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Storms, Winter, Seversk, and the Death of Diplomacy in a World That No Longer Negotiates · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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seven four six eight zero two zero And
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join me today So I've been following the
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weather.
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You can't help it freaking Freezing your I
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don't know Left testicle off or your right
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nipple either way.
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It's freaking cold So there you have it.
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I So When I'm in Florida, Florida, you
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guys say Florida when you're in, Florida I
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always I'm not one of those people that
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turns the this is how horrible it is.
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I'm not one of those people that turns
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the AC on in the house and keeps
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it at 65.
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I don't want that and You know, I
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often kept the house.
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So 75 I thought 75 was rather pleasant,
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right?
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And as a result My air conditioning bills
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were low.
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So here I am Freezing my left testicle
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off and it's only 32 degrees But that
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means you got to keep your house if
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you can't keep your house 75 who the
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hell can afford that that's nuts and so,
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you know, I'm wandering around and you know,
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12 hats and I Don't do well in
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the cold anymore.
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I used to be you know, I've spent
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my time in the cold I grew up
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in Minnesota for God's sake and When I
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was in the army, I slept in a
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snowbank in Alaska in January And one of
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the coldest winters on record, but that was
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cuz I had to I'm supposedly have a
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choice.
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So here I am sipping warm coffee Mmm
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that was tasty and Here I am live
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Coming to you live, I mean live if
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I'm still alive, you know I might be
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frozen solid who knows from the Lake Ozark
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real estate of the art studio, and I'm
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wearing a Long sleeve shirt a sweater a
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jacket still have my hat on I didn't
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take the gloves off because it's a little
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hard to maneuver a mouse should you need
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to move?
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But I suppose that's kind of wimpy of
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me because it's really not all that horribly
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cold and it's something People who grew up
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in Minnesota should be used to or who
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slept in snow banks in freaking Fairbanks And
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Anchorage by the way did it in both
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places and that was depressing at any rate
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I wanted to talk about the weather anyway
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And how do you like that you tune
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in to a radio show and the guys
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gonna talk about the weather but let's let's
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do that.
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Anyway, because I You know, I don't know
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how to put it I enjoy Well, I
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shouldn't say enjoy that's not a good word
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I I pay attention to the weather I
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pay attention to Natural phenomenon and I especially
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pay attention to Natural disasters.
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I've got kind of a fixation with it
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when I went to Hawaii Years ago I
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Spent the whole time I did go one
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day over to Honolulu but All the rest
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of the time I was there like ten
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days or something and I spent the rest
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of the time on the Big Island and
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I had rented a car and I drove
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around the island there were like three active
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volcanoes on the island and you know, they
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were active when I was there and I
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kind of That's one of the main reasons.
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I wanted to go to Hawaii Was to
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see volcanoes people go there to go on
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pineapple tours and stuff like that.
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I went to coffee plantations and tea plantations
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and I went and saw all three of
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these volcanoes and took a helicopter over the
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volcano and I Can't believe I did that
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because I'm one of those people, you know
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that jumps in the ocean and it's gonna
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get eaten by a shark So if you're
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the guy flying over the Volcano and the
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thing hasn't gone off in a thousand years
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if I'm the guy flying over it's gonna
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go off right right as Right as the
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helicopter goes over the top, right if you're
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You know Going to the Grand Canyon.
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You're the dude who the wind gust blows
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off, you know right there if there are
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odds Or against it It's gonna happen to
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me, right if you know your your your
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your car is gonna break down You know
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20 miles from home.
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Well, you know who that's gonna happen to
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On a thousand mile trip, by the way,
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you know, the car will be great till
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you get 20 miles from home And that's
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just how it works.
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Anyway, that could be a little pessimistic and
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So I know people who would say that
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the universe Gives those who think that way
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what they deserve and if you think the
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opposite way it gives those people the things
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they deserve if you think that you're gonna
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be in the two percenters of the Planet
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and when now I got to say I'm
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fairly lucky at this discussion with somebody yesterday,
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and I'm a fairly lucky individual there was
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some Charity event in Jeff City several years
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ago That I went to and They were
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selling or selling well They were selling they
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were selling raffle tickets and you could buy
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raffle tickets in the lady goes you need
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to buy ten I said no, I don't
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need ten now.
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I need one and she said well, you
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know one She said why would you know
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one ticket was 20 bucks?
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I mean it was a they were trying
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to raise some serious money and one ticket
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was 20 bucks and you could get I
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don't know ten for a hundred or something
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like that And I only had 20 bucks
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in my pocket anyway, so that wasn't working
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and so I said no I don't know.
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I only need one.
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I'm gonna win.
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Anyway.
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There's thousand people in the room It's the
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ballroom at the place across from the Capitol.
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You know one of the big hotels there
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and there's at least a thousand people in
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that room and That the grand prize was
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some wagon a Pretty good-sized wagon and
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then several crates around it full of all
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kinds of various types of alcohol whiskey bottles
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of wine and all that stuff and You
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know you write your name on it, and
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I said I'm well You're gonna be you
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know I'll stick around till the end because
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I'm gonna win and sure enough I won
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and the girl was up there.
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She goes.
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How did you do that?
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I don't know you I've always been able
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to do that it when when I was
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going when I was in the military and
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Lived in Washington DC.
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I've already told you the stories about how
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I used to go to Las Vegas Every
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other week you know I'd go to Vegas
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and you'd only stay overnight because the rest
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of the time wasn't really Vegas it was
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Nevada nuclear test site about you know 80
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miles or whatever it was west of Vegas
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and you'd go out there and blow crap
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up And then you'd get one night a
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week in in Vegas or on your return
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trip or whatever you know and be there
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and I Had it.
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I mean I had a pretty damn good
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my odds charts were Unbelievable for black 17
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so so my birthday is the 17th of
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the month and so I was always a
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black 17 er on Roulette and I'd go
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up put it.
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You know $2,500 25 or a hundred
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not 2,500 you know a $25 chip
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$100 chip, and I put it on black
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17, and I can tell you I hit
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that So many times I can't I can't
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and it's 36 to 1 you know you
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get pair 35 I forget how they do
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it, but I think it's 36.
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I think the payout But I think it
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includes your hundred when you get paid out
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you get 36 on her box and I
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can't tell you how many times I did
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that and That I would hit it.
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I've done it in st..
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Louis quite a few times that place in
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st..
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Charles I've done it there about I haven't
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done it in years.
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You know I rarely gamble anymore but I
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used to you know do it all the
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time and So I suppose the odds were
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with me a little bit on that stuff
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too, and maybe there's some truth to the
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universe Let's put it that way to this
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universe thing if people like to talk about
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and say the universe gives you what you
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ask for It's an interesting concept, and I
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don't know that I believe it or not,
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but You know some some some people have
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that belief that the universe is what you
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need to I?
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Don't want to call it praying, but the
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universe is what you need to come to
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grips with not Not religion, you know there's
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certainly that group of folks out there and
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Anyway, whatever happens I can tell you that
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the extreme ends of either end if I
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get in the ocean I'm getting eaten by
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a shark if I fly over a Natural
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disaster I'm gonna get blown up in the
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disaster And every once in a while if
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I go to Vegas and put put a
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hundred dollar black chip on black 17 I'm
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gonna hit that puppy on a fairly regular
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basis, so I need to go there more
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often is what it seems but I wanted
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to talk about natural disasters and weather and
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a couple of things like that because there's
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been a decent amount of that in the
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news and and you know All of the
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stuff that goes on in the world You
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know I Don't know how to dispute Disagreements
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Stupidity everywhere, and you know I suppose that
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some of the things that we all have
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to go through no matter What weather freezing
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your your butt cheek off?
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you know that that people have to pay
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attention to that because we all go through
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it and Wherever you are with the weather
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you'll want to be somewhere else.
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You know I'm not a particular huge fan
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of Florida I don't mind being there Once
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in a while, but I didn't really like
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being there.
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You know on a on a constant basis
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I Particularly enjoy, Missouri in the fall Rest
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of the year Please don't take this wrong
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or come and beat the hell out of
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me at the Lake Ozark real estate of
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the art studio But rest of the time
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for me.
