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Russia, Ukraine, Forced Mobilization, Iran War Warnings, and Putin’s China Pivot Reshape the Global Chessboard while Europe Pays the Bill · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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Hello.
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Good morning.
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Welcome.
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I am Samuel Trapp.
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Lots of news, lots of bombs, lots of
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destruction, lots of, uh, death, lots of craziness
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going on in the world.
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It's a, uh, it's a sad state of
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affairs that we are living in.
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You can't get rid of anything.
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It was something interesting.
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I saw with the old, uh, Tucker Carlson
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again.
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I don't know.
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I watch one thing and suddenly I end
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up with all these Tucker Carlson videos advertised
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right for me.
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And there was one about, um, Pete Hegseth
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that was a little bit disturbing that he,
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and it was just a short, you know,
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some 20, 30 second deal.
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And it was, uh, you know, have you
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guys heard about this?
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This is, this is 2018.
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The guy was, and I mean, Hegseth 2018,
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he was out a politicking basically his it's
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a possibility according to the way that the
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old, uh, Tucker is advertising this or the
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way he put it out.
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The shock value sure got me was, uh,
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all about Israel.
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He wants to rebuild, I don't know, some
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third temple in Israel.
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And he was quoted as saying some things
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that, uh, this occurred in 1917, this occurred
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in 1945, this occurred in 1967 or whatever
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the years were.
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And then he says, and it looks like
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we're going to get this accomplished this year
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where we start a new temple on the
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pill on the pillar stone or the cornerstone
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of the old temple, where it was.
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I didn't realize that he was one of
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those, you know, that, uh, it's all about
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it.
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I don't mind your beliefs in, uh, in
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God, but you don't go create in the
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scenario where you're, where you're the one bringing
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to pass the, uh, uh, what do you
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call it?
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You know, God's word or whatever.
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It's, um, just, I don't know that that
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is offensive to me and I'm not anti
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-religion.
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I'm, I'm all about, you know, religion.
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You can believe what you like.
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That is great.
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And, uh, uh, I will believe whatever I
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like, that's the beauty of America.
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And, uh, if I want to, you know,
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believe that, uh, you know, a couple of
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mice in a maze somewhere are controlling the
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universe, I, you know, I should be allowed
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to do that.
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I met a guy on a bus one
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time when I was a kid, I was
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taking a bus.
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It was some somewhere military.
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I had to go somewhere in the military.
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And the military bought me a bus ticket.
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And, uh, I wasn't in the military yet.
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So it had something to do with one
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of the tests you have to take to
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get in, if I recall.
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So I was taking a bus from, uh,
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like Quincy, Illinois to, uh, St. Louis on
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a bus.
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And I sat next to this dude named
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Keith.
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The only reason I remember is because Keith
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told me, uh, you know, and of course
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this apparently was working out quite well for
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him.
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He created his own religion and he labeled
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this religion, Keithism.
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And he had filed his paperwork with the,
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uh, IRS had gotten his, uh, nomenclature as
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a religion and, uh, he did not have
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to pay any taxes because everything he did,
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he did, uh, based upon his religion.
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Well, even in those days, I thought that,
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uh, at least in America, riding a gray
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hound, it wasn't all it was cracked up
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to be.
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That was a frightening experience even back then.
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And, uh, I don't know, maybe it's changed
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now that you could go into buses, buses
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in Europe and, and, and, uh, even in
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Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, I was on one in Uzbekistan
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that was, that had beds in it.
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And it, I mean, it was pretty cool.
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And they were like bunk beds all along
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the walls and they were for long trips.
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And so we were going from, uh, Uzbekistan
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to Kazakhstan or vice versa, something like that.
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And one way we took a train in
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a sleeper car and the train, and that
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was really cool.
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And, uh, that was an interesting event as
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well.
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And, uh, uh, they have these, these buses,
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but they're very nice.
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You know, they're very clean.
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They're, uh, they're safe.
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It's not, I did not feel safe on
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the old gray hound.
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That is for sure.
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And, uh, that was a frightening deal sitting
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next to Keith and having him explain his
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religion about me.
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But I'm a little worried that, uh, uh,
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you know, that the government through Hegseth is,
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uh, creating its own, um, narrative about, uh,
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you know, rebuilding the third temple of Israel
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on the cornerstones of something built.
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And God knows when, 5,000 years ago.
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And, uh, I'm anti, I'm anti that sort
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of thing, uh, using the government for your
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own, you know, religious purpose.
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If that's what it was now, it could
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have been.
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I just explained that to you over the
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last, I don't know, uh, five, seven minutes.
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And, uh, uh, and, uh, and it's not
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true.
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It's a clickbait that's possible, you know, but
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of course it was Tucker Carlson.
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So they'll know us, maybe not.
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Um, anyway, there's a lot of news today.
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Uh, NATO is shooting down, uh, Ukrainian drones,
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uh, open AI has defeated Musk in court,
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allegedly, uh, China, Russia, U S.
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So, uh, it's, it's starting last night, Vladimir
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Putin.
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Well, I saw it last night, but it
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was yesterday.
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He gave a five minute, uh, uh, what
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do you call it?
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Appearance little, little press conference, um, about his
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upcoming trip to China.
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And they are selling this, um, um, uh,
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this, I mean, he is talking about the
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decade, 25 years.
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He's talking about of, uh, cooperation between Russia
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and China and pretty, pretty, pretty much accurate,
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uh, what they have been doing.
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I know they've been, they've been creating it.
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Um, now we have a real interesting dynamic
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between Putin and China coming up.
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So I want to, I want to talk
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a little bit about that.
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I want to talk about the massive strikes,
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the missile strikes and drone strikes into Ukraine.
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It's, uh, where are we going here?
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So many stories.
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Let me get to where they are and
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begin to tell you.
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So basically hundreds of drones, dozens of missiles
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struck Ukrainian military infrastructure, defense, industrial facilities, and
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energy targets overnight.
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Uh, the, you know, the focus, it was,
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uh, Dnipropetrovsk, um, in this pettish, pettish shipping,
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the oil pumping station, and it's still burning,
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you know, obviously, and there's a substation burning
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right next to it.
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There was also attacks on the substation.
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So one of the problems with the Zaporizhia
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nuclear power plant that Russia took basically back
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in early 2022, um, all of the lines
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head to the East, all of the power
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substations head to the East to head into
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the Donbass to head in, in, into, you
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know, from Zaporizhia over through Donbass, into Crimea,
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into Russia.
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Now it's the largest nuclear power station in
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Europe and it, uh, I want to say
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six reactors.
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I'm not positive that it might only be
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four, but I'm pretty sure it's six and
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they, uh, uh, don't have a lot of
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substations.
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It's, it's right near a rather large river.
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I forget the name of it.
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And, uh, well, Oh, you know what?
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I believe it's the Dnipro, the Dnipro river
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that comes down through there.
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Still, I could be mistaken, but, uh, uh,
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that, that river.
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So on the, on the Eastern side, Southeastern
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side of that Zaporizhia side is where the
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nuclear power plant is.
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And so in order to get the power
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from there to the substation in, in, in
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order to shut one of these things down
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properly, it's a staged long drawn out process.
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And Kiev has been attacking the, uh, power
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lines.
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And if you let it go, you'll have
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another Chernobyl pretty quick because you have to
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shut it down and it has to be,
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has to have water cooling available.
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That's usually why there's, there's a heavy duty
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water source nearby, whatever that may be.
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And in this case, it's the, uh, the
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river.
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And, uh, plenty of water in the area,
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but you still have to have a controlled
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shutdown of a nuclear power plant.
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And the Russians and the IAEA keep alleging
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that Ukraine is bombing it and taking out
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all the stuff, which will make a shutdown,
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a staged shutdown impossible.
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And they've been trying to work out something
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where, I remember Donald Trump wanted to, he
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was going to take it.
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It was going to be, it was going
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to be his power plant.
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I tell you what, you guys just give
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me the power plant and we'll figure it
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out.
