western
• 28:58
  press will focus on you know Russia
• 29:00
  striking Kiev and those strikes they
• 29:02
  absolutely matter but nobody in America
• 29:04
  is being asked to consider what Ukraine
• 29:07
  is doing to civilians inside of Russia.
• 29:09
  Donbass, Belgar, Biank,
• 29:12
  uh, Keroson, Saparisia, Crimea or
• 29:15
  Bellarus, you know, on on, uh, you know,
• 29:18
  Western reports confirm over the last
• 29:21
  several days, major Russian attacks
• 29:25
  from, uh, July 2 to right now, heavy
• 29:28
  missile and drone loose, large
• 29:30
  explosions, casualties, and damage
• 29:32
  across the city. And uh there's some
• 29:35
  kind of a uranium depot that people are
• 29:38
  talking about, but I haven't gotten a a
• 29:42
  well-placed
• 29:45
  um
• 29:48
  uh I I don't know wellplaced person
• 29:50
  reporting exactly what that is. Any
• 29:52
  diplomatic channel, I've only gotten
• 29:54
  commentators uh talking about it. Um and
• 29:56
  so I I don't want to say too much about
• 29:58
  it, but they claim that there's uranian
• 30:01
  and military-industrial storage target.
• 30:03
  So, I I don't want to confirm that till
• 30:05
  it gets confirmed. But, uh I suppose
• 30:09
  um you know, you don't want to sit
• 30:11
  around and say that Ukraine is only
• 30:13
  killing civilians, but if they if
• 30:15
  they're taking 700 drones a day
• 30:21
  into Russia
• 30:24
  and not using them to defend their front
• 30:27
  lines,
• 30:29
  you wonder what they're thinking. you
• 30:33
  know, they've already lost the frontline
• 30:36
  warfare is what I think it it it makes
• 30:39
  sense. They have lost and that is uh you
• 30:43
  know the narrative has to continue to be
• 30:46
  the only thing we can do is be the gnat
• 30:49
  on the rear end of the water buffalo and
• 30:53
  uh uh that's what we're doing. And so
• 30:55
  we're going to keep on bombing inside of
• 30:59
  uh Russia
• 31:02
  uh because we can't win on the front
• 31:04
  lines. Why don't they use the same
• 31:06
  concept and bomb the crap out of the
• 31:08
  Russian guys on the front lines?
• 31:11
  Then I wouldn't have anything to [ __ ]
• 31:12
  about, would I? You know, uh nobody's
• 31:15
  claiming that the Russians are doing the
• 31:17
  same thing inside of Russia, inside of
• 31:19
  Ukraine on the way there. They they they
• 31:22
  showed some videos about u and these
• 31:25
  videos are harsh. I was telling you
• 31:27
  about them before, but get out and look
• 31:29
  up the uh the or get out on the internet
• 31:32
  and or YouTube and look up their
• 31:35
  telegram and look up the u
• 31:38
  uh eanka I think it's called. E Z
• 31:43
  uh N A N K A Nanka I think is or look up
• 31:47
  Dva Mayor two majors DVA Mayor M Aora um
• 31:53
  two majors basically and they have this
• 31:55
  video that you can go out and they and
• 31:58
  they take all these uh videos and put
• 32:00
  them and put them on um um Telegram and
• 32:05
  these videos will show something like a
• 32:07
  Russian drone
• 32:09
  uh hovering over a place for a good long
• 32:12
  time, right? And it'll show Ukrainian
• 32:16
  soldiers come out of a basement of some
• 32:19
  small house somewhere, set up a Baba
• 32:22
  Yaga, which Baba Yaga is basically a a
• 32:26
  kids witch, but it's one of their uh
• 32:28
  types of drones. It's a it's a wicked
• 32:30
  witch. You know, if we if if we're
• 32:32
  telling a story to kids, we're talking
• 32:34
  about the boogeyman or the big bad wolf
• 32:36
  there, it's Baba Yaga, and Baba Yaga is
• 32:39
  a bad bad witch. And uh so Babi Yaga is
• 32:42
  there, but they call some of the drones
• 32:44
  that the Ukrainians make, they call them
• 32:46
  the Babi Yaga. And so these Babiaga
• 32:49
  drones are out there, put on these
• 32:51
  pedestals and platforms. The uh workers
• 32:54
  or the uh soldiers come put them out,
• 32:58
  get them ready, lift them off, go back
• 33:00
  underneath in the in the basement that
• 33:02
  they're in, and they control them from
• 33:04
  in there. And so the Russian drone will
• 33:06
  sit there for a couple of times and and
• 33:09
  watch them put them in and then they'll
• 33:11
  call in strikes with Fab 500s, Fab
• 33:14
  Thousands, Fab 1500s, which are those uh
• 33:17
  aerial bombs that are guided now. They
• 33:20
  didn't used to be years ago, but now
• 33:22
  they're guided. And so they drop these
• 33:24
  aerial bombs and basically the uh the
• 33:27
  military intelligence part is done with
• 33:29
  the first drone and then they call in
• 33:31
  the strikes from the second drone and
• 33:33
  they get dropped from a from a plane uh
• 33:36
  that gets fired and from another part of
• 33:38
  the country and these things come in
• 33:40
  pretty quick with these guided guided
• 33:42
  missile well they're not even missiles
• 33:44
  they're guide they're fab um uh fab fab
• 33:48
  and they have 500s which is basically
• 33:51
  500 lb or kilos of uh of uh uh of
• 33:56
  explosive. They have thousands,500s.
• 33:59
  There's some big freaking bombs. And
• 34:01
  these things will come in and take out
• 34:03
  the entire
• 34:06
  several houses, you know, to blow it up
• 34:10
  where these Ukrainians are there
• 34:11
  launching their stuff. And so and the
• 34:13
  the operator that's doing the um the
• 34:17
  drone that's the reconnaissance drone
• 34:19
  that is sitting out there filming the
• 34:21
  entire thing has from the time he pulled
• 34:23
  up watched the video or or videoed the
• 34:27
  the Ukrainians setting these Bobby Yagas
• 34:30
  called in the strike on the specific
• 34:33
  location and within a minute and a half
• 34:35
  the bomb will show up and blow up the
• 34:38
  entire place. Now, you don't see the the
• 34:41
  the people getting killed cuz they're in
• 34:43
  the basement by that time operating the
• 34:46
  drone, you know, that that they just
• 34:48
  launched or the several of them that
• 34:50
  they just launched. And these sites have
• 34:52
  three to six people launching drones
• 34:54
  from these basements. And uh uh so what
• 34:57
  they do is they go find a place where
• 34:59
  hopefully they're not going to be
• 35:00
  spotted. But these reconnaissance drones
• 35:02
  are changing the the the way that war is
• 35:05
  fought. Well, if Ukraine was doing
• 35:08
  something like that
• 35:11
  on the side of the front line, which
• 35:14
  they are too, but nowhere near the same
• 35:17
  amount of drones, you know, that they're
• 35:20
  using. They're sending all their drone
• 35:21
  supply into Russia
• 35:25
  and and now they're out for more drones
• 35:27
  and and they're after the
• 35:29
  the political statement that we're
• 35:32
  winning. Well, how do you win? You make
• 35:34
  the people of Russia suffer inside of
• 35:37
  Russia with gas lines, with all that
• 35:39
  other stuff, and that's the only thing
• 35:41
  they have left. They can't win on in a
• 35:45
  war of attrition. And so, uh, Valyri,
• 35:49
  [clears throat] uh, Radon Valerovich
• 35:51
  Mironik, the ambassador I was telling
• 35:52
  you about, he's basically pointing that
• 35:55
  out that they cannot win. They are not
• 35:59
  victorious. And so all they've done is
• 36:02
  uh
• 36:05
  gone to uh
• 36:08
  the default position of we're we're
• 36:10
  going to blow up civilians then we're
• 36:12
  going to make you pay. Now, I think
• 36:15
  that's more of an individualized thing
• 36:17
  and that these are that there's no
• 36:18
  control in the Ukrainian army is what I
• 36:21
  believe and I believe there's no control
• 36:24
  and that these people are, you know,
• 36:26
  just evildoers on an individual level.