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It's take it or leave it, but I
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but I enjoy fall That's my favorite time
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year, and it is the one time a
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year that I find Missouri to be very
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very pretty and But other than that you
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know it's it's I'd probably prefer to be
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traveling the planet.
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You know what I mean.
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I don't mean anything bad by that.
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It's just I'm much more into the fall,
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but whether wherever you go You know when
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I lived in Qatar, and it was you
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know 115 degrees daily.
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You know and very dry well, it was
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very humid in the in the months of
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like August September, but the rest time it
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was pretty dry and it was and I
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didn't mind that all that much But I
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don't want to be so I wanted to
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go to st.
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Petersburg I've already told you that and see
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a real Russian winter I haven't I've only
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been in Russia in the winter once and
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it was in Moscow, and it was years
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ago And I I don't remember being all
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that horrible or slow people down or anything
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like that and kind of like, Minnesota you
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know the weather never slowed you down up
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there and You know that it was very
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good and everybody learns to deal with the
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weather, but the weather's kind of been in
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the news so You know in the world
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they don't care what your Belief structure is
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they don't care.
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You know what your government Thoughts are they
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don't care what you do for a living
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doesn't care about summits speeches elections morality moral
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framework It's you know for his physics pressure
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Limits, that's what it is, and you know
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this week.
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You know we've had some Some pretty interesting
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Limits being pushed everywhere.
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Let's start with Kamchatka in Far East Russia
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nine meter waves nine meters That's pretty freakin
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high Waves storm warnings across the Pacific in
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the Bering Sea the Bering Straits and nine
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meters.
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That's not rough weather That's like a wall
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of water taller than your house You know
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that's some you know ships fail in that
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ports are shut down because of that rescue
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Becomes near impossible.
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You know if you're rescuing somebody you're gambling
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with your own life in that time and
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so You know in Kamchatka is not some
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you know irrelevant outpost.
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It's a You know the Pacific access, it's
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the Arctic approaches, it's it's everything It's the
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Bering Strait corridor routes that you know both
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militarily and economically really matter these are units
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a Bad times up there right now, and
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so when the sea gets violent there the
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disruptions are are pretty And they're felt in
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a lot of places So you can sanction
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a country you can blockade the port you
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can issue statements, but you can't really negotiate
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Eater wave you know that's not gonna happen
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and so and in in a related You
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know on the other side of the Pacific
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and the Pacific Northwest of the u.s.
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They're drowning under You know some Atmospheric issues
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of their own right you know the rivers
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are rising and they've there been roads that
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have vanished evacuations everywhere you know the weather
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is kicking the crap out of the Pacific
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Northwest as well, and they got landslides, and
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you know we're no third world Developing country
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or a failed state well you could argue
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some of that We're supposedly wealthy Infrastructure heavy
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you know supposedly in that region.
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You know, but it always is discovering over
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and over that You know development doesn't necessarily
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Equal immunity, I mean how many tornadoes we
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get in the Texas Oklahoma Missouri you know
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the panhandle part down there How much you
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get you know what do you what do
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you get?
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Lots of them.
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I mean and also at the same time
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right now They're huge bushfires burning out of
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control all over Australia right homes are burning
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There's extreme heat the erratic wind you know
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firefighter was killed yesterday by a falling tree
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So you got floods on one side of
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the planet fire on the other and there's
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there's a lot of things That don't necessarily
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depend on politics it would you know which
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we like talk about or that aren't related
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You know they don't they might make a
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pause you know Too much water too fast
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or not enough water for too long, and
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then you know the it's You know one
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extreme or the other I mean right now
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Sri Lanka Southeast Asia cyclones everywhere flooding landslides
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their displacement of people and You know recovery
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takes a while Economic strain is felt as
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a result of these things.
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This is you know.
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It's not Chaos, it's a it's kind of
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a pattern because this You can't stop it.
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I mean you Every year you have what
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tornado season in Florida hurricane season.
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You know it's a Pacific Northwest flooding season
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landslide season Southern California fire season you know
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they get to some fire starts, and you
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know burns for months You know it's kind
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of what they're going through in Australia right
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now, and it matters because It kind of
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interrupts the narratives that are you know they
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go along Everywhere you know it's like well.
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We we got this and one of the
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you know the pressure insurance markets supply chains
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repair cost Political patience you know everybody what's
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the u.s. Do oh gee FEMA throw
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him another billion dollars, and let's you know
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move on everybody forgets about it keeps on
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moving on So nature kind of accelerates to
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the truth like truth is Does any of
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the political crap really matter you know it?
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Everything kind of becomes personalized if you're one
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of the people involved in Like like me
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this morning freezing my butt off or you
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know flying over a volcano, but you know
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let's And what happens when weather Hits the
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battlefield right let's take everything we just talked
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about you know pressure limits The indifference of
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weather you know it doesn't care who it's
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affecting It's just it is you know like
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like a Mount Everest is you know and
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And let's talk about that with respect to
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war Let's talk about that with respect to
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winter and Seversk and the collapse of illusions
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on the battlefield What is what is Russia
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been doing?
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What is Ukraine been doing trying to do
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and in in reverse in Russia?
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Doing the same thing They're trying to take
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out each other's energy infrastructure heat electricity why
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because it's a painful situation to have to
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Live through winter with no heat you know
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I'm here complaining about you know 32 degrees
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and And I can turn on the heat
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you know cost me more drives me nuts.
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I don't like that but They can't in
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Ukraine.
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You know them they get what what was
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those those latest stories?
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There's 16 hour blackouts You know you get
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you only get your electricity turned on so
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many times a day and the heat doesn't
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get turned on Except for like four to
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eight hours something like depending on where you
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live and so you know The the no
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pause Winter is not you know a nice
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scenery picture in Ukraine could be but when
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it winters up like a Multiplier a force
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that's what it is the cold is killing
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The batteries in your vehicle the vehicle itself
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Wounded soldiers, you know die in the freezing
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cold.
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I'm here complaining You know I ain't laying
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in the snow.
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You know Kills morale kills logistics kills food
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supply.
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You know how do you get any any
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food to the battlefield it attacks?
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You know energy first heat electricity water rail
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every winter repairs are Are critical you know
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it's a race against time because The haves
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make it forward and have nots you know
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you're not warm.
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You're not fighting You know What's let's talk
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about that in relation to the battlefield that
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nobody is really talking about the saviors There's
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a German journalist in a war correspondent that
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wrote an article last couple of days His
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name is Thomas Roper and After the fall
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of Seversk which was taken basically yesterday what
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he said was This is probably the last
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fortress before the Donetsk River.
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Do you remember me talking about that?
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about the steppe and the plains and what
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happens over there, and it's gonna be especially
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brutal in the winter and And so basically
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you the hills and the and the And
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the populated centers are further on the east
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and then once you cross that Area to
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get into the western Donbass and where Seversk
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is and You get to keep going all
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the way that the Donetsk River I mean
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almost and it the the Donetsk curves to
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the to the West right there, too but
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You could arguably it's nothing but planes, and
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they're very there aren't any large Population centers
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between Seversk and well a lot of Seversk
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and going all the way that didn't ask
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River and From the very beginning.
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I remember when somebody was first interviewing me
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about this Years ago three four years ago
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when the when the war first started, and
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I was talking about Historic Russia where Russia
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was in relation to Ukraine and all of
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that And I basically said everything east of
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the Donetsk Was basically Russian and You know
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of course, I'm not saying there weren't Ukrainians
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there, and I'm not saying it wasn't part
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of Ukraine that was gifted by Khrushchev to
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Ukraine during Soviet Union times, but historically Native
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Russian okay and west of the Donetsk Farm
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you know the Ukraine means on the edge
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on the edge on the frontier now cry
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Means on the Edges and Ukraine that means
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you're by the edge And so that was
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the further west you went the more in
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the frontier you were but it was all
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Russia right it was all Russian Empire for
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last thousand years, and there was never a
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separate Ukraine Empire You know and now that
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was just where they were there their language
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deviated you know because of the influence from
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the Poles and In the Baltic States and
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stuff like that in a Germanic state Austria
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Hungary over there And but it's a wide
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flat plain all the way to the Donetsk
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after this and so the weather you know
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there is this Thomas Roper says that there's
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you know not much left to stop Russians
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the Russians now that they've gotten west of
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Seversk and You know that's not a Kremlin
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spokesperson and person.