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And Russia obviously not going for that.
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And, uh, so this power plant's a big
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deal.
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Uh, you remember when the Ukrainians foolishly attempted
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to go up into Kursk and take the
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power plant up there, they wanted to take
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the, the, the Russians power plant up near
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Belgrade and Kursk in between there and, and
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keep it for themselves and kind of a
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retaliation for taking the Saparizhia nuclear power plant.
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But now they've been doing all kinds of
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things, including building a new substation in the
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middle of a field of seven, eight kilometers,
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uh, you know, from the river across the
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way.
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So that, uh, if they do go in
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and take it over, they can have a
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way to send all of the power through
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stub stations into, into the West and sell
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that power to the Europeans and, and themselves,
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you know, cause Ukraine's a big country.
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And, uh, so far that, um, uh, hasn't
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been a very positive move.
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And so, uh, you know, it's not working.
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And the Russians bombed the, um, uh, bombed
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the new substation, which we had, had tons
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of, of, uh, tons of, uh, substation, uh,
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hookup points.
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And they, they, they've been just, uh, you
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know, torn up.
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And so now the Ukrainians are even more
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pissed off about of it, uh, about it.
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And so these are, these are interesting scenarios
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of what they're doing.
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And so everybody there, the Russians are attacking
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all kinds of infrastructure for Ukraine and Ukraine
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is attacking all kinds of infrastructure for, uh,
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you know, in Russia and destroying each other's
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oil, destroying each other's gas facilities, destroying, destroying
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each other's shipping.
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Uh, there were three tankers, uh, or, uh,
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large shipping containers coming into Odessa that Russia
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drone attacked yesterday.
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And so they're trying to block the entire
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port of Odessa and make that, um, you
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know, impossible for Ukraine to use.
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And, uh, that, that appears to be working
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out.
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Um, explosions are said to have occurred all
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over the place.
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So like, uh, you know, thousands of explosions
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in Sumy, Kharkiv, Poltava, Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkassy, Pervograd,
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Pavlograd, Mikhailov and Odessa.
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Near Kyiv, uh, there's a serious fire in
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Irpin, allegedly at a warehouse, you know, for,
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for arms in Odessa.
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They have been attacking port infrastructure in Khmelnytskyi.
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There are several dozen Garand drones that struck
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the Starokonstantinov military airfield, which is the only
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airfield capable of housing the F-16.
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And, uh, this is a recurring target in
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the war because of, uh, Ukrainian aviation and
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Western air aircraft.
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Um, so in Cher, uh, Chernigov there's, uh,
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uh, near the village of Gnidinsky, there's a
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gas processing facility that was attacked.
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So Ukraine says that, uh, there were 546
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aerial attack drones, 22 missiles, uh, included therein.
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And the missiles included 14 ballistic Iskander-M
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S-400 types launched from Rostov area in
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Crimea and eight Iskander-K cruise missiles launched
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from Crimea.
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The UAVs are Shaheed, Gerbera, Tomas and, and
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uh, Parodia drones.
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Those are, those are your decoy drones that
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they send over to overwhelm the air defenses,
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which both sides are learning how to do
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pretty well.
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And they send over these decoy drones that
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don't have anything in them.
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And then everybody fires back.
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So the drones were launched from places like
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Bryansk, Kursk, Oryol, uh, Milareva, Primorska, Akhtarsk, Donetsk
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and Gvardeyskaya oblasts.
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And, uh, the, the Ukrainian air defense couldn't
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keep up with the, especially the Iskanders and
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they claim 18 missiles reached their target.
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I was reading about yesterday, the, uh, what
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is it called?
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Darn it.
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It's a, it's a, the new, the new,
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uh, 35,000 kilometer range.
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Now the U S says it's from 18
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to 35,000 kilometers, which is nearly the
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circumference of the planet.
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Uh, new intercontinental ballistic missile that, uh, allows
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it to go over.
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And the thing has a payload of 10
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tons, 20,000 pounds.
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And, uh, when it launches with fuel, with
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boosters, with everything, the thing weighs a hundred
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and eight tons, tons.
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It's like 20 meters long, 25.
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It's like, remember the SS twenties that they
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would show think spies like us on, on
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the big thing.
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It's, it's, it's, it's bigger than that.
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Okay.
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And, and still, uh, it can be rail
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launched from, uh, from a vehicle or a
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platform, a mobile platform like that too, allegedly.
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And so there's, there's plenty of it.
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And so, uh, they are saying that that's,
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uh, that's one of the next things that
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the Ukrainians need to worry about.
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Um, what is the name of that, that
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missile?
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Uh, let's see.
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We're going to see if I can find
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it.
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You know what we're going to do?
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We're gonna play a, I had some, some
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music things I wanted to get to and
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I'm going to be a little bit all
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over the map today, but I have no,
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like most of the time I try to
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keep it to two, three concrete topics.
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I've got like 15 or 20.
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So we might be able to take a
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few, uh, musical breaks.
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And I, uh, every once in a while
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we'll go back in time and listen to,
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uh, uh, musicals.
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Uh, do you remember, for example, Seven Brides
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for Seven Brothers or Fiddler on the Roof,
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stuff like that.
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I kind of like those and I watched
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them, you know, West Side Story, stuff like
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that.
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And, uh, there's one that I thought I'm
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going to share several songs, uh, from you
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from this, because I think it's, uh, uh,
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something that should be, that should be shared.
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This is, uh, uh, very important stuff and
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for in history.
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And by the way, this came from, and
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I'm going to play it for you later
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today.
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Clint Eastwood singing, uh, he was in, um,
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uh, you know, a great, a great movie
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that, uh, uh, if you can believe it,
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his brother dies in the beginning and, uh,
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he's, uh, it's, it's, it's a great show.
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And then he gets saved and Lee Marvin's
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in it too.
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And so Lee Marvin's got a song too.
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But this one is a guy named Harv
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Pressnell, I believe is his name.
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And so I'm going to share this with
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you just because I can.
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Now that, friends and neighbors is what they
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call history.
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We'll play some more.
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I'm going to, that's from the movie Painter
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Wagon.
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And if you like Clint Eastwood, um, it's,
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it's awesome.
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So the very, one of the very, and
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not the very first, but among one of
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the first scenes, first 10, 15 minutes of
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the show is Clint Eastwood singing and a
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very young man.
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And, uh, uh, it's Painter Wagon.
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Good show.
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I always liked that show.
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One of the funniest parts is when the
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Mormon comes and he's selling, I grew up
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Mormon.
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So I was, I always thought it was
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funny that the, you know, the Mormon comes
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in and he's only got two wives and
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he can't handle one of them.
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And, uh, you know, he, he says something
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like, Brigham Young had 27 wives and they
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didn't give him half the trouble that you
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two give me.
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And he sells one of his wives and,
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uh, um, Clint Eastwood's partner buys him.
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It's a good story.
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It's a lot of fun.
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And, uh, it's a musical.
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Uh, Lee Marvin sings the song too.
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I'm going to try to share one of
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those with you too.
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It's from today's, uh, uh, backward theme from
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Sam.
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Um, so I wanted to talk a little
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bit as well about the frontline reports because
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what is missing and what you never hear,
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you know, uh, if, if people choose to
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advertise what's going on in, um, Ukraine in
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the news, it's only positive things that, uh,
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you're allowed to hear on this side about
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how, you know, Ukraine is, I told you
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yesterday that, uh, this is how, uh, Zelensky
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train changes the narrative.
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And yesterday it was, uh, there are several
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more reporting and you wonder, remember, uh, I
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told you yesterday about the allegations that, uh,
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uh, Zelensky, Zelensky's wife is going to be,
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uh, is being, um, arrested, allegedly investigated by
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Naboo.
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The, um, anti corruption unit and not sure,
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but now it's being reported in India and
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other places that, uh, it's possible.
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So I've, I still haven't been able to
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find it, but you won't find it in
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the West that, uh, we know the corruption
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is all over current Ukraine.
