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Arestovich Shreds Ukraine’s Illusions: ICJ Bombshells, BRICS Reality, and Western Hypocrisy as Kyiv’s War Effort Collapses · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Got topics today and you know
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  There's been some some interesting news coming out for example
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  Zelensky must hold some elections according to Trump
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  Trump says that Zelensky has to start accepting the peace proposals. That's another
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  Road that he's taking and and number three he has to I
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  Don't know what actually read the peace proposal
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  Did you see him Trump's out on the tarmac and his wife is with him and he's heard no
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  I think they were still in a room before they went out on the tarmac, and he said look this guy hasn't even read the peace
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  proposal
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  Now you realize and I'm gonna talk a little bit more about that because I've been what I you know what I like to do
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  I like to go and get the opposing
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  side and then
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  Regurgitate it to you because I'm listening to it in Russian, and I didn't listen to Solovey old last night
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  I listened to two major things one Erastovic
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  Alexei Erastovic and to Maria Zakharova now Alexei Erastovic is a former
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  Advisor to Zelensky who was you know?
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  Thrown away basically by Zelensky couple three years ago as an advisor and all that and and then
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  Zakharova is the
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  Foreign Ministry spokesperson
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  works for Sergei Lavrov and
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  The foreign minister, and she always gives a briefing and she gave this briefing came out on Friday
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  So it's three four days old, but I finally got a chance to listen to it all and it's it's pretty good stuff
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  So we're gonna go from that point of view when they were talking about their point of view about a lot of these things well
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  The Alexei Erastovic deal is like an hour and a half long and that that gives us some good counter
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  Ammunition to what the US provides or what we provide in the West although. I must admit. We're getting a lot better about it and
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  But Europe is still in a dreamland
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  Somewhere so with that you know I want to start following the money because it really pissed me off
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  When they let out over the last couple of days the newly proposed US support package
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  So let's begin with a number
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  800 million dollars
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  This is the newly proposed support package for Ukraine in 2026 in 2027
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  400 million each year not 800 million for American infrastructure nothing for veterans farmers border security
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  Nope nope nope 800 million neatly into a ledger the already
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  drowning in red ink and corruption
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  You know
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  directed to a conflict Washington the Pentagon the State Department
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  Rubio
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  Trump
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  everybody knows
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  Cannot be won this war cannot be won by the West
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  It will not be won by the West and while they sign the check with one hand
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  They wring their hands with the other one, and they're telling us. Oh, we just have to continue to support Ukraine why?
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  because a political class
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  Can't fix
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  You know
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  Anything else, but they think it can guard global freedom
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  They don't give us any infrastructure all these big power dudes. We get nothing. We don't have any high-speed rail
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  We don't have any new bridges. What do we get we get what we all G?
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  We got to support Ukraine poor bloody Amir
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  Volodymyr's changed his name. He's no longer Vladimir's Volodymyr because that's how you say it in Ukraine people in the real world
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  Not the think-tank idiots are looking at their bills and going what in the world are we doing paying for this geopolitical fantasy?
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  The government keeps spending because this isn't about victory in Ukraine. It's about preserving the illusion
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  of Western dominance Western control Western profits that flow through the
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  military industrial complex war machine every dollar in the 800 million is of one more admission that the West can't
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  Exit gracefully from all the wars it creates it cannot admit defeat
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  It cannot admit that it lied cannot admit that it marched Ukraine into a war it could never win all while
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  Pretending this is some noble
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  Democracy crusade, but numbers do not lie the battlefield doesn't lie
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  You know let's talk about this 800 million bucks and be brutally honest about it. Is it gonna change anything?
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  No, it's not even a sustaining sum for this war
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  It's a political number just big enough for the Pentagon to looks like it's supporting, but small enough to avoid big headlines
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  It's still nonsense, and it's no longer billions. We're throwing out there Jesus half a billion bucks, right?
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  It's cynical. You know it's totally it allows pull-up politicians in Washington to say see we're still helping
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  But military analysts estimate that Ukraine burns through 100 to 120 million in materials every week
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  So what is 800 million?
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  Really buy and half this for 400 million a year six to eight weeks of slow defeat
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  maybe one failed offensive or a month of ammunition a
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  Month or two months of trying to hold ground Russia's gonna take
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  Anyway, the money isn't going to increase Ukrainian manpower
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  Erastovich in his
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  What do you call it interview
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  Bluntly said Ukraine's real crisis is men not money the West can wire billions
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  It can be taken to Monaco by all the
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  Globalist elites from Ukraine that have pocketed all this money in the most corrupt fashion
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  US knows the money is not going to change it Trump's own revised national security strategy said that which I told you about yesterday
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  He need and they need according to him an expeditious cessation of hostilities. Let's translate from bureaucrat to
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  Common English, right? Let's end this before the collapse becomes too visible before its total capitulation
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  Maria Zakharova said
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  There she was mocking it as a political prop not a strategic commitment
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  She what what's 400 million gonna get him seriously?
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  Nothing, and she isn't wrong. So the bigger scam is
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  Deficit war profit moral rot, you know the West loves to moralize to everybody else, but when you check the books
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  Morality is he has collapsed to the US national debt. How much is it? How much?
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  35 trillion right now and climbing
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  Interest payments alone are the becoming the largest federal expenditure bigger than defense bigger than Medicare somehow
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  Magically there's always money laying around for foreign wars
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  Defense contractors profits are going up
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  Lockheed Martin Northrop Grathian all posted record revenue
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  How do you like that? This war is the best thing to happen to their spreadsheets in decades, right?
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  European economies shrink while they promise more weapons Germany is in
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  Deindustrialization mode France dealing with the lowest economic confidence in a decade
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  UK is economically stagnant has been for at least the last five ten years and they're all willing to stand with Ukraine
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  They're the coalition of the willing or bunch of morons because they're not the ones standing on the front line
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  Elites who push these wars do not fight do not send their own children to it
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  They send them to foreign schools to for education and living they don't sacrifice their own income and they feel zero
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  consequence from this meanwhile
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  ordinary Ukrainians farmers mechanics bus drivers are paying with their bodies and
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  we are paying with our tax dollars and
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  These same people have the audacity to lecture me and everyone else about
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  Democracy Hillary Clinton gets to get on a stage in Doha and talk about you know the rules-based
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  order BS
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  European politicians, I wanted to talk about this because
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  If it
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  Wasn't so tragic and it really is it'd be hilarious and I'm and I still find it somewhat
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  You know funny, but the leaders demanding more war spending and more
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  Ukrainian
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  Life sacrifice are the least trusted people even in their own countries
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  Let's check this out Emmanuel Macron
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  His approval rating is in the low to mid 20s one of the least popular
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  French presidents in modern history
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  But he never start stops lecturing
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  He lectures Russia China anybody else who will put his
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  Bile out there for people to listen to Olaf Schultz. Let's listen to him. He's below 20%
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  Germany is collapsing economically socially political and the man can't rally his own party
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  But somehow he wants to rally Europe into World War three Rishi Sunak approval leader below
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  20% before the UK election wipeout
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  He still had time to make dramatic Ukraine statements while the British public was turning the lights off on the
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  Conservative party it's gone Pedro Sanchez
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  He's in the 30s more disliked than liked Ursula von der Leyen the EU goddess, right?
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  She has EU wide disapproval far above 50% and she's a leader elected by nobody
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  Representing institutions. Nobody trusts and making decisions. Nobody asked her voted for
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  Poland's post 2024 government publicly divided approval gone
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  Polish public wants border security less Ukrainians and
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  Domestic focus not endless funding of Ukraine who come over to Poland no work
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  Baltic the idiots over there. They're the loudest war
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  You know mongers they they love their war, but they don't pay for anything of it
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  It even even though they hate the Russian language like I was telling you about when I was over there
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  They have pretty shallow domestic support for further war than nobody's for war
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  The public is far more divided about escalation than their politicians pretend and these numbers matter
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  Because they tell the truth that nobody admits
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  Only unpopular leaders want more war. You know who's very popular these days globally
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  Who wants peace globally?
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  India
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  India sees what's going on and they're not afraid to talk about it. China sees what's going on
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  They're not afraid to talk about it
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  The BRICS countries in the global south see it and talk about it and want peace and talk about working together
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  Building bridges building infrastructure all of that. Nope
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  It's only the Western political class and the ones losing elections that refuse to acknowledge reality
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  The Hillary Clinton's of the world, right?
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  The EU even has a an insane 2030 war plan, right?