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That's not you know a war I Don't
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know what general commander, and you know nobody
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like that.
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It's a German journalist Describing the geometry of
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the battlefield and Seversk wasn't really symbolic.
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It's more structural It's a fortified position that
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anchored Ukrainian defenses and with it gone The
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road is open toward Kramatorsk Slovyansk You know
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these are command hubs these are logistical places
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and and is his assessment is that the?
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Ukrainian forces are Extremely low on personnel there's
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been some discussion that they are completely out
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of Reinforcements They don't have anybody left to
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get you know unless they lower the the
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age to You know 18 or something from
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25 that it's at now, but they've already
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let most those guys leave the country Sorry
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about that get a little bit of coffee
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still got a bit of a scratch in
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the throat The strategy you know the Ukrainian
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strategy basically Hold the ground at any cost
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period in there people are dying I've tell
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you about Mirna grad in Petrovsk in Mirna
26:52
grad there was a They were completely encircled
26:56
in Mirna grad after the fall of Petrovsk
26:59
in it.
27:01
It's Month ago.
27:03
I was telling you there were 5,000
27:07
soldiers in each place Six weeks ago two
27:11
weeks ago three weeks ago.
27:12
I was telling you that they're down to
27:13
about 2,000 in each place Now they
27:17
aren't showing there.
27:18
You know there's still an effort on the
27:21
Ukraine side to say oh gee We're holding
27:24
it, but they've lost all 10,000 of
27:26
those troops in Petrovsk Mirna grad in the
27:30
last four or five weeks Russians estimates were
27:33
47,000 soldiers in the month of October
27:37
lost on the Ukrainian side another Estimate which
27:46
isn't really an estimate And now they're talking
27:50
about a lot of people have said I
27:51
say it's closer to one and a half
27:53
million Because I've been following it from the
27:55
very get-go in the four-year period
27:57
but now even Western military Strategists And commentators
28:06
and people like this This guy Roper have
28:11
been saying that now they've passed a million
28:14
now That Ukraine is more than a million.
28:17
I think it's quite a bit higher than
28:19
that certainly.
28:20
It's much higher if you count The Wounded
28:25
and if you count the desertions if you
28:28
count the people there's still about 200,000
28:31
that have been charged with With desertion so
28:38
Attrition has replaced any sort of maneuver the
28:42
Ukrainians have been commanded You will hold this
28:46
ground at any cost and including all the
28:48
lives of the entire unit You know and
28:51
that's what's happened certainly in Mirna grad On
28:56
Pokrov skin arguably in Seversk too, and so
29:00
now The lawn that should line.
29:04
I mean that that should Worry us or
29:08
worry them is And because they're not doing
29:12
it is anybody who had any sort of
29:15
brain on that side of the Equation on
29:18
the Ukrainian side would get some negotiations going
29:22
So why aren't they you know I Don't
29:28
know a pause now.
29:30
What does a pause now do does it
29:32
freeze the battlefield?
29:34
No, it reshapes it so this brings me
29:38
to the discussion by Sergei Lavrov Because he
29:42
gave an hour and a half He was
29:44
at an hour and a half called it
29:46
a roundtable is what they were talking about
29:49
And I only got to listen the first
29:51
30 40 minutes, um, I mean which was
29:54
mostly him given the You know some prepared
29:58
remarks, and he was talking about it and
30:01
once again.
30:01
They were talking about The because Europe is
30:05
still pushing as is the u.s. partially
30:09
they keep framing the necessity for a ceasefire
30:14
to engage in talks and There's been several
30:20
commentators talk about it in the last You
30:23
know week or two especially it's a you
30:26
know especially as the holidays come up That
30:29
have been talking about Ceasefire and Lavrov Reminded
30:36
everybody once again of what we've been saying
30:40
for for years that no We will not
30:47
just Agree to a ceasefire To allow them
30:51
he said it again.
30:53
He gave me said it feels like I
30:54
said it he goes I don't know you
30:56
know I've repeated this and a number of
30:58
times because especially in Europe but in the
31:02
West he said and especially in Europe a
31:06
ceasefire under the current conditions isn't Equal to
31:12
peace it just isn't Because it's recovery time
31:17
it is time for them to and he
31:18
listed him he listed it out rotate Exhausted
31:23
Ukrainian units out give them a little bit
31:26
of a break.
31:26
He said they need a break retrain hopefully
31:31
and gets a member they're sending their Conscripts
31:35
straight to the front to be trained by
31:38
the frontline units That's not a strategy that
31:42
is worthwhile.
31:43
They need a pause They they've been begging
31:46
for this ceasefire because they need a ceasefire
31:49
in order to regroup They want to integrate
31:54
and have shipped new Western weapons today They
31:58
want to repair rail and energy infrastructure and
32:01
hopefully rebuild a little bit of morale for
32:05
them And so a pause in the a
32:09
ceasefire You know of a small stop in
32:13
the hostilities Redistributes the advantage of the Russians
32:19
and you know makes it a little bit
32:24
more But you know allegedly equal you know
32:29
or gives gives the Ukrainians Call it a
32:32
fighting chance even though you know they're all
32:34
being forced to fight and be destroyed anyway
32:38
And with savers gone and winter biting They
32:45
need that stop now more than ever Because
32:50
you know the advantage and you know advantage
32:54
Russia You know is going to turn into
32:58
game set match Russia according to to Lavrov
33:04
if they keep the pressure up and not
33:08
have any sort of ceasefire that allows Europe
33:11
to resupply allows Ukrainians to propagandize and come
33:16
another way and hopefully facilitate some sort of
33:21
resupply redistribution on the remaining front lines although
33:28
Seversk Petrovsk Mirna grad Kupyansk these are big
33:35
cities, and they are all Basically, and these
33:38
are not small that are all basically gone
33:41
They just they just I think it was
33:43
I can't remember the one up in Kharkov
33:46
where they were talking about Where they pushed
33:49
him out and now the Ukrainians are saying
33:51
now.
33:52
We won't leave that area It's Western Donbass,
33:55
and we won't leave But the civilians are
33:57
being Evacuated or told to leave you know
34:02
one way or the other Because the Ukrainians
34:04
can't hold it anymore And so that's the
34:07
next big one, and then you know now
34:09
they're talking about Kramatorsk and these other historically
34:15
Vital cities as far as Production as far
34:20
as manufacturing and stuff like that.
34:22
It's it's Weather isn't helping you know and
34:27
weather is very important in this just like
34:32
all of the weather issues stop You know
34:37
events stop Reality for a little while or
34:41
change your reality Maybe is better you know
34:44
your reality the winner is changing the reality.
34:47
You know reality is Ukrainians were losing anyway
34:50
and Now Reality is is that In the
34:57
winter they're gonna lose even quicker, especially if
35:00
Russia doesn't agree to a Cessation so that
35:04
they can enjoy the holidays.
35:05
They're gonna be enjoying the holidays anyway and
35:08
Neither the Russians by the way not in
35:10
that area But you know from Moscow's perspective
35:14
agreeing to a ceasefire now means stopping while
35:17
their momentum is At its peak so that
35:21
momentum could be rebuilt against them and so
35:25
that logic isn't Ideology it's a military arithmetic
35:30
in winter.
35:31
You know is Magnifying it I suppose would
35:35
be the best word winner is Showing it
35:38
that it did it that it's there so
35:40
that brings us to another in my view
35:45
Real problem, what's the real problem the real
35:48
problem?
