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Trump’s Pirate Empire Meets Hormuz | Iran, China, Oil & Old Rules Collapse · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Hello and happy Monday to you. Today
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  is Monday and first day of the week,
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  first day of SAM, first day of live DAM
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  radio, first day of uh international
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  flavor um of the week and so much news
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  has gone on since we last were together
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  last Thursday.
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  Today we're going to get into a lot of
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  stuff. Uh we're going to get into
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  piracy. You know, we're pirates now.
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  What are you doing? No, no, no. What are
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  you doing? Let's uh We are now pirate.
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  Pirate
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  grii.
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  Oh, we're not going to do that. That's a
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  very bad Russian limmerick. Uh that was
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  taught to me by my Russian teacher about
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  pirates. Pirati. Pirati. In Russian,
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  they're piratei. Pirates.
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  And uh we're going to talk about
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  Peterati today because Trump says we are
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  pirates. We are pirates is what he
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  should have said but he didn't say that.
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  We're going to get to that. I think
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  first though I'm going to gauge the
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  temperature
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  because the temperature around the world
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  is getting hotter
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  and I'm not so sure. Now I have a great
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  interview that I really thought about
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  providing the whole the whole and it's
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  actually uh
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  a youth kind of conference
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  by
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  uh by Midv
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  and he I mean it was awesome. He he gets
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  he starts out by saying uh that he wrote
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  a uh speech for uh victory day. He wrote
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  an article actually and uh he he thought
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  he would read the article to this crowd.
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  Now this crowd is young children. Uh
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  well no no no no I take that back. Young
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  school
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  uh like the lowest one. He took a
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  question from a ninth grader. Okay. Who
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  uh they went through the whole and he
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  took a question. He let these people
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  talk about uh uh whatever they wanted.
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  So uh it's his name is Dmitri Midv. He's
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  the deputy chairman of the security
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  council, former president of Russia. Um,
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  and he greets the audience and says it
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  was a large crowd cuz it really was. And
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  uh, it was but it was educators, school
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  children,
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  high school, middle school. Okay, let's
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  call it high school cuz the lowest one
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  was that ninth grader and and everybody
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  was young adult, right? and he asked him
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  to. And so I I I think I'm going to
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  share that with you tomorrow though. If
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  we get started on it today, we might.
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  But what what it is, it's the
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  temperature around the world is what I
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  really want to talk about today. And
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  Trump's temperature is not is not uh
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  conducive to
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  uh lowering the temperature to a a a
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  warm climate. It's heating it up badly.
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  And uh
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  everybody knows I I like to watch solv
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  and and it's hard to do. So the America
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  we block him everywhere and they block
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  him because specifically because of what
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  we're doing. But YouTube blocks him
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  every time I try to download his video.
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  It's a it's a game because and every
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  time somebody up uploads his videos it's
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  a game. what they have is people in
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  Arabic countries uh uploading his video
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  uh or or any other play called Azeraijan
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  who cares and any but usually it's an
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  Arabic speaking sometimes Indian
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  speaking that they will upload saliv
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  format do I understand it's propaganda
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  sure do I think it needs to be cancelled
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  around the world no and uh and Plus,
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  there's a lot of truth in propaganda.
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  You know, you can uh weed out what you
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  think is important. And so, what I
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  thought I would do is every show that
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  Soliv gives, especially the Sunday one,
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  and I try to watch the Sunday one
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  because it it uh he used to have on
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  there Margarita Simmenan all the time,
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  but her husband passed away. She has
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  children and she's I don't know in her
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  late 40s, maybe she's 50 and she
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  educated in the United States. She runs
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  a a large media network. And I loved it
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  when she was on the show because if you
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  wanted to gauge temperature, those two,
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  Soliv and Margarita Simenyan, in my view
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  were people that you needed to listen
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  to. If you're going to listen to
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  Ukraine, it's best that you listen to
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  somebody a little bit more harsh toward
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  the regime and isn't out just pumping
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  Western BS, right?
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  And uh that is u uh what the hell's his
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  name now? Aristovich. Um and I forget
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  his first name, but Aristovich. And I
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  reference him frequently here because I
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  listen to him, too. And he broadcasts
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  mostly in Russian as well.
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  And for me it is just knowing that there
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  are other points of view in the world.
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  Big news this weekend with Trump and the
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  pirates. And so I'm going to share with
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  you what uh
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  the whole now know these are not my
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  words. These are my this is a
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  translation
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  uh fairly accurate. you know that well
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  very accurate of of what he said and
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  it's a it's a strong speech. It tells
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  you about the emotional Russian domestic
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  frame before we get into Iran Hormuz all
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  the world effects of this constant
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  waring
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  uh for resources which is all this is is
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  we're still waring over resources. If we
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  could force uh Ukraine to take over
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  Moscow, then all of the Russian
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  resources would be ours. Would be the
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  West's. And that's the goal all along.
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  Russia will just cave like a a paper
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  tiger. They they're they will fall over
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  cuz Ukraine has a millionman army and
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  Russia is the same Russia it was in the
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  '9s. Well, they found out that is not
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  true. And it's not remotely true in
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  fact. And so uh the people who have been
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  pumping that agenda are morons. And uh
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  you can tell them I said that. And that
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  is not the Russia that I see every time
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  I go over there. And I'm not led around
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  by you know kegi beast. I'm not led
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  around by some sort of uh
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  security dudes. I'm not led around by
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  that. I'm completely free to go where I
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  want. see what I want, do what I want,
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  to see the sites, to see how they live,
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  what they do, the wonderful culture, and
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  all of those things. I'm perfectly
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  permitted to go. I tried to get on Red
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  Square last year, though, and they were
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  having a uh I reported from there a
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  little bit that they were having a uh a
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  festival. It was uh the drum corps of
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  I don't know 50 different countries that
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  the military drum corps showed up and
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  did a march and they were having a an
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  exhibition of uh this drum core. And so
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  I didn't get on Red Square proper
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  because it was only for uh those
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  drum cores to to organize and come back.
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  But it was really cool all the way
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  around Red Square. People were packed
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  everywhere to watch the events and
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  they'd bring out one drum corps at a
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  time and watch them go and there was
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  awesome uh uh food booths everywhere. I
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  mean, it was fantastic. And uh uh the
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  the country is not what is pushed over
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  here. And and and so the people are not
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  what they push over here. Uh Putin is
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  not what they push over here. And
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  neither is Midvative. And so I like to
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  share their words when I can. And
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  tomorrow I because I don't think I'm
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  going to get to it today. I'm going to
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  share the uh all of the questions and
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  all of the answers from a youth
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  perspective
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  uh with Demetri Midvande answering them
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  in an appearance in front of a large
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  auditorium. I I believe that that man is
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  very likely to be uh uh Putin's ultimate
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  replacement. He's he's quite popular.
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  He's very intelligent and you know he's
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  been around in the system for a long
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  time. And uh if you think that you know
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  everybody thought forever these idiot
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  experts that oh gez just get rid of
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  Putin everything will be great. Putin, I
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  don't want to say he's loved, but he
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  sure as hell isn't hated, you know, and
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  they recognize what he has done to that
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  country over the last 25 years or done
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  for that country over the last, you
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  know, 25 years he's been around. Okay.
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  Much of that as president. And uh I
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  believe the big start started in
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  2007208.
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  So, I'm going to share with you Saul of
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  Y and what he said because I think the
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  temperature around the world is
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  important. And his temperature last
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  night was pretty hot. And I'm going to
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  I'm going to tell you why. Um,
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  I'm not I can't play it for you.
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  Obviously, you won't understand it. I'm
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  going to contextualize it and say I'm
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  not adopting these terms myself. I'm
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  telling you that this shows how hard the
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  Russian domestic mood is because a lot
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  of people listen to him. A lot of people
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  around the globe listen to this guy
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  because he speaks in their in
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  everybody's mind the truth. Now I say
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  that much of what he is doing is
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  absolutely the truth. Much of what he is
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  saying is absolutely the truth. And that
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  is why he is blocked so hard in Europe
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  and America and they aren't allowed to
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  listen to you. If you're not afraid of
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  what he is saying, why block him?
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  Words, they're only words. If you if you
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  have no fear of speech, then don't block
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  him. And why do you fear speech? Why you
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  fear the truth is what you fear. And
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  there are kernels of truth in
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  everything. Well, except Clintons's,
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  there's not a curdle of truth there. And
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  in most Democratic uh politicians, but I
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  I throw in that same pile uh you know,
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  the the lifelong rhino. I received a a
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  letter in the mail the other day, and I
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  digress, of course, but I received a
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  letter in the mail about a uh an agency
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  I built, and uh it's it's not defunct.
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  It's still there and I I I keep it
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  active, but I've never done anything
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  with it. But I own a a a domain. I own a
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  uh I started a a a an organization
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  and I don't believe I ever got 501c3 for
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  that. I I I haven't ever done anything
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  with it. I started I started to organize
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  it. I had a couple of interested uh
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  people that wanted to join in, but I
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  didn't do it because I had a lot of
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  things going on in my life. And it was
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  called No Lifetime Politicians. And I
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  and and one of my biggest beefs on the
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  on in America is this lifetime
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  politician deep state BS funded by the
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  same a-holes all the time. And it's the
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  exact same people. Mitch McConnell
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  sitting there with his thumb inserted
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  for 50 freaking years. You know, uh
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  Lindsey Graham has been there what since
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  01 or something. That is it's just
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  incredibly offensive to me. And they
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  will never set a term limit. Why in the
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  world do we have a term limit for
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  president? Why?
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  Why? So they don't accumulate power. You
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  think it's any different in the in the
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  judicial branch for God's sake? What's
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  wrong with What if you made a rule that
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  said every president could appoint two
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  uh chief justices and the ones that had
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  been there the longest had to go? What's
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  wrong with that? You wouldn't have
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  people dying in office. You know, this
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  is nonsense. And uh uh even in the
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  judicial branch, it's crap. And there
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  needs to be a better way. And oh geez,
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  you can't talk bad about system. Well, I
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  can because I'm not a lawyer. How about
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  that? And the system sucks. Missouri's
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  is and Missouri's is corrupt as
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  hell. And you can't stop that. And don't
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  think it ends at Missouri. And they
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  control the bar with an iron fist by
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  people who are unelected. They don't
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  It's not even the Supreme Court that
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  controls the bar. It's controlled by a
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  family of goons who pick and choose who
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  gets to be in charge and who they
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  destroy. And they destroyed me. And so I
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  can talk. I went all the way Supreme
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  Court fighting what is wrong. And I'm
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  right, by the way, but nobody would
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  listen. Why? Because it affects the
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  system. Fight from within the system.