• 36:30
  Do I believe Zalinski's out there
• 36:32
  targeting civilian buses? I don't think
• 36:34
  so. But he is targeting inside Russia
• 36:37
  and uh you know this u this is the way
• 36:41
  it uh pans itself out. I wanted to make
• 36:43
  a comment about having to find or how to
• 36:47
  find some of these things um on on the
• 36:51
  free speech aspect. So, a couple of
• 36:54
  things. There's um [clears throat]
• 36:57
  throttling going on by YouTube. There's
• 37:00
  throttling going on by all the major um
• 37:06
  propaganda channels around around the
• 37:09
  western uh
• 37:13
  uh media. Same thing is going on in
• 37:15
  Russia by the way in different different
• 37:17
  direction but uh they they can't always
• 37:20
  get ours. We can't always get theirs
• 37:23
  their news stories.
• 37:25
  And it's interesting to me because I I
• 37:29
  study some some AI and use and use quite
• 37:32
  a bit of that in uh uh in some of the
• 37:35
  research that I do. I go out and I have
• 37:37
  a do you know I have several different
• 37:39
  platforms that I use some of them out of
• 37:41
  China some you know just because just to
• 37:44
  see the difference. And uh I want to say
• 37:48
  a couple of words about free speech and
• 37:50
  the control of the narrative because
• 37:55
  these claims and these stories like I
• 37:59
  don't expect um
• 38:02
  uh Mironik's
• 38:05
  commentary even on the Ministry of
• 38:08
  Defense of Russia channel
• 38:11
  to be there for very long. I think it's
• 38:13
  going to be throttled or taken out
• 38:15
  completely. That's what always happens
• 38:17
  on YouTube. It gets throttled or taken
• 38:20
  out. It's happening even in AI. And it's
• 38:23
  pretty funny because if you uh upload a
• 38:26
  couple of these links and say listen uh
• 38:28
  find facts about this from uh I don't
• 38:32
  know times of India from uh uh you know
• 38:36
  Al Jazzer from Kiev independent you know
• 38:40
  give me some a variety of places give me
• 38:42
  something from Belgium tell tell me what
• 38:45
  tell me what the news uh is be how it is
• 38:49
  being slanted and then tell me how it's
• 38:51
  being slanted in the United States. And
• 38:54
  somewhere in between all five of those
• 38:56
  versions, you might be able to find
• 38:58
  something. So when I download a story, I
• 39:00
  go I go, "All right, now tell me about
• 39:03
  this story from other points of view,
• 39:04
  from everywhere else." And part of the
• 39:07
  funny thing is is that the AI slants it.
• 39:11
  It's pretty funny because the AI will
• 39:14
  say
• 39:16
  the un
• 39:18
  like for example if Al Jazzer says
• 39:20
  something they'll say well you have to
• 39:23
  be careful without that source make sure
• 39:26
  to call it an allegation it'll say call
• 39:29
  it an allegation cuz that's not verified
• 39:32
  fact but if it comes from BBC
• 39:36
  it's verified it's suddenly and so they
• 39:39
  slant it all and they don't give you any
• 39:41
  such warning if it comes from BBC, from
• 39:44
  Reuters, from any of that. And uh all I
• 39:47
  want to do is point out that that's the
• 39:50
  same exact thing. We throttle. We in
• 39:55
  America, we don't put out the news that
• 39:58
  that is really the news so that people
• 40:00
  can make their own opinion. You put out
• 40:04
  the slant and you have to slant it
• 40:07
  before you release it. And that's the
• 40:11
  point. And so, and I argue with with
• 40:14
  freaking AI. It's freaking funny, you
• 40:17
  know, that you go in there and go, "Wait
• 40:18
  a second. Why would you say that Mroik,
• 40:21
  and I didn't do this with Mroik, but but
• 40:23
  here's an example of how it would work?
• 40:25
  Why would you take Mroik's comments as
• 40:28
  anything other than Mironik's comments,
• 40:30
  but he is a government official? He's
• 40:33
  not just some guy with a microphone.
• 40:37
  He's a government official. speaking on
• 40:39
  behalf of a government, the Ministry of
• 40:41
  Defense of Russia. He's talking on
• 40:43
  behalf of them. Marco Rubio, those
• 40:46
  that's words from the horse's mouth.
• 40:48
  It's not an interpretation by somebody
• 40:50
  else. It's an it's what he said on
• 40:53
  behalf of the government.
• 40:56
  The twist comes when it's all throttled,
• 40:58
  when it's all blocked, when you cannot
• 41:02
  get it. Okay?
• 41:04
  And that's the final, you know, that's
• 41:06
  the funny part for me is when you can't
• 41:09
  get it. And sometimes, uh, it's it's
• 41:12
  worth reminding people that we're
• 41:14
  supposed to have freedom of speech in
• 41:16
  America. And I don't believe throttling,
• 41:20
  uh, by YouTube represents freedom of
• 41:23
  speech. And uh, so I want to play for
• 41:26
  you a song because I'm going to take a
• 41:28
  break. And uh, there's a dude I follow.
• 41:32
  I and I've told this story before, but I
• 41:34
  don't know. It came across my feed one
• 41:36
  more time and I'm gonna play it again
• 41:38
  because I like it. And it's a a dude by
• 41:41
  the name of Super Joric. And Super Joric
• 41:44
  is a comedian. I mean, you think of
• 41:46
  Weird Al Yanovic, but u uh Russian. And
• 41:51
  he's Super Joric. He's short. He's I
• 41:53
  think he's Georgian or Armenian. And
• 41:56
  he's a short um kind of kind of Arabic
• 42:01
  looking Turkish looking guy, you know,
• 42:03
  from from because they're in between uh
• 42:06
  whether it's Armenia or or uh um
• 42:10
  wherever he's from. He's from an area in
• 42:13
  between uh um Russia and Turkey. And uh
• 42:17
  anyway, he's super joric and the music
• 42:21
  is this is called Zolola. No, I sang
• 42:23
  this in the Dominican Republic as
• 42:25
  karaoke one time and uh to to great
• 42:28
  success. There were some Russian people
• 42:30
  in there going, "Oh my crap, an American
• 42:33
  sang that. We can't believe it." And
• 42:35
  that I would even know the song. Anyway,
• 42:37
  it's a funny video and it's about girls
• 42:39
  that all they want is gold and this
• 42:41
  guy's talking about uh uh women and gold
• 42:45
  and uh that you know, if you have the
• 42:47
  gold, you get the women basically.
• 42:52
  >> [music]
• 42:59
  [music]
• 43:29
  >> Golden Fashion. for
• 43:48
  mama to mto
• 43:54
  by mama. miles.
• 44:12
  [music]
• 44:27
  >> [music]
• 44:33
  [music]
• 44:43
  >> I love you.
• 44:46
  [music]
• 44:48
  to
• 44:49
  midto.
• 44:52
  [music]
• 45:18
  Don't [music] love the Lord of God.
• 45:28
  [music]
• 45:34
  >> [music]
• 45:39
  >> Super.
• 45:41
  [music]
• 45:51
  I love you.
• 45:57
  >> [music]
• 45:58
  >> Sh
• 46:03
  [music]
• 46:08
  I was all
• 46:19
  [music]
• 46:28
  mama.
