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Summit Shelved, Sanctions Spun: Sammy Skewers Stop-Where-You-Are Ceasefire, Spinning Trump, Smuggling Balloons, and Stolen Museum Gold, Pokrovsk · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  got a lot to talk about I may
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  not answer we shall see Tomorrow at 9
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  a.m. I'm doing an interview in Russian
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  with a Russian television station over there and
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  They Posted all out there doing an article
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  of mine that I told you about the
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  other night on Sunday night my little deep
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  dive into the Bering Strait and the Alleged
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  Putin Trump tunnel Suppose that's on hold with
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  the news of today.
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  What did I tell you?
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  What do I tell you every day now
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  generally?
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  I'm a Trump support.
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  Well, let's let's say I'm not a Trump
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  detractor I'm not one of those who you
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  know, he's definitely better than the alternative I
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  have always been iffy on some of the
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  things he does he does some some some
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  some pretty decent things on the on the
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  national side, although on the international side I
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  am of the opposite opinion and I suppose
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  it's because of Of Here we go again,
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  and it's like here we go again.
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  There you go again What was that from
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  was that from Ronald Reagan and somebody?
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  Well, there you go again when they were
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  talking about him in his when he was
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  fighting somebody in a debate somewhere I think
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  it was Reagan, but I don't do a
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  good Reagan so I won't do it But
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  let's talk about the old drumster who whose
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  head should be on a swivel He should
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  be one of those swivel toys because he
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  changes he changes directions like a swivel toy,
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  you know those things just Spin around in
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  the other direction.
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  We should start calling him On a 360
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  Verbock only he's 180 because he just does
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  Continual 180s all the time and goes back
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  in the other direction then back to this
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  direction and so two days from now, we'll
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  go back in the other direction, but today
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  all the news is OG here we go.
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  Again.
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  The meeting with Putin is on hold.
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  I'm not going to Budapest.
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  I'm not gonna go and You know screw
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  that we're gonna force this to end And
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  what happened?
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  Let's let's go with what happened because I've
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  said it repeatedly poor old trumpster.
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  He always The last person he talks to
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  who is the last person he mimics and
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  he changes Everything based on who he talked
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  to last So today he his first words
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  were it's an honor to have a friend
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  in the White House Right his friend his
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  friend Mark Ruta, who's basically the CEO of
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  NATO Came over and was hanging out, you
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  know in the Oval Office with the old
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  trumpster After that meeting or maybe during the
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  meeting or while it was going on Short
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  White House pool question and answer afterward He's
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  meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Ruta.
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  Trump says It's canceled for now meetings Two
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  days ago.
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  I was telling you one thing yesterday.
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  It was another now.
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  We're back the other direction nobody knows what
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  in the hell is gonna happen if they'll
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  ever meet or not and So basically they
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  don't like what Lavrov and Rubio are coming
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  up with when they talk to each other
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  at the State Department All right, and they
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  they aren't they aren't Russia's not just going.
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  Hey, man.
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  Okay.
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  Sure We'll we'll just cave to whatever you
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  say just because you're you know, Donald Trump's
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  dude they've said the same thing for ever
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  on what needs to happen and Nobody's paid
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  attention to him and now Trump thinks somehow
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  Putting more sanctions on him, which we'll get
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  into in a minute here.
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  We're gonna go through this sanction Sanction saga,
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  why don't we call it that or the
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  what other s words can can we come
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  up with?
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  Do you remember this one silly Sammy slick
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  sipped six sodas and got sick sick sick
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  You don't remember that since my name was
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  Sam.
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  Maybe I remember that from from grade school
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  who the hell knows it could be I'm
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  a lunatic, but This is nuts and here
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  we go We've totally changed direction once more
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  and and I suppose it's always keep them
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  guessing, you know, it's like, you know All
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  your old girlfriend.
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  She's always gonna keep you guessing you never
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  know if you're gonna get a call back
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  from her or not and She's gonna keep
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  you guessing always always keep them curious, right?
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  And so that's definitely the old Trumpster.