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  This is crazy. This is Europe is planning for a war. It cannot even fund in
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  2025 the EU can't get enough ammunition for Ukraine or to Ukraine. It can't balance its own budget
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  It can't keep its government stable can't maintain even internal security and certainly doesn't know how to protect its own borders in Europe
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  They're all being overrun by Ukrainians and by the global south, but it can write great, you know glossy print
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  2030 war readiness brochures, right?
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  This is like the man who can't run a mile planning to climb Mount Everest sometime in the next five years
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  Problem isn't ambition. It's delusion. These people got delusions
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  We're talking
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  The recent IAEA report about structural damage to new and safe confinement at Chernobyl
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  right, this is a symbol of systemic failure, right a
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  1.5 billion structure was built to last a century
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  This is the metaphor for the West's Ukraine project. It's cracked. It's expensive
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  It's poorly maintained and everybody pretends it's fine
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  But tell you what, there's no shelter there it's a reminder of how how fragile
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  Ukraine and the conflict in it really is and
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  the reality is
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  Well, the West won't say it out loud, but it's starting to come out
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  All of the money all of the speeches all of the summits and declarations boil down to several unavoidable truths
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  one big one
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  Ukraine cannot win this war
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  Not because Ukrainians are weak not because they lack bravery not because they don't try
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  They can't win because and think about this because it's important and everybody needs to hear this
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  Russia is larger far wealthier except for the oligarchs who?
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  Ukraine that are you know taking our money to Monaco
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  They're wealthier
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  strategically positioned Russia produces
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  ammunition
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  Five to eight times faster is what they estimate
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  Ammunition right Russia recruits better trains better
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  Russia has a united government a stable amount of public support and a prepared for war
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  infrastructure
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  Ukrainians have a manpower crisis that is
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  Irreversible the West isn't gonna send any troops the West cannot outproduce Russia
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  Anymore and the thought of us said it plainly what she here's what she said
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  She said the Western leaders are stuck in a theological mindset where belief
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  Substitutes for strategy this was interesting and very telling she said they believe Ukraine can win
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  therefore they act as if victory is
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  inevitable even as the battlefield says the exact opposite I
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  Found that quite telling because it's true, and we still are doing it
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  You know the Mitch McConnell's and the idiots in Washington are all saying the same thing the West's public us
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  We are begging for the truth look at the polling across Europe in the u.s.
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  The majority of Europeans oppose war spending
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  Americans oppose more Ukraine aid by by much larger numbers in Germany
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  70% opposed sending more weapons to Ukraine in France
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  60% distrust
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  Macron's Ukraine strategy and in the UK war enthusiasm is gone totally and
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  You know right along with soon acts approval the people want peace we want peace
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  Politicians all they're trying to do is save face and where does Ukraine fit in this?
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  Ukraine is a pawn
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  Sacrifice to protect political pride, this is why Zelensky is panicking
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  This is why he's purging his ministers chasing Western leaders for personal
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  personal
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  security guarantees and losing domestic support
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  Rapidly the political winds have definitely changed, and he feels he feels that definitely
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  He's definitely feeling it. He isn't fighting any any Russia anymore
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  Not him he's fighting his own irrelevance. You know meanwhile. What's going on the world is moving on right?
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  The West pouring more money into Ukraine. What are BRICS nations doing?
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  They're growing. They're trading in national currency. They are stockpiling gold
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  Did you read that report they have a huge countries? They're building
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  Infrastructure they're signing energy deals with Russia. They're taking market share
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  They're up over 38%
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  For the whole thing and they are stabilizing politically
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  meanwhile
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  Western economies not necessarily us we seem to be doing all right right now, but these are they're like
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  aging engines
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  Running on premium fuel that they can't afford you buy the most expensive gas you can to try to keep it going
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  But it ain't working Russia's gold reserves are at an all-time high
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  China's expanding its trade routes forever India's asserting independence and foreign policy
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  Saudi Arabia UAE Egypt Iran all are aligning with the new
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  Multipolar order and Ukraine is not the center of global history
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  It's a symptom. It's a symptom and
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  That ain't good the West created this mess, and it's having a hard time escaping it
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  The West told Ukraine it could win a war that the West itself would never fight
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  And they can't walk it back. They're having trouble. They cannot admit
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  They cannot admit there. It's coming out anyway, but nobody is admitting it. You know you'll never get Mitch McConnell or
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  Lindsey Graham to admit this stuff or even Marco Rubio although he has gotten closer to this
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  NATO expansion pushed Russia into a corner, that's what we did
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  Western intelligence misread the entire conflict and
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  the likelihood of success
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  And who's gonna succeed sure as hell isn't Ukraine right?
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  Sanctions backfired they can't admit that either it actually strengthened Russia and Russia's economy
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  Ukraine has never had enough manpower to defeat Russia on the battlefield never
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  Europeans are sick of war spending they can't admit that
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  US our population we're tired of foreign adventures going off and I
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  Don't know fighting for freedom and other places
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  overthrowing alleged
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  Dictators and installing our own as if that changes anything
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  You know like we're trying to do in Venezuela even now
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  Did you hear about Cambodia and Thailand that the peace deal fell through and they're back and back fighting again?
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  the battlefield in Ukraine is
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  Deteriorating rapidly and Russia's controlling it not Ukraine so instead. What do we do we write more checks?
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  We delay the moment of reckoning
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  We are writing more checks to disguise political cowardice you need to cut them off
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  Quit giving them u.s.. Intelligence. Did you know the new bill requires Congress to be told?
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  by the Pentagon if the Pentagon
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  stops providing
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  US intelligence to Ukraine did you know that that's in the bill that's BS
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  So now Trump can't stop it by telling generals quit providing the aid has to be go through Congress isn't that nuts
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  Mm-hmm so the house of cards always falls eventually right
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  You follow the money you find the truth this war was never about democracy never about freedom never about
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  sovereignty or
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  Territorial integrity never about rules based orders like Hillary Clinton says it's about freakin money. It's about contracts
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  It's about influence. It's about huge ego for oligarchs and everyone connected. It's about control. It's about
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  So-called pride and the inability of a declining political class to admit failure
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  Ukraine deserves honesty
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  Realism and leadership it gets speeches
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  slogans and nothing else
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  Maybe Zelensky gets applauded in Western Parliament when he goes and now it's gonna get 800 million more from us
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  not to win
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  But to prolong the inevitable to delay it further. This is the real story and somebody need to tell it
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  This is be freakin s. Okay. It's just it's wrong. This is wrong and
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  I
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  I think people need to talk more about this not less and
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  It's a
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  There's so much that ties into this so much that I listen to so the the West has been lying about this for how long?