• 46:30
  Why mama?
• 46:32
  Why [music] mama? Why mama? Why mama?
• 46:36
  Why mama?
• 46:40
  Why mama? Why mama? [music] Why mama?
• 46:44
  Why mama?
• 46:47
  Everybody move your body. [music]
• 46:59
  Why? [music]
• 47:20
  [music]
• 47:23
  I got more.
• 47:29
  I just like that video. It's crazy.
• 47:32
  So, everything out of uh pure gold,
• 47:35
  basically everything out of of uh uh
• 47:39
  glittering gold. It's the word
• 47:43
  [clears throat] out of unbelievable
• 47:45
  gold. Basically, hard gold. Cold hard
• 47:48
  cash glittering. Then it's all bunch of
• 47:50
  beautiful women, but they all want the
• 47:52
  uh they all want the gold, right? So
• 47:55
  that is the song of the day. Super
• 47:58
  Joric. See if you can find him and we'll
• 48:01
  play one more. We'll play Chow Chow
• 48:03
  later by him which is a funny song as
• 48:06
  well. Um so I wanted to talk about
• 48:09
  because Mironik when he was uh given the
• 48:12
  um this uh file he had pictures of it
• 48:17
  all. He had the quarter wide total. He
• 48:22
  showed this the the drones and the
• 48:26
  specific attacks and he he listed all
• 48:29
  these. April 7, April 7, village of
• 48:33
  Velik Naminka, Zaparisia uh an active
• 48:37
  school building where um you know active
• 48:41
  uh evacuation was underway. Ukrainian
• 48:43
  militants sent several drones to the
• 48:46
  school. Second strike, double tap after
• 48:49
  the first. This time they hit they
• 48:51
  attacked children, teachers, rescuers
• 48:53
  and doctors arriving at the scene. Three
• 48:56
  civilians, seven children and four
• 48:59
  adults injured, three killed. Two
• 49:02
  injured children and one teacher uh
• 49:04
  serious injuries still in the hospital.
• 49:06
  This is an example of the double tap or
• 49:08
  the second strike. You hit the one. So
• 49:11
  if it's a mistake, why are you
• 49:13
  doubletapping? You know, if it's a
• 49:15
  mistake, you hit a school, rescuers show
• 49:18
  up to rescue the kids, and you hit it
• 49:19
  again. Uh, the next one, Sizan, drone
• 49:23
  hit on a residential apartment building
• 49:25
  the night of April the 22nd.
• 49:28
  Astraansky street in Sizan, a
• 49:31
  residential multi-story building,
• 49:33
  massive aircraft type drone attack. One
• 49:36
  U and a huge quarter of the, you know,
• 49:39
  on one corner of the building took it
• 49:41
  out. Uh, two civilians killed,
• 49:43
  12-year-old girl and her 64 year old
• 49:45
  grandmother killed, 12 civilians
• 49:48
  injured. Um, and he says this is a
• 49:52
  residential building, an apartment
• 49:54
  building basically that they were
• 49:57
  attacked on April 22. April 25 in
• 50:00
  Noelubka,
• 50:02
  a family car hit by a drone. Um,
• 50:05
  civilian carrying a family, one child
• 50:08
  killed, he was an 8-year-old boy. Uh,
• 50:11
  three civilians injured. A man was born
• 50:13
  in 1981, woman 94, and their 10-year-old
• 50:16
  child were all injured, but the
• 50:17
  8-year-old is dead. So, a man, a woman,
• 50:20
  and two children. This is a a drone
• 50:23
  hunting as a civilian vehicle.
• 50:27
  Um,
• 50:29
  here's one in Belgared, Russian, a
• 50:32
  civilian car hit by a drone on April
• 50:34
  25th, the village of Bulrava in
• 50:36
  Belgraed. Um, two civilians killed, man
• 50:40
  and a woman, killed on the spot.
• 50:41
  16-year-old son survived with a
• 50:44
  concussion. And he says his son watched
• 50:46
  his parents die right in front of him
• 50:48
  and another civilian car attacked. Um,
• 50:53
  May 8th, Kyra Kon, father and daughter
• 50:56
  killed by a drone. Um,
• 51:00
  a 40-year-old man, his 15year-old
• 51:02
  daughter. The girl died in intensive
• 51:04
  care from severe blood loss after the
• 51:06
  injury. Another example of Ukrainian
• 51:09
  drones targeting civilian vehicles. A
• 51:12
  mass drone attack on May 15 in the city
• 51:16
  of Rison.
• 51:18
  Uh people asleep, 100 drones intended to
• 51:24
  overload air defense and strike the
• 51:26
  city. Four civilians killed, one child,
• 51:29
  28 civilians injured, four children. uh
• 51:32
  two multi-story residential buildings
• 51:35
  attacked and severely damaged and it's a
• 51:38
  a massive escalation on May 15. Here's
• 51:41
  the one that we've been talking about in
• 51:43
  Starter Belk and I think you know him
• 51:46
  putting this as kind of a a threemonlong
• 51:50
  tour. I suppose you could do the same
• 51:52
  thing on the Ukrainian side and put
• 51:54
  these together but they never do um
• 51:57
  because Russians generally are hitting
• 52:00
  targets. I'm not saying civilians aren't
• 52:02
  getting killed, too. But the Russians,
• 52:04
  I'll I'll show it to you what they're
• 52:06
  what they're putting out afterward. They
• 52:07
  have a list of the companies they hit
• 52:10
  and the address and what they were
• 52:12
  hitting. They poke they put it out on
• 52:14
  the Ministry of Defense website. So,
• 52:16
  start that's that school. This is May
• 52:19
  22nd. They call he called it a black day
• 52:22
  in Stardbilk. It's a student town, a
• 52:25
  student settlement. 21 young students
• 52:28
  killed.
• 52:30
  18 of the dead were young girls aged 18
• 52:34
  to 19 training to become teachers. 94
• 52:38
  people uh affected injured. Uh some
• 52:41
  victims are still in the hospital and
• 52:43
  undergoing treatment um at the time of
• 52:46
  the briefing. This is the most powerful
• 52:48
  single incident in the briefing because
• 52:50
  of of the age, gender, civilian
• 52:52
  educational complex and double tap here
• 52:56
  as well. They had three different uh
• 52:58
  series of strikes in here and uh the
• 53:00
  building was completely destroyed and
• 53:02
  then the west completely ignored it. Uh
• 53:04
  BBC, CNN, they were invited by uh
• 53:08
  Zakarova. Not not a one of them showed
• 53:11
  up. They don't talk about it. You don't
• 53:13
  want to even notice. You don't want to
• 53:15
  talk. Just like the the girls school in
• 53:17
  Iran. Nobody wants to talk about that.
• 53:21
  And hell, Trump said it was a you know,
• 53:23
  we think it's fake. Wasn't us. It was
• 53:26
  fake. May 25th, Gorlfka. Entire family
• 53:31
  killed in a passenger car in uh Gorfka.
• 53:34
  Four family members, a 13-year-old girl,
• 53:36
  12-year-old boy, 40-year-old mother,
• 53:38
  43-year-old father attacked in a
• 53:41
  passenger car. Uh May 31st, Starropsk in
• 53:45
  Belgrad is on the Russian side. Um
• 53:48
  medical brigade hit by a by a drone.
• 53:52
  >> [snorts]
• 53:52
  >> uh on Study Robskin in Belgraed. Uh one
• 53:55
  medical worker despite the strike um you
• 53:59
  know the doctors picked up a wounded
• 54:01
  woman and took her to hospital. Anyway,
• 54:03
  June 17th, my birthday, Belarusian
• 54:06
  passenger bus carrying young athletes on
• 54:09
  a on a vacation to come into the Russian
• 54:13
  side. And so they came from Belarus uh
• 54:15
  in Brians. um group of young athletes um
• 54:20
  were going to uh Galenic, Russia. A
• 54:24
  Ukrainian drone to blew up their bus.
