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Trump-Putin Alaska Summit, Zelensky Exclusion, and Global Flashpoints · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Better Rock, Better Talk, DAMN RADIO!
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  Hello, good evening, welcome, I am Samuel Trapp, I am very glad to have you, I
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  am here in the real estate of the art studio, I am ready to accept your phone
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  calls should you feel the need to call in, the number is 573-746-8020, and
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  I would be happy to chat with you tonight, so much news is going on, of course,
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  the first that we are starting with is the news that Donald Trump and Putin are
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  meeting, and there's been a lot of upheaval over that little shindig coming up
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  for us, I want to discuss a little bit of what's going on there, there have
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  been some dramatic events going on surrounding that because the old Z-Man is
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  just attempting to figure out how to put a knife in this peace process, and I'm
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  not sure if he isn't going to get away with it, I hope he doesn't, I have my
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  commentary on that, so as we discussed, I wanted to get into it last night,
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  hope you all enjoyed my Scott Ritter events, that was pretty cool, listening to
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  him, speaking to him, and finding some common ground with him, I thought that
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  was a lot of fun, I've been working my sorry little booty off today and getting
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  some things that I'm trying to figure out, going on a small trip here soon, and
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  I want to prepare for it, but it's kind of a big deal for me, and I'm going to
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  enjoy it thoroughly, but today I wanted to start with the international
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  flavors, where the news just tastes better, but there's been some pretty, I
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  don't know, devastating, if that would be the right word, horrifying, that
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  would be a good word, I mean, let's take a look at what's moving and shaking
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  today, because there's plenty to talk about, so the FSB in Moscow has made kind
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  of a chilling accusation here, they say that Ukrainian agents have been
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  recruiting, this is horrifying, if, and you know, there's plenty of news about
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  it, I think it is accurate, frankly, but they've been recruiting elderly
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  Russian citizens, I suppose recruiting is probably a bad word for it, they've
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  been tricking them, a lot of times it's elderly women, turning them into what
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  can best be described as a human bomb, according to the statement from the FSB,
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  so these tricksters, I guess, attack through telegram, WhatsApp, they pose as
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  law enforcement, now I've heard stories like this in the past that I've gone
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  through, and they happen here in America too, but here they target your money,
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  is what they do, and they try to get your money, well, that's the same thing
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  that happens in Russia, from Ukrainian side, they are hackers, there are tons
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  of them in Ukraine, they're all over the world, in fact, I mean, we got our
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  share over here too, but what they're doing is, first, they steal their money,
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  they take their savings account, they figure out how to take the proceeds from
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  property that is sold, and under the pretext of allegedly recovering these
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  assets, which are sometimes life savings, the women have to monitor military
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  personnel, store disguised explosives, or deliver them to certain places, so
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  the FSB says that at least five people in recent plots have been targeted, and
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  that's only the ones they catch, what about the ones they don't catch, so the
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  agency is, of course, as is a good idea here too, if you got people you care
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  about that are aging, and you want to make sure they're not getting
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  trickstered, they are urging families to warn their elderly and socially
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  vulnerable people, and kids too, for that matter, because none of us are immune
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  from these scammers, I keep getting these emails with click on this link as if
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  they're from your bank or something, and they're not, but boy, they know about
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  you, and they've got AI scams going on, and taking everything that you have out
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  there in the public sphere, and filtering it, and trying to steal your
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  identity, find out who you are, find out everything they can about you, this is
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  going to get pretty hairy all over the world wide, and this has been, they keep
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  getting better and better at it, and what they are doing, so it's not the only
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  the FSB, I mean, the FBI is looking into some of these, they've reported, in
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  Russia anyway, they've reported stopping a group of teenagers that was
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  recruited by Kyiv to assassinate a Russian officer, the message from the
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  Russian side is that Western-linked Ukrainian intel is getting more and more
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  reckless with what the old Trumpster is doing, and forcing Zelensky to these, I
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  don't know, meetings, he's made some, I'm going to get into that story here in
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  a little bit too, he's going to get into the basically swapping land, and he's
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  switched sides again, or directions, I mean, Trump has, and it's, I don't want
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  to call it comical, but I mean, here he is, he's changing sides again, and he's
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  talking quite vocally about Zelensky now on the other side, where two weeks ago
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  was all about Putin, and he wasn't happy with Putin, and Putin is, you know,
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  he's frustrated with Putin, and blah, blah, blah, but, you know, these Russians
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  are claiming that Ukrainian intelligence with Western-backed, you know,
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  intelligence sources, they're just getting more and more reckless, and they're
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  very willing to exploit whoever they can in the Russian side to get him to do
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  things.
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  So, I don't know, I think that we should all always be on the lookout for
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  scams, and for what people are doing.
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  In the political side of things, I want to say that, you know, I've already
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  told you in the last couple of days that Trump and Putin are meeting.
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  They're without the old Z-monster.
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  He is not invited to the summit.
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  It's the latest that I've heard, but everything's changing over and over.
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  There's different stuff going on, but Donald Trump has said that his next
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  meeting will be a three-way, or might even be a two-way, but without him with
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  Zelensky and Putin.
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  This is after he announced his August 15 meeting with Putin is going to take
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  place in Alaska.
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  They're going to discuss a possible settlement.
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  He says that Zelensky isn't invited.
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  No, that's important, but a future sit-down is on the agenda.
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  You know, he wants to, and he's willing to be in the room if they need him
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  there.
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  I think Zelensky needs him there because otherwise he's not going to do
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  anything.
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  He took a jab at Zelensky saying, you know, he's been there for three and a
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  half years and nothing has happened.
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  And that's, you know, somewhat true, but remember two weeks ago, Putin, you
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  know, he was frustrated with Putin.
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  I'm not sure what to think at this point.
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  Maybe, I don't know.
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  How do you not appreciate what Trump is trying to do?
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  Because a week ago, I was sitting here telling you that he was making a
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  mistake, that he has been, I don't know, not having peace, not trying to keep
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  peace out front, and that he can't get there the way that he's trying to do it,
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  by listening to the likes of Lindsey Graham or allowing him to continue.
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  Now he's made some great roads by sending over J.D. Vance to this latest
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  meeting with the Starmer crowd and saying, you know, these people, you know,
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  want more money and we're not willing to fund it.
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  And I hope he sticks with that because I've been saying the same thing forever.
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  The way to end this war is quit funding it.
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  You quit funding it, it will end.
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  You know, let Europe, if they want to fund it, keep on funding.
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  I don't think it's going to happen.
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  I might play for you a chunk tonight.
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  I listened to a little bit of Professor Sachs or Jeffrey Sachs, the economist,
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  and he's got a new, I mean, he's got virtually everyday things out there.
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  By the way, Scott Ritter is in Moscow, I believe.
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  I don't believe that is, I mean, that's the story I saw, and I didn't get a
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  chance to listen to it.
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  It is on my links of things to listen to, but it's kind of frustrating because
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  they're translating it as they're sitting there.
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  And I like that, but I don't want to do that.
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  I want to listen to it on one side or the other and see what it is.
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  On the Russian side, his video with me on my YouTube channel has gotten quite a
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  few, quite a good number of views.
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  Over in Russia, I had a few people tell me they've translated it into Russian,
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  but I don't know.
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  I think he's over there right now, and they're trying to get some things done.
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  There's some good commentary about what he is doing.
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  I hope he's over there.
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  I think that's a good deal.
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  But Zelensky isn't invited.
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  Putin has said that he's open in principle to meeting with Zelensky, but
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  remember, he says Zelensky can't sign agreements.
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  Zelensky can't sign them, and so something's going to have to happen from the
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  Ukrainian side to say that what he is trying to do is constitutional.
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  Zelensky has been under martial law here forever, and with all the people of
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  Ukraine back what he puts out since his term is over, and as soon as he signs a
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  peace deal, he can't be president anymore.
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  In London, the coalition of the willing that J.D. Vance slammed said that they
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  had floated the idea of sending troops to Ukraine.
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  Of course, we have to expand, but they said they're not going to send anyone
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  now.
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  UK and France had both talked about the possibility earlier this year.
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  Germany, Poland, Spain, and Italy all said no thank you, and even the British
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  have finally said no one wants to send their troops to die in Ukraine.