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  For how long seriously let's think about this. This is a war built on promises that could have never
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  been kept and
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  We're not dying for it Ukrainians are dying for it
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  Farmers, but like I said the the the the middle of the rotors the not the rich the rich won't send their kids
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  They don't do it
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  Aristovitch said something about that. We're gonna get to him actually toward the end of this today
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  We're definitely gonna get to some aristovitch because I think it's important to get his
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  almost his full show was
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  And how he does his show
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  He in it and it's usually about an hour and a half hour and 45 minutes something like that every once in a while a couple
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  Hours, and he interviews with other people and basically they ask him his
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  Opinion questions and and he answers and we're gonna talk about him and panchenko and the sanctions that they've gone through
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  Here later in the show and what they have done, but this is total
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  BS what they do and and the lying that has gone on from the very start of this
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  Now it's just you know
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  There comes a moment in the conflict when the fog of war lifts and the truth is visible
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  Even to those who spent years and that's us
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  Pretending that it didn't exist or pretending that they didn't see it. You know we're here now
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  Everything that the Western politicians, you know Boris Johnson
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  Freaking Lindsey Graham all of them standing over there
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  You know congratulating the Z monster for the last four years right victory
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  Territorial integrity matters right endless supplies. We're with you till the end. Yeah
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  And a collapsing Russian economy that they said all Russian economy is gonna collapse. They're still saying this by the way a
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  United Europe Europe isn't United a
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  Grateful Ukrainian populace. They aren't they don't want this anymore. You can still see every single day on
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  telegram this
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  boosification as they call it and
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  boosification is
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  mobilization forced they're they're taking people
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  They're talking about recruited not recruiting
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  mobilizing men over the age of 60 now
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  remember it was a
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  You could be mobilized up to 60 if you were an officer up to 55 if you were not
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  And so they're mobilizing people up to 55 when they started it was age 27 to
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  55 that was who's being mobilized the average age is 47 years old way back then
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  Now they have lowered the limit to 25 years and that gave them an alleged another
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  130 140 possible people but Erastovich is pretty pretty brutal on that too, and we'll get to him
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  but this is this is
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  Rubbish as they say
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  You know everything they promised all of this has dissolved into something. That's really ugly for Ukraine a
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  losing war a
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  Collapsing corrupt state. It's been corrupt for 30 years, but it's collapsing now
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  And a political class trying to explain why reality doesn't match what they're telling us
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  You know
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  The West lied and Ukrainians died is no longer rhetoric
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  It's a description of events for nearly three years
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  West was told that enough Western money enough Western weapons enough Western speeches
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  Would defeat a nuclear armed powerful state with triple Ukrainian production ten times its industrial base
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  And centuries of battlefield depth it was told it could reclaim Donetsk
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  It's still saying that Donetsk Lugansk a Parisian course on Crimea
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  Territories that Ukraine barely controlled for the last decade and they still say they can take them back
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  It was told the Russians had run out of missiles remember that was told sanctions would collapse the Kremlin
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  Remember that it was told NATO is gonna remain united and that Western public support would stay high
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  Against Russia it was told Western leaders had their back. We have your back. It was told democracy
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  demands sacrifice and
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  None of it is true. No not any of it
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  Ukraine has fought courageously. You know that's all there is to it nobody should deny that but
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  Courage doesn't compensate for the lies and the lives came from every direction
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  Except on the battlefield which is you know if you're on it, it's gonna be brutally honest who's winning and who's losing
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  So the strategic lie that we've been told the territorial integrity is non-negotiable
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  This is the biggest deception of them all
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  Western leaders repeated this
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  Endlessly that Ukraine is not going to be asked to give up its territory. Not one village not a ridge not a meter
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  They made it sound like it was principle, but it wasn't it was politics because everybody involved including NATO's own
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  analysts
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  New Ukraine had no manpower. No equipment. No industrial capacity to retake the territories that Russia holds
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  They know and knew that Russia's producing shells at at least three to four times the rate of the entire
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  NATO bloc
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  I've heard
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  Numbers that are five times eight times higher. They knew the Ukrainian population
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  Curve has collapsed or gone out of the country
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  They have nobody left to mobilize their country is half of the population. It was back in the 90s
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  They knew morale is deteriorating they know draft evasion is
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  Exploding they can't get anywhere and they knew the elites in Kiev were already negotiation, you know involved in negotiations
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  privately for their own personal guarantees just like Zelensky now and
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  They still let the charade can continue
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  This is why Rostovitch and people like him have been screaming about this for a long time
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  And you cannot build a war strategy on
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  illusion
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  Territory held firmly by Russia is not a negotian
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  negotiation point
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  It's a physical reality Russia holds it and and even yesterday when when
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  Trump said he was disappointed in
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  Zelensky because Zelensky doesn't see reality and he doesn't you know, he's still not weak
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  We our Constitution says we can't give up territory. Well, you know, it's not you gave it up. It's been taken from you. I
• 29:50
  Don't know that the lines of think think tank maps don't mean much if you don't have any soldiers to control them
• 29:59
  I tell you what it remember when Zelensky was in Dublin last week
• 30:03
  He said that you Crane would not withdraw a single soldier from any position in Donbass. It's not defiance
• 30:10
  Yeah, he's not out there. His kids aren't out there. It's denial and
• 30:16
  Western leaders, you know standing around in Dublin they applauded because they knew
• 30:22
  That you couldn't sit. She couldn't tell the truth
• 30:26
  Aristovitch says that
• 30:29
  five to seven kilometers of territorial gain
• 30:33
  Every single month
• 30:35
  Depending on the sector and the front is a thousand at least a thousand to twelve to twelve hundred kilometers long
• 30:44
  Okay, and they're gaining at the rate of five to seven kilometers along the entire
• 30:49
  Dependent on the sector which what it is at that rate even with Western support Ukraine's defensive line is shrinking
• 30:58
  Steadily
• 30:59
  Territorial integrity is really not a principle in this war
• 31:03
  It's the casualty Russia's gonna take it Putin said it last week in his interview in India. He said well
• 31:09
  You know where we will meet our goals, which are the entire Donbass area
• 31:15
  We'll get it and we'll get Zaporozhye. We'll get her song. We'll take 100% of those
• 31:22
  How about the moral lie they've been telling that the West is fighting for democracy?
• 31:28
  Let's look at the people who made these promises right
• 31:31
  Macron who has no approval he lectures the world about defending democracy, right?
• 31:38
  He can hardly
• 31:41
  Defend his own presidency
• 31:43
  how many times has he had to replace the government the Parliament that he's been or that the Parliament has
• 31:50
  Collapsed and he's had to put in a new coalition
• 31:53
  Schultz is he has nothing
• 31:55
  economies collapsing in Germany
• 31:58
  Nonsense these are all crazy, and what's the institutional lie NATO's promises are very empty
• 32:06
  weapons yes
• 32:08
  You know this is what they promised to Ukraine weapons ammunition training intelligence
• 32:15
  troops nope
• 32:17
  reconstruction nope
• 32:19
  Ukrainian NATO membership nope
• 32:22
  That's never been promised never real not for a minute
• 32:27
  Not at all Ukraine is told fight now, and you can join the club later
• 32:31
  But NATO's own membership rules to one Western politicians. Don't bother to mention
• 32:39
  Explicitly prevent admitting any country with unresolved territorial disputes or active wars
• 32:45
  So behind closed doors US and EU
• 32:48
  Officials knew that NATO cannot intervene directly Ukraine had never be allowed inside NATO while fighting
• 32:56
  Article 5 protection is never going to be given to them
• 32:59
  But the West needed Ukraine outside of NATO to absorb the blows
• 33:04
  So the entire arrangement it appears to have been designed to ensure that only Ukrainians bleed and NATO remains
• 33:13
  Somewhat intact right so I rest ovitch calls it the great illusion
• 33:18
  Because it gave them just enough hope to keep the Ukrainians fighting, but never enough reality to bring a victory right
• 33:27
  What about the internal lies inside a Ukraine right what about them
• 33:33
  corruption purges
• 33:35
  Collapsing trust you know Ukrainians aren't just deceived by the West
• 33:40
  They've been deceived by their own governments
• 33:43
  Zelensky's government is collapsing right now his chief of staff
• 33:48
  Yermak was pushed out under corruption pressure a little bit, and they can't find another one so Zelensky says he himself is doing it
• 33:55
  He's not appointing number two
• 33:58
  So your max is number two and he can't appoint anybody else because he got rid of your mock ministers have been purged
• 34:05
  Scandals involving 100 million bucks on the kickbacks
• 34:08
  MPs calling for punitive measures against draft dodgers right there. They want to there's more than a hundred and fifty
• 34:15
  Thousand draft dodger cases people who have or people who have abandoned the front lines
• 34:21
  And they print you know, but they protect their own families. They don't send their own kids, and they're penalized penalizing
• 34:29
  Draft dodgers right
• 34:31
  Mobilization is collapsing under draft evasion and a shortage of manpower and the fact that everybody's gone out of the country
• 34:39
  Zelensky chases Western leaders for personal security guarantees
• 34:44
  and
• 34:46
  Aristovitch is pretty pretty brutal here
• 34:49
  Ukrainian elites told the people to fight he said but do not send their own sons
• 34:54
  And he reminded us he was talking about past wars
• 34:57
  And he was saying that Ukraine in the past in past wars during Soviet times even and during historic
• 35:03
  They always talk about it. He that elites served to they didn't hide their children behind exemption and diplomatic
• 35:10
  Passports or got him out shuttle him out of the country to go to school in England
• 35:16
  You know they they sent him to the front lines. They sent him to war they fought for the country
• 35:22
  So this is a hypocrisy
• 35:24
  It's not lost on the Ukrainian public they know about it. It's why draft evasion is
• 35:31
  Exploding because none of them none of the people I imagine how we would do it here in the United States think about it
• 35:39
  would you complain if
• 35:42
  No if they were drafting everybody and they but they never drafted anybody with money
• 35:49
  I mean, that's what happens. You know that it
• 35:52
  Why do you think there is no the moral collapse that there that I mean that there is a moral collapse in
• 36:00
  In Ukraine nobody's for this nobody wants it. They'd all rather
• 36:05
  Run away, then you know that you know they're not fighters. I wouldn't want to fight with somebody doesn't want to fight
• 36:11
  Do you know there's an article in the paper that says?
