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Starobelsk, Oreshnik & the Silence · 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 Damn Radio.
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  I'm coming to you remotely today. I am
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  traveling. We're going to play some
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  Willie Nelson for you later because I am
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  on the road again. So, one of the jokes
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  they used to tell about him, if you wish
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  to, you can you can attempt to I'll tell
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  you the joke first. How about that? And
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  then before I distract myself with uh
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  something else,
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  the joke used to be, "Did you hear that
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  Willie Nelson was dead?" And uh people
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  go, "Oh, no, really?" And you go, "Yeah,
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  they found out he was playing on the
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  road again."
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  Terrible joke for a Tuesday morning. Uh
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  sorry I didn't uh
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  didn't have a show yesterday. I was uh
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  unprepared for the travel and it didn't
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  uh uh go with the with the cleanest of
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  uh of travel. And I'm hoping the sound
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  is okay. It appears to be just fine, but
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  I'm not listening to it. It's the same
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  event. Um I wanted to talk a little bit
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  yesterday about uh events that are going
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  on. Uh the Arashnik strike that went on
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  over the weekend in Kiev. uh Russia
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  retaliation for an event they have left
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  completely
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  un uh reported here in the west. They
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  haven't even talked about it at all. And
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  uh it is disgusting to me that they
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  haven't and they have invited
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  journalists. Um I have a bit that I'm
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  trying to finish and I hope it ends up
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  um by the time we are halfway through
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  the show. I want to um uh I I watched um
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  well I listened to I never had the
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  opportunity to watch but I was listening
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  to it in headphones while doing some
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  other things um and traveling a little
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  bit and uh I listened to Maria Zakarova
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  who appeared on Soliv last night and uh
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  they they gave quite the critique and
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  I'm really trying to share that entire
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  that in in its entirety with you and
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  it's highly frustrating. ing that uh um
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  there are no uh
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  reporters that will go and investigate
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  this and we'll cover it the correct way
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  and so uh it's an open plea to uh to
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  western journalists to come over and see
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  what Kiev has done and uh that is a
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  16 to 18 drone strike on a school in uh
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  town in Russia
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  And it uh they bombed this uh uh like a
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  like a a a boarding trade school for
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  pedigogisti which are uh people studying
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  to be teachers and uh you know stuff
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  like that. and uh 14 to 18 year olds
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  living in dormitories and uh they bombed
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  the dormitories
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  and uh 16 uh several waves of bombs
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  attacked this dormatory and killed uh I
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  believe the final number of killed was
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  like 21 22 and the total injured were
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  like 28 29 of the 80 children 80
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  something children that resided there
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  and their teachers and
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  you know, blew them up and uh they're
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  under rubble and it's a pretty big deal
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  all over Russia, but they won't even
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  report it. Um, in the west, you don't
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  hear anything about it. And so, Russia's
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  had this horrible arashnik strike that
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  um uh attacked Kiev yesterday in
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  Arashnik. And I have plenty of of uh
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  news to discuss about that. and it's
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  irritating to me. And and I think my
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  sound I'm trying to do it without uh
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  Bluetooth today. We're we're seeing how
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  this works. If the sound comes out
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  better, cuz the last couple of times I
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  listen to myself on the road, the sound
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  just seemed off a little bit. And of
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  course it is. I'm in a different I'm not
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  in a studio. It'll be off. So I
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  apologize for that. But uh I wanted to
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  share with you uh uh Nebenzia which is
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  uh I believe his first name is Vicilei
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  but it doesn't matter but Nibbenzia is
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  the ambassador to
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  uh the European security council
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  and or to the UN. He he speaks to the to
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  the UN on behalf of Russia and he's uh
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  he's pretty blunt and pretty
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  straightforward and I'm going to read to
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  you his uh translated address. It's not
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  very long and he gave a short address
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  basically telling people he said Mr.
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  president. Uh he's talking to the whole
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  thing and there were some some I watched
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  like a half an hour of this and I was
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  disgusted myself where they just say
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  they basically say Russia's faking and
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  this is this is all fake news and stuff
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  even on the security council. And so
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  it's it's nonsense uh what they put out
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  there, but but they don't even talk
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  about it. Just like here in America, we
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  don't talk about the bombing of the
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  Iranian girls school in the first days
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  of uh where they took out the the elite
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  school uh children of the school while
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  they were taking out their parents too.
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  They took out all the children and uh so
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  they had killed several hundred you know
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  of young girls in that school. Uh
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  teenagers, you know, stuff like that.
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  same same thing they've done in Russia.
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  And I assume that uh you know for me it
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  just seems very convenient that uh OG
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  Ukraine bombed a school when uh that's
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  exactly what happened in Iran. That's
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  for me. No, I I don't believe in
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  coincidence, you know. Well, I shouldn't
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  say that. I do, but it's pretty you got
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  to you got to uh convince me and I
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  remain unconvinced and is is all I'm
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  saying. So, NenzB uh he says, "Mr.
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  President, I'm delighted with the
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  knowledge of the Ukrainian passport in
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  Russian history. Uh because they were
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  talking about this idiotic passport
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  issue in the history of Russia and how
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  the Ukrainian passport was actually
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  showed something of Ukraine on its
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  idiotic. It's stupid. But they're trying
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  to uh separate the Ukrainianism. It
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  hasn't been part of Russia for forever.
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  There still That's far more important
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  than talking about anything of
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  substance. you know, you got to talk
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  about that. And so I'm delighted with
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  the knowledge of the Ukrainian passport
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  and Russian history, but with your
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  permission, I will not engage in a
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  dialogue with him because of this is a
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  senseless and useless activity.
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  And it is. It's idiotic. I wanted to say
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  something else. Frankly speaking, I am
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  embarrassed and ashamed of my colleagues
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  on the Security Council. We knew that we
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  would hear something like this from the
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  European Security Council member, but
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  today their level of cynicism is
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  overwhelming. None of them even bother
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  to mention the dead children in
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  Stobilsk.
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  The representative of Denmark said they
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  did not have access
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  to the to the site to see it. Do you
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  need access to the rubble or will you
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  claim that Russia did it or is that or
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  that it is a result of computer
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  graphics? You say you cannot
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  independently confirm and are not sure
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  that this is not staged has not been
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  staged but even the general staff of the
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  armed forces of Ukraine confirmed that
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  it hit starts. They actually took pride
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  in it and they said they did it. They
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  said that wasn't a school. that was a
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  headquarters for uh
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  some elite unit uh some elite unit in
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  Russia. I forget the name of the unit
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  right now, but uh but Ukraine said they
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  did it and they said uh yeah and they
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  double tapped it too. They did it,
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  waited until the uh uh first responders
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  got there and then did it again and then
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  did it a third time and they did it a
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  third time. Total of 18 drones or so and
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  they destroyed the whole middle of it.
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  The pictures are disgusting. And it
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  says, "These are not even hypocrisy or
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  double standards, but a mockery of the
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  child victims. We said in our speech
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  that you have victims worthy of
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  compassion and those who do not deserve
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  it listening to you, to those present
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  and absent members, excuse me, of the
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  European Union is an insult to the
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  feelings of all who suffered regardless
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  of which country. How did we live up to
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  the fact that the representatives of the
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  European countries do not even consider
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  the children of young students of start
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  residents of Donbass and in general
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  Russians as people cuz they don't they
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  just you know they're they aren't even
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  people. They're orcs according to the
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  security council and the Ukrainians.
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  This however deprivives the human face
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  not of them but of you sitting in this
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  hall. You should be ashamed to bear what
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  you are hearing now. After all, these
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  are the dances. These are people dancing
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  on the bones of the dead. This is all
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  disgusting. I would be sincerely sorry
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  for you if not for your disgusting
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  cynicism and regret over the memories of
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  the dead. Thank you. And uh I wanted to
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  share that with you because somebody at
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  least is speaking up, but nobody ever
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  listens. And um that'll say something.
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  Now war is war and there is uh horror
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  stories and war everywhere right and um
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  but they you know that that was uh
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  uh Nibenzia in the security council
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  talking about it and Russia has taken a
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  a different approach
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  after this. Um and they they are you
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  know Vladimir Putin got on and gave uh
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  quite the uh
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  quite the
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  I don't know speech and warning shot to
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  Ukraine and then they hit him over the
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  weekend with Arashnik. Well, the story
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  is this uh uh
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  retaliatory strike on Kiev involving the
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  archnik.
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  And uh so on on May 22nd in Stoilsk,
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  which is a section of Lug Lugansk, it's
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  a dormatory strike. The Russians vowed
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  retaliation and on May 23rd, uh there
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  were US and Ukrainian warnings. They
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  sent all these Sergey Lavough uh sent
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  sent to Marco Rubio some uh told him to
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  get people out of out of Kiev, you know,
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  we're we're we're going to bomb the crap
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  out of it. You better get your people
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  out of there. I don't mean to laugh
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  about that, but he was pretty blunt. And
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  uh so on May 24th there was a mass uh
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  Kiev region strike with the archnik and
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  uh that was confirmed and reported by
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  multiple sites and uh it's over what was
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  hit and whether it was military civilian
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  dual use what the Russians said as they
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  were going to take out centers of uh
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  decisionmaking.
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  So,
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  um the this is Russia's response cuz
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  Vladimir Putin got and and then he put
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  put a uh statement out saying
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  that uh starts l Lugansk that he was uh
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  uh that they were coming. He asked all
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  of the people and the military, he said,
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  "I've asked them to provide me with
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  options for for strikes and I want uh
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  every option on the table." He was
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  pissed. You could tell he was freaking
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  pissed. And uh the people are pissed
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  about it. And uh you know this this
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  wasn't an ordinary drone flight night on
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  the 24th. It was a large combined
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  Russian strike package with drones,
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  ballistic missiles, cruise missiles,
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  even hypersonic and at least one,
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  although it looked to me like several
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  from the videos that I saw. Areshnic
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  intermediate range hypersonic ballistic
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  missile. and Russia says it hit military
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  command sites, air bases, and Ukrainian
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  defense enterprises in retaliation for
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  Ukrainian strikes on the Russian uh
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  school. Ukrainian and Western
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  governments say the strike in Kiev
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  caused extensive civilian destruction,
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  damage to residential buildings,
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  schools, markets, water infrastructure,
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  diplomatic property and cultural sites.