35:51
It's not winter it's not Seversky it's not
35:55
even attrition, but the fact and I've said
35:59
this I can't tell you how many times
36:01
Since I have started this show you know
36:04
We're in season two here And I don't
36:09
know how many Started on this I think
36:11
it was a show number 240 or something
36:13
like that 241 that has been that I
36:17
have done and The problem there isn't any
36:21
of those things I've talked about this before
36:24
it's the death of diplomacy itself The diplomacy
36:29
doesn't exist anymore.
36:30
I mean think about it It's just not
36:34
here You know Lavrov kept talking and he
36:38
was talking about the same stuff when when
36:43
Tucker Carlson interviewed Putin so long ago when
36:50
People have talked when when people talk anything
36:53
about history when the Russians talk about this
36:56
they go look historically East of the Donbass
37:01
or east of the Donetsk his Odessa included
37:04
by the way Which isn't really east of
37:07
the Donetsk, but Odessa Nikolaeva those two obelisks
37:17
regions are also Historically Russian the ports in
37:22
Odessa.
37:22
They weren't built by by Ukrainians I mean
37:25
they were built by people who were Lived
37:28
in in Odessa, but they were in the
37:32
Russian Imperium Port of Odessa has been Russia
37:37
Russian for a thousand years Just like Sevastopol,
37:42
you know, just like any other major Russian
37:45
port was always Russian And so when they
37:48
talk about these things, they're they're talking history.
37:51
They're talking Ports they're talking Shipyards shipbuilding the
37:57
Black Sea.
37:58
They're talking the Black Sea access economic arteries
38:02
and everything those were prime areas of Russia
38:07
and Soviet Union for a thousand years way
38:11
before Ukraine, so When you talk about this
38:16
sort of geography in Russia saying from the
38:19
beginning look it's historic Russians you Ukrainians keep
38:25
Demonizing all things Russian and destroying the people
38:29
and blowing them up, especially post 2014 You
38:34
know You're destroying your own history for God's
38:38
sake and there was no separate Ukraine You
38:41
know there just wasn't it became separate when
38:44
Khrushchev gave it up, you know and Stalin
38:47
some before that and They they talk about
38:51
this history and they go through the history,
38:53
you know, and when you're talking about geography
38:56
and History, I mean hell you could argue
39:00
that in breast which when which is up
39:02
in Belarus And that was awesome Visit an
39:08
awesome tour that I went to that was
39:11
a World War two stronghold was a Stronghold
39:15
of the Lithuanian Kingdoms Polish kingdoms for a
39:23
long time and The history there has been
39:28
overrun Europe The crossings and the wars that
39:33
have covered Europe have gone on for centuries
39:38
You know in a place that's you know
39:41
smaller than the United States And so imagine
39:44
I mean like our Civil war north and
39:48
south, you know, we talked about that.
39:50
That's our war of history Well, how many
39:52
times is that gone on in Europe?
39:55
How many times I mean the Mongol hordes
39:59
crossed through there for God's sake the the
40:02
Turkish?
40:02
Empire went through there, you know the Ottoman
40:06
Empire, you know Ottoman Turks and the The
40:11
What do you call it Romans Greeks, I
40:14
mean However far back you want to go
40:18
this place has been a war zone for
40:21
centuries And so you might say that it's
40:24
not fair for Russia to say.
40:26
Oh gee, that's all Russian Anyway, what are
40:28
you bitching about and it's not fair for
40:30
Ukraine to deny that it was you know
40:33
They were part of the Russian Empire and
40:36
part of it now the Polish was clearly
40:39
different, you know They were they're related but
40:42
not the same the Ukrainians They were you
40:45
know in the same group with the Russians
40:48
always historically.
40:50
They've never had their own Ukrainian country they're
40:53
trying to change that history now, you know
40:55
and tell everybody.
40:56
Oh, no Ukraine was you know, Ukraine?
40:59
Ukrainian Rus not Russian Rus You know, that's
41:03
not how it worked so you could argue
41:05
the semantics of all this but the fact
41:08
is nobody knows what's gonna happen here and
41:12
the diplomacy part being dead and compromise being
41:21
Non-existent You know geography Doesn't compromise, you
41:26
know throw in the the trouble with my
41:29
thoughts on diplomacy and diplomacy dying is because
41:35
you used to be able to get together
41:37
and come to a resolution by talking by
41:42
creating a Strategy by coming up with good
41:47
ideas and there's a couple that have come
41:48
up here recently That I wanted to talk
41:51
about the old Z monster Is pushing another
41:55
one now.
41:56
He wants to turn the whole Donbass into
41:58
a Economic zone kind of You know stop
42:05
hostilities neither one of us get it So
42:07
that's that's his fallback position neither one of
42:10
us get the Donbass which are donetsk and
42:12
Lugansk and they want to you know stop
42:15
Parisia throw that in there as well and
42:17
depending on which version you're listening to right
42:20
and Not that we have lost these territories
42:24
already from Ukraine you're not hearing that you're
42:26
still hearing well Wait a minute.
42:28
If you're forcing us to take territorial losses
42:33
Let's take a step back here and say
42:35
well, all right us Well, you just take
42:37
it over as an economic zone and we'll
42:39
do that If you give us security guarantees
42:41
again with the security guarantees, you know, you
42:44
beat up Russia for us big brother and
42:47
We'll let you have these security zones you
42:50
beat up Russia for us big brother and
42:53
we'll give you you know a hundred billion
42:55
dollar Resources deal for generations to come Which
43:01
has already happened so let's talk about the
43:05
the history of that which unfortunately everybody remembers
43:10
because Everybody remembers Minsk one in Minsk two
43:16
For years Minsk was sold as peace, right?
43:20
This is how they got Putin to not
43:23
react back in you know 2014 20 I
43:27
forget which years it was but it's gone
43:29
on for you know 10-15 years so
43:34
The Western leaders then, you know three four
43:37
years ago and even Zelensky admitted it Said
43:41
the told the truth finally that the agreements
43:46
that we made in Minsk were never To
43:50
You know, we're never true.
43:52
We weren't trying to resolve the matter We
43:56
were buying time And they've been pretty upfront
44:00
about it and that admission that admission more
44:05
than anything else when you look between Russia
44:10
and Europe and you know the West completely
44:14
the globalist West That admission by the parties
44:19
involved France Germany Ukraine three of the four
44:24
That admission killed any Trust and that is
44:29
what we're dealing with right now Okay from
44:33
Moscow's point of view from Lavrov's point of
44:36
view.
44:36
He was there.
44:37
He remembers it You know the the new
44:39
guy on the block, you know, the Rubio's
44:42
of the world the Trump's the world Although
44:44
Trump, you know knew about all these things
44:47
before from his previous term in office so
44:51
from Moscow's point of view Minsk is proof
44:55
another another Look what you did last time.
44:59
It's proof that diplomacy is really just another
45:03
weapon just another tool of the globalist elites
45:09
if you know Diplomacy as they call it,
45:12
you know Western diplomacy and Lavrov brings it
45:16
up as a weird warning pretty frequently basically,
45:19
he says You already admitted that you lied
45:23
to us the last two times Minsk one
45:26
and Minsk two Why in the world should
45:29
we believe you again that this ceasefire is
45:31
just you know We're gonna end the conflict,
45:35
you know, that's you know, they don't want
45:38
to do just a ceasefire They want to
45:40
end the conflict Russia says we will talk.
45:43
We'll continue talking and we will talk to
45:45
end the conflict That's what we will do,
45:49
but we won't give you a ceasefire to
45:51
regroup reform resupply Everything like that because we
45:59
don't trust you because diplomacy you use, you
46:04
know diplomacy as a platitude to To trick
46:08
us which is what you did in Minsk
46:10
one and Minsk two and then just admitted
46:12
We mean the question has no answer, you
46:15
know, there is no answer because it's absolutely
46:18
true This is why ceasefire proposals die on
46:23
arrival most the time, you know This ceasefire
46:26
not because peace isn't desired not because you
46:29
know, they're tired of lives, you know being
46:32
Lost as well.