• 36:14
  Now this is Russian paper, so I've been trying to find a Ukrainian equivalent
• 36:18
  But Aristovitch said it too. He put a little bit out there about there said that said that
• 36:24
  There are no that that training get this this is
• 36:28
  Unfreaking believable that even now when they mobilize somebody they are sending them straight
• 36:36
  to the front that training if you know basic training is gonna be
• 36:42
  Conducted at the unit you're assigned to at the unit level
• 36:49
  Huh
• 36:52
  Nonsense it's a government out of men out of options, and it never had the luxury of truth. You know
• 37:00
  Let's talk about the legal lie over all this European governments talk endlessly about international law in
• 37:08
  Putin needs to pay for being the aggressor and blah blah blah
• 37:12
  But the ICJ rulings are contradicting at least half of it one of the
• 37:19
  things that came out in the last couple of days is that the ICJ dismissed Ukrainian genocide claims and
• 37:28
  sided with Russia on
• 37:30
  key procedural issues and Western media hasn't even mentioned it and these are going all the way back to
• 37:37
  2010 and the ICJ is now open them up for things that happened in
• 37:43
  Maidan and
• 37:45
  Because you know they don't want to talk about this instead of reporting this they just move on
• 37:50
  Because the truth is only useful
• 37:53
  When it supports desired
• 37:56
  Narrative otherwise, it's ignored and this double standard is everywhere and everybody in America knows it the West is allegedly
• 38:04
  outraged by
• 38:06
  Russian censorship right but silent about YouTube deleting
• 38:12
  Member what was her name?
• 38:13
  Panchenko she had 1.8 million followers, and they deleted her channel
• 38:19
  We're gonna go a little bit further into that here a little bit later, but the West defends alleged freedom of expression
• 38:26
  You saw what happened to Elon Musk getting?
• 38:30
  Sanctioned personally it looks like by NATO to pay 150 million dollar fine for not blocking
• 38:37
  the content on X
• 38:39
  But they you know
• 38:41
  They applaud sanctions on people like panchenko though. They applaud putting people like her on the on
• 38:48
  mirror towards list and
• 38:50
  Erastovich to the West gets to lecture Russia on democracy
• 38:54
  But bans parties and censored dissent in Ukraine all under Western applause right you can't
• 39:02
  Say anything negative
• 39:04
  You know it's a rules-based order Hillary
• 39:07
  Hills rules-based
• 39:09
  Yeah, but if you only understand you only got to understand one rule the rules apply to you
• 39:16
  But not to people so let's talk about panchenko in the censorship, right?
• 39:27
  What she did cannot be reduced to propaganda. You can't call what she did propaganda. She she
• 39:34
  Told the truth right her interviews her analysts her documentation did something that Western outlets refused to do
• 39:41
  They showed from the beginning the war's actual impact
• 39:45
  contradictions inside Ukraine
• 39:48
  Corruption suffering human cost and what happened to her she was sanctioned not because she lied
• 39:55
  But because she contradicted the approved
• 39:59
  version of the truth
• 40:00
  So the Ukrainian SBU accused her of justifying Russian aggression
• 40:08
  So if you say that that Russia
• 40:11
  You know if you say some of the things that I'm saying that
• 40:15
  Russia, you know had set red lines forever and told us don't do this NATO. Don't do this NATO that that would be
• 40:23
  Justifying aggression against Ukraine, which is illegal by the way
• 40:27
  You can't say it
• 40:30
  Ukrainian courts added treason charges against her for saying that
• 40:36
  She had sanctions against her in December of 2023
• 40:41
  Inside a Ukraine YouTube blocked her in
• 40:44
  2024 YouTube right you YouTube Google
• 40:48
  Blocked her in 2024 and she had 1.8 million followers and then
• 40:54
  YouTube
• 40:56
  deleted
• 40:57
  Her entire channel and she had a very professional channel very profession they deleted the entire channel in
• 41:05
  2025 just this year back in like February or something 1.8 million subscribers and
• 41:13
  What did they cite to do that?
• 41:15
  Ukrainian sanctions
• 41:17
  YouTube isn't that crazy. This is not about safety. It's not about integrity. It's not about preventing falsehood. It's about preventing
• 41:27
  The
• 41:29
  arrival of different opinions of the other story if your narrative is so fragile that a
• 41:34
  journalist with a microphone becomes a national security threat
• 41:39
  Your narrative has already collapsed. You know if you're afraid of speech
• 41:45
  Tell you what you're done
• 41:48
  What's the political lie in all this?
• 41:52
  Western leaders have used Ukraine
• 41:56
  to save
• 41:58
  themselves and prop themselves up
• 42:02
  The leaders that most aggressively pushed the war
• 42:06
  Have the lowest approval ratings
• 42:10
  What does that tell you? I mean if you can't read a spreadsheet, you know
• 42:14
  Perhaps I shall help you. It means that all of these leaders have no mandate even at home and
• 42:22
  All they do is go to the EU go to the u.s. And want to talk about moral and you know clarity and
• 42:30
  Democracy abroad they're they're moral giants outside of their own homes, but in their own homes
• 42:37
  They're a joke
• 42:37
  They're they're they're one in five like and I won't say they like what's going on one in five will put up with what's going
• 42:46
  on
• 42:46
  Why is this?
• 42:48
  Well because foreign policy is the last refuge of those that are politically bankrupt
• 42:54
  That's where they go
• 42:56
  You know when your own citizens turn against you. What do you do?
• 43:01
  You go outside of your country you focus on global threat you create moral drama
• 43:06
  You wrap yourself in the Ukrainian flag you warn of enemies everywhere Russia's our enemy. They're gonna attack us by 2030
• 43:14
  You accuse critics critics of siding with dictators Penchenko is a Putin puppet
• 43:21
  Everybody's a Putin puppet
• 43:23
  Tucker Carlson is a Putin puppet, right? You substitute war narrative for domestic legitimacy
• 43:29
  Ukraine is a crutch
• 43:31
  crutch for people like Mitch McConnell for people like Lindsey Graham
• 43:37
  For other Western leaders unable to stand on their own
• 43:43
  Collapsing approval ratings do not fix inflation
• 43:46
  They do not fix energy prices crime immigration or government failure
• 43:53
  But perhaps you can disguise
• 43:56
  your failures
• 43:57
  enough behind a speech about
• 44:02
  Standing with democracy in Ukraine even though there's you know no democracy there
• 44:08
  You know and so while they these people
• 44:13
  Ours EU's they don't stand for crap at home. They you know nobody likes them nobody wants them and
• 44:21
  Ukrainians are standing in the trenches
• 44:23
  Funding all of that and the elites in Ukraine get rich
• 44:28
  It's it's not good
• 44:31
  What about the lie that Russia is losing?
• 44:34
  This is the biggest delusion that has been going on forever
• 44:38
  They don't talk numbers anymore you never get numbers from the battlefield you never get anything because nobody wants to talk about it instead you get
• 44:45
  These I don't know what
• 44:48
  Platitudinal, I don't know if that's even a word, but these these
• 44:52
  Self-gratifying words Russia's running out of missiles. No, they're not
• 44:58
  Russia's running out of drones. They aren't Russia's running out of tanks. Nope
• 45:04
  Russia's running out of manpower
• 45:06
  Nope Russia's collapsing
• 45:09
  economically
• 45:11
  No, it's not
• 45:12
  Russia's
• 45:13
  Isolated globally I think Putin in India last week and Putin in China earlier this year
• 45:20
  Proved that he's not you know he might be
• 45:27
  Not in it have any desire to go to Western countries that might arrest him
• 45:34
  But other than that you know he's
• 45:37
  participating
• 45:39
  Quite well on the global stage
• 45:42
  Meanwhile Russia gains territory every month they have increased their missile production
• 45:48
  their military has adapted and
• 45:51
  Gotten extremely good at what it does faster than NATO
• 45:56
  You know ever dreamed possible their economy is stable
• 46:00
  They deep into their ties with China India the Middle East Africa Latin America other BRICS countries
• 46:08
  They just have
• 46:09
  Russia is the world's fifth largest
• 46:12
  gold holder
• 46:14
  They have a diversified energy export system, and the ruble is doing very well
• 46:23
  and Ukraine
• 46:24
  No men their money's worth crap, you know it's why Restovich says the war isn't just being lost it is
• 46:31
  Unwinnable and has been from the start
• 46:36
  The West lied to itself and lied to Ukraine and when the truth finally came out it was in the form of manpower charts
• 46:45
  battlefield maps and casualty lists
• 46:48
  that's what it is and
• 46:50
  What is the final lie that we are hearing even now?