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  does. So, I watched Aristovich
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  yesterday, Alexi, and he's the guy who
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  wants to be president of Ukraine after,
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  you know, I mean, I doubt he'll ever
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  make it, but he but he wants to uh wants
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  to be, and he talks about it, and he was
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  connected with Zilinsky and with the
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  government for quite a while. I've
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  talked about him before. And uh he was
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  given one and said he wouldn't be
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  surprised if Russia took out the only
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  water treatment facility in Kiev. And
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  that he's like, you know, he thought it
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  he thought it would be all all bombed.
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  I've got some things to share from him
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  as well. But uh both things uh can be
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  true, you know, that there was civilian
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  structure. The Russians say, well, we
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  hit this at night when nobody was there.
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  You know, they reported one death on on
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  some of in in one of the site, one of
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  the buildings that Russia targeted cuz
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  nobody's there at night, you know. And
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  uh so Russia says even when we're
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  targeting you, we don't try to kill
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  innocents. You know what I mean? Um and
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  I don't know that, you know, you can
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  believe that or disbelieve that. It's
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  not not on me to say who's telling the
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  truth there. But uh certainly the the
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  after listening to Zahara yesterday and
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  the pictures that they showed all
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  weekend on all of this and the
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  interviews of children in hospitals that
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  they were talking about, they were
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  talking about the school. There's a
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  mother there. her boy was k pulled out
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  of the out of the ruins and he they had
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  to cut his leg off to get him out and
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  and she was uh you know balling and
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  carrying on in the of course in the um
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  and you can't blame her in the hospital
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  while he laid there and she's like you
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  know these are young kids and their
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  dreams are ruined because you know
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  because of somebody wants to attack a
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  college and you know war war I mean I
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  get it you know it's a there are two
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  sides to every
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  and and a war sucks for them all. But uh
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  there you have it. Um
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  the Russian side starts with the attacks
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  of talking about Kiev afterward, you
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  know, and the the responsive attack from
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  Russia. They say that the attacks on
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  Stutterbal Professional College, which
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  is a teacher training college for
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  teachers, um Pedagogisti is what they're
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  called in the Lugans People's uh
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  Republic. RT says that Russia and and
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  Maria Zakarova last night said that uh
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  21 people, 21 children were killed and
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  42 were injured, mostly teenage girls
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  and trainee teachers after the dorm was
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  hit in multiple waves of drone strikes
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  while students were sleeping inside.
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  Putin Putin described the strikes as
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  deliberate and ordered Russia defense
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  ministry to prepare retaliatory options.
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  And Russia's position as most of the
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  time when these things occur, which are
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  all too often on the Ukrainian side, is
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  that uh this is a terrorist attack
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  against civilian education facility with
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  no military installations there or even
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  nearby. And Ukraine says that uh the
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  operation didn't target civilians and
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  hit a Russian military drone related
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  facility. And uh Ukraine's ambassador to
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  the UN called Moscow their accusation
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  propaganda and said the operation
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  targeted Russia's war machine. And that
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  dispute, you know, claims it's illegal,
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  you know, legal hinge. You know, we're
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  attacking this. It's a a drone command
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  unit. Um
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  um
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  it's you know it's independent
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  verifiable evidence from Zakarava and
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  she's been inviting people over and
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  nobody's taking her up on it. She goes,
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  "Where's BBC? Where's CNN?" And I hope
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  to have that that translated uh portion
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  of her speech because it was powerful
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  and uh uh she she was on a tear and
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  frankly should have been in the whole
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  country is on a tear over there and
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  nobody's even listening over here and uh
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  they don't even talk about it and you
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  know it's all Ukraine all the time. Of
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  course we have to have blue and yellow
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  flags painted on the back of our windows
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  of our cars because we're idiots. That's
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  because that's what the US has been
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  pushing for 30 years. So, uh we've been
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  wrong for 30 years. But, you know, there
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  you have it. Uh there were warnings
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  said that the US embassy for the attack
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  on Kiev I'm talking about because um
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  Russian air attack they you know they
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  said 24 hours and the US citizens were
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  advised to get out to leave. Um the same
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  report noted that Zilinski
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  had US intelligence European partners
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  that Russia is going to use Rashnik. He
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  didn't need that. They said it all over
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  Russia. They said we're, you know, the
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  archnik will be used and we're getting
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  the options for that right now. And they
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  were clear about it all over the news.
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  They were saying if you're in Kev, if
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  you're in Kiev, leave because we're
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  we're we're going to bomb the crap out
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  of it. You can't you can't blatantly
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  bomb bomb a school and uh you know with
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  young children in it and not get a
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  response. So uh the Zilinsky in Ukraine
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  had plenty of hours of warning, not not
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  minutes. They had the whole day
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  beforehand cuz this the event of bombing
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  the school was on Thursday and they said
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  we're going to blow this up and we're
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  we're we're we're attacking uh Kiev
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  heavy and they allowed senior officials,
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  commanders, personnel, decision-m
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  centers even to evacuate and they said
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  we're going to hit decision-m centers
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  and uh so you know it doesn't mean that
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  they were emptied you know there's still
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  people in there but they did give
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  warning. So the strike was the largest
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  strike in Cub since the beginning of the
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  special military operation. Had hundreds
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  of drones, many many missiles. They had
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  Kils, Khalibiscan,
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  Zirkan and Ciran and Archnik in uh the
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  Russian military. Uh the defense said it
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  was a strike specifically in retaliation
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  for the terrorist attack against
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  civilian targets in Russia which have
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  been ongoing for months and nobody says
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  anything about it. You know they've
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  bombed schools, swimming pools, you know
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  these for years this has been going on.
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  Um it's all the Ukrainians have left,
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  okay, is is to send in they're losing
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  heavily on the battlefield. So the only
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  thing they can do is the like the only
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  thing the US can do in Iran is bomb
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  [ __ ] right? And so you you you you send
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  out some some waves of drones. You make
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  sure to double tap them in the most
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  visible of manner and kill as many
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  civilians as possible because that is
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  how and then you attack just like Israel
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  does. They attack the uh the double tap.
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  They they uh wait until the uh rescue
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  crews arrive and then they bomb them
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  too. And uh that's that's the way it's
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  done in modern warfare, I suppose, uh
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  today. And so we shouldn't be
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  complaining about it, right? This is
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  war. This is what we're supposed to do.
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  I thought we were better than that. And
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  uh you know, I really did. And that's
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  you know, against a Geneva Convention,
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  you know, it really is. And it's against
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  all sorts of international treaties. and
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  then and nobody ever talks about it, but
• 20:42
  I guarantee you if they did the same
• 20:44
  thing in in Ukraine, it'd be all over
• 20:47
  the news here. And they tried it a
• 20:49
  couple of times and most time it's a lie
• 20:52
  that they put it out there.
• 20:54
  They create their own news. Anyway, uh
• 20:57
  Ukraine's air force um as stated by the
• 21:00
  AP, they said there were 600 drone
• 21:03
  strikes, 90 air to sea and ground launch
• 21:06
  missiles, and uh they said they
• 21:10
  destroyed about
• 21:13
  half on the way in. The Russians say
• 21:16
  they don't have any air defense left and
• 21:18
  so when they shoot they they hit it. So
• 21:22
  AP reported that Arashnik struck uh
• 21:26
  Billet Verka which is in the Kiev region
• 21:28
  which isn't really downtown Kiev itself
• 21:32
  because they they said that Arashnik was
• 21:35
  used in the Kiev region but they
• 21:38
  reported points um that say they were
• 21:41
  hit military and militaryindustrial
• 21:43
  complex and it says the Artiel military
• 21:47
  facility in Kiev which is on the
• 21:49
  outskirts of Kiev and it's a major
• 21:51
  Ukrainian Ian military-industrial plant
• 21:53
  tied to air-to-air missiles, missile
• 21:55
  training, maintenance systems, anti-tank
• 21:58
  and aircraft equipment. So,
• 22:01
  that's not yet been cooperated. You
• 22:04
  know, everybody hasn't put that out
• 22:05
  exactly what they hit and they're still,
• 22:08
  you know, coming up with whatever
• 22:09
  narrative the West is going to use cuz
• 22:11
  this only happened on the 24th, Sunday.
• 22:14
  And uh so, um AP reports damage across
• 22:18
  Kiev. um government offices, residential
• 22:22
  buildings, a marketplace. They said
• 22:25
  there were two k two people killed and
• 22:27
  83 wounded. Uh the Guardian, which sites
• 22:31
  Zalinski and other Ukrainian official
• 22:33
  officials, said uh that at least um
• 22:38
  uh four were killed and 100 were injured
• 22:41
  um with damage to the water facility.
• 22:45
  the water is what Restovich was talking
• 22:48
  about was saying that they should
• 22:49
  attack, you know, he would think Russia
• 22:51
  would attack that because there's really
• 22:52
  only one in Kiev. Um residential
• 22:55
  buildings, schools, and other sites, but
• 22:58
  you know, civilian and military targets
• 23:00
  aren't really mutually exclusive in the
• 23:02
  war. You know, a defense plant in Cube,
• 23:05
  it can be a lawful military target, but
• 23:08
  you know, still create lots of
• 23:10
  collateral damage.
• 23:12
  So you know
• 23:14
  uh the weapon in the rashnik and why it
• 23:18
  matters is because the arashnik is um
• 23:22
  according to all including western uh
• 23:25
  media all media it's an unstoppable
• 23:30
  uh hypersonic missile and um Russia
• 23:34
  hasn't used it very often. This is only
• 23:36
  the third time, possibly the fourth that
• 23:39
  they have used it. Um, you know, the
• 23:42
  confirmed ones are when Russia says they
• 23:44
  come back and the possible ones are when
• 23:45
  people claim it's out there. The AP and
• 23:48
  Guardian both say that Russia used
• 23:50
  archnic in this tech and it's the third
• 23:53
  known use of this weapon. And so it's uh
• 23:57
  some footage says the missile appeared
• 24:00
  uh slower than the last one. And it says
• 24:05
  it, you know, you you can't you you
• 24:08
  can't strategically defeat or
• 24:10
  realistically defeat the Archnik. You
• 24:13
  can't they can't hit it. It's going too
• 24:15
  fast. And the multiple warhead scenario,
• 24:19
  they uh they can't target them fast
• 24:21
  enough to get rid of them. So
• 24:24
  Ukraine can intercept some ballistic
• 24:27
  missiles with Patriot class, but it
• 24:30
  it's, you know, obviously in this war
• 24:33
  it's have been quite discovered that air
• 24:36
  defenses aren't capable of keeping up
• 24:38
  with technology. They're years behind.
