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Burevestnik, Buffer-Zones, Budapest: Blazing, Blistering, Battlefront Briefing Blending Big Breakthroughs, Bureaucratic Blunders, Beltway Bloviation, Backlash, Bargains, Barbs, Battlelines · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Um to be truthful I uh Did some
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  review but I didn't prepare anything massive for
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  tonight there's been plenty of of uh Nonsense
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  going on in the world continually I Have
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  been digging into it somewhat I wanted to
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  start tonight with a small So the escalations
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  are continuing, okay, so um The Og will
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  sanction og will do this og will bomb
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  them into submission there are plenty of videos
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  out there in english and in russian on
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  both topics, uh that that uh, Truly are
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  distressing because people are morons and they aren't
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  Uh resolving the issues they're just playing, you
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  know, who's got the bigger appendage and uh,
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  I dislike that There were some interesting things
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  that went on that i'm going to share
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  with you tonight lavrov gave a speech Uh
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  a speech he gave an interview on youtube.
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  So i'm going to summarize it for you
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  So you don't have to listen to it
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  yourself and and it uh was pretty neat,
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  you know, he had a youtube Discussion, um
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  putin um Gave a speech also and it
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  was a long speech and i'm not going
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  to cover the whole thing But there's one
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  little chunk of it Because when I started
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  prepping for today's show, um From all the
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  news of this morning, you know and having
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  a look at it Uh, everybody's talking and
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  I don't know but but I figured i'd
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  jump in and find out why Everybody's talking
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  about it.
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  It's the bura viestnik the bura viestnik is
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  a nuclear capable loitering missile Now I talked
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  to you a little bit about these before
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  and some and and how they are Being
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  developed in russia and i've got a little
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  bit of a history for you that I
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  want to go through but I want to
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  Start with it with uh, i'm gonna probably
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  start a little bit in reverse.
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  Um, and I don't know the exact date
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  of this, but it was within the last
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  few days and so um, I I didn't
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  have time to go and find out exactly
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  when it was but this is It's a
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  Translation of a short Uh, just a several
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  couple of three four minutes maybe that i'll
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  share with you that starts with um putin
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  Um, and he's talking and so putin showed
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  up.
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  I don't know if you know this but
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  but they also call putin the commander-in
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  -chief right and One of the differences that
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  has happened over at least the last few
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  years Is that when putin is having a
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  military meeting with all of his generals and
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  meeting with all the uh, the staff and
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  whatnot he uh Puts on a uniform and
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  so he leads the uh, he leads the
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  uh, Table as it were in uniform.
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  And so this has happened a few times
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  So, um, and if you wanted to go
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  out in and find some of these you
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  probably could on youtube find some Uh, the
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  interview with lavrov is out there um, but
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  it was in russian I had to translate
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  it the um, Discussions, you know, everybody's talking
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  all the news junkies like me are talking
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  about the um, The uh And uh Um,
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  basically, um, and i'll share i'll share some
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  with you, but i'm going to do it
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  in reversed.
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  Um, I Am starting with putin and then
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  i'll go back to where we were besides
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  that okay and uh This is from it
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  was posted today and all the news has
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  been today, but I think this was really
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  yesterday, but Who the hell knows?
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  um You can't tell so basically he starts
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  it off by saying Because they're talking about
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  their strategic offensive rocket forces.
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  We have once again Demonstrated the reliability of
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  russia's nuclear shield strategic forces Russian are capable
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  of ensuring national security of the russian federation
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  and the soviet And the former soviet union
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  we've already mentioned this fact, which is well
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  known to all military experts in the world
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  The modern The modernity, I don't know that
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  that's really a word, but that's how it
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  translated it The modernity of our armed forces
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  or the nuclear deterrence forces Is at the
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  highest levels It is possible to say without
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  exaggeration That russia is at the highest level
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  of all nuclear states now I truly believe
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  this they were ahead of us before And
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  they have developed and developed and their nuclear
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  sub forces are strategic Nuclear forces are far
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  superior to ours Um at I mean hell
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  we can't even build a ship.
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  We don't have any new shipyards.
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  I mean we got nothing Ours is ancient
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  compared to theirs.
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  Theirs is quite modern As for the exercise
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  that was held.
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  I asked the chief of staff to report
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  on that event I mentioned it briefly in
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  my introductory Introductory remarks and I am talking
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  about the test of the cruise missile with
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  unlimited range the Burevestnik with its own nuclear
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  power plant nuclear Powered.
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  Okay.
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  This is not a Ballistic missile of any
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  kind it can go and sit in the
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  sky Off of any place in the world
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  that it wants to with basically Unlimited power
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  source.
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  Okay, but you know as far as attacks
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  go I know that I have a report
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  from the industry as well as from the
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  ministry of defense This is a unique product
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  that no one else in the world has
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  and this is true Moreover I remember very
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  well when we announced that we were developing
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  such a weapon even Experts of very high
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  level told me that this is a good
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  and worthy goal But it will never be
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  achievable This was the opinion of the experts
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  at a very high level now decisive tests
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  have been completed There's a lot of work
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  to be done to put the weapon into
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  service So I would like to hear the
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  opinion of our chief of staff And here's
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  what chief staff said Our test was conducted
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  on the 21st of october the difference from
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  our previous tests Was that it was a
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  multi-hour flight of the missile during which
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  It covered a distance of 14 000 kilometers
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  This is nowhere close to the limit The
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  bureauvetsnik allows us to use with a guaranteed
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  accuracy at high defense objects at any distance
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  in addition During the flight of this missile
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  all of the vertical and horizontal maneuvers were
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  performed Thus the bureauvetsnik was able to cover
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  easily a distance of 14 000 kilometers The
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  bureauvetsnik was in the air for about 15
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  hours And then it goes back to putin.
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  This is not the limit We will have
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  To decide which class of weapons this new
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  system belongs to We need to determine possible
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  methods of application And start preparing the infrastructure
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  for deployment of this weapon in our armed
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  forces And that was the brief discussion that
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  was between putin and his missile defense chief
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  uh or missile missile offense missile chief, this
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  is a strategic rocket forces guy and and
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  he he put he put out today, so
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  Everybody knows if you listen to this channel
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  hardly, you know ever you know that I
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  have been involved in the past in nuclear
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  reduction nuclear armaments getting rid of nuclear Nuclear
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  testing getting rid of strategic rockets of short
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  and intermediate ranges under the inf treaty I
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  was trained in the start treaty really didn't
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  do a whole lot on that But I
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  was certainly involved in the nuclear threshold test
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  ban treaty and in delivering of verification equipment
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  into moscow um for Verifying their underground nuclear
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  testing and then taking trips and delivering Um
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  inspectors all over the united states for the
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  verification of ours by the russians and I
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  i've said again, but i'll repeat it that
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  uh, it just it seems to me That
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  we have been wasting our time creating an
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  enemy that doesn't exist and now We're trying
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  to create an enemy that does exist if
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  you remember my my Diatribe from thursday when
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  I talked about medvedev and talking about how
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  he was saying That uh, the u.s.
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  Is our enemy, you know, they shouldn't be
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  but they are And uh, they're they're they're
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  making themselves They're making us their enemy.
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  We've been doing that for 50 years and
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  hell 30 at least since I was in
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  well, I was involved in this, you know
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  in the in the all through the initial
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  90s and uh What have we done since
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  then collapses soviet union?
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  We created an enemy that doesn't exist.
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  And now what are we doing now?
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  We're forcing and I don't mean we I
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  mean the deep state the idiots that want
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  this crap to continue in europe in england
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  in america are all Pushing trump pushing trump
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  pushing trump and he's under pressure Like I
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  said in the show on thursday if you
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  want to hear that go back and listen
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  to thursday's show on internationalflavor.com And now
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  where are we?
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  We're back to nuclear gamesmanship back to Mine's
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  bigger than yours.
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  Mine's better than yours.
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  Oh, we can build those too.
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  We're up to trillion dollar defense budgets We're
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  up to the to nato or all of
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  uh, the eu all putting out there five
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  percent of everything To jack it up and
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  and who's the bad guy russia china All
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  we do is talk about enemies trump wanders
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  around the world claiming to make peace But
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  he doesn't do it on the big stage,
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  you know the big ones We need those
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  to continue because we have to win According,
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  you know according to our deep staters You
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  can't just pull the plug on it and
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  say, you know We were they can never
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  admit they were wrong and they won't and
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  it's a and it's a shame that they
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  won't but we all know They're wrong.
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  Everybody knows they're wrong and but they just
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  will never admit it and and and and
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  You know rambling about that like I do
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  It's kind of frustrating and i've listened to
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  some other people Uh ramble about it as
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  well, unfortunately In the last couple of days,
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  so let's look at the it's called the
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  9m730 bruh vesnik Let's see what the west
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  says about it.
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  It's also referred to as the skyfall the
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  blunt and here's a no bs according to
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  uh the the put together of all this
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  What it is?
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  It is a ground launched Nuclear powered and
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  nuclear capable Could carry a nuclear warhead.
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  That means cruise missile that russia says can
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  loiter for hours or even days And fly
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  anywhere on the planet hugging terrain and dodging
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  defenses first unveiled by putin in 2018 Okay,
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  the concept and the catch propulsion Most open
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  source assessments point to a nuclear thermal air
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  breathing engine Think of a ramjet engine heated
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  by a miniature reactor of its own That
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  promises near unlimited range but at the cost
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  of potentially radioactive exhaust This is what the
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  west is saying.
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  Oh, geez, it's a fly in chernobyl.
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  You're nuclear powering.
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  Well, there are all kinds of nuclear powered
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  submarines You know, nobody says anything about that
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  How it starts a solid fuel booster kicks
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  it into the air The reactor powered engine
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  then takes over for the long haul russian
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  Os int agreed on the basic sequence.
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  So it's it's kicked off by a solid
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  fuel booster uh, so Why build it?
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  Moscow says it's in answer to u.s.