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  That's pretty blunt.
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  The plan for peacekeeping deployment after a ceasefire appears to be dead now
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  that the U.S. will not back it.
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  This is what I've been saying for a long time, and I think this needs to
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  happen.
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  I think that Trump needs to...
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  I don't know what.
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  First of all, no more money.
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  Second of all, if you cut the intelligence, it's over.
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  It's already over.
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  The Ukrainians have lost four obelisks, four territories, and it's done.
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  Everything is now just nothing about rhetoric like Trump today.
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  Okay, so now we're going to talk peace.
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  We're going to talk getting into peace.
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  We're bringing Putin into Alaska to meet with Trump.
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  What does Trump do to get ahead of this, to prepare for it?
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  First, he beats up on Zelensky.
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  Then he turns around and beats up on Russia.
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  He says, Russia is a warring country that they've been fighting for centuries.
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  He says, they beat Hitler, beat Napoleon.
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  I don't understand this.
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  You can't call it analysis, but these kind of things to give the impression, he
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  said in his view, it's just in their nature to keep fighting.
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  He discussed the possibility of a land swap, but of course, contradicts
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  Zelensky's position that Ukraine, that he says their constitution forbids
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  territorial concession, but Trump is expressing frustration with it.
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  He says, he's got approval to go into war and kill everybody, but he needs
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  approval to do a land swap.
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  The Ukrainian position, he's looking for allies anywhere he can find them.
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  His most recent is to call it Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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  Modi reaffirmed India's support.
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  They want a peaceful resolution.
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  Modi praises the understanding between Moscow and Washington for peace talks,
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  but Zelensky also pushed Modi to try to stop Russian energy imports into India.
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  That's not going to happen.
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  It's extremely tough, but India's been buying discounted Russian oil and is
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  allegedly facing new US tariffs.
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  There was allegedly, saw today also some news that the sanctions against China
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  are put off another 90 days.
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  I don't know, but Washington has a 25% tariff on Indian goods tied to oil trade
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  with Russia, and another 25% allegedly scheduled soon, but India just calls it
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  unfortunate and promises to defend its own economic interests.
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  It's hard to figure out what is going to happen, because everything changes
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  every day.
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  We have Trump just, I don't know, jumping ship and going a different direction.
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  I like the concept of him negotiating on the fly, of always negotiating.
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  I have no problem with that.
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  I like it.
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  I think it's a valuable and time-honored tradition to always keep people
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  guessing, but this guy appears to be flip-flopping like a fish out of the water
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  and laying on a pier somewhere, just flip-flopping to try to get back in the
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  water.
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  It's frustrating, because when the old Biden element was in power, you knew
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  that he was a mess, and you knew he was always going to be a mess, but he had
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  the same position at least.
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  It was always a crappy position with Trump.
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  You never know what to think, because he goes from one extreme to the next.
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  I don't know.
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  I don't even know what to say about him anymore, but let's get to this.
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  Let's talk about his biggest commentary from today, okay?
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  There's a video of it.
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  I'm not going to play it, but there is a video.
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  Trump slaps down Zelensky's land swap excuses, okay?
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  The article begins with, Trump again has said that a land swap for peace will
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  be discussed at the upcoming summit with Putin in Alaska.
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  Well, the swap is already done.
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  Russia has seized this territory.
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  Nobody's going to get it back.
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  Ukraine's not going to get that back, and Russia isn't going to give it up.
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  He says they need to get prepared for giving up some territory.
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  Well, everybody knows that.
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  Russia has occupied some very prime territory, according to Trump.
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  We're going to try and get some of that back for Ukraine, some of that, saying
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  that some areas might remain under Russian control in a future settlement.
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  Yes, all of them.
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  This is not going to work.
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  The Lugansk People's Republic, the Donetsk People's Republic, Zaporizhia, and
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  Kherson are part of Russia, because following the referendums held in 2022,
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  Crimea voted to join in 2014.
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  That was after the Western-backed Maidan coup in Kiev.
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  Trump suggested that upcoming negotiations could involve swapping of
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  territories, but on Saturday, Zelensky says, no, thank you.
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  Then Trump, in his press conference, says he's frustrated over Zelensky's
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  insistence that territorial concession to Russia would require constitutional
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  approval.
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  The US president questions how Zelensky has the authority to wage war, but can
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  cite some kind of a legal constraint against exchanging land.
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  His direct statement was, I was a little bothered by the fact Zelensky was
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  saying, well, I got to get constitutional approval.
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  I mean, he's got approval to go to war and kill everybody.
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  Kind of a smart-ass deal.
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  I remain hopeful.
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  I really do remain hopeful that on Friday, in Alaska, that something positive
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  comes of this.
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  I truly hope so.
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  I truly hope to not be disappointed and to have something come up, but it's
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  unfortunately just as likely that at the end of the meeting, Trump will go back
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  home, collect all of his toys, and go back and say, well, that didn't work.
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  Now he goes back to the Zelensky side, goes back to bashing Putin instead.
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  I think his hands are tied.
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  I truly do.
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  Nobody in America, me on down, anybody else, find someone who's, besides
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  Lindsey Graham, of course, who's willing to continue funding this nonsensical
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  debacle of a war.
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  We are tired of it.
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  I haven't found a whole lot of positivity in this.
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  In fact, very nearly none.
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  But imagine if you're some kind of a politician.
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  Imagine you're the coalition of the willing sitting in England after the J.D.
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  Vance meeting and saying, no, we're not giving you any money.
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  No, these are bad ideas.
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  Nope, this is foolish and we're not going to do it.
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  When literally it was a week ago where they were all excited about getting
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  together and meeting, and maybe that's the ticket.
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  I don't know.
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  Maybe that's the trick, that Trump gets them excited by hanging.
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  Well, this could be a smart move.
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  Maybe he is the master negotiator.
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  Maybe this is how it's done.
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  You go out and you promise them some piece of Ukraine, and then Ursula von der
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  Leyen signs some deal that allows tariffs from Europe, and Trump just starts
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  collecting money from them.
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  Maybe he tricked them, shined them on, as the saying goes.
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  I was shining them on, got them to agree to these tariffs, because I kept this,
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  well, we could do something about Ukraine, but then he changed his position.
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  Maybe my good friend J.R. is correct on this, that Trump is always dealing and
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  he's always trying to swap something.
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  Now, here he is back on the, I don't want to call it the pro-Putin side,
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  because it's not, but he is not on the pro-Zelensky side.
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  There's nothing there positive for that.
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  I wanted to mention a little bit today about this.
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  If this is accurate, and it appears to be, actually, did I finish the point on
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  here?
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  Well, I wanted to put, because I told him about the land swap, but then
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  Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrei Sebega wrote for the same thing, talking
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  about Zelensky.
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  Finishing my train of thought on the Ukraine side before I move on, is Andrei
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  Sebega, the Foreign Minister, says, no rewards or gifts to the aggressor to
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  appease him, and that every concession invites further aggression.
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  That's what they are selling.
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  I suppose it wasn't an aggression to claim you had a million-man army in
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  Ukraine to gear up for exactly the purpose of going to war with Russia.
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  You were Ukraine, and you had the backing of the United States and Europe.
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  You were just going to push on into Russia, and take your NATO, and take
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  everything else, and take the US money, and that's it.
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  That's not aggression.
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  That's not something that was a red line for Russia all the way along, and
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  killing your own people from 2014 to 2022 in the Crimea and in the Donbass
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  regions, especially.
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  I don't know.
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  I've got mixed thoughts on all that, as you know.
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  But I wanted to switch gears just a little bit, because this is depressing.
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  It's an article from Al Jazeera, and it's about Israel killing Al Jazeera
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  journalists in the Gaza.
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  They admitted to targeting Anas al-Sharif, claiming he was the head of a Hamas
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  terrorist cell.
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  At least five Al Jazeera staff members were killed in Israeli airstrike on a
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  journalist camp in Gaza.
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  Among them was Anas al-Sharif, a well-known correspondent who's been recognized
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  for his reporting on the humanitarian crisis, which everybody admits is a
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  humanitarian crisis.
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  The attack occurred Sunday.
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  IDF struck a tent outside the main gate of the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza.