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  Screw you. Fix the system. Even if
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  you're from without side, that is crap.
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  Our system sucks. and it needs to be
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  fixed. Now, I'm I'm pulling a solo on
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  you and uh and I'm doing uh what what he
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  did last night. But here's there should
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  be anger among the masses. There
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  absolutely should be with the crappy way
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  our government is run. And what the West
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  has done is ride roughshod over the rest
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  of the world for ever. and and and the
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  old war in Hormuz is all it is is a
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  continuation of the exact same thing by
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  a different person. Okay. The the
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  propaganda here is, oh jeez, they've
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  been riding for 49 years, 47 years
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  they've been destroying people. I'll
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  play you the quote for old Trumpster.
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  And uh he's he's obviously selling
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  something and that's what he's doing.
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  He's a deal maker and he's not a
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  politician. If he was, he would learn
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  that what he's doing is incorrect. Now,
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  and and I always get, you know, I am I I
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  I call it like I see them. If it's a
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  ball, it's a ball. A strike, it's a
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  strike. You know, it doesn't matter
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  who's at the plate, you know. I call it
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  like I see it. And the truth doesn't
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  change based on the audience I'm
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  speaking to. Oh, brother mine. uh we we
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  wish to uh uh talk the truth. Well,
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  let's talk about the truth
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  uh for real and not as something that
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  changes based on the audience. That's
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  nonsense or based on the goal you're
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  trying to get. The truth is the truth.
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  End of sentence. And and you can
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  interpret the truth as you like, but
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  basic facts are basic facts. And here
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  are the basic facts. So when I read to
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  you what the old Soliv monster said uh
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  uh last night
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  to his Russian audience and to many many
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  people around the world cuz people watch
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  him. Uh even the Arabic guy that I
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  uploaded it from his site uh he had he
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  had uh nearly 10,000 views wherever he's
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  located, you know, but he's an Arabic
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  channel and upload the Russian part of
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  it cuz you can't get on YouTube from
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  Russia. It's nonsense and that we're
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  blocking all that. And so and and part
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  of it has to do with this blocking
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  because part of Soliv's speech was
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  exactly about that. And so I'm gonna
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  jump right in and say what he says. I
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  want to give a little bit of a caution.
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  He does get
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  I I don't know what he c he he he he he
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  it it's rhetoric of course, but he says,
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  you know, they're killing our people.
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  They're killing our officials. They're,
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  you know, Trump kills uh uh he's said
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  this over and over, not in this uh
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  appearance, but he said, you know,
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  Trump's killing leaders. Trump's getting
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  rid of them. and it's in the the clip
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  I'm going to play for you. Uh maybe we
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  should start to act the same. Something
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  said maybe we should go in and kill all
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  the Ukrainian leaders. You know, we
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  could do it. We could do what Trump did
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  and go, you know, take Maduro, you know,
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  is basically what he's saying. We could
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  do the same to Zalinski. Zalinski
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  wouldn't be protected and we could kill
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  them all. You know, we could do what
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  Trump is doing and just say, "Huh, well,
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  that's the world we live in. Sorry." you
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  know, and so anyway, here we go. But,
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  uh, I don't want to frame it at least
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  that this is Sulliv's language, not
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  mine. But, it does show how hard the
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  mood has become in Russia and frankly
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  around the world about all the the the
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  turmoil that America is creating. So, I
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  want to tell you about the broader
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  platform thing. In March of 2022,
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  YouTube did announce it was blocking
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  access globally to channels associated
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  with the Russian state funded media. But
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  I was able to get it every year. I'd go
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  to Russia and it was all fine until I
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  went to the uh BRICS conference in late
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  2024. And then suddenly blocked. I was
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  blocked in fact. And uh anything
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  associated with Russian state funded
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  media, my ass is it's not just state
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  funded media. It's it's any media that
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  has anything positive to say about the
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  Russian side. And uh they cite its own
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  policy on violence, right? Reuters Euro
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  News says that YouTube said this would
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  apply globally and take effect
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  immediately. Uh Tech Crunch reported
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  YouTube's move is a global block on
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  Kremlinbacked
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  statef funded outlets, not a Europeonly
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  restriction. So, so soliv material
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  survives on YouTube only through
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  fragments, reposts, and the game that
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  they play of digital whack-a-ole. You
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  know, that's how it works. And so, it's
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  hard to get this information. So, I'm
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  I'm going to begin the here's where it
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  starts with Sulliv. Okay.
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  Good evening. Of course, the main
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  problem right now is security inside the
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  country. At the same time, we need to
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  separate things clearly here because
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  people's emotions are understandable.
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  Everything is obvious tonight. It was
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  once again extremely alarming in St.
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  Petersburg. Once again, they say the
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  Baltics flew things at us, but not for
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  long. We need to stop talking. We really
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  simply need to stop. Europe is terribly
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  happy that the Luftwafa, or whatever
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  they want to call the Nazis and the
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  current ones calling something similar,
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  have reached the Eural Mountains. They
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  blew up a uh another Russian refinery
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  deep inside of Russia.
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  They could not reach the Eurals, but the
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  Ukrainian Nazis did reach the the the
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  original uh Nazis couldn't reach the
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  Euro mountains, but the Ukrainian Nazis
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  reached the Eurals. That miserable
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  Kayakalis is delighted that the parade,
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  the Russian Victory Day parade on the
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  9th will be without military equipment.
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  Fool, what are you so happy about? We
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  will need that military equipment when
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  we trample you and your friends. Oh,
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  forgive me. The words fool and trample.
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  I hope Kayakalis files a complaint
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  against me. Or should I switch to
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  Estonian language so you understand me?
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  After all, quite suddenly, I've become
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  the most popular character in Italy. Now
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  all Italians are saying finally Soliv is
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  telling the truth about all of them.
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  Well, I can tell you the truth about our
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  governments in in various languages. The
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  truth is simple. European governments do
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  not want to see that the strikes being
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  carried out deep inside the territory
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  are possible only because they steal
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  money from their taxpayers and send it
• 20:53
  to Ukraine either already in the form of
• 20:56
  a finished product or in the form of
• 20:59
  what those products are made later
• 21:01
  manufactured too. Your reconnaissance
• 21:04
  equipment, European reconnaissance
• 21:06
  equipment, guides these weapons for
• 21:08
  strikes against our cities and so that
• 21:11
  civilians can die. You hunt our
• 21:14
  civilians and think we will forgive you
• 21:16
  for this. You are mistaken. So let us
• 21:20
  break this down into several clear
• 21:22
  points. What is happening at the front?
• 21:25
  At the front, we are pressing forward.
• 21:27
  This is absolutely true and they're
• 21:30
  gaining lots of ground recently. So much
• 21:33
  so that sumi is already understanding
• 21:37
  that things are going to be very
• 21:39
  difficult for them and people have
• 21:42
  started running from that place. So much
• 21:45
  so that Kharkov itself understands that
• 21:48
  nothing of this is so cheerful anymore
• 21:51
  and life in Harkov is becoming harder
• 21:54
  and harder. Not quickly, but while
• 21:57
  minimizing our own losses, we are
• 21:59
  advancing on a number of fronts. I want
• 22:02
  to remind you, Zalinski was shouting
• 22:05
  that just a little bit more money and
• 22:07
  they would clear Kupansk of Russians.
• 22:10
  Well, how is that going?
• 22:13
  Remember Kupansk? It's now completely
• 22:15
  Russian, far in the rear now. And how is
• 22:19
  that going? Not long ago they were also
• 22:22
  saying they had liberated 500 kilometers
• 22:24
  square kilometers where they they they
• 22:28
  can't show it. They said we are killing
• 22:30
  more Russians than they are recruiting.
• 22:33
  Then why are they screaming that it is
• 22:35
  not even close? We have volunteers
• 22:38
  coming forward while in Ukraine. Again
• 22:40
  and again the map looks more and more
• 22:42
  frightening for them. Hang on a second.
• 22:48
  the old slurping the microphone. There
• 22:50
  are images of forced recruitment and
• 22:53
  that there definitely are and they're
• 22:54
  getting worse. There are maps of cities
• 22:56
  on Ukrainian territory where active
• 22:59
  hostilities are taking place against the
• 23:02
  TCC recruitment centers. This is the uh
• 23:06
  the busification of the Ukrainians. Here
• 23:10
  someone threw a grenade there. Someone
• 23:12
  used an automatic weapon. They threw a
• 23:14
  grenade at uh one of the u one of the
• 23:16
  recruiting centers and blew it up. And
• 23:19
  then somebody else is using an automatic
• 23:21
  weapon to shoot in through the windows
• 23:23
  and of this recruiting center. They're
• 23:25
  trying to kill the recruiting people.
• 23:27
  Somewhere else some in in Ukraine
• 23:29
  somewhere else a recruiter was cut where
• 23:31
  with a knife. Somewhere else there was
• 23:33
  shooting with pistols between them.
• 23:35
  They've been allowed to carry pistols
• 23:37
  now. And so people are uh uh people are
• 23:40
  getting the crap beat out of them and
• 23:43
  thrown into the back of vans and taken
• 23:45
  to to the to this training place,
• 23:48
  trained if you want to call it that, for
• 23:50
  two weeks and shipped out to the front
• 23:52
  to die. You know, that is exactly what
• 23:55
  is going on. And so these things are
• 23:59
  true. And this is why they don't want to
• 24:01
  hear Soliv say them. They show how they
• 24:04
  attack the the Ukrainians attack our
• 24:06
  ships and how they strike our oil
• 24:10
  refineries. Well, let us finally start
• 24:12
  showing what their cities look like,
• 24:14
  their enterprises and their
• 24:17
  infrastructure centers that would that
• 24:20
  have turn what they have turned into. It
• 24:22
  would be simpler. Why do we not show
• 24:25
  pictures of how many ships we have sunk?
• 24:28
  Where and how ships that tried to come
• 24:30
  into port. Why are we losing this
• 24:33
  information battle? Europe should see
• 24:36
  pictures of what is burning on the
• 24:38
  territory of Ukraine and how it is
• 24:41
  burning.
• 24:42
  Why not? Ah because the number of our
• 24:45
  traders happily film and post everything
• 24:49
  wherever they can. What he's saying is
• 24:51
  in Russia we have freedom of speech. We
• 24:53
  can take video and post it. while over
• 24:56
  there strict censorship operates. So it
• 24:59
  is impossible to get pictures from there
• 25:02
  and they've blocked everything. You
• 25:04
  know, they can't they can't Ukrainians
• 25:06
  can can only send out positive uh U pro-
• 25:10
  Ukraine things. They're not allowed to
• 25:12
  speak, you know. Everybody gets banned.