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  Missile defense post abm treaty collapse All of
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  the treaty collapsing and the us saying we're
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  not going to limit what we do So
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  russia says well, neither will we and we're
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  ahead of you, by the way And so
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  they just you know, the treaties are collapsing.
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  All right, fine, you know Let's up the
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  ante then that's what everybody else is doing.
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  Okay um Um Well, let's see It's also
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  sold politically as a route around everything and
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  it's a second strike option so you everybody
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  remembers war games, you know and uh, Uh,
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  matthew broderick saying that he you know, you
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  can't win, you know and all the stuff
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  Shall we play a game, you know and
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  playing playing checkers that you can't win and
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  then uh, Suddenly the the machine decides that
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  it can't win A nuclear war and because
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  everybody's going to strike everybody and you can't
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  win frankly.
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  I still believe that to be true How
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  did it take us to a movie to
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  get to that?
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  That's what they called the deterrence back in
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  the day And then they started to uh
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  eliminate some of the threat but so far
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  hasn't gotten all that way So what russia
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  says about what can be verified in the
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  west what they say in the official claims?
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  And and I just read to you what
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  they said today they said they tested it
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  on october 21st and it worked, okay Sorry
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  about that got a little bit of a
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  froggy in the throat today um so in
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  2018 putin unveiled the low-flying Unpredictable unlimited
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  range nuclear plow powered cruise missile.
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  That was kremlin 2018 october 2023 Putin says
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  one of the first successful tests was conducted
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  western outlets gave no independent confirmation And now
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  in october 2025 now, I saw something about
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  six months ago from a different source that
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  said that the uh, Russians had these and
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  that they had done some limited tests that
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  didn't go into it Uh didn't go in
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  as much detail as what I have today
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  And so I haven't been able to find
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  anything but today everywhere Everybody's talking about it
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  and talking about what they're putting out and
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  trying to figure out if they can verify
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  So like you heard that I gave you
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  the the complete rundown of the officials that
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  now claim 14 000 kilometer 15 hours of
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  flight near global reach This is moscow what
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  they're saying so far not necessarily independently verified
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  so The test and assembly sites are pankova,
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  which is a nova zimla which nova zimla
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  is Up in the arctic circle now when
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  when I was involved in the nuclear threshold
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  test ban treaties They would either be doing
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  underground nuclear testing in Kazakhstan Uh, I think
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  it was called semipalatinsk and then nova zimla
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  which is up in the arctic circle means
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  new land and it's uh, basically a an
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  ice island and uh, you know, it's got
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  land too, but they were doing uh, This
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  is where they say Uh, they were uh,
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  this pankova site shows recurring activity tied to
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  burevestnik testing Uh On the white sea is
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  the other key range linked to this program
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  uh the probable deployment 2020 can't even talk
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  today 2024 satellite work by evolith and lewis
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  flagged a new fixed launch complex near Vologda
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  20 Vologda 20 basically And chibsara adjacent to
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  a nuclear warhead bunker farm reuters published imagery
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  and expert views of that site so in
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  2019 And there was an event on august
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  8th of 2019 In in the nyonaksa area
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  an explosion during work with an isotope power
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  source Killed five russ adams specialists and russ
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  adam is the uh, uh, russian government uh
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  atomic company that does all of their nuclear
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  development nuclear test sites uh nuclear reactors nuclear
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  power all of this And that's russ adam
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  and they do it all over the world.
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  I told you that russ adam is doing
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  a huge nuclear site Nuclear power station in
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  india several of them That I talked about
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  several weeks ago other times as well um
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  in a nearby severa sever Where are we
• 20:55
  severa dvinsk saw a brief radiation spike?
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  uh, and so the president's a nuclear service
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  ship was documented so The 2019 they're saying
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  this happened and there were isotopes detected Russia's
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  own meteorological service later cited short-lived sr
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  -91 ba 139 and 140 That what is
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  that called strontium 91?
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  I forget from my long ago nuclear knowledge
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  They were consistent with a reactor release not
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  a simple simple rocket being shot off So
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  the bottom line the program does have a
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  non-trivial Radiological risk in testing um and
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  even in deployment and uh, you know, that's
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  Actually occurred back in 2019 okay um, so
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  What do we actually know in the west
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  about it, okay the Speed and altitude is
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  officially described as subsonic And very low altitude
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  with a ability to sneak under the radar
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  and we know this is this is true
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  The unlimited range line comes from the reactor
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  not from the speed of it, right?
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  um It says it's a fixed berm launched
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  pads under construction near the two sites.
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  I told you about the logda 20 Linked
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  by roads to nuclear storage an unusual co
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  -location That raises expert eyebrows because they can
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  do this Arms control status.
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  Okay.
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  These are not counted under the new start
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  treaty And washington could in my view should
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  seek talks to cover it, but there's no
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  active mechanism now um you know, they they
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  um There was a comprehensive test ban treaty.
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  I was at the threshold test ban treaty,
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  but now it's a comprehensive test ban treaty
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  and they were allegedly uh, Revisiting getting out
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  of that De-ratifying that because the u
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  .s has done so much with the rest
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  of them There are talks about other people
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  doing underground nuclear testing So our last u
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  .s as far as i'm aware Was the
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  one I was in attendance for like 1992
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  or 93 Was our last one And we
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  were the last russia had one in the
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  works, but they took it off the table
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  Everybody agreed it was time to get rid
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  of it.
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  Now.
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  Here we are Dicking around with this again
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  and and gonna make it worse for the
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  for the planet, right?
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  so What are the?
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  Russian and western analyses the best of the
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  public takes that I could find, right?
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  The war zone which is an excellent long
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  -running.
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  Um You know descriptor person who comments on
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  this On the mianenska and the pankova ship
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  tracking and test windows say they're skeptical on
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  practicality You know, they aren't they didn't say
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  anything about Whether it works or not.
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  They're saying it might not be practical And
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  mostly because of the radioactive exhaust that possibly
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  comes out of there Reuters investigations.
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  They said that the deployment, uh nearsight vologda
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  20 Collates the you know says that it
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  That they can't deny it.
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  You know what I mean?
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  um basic briefs from the uh, uh Capability
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  summaries of the 2023 test claims were very
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  cautious with that And they say it's likely
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  limited versus icbms that icbms.
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  You don't really need to replace them with
• 24:50
  these but These are to be loitering Meaning
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  they can just hang out You could put
• 24:57
  them out, you know outside of international waters
• 25:01
  and just have them sit there, you know
• 25:03
  until the fuel runs out and uh So,
• 25:07
  I don't know.
• 25:08
  There's there's a lot of people talking about
• 25:11
  it.
• 25:11
  There's a uh, I don't know where what
• 25:13
  this stands for nti They say there's a
• 25:17
  poor test record and that they've had Quite
• 25:20
  a few results through 2024 with um, only
• 25:24
  a few successes well Okay, that means they're
• 25:29
  still developing it though in the uk um
• 25:33
  at hocken hull Which is a their strategic
• 25:36
  verification site warned a subsonic nuclear powered cruise
• 25:41
  with global reach near indefinite loiter Will definitely
• 25:46
  complicate defenses Is but that doesn't show that
• 25:51
  it's proof that it's ready for um For
• 25:55
  exploitation use right now um russian state kremlin
• 26:00
  tasks, you know other places like that emphasize
• 26:03
  this unique and invincible attributes and successful reactor
• 26:07
  unit tests But they aren't providing any technical
• 26:11
  detail who would you know, like we're going
• 26:14
  to talk about anything we come up with
• 26:16
  here, right?
• 26:17
  um Well, what's the honest strategic value?
• 26:22
  What does it give russia?
• 26:23
  In other words if it works Which they
• 26:26
  say it does now It gives them an
• 26:29
  unpredictable ultra long endurance second strike retaliatory strike
• 26:34
  option that can loiter and attack from odd
• 26:38
  azimuth after defenses are already Saturated so what
• 26:43
  do you do if you want to do
• 26:45
  something in ukraine?
• 26:46
  Let's say you have a You don't have
• 26:50
  to put a nuclear warhead in it, but
• 26:52
  you have a nuclear loitering munition, right?
• 26:55
  And a loitering missile so this is what
• 26:59
  both sides are doing to each other right
• 27:02
  now the ukrainians to attack civilians on beaches
• 27:05
  in in Crimea And apartment buildings and cars
• 27:10
  and crap like that.
• 27:11
  They are bombarding the airwaves Uh air not
• 27:16
  the airwaves the air with um Drones tons
• 27:22
  of them so you send over 200 drones
• 27:24
  russia sends over russia sends over 600 drones
• 27:29
  one night Then they send along with it
• 27:33
  So they let the drones all go in
• 27:35
  and take all the patriots the expensive million
• 27:38
  dollar patriot of a missile being used to
• 27:41
  take out a drone And they and they
• 27:44
  saturate it and make all of these things
• 27:48
  go now the ukrainians are doing it too
• 27:49
  on the russian side against the ss um
• 27:52
  Or the s400s and the in in the
• 27:55
  other defensive um Missile forces in in in
• 28:01
  russia.
• 28:01
  They're doing the same thing by sending over
• 28:03
  a sheer volume of tons of uh tons
• 28:06
  of uh Weapons tons of drones, right?
• 28:09
  And so you saturate them and then you
• 28:12
  send over the bigger ones later So it's
• 28:15
  hard to pick out which one it is
• 28:17
  and the uh automated systems can't really pick
• 28:20
  out which ones they are And so if
• 28:23
  you've saturated them all and they've spent all
• 28:26
  of their air defense suddenly you send in
• 28:28
  the bigger ones Toward the end and they're
• 28:31
  unhindered, you know, they they just reach the
• 28:33
  target.