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  The Qatar-based media outlet said that four of its journalists, al-Sharif,
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  Mohamed Kwerke, Ibram Zahir, and Mohamed Nufal, had been found dead.
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  It added that Cameron Mohamed Aliwa was also among the victims, along with two
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  others, bringing the death toll to seven.
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  Al-Sharif's left post on X featured a video of Israeli strikes hitting Gaza
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  City.
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  Moments before he was killed, it described relentless bombardment by Israeli
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  warplanes.
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  Hani Mahmoud, an Al Jazeera reporter who was just a block away at the time,
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  heard a massive explosion, saw the sky go up.
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  Soon after, news spread that it was the journalist camp that got bombed at the
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  main gate of the hospital.
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  The drone strike hit after things had quieted down and journalists gathered in
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  one place.
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  The director of the al-Sharif hospital told Al Jazeera that the IDF targeted
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  the tent directly.
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  Israel's military acknowledged it had targeted al-Sharif, claiming that he was
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  the head of a Hamas terrorist cell operating under the guise of a reporter.
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  Al Jazeera denies these allegations and described them as part of a campaign of
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  incitement against journalists.
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  The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns this attack, saying that Israel
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  has zero evidence to support the claim that al-Sharif was a Hamas member.
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  This is a pattern we have seen from Israel that keeps going.
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  It's gone back forever, and they get away with it, and nobody says anything,
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  and they always, always get a free pass.
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  And for my part, I'm here to tell you that I'm not anti-Israel, but damn, put
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  up or shut up sometimes.
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  It is so easy to just say, I mean, we do it too.
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  We just go out and say, oh boy, it's a Hamas member.
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  Oh gee, al-Qaeda linked.
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  Oh gee, weapons of mass destruction.
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  Oh gee, all of these things, and we're supposed to believe it because nobody
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  would believe that US military intelligence would lie to us, right?
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  Who's going to believe that the Israeli defense forces are going to lie to
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  their own people to justify what they're doing, especially when nobody wants to
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  see these continued stories all over about how Israel is bombing food places,
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  and people are starving, and they're still slaughtering civilians, and why?
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  And unfortunately, we have people all over here in America, nobody is to the
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  bottom of it.
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  We're supposed to believe these people, but I don't believe them, and I can't
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  imagine that anybody else truly, you know, the true believers, they're selling
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  something, you know, that's all there is to it.
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  Since the war began in October 2023, 237 journalists have been killed in Gaza
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  with al-Jazeera losing 10 staff members.
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  I mean, that's nonsense.
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  Is anybody safe over there?
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  Apparently not.
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  You know, they're just bombing and blowing people up.
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  It's really quite frustrating and depressing.
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  I don't like it.
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  I'd like to see something different.
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  Where else are we going to go today?
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  Let's talk about some Doha.
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  Or should we go to Lavrov?
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  I haven't decided.
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  I'm going to say both of these, and I also wanted to tell you a little bit more
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  about what's going on with pushing India, because we're still in the let's push
• 31:59
  India side of the equation.
• 32:04
  Let's reign all over India's parade, but let's start with Mr. Lavrov, if you
• 32:11
  don't mind, because I haven't talked about the old Lavrov in a little while.
• 32:18
  Let's see.
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  This is an article I wanted to share with you the other day that has to do with
• 32:33
  the Helsinki Accords and the 50-year celebration that went on.
• 32:40
  I gave you a little tidbit of this last week, but here's why we should listen
• 32:45
  to Lavrov and why Russia isn't going to take crap from the EU anymore.
• 32:52
  I've brought to you summaries of this guy's work before, and sometimes I've
• 32:58
  related to you his entire articles.
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  He's an interesting guy, and I like how he writes.
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  His name is Tarik Cyril Amar.
• 33:10
  He's a historian from Germany, and he's studying on Russia, Ukraine, Eastern
• 33:19
  Europe, the history of World War II, cultural Cold War, and the politics of
• 33:27
  memory.
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  A lot of people say it, but we don't pay attention to what history has brought
• 33:35
  us.
• 33:35
  You heard what Trump said earlier today.
• 33:38
  He says that Russia's been at war for centuries.
• 33:41
  That's nonsense.
• 33:42
  We've been in far more wars than they have in our short history, than they've
• 33:47
  had in their 10 times longer.
• 33:50
  Not 10 times, about five times.
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  Russia's been around more than 1,000 years.
• 33:57
  What are we about to celebrate here in 2026?
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  Won't that be 250?
• 34:06
  We'll be at 250.
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  Young and powerful, huh?
• 34:11
  250.
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  I remember 1776.
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  It was a lot of fun.
• 34:17
  1776.
• 34:18
  I was 11 years old.
• 34:22
  It was an entertaining year, but I still remember it.
• 34:28
  Man, I remember too much about it.
• 34:31
  Let's get back to why Lavrov had these discussions.
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  Like him or hate him, Otto von Bismarck, the Prussian aristocrat, arch
• 34:43
  conservative, and user of German nationalism, maker of war, and keeper of the
• 34:51
  peace, was no dummy.
• 34:54
  Yet even Bismarck had a grain of humility.
• 34:57
  Smart politics, he remarked, consists of listening for God's step as he walks
• 35:05
  through world history, and then grab on to the hem of his mantle.
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  In other words, stay attuned to the needs and the opportunities of the moment.
• 35:16
  Tragically, Bismarck's single greatest skill was to seize, and if need be, help
• 35:23
  along the opportunities for war.
• 35:28
  I like this article, but sometimes peace, too, gets its chance.
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  50 years ago, all European countries minus Albania plus the US and Canada
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  signed the Helsinki Final Act or the Helsinki Accords.
• 35:48
  This complex document, if you don't know what it is, it addresses four areas,
• 35:55
  so-called baskets of international relations and implementation.
• 36:01
  The Helsinki Act was a breakthrough in Europe.
• 36:05
  It's a global attempt driven by Brezhnev and Gromyko's Moscow and Nixon and
• 36:13
  Kissinger's Washington to, if not wind down, then to at least manage the Cold
• 36:20
  War a little bit better.
• 36:23
  So, this was 50 years ago, 1975, right?
• 36:30
  The Cuban Wristle Crisis of 1962 was not the only reason for the policy of
• 36:38
  restraint.
• 36:39
  Coming extremely close to all-out nuclear war, this Dr. Strangelove style
• 36:46
  helped concentrate minds.
• 36:48
  Add the US fiasco in Vietnam, and by the late 60s, the desire to de-escalate
• 36:56
  the world was strong enough, even in Washington, to quickly override the Soviet
• 37:04
  suppression of the 1968 Prague Spring.
• 37:09
  In the first half of the 70s, a flurry of high-level international diplomacy
• 37:15
  and treaties marked peak of detente period.
• 37:19
  By 1975, the Helsinki Accords were the peak of that peak.
• 37:26
  So, stemming from Soviet and Warsaw Pact initiatives, it resonated with a
• 37:32
  Western Europe and a post-NATO, those were definitely the days, that wanted to
• 37:38
  combine due diligence and defense with what?
• 37:43
  This is why I'm telling you this.
• 37:45
  They want to do it with real diplomacy and negotiation, something that has been
• 37:51
  missing for at least five years, for sure, and I'd argue 30, at least 30.
• 38:02
  Especially on our side, that's what I would say.
• 38:06
  But the Helsinki Accords, excuse me, fed on the preceding Western and Eastern
• 38:18
  politics.
• 38:19
  The latter is much aligned in Germany, where disgraceful, incompetent elites
• 38:25
  have gone wild with Russophobia and a new militarism.
• 38:31
  Now, when I was talking to Scott Ritter, what did he say?
• 38:34
  He said he was getting ready to do an article or that he was working on an
• 38:39
  article on Russophobia when his passport got lifted.
• 38:44
  Russophobia is definitely alive and well all over Europe.
• 38:48
  It's here in America.
• 38:49
  It's visible everywhere you go.
• 38:52
  There are people that I run into regularly that, if I speak to them in Russian,
• 39:04
  they will answer me in English.
• 39:08
  They will not speak to me in Russian.
• 39:12
  So I, of course, speak more Russian to them.
• 39:17
  So you go into these Ukrainian stores, and I guess, for me, it's just so odd
• 39:26
  that a language can evoke such hatred.