• 54:27
  One pregnant woman was killed. Eight
• 54:29
  people were injured including six
• 54:31
  children. And uh this is a bailer uh
• 54:35
  bus. And he does not believe these
• 54:38
  attacks uh were accidental and were a
• 54:41
  provocation is what he said in his
• 54:43
  briefing. Okay. June the 30th, Daetski
• 54:47
  emergency ministry team hit while
• 54:49
  extinguishing fires and trucks
• 54:54
  and a parking lot. Two civilian trucks,
• 54:56
  Russian emergency ministry personnel
• 54:58
  arriving to extinguish two civilian
• 55:00
  trucks and after they arrived they were
• 55:03
  bombed and and injured. The head of the
• 55:06
  department uh received injuries as in
• 55:09
  and he died in route to the hospital.
• 55:12
  One injured firefighter helped save a
• 55:14
  truck driver by applying a tourniquet.
• 55:17
  Uh, you know, this is a the secondary
• 55:20
  strike bit. You know, the double tap.
• 55:22
  It's it's part of their uh MO and that's
• 55:26
  what they do. Uh, passenger bus attacked
• 55:29
  at night. This this this is
• 55:31
  unbelievable. Eight people killed, 12
• 55:34
  injured. Civilians were sleeping inside
• 55:36
  the bus. It's one of those sleeper
• 55:38
  buses. You can tell it from the blown up
• 55:40
  part. and uh the operator or the
• 55:44
  targeting system ignored the fact that
• 55:48
  it was a a travel bus at night. And uh
• 55:52
  you know, if a marked passenger bus is
• 55:55
  hit at night, it's kind of hard to
• 55:57
  presume that they're uh doing anything
• 56:01
  other than terrorizing civilians.
• 56:06
  uh Actiaberski in Belgar, an ambulance
• 56:09
  was hit uh after, you know, picking up
• 56:11
  somebody, 18-year-old young man injured
• 56:14
  in an initial attack. And when the
• 56:16
  personnel arrived in an ambulance,
• 56:18
  another drone hit that ambulance. Three
• 56:21
  ambulance workers injured. Uh here in um
• 56:26
  uh this drones mining, he he went over
• 56:30
  some of those.
• 56:31
  um a journalist from Azarbaijan asked
• 56:36
  him uh why you could and you know this
• 56:41
  it's kind of a different I don't know if
• 56:43
  this was a planted question or something
• 56:46
  from somewhere else but it was a
• 56:47
  journalist from Azerbaijan afterward
• 56:49
  they the guy started taking questions
• 56:51
  and you remember the crocus incident
• 56:53
  that was implemented by Ukrainian
• 56:56
  terrorists u where they went into the
• 56:59
  crocus theater inside where during a
• 57:02
  rock and roll concert and just started
• 57:04
  blowing people away and they killed like
• 57:07
  150 or something like that. Do you
• 57:09
  remember that when that when that came
• 57:10
  out in Moscow a couple three years ago?
• 57:14
  Um he said why would the Ukrainian
• 57:16
  forces hit Krocus and Savvo? Um they
• 57:20
  couldn't hit those places by accident.
• 57:24
  And Mosnik says uh you know he he said
• 57:28
  the Ukrainian side wages a terrorist war
• 57:31
  intending to intimidate the population
• 57:34
  of Russians including Ukrainians in
• 57:37
  Russia, Azerbaijanis, Armenians and
• 57:40
  others. And uh you know [cough]
• 57:44
  this [clears throat] was an older attack
• 57:46
  but there was another Bellarusian bus
• 57:48
  attack that is obviously outside of the
• 57:51
  second quarter that happened just a
• 57:52
  couple of days ago. Uh Bellarus one
• 57:55
  there was a journalist from there and he
• 57:56
  said he there had been more attacks on
• 57:58
  buses with Bellarusian Bellar Russian
• 58:01
  children over the prior two weeks and
• 58:04
  that a second case occurred literally
• 58:05
  the day before yesterday. And Morosnik
• 58:08
  says he doesn't believe the attacks are
• 58:10
  accidental and it's a deliberate pro
• 58:12
  provocation action connected to threats
• 58:14
  and pressure against Bellarus. Do you
• 58:16
  remember Zalinski a couple of weeks ago
• 58:19
  saying we're going to attack Barus. You
• 58:21
  either get rid of the the stuff you have
• 58:23
  on the front on the uh borders between
• 58:26
  Bellarus and Ukraine or we're going to
• 58:27
  start attacking you. Meanwhile, they're
• 58:29
  attacking their buses that are going
• 58:31
  back and forth inside of Russia. Well,
• 58:34
  that would mean um I got my visa
• 58:36
  yesterday, by the way, and uh uh so I
• 58:38
  can go to Russia now. Uh my my passport
• 58:41
  finally came back with my Russian visa.
• 58:43
  And last year I went from uh Minsk
• 58:47
  Bellerus to Moscow by train. Does that
• 58:50
  mean they're going to start blowing up
• 58:51
  trains and I need to be careful about
• 58:53
  that? Or if I take one of them sleeping
• 58:55
  buses because they're pretty cool.
• 58:57
  [laughter] You know, you had eight hours
• 58:58
  to drive, might as well sleep in a bus.
• 59:01
  But now if Bellarus buses are getting
• 59:03
  bombed when they head into the Russian
• 59:05
  side, I mean Belgared is is south of the
• 59:07
  Moscow line to get to go from Minkx to
• 59:10
  Moscow. But but if you're going from
• 59:12
  Ming to Kazan, gez, you'd be going right
• 59:16
  in the area where they're blowing people
• 59:17
  up. And [snorts] uh do I want to take
• 59:20
  that risk? I would just, you know, to uh
• 59:22
  you know, I'm not saying I want that. I
• 59:24
  don't. But uh uh I I I certainly
• 59:28
  wouldn't not travel. Let's put it that
• 59:30
  way.
• 59:31
  Um, but there were, you know,
• 59:34
  once again they're they're attacking
• 59:36
  people that are clearly traveling on
• 59:39
  passenger buses. You know, it's
• 59:42
  this is terror. You know, this is what
• 59:45
  this is. And uh I don't know, medical
• 59:49
  personnel. He he gave the totals at a
• 59:52
  good number. utility workers that show
• 59:54
  up uh you know 31 of them um seven 33
• 1:00:00
  I'm sorry seven killed and 26 injured
• 1:00:04
  utility workers that show up and uh they
• 1:00:07
  gave I mean it's a a good number of the
• 1:00:10
  ones that they provided and uh you know
• 1:00:16
  you shouldn't discount these things just
• 1:00:18
  because it's put out by the um Ministry
• 1:00:23
  of Defense of Russia. Uh you shouldn't
• 1:00:26
  discount those. I mean, and they always
• 1:00:27
  show it with the backup and they always
• 1:00:30
  invite people to come and and see it to
• 1:00:33
  to you know, hell, if I had the backing,
• 1:00:35
  I'd fly over there and see it and and
• 1:00:38
  broadcast from there, no problem. And
• 1:00:40
  have them show me. Hell, that's what I
• 1:00:42
  ought to do. I ought to go over there
• 1:00:43
  and see if they'll show me start and uh
• 1:00:45
  see if I can go see it. Wonder if I I I
• 1:00:48
  imagine I could get to start a bilsk.