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This we know, but, uh, we don't know
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yet whether his wife is, uh, I mean,
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there've been allegations against her forever.
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You know, she is extremely, uh, well, she,
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she spends extreme amounts of money and doesn't,
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you know, just, there's been things, there's been
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stories about her buying a villa in Italy,
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a castle in England, a, uh, another, uh,
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estate sort of home in the islands, you
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know, the Caribbean islands.
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And, uh, so allegedly they've got plenty of
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places to land when they, uh, uh, depart
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the country, you know, when they go, they
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got place to go, but his wife's a
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traveler and, uh, she's, she just, she has
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a good time, you know, going, going places.
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So, I mean, how do you begrudge someone
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that, you know, your country's at war, somebody
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has to be having a good time.
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Right.
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Um, but when you compare what's going on,
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uh, in, from what the news tells you
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about, uh, you know, all these, uh, impact
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of, of Russian drones of Ukrainian drones into
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Russia, the other direction, um, they don't ever
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talk to you about the frontline and the
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Russian advances are content.
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There was a, uh, a military briefing, uh,
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where one of the generals was talking to
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the leadership saying that along the entire thousand
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mile or a thousand kilometer, I mean, frontline,
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they are moving forward from, uh, uh, several
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hundred meters a day, several hundred meters to
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several kilometers every day.
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And it's true when you watch the creeping
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of the line going, they, uh, they are
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definitely advancing.
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And so when you switch from the strategic,
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if you want to call them that from
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the, the strikes that are, uh, done by
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drones that, uh, you know, are controlled by,
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uh, Starlink, um, well in, or on the
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Russian side, I forget what it's called Sputnik
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or something like that.
23:58
The, um, the, uh, the fact is nobody
24:04
wants to talk to you about the front
24:05
lines in, uh, so the, this, the ground
24:10
operations, Russians are pushing the Ukrainian garrisons, uh,
24:15
out of all kinds of cities go with
24:17
Konstantinovka fighting has been underway in the industrial
24:21
zone.
24:21
The Russian center group of forces is, is
24:25
in, uh, Druzhkovo, Kramatorsk and Dobropolia.
24:29
These are significant because they are industrial part
24:36
of the logistical belt of the Western Donbass
24:39
region.
24:40
And in Zaporizhia, Russian and far Eastern units
24:45
are advancing from the, uh, uh, Cherevnoye toward
24:50
the Goyapoye direction.
24:52
And in the North, the broadcast of, of
24:56
all kinds of, uh, telegram channel things from
25:01
the Saver group of forces show that the
25:03
security zone that they're trying to create this,
25:06
uh, buffer zone in the Sumy Oblast in
25:10
Ulanova and in Kharkov.
25:12
And, uh, so there's, they're moving.
25:18
And so I, like I said to you,
25:21
uh, the last week or so that I
25:23
believe this is, uh, the sign of the
25:26
beginning of the end.
25:27
Uh, last night, there were quite a few
25:30
reports of Ukraine going back into the Baltic
25:36
States.
25:36
And here's what I'm afraid of going to
25:39
the Baltic States and creating a, um, creating
25:46
a, uh, of a base, a basis, a
25:51
foundation for Ukrainian forces, which are being sent
25:55
there to launch drones from the Baltics.
26:00
The Baltics are pushing for a, uh, an
26:05
attack on, uh, uh, the little, uh, turn
26:11
it.
26:12
No, I can't remember the name of it.
26:13
The, uh, the, the Russian part, the part
26:17
of Russia, but it's in between the, uh,
26:23
uh, Lithuania and Poland is where it's located.
26:27
And they want to, you know, they're, they're
26:29
saying that the Baltics are, that they want
26:32
to attack it and that they're going to
26:34
take it out.
26:35
So, I mean, they're talking war.
26:37
They're talking, expanding the war.
26:39
Germany's talking, expanding the war.
26:42
Poland is talking, expanding the war.
26:44
Belarus is getting, um, soldiers prepared all along
26:48
the borders of everywhere.
26:49
They are reinforcing their borders all around, uh,
26:54
especially on the Polish side in the North.
26:56
Um, uh, well, they're to the North of
26:59
Ukraine and they are definitely, uh, uh, putting
27:04
new stuff in there.
27:05
Meanwhile, one of the biggest things if you
27:08
get online is to go see this boosification
27:11
take place.
27:12
And there was, I watched probably, I don't
27:16
know.
27:17
I, I don't like watching it because these
27:20
men are getting the crap kicked out of
27:22
them, beaten out of them.
27:23
Uh, they're being, I mean, seriously, these guys,
27:27
they're people killed.
27:29
Try when they take them into custody to
27:31
go serve in the army and they don't
27:33
want to go.
27:34
And they're, uh, uh, they're arresting them.
27:37
They're taking them from their families.
27:39
They're out to dinner or whatever.
27:41
They now have the right to break into
27:43
people's apartments and take them in the apartment.
27:46
Used to be, you couldn't do that.
27:49
Well, now you can.
27:50
Um, so mobilization is, is not good.
27:54
Uh, there, you know, every, they got to
27:56
find new, uh, cannon fodder for Zelensky to,
28:00
uh, perhaps change the, uh, narrative here.
28:06
Uh, deputy head of give, uh, TCC, who's
28:11
a guy named Kravchenko is quoted as, uh,
28:15
saying in the Rada that military recruitment officers
28:19
now have the right to enter people's apartments,
28:22
to notify them, to arrest them.
28:26
Uh, the Ukrainian mobilization apparatus is not a
28:30
normal draft system.
28:32
It's a predatory enforcement and beat up.
28:36
Um, it uses the term, um, people catchers,
28:42
uh, in a lieu de l'oeuvre is,
28:44
uh, would be ludi or people in Lovato.
28:47
It means to catch.
28:48
And the lieu de l'oeuvre is the
28:50
word that they've been using.
28:51
It's people catchers.
28:53
You know, these are, these are people that
28:55
it's like, they're going out and rounding them
28:58
up.
28:59
You got to round up, you're branding them.
29:01
You're taking them into, into the, the, the
29:03
wagon.
29:04
You're putting them in the cattle car and
29:06
off they go.
29:07
And that's not a neutral word.
29:09
It's dehumanizing it.
29:11
And that's exactly what is going on.
29:13
You ought to see what's happening.
29:15
And, uh, the KIVS battlefield manpower shortage is
29:21
so extreme that they're taking coercive.
29:26
I mean, they're taking raids into people's apartments.
29:30
They're abducting people on the street and worse.
29:34
There are numerous reports of them recruiting.
29:39
If you want to call that taken into
29:41
custody medically and mentally unfit people, there was
29:46
a psychoneurological hospital in Vinnitsky, uh, and, and
29:54
this is, I tell you what, in, in
29:58
Vinnytsia, a patient was mobilized right from the
30:02
grounds of a psychoneurological hospital.
30:05
And his mom, uh, her name was, uh,
30:08
Evgenia Zhupanova says her son has been receiving
30:13
inpatient treatment and he was taken from the
30:17
medical facility straight into the army.
30:19
He came out of an endocrinology office and
30:22
at the door men pounced on him, grabbed
30:24
him, threw him into the bus.
30:26
You should see it.
30:27
I mean, the video is unbelievable.
30:30
He's coming out of some hospital facility and
30:33
they have six guys pounce on him, uh,
30:36
tackle him, put him in a thing.
30:38
She says, uh, her, the mom says the
30:40
son is 44 years old.
30:42
He's got chronic illnesses has been under medical
30:44
supervision for years.
30:46
And, uh, he was psychiatric diagnoses dating back
30:50
all the way to 1991.
30:52
And she had the document.
30:54
She was shown him on screen that he
30:55
was a second group disabled pensioner.
30:58
And so this is a mother describing her
31:03
mentally ill, uh, psychiatrist, psychiatrically diagnosed son getting
31:09
grabbed right out of the hospital.
31:11
I don't mean to laugh about this, but
31:13
this is not good.
31:16
And they're out of people.