• 39:33
  It makes no sense to me.
• 39:36
  If you listen to my Scott Ritter interview from last night, his focus, which I
• 39:44
  honor, and I'd love to be a participant in these kind of things, his...
• 39:53
  I don't know what he's trying to do.
• 39:56
  His efforts are to bring together regular, common Americans.
• 40:05
  This kind of...
• 40:06
  What about detente at our level of speaking?
• 40:11
  One of the things that I do when I put out my Russian version YouTube videos is
• 40:17
  I try to engage.
• 40:22
  I get commentary from people that reply on my blogs and whatnot or on whatever
• 40:34
  commentary is out there.
• 40:37
  Let me see if I can give you an example of this, and we'll get back to where I
• 40:42
  was on this because I think these efforts, which are what Scott Ritter is
• 40:50
  attempting to do, are something that I do on a very personal basis.
• 40:59
  I try to get people to engage.
• 41:06
  For example, the video that I posted of Scott Ritter has a good number of
• 41:13
  comments from the Russian side, and let's see if I can come up with some that
• 41:20
  they have posted on here.
• 41:22
  Where is it?
• 41:25
  Some commentary.
• 41:31
  Where...
• 41:32
  Oh, did they...
• 41:34
  Those a-holes.
• 41:38
  There are...
• 41:40
  They say...
• 41:41
  Here's one for you.
• 41:43
  I have to translate it on the fly, so here it goes.
• 41:46
  One of very few people who speaks to truth and consistently.
• 41:52
  We have to listen to Scott.
• 41:55
  It's always interesting, and it's interesting to listen to you, Samuel.
• 42:00
  Well, it's because we don't...
• 42:03
  We kind of know what we're talking about, where a lot of these other people
• 42:08
  might not.
• 42:11
  I think this continual bashing of Russia is inappropriate.
• 42:20
  It's just wrong.
• 42:24
  At any rate, I think I want to get back to that article that we were talking
• 42:28
  about in 1975, but this Russophobia, we're kind of at the same point where we
• 42:34
  were in the Cold War way back then, is my point.
• 42:38
  We were at this...
• 42:40
  The Cold War had been trudging along.
• 42:43
  There were some new...
• 42:45
  Like Scott said about this too, and I believe this, there were some very
• 42:49
  professional people from maybe a little before our generation, I don't know,
• 42:56
  that were...
• 42:57
  They still talked though.
• 43:00
  Russia or the Soviet Union and America still talked.
• 43:05
  What have we done for 30 years?
• 43:09
  Seriously, what have we done?
• 43:11
  You got who?
• 43:12
  Megyn Kelly going over and bashing Trump, Putin straight to his face.
• 43:18
  You got nobody goes over there and attempts to engage or learn something about
• 43:25
  the culture or find out what I believe to be true, which is we are very
• 43:32
  similar.
• 43:34
  I mean, the Russian and the American people, we are similar.
• 43:38
  We are proud of our culture.
• 43:39
  They are proud of their culture.
• 43:41
  We are proud of our country.
• 43:44
  They are proud of theirs.
• 43:45
  We are proud of our economics.
• 43:47
  They are and should be proud of theirs.
• 43:51
  They have a lot to be proud of.
• 43:55
  I don't understand why we can't get past this.
• 43:58
  I noticed that Scott Ritter's over there doing some outreach even now.
• 44:06
  I'm going over to Moscow soon, and I'll keep you posted on that.
• 44:12
  I have a couple of things lined up over there that I do plan on getting into.
• 44:19
  I have interviews lined up.
• 44:22
  I got a couple of events I'd like to go to, and I will be doing a little bit of
• 44:27
  reporting from there, my own little tiny effort to go over there and see if I
• 44:34
  can't change what people think.
• 44:36
  I will do it in Russian, though, so I'll try to do it in English too, see if
• 44:42
  there'll be some interviews of me in English.
• 44:47
  But I think it's important to do it in the Russian language too, so that is
• 44:52
  kind of my little announcement is that I am planning a time to be over there in
• 45:01
  the pretty near future, so I'll keep you posted.
• 45:06
  But this Russophobia and these changes, I don't know.
• 45:12
  What they were talking about in 1975, this part about the Helsinki Accords and
• 45:22
  where we were going in this 50 years, we're in a similar period right now with
• 45:26
  this anti-Russia stuff, which is going on for going on 30 years now, and this
• 45:32
  Russophobia.
• 45:33
  But the Helsinki Accords led to a few positive things.
• 45:38
  You might not consider it to be a positive, but it led to perhaps the end of
• 45:45
  the Cold War.
• 45:46
  It led to Germany's reunification.
• 45:50
  It led to NATO expansion too, I believe, and that is not so necessarily
• 45:56
  positive because we said we weren't going to do it.
• 46:01
  The turning point was when the Soviet Union collapsed, and instead of
• 46:08
  attempting to co-opt them in, we attempted to buy them out and treated them
• 46:15
  miserably, stole all their resources, if at all possible, Western countries
• 46:21
  going in there, and I don't think that's going to happen again anytime soon.
• 46:26
  But after 1975, things started to go downhill, and they never really stopped.
• 46:33
  And that is one of the key points made in a long article, and I have downloaded
• 46:42
  it and I plan to read it, but I haven't had an opportunity yet, by the Russian
• 46:47
  Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
• 46:51
  Since the Western media, us, excel at not reporting what Russian politicians
• 46:59
  try to tell us, it could be that very few people will notice this article
• 47:04
  outside of Russia, which is a shame because Lavrov has more than one message
• 47:10
  that we should pay attention to.
• 47:15
  And I'm going to go through his article, of course, you know, Lavrov's, but
• 47:20
  it's a long article.
• 47:23
  It's, let's see, it's the 50 years of the article, and it's a long article in
• 47:32
  Russian, but Sergei Lavrov is a gifted man, and he's been the Soviet Foreign
• 47:39
  Minister for 25 years.
• 47:43
  And I'm going to share a lot of this article with you tomorrow, but it's
• 47:51
  certainly worth the read to hear what Sergei Lavrov is going to say, and I
• 47:58
  intend to share it with you tomorrow.
• 48:04
  And right here on International Flavor, we're going to delve in and see exactly
• 48:12
  what he had to say, but they are discussing his article in other places, and
• 48:23
  we, or the West, as usual, is ignoring him.
• 48:35
  I'm going to maybe give you the link to this that is in an English version, so
• 48:40
  I'm kind of looking for that, but it's not coming up the way I want, so we'll
• 48:48
  just continue with the article for now, and I will plan to give that to you
• 48:52
  tomorrow.
• 48:53
  But the summary of it is pretty brief, and it's in this article that I am
• 49:00
  reading to you right now.
• 49:03
  So under the title, which is a bit understated, is that half a century of
• 49:12
  Helsinki Act, expectation, reality, and perspective.
• 49:17
  But in it, Lavrov delivers a harsh, and even if you disagree, a fundamentally
• 49:23
  valid criticism of the disappointing failure following the promising beginnings
• 49:29
  of the Helsinki Accords.
• 49:32
  This failure has a name, and it's called the Organization for Security and
• 49:38
  Cooperation in Europe, OSCE.
• 49:42
  OSCE is the successor on the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe,
• 49:48
  which is called the CSCE, which produced the Helsinki Accords between 72 and
• 49:54
  75.
• 49:55
  Before the leaders of this time, both small and great, could meet in Helsinki
• 50:01
  to sign them at what Cold War historian Jussi Hahnemäki called a ceremonial
• 50:11
  affair, there had been years of painstaking negotiations.
• 50:15
  There's a lesson here for the impatient Trumps and Zelenskys of the world
• 50:21
  today.
• 50:22
  Serious results take serious preparation, not a day or two of just
• 50:29
  grandstanding.
• 50:30
  Hard to disagree with that, right?
• 50:33
  So what happened to the OSCE next is not complicated at all.
• 50:37
  It had 57 member states, which are the largest security organization in the
• 50:43
  world today, and it has massively underperformed, at least if we measure it by
• 50:49
  its own goals, as originally set out in the Helsinki Accords.
• 50:55
  The OSCE, I'm losing my tongue today.