• 1:00:52
  I might have to do that. Um we're going
• 1:00:53
  to get into the K of attack from last
• 1:00:55
  night uh one the last half hour, but I'm
• 1:00:58
  going to play one more super jordic for
• 1:01:00
  you because it's funny. And this one's
• 1:01:02
  Chow Chow. And uh this is also a
• 1:01:05
  superhoric
• 1:01:07
  song.
• 1:01:12
  >> [music]
• 1:01:19
  >> Ladies and gents, [music] everybody clap
• 1:01:22
  your hands. Are you ready to rock and
• 1:01:24
  dance? Here is your music number one,
• 1:01:27
  Super Juric.
• 1:01:31
  [music]
• 1:01:36
  >> [music]
• 1:01:41
  [music]
• 1:01:46
  >> I'm
• 1:01:47
  [music]
• 1:02:00
  [music] Juliet.
• 1:02:06
  >> [music]
• 1:02:12
  >> Lovely [music]
• 1:02:18
  music. [music]
• 1:02:20
  Not
• 1:02:28
  [music]
• 1:02:29
  perfect.
• 1:02:32
  I stand.
• 1:02:35
  [music]
• 1:02:56
  for
• 1:03:03
  [music]
• 1:03:07
  me [music] for baby.
• 1:03:15
  [music]
• 1:03:33
  >> [music]
• 1:03:33
  >> doing perfect.
• 1:03:41
  [music]
• 1:03:50
  >> [music]
• 1:03:56
  >> of luchadam
• 1:03:58
  [music]
• 1:04:20
  Brilliant.
• 1:04:22
  Love
• 1:04:30
  not [music]
• 1:04:38
  [music]
• 1:04:47
  >> [music]
• 1:04:56
  [music]
• 1:05:01
  >> cow chow
• 1:05:04
  chow chow muzzi
• 1:05:12
  cow. Uh, let's see. My favorite part of
• 1:05:16
  that song is when he says, "Uh, t-mo
• 1:05:21
  t-mo Kardashian,
• 1:05:23
  you're my Kardashian
• 1:05:26
  yacho Kanye West. I'm [laughter] your
• 1:05:28
  Kanye West. I find that just hilarious."
• 1:05:32
  Anyway, I don't know why I like that
• 1:05:34
  song. It's pretty stupid. Both of them
• 1:05:36
  are pretty stupid, but they got a good
• 1:05:37
  beat and it's uh superoric
• 1:05:41
  and uh it's a lot of fun. And uh people
• 1:05:44
  dance to that stuff, you know, and
• 1:05:45
  especially when you go to resort towns.
• 1:05:47
  And uh so I've run into Russians in some
• 1:05:49
  interesting places in the world. In
• 1:05:51
  Mexico, saw a guy with a huge hammer and
• 1:05:53
  sickle on the side of his uh on the side
• 1:05:56
  of his neck. Uh obviously living in the
• 1:05:58
  past with the Soviet Union, but uh uh he
• 1:06:02
  um he was a big dude and he was with a
• 1:06:05
  couple of guys. We had a lot of fun down
• 1:06:07
  there. And uh uh I like to hang out and
• 1:06:09
  uh see if you can get these guys
• 1:06:12
  drinking, which yeah, you can get them
• 1:06:14
  drinking and have a lot of fun with them
• 1:06:17
  and get them singing songs and talking
• 1:06:19
  about military stuff is a lot of fun. Uh
• 1:06:21
  to talk about what they did in the
• 1:06:23
  military versus what I did in the
• 1:06:24
  military and that kind of thing. It's uh
• 1:06:26
  it's interesting to me and I like it. Um
• 1:06:28
  but I want to talk a little bit about
• 1:06:30
  Kiev under fire and what's coming on in
• 1:06:32
  NATO and Ankora and the war narrative.
• 1:06:35
  the war narrative, it's breaking. You
• 1:06:37
  know, people are more and more people
• 1:06:39
  are thinking the way they ought to be
• 1:06:41
  thinking that the US shouldn't be
• 1:06:43
  funding another losing war. And that's
• 1:06:46
  what we're doing. Like I said with the
• 1:06:48
  Ankura thing, they were talking about uh
• 1:06:50
  you need to be um that um uh what do you
• 1:06:53
  call it? Uh the poll 57% of people want
• 1:06:58
  us to get out of NATO.
• 1:07:02
  Maybe it's time. But I don't there's no
• 1:07:04
  reason for us to be. I mean, seriously,
• 1:07:06
  we don't think the way they do. They're
• 1:07:08
  a bunch of nuts in Europe. [laughter]
• 1:07:12
  They're loopy. You know, they they are
• 1:07:14
  all about war and all about somebody
• 1:07:16
  save us from big bad Russia. But what's
• 1:07:18
  the problem if the basis for your big
• 1:07:20
  bad Russia story is false?
• 1:07:23
  That's the problem. That is definitely
• 1:07:25
  the problem. Uh so Moshnik the guy was
• 1:07:28
  talking about on the civilian casualty
• 1:07:30
  file you know buses cars schools
• 1:07:32
  children's rescuers the military
• 1:07:34
  strategic response after the starter
• 1:07:36
  bell student strike and civilian attacks
• 1:07:39
  describe Russia
• 1:07:42
  over the last two three weeks has begun
• 1:07:46
  pounding
• 1:07:47
  Ukraine harder and harder especially in
• 1:07:51
  Kiev and uh with a different level of
• 1:07:54
  intensity. Everybody knows it. Remember
• 1:07:56
  me telling you a couple of weeks ago
• 1:07:57
  that uh the people in Russia, we're not
• 1:08:00
  pushing them to say, "Geez, we got to
• 1:08:02
  get rid of Putin." Just like the
• 1:08:03
  Iranians weren't pushed to say, "Oh,
• 1:08:06
  man, let's all join NATO. Let's all uh
• 1:08:08
  you know, let Donald Trump bless us with
• 1:08:11
  his presence and let him pick our next
• 1:08:13
  leader." No, that's not They dug in
• 1:08:17
  deeper. They're proud of their own
• 1:08:18
  country and and you know, they've got
• 1:08:20
  reason to be, you know, and I don't know
• 1:08:23
  about Iran. never been there, but Russia
• 1:08:25
  for sure does. And uh the fact is that
• 1:08:28
  the people who believe that this is how
• 1:08:30
  you create collapse, you know, like
• 1:08:32
  Maria Margarita Simmenan yesterday that
• 1:08:36
  I was talking about and and what she was
• 1:08:38
  saying is they think that, you know, you
• 1:08:39
  push Russia and they're going to
• 1:08:41
  collapse. Not so Ghost Rider negative
• 1:08:44
  pattern is full. Uh you cannot go there.
• 1:08:47
  Um so this after these things that uh
• 1:08:51
  there's Kiev is no longer being treated
• 1:08:54
  as a politically shielded space. It's
• 1:08:57
  now being treated like the
• 1:08:58
  militaryindustrial hub that it is. There
• 1:09:01
  were 351 strike and decoy drones, 25
• 1:09:05
  Iscander ballistics, eight Zircon
• 1:09:08
  hypersonic, 25 uh Ka 101s and Iscander K
• 1:09:13
  cruise missiles and six caliber cruise
• 1:09:16
  missiles. 20 ballistic missiles launched
• 1:09:19
  in 15 minutes during one phase of the
• 1:09:22
  strike in the last two days. This is the
• 1:09:25
  second major strike in four days and
• 1:09:27
  none of the missiles are intercepted
• 1:09:30
  because they don't have any air defense.