• 28:34
  That's that And so it's unfortunate but that's
• 28:38
  what they're doing and that's today's warfare, okay
• 28:42
  and this is why the ukrainians want to
• 28:45
  be able to bomb deep inside of russia
• 28:48
  and take out things like that because they
• 28:50
  want to send over a couple of hundred
• 28:52
  and Uh take out russian oil platforms and
• 28:57
  burn them up And stop the war and
• 29:00
  that is what the uh, the old trumpster
• 29:04
  is is trying to uh contemplate these days
• 29:09
  But they can't do it without our intelligence
• 29:12
  and that means we're directly involved I think
• 29:15
  it's a joke to think we're not directly
• 29:16
  involved now anyway, so I don't know i'm
• 29:20
  not encouraging that it happened but uh, because
• 29:25
  You're all you're doing is upping the ante
• 29:27
  upping the ante and somebody's gonna do something
• 29:30
  stupid before too long um So russia having
• 29:35
  the ability to loiter They can send them
• 29:39
  all out at once right and have the
• 29:41
  last ones be these Ones that could hang
• 29:44
  out for hours on end And then come
• 29:47
  in With a pretty good size warhead, no,
• 29:50
  I don't need a nuclear capable warhead But
• 29:53
  you have a nuclear reactor powering it for
• 29:55
  distance, right?
• 29:57
  and so that's what it Brings to russia
• 30:01
  if they really want to that's you know,
• 30:03
  the sales pitch from the arms, um Manufacturer
• 30:07
  anyway for somebody who's gonna go here's what
• 30:10
  you're gonna get, you know, you would take
• 30:11
  out your enemy Here's how you do it
• 30:14
  And uh, so what the critics would say,
• 30:16
  um, it's still a slow cruise missile trackable
• 30:21
  and killable given time and radiologically messy in
• 30:26
  testing and potentially in flight a high-risk
• 30:30
  boutique weapon that adds more politics and pollution
• 30:35
  Than new leverage.
• 30:36
  That's what the west is saying.
• 30:38
  Well Okay.
• 30:39
  So what are you going to do?
• 30:40
  You're gonna Radiate the atmosphere, uh with a
• 30:45
  missile that isn't very fast anyway, and we
• 30:47
  can take out So between uh, let's see
• 30:55
  Let's take the key chronology here.
• 30:57
  It should be about Ready, you know right
• 31:01
  now because from 2018 to now they've done
• 31:04
  some serious Some serious tests on it and
• 31:08
  probable deployment all through 24 Successful testing in
• 31:12
  23 imagery and program activity 2021 and 2020
• 31:17
  2019 They had that accident and russ adam
• 31:21
  and the radiation spike and then 2018 is
• 31:24
  when putin first started putting it out in
• 31:26
  his Federal assembly address, right?
• 31:30
  um So what we should watch out for
• 31:33
  is novia zimla that uh new new land
• 31:38
  Up in the arctic circle pankova logistic spiking
• 31:42
  barges, uh sev more put which means, uh,
• 31:47
  southern southern sea route um temporary jetties, uh
• 31:54
  All kinds of radiological ships Serebryanka is there
• 31:58
  in the white and barren seas everything is
• 32:00
  going good valoga 20 site build out is
• 32:03
  Continuing to be built And so, uh, there's
• 32:07
  there's plenty going on on this end, so
• 32:11
  it looks like this is Actual, you know,
• 32:17
  this is this is true stuff, okay and
• 32:22
  uh You know, we had the president with
• 32:25
  his commentary on the chief of staff that
• 32:27
  I shared with you Which is what it's
• 32:29
  saying right now Um the other big topic
• 32:33
  that is uh going around right now and
• 32:36
  I watched this Oh this morning when I
• 32:39
  was still not sleeping And laying in bed
• 32:45
  just Laying there.
• 32:47
  I get so frustrated.
• 32:48
  It's like i'll lay there for an hour
• 32:51
  trying to sleep and finally we'll we'll either
• 32:54
  grab the tv remote or grab a Uh,
• 32:57
  I don't know my tablet or my phone
• 32:59
  And look at it and pull something up
• 33:01
  and watch it and try to make myself
• 33:04
  sleepy, you know again Although i'm sleepy as
• 33:07
  hell can barely keep my eyes open and
• 33:09
  they're painful behind it and all that's just
• 33:12
  depressing and anyway, I watched a couple this
• 33:16
  morning about uh pokrovsk and myrnogrod and kupyansk
• 33:22
  That are completely encircled and and I I
• 33:25
  feel like I should I I mean I
• 33:27
  might play one of them for you um
• 33:31
  and not Just because I think they put
• 33:35
  a did a pretty good job of explaining
• 33:38
  them and uh and explaining what was uh
• 33:45
  So there's allegedly 10 and a half Thousand
• 33:51
  soldiers surrounded in two different spots And you
• 33:56
  know what?
• 33:57
  Maybe I will play a piece for you
• 33:59
  and take a solid drink But let me
• 34:03
  see if I can come up with the
• 34:05
  spot here of where it is and I
• 34:08
  think that we will Because he also spoke
• 34:13
  a little bit.
• 34:14
  This is uh, my military summary channel guy
• 34:18
  That is talking about these and we've been
• 34:21
  talking about pokrovsk and kupyansk Uh, even even
• 34:24
  here which I bring up a few times
• 34:27
  that uh talks about um the loss of
• 34:32
  these big cities is going to be a
• 34:34
  a big deal and the ukrainians Are losing
• 34:40
  this and and they're let's let's go ahead
• 34:44
  and put it out there for just a
• 34:46
  little bit And we'll see where we can
• 34:48
  where we can go from here, but I
• 34:49
  want to skip the stuff that we talked
• 34:52
  about with um With uh that the putin
• 34:58
  thing and it'll probably it'll start right in
• 35:00
  the middle of somewhere weird here, but that's
• 35:02
  okay let's uh Let's see where we go
• 35:05
  that the city of kupyansk and the entire
• 35:07
  kupyansk conglomeration was encircled by the armored force
• 35:10
  of the russian federation without any chances for
• 35:13
  ukrainians to escape this cauldron So, of course
• 35:15
  when took if we take a look at
• 35:17
  this map at this configuration of the line
• 35:19
  of combat contact It is very difficult to
• 35:21
  imagine how the russians managed to encircle ukrainians
• 35:25
  if the distance let's say between the russian
• 35:28
  positions in the northern part of the city
• 35:30
  of kupyansk and around the settlement of kalisnivka
• 35:33
  is around 14 kilometers So obviously these 14
• 35:37
  kilometers is enough for ukrainians to escape this
• 35:40
  encirclement, but everything is not so simple For
• 35:43
  example, let's rewind the number of updates for
• 35:47
  the 25th of october of 2025 and we
• 35:50
  got four geolocations from this part from from
• 35:52
  the area of the city of kupyansk uzlovoi
• 35:55
  And these four icons will give us the
• 35:57
  exact understanding of the situation on the ground
• 36:00
  So this is the first video that took
• 36:03
  place in the vicinity of the settlement by
• 36:04
  the name of osinova The ukrainians were trying
• 36:07
  to bring additional reinforcements or some food and
• 36:09
  this vehicle was immediately destroyed by russian Fpv
• 36:13
  drone and the most important part of this
• 36:15
  video is that first russians destroyed this vehicle
• 36:17
  and then the second drone Appeared in this
• 36:20
  area immediately So the russians have hundreds of
• 36:24
  drones hidden in this area and they can
• 36:26
  switch from one drone So another without any
• 36:28
  problems without any problems from you I don't
• 36:31
  know if I explained that part to you
• 36:33
  before about how they are doing that and
• 36:35
  why they are beating the snot Out of
• 36:37
  anybody that goes on the road in a
• 36:40
  military truck and Tries to supply tries to
• 36:44
  do anything.
• 36:45
  There's I mean everybody's saying they don't even
• 36:48
  have ukraine has any tanks left their their
• 36:51
  artillery is all gone and if they have
• 36:54
  If you remember a couple of months ago,
• 36:57
  I told you about how artillery and strategic
• 37:00
  forces are being turned into frontline infantry forces
• 37:06
  because they don't have any equipment left and
• 37:08
  so, you know, they're just Rifle forces and
• 37:11
  and it's it's it's really sad and it
• 37:15
  is definitely a meat grinder i'm, not saying
• 37:17
  they aren't doing their share of killing of
• 37:20
  russians in the uh, especially with the fpv
• 37:24
  drones in these, uh Everything and you know
• 37:27
  in some artillery, but they don't have any
• 37:29
  artillery the ukrainian artillery is gone And uh,
• 37:34
  they don't have anything And all they have
• 37:37
  is uh meat and that's terrible to say
• 37:41
  But it's meat and the russians control the
• 37:45
  skies around pokrovsk and kupyansk is what he's
• 37:48
  saying And the point was so you blow
• 37:51
  up one you blow up a vehicle and
• 37:54
  immediately After the vehicle is blown up.
• 37:57
  You have another one another flying um drone
• 38:04
  Camering the whole thing and still surveying the
• 38:07
  scene and this is everywhere You know, they
• 38:11
  have drones attacking ukrainian drones and blowing them
• 38:14
  out of the sky I mean, this is
• 38:16
  there's so many of them and I don't
• 38:18
  mean to laugh about it.
• 38:20
  This this war needs to end and for
• 38:23
  people to Claim that ukraine is winning Or
• 38:27
  has a chance to win Nonsense, and so
• 38:31
  let's listen a little further ukrainian.
• 38:33
  Let's say a different equipment So another video
• 38:37
  took place in the same area Another ukrainian
• 38:39
  truck was moving most likely in the direction
• 38:41
  of the city of kupyansk Because law with
• 38:43
  some provision with food maybe with munition, but
• 38:46
  the russians Discovered this vehicle and then they
• 38:50
  destroyed this vehicle immediately And the second and
• 38:52
  the most important part is that right after
• 38:54
  the russians destroyed that truck The second drone
• 38:57
  appeared in this area immediately.