• 24:41
  And so that's a that's the big deal. But
• 24:44
  it's uh this is much more of a deterrent
• 24:48
  is what they're saying. Russia is saying
• 24:50
  we have less escalation tools which are
• 24:55
  less than nuclear. You know the archnic
• 24:57
  was designed to to uh carry nuclear
• 25:02
  warheads
• 25:04
  and uh Russians haven't um used nuclear
• 25:08
  warheads. A lot of discussion about
• 25:10
  that. One person said there was a report
• 25:14
  but I haven't been able to confirm it
• 25:16
  was that uh parts of the Ukrainian
• 25:18
  parliament that Nada was hit as well but
• 25:21
  the speaker says that that would take it
• 25:24
  with a huge grain of salt because he
• 25:27
  doesn't believe that the Rada was hit
• 25:29
  himself but he did say that there's
• 25:31
  reports all over Ukraine that they did
• 25:33
  hit the ver
• 25:35
  and uh that's the state capital building
• 25:38
  basically and uh so I'm Not so sure. I
• 25:41
  haven't been able to find any solid cor
• 25:43
  corroboration of that um that it was
• 25:47
  struck. So, it could have been, but who
• 25:49
  knows? But Russia's official framing is
• 25:53
  we're retaliating. You know, you guys
• 25:55
  cross the line. You keep striking
• 25:57
  civilian targets and you blow up schools
• 26:00
  and you know, you're pissing us off. If
• 26:03
  you want to stay in stay in the war,
• 26:05
  stay in the war. But but quit bombing,
• 26:07
  you know, civilian civilian clearly
• 26:10
  civilian targets. And on May 25th, I
• 26:13
  told you that Lavro told Rubio that
• 26:16
  Russia was uh going to start systematic
• 26:18
  strikes on Kiev in uh the sites used for
• 26:23
  the needs of Ukraine's armed forces and
• 26:25
  decision making. And uh the Russian
• 26:28
  foreign ministry statement says the move
• 26:30
  has been in response to these continuing
• 26:33
  Ukrainian terror attacks. and RT
• 26:36
  followed up and Sublavv warned Rubio of
• 26:39
  long range strikes and repeated Russia's
• 26:42
  recommendation that foreigners evacuate
• 26:44
  Kiev and uh
• 26:47
  saying that starts
• 26:49
  this school is the last straw and uh you
• 26:52
  know Putin was clearly pissed and he
• 26:55
  keeps his emotions uh you know under
• 26:58
  wraps. He's not like like the Trumpster
• 27:00
  or many other you know American types.
• 27:02
  He he generally doesn't, you know,
• 27:07
  uh go off the rails, you know, and he
• 27:11
  but he was pissed. He was clearly pissed
• 27:13
  when he was speaking. So, Russia is
• 27:15
  saying this isn't this is like a
• 27:18
  possible new phase of pressure,
• 27:21
  especially during this year's um
• 27:24
  counteroffensive. So Ukraine is saying
• 27:27
  that Russia is attacking Cub without
• 27:30
  provocations of any kind and they just
• 27:33
  send a massive barrage as usual to kill
• 27:37
  civilians and damage civilian
• 27:38
  infrastructure and use the archnic as a
• 27:41
  terror weapon and uh since they have the
• 27:44
  bully pulpit they get to say what they
• 27:46
  they like you know and Zalansky says K
• 27:49
  is the target that he was the target and
• 27:52
  he called for consequences you know Um
• 27:55
  the European condemnation
• 27:58
  by Mcronone by merits by Kaya Kales and
• 28:01
  Kalis calling the use of Archnik is
• 28:04
  reckless nuclear brinksmanship
• 28:07
  and wants to promise more discussion of
• 28:10
  more pressure. What are they up to
• 28:11
  sanction level number 23? You know you
• 28:15
  people need there's there's talk of
• 28:18
  capitulation. Um in in Ukraine there
• 28:21
  have been five or six uh veh people come
• 28:24
  out and say look we just need to
• 28:26
  capitulate and uh it the the talk is
• 28:30
  starting and they just go look we we
• 28:33
  need to capitulate we don't have the the
• 28:35
  forces we don't have the people we don't
• 28:37
  have the weapons what are we going to do
• 28:40
  continue to just send in drones you know
• 28:44
  um the dispute over start um separate
• 28:47
  but important Russia is trying to turn
• 28:49
  it into a credibility test for the media
• 28:52
  and rightly so. RT says that the Russian
• 28:54
  foreign and me watching Zakaraba
• 28:57
  yesterday, I'm telling you too, uh the
• 28:59
  Russian foreign ministry arranged a trip
• 29:02
  to the site for 50 journalists from 19
• 29:06
  countries. And they say that BBC and CNN
• 29:09
  declined and Japan blocked Japanese
• 29:13
  reporters from attending. And uh it's
• 29:16
  the same old stuff, you know, that
• 29:18
  Russia's several times that come and
• 29:21
  look at what they're doing and nobody
• 29:23
  will go. And Western media refuses,
• 29:26
  avoids, or says they cannot safely,
• 29:28
  credibly participate under Russian
• 29:31
  organized conditions. And Russia says
• 29:33
  that, you know, this is because they
• 29:35
  fear the truth. They don't want to come
• 29:36
  see it. And uh they all say it's a propo
• 29:40
  a controlled propaganda tour. I tell you
• 29:42
  what, I'll fly over there, you know,
• 29:44
  anytime, you know. I'm tempted to do it
• 29:46
  now and uh and go see it. It would be a
• 29:49
  uh
• 29:51
  useful to go and see it and and go and
• 29:54
  talk to these people. You know, the I
• 29:56
  bet they'd let me interview some of the
• 29:58
  some of the people over there and
• 30:00
  translate it. I should I should uh I
• 30:03
  sent sent away for my Russian. My new
• 30:05
  one. I had to get a new passport. So, uh
• 30:08
  I should have that back anytime. And we
• 30:10
  shall see. But uh I don't know um
• 30:17
  the Russians uh are always this you know
• 30:21
  it's always sequential strike right so a
• 30:24
  deadly strike on a dormatory and college
• 30:26
  facility in Stoddale has been reported
• 30:29
  but uh all across Russia and nobody will
• 30:32
  pay attention to that. Russia talks
• 30:34
  about it inside the UN, inside all of
• 30:37
  its news, warns Lav Lavough warns Rubio.
• 30:41
  They all talk about it and then Putin
• 30:43
  orders a response and the warnings are
• 30:45
  issued. Russia strikes what it describes
• 30:47
  as military command, air base centers,
• 30:50
  defense industry targets, and RT and
• 30:53
  Reuters both talk about this in the
• 30:56
  retaliation, but they don't say what was
• 30:58
  bombed. You don't even hear it over
• 31:00
  here. So if this uh defense enterprises
• 31:04
  like art those are legitimate wartime
• 31:07
  targets under ordinary law of war and uh
• 31:10
  the facts that you know some civilian or
• 31:12
  civilian buildings are damaged doesn't
• 31:15
  make the target unlawful like it does
• 31:17
  with a school you know and bad
• 31:20
  intelligence and uh but if your
• 31:22
  intelligence is you know AI generated
• 31:25
  you can't trust it. So,
• 31:29
  uh, this has been a, uh, a, uh,
• 31:34
  a pretty, uh, horrific event, no matter
• 31:38
  how you slice it, and ignoring it is,
• 31:41
  uh, just completely improper. Um, I'm
• 31:44
  going to try to figure this out without
• 31:48
  destroying uh the sound quality whilst I
• 31:52
  figure out the next level of uh, the
• 31:55
  song. Remember I told you I was going to
• 31:58
  uh see if we could find Willie Nelson
• 32:03
  uh playing on the road again.
• 32:07
  And there we go. They found him playing
• 32:09
  on the road again. And uh you know he
• 32:13
  looked pretty good back in those days.
• 32:15
  That song's been around for a very long
• 32:17
  time. And uh that was uh
• 32:22
  Mr. Willie Nelson.
• 32:26
  Um, let's see. I am in the process of
• 32:30
  well, we've been discussing anyway the
• 32:32
  uh the air strikes and on this uh I told
• 32:36
  you I watched some Aristoix yesterday
• 32:38
  and Aristovich is a he's kind of a
• 32:41
  cynical dude. Um he says it's uh he
• 32:46
  calls it all political theater.
• 32:49
  Everything is theater. And uh he was he
• 32:52
  talked quite a bit about Bellarus uh
• 32:54
  Bellarus and trying to get Bellarus into
• 32:57
  the uh Zalinski trying to get in. And
• 33:01
  basically his core thesis is that uh
• 33:04
  Bellarus um pressure campaign, the
• 33:08
  Archnik strike, starts and Lugansk
• 33:12
  dormatory strikes and wider escalation
• 33:15
  around Kiev. Now there have been reports
• 33:18
  that people are going, you know what,
• 33:19
  screw this. So, we're just going to take
• 33:21
  give and be done with it. We'll take
• 33:24
  give and it's over. And there's been
• 33:26
  quite a bit of chatter about that on the
• 33:28
  on the Russian uh media. But according
• 33:31
  to Aristovich, they're all parts of one
• 33:33
  political military pressure cooker and
• 33:37
  pressure system. And we should take it
• 33:41
  all, you know, with a grain of salt. And
• 33:43
  of course, he's a he's a Ukrainian. This
• 33:46
  is a Ukrainian perspective. And so I do
• 33:48
  try to listen to to him as well. And
• 33:51
  he's a little cynical because of the the
• 33:53
  corruption and because of the Zalinski
• 33:56
  model and he's no fan of Zalinski and uh
• 33:59
  but what according to what he says
• 34:01
  they're all parts of just one military
• 34:03
  political thing. Zalinski he said needs
• 34:07
  distraction and he needs he needs
• 34:10
  another wave of domestic mobilization.
• 34:13
  He needs more people to join the
• 34:14
  military and he don't have anybody left.