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  He's a Publicity hound and he knows how
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  to How to spin a story right so
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  the short White House pool Q&A with
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  President Trump and NATO Secretary Rutte where Trump
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  confirmed he's canceled the Budapest meeting with Putin
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  announces brand new sanctions on the Rosneft and
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  Luke oil the two largest Russian suppliers and
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  he outlines a he's demanding a Stop where
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  you are and now he's back to demanding
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  a ceasefire down to three weeks ago He
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  was all about not ceasefire.
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  He was about well, we need to stop
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  it He was quoting the Putin thing after
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  his Alaska visit where he, you know rolled
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  out the red carpet He was all talking
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  about well, we need to we need to
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  understand that a ceasefire All it does is
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  give Ukraine a chance to rebuild Russia as
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  I outlined last night would okay would be
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  okay with a ceasefire so long as the
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  US and any of these other European suppliers
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  Stop supplying There was no more Mobilization and
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  replacing men and men on the thing They
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  didn't just use the ceasefire Ukraine to rebuild
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  and Russia has to start getting the momentum
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  all over again Russia's been extremely clear about
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  that.
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  I've been pretty clear about that.
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  I'm not saying it's correct I'm just saying
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  that's the point.
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  So if you're saying that, you know a
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  ceasefire is oh, geez We need to ceasefire
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  people are dying Yep, they are but Russia's
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  not gonna do a ceasefire and have it
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  go 30 days.
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  Everybody talk about it and go Oh, geez,
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  we're not gonna talk anymore Let's all go
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  back into the war back in the trenches
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  and start killing each other all over again
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  in Russia has start all over again with
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  gaining momentum Gives Ukraine time to dig new
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  trenches time to fortify new positions time to
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  go through they lost Pokrovs today is what
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  I hear and what we're gonna try to
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  get through that today as well and Talk
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  about some of the changes on the on
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  the front lines that have been pretty massive
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  in the last few days Including Pokrovsk and
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  that's a big deal You know losing Pokrovsk
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  and they're gonna lose some more big cities.
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  And and by the here here are these
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  sanctions Let's get to them, right?
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  So the first thing Stop where you are
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  ceasefire idea for Ukraine.
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  He talked to questions about jeez.
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  Here we go again about Tomahawks Timelines the
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  drug boat strikes.
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  He blew up another boat in the water
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  today without Proving anything and I'm very very
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  much against this that you don't just blow
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  up boats in international waters and go well,
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  they're damn drug runners everybody knows it well
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  prove it then if You know, they're drug
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  runners friggin prove it.
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  I'm so tired of this.
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  We're just killing people outright Bombing the hell
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  out of private people.
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  Okay, you know, it's not that we're not
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  at war with Venezuela.
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  Are we?
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  So freaking declare it in any in anyway
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  route to repeatedly reinforces a ceasefire first message
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  That's what Europe's been after all along why
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  because Europe is all about Continuing this war
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  and they know in order to continue this
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  war that they need a ceasefire They need
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  to re-fortify the positions that Ukraine has
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  they need to mobilize more people maybe send
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  them back to Ukraine from some of the
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  EU countries the young Old men because they're
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  their draft age is age 25 to age
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  60 Age 24 well, it's 20 to 55
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  but 60 if you're a an officer But
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  we're they're bringing in soldiers age 25 to
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  55 the average age of a soldier over
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  There was something like 46 47 a while
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  ago It's probably older than that now and
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  they have over a half a million half
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  a million Disappeared people who have run away
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  from the front lines who they have they
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  have a hundred and eighty Thousand or something
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  like that is the is the number of
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  people actually charged with desertion a hundred and
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  eighty thousand men running away from the front
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  lines So, you know They don't the Ukrainians
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  are not all about this war if they
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  were they'd all be standing on the front
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  lines Ready to fight that is not what's
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  going on people.
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  And so The way to stop the war
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  is quit funding it and instead It's time
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  to punish Russia because there's money in this
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  in the rebuilding of Ukraine But you but
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  Ukraine won't agree to anything.
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  They'll keep killing off all their people until
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  there's nobody left.