• 50:59
  The OSCE could have been an indispensable international forum, could have
• 51:06
  bridged the front lines of geopolitics and ideologies, but what we say now is
• 51:11
  values, right?
• 51:15
  I had to take a sip with it so my tongue could get back into line here.
• 51:20
  After the end of the Cold War, it could have been the core of a new security
• 51:25
  structure, which included everyone from Lisbon to Vladivostok.
• 51:29
  But for that to happen, it would have had to stick to the Helsinki Accords'
• 51:34
  core principle and rules, strict respect for sovereignty, equality for
• 51:40
  everyone, and non-interference.
• 51:45
  That did not occur, all maintained by heavy emphasis on consensus.
• 51:50
  But instead, the OSCE turned first into a Cold War, and then in a post-Cold
• 51:55
  War, tool, yet another one, of Western-only influence, Western-only bias.
• 52:03
  They called it multilateral, but it wasn't.
• 52:07
  It was all dictated by the same old globalist crowd as usual.
• 52:14
  Like the EU, the OSCE should have been fundamentally different from, and even
• 52:20
  antagonistic toward, NATO.
• 52:23
  But like the EU, here's the kicker, it ended up becoming a junior partner of
• 52:31
  America's imperialist vassal system, kind of like your Ursula von der Leyen of
• 52:37
  the world, all subordinate to Trump, and before that, subordinate to Hillary
• 52:42
  Clinton as Secretary of State.
• 52:44
  And then they were subordinate to the Biden administration, and it's always
• 52:48
  subordinate.
• 52:50
  There's no country sovereignty.
• 52:54
  I mean, look at what we discussed earlier today, with JD Vance going into
• 53:00
  England, to this alleged coalition of the willing, and telling people what
• 53:05
  they're going to do.
• 53:07
  And the coalition of the willing just fallen flat on its face.
• 53:12
  You know, nothing came of that.
• 53:14
  What a waste of time.
• 53:15
  And it's always that way, because what the US says goes.
• 53:18
  Everybody's a junior partner of the same team, right?
• 53:24
  So, according to this guy, and I haven't read the entire article yet, but the
• 53:28
  article is dedicated to detailing the future of various countries, regions,
• 53:32
  issues, and conflicts, which include a lot of former Soviet, because they got
• 53:39
  to dismantle that, right?
• 53:41
  This is what we've been targeting, right?
• 53:44
  Think about this, Chechnya, war, Kosovo, war, Moldova, working up to it, and
• 53:51
  Ukraine, to name only a few.
• 53:53
  So, it's important because it serves as a corrective, you know, to what the US
• 53:59
  says about its mainstream tales, which put the blame for the failure of
• 54:05
  Helsinki and OSCE on Russia, it's always on Russia, not to speak of the
• 54:12
  demented attempts by Ukraine's corrupt, and increasingly himself isolated,
• 54:19
  Vladimir Zelensky, to use the Helsinki anniversary to once again call for
• 54:24
  regime change.
• 54:26
  Remember that?
• 54:27
  He said, we need regime change in Russia.
• 54:31
  But what is even more important is that Lavrov's message about the future is
• 54:36
  the future as Russia sees it, right?
• 54:40
  First, it's polycentric, multipolar, and in this part of the world, Eurasia,
• 54:47
  and emphatically not transatlantic.
• 54:52
  So, Eurasia is booming like crazy, and it's a huge, huge thing.
• 54:58
  The US went over there.
• 54:59
  Why do you think the US is in Azerbaijan right now?
• 55:03
  We understand the importance of that, right?
• 55:09
  In that respect, it's like we're almost back in the mid-1950s, long before the
• 55:14
  Helsinki Act.
• 55:16
  Moscow, then the capital of the Soviet Union, suggested building a
• 55:20
  comprehensive security structure for everyone.
• 55:25
  West refused because Moscow was not willing to include the US.
• 55:32
  They wanted to include all of Europe and all of the Eurasian, but they didn't
• 55:37
  want to include the US.
• 55:38
  So, they make their own mistakes, right?
• 55:40
  But by the 70s, the leadership changed its position, affirming that it was
• 55:46
  possible to include the US, which in turn actually made the Helsinki Accords
• 55:52
  possible, right?
• 55:54
  So, this fairytale that Russia is intransigent is just that, a fairytale.
• 56:02
  So, that inclusion is an irony of history, because Washington showed only
• 56:08
  distrust and disdain for Helsinki.
• 56:12
  Henry Kissinger considered Europe a sideshow, but the Soviet Union did not.
• 56:19
  The US had always respected its opponents much more than its servants.
• 56:25
  He suspected that if Moscow and Western Europe got too cozy, it would end up
• 56:31
  being a threat, just like it is.
• 56:34
  Washington would control Europe.
• 56:37
  He once told his team that Helsinki agreements might as well have been written
• 56:45
  in Swahili, is what he said.
• 56:48
  But Moscow is back to standing firm against transatlantic positions, I suppose.
• 56:57
  Lavrov writes, Euro-Atlantic conception of security and cooperation have
• 57:02
  discredited themselves and everyone is exhausted.
• 57:05
  Europe can have a place in a future Eurasian systems, but it definitely won't
• 57:12
  be allowed to call the shots.
• 57:15
  If its countries wish to be part of the process, they will have to learn good
• 57:19
  manners, renounce their habit of dictating things, and their colonial
• 57:25
  instincts, get used to equal rights and working as a team.
• 57:30
  Now, that sounds pretty harsh, right?
• 57:33
  But is it inaccurate?
• 57:36
  I don't think so, if you take it from the point of view of the unilateral world
• 57:40
  that we've been a part of forever.
• 57:43
  Well, not forever, but certainly since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
• 57:48
  It's all only one-sided, to the exclusion of India, to the exclusion of China,
• 57:54
  definitely to the exclusion of Russia, and everyone wants to dictate what will
• 57:59
  happen in Georgia, in Azerbaijan, in all of the stands, Kazakhstan,
• 58:06
  Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, all of these places.
• 58:11
  I don't know.
• 58:12
  It's very far from what we always see from Europe, right?
• 58:17
  Like right now.
• 58:19
  Europe is submissive to the US to the point of its own self-destruction.
• 58:27
  Look at what it's doing, preparing for war when they don't have an enemy.
• 58:34
  That's my point of view.
• 58:35
  That's not part of the article.
• 58:37
  I mean, it just makes no sense.
• 58:40
  I'm not saying do not be prepared, that maybe you aren't spending enough on
• 58:46
  your war machines, I suppose you could say, but do you really think that you're
• 58:57
  going to be fighting Russia by 2030, I think is what they were saying, that you
• 59:04
  personally are going to be fighting Russia?
• 59:07
  I mean, do you believe that?
• 59:09
  It's nonsensical, and you need some very new and more modern experts, because
• 59:17
  yours suck.
• 59:22
  So, excuse me, they are all they want to do.
• 59:25
  They won't even talk to Russia at this point, none of them.
• 59:30
  I mean, where is diplomacy?
• 59:32
  Nobody will talk to Russia except Donald Trump.
• 59:37
  So, how do I want to put this?
• 59:43
  The hegemonic Europe, the United States, at least for the last five to 30
• 59:49
  years, have tried to dictate to the rest of the world, and this has nothing to
• 59:56
  do with BRICS, but it's pushing people that way.
• 1:00:02
  This article, which leads you to the Lavrov article, which I'll provide a link
• 1:00:07
  to and maybe even translate it for you using AI or something, I can do that, I
• 1:00:15
  suppose.
• 1:00:16
  But given how damaging all of these policies have been, what's going on in
• 1:00:23
  Europe and the U.S., especially with the meeting of the Trumpster and Vladimir
• 1:00:29
  Vladimirovich in Alaska, might mean that this type of crap isn't going to go on
• 1:00:37
  much longer.
• 1:00:39
  I was very, very hopeful when Trump took office.
• 1:00:45
  I was even more hopeful that Rubio would be on the same team that he—I mean, if
• 1:00:57
  you remember my discussion after Trump made it in, and I said that I was
• 1:01:02
  initially against Rubio, that I was like, what?
• 1:01:06
  Why in the world are we picking Rubio?
• 1:01:08
  But I came around fairly quickly.
• 1:01:12
  He was saying the right things.