46:34
It's because trust doesn't exist Trust doesn't exist
46:38
and now take a little bit wider view
46:41
of this lens a little bit bigger where
46:45
where on the planet is Western Diplomacy true
46:52
diplomacy a true diplomat actually functioning Is it
46:58
working in Europe?
46:59
No, they're a joke It's fragmented exhausted reactive,
47:04
you know tweeted, you know, it's oh gee.
47:08
It's pink It's a pink flower a multicolored
47:12
rainbow flag, you know, is it working in
47:14
South America?
47:15
What's going on South America's any of that
47:18
diplomacy at all?
47:19
No, it's it's a big brother says, you
47:22
know, daddy says and this is what's gonna
47:24
happen You know, that's not diplomacy is BS.
47:28
It is working in China No, they're building
47:32
parallel systems they're going, you know, we've had
47:35
enough of this, you know, we're not your
47:37
your your big bad wolf We are not
47:39
the enemy and you keep wanting to make
47:41
we just want to live We just want
47:43
to take care of our people and we've
47:45
been in you know, they're building Parallel systems
47:48
nobody's waiting for approval to do this.
47:52
They're just doing it India told talked about
47:55
them some yesterday with Jaishankar.
47:57
They're not aligned They're transactional and they're very
48:01
patient China's very patient and Time is going
48:08
on time is continuing and the problem is
48:11
is the quiet revelations that are always buried
48:16
in Washington's strategy and discussions, you know, there's
48:23
there's Quiet things, you know, one of the
48:25
most exciting things I read in the last
48:28
24 hours It was and I might share
48:31
the whole thing with you because I really
48:33
liked it.
48:34
In fact, I think I will Let me
48:35
let me pull this up before you because
48:38
it is a highly interesting Proposal, where is
48:45
it?
48:46
It was allegedly a trumpster deal But I
48:50
got to find the damn thing There it
48:55
is, I found it here is the name
48:57
of the article came out yesterday and It
49:02
is Titled the US is secretly planning a
49:10
five-nation club including Russia to sideline the
49:16
G7 remember the g8 Oh Russia's gonna be
49:19
invited back to the g8 and he said
49:22
you're not gonna come You know, we're not
49:24
interested.
49:24
What do we care?
49:25
You know, you booted us out turned into
49:27
the g7.
49:27
I don't give a rip and So this
49:32
group so I'm gonna share the whole article
49:34
with you because it's really not that long
49:35
it's a it's a short deal So the
49:39
u.s. Is secretly planning and I don't
49:41
know how true this is I haven't had
49:43
any research just this one story But allegedly
49:46
the u.s. Is secretly planning to create
49:49
a five-nation power block With Russia, China,
49:54
India and Japan To sideline the Western dominated
50:00
g7 and this is several media outlets have
50:03
allegedly Reported this this the idea was reportedly
50:06
outlined in a longer unpublished draft of The
50:11
US national security strategy that I covered for
50:13
you a couple of days ago released by
50:16
the administration of President Trump, you know that
50:19
came out according to the defense one news
50:22
portal the version circulated before the White House
50:27
published the unclassified document and report, you know
50:33
Reportedly proposed a new group.
50:35
Hmm a little coffee there dubbed it as
50:41
the core five as a forum for dialogue
50:45
among major powers Outside of the traditional g7
50:51
framework Under this plan the five-nation format
50:55
would hold regular summits similar to the g7
50:58
each focused on a theme Middle East security
51:03
Normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia
51:07
one of the first things allegedly to be
51:10
on the agenda this unpublished version allegedly says
51:16
And it lays out a plan to downgrade
51:19
Washington's role in Europe push NATO toward a
51:25
Tougher burden-sharing model that they've been talking
51:29
about And focus instead on bilateral ties with
51:33
the EU governments that are closer to the
51:37
US places like Austria Hungary Italy Poland and
51:42
Get away from France Germany England, you know
51:47
get away from the nut jobs according to
51:50
Politico White House spokesperson Anna Kelly insisted that
51:55
No alternative private or classified version exists before
52:00
beyond the official 33 page plan that I
52:03
shared with you before The Kremlin says it
52:07
has seen no official statement from Washington on
52:10
this reported plan and added that such claims
52:14
They treat with skepticism So the report comes
52:18
against a backdrop of a long-running argument
52:20
about Russia's place in existing Western led groups
52:25
in 1998 The g7 which is the u
52:30
.s. The UK France Germany Italy Canada Japan
52:34
Was expanded to include Russia But Russia was
52:38
booted out in 2014 after taking Or reunifying
52:45
Crimea with Russia and Trump has repeatedly said
52:48
that removing Russia from that group was a
52:52
big mistake and That had Moscow remained at
52:55
the table De-escalation of Ukraine you know
53:01
or the escalation in 2022, you know with
53:04
Russia going in and after Referenda in the
53:08
Donbass could have been present prevented and President
53:12
Putin said in an interview with India today
53:14
this month That I quoted for you last
53:18
week or earlier this week that Russia has
53:21
no plans to join the g7 and he
53:24
notes the group, you know that the significance
53:27
of that group is no longer important anyway,
53:30
because England France Italy Germany These people it's
53:38
well Germany.
53:39
That's not fair a Canada These people are
53:42
not major economies when you look on the
53:45
global sphere.
53:46
And so focusing on them is probably Excuse
53:51
me is probably a mistake and shouldn't be
53:54
done that way.
53:55
It shouldn't shouldn't go that far and So,
53:59
I don't know.
53:59
I found that to be interesting and if
54:01
that really is Trump's idea you know, whether
54:05
whether it's a core five whether this core
54:09
five principle is real or not and whether
54:11
Trump Outlined it or not in a prior
54:15
version of the security statement The idea is
54:21
Pretty revealing, you know, it admits what everybody
54:24
already knows, you know, the old West Centric
54:27
order doesn't govern reality anyway And if it
54:32
was being proposed in Washington even Washington is
54:36
hedging their bets and so You know Washington
54:42
According to some you know because there was
54:45
a guy who also wrote an article that
54:47
his name is Fyodor Lukyanov And he in
54:51
his article.
54:52
I'm wondering if I should share that with
54:54
you as well because it was a pretty
54:55
good article but basically Well, let's just go
55:01
with the the start of it He argues
55:05
that Washington no longer frames Russia as Mordor
55:12
you know, I'd tell them you bet that
55:14
you know, they always the Ukrainians always thought
55:16
it was really fun to call the Russian
55:19
soldiers orcs and they're not real people.
55:22
So you just got to kill them and
55:24
basically What do you do with an orc
55:26
you kill them they're not people they're not
55:28
human basically and that was you know the
55:30
tone is cold that you know, Russia is
55:33
seen as part of Europe, but You know
55:38
confined, you know integrated but subordinate right the
55:43
junior pillar in a reconstructed European house because
55:48
you know the vision, you know that vision
55:51
he says Belongs in the past because the
55:54
big three Russia India China They don't accept
55:58
it and much of the world doesn't even
56:00
recognize it anymore You know, they like to
56:04
talk about Putin being isolated.
56:06
He's not which brings us to Trump So
56:13
Trump claims that everybody in Ukraine that was
56:16
pretty funny quote everybody in Ukraine except Zelensky
56:19
liked his peace plan, you know his peace
56:22
plan he warns about World War three and
56:25
he's pressuring the Z man for Elections, which
56:28
is you know, I think he's doing so
56:31
correctly strip away his personality, you know Trump's
56:35
Excuse me a little bit on the tired
56:37
side.
56:38
Well, what Trump is signaling is this That
56:42
the war there's still no clean off ramp
56:45
for this war, you know Ceasefire or because
56:49
even Trump has changed his mind on that
56:51
over the last six months eight months, you
56:53
know Well, we need a ceasefire immediate ceasefire.
56:55
You give me a ceasefire in a week
56:57
And then it was give me a ceasefire
56:58
in a month.