• 34:17
  And uh so
• 34:19
  he's
• 34:20
  Rtovich is always excuse me hostile to
• 34:24
  Zalinski personally skeptical of Moscow
• 34:27
  too and worried that both of them uh you
• 34:30
  know are now trying to use Bellarus and
• 34:33
  he he started with saying that um
• 34:37
  uh who benefits the most if Bellarus
• 34:39
  gets dragged into the war and because he
• 34:43
  says that both of them are trying. He he
• 34:46
  says that Russia has a clear military
• 34:48
  reason to generate pressure from
• 34:51
  Bellarus. And I've been talking about
• 34:52
  that because Russia and Bellarus are
• 34:55
  stationing troops right along the
• 34:57
  borders in northern Ukraine there. And
• 35:00
  uh to prevent and to make it easier to
• 35:02
  prevent Ukrainians from uh sending
• 35:05
  drones um across the Bellarus and
• 35:09
  Russian area, they have to go around and
• 35:11
  go through Poland and and come into uh
• 35:14
  or through the Latvia, Lithuania,
• 35:16
  Estonia to get into uh
• 35:19
  get into St. Petersburg. And so
• 35:23
  Moscow can't add enough troops on that
• 35:26
  line because of the existing front. And
• 35:29
  so if you're trying to force Ukraine to
• 35:32
  uh remove forces from the eastern
• 35:34
  southern front and send them north to
• 35:36
  cover the Bellarus border. So if they
• 35:38
  can get Bellarus to border up on the
• 35:41
  north, then
• 35:43
  uh Ukraine will have to spend troops to
• 35:46
  cover the northern borders instead of
• 35:48
  ignoring Bellarus, which they should do
• 35:52
  at their own peril anyway because Russia
• 35:54
  is striking from inside of there as
• 35:56
  well.
• 35:58
  Um
• 35:59
  but Russia he you know he says that you
• 36:02
  know Russia needs to get in there. He
• 36:04
  says, "But but Zalinski also benefits
• 36:06
  from Bellerus." And this is the harshest
• 36:08
  part. This is where he says that
• 36:10
  Zalinski benefits from the Bellarus
• 36:12
  threat cuz he gives him a new argument
• 36:15
  for mobilization. You know, look, you
• 36:18
  know, he's threatening Kiev, Rivia,
• 36:20
  Woon, or other places like Pol, you
• 36:23
  know, near Poland. And he can argue that
• 36:26
  Ukraine needs harsher mobilization.
• 36:29
  And uh it's a good way to silence his
• 36:31
  opponents and it can distract everybody
• 36:34
  from corruption, you know, cuz there's
• 36:36
  so many scandals. And then one of the
• 36:38
  most uh
• 36:40
  critical things he said, well, he calls
• 36:43
  it mindage gate. That guy who stole all
• 36:45
  his money and arrest and everybody else
• 36:47
  talks very bluntly about all the
• 36:49
  corruption going on. I'm surprised that
• 36:51
  YouTube lets him stay online. you know,
• 36:54
  they get rid of anybody else who's um
• 36:57
  critical of of Zilinsky and the old Z
• 37:00
  monster. But, uh uh his view, he says,
• 37:04
  and he said it, he goes, you know,
• 37:06
  Zalinski gets to play Church Hill again,
• 37:08
  and everybody likes to try to, you know,
• 37:11
  throw him into that. And his foreign
• 37:14
  policy, Zalinski's foreign policy
• 37:18
  behavior only serves his internal
• 37:21
  political needs first. Excuse me. He
• 37:25
  says Zalinsky raises the stakes all the
• 37:27
  time and then, you know, does what the
• 37:30
  the the standard um narcissist does. He
• 37:34
  just raises the stakes, you know, and if
• 37:36
  a deal is not possible, he can uh you
• 37:38
  know, later blame he just blames
• 37:41
  somebody else and moves on and and does
• 37:43
  it again. So um that's his explanation
• 37:46
  for Zilinski
• 37:48
  not dealing normally with Lucena at all
• 37:52
  and uh uh he sees that as a deliberate
• 37:55
  delegitimata delegitimatization
• 37:58
  of Luc Shanka. he doesn't want to talk
• 38:01
  to him because uh Lucena is actually
• 38:05
  doing quite a good a good job of
• 38:09
  mediating between the west Putin, China,
• 38:13
  you know, Zalinski, Lucanka doesn't want
• 38:16
  war in uh in uh Ukraine. It's um
• 38:23
  the all it is is escalation and he
• 38:26
  doesn't want that escalation. So
• 38:28
  Arastovich's view of the Arashnik strike
• 38:31
  in particular is that he says that uh
• 38:34
  Russia is now going to try to make Kiev
• 38:36
  unlivable
• 38:38
  and uh push KV. And he says this is this
• 38:41
  is
• 38:44
  uh you know not proof of trying to end
• 38:47
  the war quickly, but this is even more
• 38:50
  cold and more cynical. He says the
• 38:53
  strike is propaganda for Russian
• 38:56
  domestic audience and not decisive
• 38:59
  militarily.
• 39:01
  He says they uh can't Russia can't
• 39:04
  easily mobilize another huge uh
• 39:08
  contingent of troops before the
• 39:10
  September elections. Russia can't
• 39:13
  guarantee major battlefield gains before
• 39:16
  then, although they're certainly
• 39:18
  churning along on the east side there.
• 39:21
  Ukrainian Jones are hitting Russian uh
• 39:24
  civilian structures and refineries more
• 39:27
  importantly in and in Moscow. And uh
• 39:32
  you know uh he's pretty blunt about it.
• 39:36
  He said Russia has to feed its domestic
• 39:38
  propaganda machine with an answer
• 39:41
  because they can't uh
• 39:44
  you know they can't
• 39:47
  not respond inside of Russia. they have
• 39:50
  to respond. So he he I don't know. He
• 39:54
  says it's going to cost about a billion
• 39:56
  dollars to uh fix everything that was uh
• 40:00
  blown up in Ukraine over the weekend. He
• 40:03
  says the death count was two and uh you
• 40:08
  know even on the propaganda claim that
• 40:10
  they're trying to uh
• 40:13
  kill civilians, you know, Russians
• 40:15
  haven't done that. And uh he said it
• 40:18
  would, you know, that's pretty
• 40:19
  expensive, $500 million. He said they
• 40:22
  spent a billion dollars on this uh on
• 40:26
  this strike and uh you know that 500
• 40:30
  million a person if they were really
• 40:32
  trying to kill someone. You know, he
• 40:35
  they don't want he doesn't want to spend
• 40:37
  high techch military equipment to kill a
• 40:40
  small number of people. If they really
• 40:41
  wanted to, they' put a nuclear warhead
• 40:43
  on it is basically what he was saying.
• 40:46
  And uh so he's he's pretty blunt. And uh
• 40:49
  he's here's what he worries about the
• 40:50
  most. He said, and this was interesting.
• 40:53
  He said that Kiev has uh water sources,
• 40:57
  but the water treatment and the water
• 40:59
  sewage systems, they have multiple water
• 41:02
  sources because they sit on a river. So
• 41:05
  destroying water access would be
• 41:07
  difficult. But sewage treatment is far
• 41:10
  more vulnerable. He says see he raises
• 41:13
  the issue of the Borchnney
• 41:16
  sewage treatment facility and saying he
• 41:19
  doesn't know whether it was hit but he
• 41:21
  said a city can vi survive many things
• 41:24
  but if the sewage treatment collapse in
• 41:26
  a multi-million person city during
• 41:28
  summer the city is will become unlivable
• 41:32
  very quickly and the danger isn't just
• 41:35
  inconvenience it's disease sanitation
• 41:37
  collapses and uh the degradation of
• 41:40
  urban life. So when he says Kiev is
• 41:42
  going to be unfit for life, he isn't
• 41:45
  speaking about explosions. He's talking
• 41:47
  about sewer. And uh so that's the
• 41:50
  darkest part of his uh his statement. Um
• 41:55
  I don't know. It was a pretty a pretty
• 41:58
  interesting and complete discussion that
• 42:01
  he tried to uh to portray there. Um
• 42:06
  he didn't want to
• 42:10
  discount but he didn't want to accept
• 42:14
  either the Russian
• 42:18
  statement that
• 42:21
  uh starts was
• 42:25
  uh you know non-military. He he he
• 42:28
  doesn't like that and he clearly doesn't
• 42:30
  like that. um
• 42:34
  Ukraine is using that if they are using
• 42:39
  schools and and you know young places
• 42:42
  where young people are in taking
• 42:45
  education
• 42:46
  there. He he he really does have a
• 42:50
  problem with that. And he says he
• 42:52
  doesn't know the full facts and he does
• 42:54
  acknowledge that these children are dead
• 42:56
  and you know he believes the Russian
• 42:58
  reports of what they're showing and all
• 43:01
  this stuff like just like I do watching
• 43:02
  it on TV and seeing the uh you know the
• 43:06
  interviews with the you know people who
• 43:08
  have lost legs and limbs and children.
• 43:11
  Um he says that Ukrainian and
• 43:14
  international um investigators all
• 43:18
  favorable to Ukraine say that uh there
• 43:21
  was a drone related activity nearby
• 43:26
  and uh so he says that Ukraine may have
• 43:30
  believed there was a military or drone
• 43:32
  related target and maybe there was one
• 43:34
  but uh they didn't hit it you know and
• 43:38
  cuz Kiev said Kiev said initially oh No,
• 43:41
  it was a mistake. We had only this and
• 43:43
  we can't believe it. And and what he
• 43:45
  says uh he says he's 100% sure nobody
• 43:49
  deliberately aimed at children. And his
• 43:52
  view is that neither side spends
• 43:54
  expensive military equipment to kill
• 43:58
  children. You know, he doesn't want to
• 43:59
  doesn't he doesn't think people believe
• 44:01
  that. I take a more cynical view. I
• 44:03
  think people do do that and uh I think
• 44:06
  we do that and I think we've done it in
• 44:08
  Iran either we've helped it or we've
• 44:11
  given crappy information unverified
• 44:16
  information to people and we're still
• 44:19
  doing it and you can't take this as a as
• 44:22
  even remotely um accurate.
• 44:26
  Hell, half the time this stuff is AI
• 44:28
  generated targets so it's crap. and uh
• 44:32
  he but he does reject the idea that
• 44:34
  there's any highle strike planning
• 44:36
  trying to kill civilian children. Um he
• 44:40
  demands that Ukraine investigate because
• 44:43
  the dead are from Ukraine's legal
• 44:46
  standpoint and this is important because
• 44:49
  they're firing inside of the Donbass. He
• 44:52
  claims these are Ukrainian citizens. And
• 44:55
  so they're bombing in the Dawnbast
• 44:58
  hitting start uh starts
• 45:02
  uh education center a Ukrainian
• 45:04
  education center if you believe that the
• 45:08
  Donbass is Ukrainian. And that's a major
• 45:11
  point. He says normal
• 45:14
  state open criminal cases when civilians
• 45:17
  die and they do it even against their
• 45:19
  own military. So if some Ukrainian is
• 45:22
  killing Ukrainians inside, which they
• 45:24
  should have been doing since 2014,
• 45:27
  then they should be taking it seriously
• 45:30
  and they never do. And so he wants to
• 45:32
  know who made the decision, evaluate
• 45:35
  whether the decision was lawful and
• 45:38
  punish those who made the mistake. And
• 45:40
  he says that Ukraine is going to bury
• 45:42
  the issue under the war rights off
• 45:45
  everything. You're just allowed to do
• 45:46
  it. Sorry. You know, that's how it goes.