• 46:56
  This lie persists only because they can't admit all of the prior truths that I give you
• 47:01
  The Western leaders are admitting that Ukraine cannot win, but if well they're not but I mean
• 47:09
  Reality is biting them in the butt so this final lie is still going on
• 47:14
  But if the Western leaders do admit the Ukraine cannot win has to capitulate
• 47:20
  They then have to explain why they have spent hundreds of
• 47:25
  billions of
• 47:26
  Dollars on a lost cause and why the old trumpster is going to sign off on another 800 million
• 47:32
  They'd have to explain why they
• 47:36
  Escalated the war after it was resolved in April of 22
• 47:41
  Boris Johnson instead of negotiating they would have to explain why they silence any dissent
• 47:48
  Panchenka
• 47:49
  Erastovich they would have to explain why they've ignored
• 47:52
  Military analysts their own intelligence agencies that warn that Russia held long-term advantage
• 48:02
  If they were receiving
• 48:05
  Information that they could beat Russia, and they were receiving it from us
• 48:10
  Tell you what that is foolish and anybody who believes that is in it's it's bad freaking news
• 48:16
  I didn't believe it from the beginning, and I hope you know well
• 48:19
  There's some others you know, but now people are actually talking about
• 48:24
  About it all these lies. They would have to explain why they treated Ukrainian lives as expendable, and they're still doing it
• 48:33
  Zelensky Ukrainians are expendable to that guy
• 48:36
  And obviously they're expendable to us because we're still sending another 800 million
• 48:42
  for another six to eight weeks of
• 48:45
  You know funding
• 48:47
  Men getting thrown into the meat grinder. It's BS
• 48:51
  They'd have to explain why they make promises that they know they can never keep
• 48:57
  So what happens the lie continues
• 49:00
  We still have a lot of people saying Ukraine can still win because their careers depend upon it
• 49:07
  their money depends upon it, but the Ukrainian people are not surviving and
• 49:14
  Erastovich is telling a brutal truth what here's one of his quotes the war is lost
• 49:19
  That's what he said the country is being emptied
• 49:23
  The leadership class is panicked
• 49:28
  Peace even bitter
• 49:30
  Humiliating peace is the only peace that preserves what remains of Ukraine
• 49:37
  now that
• 49:38
  That's a that's a hell of a comment by it by a guy if that truth had been acknowledged two years ago
• 49:45
  We could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives
• 49:49
  You know the numbers that they're saying for the month of September that that Putin put out and were backed by a couple of Western
• 49:57
  think tanks, you know military
• 50:00
  channels
• 50:00
  44,000
• 50:03
  700
• 50:04
  How does this war end one of three ways right victory of Russia or you know?
• 50:12
  Defeat of Russia that ain't happening or a
• 50:16
  negotiated surrender of
• 50:18
  illusions
• 50:19
  It's an end of this this BS where Ukraine keeps thinking that that it can tell Russia to back out of these
• 50:26
  Territories, they're heading toward their own toward the third option the negotiated surrender
• 50:31
  But only because the West refuses to admit in engineered the defeat
• 50:35
  You know number two the defeat isn't possible, but the negotiated surrender they can do that
• 50:41
  You know because the West lied
• 50:43
  institutions lied all the politicians lied the media lied and in the middle of those lies are
• 50:49
  millions of Ukrainians who believe they were defending democracy and
• 50:53
  Their homeland's future when in reality the leaders were defending their own poll numbers their own positions
• 50:59
  Their own money train and their own pride and Erastovich said it again
• 51:05
  Here's another quote this war continues because nobody wants to admit they were wrong
• 51:12
  Think about that in the end the truth always
• 51:17
  Arrives it does come out sometimes it goes too late and when it does arrive it walks over the graves of the people
• 51:25
  Who paid for this delay in truth?
• 51:28
  I'm telling you. This is this is a horror story that is coming toward the end, right?
• 51:37
  We're gonna get into the Erastovich that interview was so interesting and
• 51:43
  I put together quite a bit of stuff on here some of it
• 51:46
  I've covered, but his interview was an hour and hour and a half hour and 45 minutes long now Alexei Erastovich
• 51:55
  Just so you know who he is
• 51:58
  He's always been
• 52:00
  Somewhat of a paradoxical character. You know he is in the power class or was
• 52:07
  But he always spoke the truth. You know he's one of those guys and
• 52:14
  You know the Ukrainians at least the connected ones
• 52:17
  you know do not want to admit that he was right all along, but he has been and
• 52:23
  So let's talk about that he once sold. You know hope he was the voice of calm back
• 52:30
  you know when he was in Kiev and
• 52:33
  You know he was the voice of optimism. You know, but today. He has no position. He's been exiled. He's been sanctioned
• 52:40
  He's hunted by the same state
• 52:42
  You know that he once defended, and he's one thing that Ukraine cannot tolerate a
• 52:50
  Teller of truth and a witness to reality and the reality as he tells it now is not a heroic
• 52:57
  heroic epic Western media you know
• 53:01
  Thing you know nor the motivational sound bites that Kiev gets to broadcast
• 53:08
  Reality is the country is bleeding out
• 53:12
  Demographically
• 53:14
  militarily
• 53:15
  Psychologically while the leadership clings to fantasies that cost lives every single day
• 53:24
  44,700 of them in September on the Ukrainian side
• 53:30
  so
• 53:30
  You know
• 53:32
  If we previously exposed what the West did to Ukraine
• 53:37
  You know and all the lies that came out of the West
• 53:40
  I want to tell you from according to a rest ovitch what Ukraine has done to itself
• 53:45
  Because you know he isn't speaking as an outsider
• 53:49
  He's speaking as a man who sat in the rooms heard the plants watched the illusions take shape
• 53:54
  Even helped sell them when the country needed unity and now he's watching as all those illusions are killing the nation
• 54:02
  They were trying to protect
• 54:04
  It's not gloating. It's not revenge. It's a confession and
• 54:09
  You know confessions are dangerous because you know they can actually be truthful, and that's the trouble you know
• 54:19
  Aristovitch returns to one brutal premise all the time. He says wars are won with men
• 54:27
  not with speeches and
• 54:30
  Ukraine doesn't have the men
• 54:32
  He's very poetic. He has said it publicly privately analytically emotionally angrily
• 54:38
  He says it reasonably often and every time he says it the Ukrainian
• 54:43
  Establishment loses its mind and they hate him
• 54:47
  Because acknowledging the manpower collapse means acknowledging everything else
• 54:53
  That Russia has a demographic advantage that the front cannot be held indefinitely
• 54:58
  Territorial loss is not hypothetical
• 55:00
  Year of victory slogan is dead and that the West cannot and will not replace
• 55:07
  Ukrainian soldiers on the ground that political leadership in Ukraine has no plan
• 55:15
  except asking for more sacrifice from other people right and
• 55:22
  Here's our arrest ovitch breaks it down now pay attention this because these are numbers right he said and if and if the and and this
• 55:29
  Doesn't cover even a month worth. He said that Ukraine needs and I've heard this number repeatedly
• 55:36
  Repeatedly that they need 30 to 40,000 trained soldiers per month
• 55:43
  Just to hold on to the front lines
• 55:47
  30 to 40,000 now if you're not losing. Why do you need 30 to 40,000 right?
• 55:55
  It is generating according to him a third of that if that
• 56:00
  So they're generating according to the numbers. I've seen between eight and twelve thousand is what they are
• 56:07
  Getting every month and only through these increasingly aggressive
• 56:13
  mobilization tactics Russia is
• 56:16
  getting twenty to thirty thousand
• 56:19
  volunteers per month without
• 56:22
  Mobilization and it still has reserves right now
• 56:27
  The numbers aren't these are not a battlefield statistic. This is a death sentence
• 56:34
  You can't force
• 56:36
  10,000 a month and Russia's getting double to triple that and
• 56:41
  They're training them, and they're rotating them. They've said that rotations have vacations a leave of absence
• 56:48
  Haven't occurred because if they send somebody away from the front line. They won't come back
• 56:53
  The only way you get out of there is you know is a death sentence
• 56:59
  You know they're even sending people who are injured back to the front
• 57:03
  This is why Kiev has now ordered conscripts to be sent directly to front line brigades for training because
• 57:10
  The training system is non-existent or overwhelmed with a little bit that they have
• 57:16
  Casualties are too high
• 57:17
  Rotations have collapsed fresh units have to be fed into positions
• 57:22
  Immediately, this is not reform. It's desperation
• 57:26
  So what is there a stove which is conclusion here Ukraine is fighting with the army of?