• 38:59
  So russians have 24 hours seven days Let's
• 39:03
  say a week control over this territory with
• 39:05
  hundreds of drones that can be replaced Let's
• 39:08
  say within seconds or something like this another
• 39:11
  video took place along the river of a
• 39:12
  school So here we can see how ukrainians
• 39:15
  were trying to escape this encirclement But russians
• 39:18
  destroyed the ukrainian vehicle immediately with fpv drone
• 39:21
  without any chances for ukrainians for successful evacuation
• 39:25
  And the fourth and the final video of
• 39:28
  the 25th of october took place on the
• 39:30
  territory of the city of kupyansk The ukrainians
• 39:32
  were trying also to escape the cauldron, but
• 39:35
  they were destroyed immediately with russian fpv drone
• 39:38
  So we're just trying to tell that russians
• 39:41
  control this territory with fpv drones And this
• 39:44
  is most likely the only place where ukrainians
• 39:46
  can escape the eastern bank of the river
• 39:49
  of a skull Towards the mainland, but we
• 39:51
  see that ukrainians have no chances Ukrainians can
• 39:54
  escape this cauldron just without vehicles without assets
• 39:58
  without tanks without Infantry fighting vehicles just on
• 40:01
  their own without any help with small groups
• 40:04
  of one two soldiers Crossing river of a
• 40:07
  school and running away as fast and as
• 40:09
  soon as possible So this is the only
• 40:11
  option for ukrainians But most likely this is
• 40:14
  not this is also not an option because
• 40:16
  the russians once again control the situation for
• 40:18
  them on The russians are not waiting when
• 40:21
  ukrainians will escape this encirclement today For example,
• 40:24
  we got probably one of the most important
• 40:26
  videos from this territory from the village by
• 40:29
  the name of kurilovka So this is the
• 40:31
  video i'm talking about and here we can
• 40:33
  see two russian soldiers that raised the russian
• 40:36
  flag above the building On the territory of
• 40:39
  the settlement by the name of kurilovka.
• 40:41
  This building was geolocated.
• 40:43
  This is not very difficult So and this
• 40:46
  is exactly the building where russians raise their
• 40:49
  flags So this is it and obviously we
• 40:51
  see that this is something like a breakthrough
• 40:53
  So this is the situation by the end
• 40:55
  of the 25th of october And this is
• 40:57
  the situation by the beginning of the 26th
• 41:00
  of october So russians managed to establish complete
• 41:02
  control over logistic over evacuation roads And now
• 41:06
  the russians as we can see are trying
• 41:08
  to advance From the east in the western
• 41:11
  direction towards the settlement of kupinskoe zlovoye and
• 41:14
  russians are just for one purpose They need
• 41:16
  to cut this big kupin's pocket at least
• 41:19
  in two small pockets The first one around
• 41:21
  the settlements of kovsharovka and nova asinova This
• 41:24
  is the first the southern pocket and the
• 41:26
  northern pocket around the settlements of petropavlovka, which
• 41:29
  kucherevka It's probably hard to talk about all
• 41:35
  of those things since you can't see the
• 41:36
  video at the same time, but he's explaining
• 41:40
  uh Why and you can see it on
• 41:42
  paper of why?
• 41:44
  They are doing it this way and it
• 41:47
  makes Complete sense.
• 41:49
  Um, I wanted to get because that was
• 41:52
  the first part.
• 41:53
  I think that was kupyansk and then Then
• 41:55
  they moved on and got into uh Pokrovsk
• 42:02
  and let's see Let's get this one here
• 42:05
  um here we Go situation because we see
• 42:10
  that the pokrovsk pocket is much smaller than
• 42:13
  the kupinsk pocket probably four or five times
• 42:16
  smaller this just the Pokrovsk pocket is just
• 42:20
  the city limits of the entire pokrovskoe liberation.
• 42:23
  Nothing more we have added additional area this
• 42:27
  one the black one between the city of
• 42:28
  rodinska and the Western part of the city
• 42:31
  of pokrovsk, which means that this is already
• 42:33
  a kill zone without any chances for ukrainians
• 42:36
  to Evacuate themselves or to escape this cauldron
• 42:39
  using roads through this territory So once again,
• 42:42
  the russians stated that up to five Thousand
• 42:45
  and five hundred soldiers were encircled in this
• 42:47
  area without any chances if you remember sir,
• 42:50
  elizabeth go we discussed that russians Issued an
• 42:53
  ultimatum to ukrainians to withdraw their positions by
• 42:56
  monday of 27th of october of 2025 But
• 42:59
  most likely and according to information we have
• 43:01
  the ukrainians didn't use this opportunity Which means
• 43:05
  that there's just one option two options left
• 43:07
  for them to surrender or to stay On
• 43:10
  the territory of the pokrovsk agglomeration forever.
• 43:13
  So this is the situation and this is
• 43:15
  exactly what is happening right now yeah, and
• 43:19
  it's really Now pokrovsk that i've been following
• 43:23
  that for a month at least in Russia
• 43:27
  has been whittling away whittling away making big
• 43:31
  gains some days and if you It's every
• 43:36
  once in a while somebody will put out
• 43:39
  a map of how these uh Movements are
• 43:45
  made that show the Map gains over time
• 43:50
  and this guy does it every once in
• 43:51
  a while Like he I think he set
• 43:53
  it up when we were in the kupyansk
• 43:55
  side he said so if up in kupyansk
• 43:57
  we uh, um Look at where they were
• 44:01
  four days ago and then watch day by
• 44:03
  day because he updates the the the front
• 44:06
  every single day That shows some pretty pretty
• 44:10
  hefty gains And now in kupyansk, they have
• 44:14
  5 000 Surrounded and in pokrovsk they have
• 44:18
  five and a half thousand Surrounded and their
• 44:21
  choices are surrender or die.
• 44:23
  Stay there.
• 44:24
  That's it and uh And they there's no
• 44:27
  chance for them to retreat out of pokrovsk
• 44:30
  and they can only get out onesie twosies
• 44:32
  in kupyansk It's not good and so there's
• 44:36
  That's ten thousand five hundred, you know, uh,
• 44:40
  how would you like to be in that?
• 44:42
  Uh unenviable position, it's a it's really not
• 44:46
  good um All right.
• 44:50
  Well, that's probably enough of that Um, he
• 44:54
  also talked a little bit about the borovetsnik
• 44:56
  in his deal, too um Let's see, um,
• 45:02
  the germans are trying to uh get chinese
• 45:06
  rare earth access and so They're they got
• 45:10
  serious problems trying to get that and and
• 45:13
  uh, I don't know why i'm mentioning that
• 45:15
  it was just a tiny little part of
• 45:17
  the uh, And I haven't spoken about it
• 45:19
  too much before but I do know a
• 45:21
  little bit about a bit about it the
• 45:23
  uh, all of the rare earths, uh, You
• 45:26
  can't get them from russia.
• 45:27
  Where else you're gonna get them?
• 45:29
  It's uh, It's becoming very very difficult for
• 45:31
  the west to get them and because Most
• 45:36
  of them this is gonna sound terrible most
• 45:38
  of them come from brits countries Most of
• 45:41
  them come from russia china india places like
• 45:43
  that ukraine had a good share but they've
• 45:45
  lost a buttload of them now, and so,
• 45:48
  uh, let's see, I want to get out
• 45:50
  of the uh, Um, I still have plenty
• 45:53
  of stuff on the borovetsnik, but we've already
• 45:56
  covered most of that Let's see.
• 46:02
  I'm trying to scroll to where I need
• 46:04
  to get.
• 46:05
  Um And there's too much to see in
• 46:08
  my eyes hurt anyway, so we'll get there
• 46:11
  um Oh, yeah, we had the alaska Stuff
• 46:18
  in hungary again And uh, there was a
• 46:21
  another show that that lavrov.
• 46:24
  I forgot to tell you about the the
• 46:26
  lavrov interview today And so i'm get I
• 46:30
  have a you know, a detailed uh sort
• 46:33
  of like Snapshots of each of the segments,
• 46:37
  right?
• 46:37
  But what I thought I would do and
• 46:39
  this is today.
• 46:40
  This is just today This thing came out
• 46:43
  not too long ago several hours ago and
• 46:46
  he Uh, here's the executive summary of it
• 46:51
  all the anchorage Alaska summit set the framework
• 46:56
  for u.s. Russian settlement Washington is wobbling
• 47:01
  Under european and zelensky pressure russia's End is
• 47:06
  people first territory second, but the new regions
• 47:10
  are constitutionally russian Ceasefire theater is a stall
• 47:15
  tactic And again durable peace is the only
• 47:20
  acceptable outcome Language and minority rights in ukraine.
• 47:25
  He mentions of course, uh our litmus tests
• 47:28
  Buffer zones are now required to stop cross
• 47:31
  -border attacks.
• 47:32
  The budapest memorandum doesn't mean what western critics
• 47:36
  Said it did um, and that budapest memorandum
• 47:39
  was crap.
• 47:40
  Anyway um Hungary ties are pretty solid further
• 47:44
  In budapest for their budapest action is on
• 47:48
  the americans means they have to do it
• 47:50
  So let's get into a little bit of
• 47:51
  detail on that Because here's what lavrov pointed
• 47:55
  out Pointed out He talked about after the
• 48:00
  trump putin call on thursday.
• 48:01
  October the 16th lavrov says Marco rubio called
• 48:06
  him three days later and reaffirmed the clear
• 48:10
  understandings from anchorage And russia's readiness to proceed
• 48:16
  at a u.s. Comfortable pace A state
• 48:19
  department readout then said the talks were productive
• 48:23
  And no in-person lavrov secretary state rubio
• 48:27
  meeting was needed at this stage And lavrov
• 48:31
  interprets this as the ball is in washington's
• 48:35
  court And he said the deal architecture I
• 48:39
  can't talk deal Architecture He cited a stephen
• 48:45
  witkoff proposal delivered in moscow pre-anchorage putin
• 48:50
  in anchorage Accepted the concept and framework and
• 48:55
  asked to move it forward the u.s.