31:17
They're the numbers that, that, that they're saying.
31:19
Now, if you listen to, uh, Yulia Mendel
31:22
of Tucker Carlson a week or two ago,
31:25
she was saying that the pre pre 2022
31:31
now Ukraine was already experiencing, you know, uh,
31:34
running away from Ukraine.
31:37
There was, there's nothing positive in Ukraine.
31:39
And, uh, people running out of there.
31:42
And, uh, and, and I shouldn't say that.
31:44
Ukraine had a lot of positive things historically.
31:47
And, uh, but you know, you don't want
31:49
to, you sure as hell wouldn't want to
31:50
live there.
31:51
You know, this, it's, uh, not unless you,
31:53
you know, you're part of the corrupt system,
31:56
then, you know, that's a different deal, but
31:58
these people aren't going back.
32:00
There was a estimates of 42 to 45
32:04
million, although she said it was never greater
32:07
than 38, you know, somewhere in that million
32:09
people.
32:11
And the, uh, current state is, is half
32:16
of that.
32:17
If that 11 million of which are pensioners
32:21
or disabled people, 11 million, a fourth, you
32:26
know, all of the oldest people, the people
32:29
who can't go anywhere else, the youth are
32:32
gone.
32:33
The generations Ukraine is gone.
32:35
They have left.
32:37
These kids aren't going back, you know, and
32:39
hell, if you go back now and by
32:41
the way, this, uh, uh, whatever the guy's
32:43
name was that they were talking about.
32:45
So, and they're still only entering into service.
32:50
And they were interviewing one of the military
32:52
guys.
32:53
I forget which one.
32:54
Uh, it might come up later here in
32:56
my, in my notes, but I can't remember
32:58
his name, but he's, he's always been a
33:00
bit of a, he's, he's an extreme, you
33:03
know, and he, he loves his, uh, uh,
33:05
as of, as of brigade roots is what
33:09
I believe.
33:10
And, uh, he was saying that, um, uh,
33:13
the, the newscaster was asking, listen, isn't it
33:18
time if, if we're going to win this
33:20
war, isn't it time to start mobilizing 18
33:25
to 25 year olds?
33:27
And he said, no, he said, uh, we'll
33:31
just keep mobilizing those greater than a 26
33:34
because, uh, we don't want to lose our
33:39
future.
33:40
Our future are men ages eight, 18 to
33:44
25.
33:44
Really?
33:45
They're all gone too.
33:47
They've all gone to Europe.
33:48
They ain't coming back.
33:50
You know, those tell you what, there's a
33:52
truckloads of them in, uh, uh, there are
33:57
tons of them in, uh, um, Florida, Vesterdam,
34:03
sure.
34:04
And, uh, they're 18 to 25 and tell
34:08
you what, it's crazy.
34:09
And so who are they taken into custody?
34:12
44 year old chronic illness, medically supervised people.
34:17
And, uh, so it was psychiatric problems.
34:20
And, uh, so I don't know the chief
34:24
doctor of that medical institution was interviewed Sofia
34:27
Kucherov and, uh, by telephone, she confirmed that
34:31
the man had been an inpatient since April
34:33
21 and had not been discharged.
34:37
Uh, you know, because you know, any claim
34:41
that he was simply encountered in public, you
34:43
know, as an ordinary draft eligible man, which
34:46
they just cruise the streets and pick up
34:48
guys walking.
34:50
It's like you're done the, you know, it's,
34:54
uh, the recruitment office said that the patient
34:58
didn't have any documents with him and that
35:00
he was a malicious draft evader listed as
35:03
wanted.
35:05
So even if paperwork issue exists, a grabbing
35:10
a psychiatric inpatient from a hospital is an
35:14
abuse of mobilization system.
35:16
And so it is, uh, tell you what,
35:19
um, um, boost suffocation, the forced loading of
35:25
men into buses, uh, by military recruiters is
35:29
frightening.
35:30
If you're a Ukrainian, um, there was another
35:34
video that they showed.
35:35
This one was pretty damn funny.
35:36
That, uh, uh, showed a guy, uh, uh,
35:40
mobilization abuse, another guy running away from these
35:44
recruiters in Kiev because now they've started doing
35:48
it in Kiev.
35:48
They weren't before.
35:49
They were in the outlying areas, but now
35:52
they're even doing it in Kiev.
35:53
This guy jumped into the canal to escape
35:56
and, uh, he, he was going to swim
35:58
to the other side, but it's a long
36:00
way across.
36:01
And so some guy in a kayak, uh,
36:03
rescued him, let him hang on his kayak
36:05
and he took him across to the other
36:07
side to avoid the, uh, the, uh, boost
36:10
suffocation officers.
36:13
It's, it's turned into a quite the entertainment
36:16
segment.
36:17
If you want to get on and watch,
36:19
uh, watch the news, um, it's, uh, there's
36:22
a man running from him there for, you
36:24
know, we know they're afraid to get, to
36:26
get their own feet wet.
36:27
So, uh, swim to the other side.
36:29
We'll give you a, um, we'll give you
36:32
a ride.
36:32
If you need one, you know, we'll help
36:34
you.
36:34
And so Ukrainian men are helping each other.
36:38
Uh, they're afraid of this mobilization teams that
36:41
they'd rather jump into the water and try
36:44
to swim across a rather large canal.
36:47
You know, that seemed pretty, uh, uh, pretty,
36:50
um, there was a good current to it,
36:53
uh, rather than be, you know, thrown out
36:57
to the front lines after two weeks of
36:59
training, you know, so it's, uh, it's not
37:03
good.
37:04
And, uh, you know, there's another cynical part
37:10
of the story that a local man was
37:13
unhappy with how the auto mechanics treated his,
37:17
uh, expensive electric car.
37:19
And he retaliated by reporting the men to
37:24
the boosification officers.
37:26
And so, you know, ordinary Ukrainians are usually
37:28
trying to, uh, resist these aggressive and, uh,
37:33
you know, forceful mobilization rather than using it
37:37
as a revenge.
37:38
But, uh, there, you know, definitely, um, uh,
37:42
stories of this type of stuff too.
37:45
And there are family members, children, phones taken
37:49
two days where they don't get to talk
37:51
to people.
37:52
All kinds of these stories went on for
37:54
the next, uh, next 20 minutes or so.
37:57
And, uh, street level mobilization stuff.
38:01
People are shouting that a man is unwell.
38:04
You know, a child is heard crying and
38:07
why are they beating the man?
38:09
And they, you know, why are they beating
38:11
up my dad?
38:12
You hear this stuff.
38:13
And they're simply kidnapping people from the street.
38:17
Another guy said he was taken and his
38:19
phone was taken and he couldn't even get
38:21
a hold of his relatives for a couple
38:23
of days.
38:24
And another guy goes, I went to buy
38:26
a couple of cans of beer and I
38:28
came out and, uh, was, uh, attacked by
38:32
six people who said, let's, let's go.
38:34
Time to go.
38:36
Um, one of the Ukrainian rights.
38:39
So there's Ukrainian officials talking in front of
38:42
the Verhovna Rada.
38:44
And he says that, uh, the number of
38:48
complaints about violation of Ukrainian rights that he
38:52
has received connected with mobilization, uh, that they
38:56
have, um, 300 times more than they got
39:01
in 2022.
39:03
He said he has received 6,000 complaints
39:08
and he condemns the use of these, uh,
39:11
you know, they cover their heads.
39:13
So you can't video who they are.
39:15
You know, these, uh, boozification officers, uh, they're
39:19
using unlawful force.
39:20
They're beating people and of people getting even
39:24
killed inside these recruitment buildings.
39:28
And, uh, so, I mean, this is a
39:32
statistic from the Verhovna Rada.
39:36
Mobilization related abuses have exploded and they're just
39:40
huge.
39:41
Ukraine's manpower crisis is so extreme that it's
39:46
a domestic human rights crisis.
39:49
And, uh, it's not right.
39:50
You know, what they're, what they're doing.