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  They'll keep doing it No, they don't have
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  anybody else they're they're trying to get all
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  of the EU countries to push their men
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  to come back and to Ukraine so they
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  can get them and that most of them
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  aren't doing it, but Poland was talking about
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  it and sending them back Anyway At the
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  beginning Trump calls Ruta a friend He says
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  the talks are going along pretty well on
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  Ukrainian Russia.
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  Are they how are they going along pretty
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  well?
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  If you're gonna stop them, right and you're
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  not gonna meet in Budapest He says the
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  conflict proves harder than the Middle East and
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  claims his team solved the puzzle of the
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  Middle East He then confirms we canceled the
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  meeting with President Putin because it didn't feel
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  right Ruta thanked Trump credited him for being
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  peace in the bringing peace in the Middle
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  East and Says the next big thing has
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  to be Ukraine in Russia He says NATO
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  and the Europeans want to deliver on Trump's
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  vision of peace he praises the 5%
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  defense spending goal and The Hague summit success
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  and says that Europe will pay for u
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  .s. Weapons to Ukraine So the big deal
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  now is and this has been going on
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  for a little bit Trump gets to claim
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  that we aren't funding the war in Ukraine
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  We're selling weapons to NATO to European countries
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  and NATO countries and NATO countries are Supplying
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  them to Ukraine therefore, it's okay.
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  So we make money off it and we
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  aren't supplying the weapons All right.
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  Well, that's a that's a small division He
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  announces Trump announced a trip to Asia.
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  He's going to Malaysia South Korea Japan and
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  he says he's gonna meet with Xi Jinping
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  in South Korea He says he's gonna press
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  him on getting Putin to end the war
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  by energy and oil Leverage, right?
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  And then he said well Budapest for now
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  is canceled said it again and said we'll
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  do it in the future And so he
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  thinks somehow he's gonna convince Xi Jinping to
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  go against Russia on Gas and oil on
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  his LNG that comes through the biggest pipelines
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  in What is it called through those brand
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  -new brand-new pipe channels that come all
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  the way into China and our India to
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  they are I Struggle to see that that
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  Luke oil and Ross Neft Are going to
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  make a difference anytime in the near future
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  I just don't see it and and we'll
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  get into the analysis and on that here
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  in a little bit So there were some
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  reporter questions and ask and answers.
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  Why elevate sanctions now?
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  Trump said Trump said well, I didn't believe
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  it yesterday.
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  It just changed my mind No, it's not
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  what he said, but that's what he should
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  have said.
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  He just said I felt it was time
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  He felt it was time These are tremendous
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  sanctions, what did he talk to Lindsey Graham
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  again?
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  He said it's against their two biggest oil
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  companies.
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  We hope they won't be on them for
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  long We want the war settled.
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  He again floated the idea of freezing along
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  the current front lines Take the line that
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  had been formed and everybody go home Russia
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  ain't going home friends and neighbors and he
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  cites heavy casualties last week.
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  Yep, Russia killed a truckload of people Well
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  many many many many truckloads Treasury posted the
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  the Ross Neft and Luke oil designations on
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  the same day I'm still trying to figure
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  out exactly what time to find out if
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  it was before or after he met with
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  Ruda and he said Somebody said if Putin
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  says he's he's pushing for peace.
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  Why more pressure?
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  you know why not and basically everybody knows
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  that knows anything about this that you have
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  to talk about the The root causes and
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  you have to talk about Ending the conflict
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  not just a ceasefire a ceasefire has been
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  used by I mean Nobody trusts the United
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  States.
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  Why should they and in all seriousness?
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  Why would they trust us?
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  We say one thing do another all the
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  way up and down the line and if
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  anything Europe is twice as bad and they
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  just are and but these very big Sanctions
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  are gonna push both sides.
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  Really?
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  Why would it push both sides to end
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  if you're only Sanctioning Russia.
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  Why don't you sanction Ukraine?
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  Hmm if the logic is that punishing punishing
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  Russia's oil Stops the war.
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  What are you gonna do to punish Ukraine
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  force them to the table?