• 1:09:34
  So Russia's no longer merely answering
• 1:09:37
  the battlefield developments. It's
• 1:09:38
  degrading the military-industrial fuel,
• 1:09:42
  air defense, drone, radar, missile, and
• 1:09:44
  ammunition infrastructure behind
• 1:09:46
  Ukraine's uh fighting ability. You know,
• 1:09:49
  they don't have any fighting ability
• 1:09:51
  anyway, but now they're taking out the
• 1:09:53
  other stuff. And all of this is going on
• 1:09:55
  while NATO gathers to discuss how they
• 1:09:58
  can possibly fund continuing the war,
• 1:10:01
  especially when there's nobody left to
• 1:10:04
  fight it.
• 1:10:06
  July 2, Kiev.
• 1:10:09
  RT reports that Kiev and other Ukrainian
• 1:10:11
  cities were hit by combined drone and
• 1:10:14
  missile strikes uh beginning around 2:00
• 1:10:16
  a.m. multiple waves of explosions until
• 1:10:20
  4 a.m. Russian Defense Ministry's
• 1:10:23
  position is that it's a response to the
• 1:10:25
  attacks by Zalinsk's government against
• 1:10:28
  uh fuel targets and civilians. Um, and
• 1:10:32
  because Kiev's air defenses uh were
• 1:10:34
  attempting to engage incoming targets
• 1:10:37
  but failing miserably and Russia is
• 1:10:39
  degrading their long range strike
• 1:10:41
  capabilities or trying to with the
• 1:10:44
  Russian Defense Ministry saying targets
• 1:10:46
  include facilities that produce drones,
• 1:10:48
  missiles, plants making electronic
• 1:10:50
  components and other military
• 1:10:52
  infrastructure. The Western and
• 1:10:54
  Ukrainian reporting describes the July 2
• 1:10:57
  attack as the largest, one of the
• 1:10:59
  largest attacks and strikes of the war
• 1:11:02
  against Kiev. Kiev Independent reported
• 1:11:05
  waves of missiles and strike zone uh
• 1:11:07
  drones on July 2nd. Search and rescue
• 1:11:11
  operations concluding on July 4th. Heavy
• 1:11:14
  damage, heavy civilian casualties, and
• 1:11:17
  defense news using Reuters material said
• 1:11:20
  hundreds of drones and dozens of
• 1:11:22
  missiles hit Kiev, killing at least 21,
• 1:11:25
  wounding scores of people and taking out
• 1:11:28
  around 130 buildings.
• 1:11:32
  July 2nd. July 6.
• 1:11:35
  On July 6, immediately before the
• 1:11:37
  summit, several outlets reported another
• 1:11:39
  large Russian strike. This one, the
• 1:11:40
  videos were wow. The Times of India
• 1:11:43
  described the attack as 68 missiles, 351
• 1:11:47
  drones, 18 people killed, 60 injured,
• 1:11:50
  and said the strike exposed Ukraine's
• 1:11:53
  Patriot Interceptor shortage. They don't
• 1:11:55
  have any left.
• 1:11:57
  The Guardian reported 21 killed uh
• 1:12:00
  across Ukraine. Kiev has the heaviest
• 1:12:02
  losses. Ukraine intercepted some drones,
• 1:12:05
  but not the ballistics or hypersonics.
• 1:12:09
  And so New York Post says Zalinski has
• 1:12:12
  been criticizing
• 1:12:14
  uh the West because the lack of patriot
• 1:12:18
  interceptors after July 6th. And he says
• 1:12:20
  the world's inability to supply
• 1:12:23
  interceptors to him. His word, absurd.
• 1:12:27
  How can you not give it to us? This
• 1:12:29
  attack is coming 5 days after another
• 1:12:32
  major Kiev attack. And the important
• 1:12:34
  military point is this. the KV strikes
• 1:12:36
  are being treated by Ukraine and NATO as
• 1:12:39
  an air defense crisis, which they are.
• 1:12:42
  And uh but I think it's something bigger
• 1:12:44
  that Ukraine's air defense structure
• 1:12:46
  can't stop modern Russian strike
• 1:12:49
  packages anyway, especially ballistic
• 1:12:52
  and hypersonics because they're so busy
• 1:12:55
  taking out the drones. This is changing
• 1:12:57
  warfare. So you send over 200, 300
• 1:13:00
  drones. You shoot a, we've gone through
• 1:13:04
  this before, a multi-million dollar
• 1:13:06
  Patriot system shooting off
• 1:13:08
  multi-million dollar uh uh Patriot
• 1:13:11
  missiles to protect and they're hitting
• 1:13:14
  a drone to cost five grand and you so
• 1:13:17
  you flood them with all these and
• 1:13:19
  everybody's doing it. Ukrainians are
• 1:13:21
  doing the same thing and they're using
• 1:13:23
  their uh uh flamingo missiles that they
• 1:13:26
  whatever they they've created, they're
• 1:13:28
  trying to use those. But Russia's
• 1:13:30
  blowing up their infrastructure. So the
• 1:13:32
  military point is this. The K strikes
• 1:13:35
  are an air defense problem, a big one.
• 1:13:40
  And so,
• 1:13:42
  you know, if you're firing all of these
• 1:13:46
  drones and missiles that I've put out,
• 1:13:49
  this isn't random. They are
• 1:13:51
  [clears throat] going to take out the
• 1:13:53
  the platform against selected targets
• 1:13:55
  and and Russia knows exactly where it's
• 1:13:58
  hitting. This isn't a few drones in a
• 1:14:00
  symbolic strike. This is a layered
• 1:14:02
  package. Drones saturate and confuse the
• 1:14:05
  missiles. Cruise missiles give volume
• 1:14:07
  and range and Iscanders are speed and
• 1:14:10
  maneuvering and zirkans target Ukraine
• 1:14:14
  um are targets Ukraine cannot
• 1:14:17
  realistically
• 1:14:18
  intercept. The zirkcon can't be
• 1:14:21
  intercepted anyway. Um and Martanov
• 1:14:24
  spends uh you know a lot of time there's
• 1:14:26
  a what do you call it a u military
• 1:14:31
  analyst named Martianov and I like
• 1:14:33
  listen to the guy and he says the
• 1:14:35
  iscandere iscanders uh which is a
• 1:14:38
  primary package um it's very
• 1:14:41
  maneuverable
• 1:14:43
  can go Mach 6 Mach 7 they can't they
• 1:14:45
  can't intercept them anyway and the
• 1:14:48
  Patriot and Pac 3 problem is that the
• 1:14:51
  western systems aren't merely short of
• 1:14:54
  ammunition, but technologically
• 1:14:57
  they can't stop the hypersonics anyway.
• 1:15:01
  He said these systems uh can intercept
• 1:15:04
  subsonic but not reliably intercept any
• 1:15:08
  modern maneuvering ballistic or
• 1:15:11
  hypersonic missiles. They're no longer
• 1:15:13
  just so used to be when you were firing
• 1:15:15
  a missile, you know, think back to war
• 1:15:16
  games and Matthew uh Brick or whatever.
• 1:15:20
  All of those were missiles that were
• 1:15:22
  fired and not maneuvered. They didn't
• 1:15:24
  change. You shoot them, they go up in
• 1:15:26
  the air and they come down where you
• 1:15:28
  target them. Not so. Not anymore. Not
• 1:15:32
  ever. Now they they can go everywhere.
• 1:15:36
  They can go they can you can guide them.
• 1:15:40
  And they can loiter. They're the
• 1:15:42
  nuclearpowered ones that the Russian
• 1:15:43
  ones can loiter for months. They can
• 1:15:46
  loiter and then get they can loiter off
• 1:15:49
  of the shores of America if they want
• 1:15:50
  to. Ain't that crazy? So Ukraine is
• 1:15:54
  asking NATO for more interceptors, but
• 1:15:57
  the problem is the interceptors can't
• 1:16:00
  stop them. The capability, you can't
• 1:16:02
  solve a Mach 9 problem with a Patriot.