39:53
And I don't know, I always, how do
39:55
I want to put this?
39:56
And I served in the military.
39:58
I did it voluntarily.
40:00
And if I ever had to go to
40:01
war, I'd have done what needed to be
40:04
done.
40:04
And I wanted to make sure that I
40:05
understood how to do it.
40:08
And, uh, and I, I was a reasonably
40:10
good soldier as a pretty damn good one
40:12
and, uh, made sure I knew what the
40:14
hell I was doing.
40:15
That's for sure.
40:16
And how to handle a weapon and how
40:18
to do all of that stuff.
40:19
I wouldn't want to fight with one of
40:21
these people.
40:22
No way.
40:24
You know, it's, uh, uh, what do you
40:26
want?
40:27
Uh, uh, uh, a teenage girl next to
40:29
you that you got to defend, you know,
40:32
instead of, you want to defend your brothers
40:35
in arms, but Jesus, you don't want to
40:37
defend somebody who doesn't want to be there.
40:39
You know, if you got to defend a
40:41
civilian, that's one thing, but some guy that's
40:44
supposed to be serving with you, Jesus, this
40:48
is not the way to fight a fight,
40:50
a war.
40:51
No way.
40:52
No wonder they're losing.
40:54
And, uh, well, it's not, no wonder they're
40:56
losing.
40:56
They're there.
40:57
They're 190 million.
41:01
How many rush 170 something million versus, you
41:05
know, they're down to less than 10 that
41:08
are eligible because all the rest are pensioners
41:11
and disabled people, 11 million of them out
41:14
of the 22 that are left in that
41:16
crazy.
41:18
So I don't know.
41:19
Um, so let's see.
41:29
Um, let's see, uh, Russian order a gun
41:32
MLRS strike was in Kharkov and this was
41:36
the multiple launch rocket system.
41:38
They have a 20 ton highly mobile rocket
41:41
platform that can fire.
41:43
Uh, and I don't know if you've ever
41:45
seen these things.
41:46
They fire 16 rockets.
41:47
They have a eight times to cross the
41:51
backs when they lift up and they have
41:53
a combined mass of four and a half
41:55
tons and then they can immediately change position.
42:00
And so, uh, you know, the guy they
42:02
were interviewing, um, it was a pretty, it's
42:06
interesting.
42:07
And the TOS, they also have the TOS,
42:09
the TOS, TOS, you know, it means a
42:14
sunburst basically is what that means.
42:17
And it's the same thing.
42:18
They have these, uh, uh, serious weaponry going
42:22
against, uh, Ukraine and Ukraine has lost, um,
42:26
most of it and most of what they
42:29
had, you know, and they can't get any,
42:31
uh, they can't get any back there.
42:34
So tell you what, there are some very
42:38
bad, um, that when they were talking about
42:41
the mobilization of being under 25, uh, saying
42:45
that they need to get more human capital,
42:49
he says, and he corrects himself by saying,
42:52
it's better to call them human resources.
42:55
We need more bodies is basically what he
42:58
was saying.
42:59
So this is where the interviewer asked whether
43:02
it was time to create a trained reserve
43:05
of men under 25.
43:07
And then if the, the guy, this is
43:09
an official says that if Ukraine mobilizes men
43:12
18 to 25, it's going to destroy an
43:15
entire generation.
43:17
Well, isn't that an admission that you're destroying
43:19
the entire older generation because they don't have
43:23
anything else.
43:24
Guy says, well, that's a bit of a
43:25
contradiction, isn't it?
43:27
Ukraine needs bodies, but drafting the young wipes
43:32
out its demographic future.
43:34
Ukraine population from 1990s to now has gone
43:40
from 40 to 48 million at the extreme
43:44
to less than 22 million today, half of
43:47
which are pensioners according to Yulia Mendel.
43:54
So tell you what, they're already down.
43:58
How much longer can they do this?
44:01
You know, how many of those remaining are
44:04
women and children?
44:05
They don't have anybody left.
44:07
You know, everybody's gone left the country and
44:09
they're not coming back.
44:11
They're not coming back.
44:14
So, you know, let's talk about Andre Yermak
44:17
who's Zelensky's number two and he got elected.
44:22
Actually, I want to play the, uh, the
44:24
next, um, I can't decide if it's going
44:27
to be, um, the, the song for, uh,
44:33
uh, uh, I think we're going to do
44:38
the Clint Eastwood song and it's a short
44:41
one because, you know, I imagine he didn't
44:43
want to sing for that long, but we
44:46
shall see what he, uh, there you have
44:51
it.
44:51
Clint Eastwood, one of the opening songs from
44:54
Paint Your Wagon 1969 and Lee Marvin's in
44:59
there.
45:00
Lee Marvin's pretty damn funny in that show.
45:02
I always did like that show.
45:03
And if you haven't seen it, you should
45:05
probably watch it at some point.
45:08
Uh, let's see.
45:09
We're going to go back to Andre Yermak.
45:14
So Andre Yermak paid his bail.
45:17
He got his bail.
45:18
He's out, got into his Beamer and drove,
45:21
no, uh, Mercedes got into his Mercedes and
45:24
drove away.
45:25
He was in the back.
45:26
He has a chauffeur, of course, he's far
45:27
too important.
45:29
And, uh, so he's, uh, for the Zelensky's
45:33
former number two and he was released from
45:36
pretrial detention after his friends collected and paid
45:40
the 140 million hryvnia bail, which is 230
45:45
million rubles or $4 million.
45:48
So the program, uh, program, uh, mocked him.
45:52
They were mocking him, uh, cause he stayed
45:55
in a paid VIP cell with new furniture
45:58
and a private bathroom.
46:00
His suffering lasted four nights.
46:04
Uh, Ukrainskaya Pravda reported that more than the
46:08
bail amount was collected.
46:10
Uh, you know, 14 million remains unused and
46:14
the donors are mysterious.
46:16
Yermak says he doesn't know who they are,
46:19
but on his release, uh, reporters were pushed
46:22
back.
46:22
It's all on video, pushed back by his
46:24
security.
46:25
He left in his black Mercedes.
46:27
He was placed under an electronic bracelet, had
46:30
to give up his foreign passport.
46:32
He has to appear before investigators.
46:35
Uh, he can't leave Kiev.
46:37
He can't communicate with other suspects or witnesses.
46:41
And it asked whether the ban applied to
46:44
Veronica Feng Shui, an alleged occult advisor that
46:48
he had involved in his ministerial appointments.
46:51
So this occult lady, uh, would help out,
46:55
help him pick the people.
46:56
Um, now there's something else that was interesting.
47:00
Um, and, and, uh, I found this report
47:02
in a couple of places, one in Kiev
47:04
and a couple in Russia, but I haven't
47:09
found the original in JP Morgan because there's
47:12
a JP Morgan Chase says the bank says
47:16
there's a 50% probability that the Ukraine
47:21
Russia war will end this year and that
47:24
Ukraine will be forced into the finish.
47:28
The Finland scenario, the terms are, will be
47:31
quite severe.
47:33
Uh, Ukraine has to give up 20%
47:35
of its territory, which Russia has already taken
47:38
most of that 20%.
47:40
They will have to accept neutral status and
47:42
accept limits on their armed forces.
47:46
So in 1944 Finland ceded 10% of
47:50
its territory to the Soviet Union.
47:53
But was allowed to retain its sovereignty, uh,
47:57
Western ties, um, but without Western security guarantees
48:02
or foreign troops until joining late NATO a
48:05
couple of years ago.
48:06
So, uh, JP Morgan says this is an
48:09
imperfect, but likely parallel for Ukraine, uh, independence,
48:14
Western orientation, but no, uh, no real, um,
48:20
reliable piece.
48:22
But there are other scenarios that they say
48:25
are less likely South Korean scenario with the
48:29
US nuclear umbrella and NATO guarantees.
48:33
They get a 5% an Israeli scenario
48:36
where Ukraine fights without foreign troops, but with
48:39
us money at that's a 10% a
48:43
strategic deadlock with economic decline and failure to
48:47
be entered into the EU is a 30
48:50
% full capitulation is a 5% scenario.