• 25:15
  YouTube banned um Panchchenko. That was
• 25:19
  Pardon my French. She had two
• 25:21
  million followers. Why? because she was
• 25:24
  telling the truth and they they got rid
• 25:25
  of her. But every time I say to that
• 25:28
  those who film impacts like Russian uh
• 25:31
  oil places and upload them should be
• 25:34
  punished in the harshest way. People say
• 25:36
  to me, "How can you say that? What are
• 25:38
  you saying?" By the way, this is
• 25:40
  prohibited all over the world. But here
• 25:43
  in Russia, someone is always trying to
• 25:45
  say, "Come on, what's the big deal?
• 25:47
  It's, you know, free speech." No, it is
• 25:49
  a big deal. A war is underway. Soliv is
• 25:52
  against it and he repeats it. A war is
• 25:54
  underway and if a war is underway then
• 25:57
  allow me to ask simple clear questions.
• 26:00
  If strikes went on for a week against
• 26:03
  Luga. All right. And on the first day
• 26:05
  impacts happened but what about the
• 26:07
  second day and the third? Why did that
• 26:09
  happen? Why were all the forces and
• 26:11
  means necessary to repel attack not
• 26:14
  transferred there? He's beating up on
• 26:16
  his own country and their defenses right
• 26:19
  now.
• 26:21
  If this is the fourth attack on TuPS,
• 26:24
  and TuPS is the city I was talking about
• 26:26
  last week, where they had whatever it
• 26:27
  was, 28 uh o refinery tanks for export,
• 26:32
  and the Ukrainians blew virtually all of
• 26:34
  them up and attacked it four days in a
• 26:37
  row. Uh why did concentration of forces
• 26:40
  and means like equipment not happened
• 26:43
  after the first strike? If something
• 26:45
  flies 1,500 kilometers, why is it not
• 26:49
  shot down? I simply want to understand
• 26:52
  what is the problem. Do we not see it?
• 26:55
  Do we not understand what is going on?
• 26:58
  Do we not know that something just
• 27:01
  doesn't correspond to reality? We see
• 27:03
  how Moscow is defended. We know how well
• 27:06
  it is organized. But who are but those
• 27:10
  who are supposed to know.
• 27:12
  Is there nothing to shoot with? Excuse
• 27:14
  me, but I myself went there on Thursday
• 27:17
  night. We worked on Friday. Wednesday
• 27:19
  night, Thursday while working, we worked
• 27:21
  with the system in particular uh uh uh
• 27:25
  the least and I don't know what the
• 27:27
  least is. He said it's a a brilliant
• 27:30
  interceptor, a very promising
• 27:32
  interceptor produced in large
• 27:34
  quantities. And most importantly, who is
• 27:38
  the person responsible? Tell me please,
• 27:41
  do we have one person who is responsible
• 27:44
  for the entire air defense system in our
• 27:47
  country? He's he's he's beating up on
• 27:49
  his own military here. I want to remind
• 27:52
  you that everything is still broken up
• 27:55
  among agencies. Where, how, what, who is
• 27:59
  responsible for what? Maybe it's time to
• 28:01
  abandon that line of thinking. Why is
• 28:04
  the Moscow experience not being
• 28:07
  replicated everywhere else is what he
• 28:09
  meant? Why is there still no single
• 28:12
  person responsible for the entire
• 28:14
  national air defense system with
• 28:16
  emergency powers? We have said that many
• 28:20
  times. Do we not understand that the
• 28:23
  enemy is planning to do everything this
• 28:26
  week? And why? It's because it's Victory
• 28:28
  Day week. Because they need to distract
• 28:31
  attention. And in general, they are
• 28:33
  profoundly indifferent to lives. We
• 28:36
  could wipe out all of Ukraine. this
• 28:39
  group of scoundrels, terrorists, and
• 28:41
  villains who have stolen every bit of
• 28:43
  money they could, they are indifferent
• 28:46
  to the fate of Ukraine. Now, I believe
• 28:48
  that too. The leaders in Ukraine, the
• 28:50
  people of Ukraine are good people. The
• 28:52
  people of Russia are good people. The
• 28:54
  Ukrainian
• 28:56
  uh military uh is gone, decimated,
• 29:00
  destroyed. And uh you know these leaders
• 29:05
  west all western including in the US by
• 29:07
  the way those that are oh we're not
• 29:09
  doing enough for Ukraine they're the
• 29:11
  idiots okay and and the western leaders
• 29:14
  are also the idiots in my humble view
• 29:17
  you know that I'll be happy to debate
• 29:19
  with them bring it on but they are
• 29:22
  indiff now I'm going to continue with
• 29:23
  Soliv they are indifferent to the fate
• 29:26
  of Ukraine they care only about their
• 29:30
  personal wealth They care only about how
• 29:32
  much money they will continue to
• 29:35
  receive. They do not need peace and they
• 29:38
  do not need a ceasefire. And this is
• 29:41
  directly what is said in the now famous
• 29:44
  Mindish tapes. Mindic was the guy who uh
• 29:47
  ran off to Israel with $100 million and
• 29:51
  uh in in fraud that he stole from the
• 29:53
  money. One of Zalins or from the country
• 29:55
  from the people. He's one of Zalinsk's
• 29:58
  closest backers. I told you about him
• 30:00
  last year when this happened. I want to
• 30:02
  say it was like November or something.
• 30:04
  And uh there are tapes where he says,
• 30:06
  "No, no, no. We need the war. We need
• 30:09
  this war." What do you mean stop the
• 30:11
  war? How will when then the quote says,
• 30:14
  "What do you mean stop the war? Then we
• 30:16
  will not receive any money." That's
• 30:18
  Mindic. And in reality, these tapes,
• 30:21
  these Mindic tapes are the main thing
• 30:24
  now killing the Ukrainian government.
• 30:26
  Here's some truths for you. That is why
• 30:28
  they are ready to do anything. Shift
• 30:31
  attention. Shout that we are about to
• 30:33
  use nuclear weapons. Because in these
• 30:36
  tapes, it is stated clearly and plainly.
• 30:39
  Ukraine is not led by some modern
• 30:42
  churchill but by a vile, disgusting,
• 30:45
  lying, thieving creature. He's talking
• 30:48
  about the green goblin. Why is he not
• 30:51
  condemned in Europe? Because all of them
• 30:54
  live on the money that this scoundrel
• 30:56
  distributes to them from the money
• 30:58
  stolen from European and American
• 31:00
  taxpayers. That is why Kayakalis is
• 31:04
  bought and paid for. She is a bought and
• 31:06
  paid for creature maintained by
• 31:08
  Zalinski. Meritz is maintained by
• 31:11
  Zalinski. Mcronone is maintained by
• 31:13
  Zilinski in one form or another through
• 31:17
  different systems of foundations,
• 31:19
  through systems of kickbacks. the entire
• 31:21
  European ruling class including the
• 31:24
  European bureaucracy with Ursula
• 31:27
  Fonderline in the front ranks.
• 31:31
  Excuse me. All of them are sitting on
• 31:33
  money in one form or another that is
• 31:36
  laundered through Ukraine and
• 31:38
  distributed just as it was with the
• 31:40
  Democratic Party of the United States,
• 31:42
  which it was. But that he he's mistaken
• 31:45
  there. It was the Republicans just as
• 31:47
  much as the Democrats with all these
• 31:49
  NOS's, US Agency for International
• 31:52
  Development. They filtered millions,
• 31:54
  billions through Ukraine over the years.
• 31:57
  We all, you know, what what about uh the
• 32:00
  famous uh son of Biden, the Hunter Biden
• 32:03
  Barisma BS? You know, that's that
• 32:06
  they've been throwing money through
• 32:07
  there and laundering it to the proper
• 32:09
  people for a decade,
• 32:12
  a little more than a decade, at least
• 32:13
  since 2014 when uh we we supported the
• 32:16
  coup on um
• 32:19
  was it Porchena? Yeah, I think it was.
• 32:21
  But uh uh uh n every let's see
• 32:26
  and these schemes are being
• 32:28
  investigated. That is why there will be
• 32:31
  shouting, but no one will dare pay
• 32:33
  attention to the fact that at the head
• 32:35
  of the Ukrainian Nazi regime stands a
• 32:38
  thief who kills his own people and
• 32:41
  steals money from American and European
• 32:43
  taxpayers. Now, this is harsh, you know,
• 32:46
  but this is the temperature in Russia.
• 32:49
  Um, the Americans in the person of Trump
• 32:53
  understood this and said enough, not
• 32:56
  interested. But the Democrats who were
• 32:58
  sitting on the fees are shouting, "No,
• 33:00
  no, no. Give more." You know, they want
• 33:02
  to give money.
• 33:06
  And this still solivs to go. Everything
• 33:10
  is complicated. Everything is
• 33:12
  complicated. NATO is falling apart.
• 33:14
  Without Trump, it is nothing. Zalinski
• 33:17
  shouts, "I do not care about America. I
• 33:20
  am with Europe. I already bought it. I
• 33:23
  control it." Do we want to change this
• 33:25
  situation? Then let us act the way the
• 33:28
  Supreme Commander and Chief of the
• 33:30
  Russian Federation, President of the
• 33:32
  Russian Federation, Vladimir Vladimir
• 33:35
  Putin, clearly formulated the fight
• 33:38
  against terrorists because they are
• 33:41
  terrorists. They must be wiped out. If
• 33:44
  we catch them in the toilet, then wipe
• 33:46
  them out in the toilet. Wipe them out.
• 33:50
  Zalinski, Fodorov, Budanov, and I can go
• 33:53
  on listing them by name. Physically
• 33:58
  destroy them. That is the only thing
• 34:00
  they fear, the only thing they tremble
• 34:03
  over, not the lives of Ukrainians.
• 34:07
  And that they are terrorists became
• 34:10
  clear on May 2 of 2014. And we have
• 34:14
  still not avenged that. He was talking
• 34:17
  about the Union Hall massacre where they
• 34:20
  burned people alive. The the uh
• 34:22
  Ukrainian Nazis that currently control
• 34:25
  the country burned Russian people alive
• 34:28
  who were protesting against um the coup
• 34:33
  that happened in 2014. So in May of
• 34:36
  2014, they burned him alive in the uh in
• 34:39
  the Union Hall in Odessa. Nobody talks
• 34:43
  about it and we still haven't avenged
• 34:46
  it. We have not punished it. Memory is
• 34:49
  not enough. Revenge is necessary.
• 34:52
  Revenge is necessary.
• 34:55
  And then he passed off to one of the
• 34:57
  other speakers. And uh so his his
• 35:01
  points, you know, could be pretty harsh.