• 45:48
  And this is, you know, this is a useful
• 45:50
  analysis.
• 45:52
  And uh, you know, and he says that these
• 45:55
  uh Russian strikes on Kiev are actually
• 45:58
  helpful to uh the Green Goblin. He gets
• 46:01
  to say that uh, you know, it takes his
• 46:05
  uh, focus away from all this corruption
• 46:09
  and the scandal. And that's definitely
• 46:10
  true. And uh you know, Zilinski is
• 46:14
  always on, you know, the always on the
• 46:17
  take for more money. You know, he wants
• 46:20
  that more money all the time. He's
• 46:24
  always out with his hand out somewhere.
• 46:26
  And he is again, he has been now. He's
• 46:30
  he's out doing it again. And he's
• 46:32
  particularly critical of Luc Shanka
• 46:34
  because Luc Shanka in Bellarus is trying
• 46:37
  to settle this. But oh no, no, no, no.
• 46:39
  Zinsky can't have that. If Luca Shanka
• 46:41
  is Church Hill, then he's not right. I'm
• 46:44
  extremely cynical about this the Green
• 46:47
  Goblin. Sorry about that. I'll try to
• 46:50
  tone that down a little bit for those
• 46:51
  who love the Green Goblin. Uh because
• 46:54
  there are plenty of those around, too.
• 46:55
  But that guy's not very lovable. He's
• 46:58
  not like Chibarashka or any of those.
• 47:01
  He's uh Could you imag
• 47:13
  So, you know what I'm going to do? I'm
• 47:15
  going to I have one more little segment,
• 47:18
  but because I'm remote, it's a little
• 47:21
  more difficult to uh to get to. So, I'm
• 47:24
  going to
• 47:27
  keep the tunes
• 47:29
  coming. and play for you. Uh,
• 47:35
  another popular sort of rockabilly kind
• 47:39
  of like on the road again in my humble
• 47:42
  view, but it's not really, but it's
• 47:43
  similar. Ready? Here we go. Leonard
• 47:45
  Skinnard Sweet Home Alabama.
• 47:48
  >> One, two, three.
• 47:52
  >> And that is the name of that tune. That
• 47:55
  was Leonard Skard, of course, Sweet Home
• 47:58
  Alabama. And uh I am Samuel Trap
• 48:01
  continuing here. I told you I was going
• 48:03
  to share with you
• 48:05
  and frankly I think it's important to do
• 48:07
  so. Nobody ever does and uh nobody ever
• 48:11
  includes important matters here. So
• 48:15
  think about this. I told you about
• 48:17
  watching u
• 48:20
  soliv on Sundays and this Sunday was no
• 48:25
  exception. I put in there. And uh like I
• 48:27
  told you last week, um uh Margarita
• 48:30
  Simmenan has returned and from her
• 48:32
  cancer treatment. Her husband passed
• 48:35
  away. She's had a bad year. And but I do
• 48:37
  like listening to her. She's US
• 48:39
  educated. Her English is better than
• 48:41
  mine probably. And she uh uh is is very
• 48:44
  well spoken and in Russian and in
• 48:46
  English. And she she spoke on he let her
• 48:49
  talk for a while last night. And uh they
• 48:52
  uh they they put some uh she he let her
• 48:57
  go on for a while. And I think it's
• 48:59
  because she hasn't been around in a
• 49:00
  while, you know, that she's been out of
• 49:02
  the country. And she always talks about
• 49:04
  poetry and uh you know, she she uh is is
• 49:09
  somewhat emotional, you know, when she
• 49:11
  talks about it. And so she put she'll
• 49:12
  put out these poetry things and and kind
• 49:16
  of give a a feminine um touch to it. And
• 49:20
  I'm mentioning that feminine thing twice
• 49:22
  because most of the time on Soliv Live,
• 49:26
  these people are uh mostly male. They
• 49:29
  tried to put a couple of women into that
• 49:31
  might be able to replace uh uh Margarita
• 49:34
  De Simmanan, but they haven't been very
• 49:36
  effective. You know, they they just it's
• 49:38
  not the same. This woman is is uh uh
• 49:41
  very well spoken and very popular and
• 49:43
  and she's also very clear when she
• 49:46
  speaks and and that for me makes it uh
• 49:50
  makes it a lot more uh uh profitable to
• 49:53
  watch her than people who don't open
• 49:55
  their mouths to enunciate when they
• 49:57
  speak. That drives me a little crazy.
• 49:59
  like I have a serious issue uh and
• 50:02
  sometimes I have to listen to him twice
• 50:04
  to make sure to get it all with
• 50:05
  Aristovich his as as a Aristovich
• 50:08
  mumbles and he doesn't open his mouth
• 50:10
  when he speaks and he just you know you
• 50:12
  can't hear what he's saying drives me
• 50:14
  nuts when you know when people you can't
• 50:17
  they can't clearly articulate in any
• 50:19
  language you know Russian or English and
• 50:21
  I try to be you know often joke that I'm
• 50:25
  illiterate in two languages but actually
• 50:27
  people tell me I'm somewhat literate and
• 50:30
  articulate in both and that I tried to
• 50:32
  say things in Russian that people will
• 50:35
  understand them, you know. Um
• 50:39
  anyway, Maria uh uh Zakarova and
• 50:42
  Margarita de Simmenan both were on uh
• 50:46
  the Soliv on Sunday night and Margarita
• 50:50
  Simenyan talked about quite a few topics
• 50:52
  and she uh one of the interesting parts
• 50:56
  of what she said she said uh on the
• 50:59
  current stage of the war and comparing
• 51:01
  it to 1941
• 51:03
  she says you know you are here from 0 to
• 51:06
  10 we're already at the point in the
• 51:08
  song written overnight on you know June
• 51:12
  22nd 1941 and she talked about the
• 51:15
  Kumach and what his words were we shall
• 51:18
  resist the stranglers of all fiery ideas
• 51:22
  its violators its robbers tormentors of
• 51:25
  people she said it's as if it was
• 51:27
  written uh right now you know she goes
• 51:30
  do you remember what this is from and it
• 51:33
  says uh and she's very poetic so I think
• 51:35
  it's it's fun to include this stuff in
• 51:38
  there. And she says, uh, "Arise, great
• 51:40
  country. Arise for mortal battle against
• 51:44
  the dark fascist forces, against the
• 51:47
  cursed horde. Let noble rage boil like a
• 51:51
  wave. The people's war is underway. Our
• 51:55
  sacred war." And she says, "One might
• 51:58
  say Ukraine is," she says this
• 52:00
  afterwards. She goes, "One might say
• 52:02
  Ukraine is too small for a sacred war,
• 52:04
  but we are not waging war against
• 52:07
  Ukraine. I will never tire of repeating
• 52:10
  this. The war with Ukraine ended on
• 52:12
  February 28, 2022, 6 days after the
• 52:17
  special military operation began. That
• 52:20
  was indeed like a small operation like
• 52:22
  Georgia that ended. They were ready to
• 52:25
  give everything away to accept any
• 52:28
  conditions."
• 52:29
  Then this red-haired dog arrived for
• 52:32
  some reason with the Russian name of
• 52:35
  Boris.
• 52:36
  She's talking about uh Bojo Boris
• 52:39
  Johnson and said, "Brother, all of
• 52:42
  Europe will fight Russia for you. With
• 52:45
  your hands, we promise you all of Europe
• 52:48
  would fight, but through you and now
• 52:51
  we've been fighting all of Europe for
• 52:53
  the fifth year running. So this is a
• 52:55
  sacred war for us." And she says,
• 52:57
  "Absolutely arise, great country." So,
• 53:02
  and she says, "They're preparing many
• 53:04
  surprises for us in other regions, just
• 53:06
  like the fascists did, trying to
• 53:08
  persuade Japan to open an eastern
• 53:10
  front." I hadn't heard that before.
• 53:12
  Japan, how shall I put it politely?
• 53:14
  Soiled itself.
• 53:17
  And uh that was very helpful to us in
• 53:19
  the uh in 41 because they were able to
• 53:22
  redis deploy full strength Siberian
• 53:25
  divisions to Moscow. The battle of
• 53:27
  Moscow was not entirely determined but
• 53:30
  in large extent it was. And uh why did
• 53:32
  Japan get scared? Anyway, she's talking
• 53:34
  history. It was pretty good stuff.
• 53:37
  And uh uh she she went on for a while.
• 53:40
  But more importantly, well she talked a
• 53:42
  little bit about AFDRT, democracy and
• 53:45
  force. And she said the strongest part
• 53:47
  of Germany gives an gave an interview
• 53:49
  recently and said are they out of their
• 53:52
  minds banning RT the televocracy
• 53:57
  work? The strongest party in Germany is
• 54:00
  against banning RT. The German people
• 54:03
  are against banning RT and against their
• 54:06
  own German leadership. And she said uh
• 54:09
  what is the support of what the
• 54:11
  leadership is 16%. you know, they don't
• 54:14
  have any support anymore. and she went
• 54:16
  on on that topic for a while and she
• 54:19
  talked about I mean she he let her speak
• 54:21
  for a while because you know it's only
• 54:23
  the second time she's been back but he
• 54:25
  was more talking about um escalation the
• 54:30
  continued war and when uh when he
• 54:33
  brought in Zakadava and this is the
• 54:36
  important part uh of and I'm going to
• 54:38
  share with you pretty much everything
• 54:41
  that she said and it's not it'll it'll
• 54:45
  take me a little while to go through it.