48:57
Hmm.
49:00
I don't know.
49:01
But they also say that us lawmakers are,
49:04
uh, are killing Kiev politically.
49:06
Anyway, there's a guy named a Republican house,
49:10
foreign affairs committee dude named Brian mast.
49:12
And he says that Ukraine should not expect
49:15
any new aid packages from Washington because the
49:19
war is in Europe's backyard and therefore Europe
49:21
should pay for it.
49:24
so the United States is unlikely to approve
49:27
major new financial aid for Ukraine.
49:29
The Pentagon can't even spend the 400 million
49:33
already allocated for the current year.
49:35
And, uh, the U S stated logic is,
49:38
uh, why spend American money on Kiev when
49:42
American defense companies can sell weapons to Europe,
49:46
which can then supply them to Ukraine using
49:49
European taxpayer funds.
49:52
Well, you know, it's a, the U S
49:55
Donald Trump hasn't abandoned the war as a
49:57
business model.
49:58
It's a good business model.
49:59
It's just outsourcing the cost for us.
50:03
Hopefully that's saving us a little bit, right?
50:06
So the 90 billion was approved to Ukraine
50:09
also.
50:11
And, uh, uh, you let's see, how does
50:15
this work?
50:16
Politico says the first group of funds will
50:20
be approved immediately, but isn't going to show
50:23
up in Ukraine for about a month.
50:26
And that would be about $9 billion and
50:31
that the real budget hole is 135 billion.
50:34
So this isn't going to help much.
50:37
And a $30 billion for Ukraine budget and
50:41
60 billion for weapons.
50:43
Mainly from European producers.
50:45
So this is the, the cynical view is
50:48
that this budget money is going to be
50:50
looted by Ukraine's corrupt, you know, elites, like,
50:55
um, you know, allegedly you're mocking Zelensky, which
51:00
is Zelensky's wife and Zelensky himself.
51:03
Um, you know, the budget money will never
51:06
hit where it needs to go.
51:08
Uh, the weapons money will reach European defense
51:12
companies for sure.
51:13
And ordinary Europeans will pay through reduced social
51:17
benefit and Ukrainians pay with their lives.
51:21
The only people that make out like bandits
51:23
are the same people that always do companies
51:26
like Ryan metal.
51:28
It's value has exploded since 2022 because, uh,
51:32
political elites and their associated networks are, uh,
51:35
financially benefiting, right?
51:39
Well, we're profiteering frame.
51:42
This is how we do it.
51:43
This is how we do it.
51:45
Uh, defense firms are profiting.
51:49
Ukrainian soldiers are dying.
51:51
Russian too, by the way.
51:53
But, uh, you know, three to five to
51:55
one, uh, Ukraine deaths, um, far more than
52:04
Russian.
52:05
So I don't know.
52:08
Let's see.
52:12
Budanov.
52:13
So the head of the Ukrainian president's office.
52:17
Now it's a guy named Budanov and he
52:20
talked to Britain times news and that he
52:26
says that he wants to rely on negotiations
52:29
and finalize this war because there's no one
52:33
left to fight.
52:36
He says, he would love to take the
52:39
lead in this because he knows how to
52:41
talk to Russians because he's dealt with them
52:44
for many years and he believes in the
52:46
negotiation process.
52:47
Well, I believe in the negotiation process and
52:50
I've spoken to Russians for years too.
52:52
Maybe I should do it if that's the
52:55
only requirement, you know, hell, I've spoken to
52:58
the Russians forever and I believe in negotiation.
53:00
In fact, I was in law school.
53:03
I went to the negotiation competition by the
53:07
young lawyers association of the American Bar Association
53:12
twice.
53:13
So I enjoy that type of thing and
53:15
I'm, and I'm qualified.
53:16
So just send me over, I'll figure it
53:19
out.
53:20
Um, so Western commentary says Putin isn't seriously
53:24
talking about peace because he keeps striking on
53:28
Ukraine.
53:29
But Russian says that Ukraine is a, you
53:33
know, their leaders don't want to, uh, uh,
53:36
settle anyway and they understand their manpower catastrophe
53:40
already and they are doing whatever they can
53:45
to harpoon the peace process.
53:48
Anyway.
53:49
Uh, let's see.
53:53
Uh, Ukrainian drones are now falling regularly on
53:59
the territory of these European countries.
54:02
Lithuanian broadcaster says that residents of Vilnius are
54:08
finding wreckage of heavy drones that belong to
54:12
Ukraine.
54:13
It's an embarrassing, you know, for Lithuania because
54:17
NATO radar, you know, didn't pick them up
54:22
and knock them out.
54:23
So neighboring Latvia is panicking after another Ukrainian
54:27
drone incursion.
54:29
Um, it, the air alerts were declared in
54:32
five border regions.
54:33
Fighter jets were scrambled because they thought it
54:36
might be Russia, but it turned out to
54:38
be Ukraine.
54:39
But that's okay because Ukraine is just using
54:42
the long range drone activity.
54:44
It isn't a threat to Latvia or Lithuania.
54:47
They're just passing through their way to St.
54:53
Petersburg, which is really not funny, but it's,
54:57
it's depressing.
54:58
So there's a lady named Alice Wiedel who's
55:02
a from alternative for Deutschland alternative for Germany.
55:06
And she says that Ukraine's conduct is a
55:10
major security threat, including for Germany.
55:13
She says that the, the, the Ukrainians constantly
55:19
poking here, her quote, not mine, constantly poking
55:23
a giant bear in the eye with a
55:26
hot iron while expecting nothing to happen is
55:31
foolish.
55:32
They say, you know, eventually the bear is
55:36
going to strike back.
55:38
Um, I'll tell you what, Ukrainian strikes deep
55:43
into Russia are a reckless escalation in my
55:46
view, and they cannot lead to anything.
55:50
Um, useful.
55:53
Kaya Kalas is, uh, another example of the
55:58
stupidity of Europe and, uh, uh, her, she's
56:03
the foreign policy chief, Kaya Kalas.
56:05
And she says, Russia, China, and the United
56:08
States, the, here's her new genius, right?
56:11
Want to split the European Union by negotiating
56:16
directly with individual states rather than the block
56:19
as a whole.
56:21
She says research shows peace agreements last longer
56:25
by the way, when women participate in negotiation
56:30
and that us and China talks show an
56:33
excess of male ego.
56:35
So maybe this is her hinting that she
56:38
wants to be the chief negotiator, you know,
56:41
with Moscow, with Trump, with Xi Jinping, that
56:45
woman is not bright.
56:48
It's all I'm saying.
56:50
That is not a bright woman.
56:52
And there, there's, she's always saying foolish and
56:55
stupid things like this.
56:57
And, uh, she's, uh, you know, teamwork, teamwork,
57:02
but women have to be available because men
57:04
can't negotiate.
57:06
But Politico says Kalas, um, described by, by,
57:10
uh, you know, Politico is a rabid Russophobe.
57:14
She could never realistically serve as a, uh,
57:18
as a mediator.
57:19
She has too much hatred on one side
57:21
or the other.
57:22
Well, against Russia of course.
57:25
And Europe can't even agree on whether to
57:27
speak to Russia.
57:28
And if they ever did, they'd never be
57:30
able to agree on who was going to
57:32
do the chatting for them.
57:34
You know, we don't have anybody has the
57:36
ability to talk to Russia.
57:38
You know, I mean, who, who are we
57:40
going to send Kellogg?
57:42
I mean, come on, what have we done
57:44
so far?
57:45
You know, part of it is in the,
57:47
uh, is in the approach.
57:48
And if you don't listen, you can't resolve
57:51
the, the, uh, uh, dispute.
57:58
There are also quite a bit of discussion
58:00
in German political science, uh, realms and in
58:04
their, uh, parliamentary areas as, uh, Europe is
58:08
on the, uh, Europe is on the menu.