• 1:01:15
  J.D. Vance is always saying the right things internationally, but he was
• 1:01:19
  sidelined and told to be quiet for a while.
• 1:01:23
  I can't decide if Trump and this meeting on Friday is going back to what they
• 1:01:30
  were originally planning, and this really has been a six-month negotiation at a
• 1:01:37
  higher level.
• 1:01:38
  I find that hard to believe, but think about this.
• 1:01:43
  In the past week—I mean, seriously, in the past week, what have we heard from
• 1:01:49
  Lindsey Graham?
• 1:01:53
  He was all over the place, and so was Kellogg.
• 1:01:58
  Now we're back to Whitkoff and him going to Moscow, which results in not a 10
• 1:02:05
  to 12 day.
• 1:02:06
  The 12 day was—yesterday was the 12th day of Trump's 10 to 12 days.
• 1:02:12
  Where are these Lindsey Graham—what did he call—bone-crushing sanctions, right?
• 1:02:19
  Where are they?
• 1:02:21
  Trump hasn't—he didn't make good on it.
• 1:02:24
  He talked about it, but he instead—I mean, we're only talking a two-week news
• 1:02:30
  cycle here.
• 1:02:32
  A two-week news cycle.
• 1:02:34
  Tomorrow is 14 days from the day he sat with Keir Starmer in England and said,
• 1:02:41
  we're giving Russia 10 to 12 days, not the 50 I originally said.
• 1:02:46
  What have we been talking about since then?
• 1:02:49
  Everybody was like, oh my God, Russia's going to collapse.
• 1:02:52
  Oh my God, India's this.
• 1:02:53
  Oh my God, China's that.
• 1:02:54
  What about Brazil?
• 1:02:56
  And nothing has happened, except Trump is now coming back from the other
• 1:03:01
  position.
• 1:03:04
  And I don't know.
• 1:03:05
  Where are we actually going to go?
• 1:03:10
  I think it's going to be entertaining to see what really happens on Friday.
• 1:03:15
  I will give you my prediction, that Vladimir Putin will meet with Donald Trump,
• 1:03:24
  tell him virtually the same thing that he has been saying for three and a half
• 1:03:34
  years.
• 1:03:34
  And here we are, approaching the fall, which is going to turn into the winter,
• 1:03:39
  and Russia has gained dramatically over the summer offensive.
• 1:03:45
  And there are some people stating that the collapse of the front lines, which
• 1:03:52
  is ongoing in Ukraine, is speeding up.
• 1:03:56
  And frankly, I believe that to be true.
• 1:04:00
  But I think after my prediction, after the meeting on Friday, it will go off,
• 1:04:07
  it'll be decent, and they will meet.
• 1:04:10
  And Vladimir Putin will tell Trump directly to his face, this will have to be
• 1:04:19
  something that includes the territorial concessions and acknowledging his
• 1:04:28
  terms, acknowledging the realities on the ground, that's number one.
• 1:04:35
  Number two, you have to honor or at least allow the Russian language, because
• 1:04:43
  Ukraine is full of them, and how in the world can you outlaw the Russian
• 1:04:48
  language?
• 1:04:52
  I can be open to that, or allow people to, why can't there be, they have
• 1:04:59
  historic background going back centuries between these two people.
• 1:05:05
  Peoples, I suppose, would be the better way to put it.
• 1:05:09
  No NATO, number three, no NATO, and military neutrality, get rid of Nazism,
• 1:05:19
  this honoring of Bandera, who Russia just doesn't like.
• 1:05:29
  I mean, I suppose if you want to honor Bandera, Stepan Bandera, for killing 100
• 1:05:34
  ,000 Polish people, I suppose, they're already doing it.
• 1:05:40
  His birthday is an important holiday.
• 1:05:42
  But those are the things that Vladimir Putin is going to say.
• 1:05:48
  And Donald Trump, his choices when it comes out, I mean, he has things he can
• 1:05:55
  do, but what's he going to do?
• 1:05:56
  He's going to come out and say, Vladimir Putin hasn't changed his position.
• 1:06:06
  He hasn't changed what he says he's going to do.
• 1:06:12
  And I'm frustrated.
• 1:06:15
  This is Trump, I am frustrated.
• 1:06:18
  And, you know, if he doesn't change, we're going to have to do something.
• 1:06:24
  But then again, I still see hope, because they have talked about one of the
• 1:06:33
  plans that I heard, one of the plans that I think might actually gain some
• 1:06:41
  traction, although Russia really wants this to, is for the nuclear power plant.
• 1:06:51
  Remember when Trump was talking about putting that nuclear power plant under
• 1:06:56
  independent control, and having half of the output, because it's the largest
• 1:07:02
  nuclear power plant.
• 1:07:04
  I can't remember how many reactors, I want to say four, but it's huge.
• 1:07:09
  And Russia is, you know, blocking the Ukrainian side from it, is what I've
• 1:07:15
  heard.
• 1:07:16
  And what if that was, because one of the first things that Witkoff, or was it
• 1:07:24
  Witkoff?
• 1:07:24
  I think it was, who proposed it several months ago, was this nuclear power
• 1:07:29
  plant, splitting the energy from it, half for Ukraine and half for Russia, and
• 1:07:38
  have something that they can work together on with the IAEA, which is there
• 1:07:44
  anyway.
• 1:07:45
  Russia wasn't for that, because Ukraine was bombing the hell out of the place
• 1:07:49
  anyway, been trying to sabotage that plant.
• 1:07:52
  You know, if we can't have it, nobody can have it.
• 1:07:55
  Then they went into Kursk to try to take the Kursk nuclear power plant, that
• 1:07:59
  was allegedly one of the reasons for going in there last August, right?
• 1:08:04
  And so I've heard that that would be one of the conditions still, one of the
• 1:08:11
  positive swaps that Witkoff was talking about.
• 1:08:17
  What may be that area where they took the uranium, you know, Russia took that
• 1:08:22
  uranium section about, what was that, six weeks ago, where they took a huge
• 1:08:29
  part of the uranium section, and maybe that would be part of the swap.
• 1:08:34
  But I think that after the swap is over, or I'm sorry, after the discussions
• 1:08:40
  about the swap are over, that Trump is going to, after he meets with Putin,
• 1:08:47
  then he'll go back to beating up on Putin.
• 1:08:50
  Now, part of the positivity of this is, I think, that Trump and Putin actually
• 1:08:58
  like each other, or at least respect each other.
• 1:09:02
  You know, I don't think Trump likes or respects Zelensky at all.
• 1:09:09
  And when you hear Zelensky speak, he don't respect anyone.
• 1:09:13
  You know, he's got no respect.
• 1:09:16
  I mean, who does he respect?
• 1:09:18
  He thinks they deserve funding forever.
• 1:09:22
  That's what he thinks.
• 1:09:23
  Everywhere he goes, he's looking for more funding.
• 1:09:27
  So my fear is that what happens on this meeting on Friday is a big fat nothing.
• 1:09:40
  A big fat nothing burger.
• 1:09:43
  That's what I think.
• 1:09:44
  And I hope that I am wrong.
• 1:09:49
  But I think Trump's going to switch.
• 1:09:53
  Let's see what, because Trump had a question and answer period today.
• 1:09:58
  And let's see what we can take away from that, right?
• 1:10:03
  Here it comes.
• 1:10:05
  US President Trump shared his expectations for the meeting on Friday.
• 1:10:11
  He had a Q&A session after the press conference on Monday.
• 1:10:16
  He says the summit would show whether Moscow and Kiev are capable of reaching a
• 1:10:22
  deal, unsettling the Ukraine conflict, or should just be left fighting it even
• 1:10:28
  further.
• 1:10:29
  Now, so Trump is all the way back to his early January position.
• 1:10:35
  Screw him.
• 1:10:36
  I want out.
• 1:10:37
  I don't want this war to be my war.
• 1:10:40
  And I've said repeatedly now that this war has become his war.
• 1:10:44
  The longer it goes on, the more his it becomes.
• 1:10:50
  So the content of this meeting between the two of them would be shared with the
• 1:10:57
  EU, NATO, and said Trump.
• 1:10:59
  And he said that he would inform them about Moscow's proposals if he believes
• 1:11:05
  they can be translated into a fair deal, which I just outlined to you, I don't
• 1:11:12
  think is going to be the case, because both of these guys are position
• 1:11:16
  bargaining.