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  Remember they are the ones who have who
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  have left the negotiating table The negotiating table
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  in Istanbul has been open for months and
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  months and months they started this back in
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  May then again in July and they started
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  it and Russia has been waiting for the
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  reciprocal paperwork and Documentation to continue the talks
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  that already started to end the conflict This
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  is how you know, they're being dishonest dishonest
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  in the West They're only pushing for ceasefire
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  that is all anybody cares about if you're
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  a NATO guy if you're a EU guy
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  and now if you're a US and Donald
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  Trump guy That's been listening too much to
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  the Rudas of the world too much to
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  the neocons of the world All you want
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  is a ceasefire Because you get to keep
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  buying more weapons.
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  You get to keep funding that You know
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  next election campaign you get to keep selling
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  them away Russia gets to destroy them and
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  keep on doing it and you get to
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  Have the front lines, you know slowly shift
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  westward as they have been they just keep
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  on shifting Westward and so this is one
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  of the most foolish things that we continually
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  do and it's very very Stupid let us
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  see what we can see Hello, mr.
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  Caller, how might I help you?
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  Sam what's the endgame?
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  Well, I think the endgame truly is still
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  somehow thinking they can bring Russia to the
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  to its knees and that somehow they're going
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  to get all of the Land wealth of
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  Ukraine and but more and more important the
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  the deep state the Westerners Everybody's still everybody
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  still wants that funding that's what I believe
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  and I believe that they're they they definitely
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  have the what's that company called Blackrock and
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  all of the contracts for rebuilding Ukraine they
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  definitely want that but they don't want them
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  to keep being pushed west because all of
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  The areas that have the best natural resources
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  and the most pricey metals, what do they
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  call them the The rare earth, yes, there
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  you go Those are all in the areas
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  that Russia has already taken in Ukraine the
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  vast majority of them are Already there and
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  they want that nuclear power plant.
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  There's a Parisian nuclear power plant and they
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  You know, they don't want to lose that
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  and Russia, you know, I haven't followed up
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  on this I've talked about it several weeks
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  ago, and I haven't followed up on the
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  fact that the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant they
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  were alleging that Russia and in the IAEA
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  the International Atomic Energy Agency has been saying
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  that that the Russians are trying to reroute
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  any Power supplies headed west and reroute them
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  all back to the east all exclusively into
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  Russia and not anywhere west and they don't
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  want to work with it now Trump when
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  he first came into office if you Remember
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  this he was trying to figure out a
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  deal where the u.s. Took over the
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  Zaporizhia nuclear power plant Nobody was gonna go
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  for that Well Ukraine would because they would
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  think that they'd get it back or that
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  they'd get to route it all then Russia
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  ain't playing that And so Russia has occupied
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  it since 2022 and has been holding on
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  to it so there's some big-money items
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  over there and there's plenty of rare earths
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  and Ukraine has lost a lot by all
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  of this and As I said a couple
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  of days ago We have been pushing this
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  war machine into Ukraine since at least 2014
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  and probably earlier than that and so Russia
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  is not just gonna bend over and go
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  Okay, we were wrong.
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  It's not gonna happen And so but that
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  that's that's my view of the endgame is
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  trying to is all about the same as
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  it always is control and money So would
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  you agree that That there's a there's a
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  battle between good and evil going on here
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  and it's not just political It's not just
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  you know Nationalist it's it's about it's about
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  a good Spirit and an evil spirit and
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  the evil spirits are trying to circumvent Everything
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  on this planet in their favor and then
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  the good spirits.
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  Well, you know, whatever they may be the
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  Russians the You know the Ukrainians.
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  Well, we're good too.
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  I mean, there's nothing I mean generally we're
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  good But we got our share of evil
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  here.
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  Just like everywhere else does So so that's
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  that's my point Sam Well, even even in
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  and I won't go into any detail at
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  all, but I have noticed some serious Serious
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  attempts to destroy things in people's individual lives
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  that that and I've had conversations with this
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  it was people that I Call friends and
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  in you know in private that are saying
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  and with family members they're going you know
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  what?
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  There's just there's just downright evil things going
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  on to break apart what's supposed to be
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  the strongest building block of the of the
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  world families Individual families, you know if the
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  family is strong and I've always believed this
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  I've not always been able to pull it
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  off, but I believe if the family is
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  strong then You you have strong countries, you
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  know, if you have strong family values, then
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  you'll have strong localities and and you know
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  that we we always discuss when you call
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  whether or not I'm religious or not and
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  Although I don't claim to be a deeply
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  religious person.