• 35:04
  uh he's not you know this he's talking
• 35:09
  about Russian internal security
• 35:11
  especially during victory week this is a
• 35:13
  big week for them Petaya uh all the way
• 35:17
  through Vasmo uh deviata 1st through the
• 35:21
  9th are as a big holiday over there and
• 35:24
  uh I'd like to be there for that I was
• 35:26
  there for it one year uh in the city of
• 35:29
  Nabeli
• 35:31
  and it was uh actually very
• 35:36
  uh I don't know how to say it. Um I
• 35:39
  suppose it was somewhat uh patriotic and
• 35:43
  even somewhat moving because at night
• 35:46
  the fireworks were going going on. Okay,
• 35:48
  imagine this driving through pick a city
• 35:52
  the size of Nabi Chelnney in America.
• 35:55
  Call it it's bigger than Colombia but
• 35:58
  call it about the size of Colombia,
• 36:00
  Missouri. Okay. And and imagine even in
• 36:02
  Colombia that a uh fireworks display is
• 36:06
  going on citywide all multiple places
• 36:10
  around the city. Huge fireworks were
• 36:13
  seen everywhere on the city and all the
• 36:18
  traffic stopped at like whatever it was
• 36:22
  910 p.m. whenever these fireworks
• 36:24
  started and they went on for you know 10
• 36:27
  15 minutes and then everybody got back
• 36:28
  in their car and moved. The entire place
• 36:32
  stood still. There was nothing happening
• 36:35
  except people watching the fireworks and
• 36:39
  uh doing you know thinking about it. I
• 36:41
  was in a an Uber. Well, Yandex over
• 36:43
  there. I was in an Uber at the time. And
• 36:45
  the driver says, "Well, you know, we
• 36:47
  stop for these things. Get out and enjoy
• 36:49
  it. You know, have enjoy the fireworks.
• 36:51
  Have have a look at it." There were cars
• 36:52
  stopped, kids sitting on top of the car,
• 36:54
  you know, dad and mom's out. And it was
• 36:56
  a huge fair. It's freaking victory day.
• 36:59
  They remember what happened when the
• 37:03
  Nazis came and they lost 26 million
• 37:07
  people. They remember it. Every family
• 37:12
  was affected. Ukraine wants to forget
• 37:14
  it. Ukra because Ukraine, if you want to
• 37:16
  talk the true Ukraine, not the Russian
• 37:19
  Ukraine. Those separatists were Nazis.
• 37:22
  They were killing they went to kill
• 37:24
  Russians. Mag Stefan Bandera was a Nazi
• 37:27
  and they killed killed people. So I mean
• 37:30
  the truth is out there if you just go
• 37:33
  look for it. And Ukraine is not the good
• 37:37
  guys in this thing. We they we have
• 37:39
  teamed up with a bunch of ultraist types
• 37:43
  in the west and it's just wrong.
• 37:47
  First of all, we have nothing to do with
• 37:49
  these conflicts in Europe. They've been
• 37:51
  overrunning each other for centuries. We
• 37:53
  have nothing to do with it and it's not
• 37:55
  going to stop. It's it should stop, but
• 37:58
  it won't. You know, they have they have
• 38:00
  50 different cultures packed in a
• 38:02
  smaller area than the United States. And
• 38:05
  uh well I think it's about equal but it
• 38:07
  it's still they have tons of different
• 38:10
  cultures in there and those cultures
• 38:12
  don't mix. Ours is still basically
• 38:15
  American melting pot. We have troubles
• 38:18
  you know I mean hell you go to Miami
• 38:20
  they're either speaking Russian or Cuban
• 38:22
  or now Haitian, you know it's places but
• 38:27
  I can't find I can't get help at the
• 38:29
  freaking grocery store. They Sorry, no
• 38:32
  English, you know. Where? Where? Where?
• 38:35
  Whatever. Where's the coffee located? No
• 38:37
  English.
• 38:39
  Off they go. You can't get help from
• 38:41
  anybody. You got to go talk to five
• 38:43
  people before you get one that speaks
• 38:45
  English. And that's the truth, actually.
• 38:48
  So, anyway, I didn't another sip.
• 38:52
  So, it's pretty harsh. Pretty damn harsh
• 38:56
  what uh Soliv said. What is he really
• 38:59
  doing? He isn't talking about Iran. And
• 39:01
  he's talking about internal security,
• 39:03
  escalation, psychology, and domestic
• 39:07
  anger. He's telling the audience that
• 39:09
  the war is no longer over there. St.
• 39:13
  Petersburg, Luga, Moscow, oil refining
• 39:16
  ships, deep strike Jones are all part of
• 39:19
  the same argument. Russia is under
• 39:22
  attack on its own territory. And the
• 39:23
  European government is and are
• 39:26
  participants, not observers. They're
• 39:29
  they're allowing people to fly through
• 39:32
  Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland to
• 39:35
  get to oil tankers inside of Russia.
• 39:40
  They are NATO countries are involved.
• 39:44
  They're allowing it to happen. And it's
• 39:47
  true. This is escalatory talk. And so
• 39:51
  he's first major point is European
• 39:53
  intelligence and financing makes deep
• 39:56
  strikes possible. Second point is aimed
• 39:58
  at Russia. He's complaining that Russia
• 40:00
  is losing the information war by not
• 40:03
  showing the destruction inflicted on the
• 40:05
  Ukrainian military. He contrasts this
• 40:07
  with Ukrainian and Western presentation
• 40:09
  of every strike against Russian ships
• 40:11
  and refineries. And he turns on the
• 40:13
  Russians who are filming those to say
• 40:16
  quit it. It wants to make it a crime.
• 40:18
  His third point is direct criticism of
• 40:21
  the Russian air defense. This part is
• 40:24
  unusually important. He asked why this
• 40:26
  is going on in pretty blunt terms. After
• 40:29
  1500 kilometers and we're not taking
• 40:31
  them out, what do we lack? Basically,
• 40:34
  this is an internal policy complaint.
• 40:36
  And uh you think he's pro Kremlin on
• 40:38
  that? Tell you what, that I I I
• 40:41
  guarantee you he's either getting some
• 40:44
  uh uh you know, somebody wants to twist
• 40:47
  that narrative, but people are pissed
• 40:49
  off inside of Russia. Why wouldn't you
• 40:51
  be? They would we be? You know, here we
• 40:54
  are. Here we are at the Lo Lake Ozark
• 40:57
  real estate studio and a 1500 mile 1500
• 41:01
  kilometer uh uh missile flies up through
• 41:04
  Mexico and bombs Oage Beach or or uh uh
• 41:09
  Lake Ozark or anywhere Jefferson City.
• 41:12
  And
• 41:14
  what would we say? Well, geez, where
• 41:16
  were our air defenses? What happened to
• 41:17
  the we're the greatest in the world?
• 41:19
  Israel's having some of the same
• 41:21
  complaints. air defenses cannot keep up
• 41:24
  with all of these uh drones and this
• 41:27
  massive drone. It's a different world
• 41:28
  than it was with the missiles. Why do
• 41:30
  you think Donald Trump wants to spend a
• 41:32
  half billion dollars on drone
• 41:34
  technology? He sees it coming. We are no
• 41:36
  longer the king of the mountain as far
• 41:39
  as military technology. And by the way,
• 41:42
  lots of countries are buying from other
• 41:44
  sources and backing out on US military
• 41:47
  equipment. Uh so his fourth point is
• 41:50
  Ukraine's leadership does not want peace
• 41:53
  because the war is a money machine and
• 41:56
  their corruption the mind tapes the
• 41:58
  western funds the European political
• 42:00
  kickbacks the broad claim that Ukraine
• 42:02
  is a laundering mechanism for the
• 42:03
  western political and bureaucratic
• 42:05
  interest which by the way it is that
• 42:08
  gives you a bridge you know to to to
• 42:10
  talk about all the rest of the stuff
• 42:13
  right everything that goes on in
• 42:15
  government in the west is funded by
• 42:18
  Ukraine, the war and all the money, all
• 42:21
  the filthy money that gets kicked back
• 42:24
  back through the uh uh the deep state
• 42:28
  types, the military-industrial complex
• 42:30
  types.
• 42:32
  His most uh inflammatory point was the
• 42:35
  part where I read you that he he he
• 42:37
  talked about killing people directly.
• 42:39
  Now, Donald Trump does that all the
• 42:41
  time. Nobody says a word, you know. Oh,
• 42:43
  he killed them. We can't even talk to
• 42:44
  them. play his tape for you after we
• 42:46
  take a little break with it. But uh uh
• 42:49
  the fact is this, whether you agree with
• 42:51
  Saliv's rhetoric or not, and I don't
• 42:54
  agree with all of it. I agree with a
• 42:56
  good amount of it. Uh this what it shows
• 42:59
  is the depths of the Russian fury after
• 43:02
  all of these deep strikes and terrorist
• 43:05
  style attacks. They attacked an
• 43:07
  apartment building in Moscow uh
• 43:09
  yesterday. It was on the news this
• 43:11
  morning. Let's see if I can find it.
• 43:13
  They um they where is it? I Ukraine.
• 43:17
  Ukrainian drone hits a skyscraper in
• 43:20
  Moscow. 52story building in Russian's
• 43:25
  capital business district. High-rise
• 43:28
  residential building near the Moscow
• 43:31
  business district. Uh according to Mayor
• 43:33
  Sergey Sabaninan, the UAV uh unmanned
• 43:37
  aerial vehicle struck the 52story
• 43:40
  building known as the house on Mosilska.
• 43:43
  Mosilska is the uh street. A modernist
• 43:47
  landmark built in 2010. The impact
• 43:50
  reportedly occurred at the 36th floor.
• 43:52
  There were no casualties. Uh photos and
• 43:55
  videos from the scene show debris,
• 43:56
  damage uh to the facade and scattered
• 43:59
  into the street. The attack took place
• 44:01
  ahead of Victory Day on May 9, one of
• 44:03
  Russia's most important public holidays
• 44:05
  marked marked by a military parade on
• 44:08
  Red Square and uh there's debris all
• 44:12
  over the place. Eyewitnesses say they
• 44:13
  had heard a powerful explosion. Some
• 44:15
  said they saw a flash in the sky and
• 44:17
  smoke rising from the building. Ukraine
• 44:19
  is stepping up strikes deep inside of
• 44:21
  Russia, launching hundreds of kamicazi
• 44:24
  drones every day. Although successful
• 44:26
  strikes in Moscow are rare, Ukrainian
• 44:29
  drones damaged high-rise buildings in
• 44:31
  Moscow City, the capital's iconic
• 44:33
  business district in 2023 also. So
• 44:37
  there's uh anger, you know, about this
• 44:40
  type of stuff. They're not happy. And oh
• 44:43
  man, I I um I want to get to the u the
• 44:51
  uh solo and I messed it up. I clicked
• 44:55
  the wrong screen. Sorry about that. But
• 44:57
  we're going to take a break anyway
• 44:59
  because I was just about done with that.