• 48:58
  Then sought time to consult with the allies
• 49:01
  including zelensky And moscow says it is still
• 49:05
  waiting for a concrete follow-up.
• 49:07
  So To my in my view that would
• 49:09
  mean the u.s. You know didn't get
• 49:13
  The uh backing of anybody, you know, of
• 49:16
  course everybody's gonna go crying and say we
• 49:17
  no no we have to win, you know,
• 49:20
  and uh That's nonsense.
• 49:22
  Uh, so lavrov's read of u.s. Politics
• 49:25
  are unprecedented pressure on trump from european and
• 49:30
  american hawks And kiev as well aim to
• 49:33
  block any u.s. Russia track He argues
• 49:38
  that trump himself publicly framed The end state
• 49:42
  as a long-term peace and not a
• 49:45
  ceasefire and that's true I pointed that out
• 49:48
  on thursday night that once again everybody will
• 49:51
  gee it's russia.
• 49:52
  They won't give a ceasefire.
• 49:53
  Nope They won't and putin putin trump acknowledged
• 49:58
  it immediately after alaska, so Um anchorage wasn't
• 50:05
  a photo opportunity for the russians It was
• 50:08
  a template the problem lavrov says is not
• 50:12
  moscow It is washington's management by coalition, you
• 50:17
  know by these idiots from The deep state
• 50:19
  and from europe and zelensky himself and the
• 50:22
  king.
• 50:23
  I mean it's trump is being pressured and
• 50:27
  I think he's I think he can't do
• 50:29
  it.
• 50:29
  I mean so now he's going to go
• 50:30
  over He's trying to maintain other ways to
• 50:33
  go around it He's trying to get to
• 50:34
  xi jinping and see if xi jinping will
• 50:37
  quit buying russian oil, you know, I doubt
• 50:39
  that's going to happen Um, so let's talk
• 50:42
  a little bit about this ceasefire and durable
• 50:44
  peace a la lavrov Excuse me, uh what
• 50:49
  lavrov quotes trump's post anchorage remarks?
• 50:53
  to argue No To a short term ceasefire
• 50:58
  and yes to durable peace He again, I
• 51:01
  mean he sat right on it and you
• 51:03
  can go back and find Trump saying it
• 51:06
  right and he Contrast this with macrone and
• 51:11
  everybody else with this ceasefire talk now and
• 51:14
  keep arming kiv rhetoric He it talks about
• 51:18
  minsk of 2015 As their cautionary tale yet
• 51:23
  again The two minsk accords didn't work at
• 51:27
  all ceasefire was used to rearm kiv kiv
• 51:31
  and they later openly admitted By merkel hollandia
• 51:35
  and porto shanka to buy time so they
• 51:39
  don't have to do what the agreement said
• 51:41
  They all said it and the current eu
• 51:45
  Uk stance in lavrov's view is that the
• 51:48
  london coalition Messaging that putin doesn't want peace
• 51:54
  Is really backwards.
• 51:55
  He says that's the same thing.
• 51:57
  I said boris johnson sabotaged istanbul in 2022
• 52:04
  And then he profited from his friends selling
• 52:07
  weapons that he got You know that they
• 52:10
  had approximately a billion dollars Ceasefires are cheap
• 52:15
  durable.
• 52:16
  Peace is expensive and lavrov says europe won't
• 52:20
  pay the price so western outlets Dispute that
• 52:24
  johnson makes money off of this.
• 52:27
  Although when he left office, he was still
• 52:28
  selling arms for people, you know after this
• 52:31
  and um and they uh Some people but
• 52:36
  not reputable ones in the west are still
• 52:39
  saying that minsk wasn't a ruse my ass
• 52:42
  it was too And they emphasize russian Responsibility
• 52:46
  for what they like to call invasion right
• 52:50
  and uh, it wasn't an invasion it was
• 52:54
  defending their uh their own people defending russians,
• 52:59
  uh, why is it that only the west
• 53:01
  can have uh, A referendum Why is that
• 53:06
  the only case?
• 53:07
  Oh the referendum only counts if it's done
• 53:11
  by A done by somebody paid for by
• 53:15
  the state department, right?
• 53:17
  Otherwise, it's bs, right?
• 53:20
  Only us would have real elections not true
• 53:25
  Uh, let's see um, and he got into
• 53:28
  that the the uh territories referenda and people
• 53:32
  first, right?
• 53:34
  Excuse me.
• 53:35
  I'm tired today people.
• 53:37
  Uh, the so-called new regions these new
• 53:39
  regions.
• 53:40
  Uh, Zaporizhia her son Uh donetsk lugansk are
• 53:48
  historically russian territories And they're now on russia's
• 53:52
  constitution any settlement must respect that the people
• 53:56
  there have chosen russia via referendum Odessa, he
• 54:02
  also said has a historically russian built city
• 54:06
  city built by Catherine the great with unesco
• 54:10
  criticized for staying silent when her monument was
• 54:14
  destroyed He said that you know, so the
• 54:18
  the monument to her they tore it down
• 54:20
  The ukrainians tore it down in odessa in
• 54:24
  in unesco didn't say a word.
• 54:26
  Nobody says anything, right?
• 54:29
  um, he got to talk about Negotiability of
• 54:33
  the conflict he said Um discussions are possible
• 54:36
  on many issues but not on the status
• 54:40
  of the four Constitutionalized countries.
• 54:44
  So for moscow, it isn't maps.
• 54:46
  It's the the the people uh Changed the
• 54:50
  people's status that ship has already sailed and
• 54:54
  by the way They're they they were being
• 54:56
  killed by ukraine By ukrainians from since 2014
• 55:01
  and we didn't do a damn thing about
• 55:03
  that.
• 55:03
  We didn't cry about that at all They
• 55:06
  were just you know, kill them and why
• 55:07
  because they were russian and they didn't they
• 55:10
  didn't like it So he got into also
• 55:14
  the language and minority rights as a test
• 55:17
  case He said root cause number two after
• 55:21
  nato because nato is the first cause is
• 55:26
  the Eradication of everything russian language culture and
• 55:33
  church by law in ukraine since 2017 but
• 55:38
  they started it back in 2014 He cites
• 55:41
  again the bans on the ukrainian orthodox church,
• 55:45
  which is really the russian orthodox church in
• 55:49
  ukraine and they made him change the name
• 55:52
  and then now they're starting to arrest all
• 55:55
  of the all of the uh pastors Who
• 55:59
  wouldn't let him go and you know, it's
• 56:00
  it's nonsense and jailing them and school and
• 56:04
  media restrictions He says eu accessions should be
• 56:08
  contingent on restoring minority rights And he credits
• 56:12
  hungary for pushing this in brussels because in
• 56:16
  western ukraine They're doing the same thing to
• 56:19
  people of hungarian descent And he'd been talking
• 56:23
  about that forever He and uh, you know,
• 56:28
  here's the other one the children narrative about
• 56:31
  these tens of thousands of Children that the
• 56:35
  russians allegedly seized right and i've talked about
• 56:38
  this before And he they've been asking for
• 56:41
  the proof of all of these things forever
• 56:44
  And they really have every time, you know,
• 56:48
  I listened to zakharova.
• 56:49
  I listened to to Uh Lavrov, I listened
• 56:52
  to to putin even on these topics, but
• 56:56
  mostly it's uh, uh, the ministry of foreign
• 56:59
  affairs talking about this stuff, which is zakharova
• 57:03
  and lavrov and um And they they always
• 57:06
  say the same thing and they've been saying
• 57:08
  it forever They're they've asked for western backing.
• 57:11
  They've asked for something more than what they're
• 57:13
  getting and they haven't gotten anything and uh,
• 57:16
  you know and then um Zelensky comes over
• 57:19
  and cries in the oval office and still
• 57:21
  makes the same claim That they've taken tens
• 57:24
  of thousands of children that the russians have
• 57:26
  and stolen them And uh, he what what
• 57:30
  lavrov said again today Is he rebuts that
• 57:33
  claim he says against these claims of tens
• 57:35
  of thousands of deported children ukrainian children deported
• 57:39
  into russia lavrov says ukraine has provided 339
• 57:46
  names Many are adults or are in europe
• 57:51
  And after russia asked for a list during
• 57:54
  all the talks, he says any larger figures
• 57:57
  are just propaganda bs so um He his
• 58:02
  his litmus test of all these language and
• 58:05
  minority rights stuff.
• 58:06
  It isn't in tanks It's textbooks restore language
• 58:10
  rights.
• 58:11
  Then let's talk peace Peace and kiev and
• 58:14
  washington, uh, non-government organizations allege systemic deportion
• 58:21
  and I'm tired deportations and repression by russia
• 58:27
  ukraine's language Laws are defended as state building
• 58:32
  in wartime, right?
• 58:34
  They don't they don't dispute that they're doing
• 58:37
  it They're just saying well we need to
• 58:39
  care about our state zelensky himself is is
• 58:42
  a native russian speaker And he had to
• 58:46
  learn ukrainian for his job So he and
• 58:50
  he does it and his ukrainian is as
• 58:53
  far worse than his russian Um now let's
• 58:56
  talk a little bit because lavrov also talked
• 58:59
  about uh buffer zones, okay And what they're
• 59:04
  saying and this has been being said for
• 59:07
  the last couple of months right new requirements
• 59:12
  Because ukraine strikes across the borders which they
• 59:15
  continue to do Into bryansk belgrade kursk russia
• 59:21
  needs a buffer zone including in areas never
• 59:26
  disputed to protect civilians Because the areas they're
• 59:30
  bombing into are our areas are shooting from
• 59:34
  areas uh kharkiv where where uh, sumi Where
• 59:39
  the russians haven't taken a great deal of
• 59:42
  territory up there and so they're the Ukrainians
• 59:46
  are tiptoeing up to the line and bombing,
• 59:48
  uh apartment buildings malls shopping centers stuff like
• 59:52
  that in uh belgrade uh bryansk and kursk
• 59:57
  And so russia has said we want a
• 1:00:00
  buffer zone, you know, this is nonsense because
• 1:00:02
  we got to protect the civilians he says
• 1:00:06
  The end of the war equals when the
• 1:00:08
  goals are unchanged from the outset are secured
• 1:00:11
  and these goals haven't been changed When is
• 1:00:13
  the war over?