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  I do have my share of beliefs and
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  Fundamentally, I believe that that families are Are
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  meant to be the bedrock of that sort
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  of thing.
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  I believe that I always have and that
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  without without I Believe when you talk about
• 21:41
  good and you talk about evil Which you
• 21:43
  like to do when you call in and
• 21:45
  I don't have any problem with that by
• 21:46
  the way But but when you when you
• 21:48
  talk about that and you talk about What
• 21:50
  has gone on in the last 30 to
• 21:52
  50 years and the destruction of family values
• 21:55
  which no longer exist basically Well, they exist,
• 21:58
  but they're very private now You know that
• 22:01
  that you you you keep your views to
• 22:03
  yourself on that most of most of the
• 22:05
  time well, not all of us, but but
• 22:07
  you know, it's I Truly do believe that
• 22:11
  there are attempts to destroy families to destroy
• 22:14
  that core unit and and but and it
• 22:18
  just keeps getting bigger and the higher up
• 22:20
  you go the bigger the Effort is to
• 22:24
  destroy the core and when you've destroyed the
• 22:27
  core the rest is ready to push over
• 22:29
  you'll topple it before too long evil Sam
• 22:34
  those are evil devils.
• 22:35
  Those are the evil devils that want to
• 22:37
  To disrupt our family our core family beliefs
• 22:42
  and whatever, you know Whether we believe in
• 22:45
  Jesus or whether we believe, you know, we're
• 22:48
  agnostic or whatever You know, it doesn't what
• 22:52
  what matters is there's these These devilish these
• 22:57
  demonic forces that are they're coming upon us
• 23:01
  And when I say us, I mean us
• 23:03
  as families.
• 23:04
  I mean us as as communities.
• 23:06
  I mean us as togetherness in despite of
• 23:12
  the evilness that's coming upon us and and
• 23:16
  They're they're 2% at best they're 2
• 23:20
  % and and then the the Propagandists those
• 23:26
  are the mother afters that are the most
• 23:30
  evil things on the face of the earth
• 23:32
  those Propagandists those gerbils those those those finger
• 23:39
  -pointing Calling people Antifa or not Antifa but
• 23:46
  but but fascists and Nazis those leftist apps
• 23:53
  2% of the population are the ones
• 23:56
  that are getting the most play because of
• 23:59
  the media And so here's what I have
• 24:01
  to say Sam.
• 24:02
  I Think you're smart.
• 24:04
  I really do I tune in you know,
• 24:07
  I got one person fooled.
• 24:08
  Whoo Yeah But but I'm gonna tell you
• 24:14
  this right now you are not a dummy
• 24:17
  You're a smart guy and you're just putting
• 24:20
  Information out there on the table for all
• 24:23
  of us to consume and that is the
• 24:25
  most important thing we can do We the
• 24:28
  most important thing we can do is just
• 24:30
  provide data provide information and then leave it
• 24:36
  up to the you know, the You know
• 24:41
  just the dummies out there in the field
• 24:44
  to decide for themselves what they want to
• 24:48
  believe in That is your thing and you
• 24:51
  do a good job of it.
• 24:52
  And so does Kate So does uh, you
• 24:56
  know the the damn radio and whatnot and
• 24:59
  then then the KRMS they're they're the dummies
• 25:02
  They're the leftists.
• 25:03
  They're the suck-ass fucking faggots Push Crack
• 25:11
  it up a lot Okay, I don't go
• 25:21
  that far just just to make sure that
• 25:23
  that I I say that I have no
• 25:26
  no evil doing No evil thoughts or intentions
• 25:30
  about anybody there now, do I always agree?
• 25:33
  No, but that doesn't mean that doesn't mean
• 25:36
  I believe they're evil I'm not asking you
• 25:43
  to agree with me I allow you to
• 25:45
  have your say but but I don't want
• 25:47
  it to be to be to go unchallenged
• 25:50
  Let's say at least on my behalf Challenge
• 25:53
  challenge me.