56:59
I want to ceasefire by September 1st You
57:01
know, I want to ceasefire by Thanksgiving, you
57:03
know Well, then he changed it after he
57:06
met with Putin and Putin says listen You're
57:08
not paying attention a ceasefire only does what
57:11
we just said and whoever's giving you this
57:14
advice That tells it tells you that we're
57:16
going to agree to a ceasefire Are nuts,
57:19
you know because we've said we're not going
57:22
to allow you to just to rebuild these
57:23
and your globalist Well, you know pals over
57:26
there that aren't really your pals.
57:28
Mr. Trump They are trying to keep you
57:30
sucked into this and the way they do
57:32
it is with a ceasefire because then they
57:35
can resupply resubmit all the things we've already
57:38
talked about so Trump now signals that the
57:43
war doesn't have a clean off ramp.
57:44
He knows why Territory is the unsolvable variable,
57:49
you know Old Zalons Zielinski the Z man
57:55
wants to say that oh geez, we gotta
57:57
have done best back.
57:59
They never should took it Well, you never
58:00
should have bombed the crap out everybody from
58:02
2014 on you never should outlawed Russian, you
58:06
know It's nonsense you never should have denied
58:09
your own history and you know forced forced
58:15
Ukrainization on Ethnic Russians and you know diplomacy
58:20
is now like, you know, a little perform
58:22
in dancing Zelensky You know escalation Escalation risk
58:30
isn't And Escalation is far more likely because
58:36
of the lack of diplomacy There is no
58:39
diplomacy Trump even says, you know, geez, we've
58:42
got to watch out World War three, you
58:44
know It's right around the corner When World
58:46
War three doesn't begin with a declaration it
58:49
begins when nobody Trusts diplomacy enough to really
58:56
try it and You know Frankly, how can
59:01
you blame the rest of the world for
59:03
being fed up with Western style?
59:08
Democracy, you know and let's talk about this
59:14
The Don Bass trade zone that Zelensky wanted
59:18
wanted to talk about a demilitarized free According,
59:24
you know free according to him, but basically
59:27
he just wants the u.s. To do
59:28
it investment instead of shells It sounds you
59:33
know pragmatic, you know, it's like well, you
59:35
know, that could be like Trump and Gaza.
59:37
Oh, geez We're gonna turn this into a
59:39
resort Great We don't want to resort we
59:42
want to live in our homes You know,
59:44
we want to live here without getting a
59:46
crap bombed out of us or be destroyed
59:48
by Israel every 10 minutes I don't know.
59:50
I'm not saying right wrong and different just
59:53
saying, you know, Trump turned into Trump Trump
59:56
resort Three is your five or ten or
59:58
whatever?
59:59
It is is no is no solution and
1:00:02
so the Z man is coming up with
1:00:04
this Z militarized free economic zone, give me
1:00:08
some investment and Sounds oh gee, you know
1:00:11
what that might be a pretty good idea,
1:00:13
but quietly it's admitting something huge military victory
1:00:20
Of Ukraine of the West is no longer
1:00:24
assumed.
1:00:25
It's not presumed they know they're losing so
1:00:28
peace is being reframed as Economics.
1:00:32
Well, what idiot wouldn't want to You know
1:00:35
increase economic economy for everybody Why wouldn't we
1:00:41
want to go back and you know go
1:00:42
back to making money and living with each
1:00:44
other and dealing with things the way They
1:00:45
should be but you can't build the trade
1:00:48
zone without sovereignty Somebody has to be in
1:00:52
charge security guarantees.
1:00:54
I mean who's gonna be in charge u
1:00:56
.s Do you think Russia would allow that
1:01:00
I don't think so it gives them exactly
1:01:03
what they've what they've been saying they don't
1:01:05
want the whole thing, you know instead of
1:01:07
the NATO on the on the shores of
1:01:12
Western Russia or the border of Western Russia
1:01:15
you get all of America, but you don't
1:01:17
put in your nuclear bombs You know if
1:01:19
you wish and and what about security guarantees
1:01:22
and legitimacy precisely what Diplomacy has failed to
1:01:28
resolve for years.
1:01:29
That's not planning for peace.
1:01:31
That's post-war fantasy While the war is
1:01:37
still burning on right and then throw Venezuela
1:01:42
into that mix so There have been Repeated
1:01:48
stories here in the last few days after
1:01:51
the seizing of this tanker.
1:01:53
I talked a little bit about that up
1:01:54
there to go Where Putin is backing Maduro
1:01:59
as the u.s. Seized the tanker and
1:02:02
deploys more Navy assets Sanctions, you know meet
1:02:06
sovereignty claims power is answering to the pressure
1:02:10
same Logic in a different theater Diplomacy completely
1:02:18
replaced by leverage, you know Storms don't negotiate
1:02:26
Winter doesn't pause war Geography doesn't forgive mistakes,
1:02:32
you know geographies geography Minsk taught the world
1:02:36
that diplomacy is deception or a huge part
1:02:40
of it is Deception remember me telling you
1:02:43
about a game.
1:02:44
I used to play Learned it in high
1:02:46
school from my German teacher Can't remember a
1:02:51
name fro from something my brother would remember
1:02:53
because we played these Game game is called
1:02:57
diplomacy meant many people have played the game
1:03:00
risk imagine a game of risk, but no
1:03:04
dice, right and And You have eight ten
1:03:08
players, you know each a different country making
1:03:10
alliances starts around World War one and you
1:03:14
you know, you ease through up through World
1:03:17
War two, and it's basically a Lesson in
1:03:22
how to Negotiate Everybody moves all at the
1:03:27
same time.
1:03:27
You you have a Move every 24 hours
1:03:32
Okay And everybody moves their military or builds
1:03:35
military or builds fleets build this builds that
1:03:39
and you go to so if you're Austria
1:03:42
-Hungary you make an alliance with Germany to
1:03:47
Protect the common border and you focus on
1:03:51
building something on On the Mediterranean, you know
1:03:56
fleet Austria-Hungary gonna build a fleet down
1:03:59
below Meanwhile, you've made this deal, but France
1:04:04
is making a separate deal with Germany at
1:04:06
the same time, you know And and this
1:04:09
deal is hey We want to come in
1:04:12
and take a chunk of Austria-Hungary We
1:04:14
want to take the Austria chunk and push
1:04:16
Hungary further over You support us in that
1:04:19
and we'll help you kick the crap out
1:04:21
of England up on top here because we're
1:04:24
you know, it's make sense to us and
1:04:27
so you make all your Negotiations and the
1:04:30
game is called diplomacy, right?
1:04:32
And so you make all your Negotiations your
1:04:35
moves and then everybody comes in and finds
1:04:37
out who's truthful and who's not Who screwed
1:04:41
who and every turn somebody got screwed every
1:04:44
turn somebody is there.
1:04:46
Well, this is All that is going on
1:04:49
these days is the exact same thing and
1:04:52
Russia has been the recipient of the lies
1:04:54
So many times I quit playing you know
1:04:58
about about Halfway through the year.
1:05:01
I was like jeez, you know, I I
1:05:04
Don't want to have a discussion with you
1:05:06
One day and then the next day Find
1:05:09
out that you were lying to me and
1:05:11
then have you want to come back to
1:05:12
me and discuss another deal Well, no, it's
1:05:15
a different way things have changed now, you
1:05:17
know, I already taken England, you know, I
1:05:19
would I would now I'll help you support
1:05:21
and I only did it so that I
1:05:23
could support them and you're listening to all
1:05:25
their justifications for why they screwed you the
1:05:27
time before right and Unfortunately, Russia has been
1:05:31
the recipient of that Method of diplomacy too
1:05:37
many times It's history for them.
1:05:40
You know, they got screwed the whole way
1:05:42
We're there.
1:05:43
We're we're allies with them America England Everybody
1:05:48
is Russia helps defeat Hitler.
1:05:51
What happened right after that?
1:05:54
What happened?
1:05:56
Russia starts trusting him Russia became the enemy
1:05:59
more than I mean Geez, if anybody should
1:06:02
have never been included back into the fold.
1:06:04
It should have been Germany, right?
1:06:06
No, it was Russia, you know, it was
1:06:09
everybody hates Russia and they continued in and
1:06:12
so this is a long-term History lesson
1:06:15
for you and a diplomacy lesson.