• 57:31
  2022 goals
• 57:33
  using the manpower of
• 57:35
  2024 reality and those realities aren't aren't very promising you know
• 57:43
  The five to seven kilometer per month reality the steady
• 57:48
  patient Russian advance he talked about
• 57:52
  The Western media likes to say the front is stable
• 57:57
  It's a stalemate
• 57:59
  It's a war of attrition
• 58:01
  They're grinding to a halt
• 58:03
  Erastovich said he hates that fiction because he studies the map the way a doctor studies
• 58:10
  Cancer the tumor is growing slowly until the patient dies suddenly
• 58:18
  That's brutal in it Russia advances five to seven kilometers a month on average across sectors
• 58:24
  Sometimes ten kilometers and breakthrough a sometimes two to three when resistance is strong, but always forward always consistent always
• 58:32
  Methodical it's not a blitzkrieg. It's an attrition
• 58:35
  engineered with
• 58:38
  mathematical precision precision and that's according to Erastovich
• 58:42
  Now I read an interesting article the other day that I wish I could find that said
• 58:48
  The following now I happen to know a little bit of Russian history. You know I enjoyed it
• 58:54
  in college and enjoy it even today and my minors in in Russian studies is what they called it at University of Illinois and
• 59:04
  I
• 59:06
  Know a little bit about Russian history
• 59:10
  and
• 59:10
  The place where Ukraine is Kiev in Rus which Vladimir Putin talked about in his interview in India the other day
• 59:18
  is a
• 59:20
  step
• 59:22
  Steppe
• 59:23
  Sort of place. It's like plains
• 59:26
  rolling hills, but they're there hills and valleys and stuff like that on the eastern part which
• 59:34
  end
• 59:35
  According to the analysis that I read that are ending basically after the river
• 59:41
  Donetsk which goes after and they get up over the hills that come along that River and in the eastern parts of
• 59:49
  Zaporozhye and
• 59:52
  Zaporozhye Donetsk and Lugansk that once they get over that part. It's all flat and
• 59:59
  spread out and
• 1:00:01
  Mostly farmland and the cities are a long way away
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  Well once they get past this set of of cities
• 1:00:10
  Then it's going to be
• 1:00:12
  quite a bit of
• 1:00:14
  forward progress on their part
• 1:00:17
  Let's see, I have an collar hello, mr. Collar
• 1:00:22
  Good morning top of the morning to you. How are you top of the morning to you, sir? Nice to have you
• 1:00:27
  How are you doing? Nice to be had. I'm well. Thank you. Good good. I
• 1:00:32
  Still do not understand why you're blaming me and you and young Jack
• 1:00:39
  for the destabilization in Ukraine
• 1:00:42
  Wouldn't it be more accurate to blame?
• 1:00:45
  Like the bathhouse administration of the CIA or the deep state instead of
• 1:00:50
  Blaming Western civilization for what happened in Ukraine when I say West I'm talking about EU
• 1:00:58
  leadership and our deep state types
• 1:01:01
  so when I say we we are part of that and we can't get away from that that
• 1:01:09
  sad part of our own history
• 1:01:11
  That's what I'm saying. That's what that's the problem I have is
• 1:01:15
  You and I are part of the West, but we're not part of the bathhouse administration. We work for that
• 1:01:19
  In fact, if I'd have known about it, I'd have been way against it in 14
• 1:01:22
  Yeah, but who's putting who's putting eight hundred thousand eight hundred million more into the end of the kitty even now
• 1:01:29
  That's us
• 1:01:31
  No, it ain't me. It's not well who's doing the deep state or the well probably
• 1:01:36
  Capitol Hill Capitol Hill. That's right. And who's in charge of that? Who's in charge of writing check?
• 1:01:42
  When are we gonna make a stand on that what if the old trumpster didn't give
• 1:01:48
  I'm not blaming you
• 1:01:55
  Well, then we have to do something about it, how do we get rid of these yay-whos
• 1:02:03
  No, I don't mean to blame you I when I say I'll try not to say we any longer
• 1:02:12
  Why not
• 1:02:20
  It's not only bathhouse it's everybody this was heavy-duty Bush time too. We've all done well we
• 1:02:28
  Started all this in 14
• 1:02:31
  that one that one color revolution that was that was a
• 1:02:37
  Engineered coup in Ukraine
• 1:02:40
  Well, okay
• 1:02:42
  Well, then I always thought it was like an orange color revolution with Victorian Newlands and bathhouses fingerprints all over it
• 1:02:49
  Definitely see people not I wouldn't blame Western Civilization for it
• 1:02:55
  It is it is Western Civilization
• 1:03:05
  I'll try to be I
• 1:03:08
  Know I don't mean to blame you at all. I know I know you think like I do but we haven't done much about it
• 1:03:14
  Have we?
• 1:03:16
  Well, let's say we probably do everything we can. I think it's important. My opinion is I guess
• 1:03:22
  Close notes of this call would be that if you can blame specific people for this instead of the entire
• 1:03:29
  Planet for it. That'd be great. Well, I
• 1:03:32
  I'm naming the people involved here as the elites in Ukraine
• 1:03:39
  When I say West I say
• 1:03:46
  Western leadership you all of the EU leader leaders
• 1:03:52
  globalists same in the u.s. And the military-industrial complex
• 1:04:02
  He is that's true
• 1:04:05
  But the majority are going the other direction. I've named some of the specific leaders here in this who have nothing
• 1:04:14
  positive in their own countries and have gone forward people like the Schultz's of the world the
• 1:04:19
  Who have no backing even in their own country, but are traveling the world pumping Ukraine down people's throats
• 1:04:30
  I
• 1:04:32
  Get your point point. Well taken. Thank you. Thank as I would say to my old drill sergeants
• 1:04:38
  Thank you for conditioning my mind and body drill sergeant
• 1:04:44
  I don't mean to be I mean to be blaming the same old globalist elites who are always to blame for this sort of crap
• 1:04:53
  Right, yeah global elites now you're getting there I've been there
• 1:04:57
  I've been there. I just sometimes I sometimes get a little
• 1:05:02
  Weak in my in my what do you call it being a sharp pointed?
• 1:05:09
  pencil instead of a dull one
• 1:05:14
  Western civilization is a good thing
• 1:05:17
  When you're making it sound like we're the problem
• 1:05:20
  We're not the problem. Nope. Nope. Nope
• 1:05:23
  Western globalist elites there you have it. I
• 1:05:28
  Apologize for slowing you down, but I'm not slow. I'm still cruising
• 1:05:33
  Okay, brother. Go get him party on. Have a nice day
• 1:05:37
  see you bud and
• 1:05:40
  There he goes and I like it when he when he calls in and corrects me. I know he thinks that I'm beating up on people
• 1:05:49
  all over but when I say we once again, I'm talking about the
• 1:05:55
  Western elite and the dominated of what what
• 1:06:01
  We have done forever now remember part of the we was me years and years ago
• 1:06:07
  Because I worked in the government sphere and I watched it from the inside in this exact topics, you know while
• 1:06:15
  while people were
• 1:06:18
  You know building these things and money was being pumped into things that didn't need to be
• 1:06:25
  pumped
• 1:06:28
  Nonsensically in my view, but they were doing it
• 1:06:31
  We were pumping that money into the former Soviet Union and into the former Eastern
• 1:06:36
  Republic's the former Warsaw Pact countries like madmen
• 1:06:40
  even then and trying to create these
• 1:06:45
  anti Russia
• 1:06:47
  Sentiments everywhere. We're doing it. It did it in Georgia. It's still going on in, Georgia
• 1:06:53
  The the a very positive occurred when US Agency for International Development went away and I want to get to the
• 1:07:01
  there's a a
• 1:07:03
  Little bit to get to I think I'll have time to get there. I think we will
• 1:07:09
  Let's see
• 1:07:11
  What were we saying
• 1:07:14
  every kilometer that Russia takes
• 1:07:18
  Widens the operational depth
• 1:07:21
  Destroys Ukrainian logistics even more
• 1:07:25
  undermines morale
• 1:07:27
  forces further retreat stretches the line even thinner and
• 1:07:34
  accelerates
• 1:07:35
  the inevitable collapse
• 1:07:38
  Okay, because as I was saying that when they cross this
• 1:07:43
  Step area. It's all going to be flat and farmland almost all the way to Kiev. There's
• 1:07:50
  When they get past the hearse on
• 1:07:54
  When they get Harkin very I mean when they get past that and they get past
• 1:08:00
  They will take all of the the doneatsk all of Lugansk. Those will be taken all of Zaporizhia
• 1:08:07
  Russia has been pretty clear about that. It's gonna happen and
• 1:08:12
  There's you know, Trump can be disappointed all he wants that
• 1:08:17
  Zelensky won't see reality
• 1:08:19
  But he won't
• 1:08:21
  and
• 1:08:22
  Aristovich says and he went through that a little bit too. He said when the front collapses
• 1:08:28
  It doesn't collapse like a wall. It collapses like wet cardboard
• 1:08:34
  first one brigade
• 1:08:36
  Then the neighboring brigade bends then the light and retreats 20 to 30 kilometers in days and you use
• 1:08:44
  thousands of men
• 1:08:46
  You know in that process this is not a prophecy it's how Ukraine lost saved or a doneatsk
• 1:08:54
  Lisa chance
• 1:08:57
  Solidar Bachmuth and dozens of smaller positions these cauldrons that Russia forms
• 1:09:02
  When they do it and they finally break the line in each of these places
• 1:09:08
  They suddenly get a big push, you know, and then they have to stop
• 1:09:12
  Operationally because their own rear lines can't keep up with the front lines
• 1:09:17
  So they slow down and they start over again, you know, this isn't prophecy. It's it's not there and
• 1:09:24
  You know
• 1:09:25
  Aristovich spent a little bit of time talking about the it's the elites that never bleed and he attacked the Ukrainian
• 1:09:33
  so-called
• 1:09:35
  aristocracy and
• 1:09:37
  You know
• 1:09:38
  He he wasn't he was partially angry, but he appeared more disgusted to me, you know, here's a
• 1:09:46
  Here's a truth that every country according to him once understood that elites
• 1:09:53
  Lead by example elites send their own sons to
• 1:09:57
  elites show the nation how to
• 1:10:01
  sacrifice
• 1:10:02
  But what happens in modern Ukraine?