• 1:16:06
  It's not going to happen.
• 1:16:09
  It's not going to happen. And it's going
• 1:16:10
  to keep on getting worse.
• 1:16:13
  Um,
• 1:16:16
  you know,
• 1:16:18
  I'm trying to figure out so far nobody's
• 1:16:20
  been able to provide it and I've been
• 1:16:22
  looking while while trying to get there
• 1:16:24
  to see what in the world that thing is
• 1:16:25
  that they blew up in Kiev cuz the
• 1:16:27
  explosions were massive and the
• 1:16:30
  secondary explosions that blow up. So
• 1:16:32
  they targeted the whatever factory it
• 1:16:34
  was, whatever it was making, it had to
• 1:16:36
  be armed supplies or something like
• 1:16:38
  that. And this was unbelievable video
• 1:16:42
  that missile shock and awe. Holy crap,
• 1:16:45
  for sure. And it hit a a large facility
• 1:16:49
  on the outskirts of Kiev. Blew it up.
• 1:16:53
  The guy's taking a video from his
• 1:16:55
  apartment complex, you know, 20, 30
• 1:16:57
  floors up. and he's um videoing this
• 1:17:01
  explosion and the thing is on a massive
• 1:17:04
  fire and all of a sudden another
• 1:17:06
  explosion erupts from inside the
• 1:17:09
  explosion that was already there. Not
• 1:17:11
  from a new missile, but something there,
• 1:17:14
  a secondary explosion, something in
• 1:17:15
  there blew up and it flew out
• 1:17:18
  a good mile. I mean, is what it looked
• 1:17:21
  like in the video that whatever blew out
• 1:17:24
  of that blew out, came out, hit a
• 1:17:27
  building a long way away. And so it was
• 1:17:31
  a Wow. Something in there um
• 1:17:37
  blew up. Whatever it was, it was a
• 1:17:39
  missile factory of some sort and
• 1:17:40
  something uh came out of it when it did.
• 1:17:44
  And this is massive damage. And this
• 1:17:47
  they were talking about it. Some people
• 1:17:49
  were talking about it as if it's a
• 1:17:51
  uranium depot of some sort. So this is
• 1:17:54
  the controversial part because if Russia
• 1:17:57
  hit this depot and the depot contained
• 1:18:01
  depleted uranium munitions,
• 1:18:05
  there's a guy named Eager Mos Mosichuk
• 1:18:10
  Mos Mosiauk, I don't know if I've said
• 1:18:13
  that right, stated in a YouTube
• 1:18:15
  interview that the Russian missiles in
• 1:18:18
  Kiev hit a warehouse u Vich
• 1:18:23
  on the outskirts. He said the munitions
• 1:18:25
  depot was hit and said that whoever
• 1:18:29
  placed it near Kiev
• 1:18:32
  ought to be, you know, arrested because
• 1:18:34
  why would you place a a factory of that
• 1:18:37
  nature with depleted uranium and large
• 1:18:41
  munitions, I mean big. Cuz that sucker
• 1:18:44
  blew the hell up. And he said the
• 1:18:47
  facility contained and this is a
• 1:18:48
  Ukrainian guy uh Moichuk said the
• 1:18:51
  facility had cluster munitions. These
• 1:18:55
  clusters are bad in the first place and
• 1:18:57
  we're not supposed to be using them in
• 1:18:59
  modern warfare. Okay. But the US
• 1:19:02
  provided them all to Ukraine and Ukraine
• 1:19:04
  is using them. But they have these
• 1:19:06
  cluster munitions. You know that could
• 1:19:08
  have been what blew up. Something blew
• 1:19:09
  up. Shells with depleted uranium
• 1:19:11
  warheads. ammunition that continues
• 1:19:14
  detonating after the strike, which it
• 1:19:16
  did, and uh the depleted uranium that
• 1:19:20
  was not creating a dangerous radiation
• 1:19:22
  level, but is intensifying the
• 1:19:24
  explosions. So, the nearby residents,
• 1:19:27
  and this is Ukraine saying this, Ukraine
• 1:19:30
  says the nearby residents have to either
• 1:19:32
  stay indoors and keep their windows
• 1:19:34
  locked and closed. And uh the Ukrainian
• 1:19:37
  outlet called RBC reported that the air
• 1:19:40
  quality index in Vishnv entered the red
• 1:19:44
  hazardous category before returning a
• 1:19:47
  couple hours later to safe levels.
• 1:19:52
  That's not good. You know, the same
• 1:19:54
  source says that this deplated uranium
• 1:19:56
  is not a nuclear weapon. can't produce
• 1:19:58
  nuclear explosion, but it's also
• 1:20:01
  controversial for the same reasons it's
• 1:20:03
  controversial anywhere else in the
• 1:20:05
  world. It's a dense, radioactive,
• 1:20:08
  mildly, and chemically toxic, and will
• 1:20:12
  create health concerns if dispersed
• 1:20:14
  after an impact or explosion. So, it's
• 1:20:17
  not a nuclear explosion story. It's a
• 1:20:19
  depleted uranium storage and
• 1:20:21
  contamination story. If depleted uranium
• 1:20:25
  munitions are stored near Kiev and they
• 1:20:28
  get hit in a strike,
• 1:20:31
  the political issue. What is that? Why
• 1:20:34
  would you place them there? Who placed
• 1:20:36
  them there? Who supplied them? Who knew
• 1:20:39
  they were there? And did the civilians
• 1:20:41
  get told that they were put there? That
• 1:20:43
  this is what was going on. This is also
• 1:20:46
  connected to NATO because the US
• 1:20:48
  supplies depleted uranium rounds to
• 1:20:51
  Ukraine. did in 2023. And Dimmitri
• 1:20:55
  Pescov warned about these long-term
• 1:20:57
  consequences from their use. Anyway,
• 1:21:00
  so if NATO and the US are supplying
• 1:21:02
  these and they're storing them outside
• 1:21:03
  of Kiev, number one, why? They ought to
• 1:21:06
  have their head examined for that. If
• 1:21:08
  you're going to store those things, why
• 1:21:09
  put them next to the major city in
• 1:21:11
  Ukraine? [laughter] That's nonsense. The
• 1:21:13
  Ukrainians ought to be up in arms about
• 1:21:15
  this. And apparently they are. Uh, and
• 1:21:18
  what's the Ukrainian drone sp response
• 1:21:20
  into Russia? The uranium depot source
• 1:21:24
  said that Russia faced one of the
• 1:21:26
  largest Ukrainian drone attacks of the
• 1:21:28
  war last night. 519 fixedwing drones
• 1:21:31
  intercepted overnight in Belgared,
• 1:21:34
  Breansk, Kursk, um, Petror. Uh, well,
• 1:21:38
  that's that's St. Petersburg, Kuga,
• 1:21:40
  Moscow, Crimea, and in the Sea of Azov.
• 1:21:44
  And, uh, you know, there's governors
• 1:21:46
  talking about this. A woman killed, two
• 1:21:49
  injured. you know, Martian's um uh
• 1:21:52
  discussion of the 625 drones on July 6th
• 1:21:58
  uh into I haven't seen any other
• 1:22:00
  numbers. That's I only saw the number
• 1:22:02
  come from him. That's not what the
• 1:22:04
  Ministry of Defense of Russia reported.
• 1:22:07
  But when Ukraine launches hundreds
• 1:22:09
  drones into Russia, Western media talks
• 1:22:12
  about, oh, their initiative, this is
• 1:22:14
  innovative, this is long range
• 1:22:16
  capability, pressure on Putin. But when
• 1:22:19
  Putin answers and sends in hundreds of
• 1:22:21
  drones and missiles into Ukraine, they
• 1:22:23
  call it desperation.