1:06:17
Do you want to say in Russia doesn't
1:06:20
trust anybody?
1:06:21
Well, all you gotta do is check out
1:06:23
history Minsk one Minsk to Budapest Accords Go
1:06:27
back further.
1:06:28
Keep on trucking.
1:06:29
You go all the way back thousand years
1:06:31
You could talk about the Lithuanian Empire when
1:06:34
they were talking, you know, cuz they had
1:06:36
agreements with with Poland You can talk about
1:06:39
what occurred in Brest and how many times
1:06:41
that happened and they were overrun back and
1:06:43
forth because that was the Western Half well,
1:06:45
you didn't talk about it with Ukraine and
1:06:47
where where Russia was and how many to
1:06:49
I mean geez they go back Putin even
1:06:51
talks about Napoleon, you know going back and
1:06:54
they know their history far far better than
1:06:56
I do for God's sake and so this
1:06:59
trust the currency of trust is gone and
1:07:04
It's I don't know what he what what
1:07:06
are we gonna do about it seriously and
1:07:09
diplomacy is dead you know when you're Putin
1:07:11
and you're and you're and and I talked
1:07:14
about this yesterday when I talked about the
1:07:16
seizure of the Vessel now, we know it
1:07:19
was seized in Venezuelan waters, you know that
1:07:23
it was off the coast of Venezuela.
1:07:25
You can't do that That's you know That's
1:07:27
a war act is what that is and
1:07:30
and we justify it by claiming sanctions and
1:07:32
claiming all this other crap And I get
1:07:35
the arguments I get it, but I also
1:07:38
think that It is erosion of even more
1:07:43
on a much larger picture Because the rest
1:07:46
of the world is looking at this and
1:07:48
they aren't going.
1:07:49
Oh, gee the US is the cool kids
1:07:51
And they're doing us a favor.
1:07:52
They're going we're next That's what's happening we're
1:07:57
next and and and I don't know that
1:07:59
this makes it a Better more safe world
1:08:05
frankly, I Tend to believe not, you know
1:08:09
that it pushes us closer to the brink
1:08:12
To you know, people do talk about this
1:08:15
potential for World War three You know this
1:08:20
stealing of the Russian assets, you know, we
1:08:23
have FICO FICO, I don't know how you
1:08:26
pronounce it, but Slovakia Won't back a reparations
1:08:30
loan for Kiev Proposed by the European Commission,
1:08:34
so Shared that with you a couple of
1:08:38
days ago.
1:08:38
And now excuse me now England is doing
1:08:41
more and more pushing to Come to a
1:08:48
resolution of this and Here here's here's an
1:08:52
article from the Financial Times, right lenders fear
1:08:57
retaliatory Lawsuits from Moscow British bankers have pushed
1:09:01
back Against the plans to use frozen Russian
1:09:05
assets I think some people are finally starting
1:09:07
to get it if we have rules the
1:09:10
rules should be followed if You don't follow
1:09:13
the rules Everybody recognizes it, you know, if
1:09:18
you're if you have kids and your parent
1:09:22
and You recommend to your kids boy.
1:09:25
Don't smoke.
1:09:26
Don't drink.
1:09:27
Don't use drugs.
1:09:27
Don't do these things, but You smoke you
1:09:31
drink you use drugs Your kids see it
1:09:34
and that incongruent see Doesn't do you any
1:09:38
favors, you know, if you're not practicing what
1:09:41
you preach well You're gonna run into some
1:09:44
problems and that wouldn't on a world level.
1:09:47
It's an even larger problem British bankers are
1:09:51
pushing back Kiv's Western backers have frozen 300
1:09:56
billion dollars in Russian Central Bank assets, right
1:09:59
UK banks hold around 10.7 billion dollars
1:10:05
and the dispute has emerged between between Europe
1:10:09
Pushing to use these funds as collateral for
1:10:11
an alleged reparations loan as if Russia owes
1:10:16
reparations, right and Those that are firmly opposed
1:10:21
to this that talk about the legal and
1:10:24
financial risk Moscow says it's theft I say
1:10:27
the same According to the Financial Times now
1:10:31
UK bankers have objected to the plan Although
1:10:34
a week ago, they were all for it.
1:10:37
They now say we're concerned about the legality
1:10:41
Really?
1:10:42
That's cuz that's cuz it's illegal.
1:10:44
That's cuz it's illegal to seize a ship
1:10:47
on the water It's you know You can't
1:10:49
do that The government is setting new precedent
1:10:51
because they have never seized assets in this
1:10:54
type of way Said one banker and Russia
1:10:57
will sue them The legal risk is that
1:11:01
if Ukraine doesn't pay the money back You
1:11:03
need to repossess an asset that the government
1:11:06
says is yours But Russia says is not
1:11:08
the expectation is that this is not a
1:11:11
loan But a gift and banks know they
1:11:14
will need to repossess the underlying collateral They
1:11:17
know Ukraine's not gonna pay this back.
1:11:19
So where would the money come?
1:11:21
We'll steal it from Russia and the bankers
1:11:24
warned that this would be a certain default
1:11:27
event Left out, you know, the banks will
1:11:30
be left out to dry when Russia sues
1:11:33
Because Russia will win because it's illegal UK
1:11:37
officials declined to say whether the government is
1:11:39
gonna offer them any indemnity So those are
1:11:42
the UK bankers, but the UK government is
1:11:45
saying that they will do Why don't they
1:11:47
just give if they're gonna do that you
1:11:49
give the money to Ukraine?
1:11:51
The UK's plans for the assets are coordinated
1:11:55
Which holds most of the fun, you know
1:11:57
with the EU the funds and on Friday
1:11:59
The block is due to vote on a
1:12:02
move to indefinitely Immobilize the share of assets
1:12:05
in the jurisdiction Europe Under an emergency legal
1:12:10
mechanism that would keep the funds frozen until
1:12:13
Russia pays reparations to Ukraine analysts say this
1:12:18
clause would override objections from countries opposed like
1:12:23
Hungary EU states are set to vote next
1:12:27
week Belgium, which holds the funds as says
1:12:30
It's against the move France Luxembourg Germany, Italy
1:12:33
Hungary Slovakia have objected as well But you
1:12:37
know there they might do it.
1:12:39
Anyway, I tell you what If you ever
1:12:43
want to Cure things you ever want to
1:12:47
talk about diplomacy.
1:12:48
You ever want to talk about rules based
1:12:50
order Hillary Clinton last week in Doha You
1:12:56
got to apply the same rules to everybody,
1:12:58
right You got to do it and the
1:13:02
trouble is is we never do and thus
1:13:06
Diplomacy is dead Diplomacy doesn't exist and it
1:13:12
doesn't exist because nobody pays attention to it.
1:13:16
Do they?
1:13:18
it just I Don't know Somebody needs to
1:13:23
do something a little bit different than what
1:13:26
they are Let's see remember me yesterday talking
1:13:32
to you about engineers And In an India
1:13:39
China Russia and the huge amount that they
1:13:43
have I Wanted to follow up a little
1:13:47
bit on that 1.4 billion Population in
1:13:55
India and India and Russia, you know, I
1:14:00
talked to you a little bit about this
1:14:01
yesterday.
1:14:02
They share a lengthy relationship the special and
1:14:07
privileged Strategic partnership between Russia and India has
1:14:13
been growing steadily under Narendra Modi and Vladimir
1:14:17
Putin and President Putin visited India on the
1:14:21
4th and the 5th.
1:14:22
He attended the 23rd India-Russia annual summit
1:14:27
During the visit the leaders took part in
1:14:30
an Indian India-Russia business forum They highlighted
1:14:34
opportunities and bilateral trade finance investment The visit
1:14:39
was a significant milestone in the relationship and
1:14:43
they signed 16 memorandums of understanding and agreements
1:14:47
across seven fields including migration and mobility as
1:14:54
noted by Prime Minister Modi India is emerging
1:14:58
as The skill capital of the world with
1:15:03
more than get this more than 600 million
1:15:08
workers India's young talent has the potential to
1:15:14
meet global requirements in every field.