• 54:48
  Um, it will probably be the last thing
• 54:50
  that we're ending with on what Zahara
• 54:53
  um put out on this show and and I think
• 54:57
  this needs to be shared in English. And
• 54:59
  so I've done a a pretty a pretty pretty
• 55:03
  good um translation of this and I'm
• 55:07
  going to share it with you with with but
• 55:09
  but I watched it as well and I watched
• 55:11
  what she was saying and and she was
• 55:15
  uh I there were people in the area that
• 55:18
  were watching me and one one person
• 55:20
  said, "Man, she's she's pissed off
• 55:22
  because she's speaking Russian." And
• 55:24
  this person didn't understand Russia.
• 55:25
  She go, "Man, she's really pissed off."
• 55:27
  And I was like, "Yeah, she is." And
• 55:28
  rightly so, you know, she but she's
• 55:31
  pissed off for a reason. And here here's
• 55:33
  what it is. And and so he invites her on
• 55:35
  and I'm going to share most of what she
• 55:37
  said to you and kind of a a
• 55:42
  I I'll skip parts, but probably. But I
• 55:45
  but I will I'm going to share with you
• 55:47
  what her appeal was to foreign
• 55:50
  journalists. Right. She says yes
• 55:53
  to your entire studio and guests and uh
• 55:57
  you know you have multi-millions in your
• 55:59
  audience and that's true. He said a
• 56:01
  group of journalists is now in the
• 56:04
  region. She's talking about starts and
• 56:06
  she goes I'm going to tell you how it
• 56:08
  happened step by step. We remained in
• 56:10
  Moscow. My colleagues employees of the
• 56:13
  department are accompanying these
• 56:16
  journalists. We did it this way so there
• 56:18
  would truly be more seats available.
• 56:20
  everyone among the foreign
• 56:22
  correspondents that expressed a desire
• 56:24
  to go receive the opportunity to go and
• 56:27
  she works with the ministry of defense.
• 56:29
  So she said our task was to make sure
• 56:32
  that the world community sees this
• 56:34
  through the eyes of its own journalists
• 56:37
  and I will explain why. I think you've
• 56:39
  spoken about this a great deal today and
• 56:42
  in recent days and I know you have drawn
• 56:44
  attention to the tragedy and briefly it
• 56:47
  is monstrous and at the moment of the
• 56:49
  strike there were 86 people in this
• 56:52
  educational institution they were minors
• 56:55
  aged 14 to 18 years old.
• 56:59
  Immediately on May the 22nd at Russia's
• 57:02
  request the UN Security Council was
• 57:05
  convened. I want to say that these
• 57:07
  security council meetings are broadcast
• 57:09
  live but usually because of the time
• 57:11
  difference they fall during the night in
• 57:14
  Moscow. Most of our country is already
• 57:17
  asleep and later watches recordings. I
• 57:20
  want to say this security council
• 57:22
  meeting was exceptional because I
• 57:24
  received hundreds of calls and messages
• 57:27
  the next day saying what are they
• 57:29
  saying? And this referred to the western
• 57:32
  U representatives. We've heard many
• 57:34
  fakes and much disinformation over all
• 57:37
  the years. But both our citizens and
• 57:40
  foreigners were struck by the
• 57:41
  coldblooded indifferent and false
• 57:44
  narratives which which they spoke at the
• 57:47
  UN Security Council table about
• 57:50
  supposedly no strike having occurred
• 57:52
  about Moscow inventing everything about
• 57:55
  no one striking children and about there
• 57:58
  supposedly being no victims at all.
• 58:00
  That's true by the way. But the
• 58:03
  particular cynicism of the situation was
• 58:06
  that these words were spoken by women
• 58:09
  representing western countries. It's not
• 58:12
  only cynical because these western
• 58:14
  countries speak about human rights but
• 58:17
  because women were saying this.
• 58:20
  I want to say that my phone was
• 58:22
  exploding. Journalists and public
• 58:24
  figures were calling me saying how is
• 58:26
  this possible? And you know when the
• 58:28
  permanent representative of Latvia at
• 58:31
  the UN is speaking I realized something
• 58:33
  I could never understand before how
• 58:36
  women could work in the children's uh
• 58:39
  concentration camp at the hospitals.
• 58:42
  She's talking World War II. We have
• 58:44
  written read and spoken a lot about
• 58:47
  these things. That was the camp, the
• 58:50
  place where children's blood was taken,
• 58:52
  where children were killed so their
• 58:54
  blood could be used for the soldiers of
• 58:56
  the Third Reich. And admittedly, for
• 58:59
  many years, the Baltic countries claimed
• 59:02
  that this was a children's health camp.
• 59:04
  But in reality, it was a camp where they
• 59:06
  experimented and conducted experiments
• 59:09
  on living children, on small children,
• 59:13
  and blood was taken from them to give to
• 59:15
  the soldiers of the Third Reich. I did
• 59:18
  not know what the women who did that
• 59:20
  could have looked like or how they could
• 59:21
  have felt. But when I looked at Latvia's
• 59:24
  permanent representative at the security
• 59:27
  council, I understood. Now that's
• 59:29
  freaking cold. That is cold. And it's
• 59:33
  part of the reason I wanted to share it
• 59:34
  with you. And she goes, "And what is
• 59:36
  most astonishing is that this Basilus is
• 59:39
  still alive just as in those same places
• 59:43
  in that same Latvia women have been
• 59:46
  found who could take blood from
• 59:47
  children, understanding these children
• 59:50
  were dying and simply cart them off to
• 59:52
  pits and bury them. So too now they do
• 59:55
  in principle the same thing, only while
• 59:58
  occupying high posts." Today the list
• 1:00:01
  was published. 21 children were killed,
• 1:00:04
  42 were wounded. After the blasphemy
• 1:00:08
  secure the blasphemous security council
• 1:00:10
  meeting made blasphemous by the western
• 1:00:13
  representatives, we literally the same
• 1:00:16
  night formed a group of journalists,
• 1:00:18
  those accredited in Moscow who did not
• 1:00:21
  need to fly in from abroad. Moreover,
• 1:00:24
  there are no direct flights from Western
• 1:00:26
  countries now anyway. They have canled
• 1:00:28
  them. So, we assembled a group. This
• 1:00:30
  group included 51 foreign
• 1:00:33
  correspondents. 51 journalists from 19
• 1:00:36
  countries flew out this morning and are
• 1:00:39
  working there. They are walking through
• 1:00:41
  the remaining corridors. They are seeing
• 1:00:44
  traces of children's bloody handprints
• 1:00:46
  on the walls of the destroyed
• 1:00:48
  educational institution. I do not know
• 1:00:51
  whether their editorial offices will
• 1:00:53
  allow them to do so, but I believe that
• 1:00:56
  perhaps not all of them, but some of
• 1:00:58
  them will be permitted to present these
• 1:01:01
  reports for the judgment of their own
• 1:01:03
  viewers. Countries from all continents
• 1:01:06
  have been represented. There are
• 1:01:08
  journalists from France, Germany, and
• 1:01:10
  the United States. There are British
• 1:01:12
  journalists. There are, of course,
• 1:01:13
  journalists from other areas of the
• 1:01:15
  world majority, China, Venezuela, Cuba.
• 1:01:19
  There are Arabic journalists from
• 1:01:20
  various countries in that region. We
• 1:01:23
  have done everything so the world would
• 1:01:25
  know the truth.
• 1:01:27
  And uh she says I want to say one more
• 1:01:29
  thing. They are accompanied by the human
• 1:01:32
  rights commissioner Jana Lantraovva
• 1:01:36
  representatives of the local
• 1:01:37
  administration and investigative
• 1:01:39
  committee and rescuers are speaking with
• 1:01:42
  them. uh we have done everything so that
• 1:01:45
  and I don't know how this will happen
• 1:01:46
  and how much strength the parents of the
• 1:01:48
  killed and wounded children will need
• 1:01:50
  but we've done everything so the
• 1:01:53
  journalist would have this opportunity
• 1:01:56
  and now I will say what needs to be said
• 1:01:58
  all of this has an intentional legal
• 1:02:01
  component and that very intentional
• 1:02:04
  legal foundation was created by those
• 1:02:06
  same westerners forced and foremost they
• 1:02:10
  talk about human rights and children's
• 1:02:12
  rights
• 1:02:13
  Look at the convention on the rights of
• 1:02:15
  children. That is exactly what it is
• 1:02:17
  called. It is developed by the way in an
• 1:02:20
  international treaty adopted by the
• 1:02:23
  general assembly on November 20, 1989
• 1:02:26
  and entered into force in 1990. It's the
• 1:02:29
  most universal document regulating this
• 1:02:32
  sphere. The entire world signed this
• 1:02:35
  document including Ukraine that is now
• 1:02:37
  striking these children and they are
• 1:02:40
  aware that they have obligations to the
• 1:02:42
  international community. I want to quote
• 1:02:44
  article 38 of this document. It
• 1:02:47
  establishes that states parties
• 1:02:50
  undertake to respect the norms of
• 1:02:52
  international humanitarian law and then
• 1:02:54
  the list follows. But most importantly,
• 1:02:57
  paragraph 4 states in a direct quote,
• 1:03:00
  "In accordance with their obligation
• 1:03:02
  under international humanitarian law to
• 1:03:05
  protect civilian population and armed
• 1:03:07
  conflicts, state parties have take all
• 1:03:10
  measures to ensure protection and care
• 1:03:14
  of children affected by an armed
• 1:03:16
  conflict. This means that countries
• 1:03:18
  caught in the raging flames of conflict
• 1:03:21
  must do everything both to protect
• 1:03:22
  children and provide them with primary
• 1:03:25
  assistance. But not only the general
• 1:03:27
  assembly and not all and of course that
• 1:03:30
  document has a recommend recommendatory
• 1:03:33
  character but also the security council
• 1:03:35
  has developed a whole series of
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  documents on this very issue. Resolution
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  1261 in 1999 concerns children's issues.
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  It is called children and armed
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  conflict. It designates six grave
• 1:03:49
  violations against children. Killing and
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  maming, the use of children as
• 1:03:53
  combatants, sexual violence, abduction,
• 1:03:56
  attacks on schools and hospitals, and
• 1:03:58
  denial of humanitarian access. That is
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  exactly what the armed forces of Ukraine
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  and the Kiev regime um and bender are
• 1:04:06
  now doing. Bender or bender benderites
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  is is what they call the Nazis over
• 1:04:12
  there. But the most uh relevant document
• 1:04:15
  in this context of what we are seeing is
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  of course security council resolution
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  2601. Believe it or not, it was adopted
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  by consensus in October of 2021. It
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  speaks precisely about these points.