• 1:00:15
  protection of russian identifying population Neutrality no nato,
• 1:00:20
  right?
• 1:00:20
  Moscow has been saying the same thing forever
• 1:00:23
  it uh What else?
• 1:00:26
  Is nato Budapest memorandum, let's talk a little
• 1:00:31
  bit about that Ukraine's accession it to nato,
• 1:00:35
  of course is a red line and he
• 1:00:37
  contrasts it with finland, which is a different
• 1:00:40
  context and uh the 2008 georgia war has
• 1:00:46
  been used as a western misreading of red
• 1:00:49
  lines and that explanation Uh, most people do
• 1:00:54
  not understand what was going on between uh,
• 1:00:58
  Russia and georgia at that time and I
• 1:01:00
  traveled through that place by car And uh,
• 1:01:04
  and I didn't understand it until then.
• 1:01:06
  Okay, so georgia and russia have always been
• 1:01:11
  Friendly with each other and there's a disputed
• 1:01:15
  Sliver of land that goes through there similar
• 1:01:18
  to you know, other countries have had similar
• 1:01:20
  things And I really wish I could remember
• 1:01:23
  the name of it, but I can't remember
• 1:01:25
  the name of it off the top of
• 1:01:26
  my head But i've driven through it.
• 1:01:27
  So basically what happened is there's a beautiful
• 1:01:32
  area in south of georgia and in uh
• 1:01:36
  I'm, sorry in the north of georgia in
• 1:01:38
  the south of russia and in that whole
• 1:01:40
  area is freaking Fantastically beautiful and I have
• 1:01:44
  plenty of photos from my my time over
• 1:01:47
  there and going through it last, um August
• 1:01:51
  about a year ago.
• 1:01:52
  I think it was and uh Very pretty
• 1:01:55
  very very pretty a little more than a
• 1:01:57
  year ago.
• 1:01:58
  August september is when I was over there
• 1:01:59
  and uh, it's that that it's like a
• 1:02:06
  18 mile 18 kilometers something like that like
• 1:02:10
  20 kilometers.
• 1:02:11
  It's not all that.
• 1:02:11
  It's a sliver of land And so what
• 1:02:13
  they've done is on both ends now that
• 1:02:16
  sliver of land is a buffer zone and
• 1:02:20
  so You have dual um Crossing of uh
• 1:02:30
  Of I don't I don't know.
• 1:02:32
  Um, I want to say to emotionally but
• 1:02:34
  uh, uh, Uh, but whatever your border guards
• 1:02:37
  the damn border guards your passport control people
• 1:02:40
  that you have to cross Um on at
• 1:02:44
  two times, right?
• 1:02:45
  So so well, you always got to do
• 1:02:47
  it two times So basically you got to
• 1:02:48
  do it four times because you have to
• 1:02:50
  cross out of the country Because they have
• 1:02:53
  to stamp you out and then you have
• 1:02:54
  to cross into the next country And so
• 1:02:57
  what you're doing is you're crossing out you're
• 1:02:59
  crossing in then 10 to 10 20 miles
• 1:03:02
  later You're crossing out you're crossing in again
• 1:03:05
  And so that's the way it has been
• 1:03:07
  done and there's some very pretty areas in
• 1:03:09
  there.
• 1:03:10
  And uh, so what the the u.s
• 1:03:14
  Misread that as an opportunity to come in
• 1:03:17
  and try to get georgia since they were
• 1:03:19
  in a conflict with russia And they started
• 1:03:21
  doing the same thing in georgia that they're
• 1:03:23
  doing in ukraine Is try to get them
• 1:03:26
  into nato and they're in asia I never
• 1:03:30
  understood this nato nonsense and throwing them all
• 1:03:33
  into asia, you know trying to get I
• 1:03:36
  don't know southeast asian countries into uh nato,
• 1:03:39
  but anyway Um, this has always been a
• 1:03:43
  red line for ukraine Uh to be put
• 1:03:47
  into nato and lavrov talked about the budapest
• 1:03:51
  memorandum And i've talked about it on this
• 1:03:53
  show several times as well It guaranteed non
• 1:03:57
  -nuclear assurances to non-nuclear states And allowed
• 1:04:04
  for my and it said they had to
• 1:04:07
  have these principles minority rights democracy and freedom
• 1:04:12
  of speech none of which Ukraine has they
• 1:04:17
  violate all of those principles And so the
• 1:04:22
  budapest memorandum that gave these non-nuclear assurance,
• 1:04:26
  uh, non-aggression status well, if ukraine had
• 1:04:30
  lived up to it according to lavrov then
• 1:04:32
  uh They wouldn't be having these problems today,
• 1:04:36
  but they violate each and every one of
• 1:04:38
  these principles.
• 1:04:39
  They're a nazi state basically and The ukrainians
• 1:04:43
  not russia are the problem he says Europe
• 1:04:47
  says helsinki spirit is being completely ignored And
• 1:04:51
  current leadership is so politicized and turkey is
• 1:04:56
  actually on the side of Normalcy and is
• 1:05:01
  trying to help fix it and that came
• 1:05:03
  up, you know in his speech and what
• 1:05:05
  he said was If budapest means anything It
• 1:05:08
  means minorities And speech have to be protected
• 1:05:14
  not just borders and nuclear weapons, okay Then
• 1:05:19
  he talked a little bit about hungary and
• 1:05:20
  its history and its optics and he talked
• 1:05:22
  about hungary being involved in this ukrainian uh
• 1:05:28
  nonsense too because Western ukraine has tons of
• 1:05:32
  hungarians in it and i've given several stories
• 1:05:34
  about how hungry Hungarian nationals have been Attacked
• 1:05:42
  you know for you speak ukrainian, you know
• 1:05:46
  that kind of thing and everything else 1956
• 1:05:51
  mutual acceptance of historic reassessment No wedge at
• 1:05:56
  all between moscow and budapest and their cooperation
• 1:05:59
  continues.
• 1:06:00
  He says um He uh, they asked him
• 1:06:05
  and this I enjoyed quite a bit they
• 1:06:07
  were at they asked him about the uh,
• 1:06:09
  Remember, I talked about him having the soviet
• 1:06:11
  hoodie.
• 1:06:12
  I was in russia at the time Was
• 1:06:17
  that was I in russia or was I
• 1:06:19
  in belarus?
• 1:06:20
  I can't remember uh, but I was I
• 1:06:22
  was very interested in talking about the um,
• 1:06:26
  The hoodie so you remember when lavrov came
• 1:06:29
  over to alaska with putin?
• 1:06:32
  And uh, he was seen coming Coming into
• 1:06:35
  the airport and he had a uh, a
• 1:06:38
  sport coat on and underneath it.
• 1:06:41
  He had a uh, A hoodie that said
• 1:06:44
  ussr on it.
• 1:06:45
  Well russian cccp sssr was what that would
• 1:06:49
  be and uh, and he had one I
• 1:06:51
  tried to find one in a stall in
• 1:06:55
  I was in my you know what I
• 1:06:56
  was in moscow and I tried to find
• 1:06:58
  a cccp thing, but they are all these
• 1:07:00
  T-shirts that I didn't want a t
• 1:07:02
  -shirt.
• 1:07:03
  I wanted a nice hoodie And so I
• 1:07:05
  wanted to find one and wear it through
• 1:07:07
  the airport on the way back And see
• 1:07:09
  well see if I could cause any trouble
• 1:07:12
  or any stir with that and uh, you
• 1:07:14
  know I had a suit coat with me
• 1:07:17
  So I was gonna wear a hoodie If
• 1:07:20
  I could find one, but I couldn't find
• 1:07:22
  one I mean, you know, they're not all
• 1:07:23
  they had them in a couple of stalls
• 1:07:26
  and I went to this really cool.
• 1:07:28
  Uh um Krepost is the word.
• 1:07:31
  What would that be?
• 1:07:32
  Uh fortress an old fort in uh, In
• 1:07:35
  english and it was really cool old fort
• 1:07:37
  from czarist times And the 1800s so I
• 1:07:40
  thought they would have some of the cool
• 1:07:41
  places where you could buy some of these
• 1:07:43
  And they had plenty of stalls of people
• 1:07:45
  selling, you know, matryoshki and they were selling
• 1:07:48
  Shkatulki little lacquer boxes and stuff and then
• 1:07:51
  uh, plenty of that stuff and plenty of
• 1:07:54
  t-shirts, but no Hoodie, of course it
• 1:07:57
  was august so maybe they didn't want to
• 1:07:59
  have any but uh, Either way, I didn't
• 1:08:01
  find any and I was all depressed about
• 1:08:03
  it and uh Anyway, what he said about
• 1:08:07
  that.
• 1:08:07
  He said it was he was that a
• 1:08:09
  secret signal and he goes No, it wasn't
• 1:08:12
  a secret signal.
• 1:08:13
  He said the ussr Was my homeland And
• 1:08:17
  nothing to be ashamed of and he talked
• 1:08:20
  about the the pride that they feel for
• 1:08:23
  the soviet world war ii um Activities, you
• 1:08:27
  know, and he re-emphasized that and then
• 1:08:32
  he's he they asked him about the uh,
• 1:08:35
  German democratic republic which was a part of
• 1:08:37
  the collapse of soviet union too because uh,
• 1:08:40
  he said reunification was asymmetrical the the the
• 1:08:45
  gdr um You know It they they rewrote
• 1:08:51
  Basically, he's a little upset about it, but
• 1:08:54
  he understood that germany was you know, he
• 1:08:56
  it's not that he was initially against it
• 1:08:58
  He's just like a broader critique of how
• 1:09:00
  the west rewrites the you know history and
• 1:09:05
  rewrote the post-cold war social contract by
• 1:09:08
  what they did with the uh, With the
• 1:09:10
  german democratic republic which was on the eastern
• 1:09:13
  side On east germany in our lines after
• 1:09:16
  they took the wall down And so basically
• 1:09:19
  the hoodie was not a dog whistle.