• 25:54
  I tell my kids, you know, I get
• 25:57
  my kids, you know, just talking points Just
• 25:59
  just information just points of information just little
• 26:03
  little dots here and there and I always
• 26:05
  always Always challenge them to fact-check the
• 26:10
  fuck out of me, you know go fact
• 26:12
  -check me fact-check me for what I
• 26:14
  say and what I believe in what my
• 26:16
  position is and and and in it in
• 26:19
  variably, you know, they they they cannot come
• 26:24
  to a disagreement because I'm always F-ing
• 26:28
  right, bro.
• 26:29
  I know he's always right.
• 26:31
  Do you know what I think is is
• 26:34
  one of the and I truly do believe
• 26:37
  this is a very large problem not just
• 26:39
  in America, but everywhere is is Listening to
• 26:44
  an echo chamber, okay, and I know you
• 26:47
  well, I I'm pretty sure you know where
• 26:49
  I'm going with this If all you do
• 26:51
  if all you do if your entire news
• 26:55
  Comes from Fox News or from CNN or
• 27:00
  MSNBC pick Al Jazeera who cares what from
• 27:04
  one source?
• 27:06
  There is no that you will just be
• 27:10
  an echo chamber for the exact same thing
• 27:13
  and you will develop This echo chamber point
• 27:17
  of view and you will never have anything
• 27:19
  different So you've got to listen to different
• 27:22
  points of view in the on in any
• 27:26
  When you go to law school I know
• 27:28
  I've said this before maybe even to you
• 27:29
  when you go to law school like I
• 27:31
  have In and one of the things I
• 27:33
  was in I was in a I went
• 27:35
  to the national Negotiation competitions and was in
• 27:39
  the final four got my ass kicked by
• 27:42
  Georgetown University, but well, you know these things
• 27:45
  happen and but the the game was Two
• 27:49
  days before the competition and you would you
• 27:53
  would receive a large packet of law of
• 27:56
  fact patterns of documents of everything and and
• 28:01
  and you would receive all of these and
• 28:03
  the deal was You had to memorize that
• 28:06
  memorize you had to study result study the
• 28:08
  law study the the facts study How you're
• 28:11
  gonna apply it to the facts and study
• 28:13
  which one you're gonna do, but you didn't
• 28:16
  know which side you were on Until you
• 28:19
  got sitting a you know, like an hour
• 28:21
  before the or the night before I don't
• 28:23
  remember exactly But it was like within a
• 28:27
  very short period of time you had to
• 28:29
  pick which side that you well You didn't
• 28:31
  pick it was randomly drawn and given to
• 28:34
  you.
• 28:34
  You have to be able to take each
• 28:36
  side and so I Don't think that's really
• 28:39
  where my my thought process came from because
• 28:42
  I've always been that way, you know I've
• 28:44
  always wondered well, you know You know, I
• 28:47
  was sergeant why in the army, you know,
• 28:49
  wait a minute that just doesn't sound right
• 28:51
  or you know What about this or what
• 28:54
  about that?
• 28:54
  You know, I'm sergeant question mark, you know,
• 28:56
  what what what in the world?
• 28:59
  People remember about me is that I'm always
• 29:01
  asking questions And I always want to take
• 29:05
  the different point of view and I always
• 29:07
  want to try to find something The best
• 29:11
  deal, you know what I mean?
• 29:16
  Dialectic it's problem Reaction solution and listen, I'm
• 29:21
  gonna tell you this right now Sam whether
• 29:23
  you come down on this side or the
• 29:25
  other Honestly in my view from my point
• 29:29
  of view.
• 29:29
  It doesn't matter to me what what what
• 29:31
  what side of the argument you come down
• 29:34
  on as long as you have a legitimate
• 29:39
  Perspective, that's right a legitimate basis for why
• 29:42
  you think that way I'm not just you're
• 29:46
  not just some raving lunatic who I can
• 29:49
  even understand the people who get paid to
• 29:51
  think a certain way Okay, you know your
• 29:53
  job your job requires you to spout, you
• 29:56
  know BS for CNN Go ahead or your
• 29:58
  job requires you to spout off the party
• 30:01
  line on Fox News.
• 30:02
  You know, you did it's Part of the
• 30:05
  game.