1:15:17
He said and underscores the importance in India's
1:15:22
growth story Modi called for a complete reform
1:15:26
of labor laws into four Functional codes and
1:15:29
these codes are based upon the principle one
1:15:32
nation one law covering four broad spheres of
1:15:37
labor wages industrial relations Social Security and occupational
1:15:42
safety so in November 2025 the government of
1:15:47
India Implemented these four new codes the code
1:15:51
on wages 2019 standardizes the definition of wage
1:15:55
worker employee and introduces a legally binding floor
1:15:59
wage for consistent pay across states the industrial
1:16:04
relations code proposes a balanced framework that benefits
1:16:08
workers employees and economy creating a worker Reskilled
1:16:13
fund for workers who have to be retrenched
1:16:15
short-term relief unemployment stuff like that, so
1:16:21
Tell you what they are changing rapidly and
1:16:26
India has paid special attention to empowering women
1:16:30
Through these reforms by reinforcing the principle of
1:16:34
equal pay for equal work allowing women to
1:16:37
participate in all sorts of work including night
1:16:40
shifts and Offering the option to work from
1:16:43
home for those returning from maternity leave By
1:16:46
creating these nationwide reforms and aligning labor law
1:16:50
with the present economy These reforms reduce the
1:16:55
compliance burden and help in attracting foreign investment
1:17:00
including investment from Russia Russian companies interested in
1:17:04
the Indian market will greatly benefit from simplified
1:17:09
Recruitment rules and ease of doing business the
1:17:13
reforms focus on reskilled labor all of these
1:17:17
measures will greatly assist Russian companies to Manufacture
1:17:23
in India and partner with Indian companies they
1:17:27
are I say this because they're continuing to
1:17:30
grow as India marches toward realizing its dream
1:17:34
of Vixit Bharat developed India and becoming a
1:17:39
ten trillion dollar economy by 2047 These reforms
1:17:43
will become a key pillar in the growth
1:17:45
story and benefit the partner countries in Eurasia
1:17:49
these reforms reflect Narendra Modi's principle of reform
1:17:54
perform and transform and India's commitment toward achieving
1:17:59
inclusive sustainable growth So, I mean there's a
1:18:04
lot going on in India and You know
1:18:11
Trump, did you see that he had the
1:18:13
old JT?
1:18:17
J are I was reading and say same
1:18:20
thing.
1:18:20
I think he said something about it and
1:18:23
if he didn't he should the 1 million
1:18:25
dollar by your citizenship in By your citizenship
1:18:30
in America so you can get a visa
1:18:32
for a million bucks Maybe that's a good
1:18:35
idea.
1:18:36
I don't know bring some money, but who
1:18:38
gets it Who gets to pay is the
1:18:43
million bucks split among, you know Americans we
1:18:46
each get a quarter or something Any adult
1:18:49
or is a government get it if the
1:18:51
government get it screw that I mean, so
1:18:53
what?
1:18:54
hmm So for years there's been in immigration
1:18:58
in America a type of visa based upon
1:19:03
Investment that's been around a long time And
1:19:07
so if you came over and employed a
1:19:10
certain number of people Invested in a business
1:19:13
of this, you know that would employ this
1:19:15
many people Created a new business that employed
1:19:19
this many people you would get a visa
1:19:24
Automatically, you know if you came over and
1:19:27
created a new company and I mean that
1:19:30
that number has gone up over the years
1:19:32
and it used to be a function of
1:19:34
the Income growth each year, you know what?
1:19:41
I mean?
1:19:42
Yeah, it had to be a Certain number
1:19:45
of employees 10 15 employees something like that
1:19:48
or a certain level of investment Two million
1:19:51
dollar business three million dollar construction project blah
1:19:55
blah blah, you know Whatever those were and
1:19:58
you would get those approved.
1:19:59
So the The it was always available.
1:20:04
It just I Don't know where that I
1:20:08
don't know enough about this million bucks right
1:20:10
now that Trump is is sending out We
1:20:15
shall see And there was one other thing,
1:20:19
you know that I wanted to recover Recover
1:20:22
we wanted to cover is Trump's AI deregulation
1:20:30
US President Trump signed an executive order Thursday
1:20:35
to curb individual state level regulation of AI
1:20:41
until a nationwide policy is adopted a Fragmented
1:20:46
legal landscape threatens America's AI Competitiveness compared to
1:20:51
China said the US government The administration wants
1:20:56
to avoid a scenario in which a patchwork
1:20:59
of 50 different regulatory schemes Governs what it
1:21:03
views as an inherently interstate industry Trump's advisor
1:21:07
in the field David Sachs explained on X
1:21:10
an AI model can be created in one
1:21:14
state trained in another deployed nationwide Sachs said
1:21:17
that there are more that more than 100
1:21:20
AI related laws are already in force at
1:21:24
the state level with over a thousand additional
1:21:27
measures pending at best we will end up
1:21:31
with 50 different AI models for 50 different
1:21:35
states a regulatory Problem worse than Europe Trump
1:21:43
directed the Department of Justice to challenge one
1:21:46
state one state court law deemed onerous Washington
1:21:51
will also use federal grants and government contracts
1:21:55
To encourage states to align with federal policy
1:21:58
The measures are described as temporary pending the
1:22:03
adoption by Congress of a minimally burden some
1:22:07
national standard for the regulation of a The
1:22:12
White House is cited ideological concerns accusing Democrat
1:22:17
states of imposing woke constraints on AI developers
1:22:22
such as requirements aimed at preventing algorithmic discrimination
1:22:29
This type of ideology meddling is how we
1:22:32
ended up with black George Washington Sachs wrote
1:22:36
Referencing a widely publicized situation last year in
1:22:39
which Google's Gemini image generator Tended to produce
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race swap depictions of historical figures in an
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attempt to maximize diversity Trump administration and US
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tech firms are placing heavy bets on AI
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as a driver of economic growth though critics
1:22:58
warned that massive investment in the sectors based
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upon Uncertain profit projection and may be inflating
1:23:07
a market bubble Hmm There are also concerns
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about public backlash as rapid expansion of energy
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intensive data centers needed to run AI has
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driven up electricity prices in many areas Sacks
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emphasized that the new policy would not force
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communities to host data centers that they do
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not want How do you like that I
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tell you what I think what I'm gonna
1:23:38
do for you today is I am In
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the way as it were of the nine
1:23:50
o'clock program and I'm going to give
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us a a a Krisk-Misk song that
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we're gonna get into and Clear the way
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to get out of the way of our
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our next wonderful host here at Lake Ozark
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a real estate of the art studio and
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on damn radio and so I think what
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I'm going to do is put on a
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longer playing Christmas song and Ease on out
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of here a little bit early I ask
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you all to listen to damn radio every
1:24:35
morning 730 to 9 Here with me.
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I enjoyed being here.
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I like doing it or I wouldn't and
1:24:42
I like having you and if you wish
1:24:47
to hear all of the Prior shows on
1:24:53
damn radio.
1:24:54
You can go to damn radio.com forward
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slash Podcasts and listen to all of the
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prior shows.
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Jr. Does a pretty good job of getting
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them out there international flavor I put out
1:25:07
on a Daily basis and it goes out
1:25:11
to international flavor Dot-com for your listening
1:25:16
pleasure, and you can get the podcast out
1:25:19
there and go back to the ones I
1:25:24
Do the heavy research about twice a week
1:25:27
I put on some pretty pretty good ones
1:25:29
and yesterday's I think bears a Relisten if
1:25:34
you haven't heard about it discussing some of
1:25:37
the things going on in the world, so
1:25:39
I Encourage you to listen to us daily
1:25:44
and appreciate you being here have a Let's
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see.
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I got a pick the right song here.
1:25:52
What do we want for a crisp misc
1:25:54
song?
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Something a little bit longer.
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Yeah, so that it it goes further down
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the road Let's do it Here's some Jimmy
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buffet Right, let's we all like Jimmy buffet
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don't we and here he comes have a
1:26:14
nice day glad you're here