• 45:00
  And I'm going to play for you some uh uh
• 45:03
  Ruska music rusu
• 45:07
  perhaps uh depending on where you put it
• 45:09
  in the sentence. And we're going to go I
• 45:12
  really want to play again and I think
• 45:13
  I'm going to this week that OT
• 45:15
  orchestra, the Royal Safari I that I
• 45:18
  found last week. I've played it like 10
• 45:20
  times since that time. And uh I'm going
• 45:22
  to do it one more time in the show.
• 45:24
  Maybe I'll do it if we take a second
• 45:25
  break. But uh right now we're going to
• 45:27
  do some u uh Soy and uh we're going to
• 45:32
  play that and see what uh song is out
• 45:34
  here. Um
• 45:38
  let's see.
• 45:42
  We're going to find the one that I want
• 45:44
  to find and uh the one that I like. And
• 45:47
  I like this song in particular. So, I'm
• 45:49
  going to play it again for you. Uh, just
• 45:54
  because I can. Um, enjoy please. Where
• 45:57
  is the right screen drag here?
• 46:01
  Sorry, I'm a little slow on the uptake
• 46:04
  today.
• 46:07
  That was a hell of a crowd there. Uh
• 46:10
  that's uh Victor Toy and Kino is the
• 46:13
  name of the group and uh it's uh Kushka
• 46:17
  is the name of the song and it's a very
• 46:19
  good song come out in the '9s. I think
• 46:21
  so passed away. I think he he's dead
• 46:24
  from something but I don't remember
• 46:25
  what. But uh anyway, I I I play that
• 46:28
  song um I don't know probably once a
• 46:31
  monthish uh here on the show. I like it
• 46:34
  and uh it's it's representative of the
• 46:36
  '9s in all truth. Uh although I'm very
• 46:38
  much interested in this uh otaa
• 46:43
  I think it is called and it is uh you
• 46:47
  know I'm I may play that for us uh later
• 46:50
  as well. Um but I right now I want to
• 46:56
  play something for you that was uh
• 47:02
  troubling for me. I I I
• 47:06
  I I I didn't like it. And whether we can
• 47:08
  get through the whole five minutes or
• 47:10
  not remains to be seen because I didn't
• 47:15
  like it. Um and maybe I'm a softy. I
• 47:19
  don't know. But I don't like this
• 47:21
  callous cavalier
• 47:24
  uh war mongering and discussion of
• 47:28
  things
• 47:29
  of theft and and of of stuff like that.
• 47:33
  and and and you can have your own
• 47:34
  opinion of it, but I don't like it. I
• 47:37
  think it plays very poorly, especially
• 47:40
  on the world stage and mostly in the uh
• 47:43
  United States. It's not, you know, you
• 47:45
  got your people out there go, "Yeah, we
• 47:48
  we showed them." Okay, great. But uh
• 47:52
  this is not how you run a country. It's
• 47:56
  not how you do it. And uh you know, this
• 47:58
  is red meat for the for the hungry.
• 48:01
  basically the the the wararm mongering.
• 48:03
  I imagine Lindsey Graham and Mitch
• 48:05
  McConnell sitting up there slobbering on
• 48:07
  the hill because of speech like this and
• 48:10
  uh cuz it means more money for them and
• 48:12
  their friends and they they like to hear
• 48:14
  this stuff. But uh let us see what shall
• 48:18
  be seen here and I hope it's at the
• 48:20
  right spot in it. But here's the old
• 48:23
  Trumpster uh over the weekend
• 48:26
  >> problem cuz we too far. Hold on. See, I
• 48:29
  got to figure out how to do this
• 48:31
  correctly. See, if I whisper, I could,
• 48:33
  you know, I don't know what. Maybe it's
• 48:35
  stronger according to some people who
• 48:37
  like to whisper when they say things.
• 48:39
  But anyway, here's the old Donald
• 48:41
  Javich. And here he goes. That go over
• 48:44
  the ocean. And they hear him from two
• 48:46
  miles away. Turn your ship around. Turn
• 48:49
  your ship around. And all of a sudden,
• 48:51
  you Yes. Yes. We are going back to Iran.
• 48:55
  We are going back. They turn it around.
• 48:57
  It takes 10 miles to turn the sucker,
• 49:00
  you know. It's not like turning around a
• 49:02
  bicycle. It's like it's big stuff. And
• 49:05
  then we had the other one you saw from
• 49:06
  four days ago where they were going to
• 49:08
  ram the the we call it's an iron wall.
• 49:10
  It's essentially an iron wall. We have
• 49:12
  such great military and great navy. And
• 49:15
  they were going straight through and
• 49:17
  they said, "Turn your ship around." And
• 49:21
  there was no response. Turn your ship
• 49:23
  around. evacuate your engine room
• 49:26
  immediately. And you see all these guys
• 49:28
  running out of there. Now they're five
• 49:30
  miles away
• 49:32
  in one shot into the engine room. Blew
• 49:35
  up the engine room. The ship stopped.
• 49:38
  They used tugboats. And then we landed
• 49:40
  on top of it. On top of everything else,
• 49:42
  we then land on top of it and we took
• 49:45
  over the ship. We took over the cargo,
• 49:46
  took over the oil. It's a very
• 49:48
  profitable business. Who would have
• 49:50
  thought we were doing that? We're like
• 49:51
  pirates.
• 49:53
  We're sort of like pirates,
• 49:56
  but we're not playing games cuz, you
• 49:58
  know, for 47 years, Iran has been
• 50:01
  pushing everybody around. They're the
• 50:02
  bully of the Middle East. They've been
• 50:04
  scaring everybody. Israel and Qatar,
• 50:07
  Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, all
• 50:11
  of them. They're all uh he was the bully
• 50:14
  of the Middle East. I understand it.
• 50:16
  Bush made a mistake. He took out Iraq.
• 50:18
  You know, Iraq. And by the way, I
• 50:21
  congratulate the new president of Iraq.
• 50:24
  I endorsed him. I'm now in the business
• 50:27
  of endorsing political leaders from
• 50:29
  foreign countries, countries that
• 50:31
  nobody's ever seen before.
• 50:33
  And we have a pretty infallible record.
• 50:35
  We've won a lot of them. But I endorse a
• 50:37
  man because we didn't like the man that
• 50:38
  was the president of Iraq. And we
• 50:41
  endorse somebody that not a lot of
• 50:43
  people have heard of and he won in a
• 50:44
  landslide. So we just I just spoke to
• 50:47
  him yesterday. But the relationships we
• 50:49
  have, we have relationships that are
• 50:51
  very, very strong, very powerful
• 50:52
  relationships. And I think the Middle
• 50:54
  East is going to be taken care of. We
• 50:56
  had a lot of conversations with the
• 51:00
  leaders. I call them the new leaders. I
• 51:01
  call him the Okay, the rest of that is
• 51:04
  uh, you know, him crowing about Well,
• 51:07
  maybe I should play it for you cuz he
• 51:09
  crows about uh the killing of people.
• 51:11
  This this this I do not like. I I this
• 51:15
  is highly offensive to me. every bit of
• 51:17
  it. And there was scattered applause uh
• 51:20
  at the forum club where he was doing
• 51:22
  this, but not very much. There there's
• 51:25
  there's a lot of people not clapping.
• 51:27
  >> The new regime, you know, they kept
• 51:29
  saying the radical left. Where is the
• 51:32
  regime change? Well, if you if this
• 51:33
  isn't regime change, there is no such
• 51:35
  thing because Kani in the first tier was
• 51:38
  gone. The second tier is gone. Half of
• 51:41
  the third tier is gone, which is a
• 51:42
  problem. That's a problem because we are
• 51:45
  trying to figure out the right one to
• 51:47
  talk to. We talk to one and then another
• 51:48
  one calls up. Let's make a deal. But
• 51:51
  we're uh I think we're in a very well I
• 51:54
  mean I know we're in a very strong
• 51:55
  position. There's the expression that
• 51:57
  we've all heard or many of us have heard
• 51:59
  if you like the fights. If this were a
• 52:01
  fight they'd stop it. But again their
• 52:04
  military is they have some missiles
• 52:06
  left. They have some missile making
• 52:08
  capacity left. We've knocked about 85%
• 52:11
  of their manufacturing capacity for new
• 52:14
  missiles out. We've knocked about 82%
• 52:17
  but that means they have missiles left.
• 52:19
  We knocked out most of their drone
• 52:21
  making factories but they have some
• 52:22
  drone capacity left and drones are
• 52:25
  pretty effective. But we've also
• 52:26
  developed in the meantime, you know, uh
• 52:28
  if you remember the German yubot were a
• 52:31
  horror. Nobody could stop them and then
• 52:33
  all of a sudden they come up with sonar
• 52:36
  and it went from nobody could stop them
• 52:37
  that it was the worst place in the world
• 52:39
  to be is in a hubot. Uh the drone uh
• 52:42
  anti- drone capacity that we have now is
• 52:45
  fantastic. They have new weapons,
• 52:48
  lasers. You guys see the lasers? They go
• 52:50
  into a laser. They just burn like a they
• 52:52
  just boom. And we have that. And we have
• 52:56
  a very special machine guns with large
• 52:59
  scale bullets operated by a computer.
• 53:03
  And as they come in, it just knocks them
• 53:04
  out like it's amazing. But with all of
• 53:07
  that being said, there's still danger.
• 53:08
  There's always danger with war. With
• 53:10
  war, you never know what happens. I
• 53:12
  thought the war was over. He he he
• 53:15
  declared last week that the war was
• 53:17
  over. So he could get he he called it a
• 53:21
  uh military
• 53:23
  uh exercise or or action. It's a small
• 53:26
  military action. It's over, you know,
• 53:29
  that way he doesn't have to get war
• 53:31
  powers from from Congress. But uh I find
• 53:34
  that entire uh rhetorical statement
• 53:39
  quite offensive and uh I I I I don't
• 53:43
  like that. I I it this is war. These are
• 53:46
  people, okay? And
• 53:51
  I it's just as offensive as the stuff
• 53:53
  that Soliv said about uh killing the
• 53:56
  heads of state and uh theft isn't good
• 54:00
  in any piracy. Oh jeez, we're proud of
• 54:02
  it. It's very profitable. We're going to
• 54:04
  go steal their stuff. Okay. So, we are
• 54:08
  the thieves of the world. We are the
• 54:10
  pirates. So, now we're glorifying what
• 54:13
  we're doing. Well, trust me, the rest of
• 54:15
  the world is not and they don't see it
• 54:18
  that way. And um
• 54:21
  I tell you, let's go to
• 54:26
  uh some of the thought processes around
• 54:30
  the world. Okay.