• 1:11:17
  I mean, Zelensky and Putin.
• 1:11:21
  They are position bargaining.
• 1:11:23
  I gave you a lecture several weeks ago about interest-based bargaining, and
• 1:11:27
  they're not interested in ending the war.
• 1:11:32
  I don't think they're interested, at least not on the same terms.
• 1:11:36
  They have these positions.
• 1:11:37
  And so something has to happen to change their position.
• 1:11:42
  And so far, it hasn't.
• 1:11:43
  Moscow's won't change because they're winning.
• 1:11:48
  So according to the president, the settlement of the conflict is bound to
• 1:11:54
  involve land swapping.
• 1:11:56
  He said he sees great potential in trade with Russia, and he needs to have it,
• 1:12:03
  and they have very valuable lands.
• 1:12:07
  But Trump is using this as what?
• 1:12:10
  He wants to feel out Putin.
• 1:12:12
  They haven't met in a good long time.
• 1:12:16
  Nobody's met with him except envoys.
• 1:12:20
  This is a big deal.
• 1:12:22
  Trump expects the Friday summit in Alaska to be a feel-out meeting that would
• 1:12:28
  help him understand Moscow's intentions.
• 1:12:31
  How do you not?
• 1:12:33
  That's my problem.
• 1:12:34
  He said that he believes Russia wants to engage with Washington and get it over
• 1:12:40
  with when it comes to the Ukraine conflict.
• 1:12:42
  Well, that's because it's a Western proxy war, and the West has to acknowledge
• 1:12:48
  that it shouldn't have started it, and it should be over.
• 1:12:51
  If Trump did that and truly said, it's not my war, this is Biden's war, this is
• 1:12:57
  not my war.
• 1:12:58
  Of course, that's not what he said in the beginning.
• 1:13:00
  He goes, who gave you the javelins?
• 1:13:02
  Wasn't it javelins that he gave him in the beginning?
• 1:13:05
  Who allowed you to all these weapons?
• 1:13:06
  Well, what did Obama give you?
• 1:13:09
  He gave you blankets, remember?
• 1:13:11
  Then he goes, I gave you weapons.
• 1:13:14
  So my war is what that says, but then he claims it's Biden's war.
• 1:13:19
  He welcomes the fact that Moscow agreed to hold the summit in the US.
• 1:13:24
  He thought it was very respectful that the president of Russia is coming to our
• 1:13:29
  country as opposed to us going to his country or even a third party.
• 1:13:36
  He thinks that they're going to have constructive conversations.
• 1:13:39
  I hope it is.
• 1:13:41
  So part one is he wants to feel it out.
• 1:13:43
  Part two is this is a path forward.
• 1:13:47
  I sure hope so, but I don't see everybody's pretty intransigent.
• 1:13:53
  Everybody's said so already, right?
• 1:13:56
  The meeting will help him understand whether there is a way to settle the
• 1:14:00
  conflict.
• 1:14:01
  How do you not understand by now what it's going to take?
• 1:14:04
  That's what I don't understand.
• 1:14:07
  We're going to see what the parameters of a potential settlement are.
• 1:14:13
  When I read that, his comment about what he said, how do you not know by now
• 1:14:22
  what the parameters of settlement are?
• 1:14:25
  This is the greatest dealmaker on the planet, right?
• 1:14:29
  It's Donald Trump.
• 1:14:30
  He is the dealmaker.
• 1:14:34
  What do you not understand about the terms of the deal that have been outlined
• 1:14:39
  to you by a party who considers itself to be the victorious party right now?
• 1:14:49
  If you're going to end this, what are you going to do?
• 1:14:52
  You're going to have to save face somehow.
• 1:14:57
  There's got to be a safe phasing while still giving Russia what it wants to
• 1:15:01
  stop, what it wants.
• 1:15:02
  Remember, all the EU and all Zelensky have to offer is a 30-day ceasefire only,
• 1:15:10
  but no freezing in place.
• 1:15:13
  If they never agree to territorial concessions, then they'll never agree to
• 1:15:17
  ending the war.
• 1:15:19
  The war has to continue until they agree to end the war.
• 1:15:25
  It should go on without the US or the West providing anything to them.
• 1:15:31
  It's the only way to end the war.
• 1:15:35
  It's the only way to end the war is to accept the position of the victorious
• 1:15:45
  party or escalate with everybody that's a member of NATO and come out and say,
• 1:15:53
  all right, we're going to let them into NATO.
• 1:15:54
  What are you going to do?
• 1:15:56
  Start World War III?
• 1:15:58
  What are you going to do?
• 1:15:59
  Because I tell you, India, China, Brazil will not be involved, and I imagine
• 1:16:05
  most of the Middle East would not.
• 1:16:08
  But if you side with Europe, you side with Zelensky, and you then say, well, we
• 1:16:15
  have to up the ante.
• 1:16:17
  Everybody knows this isn't going to happen.
• 1:16:19
  You have to up the ante.
• 1:16:21
  This is what Zelensky wants.
• 1:16:22
  This is what he's been begging for the whole time.
• 1:16:24
  Get in here with us.
• 1:16:26
  We're dying, but we won't give up.
• 1:16:29
  We're Ukrainians.
• 1:16:30
  We don't give up.
• 1:16:31
  Russians are going, well, we're Russians.
• 1:16:33
  Even Trump said it today.
• 1:16:35
  We're going to kick the crap out of you until you do.
• 1:16:38
  I don't know if that's the right position, but that's where we are.
• 1:16:42
  So Trump, I don't see the parameters of a deal that would be there, except
• 1:16:47
  maybe, I mean, think about this in the big position.
• 1:16:51
  Maybe there's something outside of it that I talked about a long time ago.
• 1:16:58
  It actually came up in a recent, very recent discussion on a chat board
• 1:17:04
  somewhere, came up again, and I read it.
• 1:17:07
  It was a Sunday afternoon that I read it, so yesterday it was.
• 1:17:14
  Arctic, the Arctic Circle.
• 1:17:19
  Trump has been talking about, remember when he wanted Greenland?
• 1:17:23
  Remember when he wanted Canada to do something?
• 1:17:25
  Remember he wants more presence for the US there?
• 1:17:29
  Well, what if Trump gave something to Putin?
• 1:17:35
  If we started dealing together with the Russians, the Ukrainian thing would go
• 1:17:41
  away anyway.
• 1:17:42
  It would just be gone.
• 1:17:44
  It just would.
• 1:17:48
  He's the president, for God's sake.
• 1:17:50
  All he's got to do is change his, not change his position, back up and stay
• 1:17:56
  with the position, right?
• 1:17:59
  I hope you understand that, but you got to give somebody something else that
• 1:18:04
  they're interested in.
• 1:18:05
  What is Ukraine interested in?
• 1:18:07
  There ain't a damn thing they're interested.
• 1:18:09
  They want what they had before.
• 1:18:11
  They don't want to lose it.
• 1:18:13
  They don't want Russia, the aggressor, to win.
• 1:18:17
  That reality is something that they're not willing to accept, but it's reality.
• 1:18:23
  How do you not accept reality?
• 1:18:26
  You should acknowledge the fact that you have an equal part in putting
• 1:18:34
  yourselves in this reality, and that they don't agree with.
• 1:18:38
  They still want to say that the only basis for this war is Russian aggression.
• 1:18:44
  That's it.
• 1:18:45
  If we don't stop Russia, they're going to take over Europe.
• 1:18:48
  That's it.
• 1:18:49
  Those are lies.
• 1:18:51
  That is not true.
• 1:18:53
  If you believe it, well, you've been sold a bill of very poor goods, and you
• 1:19:01
  need to rethink your position.
• 1:19:04
  Listen to people who know what's going on.
• 1:19:06
  If you haven't yet, start your Oliver Stone video with Ukraine on fire.
• 1:19:14
  I want to finish this.
• 1:19:16
  There's still a little bit to go about what the Trumpster is planning.
• 1:19:26
  What he said was he wants to talk about potential settlement parameters.
• 1:19:30
  He already knows them.
• 1:19:32
  He's just wanting different settlement parameters.
• 1:19:35
  They won't be different from Vladimir Putin.