• 1:09:21
  It was nostalgia for him He says and
• 1:09:24
  a reminder of who bled at stalingrad and
• 1:09:28
  You know trump made a couple Of errors
• 1:09:31
  back, uh back when you know since in
• 1:09:34
  here in his second term when he's saying
• 1:09:36
  the u.s Won, uh the second world
• 1:09:39
  war, you know that that's offensive To say
• 1:09:42
  and it's certainly not true the chinese lost
• 1:09:45
  some What was the number 18 20 million
• 1:09:48
  and the russians lost?
• 1:09:50
  26 to 27 million people so u.s.
• 1:09:56
  Lost 600 000.
• 1:09:57
  So who paid?
• 1:09:59
  Who paid the price who who defeated a
• 1:10:02
  million?
• 1:10:03
  Man german army wasn't us We came in
• 1:10:08
  for cleanup at the end after the russians
• 1:10:11
  had already uh Done quite a bit of
• 1:10:14
  mopping up and I don't mean that we
• 1:10:16
  didn't participate.
• 1:10:17
  We absolutely did but but to say that
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  we won the war is really, uh not
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  fair not a uh And it's and it
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  pisses people off over there and I understand
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  why Um, they they asked him finally about
• 1:10:35
  um Meetings ahead is budapest, you know on
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  or off because trump changes his mind every
• 1:10:43
  day Like some people change underwear.
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  He's some people I say because some people
• 1:10:48
  don't change their underwear disgusting Anyway, um, he
• 1:10:53
  said the invitations are there putin's agreed in
• 1:10:55
  principle to meet trump in budapest.
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  Um They they said it was you know,
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  there's no need for in person now lavrov
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  says the initiative still sits With the washington
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  when we're invited We come when it's delayed
• 1:11:11
  we wait So doors open bells not ringing
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  basically it and so um, let's see, uh,
• 1:11:21
  basically, let's let's go for a quick review
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  of his entire um point Not a ceasefire
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  a durable peace.
• 1:11:30
  That's the only way it'll hold up the
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  balls in washington's court.
• 1:11:33
  We accept the anchorage framework These are people
• 1:11:36
  talking about donbass.
• 1:11:38
  These are people we're talking about not squares
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  on a map Their choice is already part
• 1:11:42
  of our constitution uh as far as languages
• 1:11:46
  language rights first, that's the honest testimony settlement
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  of an conflict um buffer zone talk he
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  said because bryans Belgrade kors are still getting
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  bombed all the time and then budapest promised
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  more than borders it promises minority rights Let's
• 1:12:03
  start there Is what he said?
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  and um You know, they don't he doesn't
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  people over here like to say, um Uh
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  john, you know, they like to defend johnson
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  in his money-making post, uh making kiev
• 1:12:22
  continue the war and get rid of the
• 1:12:24
  Agreements from istanbul way back when in 2022
• 1:12:28
  And the children deportation people like to beat
• 1:12:31
  up on russia for that unesco silence on
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  katherine the great statues The nazi regime labeling
• 1:12:38
  people don't like to hear that budapest memorandum
• 1:12:42
  you know, there are plenty of counterclaims on
• 1:12:44
  some of those, but these this is what
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  lavrov has to uh, To say about them
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  and they've been pretty steady on it And
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  uh, you know whether you agree with him
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  or not.
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  You still got to listen to him I
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  say and if you actually Did something about
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  it or even investigate it, I mean my
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  god, it's just like the uh, uh uh
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  Nord stream 2, you know that gets blown
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  up and they all go Yeah, look who
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  you're pointing the finger at a couple of
• 1:13:16
  guys in a speedboat, you know going up
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  there and destroying this That's not how it
• 1:13:20
  happened.
• 1:13:21
  They don't believe that frankly.
• 1:13:22
  I don't believe it You know, that's not
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  how you not how it's done plus the
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  old.
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  Uh, um uh a biden monster, uh Said
• 1:13:32
  he was gonna take him out i'm gonna
• 1:13:34
  help people do it and there were plenty
• 1:13:35
  of us and uk assets in that same
• 1:13:39
  area at the time and so Crazy stuff
• 1:13:45
  um Let's see I listened also to uh
• 1:13:52
  Alexander mercuries.
• 1:13:53
  He's a guy in england.
• 1:13:54
  He's a been an analyst for a long
• 1:13:56
  time and he does some Some pretty good
• 1:13:59
  shows and i'm gonna go through this and
• 1:14:02
  see he talked about the uh Pokrovsk and
• 1:14:07
  mir nagrad and kupyansk like I did that
• 1:14:10
  he went through these encirclements And the front
• 1:14:13
  line is collapsing.
• 1:14:14
  He went through that and then Konstantinovka now
• 1:14:18
  he he's he he talked about Konstantinovka and
• 1:14:23
  severski and all the street Fighting going on
• 1:14:26
  there claimed by gerasimov and contested by other
• 1:14:29
  prison yampol is almost liberated so these places
• 1:14:33
  the the front is 70 percent taken taken
• 1:14:37
  in kharkiv and toward volchansk and Some people
• 1:14:40
  put it higher He said that in zaparizhia
• 1:14:44
  and dnipropetrovsk six more villages have been taking
• 1:14:48
  in concluding poltavka malata machka And deliberate silence
• 1:14:53
  on on kherson ops So what he says
• 1:14:56
  the pace isn't square kilometers per week.
• 1:15:00
  It's Nodes falling per week.
• 1:15:02
  He he takes it as the city approach
• 1:15:04
  and there's always You know five to seven
• 1:15:08
  taken every week And what else did he
• 1:15:12
  talk about?
• 1:15:13
  Um, he talked about that crew cruise missile,
• 1:15:15
  too And but he also talked about Jet
• 1:15:19
  assisted fabs in these these fab bombs or
• 1:15:22
  precision precision guided munitions Appear with small jet
• 1:15:27
  engines on them So what russia was doing
• 1:15:31
  with these fab bombs is they take all
• 1:15:33
  these?
• 1:15:34
  Uh, what do you call them dumb bombs
• 1:15:36
  if you want to call them that in?
• 1:15:39
  uh Um I suppose Since they don't have
• 1:15:46
  they they were just dropped like in the
• 1:15:48
  I don't know world war one world war
• 1:15:50
  two The bombs were just dropped from airplanes
• 1:15:53
  and they would have to be you know
• 1:15:55
  That's why they'd have the hold would open
• 1:15:57
  up now It would come all these bombs
• 1:15:59
  and that would be that they didn't they
• 1:16:00
  didn't have their Own propulsion or anything like
• 1:16:04
  that?
• 1:16:04
  and now What in russia had massive quantities
• 1:16:10
  of these fab bombs everywhere And what they
• 1:16:14
  did was they put these kits on them
• 1:16:17
  to uh Get them So they would be
• 1:16:24
  dropped from the plane But then these wings
• 1:16:26
  would pop out with these propeller kits and
• 1:16:28
  they would guide them so they're guided bombs
• 1:16:31
  But these are heavy bombs like massive And
• 1:16:35
  so that's what an fab is and he
• 1:16:37
  said now they're putting small jet engines on
• 1:16:40
  them And it's extending the reach for the
• 1:16:43
  su-34s to strike hundreds of kilometers deep
• 1:16:47
  into the Ukrainian territories and the payload advantage
• 1:16:52
  of these sorts of bombs are huge versus
• 1:16:56
  these drones and missiles because the whole Thing
• 1:16:59
  is a bomb.
• 1:17:00
  Does that make sense?
• 1:17:01
  So with the drone you create the drone
• 1:17:03
  and you attach a bomb to it or
• 1:17:05
  you put something on it with a fab
• 1:17:07
  bomb You're taking a bomb that's already there
• 1:17:10
  like uh, they have they have fab three
• 1:17:13
  thousands fab 1500s fab 500s that are that
• 1:17:16
  are basically the kilogram weight of the Of
• 1:17:20
  the bomb and then so this bomb is
• 1:17:22
  huge And and then they put it you
• 1:17:24
  you ought to watch some of them explode
• 1:17:26
  and they've been all over the place and
• 1:17:28
  russia still has hundreds of thousands of these
• 1:17:31
  damn things that have been stored for 100
• 1:17:33
  years and uh, so They they're fitting them
• 1:17:37
  with these With these kits and now they're
• 1:17:40
  fitting them with jet engines.
• 1:17:44
  They can go all the way across ukraine
• 1:17:46
  So this is not good when your bombs
• 1:17:48
  grow engines every depot is a frontline target
• 1:17:51
  I mean, that's how it is.
• 1:17:53
  He talked a little bit about the bura
• 1:17:55
  vesnik 2 and casualties um He disputes the
• 1:18:01
  I mean so do I this is nonsense
• 1:18:03
  and anybody who has any brain at all
• 1:18:06
  is not saying that uh Russia is losing
• 1:18:11
  five times more per Than the ukrainians it's
• 1:18:16
  bs And in fact, it's likely the opposite
• 1:18:21
  That ukrainians are losing five times Um, it's
• 1:18:25
  a huge number the uh, uh you know
• 1:18:30
  the august ukrainian casualty count According to some
• 1:18:37
  estimates is 1.6 million dead and uh,
• 1:18:44
  you know nonsensical nonsense so I don't know.