• 1:10:06
  The
• 1:10:07
  Elites are protecting their sons protecting their assets protecting their positions
• 1:10:12
  protecting their own exemptions and protecting their own
• 1:10:16
  tails false of falsehood, you know and
• 1:10:23
  He says his quote was the elites are demanding heroism from the common people
• 1:10:29
  while providing cowardice from above
• 1:10:33
  That's harsh and
• 1:10:35
  He's not wrong, you know draft officers are chasing men on the buses in the ark of and
• 1:10:42
  MP sons are vacationing abroad
• 1:10:44
  Ministers children hold dual passports and go to America all the time
• 1:10:49
  oligarch families live in Vienna, London
• 1:10:53
  Miami and former officials like his Kuliba guy. Have you seen him? He openly says well if I'm summoned
• 1:11:00
  Maybe I'll join the army, but they spend years calling on Ukrainians abroad to come home and fight
• 1:11:06
  Mm-hmm. He's 40-something. He can still be mobilized. Why hasn't he been you know?
• 1:11:13
  Berestovich talks about this as a broken social contract, right and in past wars
• 1:11:20
  He talked about elites fighting today
• 1:11:23
  They send telegram messages from Europe telling ordinary Ukrainians that they need to fight to defend
• 1:11:30
  democracy and the people see this and
• 1:11:34
  The resentment of it is growing and the state has zero
• 1:11:39
  Moral authority in Ukraine. So this is the internal part, right and
• 1:11:45
  when he talked about
• 1:11:47
  Zelensky
• 1:11:49
  He said that Zelensky has been
• 1:11:57
  Quietly seeking personal security guarantees from Western governments
• 1:12:04
  Not national guarantees not state guarantees not security for Ukraine
• 1:12:10
  but security for himself
• 1:12:13
  Will he be able to?
• 1:12:16
  live in London one of the things was
• 1:12:18
  You know, I don't want to be handed over to the US for stealing US money
• 1:12:26
  You know according to Aristovich, he says this is not a rumor. It's a logical outcome of this
• 1:12:34
  political leader who has
• 1:12:36
  Collapsing support can't even name another
• 1:12:41
  number two
• 1:12:42
  He can't they have collapsing mobilization
• 1:12:46
  territorial control
• 1:12:48
  Western enthusiasm is gone
• 1:12:51
  Public trust of him in Kiev is also gone
• 1:12:55
  He has no approval rating of his own
• 1:12:59
  Internally, they aren't allowed to publish these numbers
• 1:13:02
  but they the last ones I saw that were public said that he was less than 30% and
• 1:13:10
  Nobody believes the illusion about victory anymore
• 1:13:14
  And so once he was strutting through European Parliament speaking everywhere now
• 1:13:21
  Nobody wants him to come to Doha
• 1:13:24
  No invite and he's asking for help about his personal safety
• 1:13:29
  That's not a leader. That's planning victory. That's a guy planning his exit exit stage, right?
• 1:13:36
  and
• 1:13:37
  You know
• 1:13:40
  Aristovich is almost sympathetic to the old Z monster. He says Zelensky's trapped in a system of
• 1:13:47
  expectations that no human
• 1:13:48
  Could
• 1:13:50
  you know
• 1:13:52
  Figure out that no human could produce
• 1:13:55
  These expectations what they want from him, but you know feeling sorry for the guy
• 1:14:02
  Well, you how could you he's got all this money at his own when he's negotiated
• 1:14:07
  Negotiating for his own survival though
• 1:14:10
  That means the state's already in freefall
• 1:14:14
  and
• 1:14:16
  So he also points out that Ukraine isn't just losing villages and I found this part of his
• 1:14:24
  Analysis pretty interesting. He said that it's losing the terrain that controls rivers
• 1:14:33
  And they're around several large
• 1:14:37
  Reservoirs and dams that Russia has seized the Zaporozhian nuclear power plant places like that
• 1:14:44
  the high ground
• 1:14:46
  Once Russia gets past these high ground places in the eastern parts, then it's all just flat plains
• 1:14:54
  You know that that means the artillery which are Russia already dominates in the artillery area
• 1:15:02
  now they get to
• 1:15:04
  forward that from a position of high ground and
• 1:15:08
  You know all the lifelines to the supply lines have been broken and
• 1:15:14
  Russia can take over all of these historic industrial areas in Zaporizhzhia and
• 1:15:22
  in the Donetsk and Lugansk in towns that symbolically and
• 1:15:27
  Psychologically are critical to Ukrainian identity. He says this is the slow erasure of the state's
• 1:15:35
  military skeleton and
• 1:15:39
  Tell you what that
• 1:15:43
  Loss of industrial capacity is gonna weigh heavily later on. That's why they need to
• 1:15:51
  Seal the gap now they need to capitulate now and
• 1:15:57
  Apparently there well, obviously they don't plan to do so what we can't give up territory. Well fine. We'll take it from you then says Russia
• 1:16:07
  crazy stuff
• 1:16:09
  And then he talked quite a bit about the
• 1:16:12
  Psychological exhaustion of Russia. I mean of Ukraine. He said
• 1:16:17
  Society is living in a freeze mode unable to move forward unable to retreat
• 1:16:26
  People are living you know with their families separated men can't go anywhere
• 1:16:31
  Women are working out of the country the elderly are caring for abandoned children
• 1:16:37
  Cities are half empty villages are empty and an economy is running only on foreign loans
• 1:16:44
  That are never gonna be able to be paid
• 1:16:48
  Tragedy isn't just the war. It's the halt of
• 1:16:53
  Life I suppose you'd call it the halt of a regular life
• 1:16:58
  No weddings
• 1:17:01
  No births
• 1:17:02
  No, long-term plans. The only future is trying to survive
• 1:17:08
  This according to him is more dangerous than any
• 1:17:13
  military defeat
• 1:17:15
  Country can lose territory and still survive
• 1:17:17
  He's afraid there won't be any Ukraine at all and the country cannot lose its will to live, but it is
• 1:17:26
  There's something going on
• 1:17:28
  Remember I told you that
• 1:17:30
  there's a lot of effort on the part of
• 1:17:34
  Ukraine to destroy people like
• 1:17:38
  Erastovich and people like panchenka
• 1:17:43
  But there's a another counter to that that
• 1:17:48
  Western money
• 1:17:50
  the
• 1:17:51
  endowment for democracy remember them and the
• 1:17:55
  It used to be US Agency for international development funding all of this pro-ukraine
• 1:18:03
  rhetoric rhetoric that we got to hear for so long, right and
• 1:18:09
  He was talking about one showed a couple of videos of it. It's
• 1:18:13
  ridiculous
• 1:18:15
  Ukrainian
• 1:18:19
  And
• 1:18:21
  Moldovan youth and Keishon you know, I say it is
• 1:18:26
  And I that's the city I was in for
• 1:18:30
  close to three and a half months and that I was there and
• 1:18:34
  one of the
• 1:18:35
  things he discussed is the explosion of
• 1:18:40
  fake bloggers, right
• 1:18:42
  That are funded somehow. These are people that pretend to be analysts insiders whistleblowers that
• 1:18:49
  you know are trying to
• 1:18:54
  Promote the war and all this other stuff and he says that there's a group in
• 1:18:59
  Keishon you often he showed several of their videos. I found it quite interesting
• 1:19:02
  He said it's a coordinated
• 1:19:05
  disinformation network built to attack
• 1:19:07
  critics
• 1:19:09
  Pump government narratives and create the illusion of consensus and the message that they're passing out is this
• 1:19:18
  It
• 1:19:19
  Well the messages
• 1:19:22
  In Ukraine today, the truth isn't actually the truth. It's some sort of manufactured and it's not unique to just
• 1:19:30
  Ukraine every government in a wartime would manipulate information
• 1:19:34
  But in Ukraine's case the manipulation is the primary political weapon
• 1:19:41
  Critics aren't debated. They're drowned
• 1:19:44
  Arrested sanctioned forced into exile or like Penchenka
• 1:19:50
  erased digitally by platforms that claim to defend democracy
• 1:19:55
  For rest of it's the mountain of fake bloggers isn't an annoyance
• 1:20:01
  it's proof that the state has lost control and is now outsourcing its propaganda to
• 1:20:08
  amateurs and trolls
• 1:20:09
  What he called them when a government relies on influencers instead of institutions the war is lost
• 1:20:18
  Morally psychologically strategically. He said these guys are out there
• 1:20:24
  Telling that telling these lies right and he himself he started talking about his own
• 1:20:31