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  Allow me to read it. Paragraph 2
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  strongly condemns continuing attacks and
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  threats of attacks in violation of
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  international humanitarian law against
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  schools and civilian associated
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  civilians associated with schools
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  including children, teachers and so on.
• 1:04:43
  Calling on the parties who do you think
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  developed this resolution? I will list
• 1:04:48
  them for you. Britain, Greece, Denmark,
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  France and now a big drum roll, Ukraine.
• 1:04:56
  Can you imagine such hellish hypocrisy?
• 1:04:59
  First and under the very spotlight and
• 1:05:01
  camera of the whole world because the
• 1:05:03
  entire world really does watch Security
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  Council meetings and I watch them. So,
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  it's kind of funny. They pretend to care
• 1:05:10
  so much about children and then they do
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  exactly the opposite of their own
• 1:05:15
  obligations
• 1:05:17
  and she was pretty pretty rough on them.
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  Uh there are two more important
• 1:05:21
  documents. The security council
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  regulates the issue of arms supplies to
• 1:05:25
  regions where children suffer from armed
• 1:05:27
  conflict.
• 1:05:29
  Resolution
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  uh 1261 adopted in 1999 by consensus
• 1:05:36
  recognizes the harmful effect of
• 1:05:38
  proliferation of weapons, particularly
• 1:05:40
  small arms, on the security of civilian
• 1:05:42
  populations, especially children. In
• 1:05:45
  that connection, it refers to resolution
• 1:05:47
  1209 of 1998 that emphasizes the
• 1:05:50
  importance of all states involved in the
• 1:05:52
  production and sale of weapons that
• 1:05:54
  could provoke or prolong armed conflict.
• 1:05:57
  Can you imagine? And no one at the
• 1:05:59
  security council on May 22, 2026 among
• 1:06:03
  Western representatives said they are
• 1:06:05
  directly responsible or guilty for what
• 1:06:07
  is happening because they sponsor the
• 1:06:09
  Kib regime and supply the weapons with
• 1:06:12
  which these children are being ch k
• 1:06:14
  killed our children and there are no
• 1:06:17
  other people's children. And what else
• 1:06:19
  do I want to say about this? Each of
• 1:06:21
  these resolutions, each mechanism
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  whether of the general assembly, the
• 1:06:25
  security council or the UN secretariat
• 1:06:28
  as a whole has monitoring mechanisms.
• 1:06:30
  What does that mean? Special reporters,
• 1:06:34
  commissioners, all kinds of secretaries
• 1:06:36
  and responsible officials who either
• 1:06:38
  have representation on the ground in
• 1:06:40
  certain countries or are delegated there
• 1:06:42
  to understand what is happening and how
• 1:06:44
  it violates the relevant documents or
• 1:06:47
  implements them. What is the problem?
• 1:06:49
  The problem is that even when
• 1:06:51
  representatives of international
• 1:06:52
  organizations, in particular the UN,
• 1:06:55
  want to come and record the relevant
• 1:06:57
  violations, not just violations but
• 1:07:00
  tragedies, they cannot do so. Why?
• 1:07:03
  Because the Kiev regime says this can
• 1:07:06
  only be done from its territory as you
• 1:07:08
  understand. And they do not provide
• 1:07:10
  passage, access, or flights. They gather
• 1:07:13
  groups and take them only where their
• 1:07:15
  staged events have taken place in order
• 1:07:18
  to make all these officials of
• 1:07:20
  international organizations kneel to
• 1:07:22
  them and give them more money. I say but
• 1:07:25
  I want to say it again. We will do
• 1:07:27
  everything possible so that this
• 1:07:29
  information reaches the international
• 1:07:31
  community. There are so-called refusers.
• 1:07:34
  I want everyone to know about them. The
• 1:07:37
  BBC officially refuses to go to starter
• 1:07:40
  bilk. They sent us an official letter
• 1:07:43
  stating that they would not go, not for
• 1:07:46
  any technical reason, because it was
• 1:07:48
  their principled position. CNN said all
• 1:07:52
  of its reporters were on vacation.
• 1:07:54
  Japanese journalists were forbidden by
• 1:07:57
  official Tokyo channels.
• 1:08:00
  You know, I want to say that my question
• 1:08:03
  is not that they are here taking
• 1:08:06
  interviews and engaging in journalistic
• 1:08:08
  activity, but I have two questions.
• 1:08:10
  First, are they not only engaged in
• 1:08:12
  journalistic activity or are they
• 1:08:14
  engaged in propaganda, distortion of
• 1:08:18
  information or collection of sensitive
• 1:08:20
  data? But the second question that
• 1:08:22
  constantly troubles me is this. On what
• 1:08:25
  basis when attending official events as
• 1:08:28
  journalists where they have the right
• 1:08:29
  and the duty to ask questions, do they
• 1:08:32
  act as if they are lecturing us? Look at
• 1:08:34
  how BBC representatives formulate their
• 1:08:38
  questions. Are they even questions?
• 1:08:40
  They're always judging. It is as though
• 1:08:42
  they are the heads of tribunals reading
• 1:08:45
  out accusations against us. No, it is
• 1:08:48
  not for them to accuse us. It is we who
• 1:08:51
  accuse them of betraying journalism
• 1:08:54
  itself.
• 1:08:57
  And now also betraying children who are
• 1:08:59
  being killed with money supplied by
• 1:09:02
  their own governments and weapons
• 1:09:03
  supplied by their own governments. So
• 1:09:06
  when Salivv says Russian journalists are
• 1:09:08
  not allowed in western U leaders press
• 1:09:12
  events, she says we are not allowed
• 1:09:15
  there at all. Vladimir Rulovich. She
• 1:09:20
  says we're not allowed into the palaces
• 1:09:23
  of of Elsa Champs Elsa either in France.
• 1:09:27
  she's talking about. So her I wanted to
• 1:09:29
  share with you her uh her commentary
• 1:09:33
  because man she was harsh and I've
• 1:09:36
  provided it all and uh uh you won't you
• 1:09:39
  know people don't
• 1:09:42
  they don't provide it in the United
• 1:09:43
  States you don't get the information
• 1:09:46
  well anywhere really and you could say
• 1:09:49
  that there's certainly a level of uh I
• 1:09:52
  don't want to call it propaganda but uh
• 1:09:55
  because she was speaking you straight
• 1:09:57
  up. And the reason that I watch these
• 1:10:00
  threehour long shows, and by the way,
• 1:10:02
  Zakarava every Thursday gives it or th
• 1:10:07
  Thursday or Friday. It depends on when
• 1:10:08
  it comes out. I'm not sure the official
• 1:10:10
  day that she actually gives it, but it
• 1:10:12
  comes out um on YouTube once a week and
• 1:10:15
  late in the week. And I try to uh to
• 1:10:19
  watch, you know, parts of it at least
• 1:10:20
  her opening statement in there cuz she
• 1:10:23
  gives a a set of current events and all
• 1:10:25
  the important stuff will show up in the
• 1:10:27
  first uh half hour or so. And so when
• 1:10:29
  I'm driving or something, Zakarva will
• 1:10:32
  be telling her her stories and so and
• 1:10:36
  when I find the good ones, I you know,
• 1:10:39
  well, not that they're not all good, but
• 1:10:40
  it's all the it's it's all straight from
• 1:10:42
  the horse's mouth or from the you know,
• 1:10:44
  whatever you want to call it. Um, you
• 1:10:46
  know, it'd be our equivalent to Marco
• 1:10:48
  Rubio's uh press secretary or or uh the
• 1:10:52
  president's the White House press
• 1:10:53
  secretary. That's the equivalent, you
• 1:10:55
  know, and so so she's the press
• 1:10:57
  secretary for um the ministry of uh
• 1:11:00
  foreign affairs with Lavough.
• 1:11:03
  And so she's always present in, you
• 1:11:05
  know, when it's a big deal for Lavough,
• 1:11:07
  she'll she'll travel with him and stuff
• 1:11:09
  like that. But uh uh she also does her
• 1:11:12
  own her own brief and uh so and she's
• 1:11:15
  she's pretty she's pretty critical and
• 1:11:17
  very well spoken and so it's it's and
• 1:11:20
  and you know that's typical these are
• 1:11:21
  these are uh our diplomatic level people
• 1:11:24
  and so they do talk um in some of the uh
• 1:11:28
  harshest means against um against what
• 1:11:33
  the west has been doing in Ukraine
• 1:11:35
  against um against what's going on in
• 1:11:38
  Iran and this current stuff. But, you
• 1:11:41
  know, on a bigger picture, I talk about,
• 1:11:44
  you know, people tiring of of this war
• 1:11:47
  and of the lies that uh that are
• 1:11:50
  continually
• 1:11:52
  uh spewed out um worldwide really in uh
• 1:11:58
  uh you know, everybody is critical and
• 1:12:01
  can be critical of their own and
• 1:12:02
  everyone else's government. I mean, if
• 1:12:04
  you are living in America and you
• 1:12:06
  believe everything our government says,
• 1:12:09
  well, you're part of the problem. All
• 1:12:11
  right? It'd be nice if you could believe
• 1:12:14
  these a-holes, but you can't. And uh
• 1:12:17
  that is the unfortunate truth. You can't
• 1:12:19
  believe never never trust a politician.