• 54:32
  Economically, let's talk about this. So
• 54:36
  there's uh uh US Treasury like this is
• 54:41
  reality. Okay. this is no longer just an
• 54:44
  Iran war. And and Trump wants to talk
• 54:47
  about the glory of what the military is
• 54:49
  doing and make them feel positive about
• 54:52
  this BS war that we are involved in that
• 54:55
  we never should have been involved in
• 54:56
  and that he can't get out of. And uh
• 55:00
  he's he's having trouble. He learned
• 55:02
  that Ukraine didn't depend on him.
• 55:04
  Mikey, get rid of that in one day. Yeah.
• 55:07
  Why are we, you know, year and a half in
• 55:09
  and there there's there's nothing been
• 55:11
  done. This isn't just an an Iran war. It
• 55:15
  it's a test about whe whether or not
• 55:18
  Washington still commands the world
• 55:22
  economy by threatening everyone else's
• 55:25
  shipping, banks, oil supply, and
• 55:28
  sovereignty. Right? So the the Trump
• 55:33
  says he wants peace, but every
• 55:36
  operational move, pressure, blockade,
• 55:39
  sanctions, piracy, and public
• 55:42
  humiliation is his is his bag. He wants
• 55:45
  to publicly humiliate whoever he's
• 55:48
  against. That's that's and that's not
• 55:51
  deal making. That's that's uh bullying.
• 55:54
  That's piracy. Reuters reports that oil
• 55:57
  remains still above $100 a barrel, no
• 56:01
  peace deal in sight. Iran is proposed
• 56:04
  setting aside nuclear issues till after
• 56:06
  the war ends, and the opposing shipping
• 56:09
  blockades are lifted. Washington Post
• 56:12
  says Iran's plan calls for sessation of
• 56:15
  hostilities, 30-day period for detailed
• 56:18
  negotiation, gradual reopening of the
• 56:20
  strait, mind clearing, a lifting of US
• 56:23
  sanctions, all while u Iran is denying
• 56:27
  media claims that the proposal contains
• 56:30
  any nuclear concessions.
• 56:33
  Iran has been offering, and they appear
• 56:35
  to still be offering, a path to stop the
• 56:38
  bleeding first and negotiate a deeper
• 56:41
  nuclear issue. Secondary, Trump is
• 56:43
  demanding surrender first and calling it
• 56:45
  diplomacy. Well, this is exactly what
• 56:49
  Putin has been saying in Ukraine.
• 56:53
  The Ukrainians, the Europeans, the
• 56:56
  Americans all want capitulation of
• 57:00
  Russia first. cease fire first, then
• 57:04
  let's talk. And uh all that does is
• 57:07
  allow them. And and Trump knows that. He
• 57:09
  knows that if he doesn't continue the
• 57:11
  war, Iran will continue to rebuild and
• 57:15
  do what it's doing. Iran doesn't want to
• 57:16
  stop this war either. Not without
• 57:19
  knowing that the real bully of the
• 57:22
  Middle East, which is nowhere close to
• 57:24
  Iran, that they can't just start war
• 57:27
  again two weeks later on a whim and
• 57:29
  Trump can jump right back in and follow
• 57:31
  Netanyahu.
• 57:33
  That's the issue. Nobody believes us.
• 57:36
  Nobody. And nobody believes the rhetoric
• 57:39
  that Iran is the bad guy. Iran. I'm not
• 57:43
  calling them good guys, but the bad guys
• 57:46
  are us and Israel. And you know, the the
• 57:49
  nuclear threat isn't Iran. It's Israel.
• 57:53
  That's what it is. And there's no doubt.
• 57:55
  Every time something is started, it's
• 57:59
  very rarely started by others. It's
• 58:02
  usually started by Netanyahu and crowd.
• 58:07
  And uh and then at least the last two
• 58:09
  big ones certainly have been. They they
• 58:12
  opportunistic. They know that they
• 58:14
  could, you know, manhandle Trump into
• 58:16
  doing it. And so they did. That's what
• 58:18
  happened. And so it's
• 58:22
  the world economy, you know, this
• 58:25
  sanctions and the war on the world
• 58:27
  economy. This is where uh the core point
• 58:31
  is that the world economy is not just
• 58:34
  experiencing a temporary disruption.
• 58:38
  It is absolutely fragmenting. The US
• 58:42
  China trade and investment will never
• 58:45
  return to the old pattern of what it
• 58:47
  was. Trump says he's going to sanction
• 58:50
  um any country that buys Iranian oil.
• 58:53
  Well, the largest supplier of China is
• 58:56
  Iran.
• 58:58
  And European and Russian links are going
• 59:01
  to be damaged for at least a generation.
• 59:03
  You know that's it's going to take a
• 59:06
  long time for that to be repaired if
• 59:08
  ever. Asia is integrating into itself.
• 59:12
  Europe is left a drift economically with
• 59:14
  no resources from either side except
• 59:17
  high dollar American ones. They can't
• 59:20
  get it from the Middle East now. They
• 59:22
  can't get it from Russia. So they have
• 59:24
  to get it from the US. And they're
• 59:26
  trying to get it from Canada. And
• 59:27
  Canada's going to make a buttload of
• 59:29
  money about it. If your own allies don't
• 59:32
  trust you, which is what's going on now,
• 59:35
  our own allies don't trust us. Certainly
• 59:38
  don't trust Trump. And they're all
• 59:41
  making alternatives. They're buying
• 59:43
  military equipment from other
• 59:45
  manufacturers, European, Asian, Russian.
• 59:49
  They're buying oil from different
• 59:51
  suppliers, Canada, Russia, Middle East.
• 59:55
  OPEC is fragmenting. Okay, now that's a
• 59:59
  scary thought. Think about that. Um,
• 1:00:02
  we'll get to that in a in a few seconds.
• 1:00:04
  So, the US I mean, US trade with China
• 1:00:07
  will never go back to the way it was.
• 1:00:10
  It's it's just not going to happen. The
• 1:00:12
  the the damage to it is enormous and
• 1:00:16
  everyone is fragmenting.
• 1:00:19
  Secondary sanctions only work when the
• 1:00:22
  rest of the world is afraid enough to
• 1:00:24
  obey them. And they're not. Now they're
• 1:00:28
  not going to obey them. And sec
• 1:00:31
  secondary sanction. Okay, a regular
• 1:00:33
  sanction is sanctioning Russian oil. A
• 1:00:36
  secondary sanction is sanctioning a
• 1:00:38
  company that buys Russian oil or
• 1:00:40
  continues to buy Russian oil. This is uh
• 1:00:44
  you know I'm going to beat up your
• 1:00:47
  brother because you're dating my sister.
• 1:00:49
  You know, this is this is, you know,
• 1:00:51
  you're picking something somebody who's
• 1:00:53
  not involved in the in your war or in
• 1:00:56
  your or in your game playing and you're
• 1:00:58
  going to sanction them to put pressure
• 1:01:01
  because they have an ally in the third
• 1:01:03
  party or they don't have any problem
• 1:01:05
  with the third party. So, you're trying
• 1:01:07
  to create the problem with the third
• 1:01:09
  party with secondary sanctions and those
• 1:01:12
  are failing and they have been failing.
• 1:01:15
  the more we use it as a tool, the more
• 1:01:18
  it fails. And it's and and it's failing.
• 1:01:21
  People are going, "Screw you. We're not
• 1:01:23
  interested." And China made that move.
• 1:01:26
  And the move is changing the psychology
• 1:01:29
  for a lot of players. Washington isn't
• 1:01:33
  just sanctioning Iran. It's threatening
• 1:01:34
  the buyer, the shipper, the insurer, the
• 1:01:37
  bank, the refiner, and any payment
• 1:01:40
  channels. Treasury, that I am no fan of
• 1:01:43
  that guy, Bessant. that guy.
• 1:01:47
  Well, don't get me started. I I'll I'll
• 1:01:49
  lose track of where I'm going and I
• 1:01:50
  don't want to do that. Uh Treasury
• 1:01:53
  released it saying a targeting for a
• 1:01:55
  network of vessels, intermediaries, and
• 1:01:57
  buyers that Iran uses to move oils. This
• 1:02:00
  is not ordinary diplomacy. It's an
• 1:02:03
  economic siege warfare. Our old American
• 1:02:07
  Western Empire worked because people
• 1:02:09
  feared being cut off from the dollar.
• 1:02:13
  from the dollar. The new world, and this
• 1:02:16
  is what Trump is trying to say, and it
• 1:02:18
  ain't working. The new world begins when
• 1:02:20
  major countries decide that being
• 1:02:23
  bullied by the dollar system itself is
• 1:02:26
  the greater risk. And this is where
• 1:02:29
  China matters. And the order that they
• 1:02:31
  made matters. It is not just about five
• 1:02:34
  refiners that they have that Bessant
• 1:02:36
  decided he's going to sanction. This is
• 1:02:39
  a test case. If China tells its own
• 1:02:42
  companies, which they have, not to obey
• 1:02:45
  the US sanctions and those companies
• 1:02:47
  keep trading with Iran, then the
• 1:02:50
  sanctions system either escalates toward
• 1:02:53
  Chinese banks or starts looking like an
• 1:02:56
  old sheriff who has no hat or a horse or
• 1:02:59
  anything else.
• 1:03:01
  So, the sheriff's going to do. So,
• 1:03:02
  what's he going to do? What is Sheriff
• 1:03:05
  Trump going to do? And Europe is
• 1:03:08
  completely trapped. So this is like a
• 1:03:10
  tragic comedy. Europe is the big loser
• 1:03:13
  because it broke with its natural
• 1:03:15
  partner the resources of Russia and
• 1:03:18
  trusted a United States that treats
• 1:03:20
  allies like a subcontractor with bad
• 1:03:23
  credit. Right? Europe make the same
• 1:03:26
  basic point from a Russian side. Okay.
• 1:03:29
  The Iran war has exposed Europe's
• 1:03:32
  vulnerability to energy shock energy
• 1:03:34
  shock, refined product dependence,
• 1:03:37
  manufacturing disruption, their
• 1:03:39
  manufacturing is in bad shape, food
• 1:03:41
  price pressure, and massive inflation.