• 1:18:49
  I want to get to a couple of
• 1:18:51
  stories that were That were um put out
• 1:18:57
  today to This one i'm only doing I
• 1:19:00
  realize this isn't international was not international, but
• 1:19:04
  it's freaking hilarious um This came out in
• 1:19:10
  the news today And maybe if the old
• 1:19:13
  jr is listening, maybe he's heard it as
• 1:19:16
  well, but it's freaking hilarious Harris is hinting
• 1:19:19
  That she could run for president again Oh
• 1:19:25
  boy, she's not done with politics former vp
• 1:19:29
  kamala harris indicated she may make another bid
• 1:19:32
  for the presidency to Despite her 2024 defeat
• 1:19:37
  to the old trumpster in an interview with
• 1:19:39
  the bbc on saturday Harris who is 61?
• 1:19:44
  Said she is certain the world will see
• 1:19:46
  a woman in charge of the white house
• 1:19:50
  in their lifetime, I don't know who that
• 1:19:53
  there is Asked whether she could be the
• 1:19:56
  one she said possibly Adding that she has
• 1:20:00
  not made a decision on whether to run
• 1:20:02
  in 2028.
• 1:20:03
  Yeah, but who'd give her permission?
• 1:20:05
  That's my question.
• 1:20:06
  She has to have permission from the uh
• 1:20:09
  Uh, what is what is jr calling?
• 1:20:12
  I know jr calls him bathhouse barry, but
• 1:20:14
  there was a funny one that came up
• 1:20:15
  the other night that I heard barry sorry
• 1:20:19
  I can't remember what he called him, but
• 1:20:21
  I thought it was hilarious Anyway, she says
• 1:20:23
  I am not done.
• 1:20:25
  I have lived my entire career a life
• 1:20:29
  of service Oh, yeah, she's a service.
• 1:20:33
  She's a service provider.
• 1:20:35
  All right, and it's in my bones.
• 1:20:38
  Yes Let's all cry for you And there
• 1:20:41
  are many ways to serve Yeah I have
• 1:20:45
  not decided yet what I will do in
• 1:20:47
  the future beyond what i'm doing right now
• 1:20:51
  Harris was pressed on her political odds in
• 1:20:55
  the white house race after bookmakers placed her
• 1:20:58
  behind celebrity figures such as actor And former
• 1:21:02
  pro wrestler duane the rock johnson She was
• 1:21:05
  unfazed said i've never listened to polls Obviously
• 1:21:09
  if I listen to polls, I would not
• 1:21:11
  have run for my first office or my
• 1:21:14
  second And I certainly wouldn't be sitting here
• 1:21:17
  in this interview Oh Harris became the democrat.
• 1:21:22
  Yeah, the rest of this is history.
• 1:21:24
  Um, but let's let's get to this Uh
• 1:21:26
  with the next presidential race three years away
• 1:21:29
  media outlets have speculated that a possible democratic
• 1:21:33
  contenders in 2028 would include harris california governor
• 1:21:39
  gavin newsom and new york representative alexandria ocasio
• 1:21:44
  -cortez Just makes me want to puke on
• 1:21:49
  all three of those yuck among the republicans
• 1:21:53
  vp jd vance and secretary of state marco
• 1:21:57
  rubio are Regarded as the most likely key
• 1:22:00
  contenders trump himself has hinted That he might
• 1:22:05
  seek a third term although the constitution Bars
• 1:22:09
  any president from being elected more than twice
• 1:22:15
  Curious isn't it wonder what'll happen?
• 1:22:20
  um Here you go this one here's here's
• 1:22:25
  how things are going in ukraine ready Okay
• 1:22:30
  Notorious gang leaders are helping the ukraine police
• 1:22:35
  with forced conscription There's a guy named Magomed
• 1:22:43
  Aydamirov Okay A suspected gang leader is aiding
• 1:22:51
  ukrainian recruitment officials in their Mobilization efforts according
• 1:22:56
  to several news outlets the man Was previously
• 1:23:01
  accused of orchestrating kidnappings in odessa identified by
• 1:23:07
  the media as Magomed Aydamirov the man appears
• 1:23:12
  in a video that shows the actions of
• 1:23:14
  draft officers First published by a local telegram
• 1:23:18
  channel in it a bearded man in camouflage
• 1:23:22
  Threatens an individual who is speaking with a
• 1:23:25
  police officer Searching for a potential conscripts on
• 1:23:29
  the street Aydamirov was arrested in 2018 on
• 1:23:34
  suspension of running a gang responsible for kidnapping
• 1:23:38
  racketeering from 2015 to 2017 The police reportedly
• 1:23:43
  found explosives weapons and a machine gun during
• 1:23:46
  searches linked to this gang's activities the suspected
• 1:23:51
  gang leader Allegedly has close ties to members
• 1:23:56
  of the so-called Ukrainian volunteer battalions that
• 1:24:01
  Kiev uses in military crackdown against Donetsk and
• 1:24:05
  Lugansk People's Republics after they declared independence following
• 1:24:09
  the 2014 Maidan coup These units had Ukrainian
• 1:24:14
  Ultra-nationalists and neo-nazis in their ranks
• 1:24:18
  He was released from custody two years after
• 1:24:22
  his detention and was placed under house arrest
• 1:24:25
  with certain materials in his case Disappearing from
• 1:24:29
  the court data.
• 1:24:30
  The Ukrainian authorities have not commented on these
• 1:24:34
  reports Ukraine introduced a general mobilization blah blah
• 1:24:42
  blah We won't hear about that.
• 1:24:43
  But here's another one for you get this
• 1:24:45
  you want to talk about freedom of speech,
• 1:24:48
  huh?
• 1:24:49
  Here's some freedom of speech Ukrainian style for
• 1:24:52
  you ready Ukraine is told to stop sharing
• 1:24:56
  violent conscription videos Ukraine conscription authorities have called
• 1:25:03
  on citizens to refrain from documenting cases of
• 1:25:08
  violent forced military enlistment Instead urging the population
• 1:25:13
  to cherish their recruitment officers the message shared
• 1:25:18
  on Wednesday by the Kiev Regional Territorial Center
• 1:25:21
  for recruitment and social support Condemned a telegram
• 1:25:26
  channel called stop TC TSK TCK, which is
• 1:25:31
  this group Territorial Center for recruitment Stop TCK
• 1:25:36
  Ukraine, which has been circulating videos of men
• 1:25:40
  being violently detained and forced into enlistment vehicles
• 1:25:44
  incidents dubbed Popularly Busification that often go viral
• 1:25:51
  the center alleged The channel was part of
• 1:25:56
  Russian information warfare and told Ukrainians to never
• 1:26:02
  watch videos of Busification for God's sake don't
• 1:26:07
  film or share such videos said the post
• 1:26:11
  If the Russians turn you into sheep, they'll
• 1:26:14
  slaughter you like pigs tomorrow So cherish the
• 1:26:17
  seat TC keys help the TC keys assist
• 1:26:21
  and protect them They are the only ones
• 1:26:24
  filling the ranks of frontline units Oh Let's
• 1:26:32
  see KIV's motivation camp mobilization campaign has been
• 1:26:37
  marred by widespread draft evasion and Corruption when
• 1:26:41
  the reports of wealthy citizens bribing officials to
• 1:26:44
  avoid service then they all end up in
• 1:26:46
  the United States in Europe Defense authorities claim
• 1:26:49
  incidents of excessive force are rare They aren't
• 1:26:53
  rare according to the channels that I've been
• 1:26:55
  seeing you had to go to the one
• 1:26:56
  what it was it called The channel we
• 1:26:59
  got to find that this telegram channel.
• 1:27:01
  Did they list the name of it, but
• 1:27:03
  there's plenty of them over there.
• 1:27:05
  Oh It's called and while they listed it
• 1:27:09
  telegram channel is called stop TCK Ukraine, right
• 1:27:15
  More more more humor from Ukraine Ukrainian officer
• 1:27:21
  moved troops from the front to his wife's
• 1:27:24
  kebab kiosk a Ukrainian military officer is charged
• 1:27:29
  with abuse of power After diverting two of
• 1:27:32
  his subordinates from combat and assigning them to
• 1:27:35
  work at his wife's kebab kiosk said the
• 1:27:38
  State Bureau of Investigations according to the agency
• 1:27:41
  the scheme ran for nearly two years Had
• 1:27:45
  benefited the officer and the soldiers who are
• 1:27:47
  now being prosecuted separately for fraudulently avoiding military
• 1:27:51
  service the officer served as a deputy commander
• 1:27:55
  of unidentified regiment battalion level unit while the
• 1:28:02
  Soldiers were officially listed on the Defense Ministry's
• 1:28:05
  payroll and even received combat They were in
• 1:28:10
  fact working as labors for their superiors family
• 1:28:14
  including help run the food stand The total
• 1:28:17
  damage to the state is estimated around a
• 1:28:19
  hundred thousand dollars The Ukrainian military has a
• 1:28:22
  persistent problem with corruption No doubt which among
• 1:28:26
  other things undermines gives ongoing Mobilizations many Ukrainians
• 1:28:32
  seek to bribe their way out of conscription
• 1:28:34
  or go into hiding to avoid service Under
• 1:28:36
  a system widely perceived as discriminating against the
• 1:28:40
  poor and throwing them on the front line
• 1:28:43
  recent survey by Kiev International Institute more than
• 1:28:47
  70% of respondents said corruption has worsened
• 1:28:52
  over the past three years and while only
• 1:28:55
  5% say they saw a bit of
• 1:28:58
  improvement How about that?
• 1:29:03
  There's one NATO state that's bringing back the
• 1:29:06
  draft allegedly Croatia we won't get into that
• 1:29:10
  story though because we are going to wrap
• 1:29:13
  it up Tonight.
• 1:29:15
  My name is Samuel trap.
• 1:29:18
  This is and has been international flavor My
• 1:29:24
  shows do get recorded and they will be
• 1:29:28
  placed out in international flavor calm for your
• 1:29:31
  listening pleasure I'll be here again tomorrow night
• 1:29:35
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• 1:29:39
  p.m. To 10 30 p.m Chicago
• 1:29:43
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• 1:29:48
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• 1:29:52
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• 1:29:57
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