58:11
They are a dish and so they can
58:13
never sit at the table because they're on
58:17
the table as a dish.
58:19
There's a German political scientist named Kramer says
58:22
Europe is a, the geopolitical appetizer, the dish
58:28
on the menu rather than the player seated
58:31
at the table.
58:32
He says, well, as does Europe, the interviewer
58:34
says, well, does Europe remain on the menu?
58:37
And he said, Europe is trying to move
58:40
from the menu to the table, but 2026
58:44
has already brought crisis crises around Venezuela, Greenland,
58:50
Ukraine, war in Iran, and none of which
58:54
Europe has any input in at all.
58:58
And so why would Europe, despite being the
59:02
world's, if you put it all together, second
59:04
largest economy, why can they not force others
59:07
to take its views seriously?
59:09
His answer was that Europe has long treated
59:12
defense and security as somebody else's responsibility.
59:16
Why would that change?
59:18
So you know, Europe is paying for a
59:21
war, absorbing the shock and the and the
59:24
inflation and the sanctions blowback.
59:28
But otherwise they're ignored because they don't, you
59:32
don't need them for any final settlement architecture.
59:35
And by the way, all they're doing is
59:37
rattling for more war.
59:38
Anyway, they don't want to tone it down.
59:42
They want to ramp it up.
59:44
So I don't know that there's plenty of
59:55
defense spending in Europe, plenty of new things
1:00:03
to discuss regarding war.
1:00:06
And we may get back to that, but
1:00:09
I'm going to play the Lee Marvin version
1:00:13
where is it?
1:00:19
I can't find the, that's the first me.
1:00:23
Here it is right here.
1:00:24
Hand me down that can of beans is
1:00:29
what we're going to listen to.
1:00:32
Yippee skippy.
1:00:33
Hand me down that can of beans.
1:00:37
So, uh, I'm going to end with the
1:00:40
topic today of Vladimir Vladimirovich and his visit
1:00:44
to China.
1:00:46
So what, and, and I'll share you some
1:00:48
of the history of it too, but yesterday
1:00:51
he gave a bit of a speech to
1:00:56
the Russian people and it's pretty short.
1:01:00
So it's, uh, here, but, but it's important
1:01:05
to know what he said.
1:01:06
He likes to talk about, he gives a
1:01:10
preliminary of what's going to happen, what I'm
1:01:12
going to do.
1:01:13
And here's what he said.
1:01:14
And it's a pretty decent translation, but I
1:01:16
didn't do this translation myself.
1:01:18
I listened to it in Russian yesterday, but
1:01:19
this is the English version downloaded from somebody's,
1:01:23
uh, this is a Russian foreign ministry, so
1:01:25
they may have tainted it a little bit,
1:01:27
but I doubt it.
1:01:28
Uh, so basically what he said was, uh,
1:01:31
uh, greetings, dear friends and Chinese friends.
1:01:34
I am delighted to be visiting Beijing once
1:01:36
again at the invitation of my longtime good
1:01:39
friend, the president of the people's Republic of
1:01:41
China, Xi Jinping, regular mutual visits and Russia
1:01:45
China top level talks are an important integral
1:01:48
part of our joint effort to promote an
1:01:51
entire range of relations between our two countries
1:01:54
and unlock their truly limitless potential.
1:01:59
I would like to remind you that 25
1:02:01
years ago, Russia and China signed the treaty
1:02:04
of good neighborliness and friendly cooperation, which laid
1:02:08
a strong foundation for a genuinely strategic relationship
1:02:12
and comprehensive partnership for the benefit of our
1:02:15
countries and our people.
1:02:18
Today, Russia, China relations have reached truly unprecedented
1:02:23
levels.
1:02:24
Their special nature is reflected in the atmosphere
1:02:27
of mutual understanding and trust, a commitment to
1:02:30
pursuing win-win and equitable cooperation, conducting respectful
1:02:35
dialogue and supporting each other on matters affecting
1:02:38
the core interests of both countries, including protection
1:02:42
of sovereignty and state unity.
1:02:44
Looking confidently to the future, Russia and China
1:02:47
are actively expanding their contacts in politics, the
1:02:52
economy, defense, and all while broadening humanitarian exchange
1:02:57
and encouraging person to person interaction.
1:03:00
It means that together we are doing everything
1:03:03
that can further deepen bilateral collaboration and advanced
1:03:07
a comprehensive development of our countries.
1:03:10
It's important that these are the issues that
1:03:12
will shape the agenda of the upcoming talks
1:03:15
in Beijing.
1:03:16
I deeply appreciate president Xi Jinping's commitment to
1:03:20
longterm cooperation with Russia.
1:03:22
I'm convinced that our warm and friendly ties
1:03:25
enable us to chart the boldest plan for
1:03:28
the future and bring them to life.
1:03:30
Trade between Russia and China continues to grow.
1:03:33
Having long surpassed the U S $200 billion
1:03:37
mark mutual settlements are conducted almost entirely now
1:03:42
in rubles and you want major initiatives are
1:03:46
underway in key areas of cooperation following the
1:03:50
successful cross year of culture, cross year of
1:03:54
Russia, China cooperation and education.
1:03:57
They were also launched in January, making it
1:04:00
the 10th edition of this kind of bilateral
1:04:02
projects in humanitarian areas.
1:04:08
I would also like to point out that
1:04:10
Russia holds China's centuries old history and its
1:04:14
achievements in culture, art and science and high
1:04:17
esteem.
1:04:17
We are interested in bringing our people closer
1:04:20
together, further promoting mutual understanding and embracing all
1:04:24
the positive things offered by the two countries,
1:04:27
rich traditions and heritage.
1:04:29
This is why we welcome the introduction of
1:04:33
a mutual visa free regime between our countries.
1:04:37
That's big news.
1:04:39
Facilitating greater business and tourism exchanges and harnessing
1:04:43
new opportunity for communication and personal contact between
1:04:47
Russia and Chinese nationals.
1:04:51
The close strategic relationship between Russia and China
1:04:55
plays a major stabilizing role globally without a
1:04:59
lying against anyone.
1:05:01
We seek peace and universal prosperity.
1:05:06
It is in this spirit that Moscow and
1:05:08
Beijing act in a coordinated manner to defend
1:05:11
international law and the provisions of the UN
1:05:14
charter in their entirety completeness, completeness and interconnectedness.
1:05:21
We support active cooperation through the UN to
1:05:24
Shanghai Cooperation Organization, BRICS and other multilateral entities
1:05:30
making a substantial contribution to resolving pressing global
1:05:34
and regional challenges.
1:05:36
I am confident that together we will continue
1:05:39
to do everything possible to deepen Russia China
1:05:43
partnership and good neighborliness for our two countries
1:05:46
dynamic development and for the wellbeing of our
1:05:50
peoples in the interest of maintaining global security
1:05:54
and stability.
1:05:55
See you soon in Beijing.
1:05:58
Thank you.
1:05:59
So that was the Lang English language version
1:06:03
of that trip.
1:06:05
And so, uh, his video, it was, you
1:06:09
know, it was a pretty, it's been, um,
1:06:11
quite a few times out in different places.
1:06:14
He, uh, you know, listed these two things.
1:06:18
Um, I wanted to go through a tiny
1:06:23
bit of history for what they have done.
1:06:26
So his upcoming trip to Beijing will mark
1:06:30
another milestone in their long running relationship, you
1:06:33
know, personal relationship between these two guys.
1:06:36
So he's gone on the 19th and 20th
1:06:41
headed there today, probably there already expected to
1:06:44
mark a new milestone.
1:06:45
The two sides are reportedly preparing to sign
1:06:50
40 agreements, 40 agreements and issue a joint
1:06:57
statement on expanding their comprehensive cooperation, especially
1:07:04
strategically.
1:07:05
Since Xi Jinping took office in 2013 the
1:07:09
two leaders have met 40 times, actually more
1:07:13
than 40 reproducing major agreements and driving Russia,
1:07:18
China ties to new heights.