• 1:03:45
  Uh,
• 1:03:46
  the Iran war has further poisoned
• 1:03:49
  transatlantic relations. Europe is
• 1:03:51
  economically exposed from Ukraine
• 1:03:54
  already, and now Iran is piling another
• 1:03:57
  shock on top of that. and that Trump is
• 1:04:00
  eventually going to blame Europe for
• 1:04:02
  failing to open the straight just as
• 1:04:04
  Europe and Ukraine are going to be
• 1:04:06
  blamed for the failure in Ukraine. That
• 1:04:08
  was Biden's war and I just couldn't end
• 1:04:10
  it. Uh Europe keeps acting as if
• 1:04:13
  geography is an optional
• 1:04:16
  uh part of your analysis. It's not. It
• 1:04:20
  cut itself off from Russia, the only
• 1:04:22
  natural energy and resource partner it
• 1:04:24
  had. It subordinate itself subordinated
• 1:04:27
  itself to Washington for years. And
• 1:04:30
  Washington that now demands loyalty but
• 1:04:33
  offers only instability in return. And
• 1:04:36
  Europe is watching the Gulf burn. Oil
• 1:04:38
  rise. Trade routes are destroyed. And
• 1:04:41
  Washington is telling them to help
• 1:04:43
  police the the crisis. And Europe had
• 1:04:45
  nothing to do with it.
• 1:04:47
  They didn't control it. They didn't
• 1:04:49
  benefit from it. And they can't afford
• 1:04:51
  to do it. This is not strategy. This is
• 1:04:54
  a very bad dependency uh thing. You
• 1:04:58
  ought to buy them some of the the adult
• 1:04:59
  diapers maybe. China on the other hand
• 1:05:02
  is acting like a superpower.
• 1:05:06
  The US is trying to build a maritime
• 1:05:08
  freedom construct around Hormuz and is
• 1:05:11
  excluding Russia and China as
• 1:05:13
  adversaries. Beijing is not begging for
• 1:05:16
  permission though. It's protecting its
• 1:05:18
  own energy flow and telling its
• 1:05:20
  companies, "We're not going to honor you
• 1:05:22
  unilateral US restrictions." Europe
• 1:05:25
  keeps asking Washington, "What can we
• 1:05:27
  do?" China tells Washington, "We're not
• 1:05:29
  doing that." And so, uh, tell you what,
• 1:05:32
  it's, uh, they're threatening. These
• 1:05:34
  threats are happening. So, uh
• 1:05:39
  I'm telling you the
• 1:05:42
  uh breaking the horm stuff there were a
• 1:05:45
  couple of uh videos that I watched where
• 1:05:48
  there are some a tanker was struck by an
• 1:05:50
  unknown projectile north of Fallujah.
• 1:05:53
  The crew is safe, but the Reuters report
• 1:05:55
  that on um May 4 um a tanker was hit
• 1:05:58
  about 78 miles north of Fallujah. The
• 1:06:00
  same uh you know um what do they call
• 1:06:04
  it? US escort operations that they're
• 1:06:06
  going to call Project Freedom. And uh uh
• 1:06:10
  tell you what, I'm not sure what's going
• 1:06:12
  to happen there, but Trump's Project
• 1:06:14
  Freedom includes guided missile
• 1:06:16
  destroyers, 100 aircraft, drones, 15,000
• 1:06:20
  service members, and Trump is warning
• 1:06:21
  that interfa interference with it would
• 1:06:23
  be handled forcely. So Washington's
• 1:06:26
  calling it a humanitarian escort. But if
• 1:06:29
  your humanitarian mission comes with
• 1:06:31
  missiles and destroyers, aircraft,
• 1:06:34
  drones, threats of force, the other side
• 1:06:36
  is going to read it as a military
• 1:06:38
  operation, which it absolutely is. So
• 1:06:40
  then I watched a guy named Mikail
• 1:06:43
  Khazin, a Russian dude. And that was
• 1:06:47
  extremely interesting. Very analytical.
• 1:06:49
  He's an econ economist. And I like
• 1:06:51
  listening to this guy because tell you
• 1:06:53
  what, he is a very smart uh Jeffrey
• 1:06:57
  Sachs level economist type, right? And
• 1:07:01
  uh he he's changing what he's talking he
• 1:07:05
  isn't talking about necessarily
• 1:07:08
  war with Iran. He's more talking about
• 1:07:11
  the structure of the old system and how
• 1:07:14
  it's disappearing. The core point is
• 1:07:17
  that the petro dollar wasn't about
• 1:07:19
  selling oil in dollars. It was about the
• 1:07:22
  oil export surplus being recycled into
• 1:07:27
  the United States treasury bonds, US
• 1:07:30
  assets, US financial markets and the
• 1:07:33
  broader dollar system.
• 1:07:37
  and oil revenues generated surplus
• 1:07:39
  dollars that couldn't be used
• 1:07:41
  domestically by countries like Bahrain,
• 1:07:44
  by Saudi Arabia, Qatar. So the dollars
• 1:07:47
  flowed back into the United States
• 1:07:49
  because they would take payment in what?
• 1:07:52
  The petro dollar, which is basically US
• 1:07:54
  Treasury bonds and assets, right? Well,
• 1:07:56
  they're not doing that anymore. They are
• 1:07:59
  backing away from that. And this is key
• 1:08:02
  because this is important. The Iran war
• 1:08:04
  threatens oil flow. The US sanctions
• 1:08:07
  threaten oil buyers. China is telling
• 1:08:10
  refiners not to obey US sanctions. And
• 1:08:13
  China's Ministry of Commerce instructed
• 1:08:15
  domestic companies do not apply. And you
• 1:08:18
  know, you're they're targeting our
• 1:08:19
  refineries and we're not going to do
• 1:08:21
  that because here's what Beijing says.
• 1:08:24
  They're trying to use the system.
• 1:08:26
  Beijing is saying that sanctions without
• 1:08:28
  a UN mandate are illegal and interfere
• 1:08:31
  with normal trade. And the conflict is
• 1:08:33
  not just over Iran's oil. It's over the
• 1:08:36
  big system.
• 1:08:39
  Then the UAE is doing what? Leaving
• 1:08:42
  OPEC. Now remember this is not a side
• 1:08:45
  story.
• 1:08:46
  Um
• 1:08:49
  uh what what is it? Petroleum exporting
• 1:08:52
  countries, organization of petroleum
• 1:08:55
  exporting countries. This is about
• 1:08:56
  petroleum and they all act as one. Enner
• 1:09:00
  data reports that the UAE announced its
• 1:09:04
  withdrawal from OPEC and OPEC plus
• 1:09:07
  effective May 1 after 59 years citing
• 1:09:11
  their own national interest and expanded
• 1:09:14
  domestic production capacity. Plus,
• 1:09:16
  they're building a pipeline to avoid
• 1:09:18
  going through the Straits of Hormuz.
• 1:09:20
  They're building it to go south of Oman
• 1:09:23
  on their own territory still. And uh the
• 1:09:25
  UAE OPEC issue is a big deal and it's
• 1:09:29
  going to lead to the collapse of the old
• 1:09:31
  pricing system. Okay. So the pricing
• 1:09:35
  system is what OPEC controls the most.
• 1:09:38
  And so if this if that system if the
• 1:09:42
  collapse of the pricing system and the
• 1:09:44
  system breaks oil pricing is going to
• 1:09:46
  split into separate currency zones New
• 1:09:50
  York, Beijing, Moscow, Delhi, Mumbai
• 1:09:53
  instead of one unified dollar centered
• 1:09:57
  model. That is enormous. That's huge.
• 1:10:01
  And if you don't understand it, you
• 1:10:03
  might look into it some. The point is
• 1:10:07
  not simply that America has too much
• 1:10:09
  debt, because it does. And that oil
• 1:10:11
  prices are too high. That's true. And
• 1:10:14
  Trump is trying to take over the He's
• 1:10:15
  trying to corner the world market. He is
• 1:10:18
  a pirate. He wants to corner the market.
• 1:10:22
  And he must control all the oil or the
• 1:10:26
  western dominated dollar disappears. And
• 1:10:30
  it's a risk game. And it's a big risk.
• 1:10:32
  Why is he being so uh I don't know
• 1:10:38
  disgusting in my view in in what he's
• 1:10:41
  saying about uh uh decapitation uh
• 1:10:44
  strikes and being a pirate and uh uh you
• 1:10:48
  know I I don't think our flag should be
• 1:10:50
  a pirate flag. I am uh uh you know a
• 1:10:54
  patriot and I'm not a patriot for
• 1:10:56
  pirates. I'm not a patriot for theft.
• 1:10:59
  I'm not a patriot for doing what Donald
• 1:11:02
  Trump is doing. I'm just not. I I
• 1:11:04
  disagree wholeheartedly with this
• 1:11:06
  approach. I don't like it. Um the old
• 1:11:10
  petro dollar arrangement worked because
• 1:11:13
  oil exporters, they weren't pirates.
• 1:11:16
  They sold energy, they accumulated
• 1:11:18
  dollars and recycled those dollars back
• 1:11:21
  into the American financial system. Why
• 1:11:25
  do you think we have such large debt
• 1:11:26
  that we never worried about? because
• 1:11:28
  there's always a way to pay it back on
• 1:11:30
  the backs of other countries forced to
• 1:11:32
  trade through the dollar. This helped
• 1:11:35
  finance American debt, American markets,
• 1:11:38
  American consumption, and American
• 1:11:40
  power. But if the oil system continues
• 1:11:43
  to fracture, which it already has, if
• 1:11:46
  Iran controls Hormuz, if they end up
• 1:11:48
  controlling Hormuz, if China refuses US
• 1:11:52
  sanctions and the UAE leaves OPEC, more
• 1:11:56
  importantly, if oil begins to be priced
• 1:11:58
  differently in Beijing, Moscow, Delhi,
• 1:12:01
  and New York, the petro dollar is no
• 1:12:04
  longer a universal plumbing system.
• 1:12:07
  Remember people are yuan is what the um
• 1:12:11
  Chinese are trading with with Iran. No
• 1:12:14
  dollar. This is the real fight. It's
• 1:12:17
  over the dollar. It becomes, you know, a
• 1:12:20
  one regional system among quite a few
• 1:12:23
  different regions. And once that
• 1:12:25
  happens, Washington can threaten,
• 1:12:28
  sanction, and shout. But the question
• 1:12:30
  becomes whether the rest of the world
• 1:12:33
  has to listen to them.
• 1:12:36
  You know, it's um
• 1:12:39
  there were other usable arguments.