• 1:12:21
  He's selling you something. He's just
• 1:12:23
  like a used car salesman. You know, this
• 1:12:26
  this car was driven by, you know, a
• 1:12:28
  little old lady, you know, once a week
• 1:12:31
  to go to the grocery store. and you know
• 1:12:33
  she didn't drive it much else besides
• 1:12:34
  that. Well, yeah, maybe that's true, but
• 1:12:38
  it doesn't say what happened the other
• 1:12:40
  six days with that vehicle driven by a
• 1:12:43
  grandson
• 1:12:44
  going out behind somewhere or or doing
• 1:12:48
  whatever. So, you know, they're shades
• 1:12:50
  of truth or facts left out and you can't
• 1:12:53
  just believe what you are told. And uh I
• 1:12:57
  hate to say it to the to the Trump
• 1:12:59
  lovers out there, but a Trump government
• 1:13:02
  is no different than any other
• 1:13:03
  government in my humble view. Although
• 1:13:06
  it's more likely to get a realistic
• 1:13:09
  approach, that's for sure. Um and I
• 1:13:13
  trust
• 1:13:14
  I trust individually I would trump trust
• 1:13:18
  Trump far more than than Biden on an
• 1:13:22
  individual level, but in the government
• 1:13:23
  level, they're all a bunch of liars. and
• 1:13:25
  crooks and whether they work for Trump
• 1:13:28
  or not. So, the problem isn't the
• 1:13:30
  Trumpster. The problem is all the idiots
• 1:13:33
  that work for him because they're the
• 1:13:34
  same idiots that work for everybody else
• 1:13:36
  and it's getting worse. And uh so,
• 1:13:40
  you know, I watched another complete set
• 1:13:43
  of lies by and and I can't stand
• 1:13:46
  watching him anymore. He just he just I
• 1:13:49
  I can hardly bear it. If you you put on
• 1:13:52
  put me on you put out put me on coach
• 1:13:54
  there. Put me in coach uh Higs Seth. You
• 1:13:57
  put him out there, you know. Put me in
• 1:14:00
  coach. I got this covered. Let's go bomb
• 1:14:02
  the hell out of everybody. We We got
• 1:14:04
  everything is positive. Yeah. Real
• 1:14:08
  positive. I wouldn't follow that guy
• 1:14:11
  into a bowling alley, you know, to take
• 1:14:13
  over the I wouldn't that guy. Never in a
• 1:14:16
  million years would I follow that guy
• 1:14:19
  anywhere. And and unfortunately as a
• 1:14:22
  military person, that's where I would
• 1:14:26
  have serious problems is following a guy
• 1:14:29
  like that. You can't you cannot trust a
• 1:14:32
  word that guy says. And uh and if you
• 1:14:34
  do, do do so at your own peril is is
• 1:14:37
  what I say. And you don't have to
• 1:14:39
  believe that, but there's just something
• 1:14:41
  not right about that guy. and he should
• 1:14:45
  have stuck with uh being a a TV uh a TV
• 1:14:49
  pundit, you know, because he was, you
• 1:14:52
  know, funny enough to pull that off. But
• 1:14:55
  I don't want some funny dude, some some
• 1:14:58
  JV quarterback funny guy running the
• 1:15:01
  running the war machine, you know? I
• 1:15:05
  can't help but think that he's he's part
• 1:15:06
  of the reason we switched it to the
• 1:15:08
  Department of War cuz he wanted to be
• 1:15:11
  all powerful. Oh jeez, I got this
• 1:15:13
  Department of War. What are we talking
• 1:15:15
  about defense? It's like it's like the
• 1:15:17
  idiots in in uh uh the police department
• 1:15:20
  saying we're not police or law
• 1:15:22
  enforcement. They focus on the
• 1:15:23
  enforcement all the time. They don't
• 1:15:27
  focus upon upon what their job is.
• 1:15:30
  Policing,
• 1:15:32
  administration,
• 1:15:33
  taking care of things. They talk about
• 1:15:35
  enforcement. That's it. Go out and
• 1:15:37
  arrest somebody. That means you're doing
• 1:15:38
  your job, right?
• 1:15:41
  Oh, that's what it is. So, if you're in
• 1:15:43
  the if you're in the uh the uh
• 1:15:47
  Department of Defense,
• 1:15:50
  you're defending things, right? There's
• 1:15:52
  there's stuff you can defend, but by
• 1:15:53
  God, if you can be in the Department of
• 1:15:56
  War,
• 1:15:58
  well, you're far better off, aren't you?
• 1:16:00
  You can you can you can conduct war with
• 1:16:02
  the Department of War, even if you're
• 1:16:04
  not conducting war. You don't need war
• 1:16:06
  powers relief. You don't need any of
• 1:16:08
  that. Screw it. We're the Department of
• 1:16:10
  War. What else do we do? We go out and
• 1:16:12
  kidnap foreign leaders and bring them to
• 1:16:15
  justice in justice in America. Yeah,
• 1:16:19
  good old misnomer. That doesn't work,
• 1:16:21
  does it? At any rate, I've been
• 1:16:24
  rambling, but uh I have finished my uh
• 1:16:27
  my my base topic there. And uh we you
• 1:16:32
  know, I think there you know, it did
• 1:16:34
  give me a little bit of time. And I I
• 1:16:36
  said if I had a little bit more time,
• 1:16:38
  I'd go back to Margaretti
• 1:16:40
  and tell you what she said on a couple
• 1:16:42
  other topics because uh
• 1:16:46
  she said um especially on start because
• 1:16:50
  what she said and that's all that Maria
• 1:16:52
  Zakarava talked about but she said that
• 1:16:56
  u she she gave some some religious text
• 1:16:59
  at first and you know then she talked
• 1:17:01
  about this same disgusting Danish woman.
• 1:17:04
  She says, "We don't know anything
• 1:17:06
  because the Russians always lie to us."
• 1:17:08
  Is what she says. And so, Zak, not
• 1:17:10
  Zakarba. We already heard about Zakara,
• 1:17:13
  this is Simeyan. She goes, "Oh, we don't
• 1:17:15
  know anything because, you know, they
• 1:17:17
  don't have the ability to know because
• 1:17:19
  they haven't been there." And
• 1:17:20
  conveniently, they secured that
• 1:17:22
  inability for themselves in advance,
• 1:17:24
  preventatively when they banned RT and
• 1:17:28
  other Russian channels. That is all.
• 1:17:30
  Nobody shows anything from us anymore.
• 1:17:33
  The BBC refuses to go. CNN said they
• 1:17:36
  were on vacation. Moscow bureau of CNN
• 1:17:40
  is on vacation.
• 1:17:42
  Even unfortunately from the Arab world,
• 1:17:45
  some journalists who were invited refuse
• 1:17:47
  to go. But why get involved? My house is
• 1:17:50
  on the edge. I know nothing in the
• 1:17:53
  literal sense of this phrase. People
• 1:17:54
  prefer not to know. But in China,
• 1:17:57
  hundreds of millions have viewed what
• 1:17:59
  happened in Stoddilsk. I already
• 1:18:01
  publicly expressed my condolences on
• 1:18:04
  social media and now I express them
• 1:18:06
  again on television on your show and
• 1:18:09
  then of course to everyone who was
• 1:18:11
  killed and if anyone needs anything
• 1:18:13
  treatment any kind of help please write
• 1:18:15
  on social media and we will do
• 1:18:17
  everything we can to help. So they
• 1:18:20
  conveniently do not know about this
• 1:18:22
  because they don't wish to, just that
• 1:18:24
  they do not report about the girls in
• 1:18:27
  Iran. And you should see what is
• 1:18:29
  happening in Ukrainian media right now.
• 1:18:32
  Ukrainian media is insisting that
• 1:18:34
  generals were sitting there in this in
• 1:18:37
  this school in this headquarters. And
• 1:18:38
  that's true that what the what the
• 1:18:40
  Ukrainians are saying anyway that this
• 1:18:43
  was some kind of military headquarters
• 1:18:45
  and all the videos have already been put
• 1:18:47
  out. Jana Lantraatava, our human rights
• 1:18:50
  commissioner commissioner. Jana is doing
• 1:18:53
  excellent work. She is there now showing
• 1:18:55
  fragments of the UAVs speaking with
• 1:18:58
  relatives with people who died of people
• 1:19:00
  who died and with survivors who were
• 1:19:02
  wounded. And you can see these are
• 1:19:04
  children, youth, teenagers. It's very
• 1:19:07
  visible. They say that they Ukrainians
• 1:19:10
  say that it's a general and an
• 1:19:11
  operational headquarters. What can
• 1:19:13
  anybody say? Many Ukrainian channels
• 1:19:17
  writing on this are called and I didn't
• 1:19:19
  know this word and I still don't but
• 1:19:21
  they call themselves truha which uh
• 1:19:26
  it's justify they're trying to justify
• 1:19:29
  the name of a powerful strike and this
• 1:19:31
  is a powerful strike weapon and the
• 1:19:34
  colleagues here know it better but
• 1:19:36
  perhaps almost since the beginning one
• 1:19:38
  of the most powerful strikes since the
• 1:19:41
  beginning of the special military
• 1:19:43
  operation and and they're talking about
• 1:19:45
  the the strikes um on Ukraine that were
• 1:19:49
  taking place on Sunday during the day.
• 1:19:52
  And she says because there is no other
• 1:19:54
  way because they don't listen in any
• 1:19:57
  other way. If there was something else
• 1:19:59
  to hit with, she says I'm not a
• 1:20:01
  specialist on this either, but I you
• 1:20:05
  know I know that this needs to be taken
• 1:20:07
  very seriously. So at any rate,
• 1:20:11
  I am going to end the show on that note.
• 1:20:16
  Um, and I very much appreciate you being
• 1:20:18
  here on International Flavor today. Um,
• 1:20:21
  invite you to into the studio every
• 1:20:24
  morning. Coming to you live from the
• 1:20:26
  Lake Ozark real estate of the art studio
• 1:20:29
  today. A little bit farther remote than
• 1:20:31
  that because I'm on the road again. And
• 1:20:34
  uh uh tomorrow we'll also be on the road
• 1:20:38
  again. And uh uh hopefully and I'll
• 1:20:40
  review the sound and make sure
• 1:20:42
  everything came out. All right. If I
• 1:20:43
  have to adjust, I'll adjust tomorrow cuz
• 1:20:45
  I can't do both at the same time
• 1:20:46
  remotely. So I apologize the sound
• 1:20:49
  wasn't as uh clear as it normally is in
• 1:20:52
  our wonderful studio. Um and uh I'll be
• 1:20:55
  traveling most of this week. So uh uh I
• 1:20:58
  will uh
• 1:21:00
  keep you posted on my whereabouts and on
• 1:21:03
  the news of the day and certainly uh if
• 1:21:06
  you don't know anything about this start
• 1:21:08
  bells you should uh look into it. This
• 1:21:10
  is real tragedy and uh unfortunate and
• 1:21:14
  people in the west should pay attention
• 1:21:15
  to this and they never do. And so, uh,
• 1:21:19
  I'll go ahead and put it out on my on my
• 1:21:23
  channel here at International Flavor,
• 1:21:25
  where the truth just tastes better.
• 1:21:28
  Thank you so much for joining me. Um,
• 1:21:31
  and I hope you all have a very good uh,
• 1:21:35
  evening or day, I suppose it would be,
• 1:21:37
  in um, in mid Missouri, but I'm not in
• 1:21:41
  mid Missouri today. But uh, I I uh I'm
• 1:21:45
  going to uh, what would we call this?
• 1:21:47
  So, we call this tapping out. Well,
• 1:21:49
  we'll tap out a minute early today. Have
• 1:21:51
  a very nice day.