• 1:19:37
  That's not going to happen.
• 1:19:39
  He says, I'd like to see the best deal that can be made for both parties, said
• 1:19:43
  Trump.
• 1:19:44
  Well, but who wouldn't?
• 1:19:45
  I'm not saying that I don't want Ukraine to survive as a country.
• 1:19:49
  I do.
• 1:19:50
  I can't say that they don't have something important to offer the world.
• 1:19:54
  I believe they do.
• 1:19:55
  They're good people, just like everybody else.
• 1:19:57
  I like Ukrainians.
• 1:19:59
  I had one knock on my door today, and he asked, well, we won't get to that.
• 1:20:04
  Trump stated, adding that he would also like to see a ceasefire as soon as
• 1:20:10
  possible.
• 1:20:10
  We're all back to that, the ceasefire, which Russia will not agree to because
• 1:20:17
  it will be used to rearm, resupply, reentrench.
• 1:20:24
  They're not going to do it.
• 1:20:26
  He still admitted that there is a chance the meeting could end up in a failure,
• 1:20:30
  and he would just leave and say, good luck.
• 1:20:35
  That's the path forward that he talked about.
• 1:20:38
  Land swapping.
• 1:20:40
  He talked about the swapping of land.
• 1:20:42
  The potential solution to the Ukraine conflict will involve some exchange of
• 1:20:46
  territory between Russia and Ukraine, said the president.
• 1:20:50
  There will be some land swapping going on, but he won't tell us what it is.
• 1:20:54
  Remember when Kiev was going to jump into the Kursk area, into the Belgrade
• 1:21:02
  area, and they were in there, and Russia had to boot them out?
• 1:21:05
  We haven't heard anything about that.
• 1:21:07
  Well, Russia, for its turn, is now in Kherson and is now in Sumy regions, which
• 1:21:12
  they could give up in exchange for people saying, here we go.
• 1:21:19
  Trump criticized Kiev and their settling of territorial disputes.
• 1:21:25
  He said he was bothered by Zelensky telling him he needed constitutional
• 1:21:29
  approval.
• 1:21:30
  We talked about that earlier.
• 1:21:32
  Zelensky is not invited.
• 1:21:34
  That's important.
• 1:21:38
  He's been there for three and a half years and nothing happened.
• 1:21:41
  Then finally, he asked if he still believes the U.S. could still do normal
• 1:21:47
  trade with Russia, to which he said, I do.
• 1:21:51
  He went on to say Russia has a very valuable piece of land and could benefit
• 1:21:56
  from it if Putin would go toward business.
• 1:22:00
  Russia is doing very well business-wise.
• 1:22:04
  He said Russia is a massive country and has a tremendous potential to do well,
• 1:22:09
  so he's saying some of the right things.
• 1:22:13
  Will it change anything or will it be a wasted meeting?
• 1:22:19
  That's food for thought.
• 1:22:20
  I think it's far more likely to be a wasted meeting unless you have something
• 1:22:28
  different to offer.
• 1:22:31
  What if you started some trade with Russia?
• 1:22:43
  What could we give them?
• 1:22:45
  Think about this.
• 1:22:46
  Let's think about it from President Trump's point of view.
• 1:22:50
  What can we give to Russia to help them?
• 1:22:56
  The only thing we have is these sanctions.
• 1:23:00
  Last week during the settlement thing after Witkoff went there, when Witkoff
• 1:23:05
  went and met with Putin, people were talking about the sanctions being lifted.
• 1:23:13
  That, I think, might have some potential if it's a reality, but it's not going
• 1:23:20
  to result in Putin saying, no, sorry, we are going to give up five obelisks
• 1:23:28
  that we've conquered with men, with blood, with lives, that they are ours and
• 1:23:35
  they always were Russian and Russian-speaking and you started this war.
• 1:23:42
  Russia itself would never go for that.
• 1:23:46
  The people would never go for that.
• 1:23:50
  That we just, oh gee, sorry, it was a mistake.
• 1:23:53
  Let's go back to being friends again, because Ukraine will never be friends.
• 1:23:57
  They won't even speak the same, they won't even, they won't, I told you, the
• 1:24:03
  little girl at Home Depot or whatever it was, who was selling whatever it was
• 1:24:08
  she was selling, and when, you know, she wouldn't talk to me in Russian, and
• 1:24:13
  that is, unfortunately, all too common these days.
• 1:24:18
  They will not do it.
• 1:24:20
  And even Trump, these people hate each other.
• 1:24:23
  Remember when he told us that?
• 1:24:24
  Said they hate each other.
• 1:24:26
  I don't get that from the Russian side.
• 1:24:28
  You do from the Ukrainian side, for sure, but I don't have Russian people
• 1:24:36
  telling me they hate Ukrainians.
• 1:24:39
  It's pretty rare to hear that kind of thing.
• 1:24:43
  They're sad for it.
• 1:24:44
  They want the war to be over.
• 1:24:46
  You know, the people that I have spoken to are more like me, are more like what
• 1:24:52
  Scott Ritter was talking about.
• 1:24:54
  I hope his, I only saw in the last few hours that he was over there and I've
• 1:25:00
  been meeting, I'm going to listen to his discussions while he's over there.
• 1:25:05
  I'll give you a nice report on it tomorrow as we wind down this show.
• 1:25:10
  I'm going to keep track of, and I'm going to read Lavrov's article in its
• 1:25:21
  entirety so that I can give you his words directly.
• 1:25:26
  I gave you a bit of a summary from the other, but I haven't had time to read
• 1:25:30
  his, and so that's somebody else's summary.
• 1:25:33
  You know that my source rules require me to go to the horse's mouth, if at all
• 1:25:40
  possible, and try to get the story instead of believing what a third party
• 1:25:45
  said.
• 1:25:45
  I like what he said, and I've been pretty impressed with what that Tariq Aziz
• 1:25:52
  has always talked about and things he said, but I want to make sure that this
• 1:25:56
  video gets in my group and it has a good summary that I have already gone over
• 1:26:04
  a little bit, but now I want to go over it all in, I'm going to read it in
• 1:26:10
  Russian and then translate and do it in English, and I'll give you a little
• 1:26:14
  report if there's anything major on it.
• 1:26:16
  If not, if all we covered were the main points that were were already covered
• 1:26:23
  by Mr. Aziz, then I won't go into it, but I'm still going to be very much
• 1:26:33
  attuned to what's going on, or what they say is going on up in Alaska.
• 1:26:40
  I'm going to have a tiny bit of a one-track mind, but on Friday, I'm going to
• 1:26:46
  be traveling, you know.
• 1:26:51
  I'm going to be perhaps not available.
• 1:26:58
  I'm going to pre-record my show for Sunday, I believe, and I think I've already
• 1:27:03
  got a leg of it, and so, well, folks, as we wind down, I am Samuel Trapp.
• 1:27:11
  This is International Flavor.
• 1:27:14
  I'm very glad to have you on the show and listening and paying attention, and I
• 1:27:20
  think it's important to have voices of reason that we have on damradio.com
• 1:27:29
  forward slash live, that we continually give some good content for you.
• 1:27:37
  We have excellent political themes.
• 1:27:42
  I do intend this week to regroup with my, I've drafted the lawsuit against the
• 1:27:50
  Missouri Bar for their failure to supply the sunshine requests that I've been
• 1:27:59
  looking for.
• 1:28:00
  I think I'm going to send one more formal letter to them, perhaps in a
• 1:28:07
  registered mail sort of thing, because I sent it by email before, and that's
• 1:28:13
  allowed, but I think I would prefer to have a signed document from it, just
• 1:28:18
  because, although I don't need it, you don't have to have it, that's not
• 1:28:22
  required, but I want to go after them and have them supply the things that I've
• 1:28:30
  been talking about, and I plan this week to do a story about the client
• 1:28:36
  security fund one more time and hit that up.
• 1:28:40
  If you don't recall, there's, I know I have a story out there about it, but I'm
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  going to continue on that story and give you an update on my Supreme Court and
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  governor paperwork that I do have.
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  Okay, and we could be going another direction on Sunday, but I haven't put that
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  together yet for yet another person targeted by the state of Missouri.
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  I'll keep you posted on that, and I will let you know what goes on, but for
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