• 1:12:40
  Washington has mistaken tactical damage
• 1:12:43
  for strategic success. You know, you
• 1:12:46
  heard him talk about the Pentagon style
• 1:12:49
  reporting, you know, targets, tons,
• 1:12:51
  ships destroyed, you know, the body
• 1:12:54
  counts, you know, we killed we killed
• 1:12:55
  all this. We have this we got rid of
• 1:12:57
  this big a percentage. And US can win
• 1:13:00
  metrics, but they're losing the war. And
• 1:13:04
  um who was that that you know I listened
• 1:13:05
  to uh McGregor and his point was he
• 1:13:08
  tried to equate it to what's going on in
• 1:13:10
  u what's going on in Iran to what went
• 1:13:13
  on in Vietnam. He says that Vietnam you
• 1:13:17
  know body counts just rose but allegedly
• 1:13:21
  the US forces won every battle
• 1:13:26
  and lost the war. you know, if you don't
• 1:13:29
  have people that are going to comply at
• 1:13:31
  any level,
• 1:13:33
  you know, forget it. You're you're not
• 1:13:35
  going to win. And uh and Iran's goal is
• 1:13:38
  survival, not beauty, not beauty points.
• 1:13:41
  Iran has spent years preparing to
• 1:13:43
  withstand US and Israeli attacks. 47
• 1:13:46
  years they have spent trying to defend
• 1:13:50
  themselves. You know, you take the
• 1:13:52
  opposite position. They are no danger if
• 1:13:55
  you leave them alone. They aren't a
• 1:13:58
  danger if you leave them alone. Oh no,
• 1:14:00
  they fund all these other people in
• 1:14:02
  Hamas. What's Israel do? Israel's doing
• 1:14:05
  the same damn thing in reverse and they
• 1:14:07
  threaten everybody with nuclear weapon
• 1:14:09
  all the time. They have they aren't a
• 1:14:11
  part of the non-prololiferation treaty.
• 1:14:13
  Why do people ignore that? But only for
• 1:14:16
  only for Israel. Israel doesn't have to
• 1:14:18
  play by anybody's rules. Israel does
• 1:14:22
  what it wants when it wants and US jumps
• 1:14:26
  on board almost every single time.
• 1:14:30
  Certainly Donald Trump does. So I I
• 1:14:33
  don't know. The US is left without a
• 1:14:36
  clean move right now. Iran doesn't need
• 1:14:39
  to look untouched to win. It only has to
• 1:14:42
  keep standing. It only has to keep
• 1:14:45
  pressure on shipping and then it can
• 1:14:47
  prove that the US force cannot dictate
• 1:14:50
  all the outcomes.
• 1:14:53
  It's it's true. and the you know the
• 1:14:56
  Israel policy the lobby pressure US
• 1:14:59
  strategic uh interest uh the
• 1:15:02
  military-industrial complex interests
• 1:15:05
  you know that it's a you know a a very a
• 1:15:09
  very scary time that we're living in
• 1:15:12
  economically
• 1:15:14
  um Europe isn't leading VH said uh uh
• 1:15:18
  that he uh says the US EU relationships
• 1:15:22
  have reached a point of no return and he
• 1:15:24
  warned s that uh you know you countries
• 1:15:27
  like Serbia are tied to economically and
• 1:15:31
  politically to both. But Europe isn't
• 1:15:33
  leading. Europe is reacting. It reacted
• 1:15:36
  to Ukraine by cutting itself off from
• 1:15:38
  Russia. It reacted to Iran by absorbing
• 1:15:42
  higher energy costs and not crying too
• 1:15:44
  much about it. It reacted to Trump by
• 1:15:47
  complaining
• 1:15:48
  but then waiting to see what daddy in
• 1:15:51
  Washington does next. And Vuik's point
• 1:15:53
  is that the US and Europe no longer have
• 1:15:56
  common or identical interests. That's
• 1:15:59
  not anti-American propaganda. It's
• 1:16:01
  reality. The US can pull troops out of
• 1:16:04
  Europe, sanction oil pressure,
• 1:16:08
  sanction buyers, pressure China, and
• 1:16:10
  militarize the Straits of Hormuz. Europe
• 1:16:13
  gets the bill, they get the inflation,
• 1:16:15
  the industrial pressure, and more
• 1:16:18
  political instability. It's not an
• 1:16:20
  alliance of of equals between Europe and
• 1:16:23
  America. It's um you know Trump's the
• 1:16:27
  landlord
• 1:16:28
  and these are the tenants who got to
• 1:16:31
  comply. So you know the tanker being hit
• 1:16:34
  near Fallujah the in uh the end of the
• 1:16:37
  automatic obedience. I tell you what the
• 1:16:40
  Iran war began as an attempt to
• 1:16:43
  discipline Tyran
• 1:16:45
  alleged discipline somehow forced it.
• 1:16:48
  Whether you believe it they were had
• 1:16:50
  nuclear capability right now or not, I
• 1:16:52
  don't believe that. And uh and and by
• 1:16:55
  the way, neither did the leader of the
• 1:16:57
  IAEA um who I told you about on my show
• 1:17:00
  on Thursday. They don't believe that.
• 1:17:03
  They don't believe that that Iran was uh
• 1:17:06
  dangerously close to a nuclear weapon.
• 1:17:08
  They had it. No, they didn't. And uh
• 1:17:11
  your experts know they didn't. Netanyahu
• 1:17:14
  can can twist you however he'd like to,
• 1:17:17
  but uh they this war started to
• 1:17:22
  discipline and control Thran. Wipe out
• 1:17:24
  the top leaders. Trump can can be
• 1:17:27
  disgusting and and say, "Oh, gez, we
• 1:17:29
  love regime change. That's what we
• 1:17:31
  want."
• 1:17:33
  Tell you what, it didn't help him. And
• 1:17:35
  he did it. Iran is still standing. And
• 1:17:38
  as long as they're still standing,
• 1:17:40
  America loses. and uh the the world
• 1:17:43
  economy loses and uh now whether or not
• 1:17:47
  Washington can still discipline the
• 1:17:49
  world is a very large question. China's
• 1:17:52
  refusing these sanctions. They're
• 1:17:54
  saying, "Well, screw you. Tough. We're
• 1:17:56
  not doing it." Uh Iran is using Hormuz
• 1:17:59
  as leverage. The UAE is walking away
• 1:18:03
  from OPEC. Understand how big that is?
• 1:18:07
  Or try to.
• 1:18:10
  And I, you know, Iran gets to, you know,
• 1:18:14
  uh, control Hormuz. And, and, and I
• 1:18:18
  think ultimately that, now, there was a
• 1:18:20
  story a couple, uh, uh, last week, and I
• 1:18:22
  haven't been able to find any
• 1:18:24
  confirmation of it, that uh, uh, I I'd
• 1:18:28
  like to see what's really going on in
• 1:18:32
  the Straits of Hormuz because I don't I
• 1:18:35
  mean, we're not getting accurate
• 1:18:36
  reporting of what's going on over there.
• 1:18:38
  Nobody is. I don't think there's not
• 1:18:40
  enough um telegram style reporting
• 1:18:44
  people running around with cameras over
• 1:18:46
  there trying to show what's happening
• 1:18:48
  and you can't get into the to the
• 1:18:50
  straits of Hormuz. And so it's a place
• 1:18:52
  where you can make up your own uh
• 1:18:55
  results. But if you're watching the
• 1:18:59
  bigger picture of what's happening since
• 1:19:02
  this the fracturing of economics
• 1:19:05
  worldwide,
• 1:19:07
  listen to Jeffrey Sachs. Listen to that
• 1:19:09
  guy. And uh uh he's on a much larger
• 1:19:13
  scale. I enjoy economics. I have a
• 1:19:15
  degree in economics and but I never
• 1:19:17
  really used it like he did. And I like
• 1:19:21
  um one of the things I always liked was
• 1:19:24
  analysis of uh of events, how one thing
• 1:19:29
  affects another because that's all it is
• 1:19:31
  is economics is seeing if something is
• 1:19:34
  affected by another and whether it is or
• 1:19:36
  isn't and probability tables and um you
• 1:19:40
  know whether or not this this is really
• 1:19:43
  affected by you know
• 1:19:47
  the the professor would always have you,
• 1:19:49
  you know, take some sort of analysis and
• 1:19:51
  say, uh, you know, there are a million
• 1:19:54
  cats in the world and, uh, I don't know,
• 1:19:58
  20% of them are white.
• 1:20:01
  Uh, how often do two cats get born white
• 1:20:07
  that have parents that have no white on
• 1:20:10
  them? See what, you know, and you'd come
• 1:20:12
  up with something like that. whether or
• 1:20:14
  not heritage has anything to do with the
• 1:20:16
  color of your you know what color your
• 1:20:19
  cat has or eye color or any maybe that's
• 1:20:22
  a bad example but whatever the effect is
• 1:20:24
  this is what you have you know this is
• 1:20:26
  how we do it so I wonder about these
• 1:20:30
  sanctions on a small scale you take a
• 1:20:32
  sanction of five countries and this is
• 1:20:36
  the first volley at China directly okay
• 1:20:41
  saying and China's not playing. They're
• 1:20:44
  refusing. And I think once China
• 1:20:47
  refuses, everyone else will refuse and
• 1:20:49
  go, "Well, how'd China do that? How can
• 1:20:52
  we get into the system that China is
• 1:20:54
  using?" And more people are going to go
• 1:20:56
  that way. That's what I believe.
• 1:20:58
  Meanwhile, the UAE is out of OPEC.
• 1:21:01
  Europe is split from the United States
• 1:21:03
  in interests, even if not yet a formal
• 1:21:06
  policy. The broader point is that the
• 1:21:09
  petro dollar order is not collapsing
• 1:21:12
  because one country gave a speech. It's
• 1:21:16
  weakening because the political system
• 1:21:18
  below it, oil flow, maritime control,
• 1:21:22
  surplus recycling, and the fear of US
• 1:21:25
  sanctions are all being contested at the
• 1:21:28
  same time. That is what is going on. And
• 1:21:33
  I think it's going to be interesting at
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  a minimum to watch how this uh results.
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  Tomorrow I plan to start the show with
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  uh Dimmitri Midv and his uh appearance
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  and talk about some of the issues that
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  are important because you'd notice how
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  some it's it's very well put together
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  and uh and I like to see how young
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  people are considering things and asking
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  questions uh about their own future and
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  how the events of the world uh discusses
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  it. I'd like to find a similar US sort
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  of uh thing but our politicians don't
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  you know of the Dmitri Medvidive level
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  don't necessarily hold such events and
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  so this is a unique deal for me. I'm
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  Samuel Trap. This is International
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  Flavor. Hope you join us every day 7:30
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  a.m. to 900 a.m. Happy Monday to you and
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  I will plan on seeing you tomorrow.
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  Shield Maidens of Missouri is next with
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  Le and Stacy.