  Sanctions, right? He wasn't sanctioned for treason. He wasn't sanctioned for revealing classified information
• 1:20:38
  He wasn't sanctioned for aiding
• 1:20:41
  Russia his crime
• 1:20:43
  According to Ukraine is telling Ukrainians. Here's what it is. Russia is advancing
• 1:20:51
  The war cannot be won. Our leadership hasn't been truthful the West now
• 1:20:57
  This is his words the West misled Ukraine
• 1:21:01
  Mobilization is failing
• 1:21:03
  Territory will be lost
• 1:21:05
  peace talks are
• 1:21:07
  Necessary and
• 1:21:09
  We hope that illusions must die before the country does
• 1:21:14
  That's it in an authoritarian system. That is
• 1:21:19
  Sedition that is treason. He's a traitor in a democratic system
• 1:21:25
  Allegedly that is discourse
• 1:21:28
  But in Ukraine's wartime, it's heresy, you know, you can be burned at the stake
• 1:21:34
  Every point he raised in 2028 2023 and 2024 the collapse of mobilization Western fatigue Russian
• 1:21:41
  adaptation
• 1:21:43
  Territorial loss inevitable push for negotiations. He was absolutely right
• 1:21:48
  Punishing him sanctioning him didn't protect Ukraine and at all. It only protected the illusion
• 1:21:54
  You know somebody could win
• 1:21:58
  right
• 1:21:59
  Er
• 1:22:00
  Stovich hammers the point that terrifies Ukraine and its officials the war cannot be won
• 1:22:08
  Militarily if nobody gets that by now
• 1:22:12
  You know, they got a bag over their head or their head in the sand or something similar
• 1:22:17
  They can't win they have dwindling manpower
• 1:22:20
  Exhausted brigades Western support is gone
• 1:22:24
  Industrial inferiority they can't produce they can't keep up
• 1:22:28
  territorial loss is
• 1:22:30
  accelerating internal corruption is
• 1:22:33
  Accelerating and it's going to as people see this winding down
• 1:22:37
  They're going to continue grabbing more and more and more of the dollars that come their way and hiding it in
• 1:22:43
  You know offshore account somewhere
• 1:22:47
  socially, they're they're all exhausted victory as
• 1:22:52
  Defined by Kiev in 2022 push Russia back to the 1991 borders is absolutely impossible
• 1:22:58
  And has been for some time
• 1:23:00
  But acknowledging this political suicide
• 1:23:04
  You know
• 1:23:07
  By saying it anyway
• 1:23:09
  It's an embarrassment to the what to the Western governments that supported all this and it's you know Ukrainian leadership
• 1:23:16
  You're not allowed to say it so they cling to these slogans
• 1:23:21
  Russia has to lose
• 1:23:22
  Ukraine must win total victory is inevitable and we will defend every meter that was said by Zelensky last week
• 1:23:32
  Last week he's throwing people to the front. What is there a Stovich say?
• 1:23:37
  He said victory requires reality and reality is gone. He doesn't say Ukraine must surrender
• 1:23:44
  he doesn't say Ukraine has to kneel he says Ukraine has to live on and
• 1:23:49
  Living on requires ending a war that is killing the country
• 1:23:55
  Isn't that crazy?
• 1:23:57
  you know, it's
• 1:24:02
  Quite enlightening to see these things
• 1:24:06
  Go on. What is the post-war map of Ukraine?
• 1:24:11
  seriously
• 1:24:13
  What will they rebuild if they don't exist
• 1:24:18
  What territory can be regained by diplomacy seriously right now
• 1:24:24
  Russia ain't gonna give it up. They've won it to think that they're going to walk away and go. Oh, we're sorry
• 1:24:30
  Here you go
• 1:24:31
  We told you what to do since 2014 and you ignored us all the way to
• 1:24:36
  2022 and when we told you what we were doing in 2022 you say all right, you know in 2025
• 1:24:42
  2026 give us give it back to us and we'll mind you not mind you but we'll do the right things now
• 1:24:49
  We won't destroy the Russian language. We won't destroy the Russian Church. Did you hear about the the Russian?
• 1:24:56
  Not the Russian the Ukrainian
• 1:24:59
  priest
• 1:25:00
  Arrested this past week sentenced to five years
• 1:25:04
  Because they stole all of his phone calls
• 1:25:06
  I need to find that article if I can but they they listened to all his phone calls where he said
• 1:25:12
  some of the things that I've just said he said, you know, we really need to do something because we're not gonna win and he
• 1:25:19
  was from Odessa and
• 1:25:21
  They arrested him. He's going to prison for five years for telling the truth
• 1:25:25
  that's what's happening and
• 1:25:28
  And that's not just those are Ukrainian newspapers talking about that his his
• 1:25:35
  recorded conversations that were intercepted while he was driving in his car down the street by the
• 1:25:42
  Ukrainian special intelligence they
• 1:25:45
  copied his his
• 1:25:47
  discussions with a third person and said that him saying the things he said is
• 1:25:53
  treason
• 1:25:55
  Isn't that crazy truth tellers truth tellers and grave diggers is
• 1:26:01
  Where we're headed
• 1:26:04
  The war is not going to be remembered simply for territory lost or gained
• 1:26:08
  It's gonna be remembered for the illusions and lies
• 1:26:13
  That happened Ukraine was lied to by the West lied to by its own elites lied to by bloggers
• 1:26:20
  institutions US Agency for International Development and the men sent to the trenches paid for those lies with their own
• 1:26:28
  blood
• 1:26:28
  the people who are arrested and
• 1:26:31
  punished for telling the truth
• 1:26:35
  They're the ones who you know
• 1:26:39
  One truth told one simple truth Ukraine cannot defeat Russia
• 1:26:44
  but Ukraine might be able to save itself if it listens to the people that it silenced and
• 1:26:52
  I don't think they will
• 1:26:54
  Listen to the people they silenced. That's not what I think
• 1:26:58
  You know
• 1:26:58
  Trump for his part
• 1:27:01
  He is saying that Zelensky has to hold some elections. He's trying to they need to get rid of this guy, right?
• 1:27:08
  and because Putin says it's legally impossible for
• 1:27:13
  The Z monster to sign a peace treaty right now
• 1:27:17
  can't be done and
• 1:27:20
  Trump urges Ukraine to hold elections questioning the Democratic credentials in an interview published Tuesday
• 1:27:26
  He appeared to issue a new challenge to Zelensky. This is this morning in
• 1:27:32
  Russian news
• 1:27:33
  A new challenge to Zelensky his presidential term expired in May of 2024, but
• 1:27:42
  He still isn't going to organize a presidential election citing martial law
• 1:27:48
  He was elected in 2019 declared in 2023 Ukraine will not hold
• 1:27:54
  presidential or parliamentary elections while martial law remains in force
• 1:27:59
  and Trump says
• 1:28:01
  They haven't had an election in a long time, you know, they talk about democracy
• 1:28:06
  But it gets to a point where it's not democracy anymore
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  Asked directly if you trade cranium should go to the polls
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  Trump said it's time and argued it was an important time to hold an election
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  Adding that while they're using war not to hold an election
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  Ukrainians should have that choice
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  Pretty cool now Kaia Kallis calls that a
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  Provocation
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  The criticisms that the European Union
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  Received from Trump's national security strategy are not true according to her
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  and so there's some pretty comical stuff going on and
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  Trump said that the that Europe is
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  Decaying group of nations led by weak leaders. This is what he said. I think they're weak
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  He said Europe doesn't know what to do
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  And its leaders talk too much
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  He said but he knew the good leaders the bad leaders the smart ones and the stupid ones
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  You got some real stupid ones, too
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