1:07:20
Uh, so if we go back on some
1:07:22
of that, March of 2013 Russia is the
1:07:26
first country visited by Xi Jinping after he
1:07:29
took office.
1:07:30
And during talks with Putin, the two leaders
1:07:33
discussed issues ranging from trade technology to the
1:07:37
crisis in Syria, Moscow and Beijing signed 30
1:07:41
agreements covering energy, humanitarian and cultural cooperation.
1:07:46
There was also a deal to expand oil
1:07:48
trade and an action plan under that Putin
1:07:52
was referring to the treaty of good late,
1:07:54
good neighborliness, friendship and cooperation.
1:07:58
May of 2014 Putin visit, uh, to, he
1:08:03
visited Shanghai and it was a watershed moment
1:08:06
in Russia, China energy and the presence of
1:08:11
the two leaders, Russian energy giant Gazprom and
1:08:14
China's CNPC signed a $400 billion gas deal
1:08:21
under which Russia agreed to supply China with
1:08:24
38 billion cubic meters of gas annually over
1:08:30
30 years.
1:08:33
2015 May Xi Jinping visited Moscow for victory
1:08:38
day celebrations.
1:08:41
The visit produced a series of agreements linking
1:08:44
China's belt and road initiative with the Eurasian
1:08:48
economic union, which is a Moscow led economic
1:08:51
block with Russia and the founding membership.
1:08:55
September, 2015 Putin traveled to Beijing for celebrations
1:08:59
marking the end of world war two and
1:09:02
the visit served as a platform for extensive
1:09:04
talks resulting in nearly 30 signed agreements, 16
1:09:10
agreements between Russian and Chinese companies.
1:09:13
Russian energy giant giant Rosneft oil alone signed
1:09:19
deals with an estimated investment to potential of
1:09:23
$30 billion.
1:09:25
June 2016 economic ties between Russia and China
1:09:30
further deepened another state visit by Putin to
1:09:34
Beijing.
1:09:35
The two sides sign a broad range of
1:09:37
agreements including energy, high speed rail, aircraft manufacturing
1:09:42
and major investment projects.
1:09:46
July 2017 Xi Jinping visits Moscow.
1:09:50
Putin awarded him the order of St Andrew,
1:09:53
Russia's highest state honor in recognition of his
1:09:57
role in strengthening the comprehensive partnership and strategic
1:10:02
cooperation of the two nations.
1:10:05
Putin described Xi Jinping as a great friend
1:10:10
of Russia who has consistently supported closer ties
1:10:15
between Moscow and Beijing.
1:10:17
June of 2018 Xi Jinping returned to the
1:10:22
jester and awarded Putin the Chinese order of
1:10:25
friendship making him the first foreign leader to
1:10:29
receive that honor.
1:10:31
Chinese president described Putin as the founder of
1:10:35
modern Russia China relations and the most recognizable
1:10:39
and respected foreign leader for China.
1:10:44
June of 2019 Russia and China declare their
1:10:48
comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation cooperation and enter
1:10:52
a new era in a joint statement issued
1:10:55
during Xi Jinping's visit to Moscow.
1:10:58
The declaration said the two countries have elevated
1:11:01
their bilateral ties to the highest level setting
1:11:05
an example of good neighborly relations and mutually
1:11:08
beneficial cooperation.
1:11:10
They also pledged to deepen coordination on defending
1:11:14
their core national interests, sovereignty and longterm development.
1:11:20
February 2022 this is right at the time
1:11:24
the Russians were jumping into Ukraine.
1:11:28
Russia and China described their relationship as a
1:11:31
no limits partnership emphasizing that their cooperation has
1:11:37
no forbidden areas and is not a constrained
1:11:41
by traditional alliance structure structures.
1:11:44
The phrase was formalized in a joint statement
1:11:47
issued by Putin and Xi Jinping in which
1:11:51
both sides pledged deeper coordination on security, economics,
1:11:56
technology and global government while opposing what they
1:12:01
described as Western dominance in international affairs.
1:12:08
March of 2023 Russia was the first country
1:12:12
visited by Xi Jinping after securing his third
1:12:17
consecutive term as Chinese president.
1:12:21
Beijing attaches great importance to ties with Moscow.
1:12:24
Xi said at the time describing the relationship
1:12:26
as rooted in historical logic and drive driven
1:12:30
by the two nations shared goals and interests.
1:12:32
Putin hailed the major progress in bilateral relations
1:12:36
noting that annual trade between Russia and China
1:12:41
surged from 87 billion to 185 billion per
1:12:46
year over the previous decade.
1:12:49
May of 2024 Putin chose China for his
1:12:53
first foreign trip after securing reelection in 2024
1:12:57
describing ties with Beijing as a model of
1:13:00
good neighborly relations.
1:13:02
She said the partnership had become a key
1:13:04
pillar of global strategic stability and a driving
1:13:07
force behind democratization of international relations.
1:13:13
May 2025 Xi Jinping joined Russia's victory day
1:13:18
celebrations.
1:13:19
Once again this was the 80th anniversary.
1:13:23
A decade after first attending the commemorations in
1:13:26
Moscow during the visit, Xi said Russia and
1:13:29
China found the right model for cooperation and
1:13:32
pledged to work together with a more just
1:13:34
and balanced system of global government.
1:13:37
September 2025 Vladimir Putin traveled to China to
1:13:42
mark China's 80th anniversary of the end of
1:13:47
World War II from the Chinese perspective.
1:13:55
Putin described the visit as a tribute to
1:13:58
the sacrifice and heroism of the Russian and
1:14:01
Chinese people during that conflict.
1:14:04
The memory that our ancestors paid an enormous
1:14:07
price for peace and freedom remains the foundation
1:14:11
of modern Russia China relations.
1:14:14
He said Xi Jinping described ties between the
1:14:17
two countries as a model of eternal friendship
1:14:20
and mutual beneficial cooperation.
1:14:24
So that is between these two guys this
1:14:28
is a big deal and I haven't seen
1:14:32
any of the arrival yet but like I
1:14:34
said I'm curious as to what is going
1:14:38
to happen.
1:14:38
Do you know that the Trump visit and
1:14:44
more and more I don't call it a
1:14:47
nothing burger but more and more people are
1:14:49
describing his visit to China as a nothing
1:14:53
burger because nothing resulted from it that Trump
1:14:58
wanted to get except these rich businessmen getting
1:15:04
richer and they get to go and create
1:15:06
their own you know their own money with
1:15:13
their they do better for themselves.
1:15:15
I suppose that trickles down some to the
1:15:18
rest but it's it's a little different when
1:15:21
Russia does it because both of these guys
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they take they control the largest portions of
1:15:29
the economic areas of the country like Rosneft
1:15:38
is you know funded by the government for
1:15:43
the most part Rosatom is funded by the
1:15:47
government for the most part same thing goes
1:15:49
you know with with creating this Belt Road
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initiative and same thing goes with creating these
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people have met annually usually both of them
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visiting you know both visiting each other's countries
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and it's a big deal and this one
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for Putin is a two day visit and
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I want to see whether I'm very interested
1:16:16
it doesn't really matter but I want to
1:16:18
see if I want to see if the
1:16:26
red carpet and if Xi Jinping actually meets
1:16:29
Putin at the airport my bet is yes
1:16:32
that it'll happen that way and we shall
1:16:37
see what shall be seen when that comes.
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I've only got a minute for you you
1:16:46
got to turn down your radio.
1:16:52
Do you hear me?
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I guess not.
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Well there you have it.
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I can't hear you if you don't turn
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down your radio and if you don't say
1:17:04
anything.
1:17:06
There you have it.
1:17:08
Let's see.
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That's basically all I wanted to cover today.
1:17:12
We've only got a couple of minutes anyway
1:17:14
and I was gonna give you the last
1:17:17
of it but because I finished what I
1:17:20
wanted to get to today I think I'll
1:17:23
end for you with another song that I
1:17:28
wanted to play where in the wide world
1:17:30
of sports is it?