• 1:22:27
  So he's desperate, right? He's
• 1:22:29
  desperate. So he's launching drones. No,
• 1:22:31
  he's not desperate. He's winning on the
• 1:22:33
  front line. And so that once again,
• 1:22:36
  throttling of the news or twisting it of
• 1:22:40
  the news is continued. Um there's some
• 1:22:43
  more notes that I wanted to follow for
• 1:22:45
  sure because we've been talking about it
• 1:22:47
  for about a week. is the uh fuel and
• 1:22:49
  logistics, you know, the gas station
• 1:22:51
  wars that are going on. Tell you what,
• 1:22:54
  the
• 1:22:56
  this is an
• 1:22:58
  I don't want to call it interesting and
• 1:23:00
  say that I like this kind of thing
• 1:23:01
  because I don't. It's still war. It's
• 1:23:03
  horrible. But uh uh you know, the mass
• 1:23:07
  strikes in Kiev are getting attention.
• 1:23:10
  Russia has been systematically attacking
• 1:23:13
  gas stations
• 1:23:15
  anywhere east of the Neper River
• 1:23:20
  between Kharkov and Nepra Petro. There
• 1:23:23
  are no gas stations remaining. None.
• 1:23:28
  They're gone. And that's a hell of a
• 1:23:30
  drive from Kharkov to Neprop.
• 1:23:33
  and you can't get there. If you get some
• 1:23:35
  if you get, let's say you start in
• 1:23:37
  Nepropertrok and you fill up your tank,
• 1:23:40
  you know, and you head there, you might
• 1:23:42
  get there maybe on one tank of gas. Not
• 1:23:45
  if you're a big truck, but but you might
• 1:23:48
  get there, but you aren't getting back.
• 1:23:51
  Trains, they're not running. And this is
• 1:23:53
  a serious supply problem for Cub's
• 1:23:56
  frontline forces. And it's not, this is
• 1:23:59
  operationally extremely serious. tanks,
• 1:24:03
  trucks, artillery support, evacuation
• 1:24:05
  vehicles, repair crews, drone teams.
• 1:24:10
  So, I watched a a Russian video said why
• 1:24:13
  they were doing gas stations inside of
• 1:24:17
  Ukraine,
• 1:24:19
  why gas stations were so uh critical to
• 1:24:22
  take out. And they say that what
• 1:24:25
  Ukrainians have been doing is aside from
• 1:24:28
  being in the basement, they're trying to
• 1:24:30
  be much more um
• 1:24:35
  uh I don't know, protect themselves more
• 1:24:39
  mobile, be much more mobile. So they're
• 1:24:42
  taking pickup trucks and launching the
• 1:24:44
  drones out of the back of the pickup
• 1:24:46
  truck. And so you launch them out of the
• 1:24:49
  back of the trick pickup truck. You can
• 1:24:50
  drive closer to the front line, launch
• 1:24:53
  your drone, and leave. Well, Russia,
• 1:24:57
  when they find these pickup trucks, they
• 1:25:01
  will blow the, you know, if somebody's
• 1:25:03
  launching a drone and you see it, you
• 1:25:05
  can take care of it. But you got to be
• 1:25:07
  able to see it and watch it when it's
• 1:25:09
  happened.
• 1:25:10
  But if you cut off their gas and
• 1:25:13
  nobody's moving, those trucks aren't
• 1:25:15
  going anywhere either.
• 1:25:16
  >> [laughter]
• 1:25:18
  >> those drone trucks. So, there's a a
• 1:25:21
  couple of um stories that people have
• 1:25:24
  talked about and said, "Well, the reason
• 1:25:26
  they're doing it is because the
• 1:25:27
  Ukrainians in the last couple of months
• 1:25:30
  have switched from being in basement
• 1:25:32
  around to being in trucks and taking
• 1:25:36
  taking out in these trucks and shooting
• 1:25:38
  their uh their you safer in a truck than
• 1:25:42
  you are in a basement if you're shooting
• 1:25:43
  drones." And so, that's what they're
• 1:25:45
  doing. So uh I if if if Russia is
• 1:25:49
  destroying the fuel and u you know for
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  civilians and military across the entire
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  front support zone then mobility is
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  going to be
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  seriously curtailed right and so the war
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  isn't about only missiles into Kiev.
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  Russia is removing Ukraine's ability to
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  move, to repair, to refuel, to resupply,
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  to drone from a vehicle or defend
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  itself.
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  Um,
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  Constantinovka is is the final point on
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  this. Um, because if the Russians are
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  correct, and I say they are,
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  everything that I say is this is just
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  the same as Bachmoot. this the same as
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  Petrosk and denying that you've lost a
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  major city is par for the course for
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  Ukraine, but it isn't going to change
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  the fact that they've lost the city.
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  Okay? Uh it's just additional geography
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  and the Russians losing 13,500 troops to
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  try to hold it.
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  Uh you know
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  is another point. They lost at least
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  10,000 trying to save Prosk. Remember
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  when we talked about that in the Pacross
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  Mir Negrad effort and they did the same
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  thing right over there. Did the same
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  thing in Bachmood long time ago every
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  time we go. But the next operational
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  realities are the following. Slavanskurs
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  this big industrial complex cities. Sumi
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  the buffer zones up north and the
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  Russian activity there. The Kharkov
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  region 30 to 35 kilometer uh buffer zone
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  in Kharkov and Sunumi. Nepa Petrok was
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  where they're cutting off all the gas in
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  Zaparisia. And then eventually
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  if this keeps on going, Hersan, Nikolia,
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  and Odessa, which I said was a potential
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  going back in 2022, but I thought they'd
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  stop at the Neper River and uh uh only
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  do what they said they would. And uh but
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  then again, Russia is winning this war
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  of attrition for sure. It has more
• 1:28:10
  soldiers, more firepower, more
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  artillery,
• 1:28:14
  thousands of more glide bombs, those
• 1:28:17
  fabs that I was telling you about, a
• 1:28:18
  stronger industrial base, and its own
• 1:28:21
  advantage in drones. Ukraine is badly
• 1:28:24
  outmanned, outgunned,
• 1:28:27
  and Kiev can strike deep into Russia
• 1:28:29
  with drones, but Ukraine doesn't have
• 1:28:30
  anything like Moscow's deep strike
• 1:28:32
  power. and drone strikes inside of
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  Russia have little effect on the
• 1:28:36
  battlefield where the war is being
• 1:28:39
  settled.
• 1:28:41
  Ukraine can irritate Russia, but Russia
• 1:28:44
  can dismantle Ukraine and those are not
• 1:28:48
  the same thing. And why does this matter
• 1:28:50
  in Ankura? Because the war will not be
• 1:28:54
  settled diplomatically because the sides
• 1:28:57
  have irreconcilable positions. So, it's
• 1:29:00
  going to be done militarily and this is
• 1:29:04
  going to be a big loss for NATO. Maybe
• 1:29:07
  that's why we should leave NATO. And
• 1:29:09
  I'll leave you with that thought. I
• 1:29:12
  appreciate you listening to
• 1:29:14
  International Flavor today.
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  Um, join me every day, Monday through
• 1:29:20
  Thursday at damradio.comlive.
• 1:29:24
  And on Fridays we do uh Civic Outlaws
• 1:29:29
  and we'll be here again this Friday.
• 1:29:31
  Missed our recording for last Friday,
• 1:29:33
  but we'll we'll fix that. We might have
• 1:29:35
  to redo that entire episode again this
• 1:29:37
  week. Anyway, have a very great Mid
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  Missouri day. See you tomorrow.