• 30:05
  You got to do it.
• 30:06
  That's your job, right?
• 30:08
  And and this I get that this is
• 30:10
  I I value your show.
• 30:13
  I mean, I'm a Christian, you know, I
• 30:15
  Just recently just a couple years ago.
• 30:18
  I think I've told you the story but
• 30:19
  but just a couple years ago I learned
• 30:22
  to be a I don't know learned may
• 30:25
  not be the right word, but I just
• 30:28
  got consumed by the power of Jesus Christ
• 30:32
  and is his dying on the cross and
• 30:35
  it's his his You know crucifix crucifixion and
• 30:42
  and just recently and I know you're not
• 30:44
  that kind of guy and that makes it
• 30:46
  even more enjoyable to to and to to
• 30:51
  discuss things with you because because we we
• 30:55
  have different points of view and and to
• 30:59
  me my friend and I'm gonna say my
• 31:02
  brother and then all your your friends and
• 31:05
  whatnot cohorts on the damn radio, that's what
• 31:10
  makes this platform so Admirable because we can
• 31:16
  actually discuss things without being hateful without being
• 31:22
  Condescending we can just openly discuss things.
• 31:25
  So Sam, you know, I don't know if
• 31:27
  you're an atheist or an agnostic I don't
• 31:29
  know.
• 31:30
  I don't care bro.
• 31:31
  I really don't care What I do care
• 31:33
  about is that you have a particular point
• 31:36
  of view that you're willing to share with
• 31:38
  people And that's why I enjoy Engaging in
• 31:42
  conversation with you my friend.
• 31:43
  So Listen, I'm not here to antagonize or
• 31:47
  or criticize.
• 31:49
  I'm here to engage and Now I feel
• 31:53
  beat up upon I feel bad no I'm
• 32:04
  used to be having the crap beat out
• 32:05
  of me when people call up, you know,
• 32:07
  it's like I'm only one person That's it.
• 32:13
  Well, I think you're smart.
• 32:15
  I think you're a nice smart guy and
• 32:18
  I really enjoy your perspectives and your points
• 32:21
  of view and and With with with what
• 32:25
  we do together the things that we share
• 32:27
  together the points of view We share together
• 32:30
  are gonna do nothing but but bring goodness
• 32:34
  into this this this this discussion so Everybody
• 32:40
  could use more goodness.
• 32:42
  So there you have it a lot more
• 32:44
  goodness.
• 32:45
  All right, brother I'll let you have your
• 32:47
  show back.
• 32:48
  You have a very nice evening and thanks
• 32:50
  for your call Thank you, brother And There
• 32:55
  he goes.
• 32:55
  I heard that from someone on the radio
• 32:57
  one time They said and there he goes
• 33:00
  and then I stole it because that's the
• 33:02
  way I am I just steal other people's
• 33:05
  words and I always said that about lawyers
• 33:07
  to a Lawyer who doesn't steal somebody else's
• 33:09
  words.
• 33:10
  You can steal them all you want.
• 33:11
  You just got a quote You just gotta
• 33:13
  give him a sighting reference, right?
• 33:16
  I mean, what do lawyers do but steal
• 33:18
  other people's work and They're cheaters You've stolen
• 33:22
  everybody's footless stuff and then you take it
• 33:25
  and as long as you cite it properly
• 33:27
  give the proper citing References, then life is
• 33:30
  good, isn't it?
• 33:31
  And that that's uh So you can always
• 33:35
  steal somebody's words and steal them You just
• 33:38
  got to say they're not your original words.
• 33:41
  We took them from somebody else, right?
• 33:43
  and your opinions should say that sort of
• 33:46
  things to and Getting back to the old
• 33:49
  Putin and Zelensky and how they end the
• 33:52
  war according to Trump.
• 33:53
  He says here's what Trump says both sides
• 33:57
  Want peace now now I disagree with that
• 34:01
  assertion.
• 34:02
  I think that is completely BS Because Zelensky
• 34:06
  does not want peace Zelensky needs this war
• 34:09
  to continue so that he can continue to
• 34:12
  be president because as soon as it's over
• 34:15
  This boy has got to have elections and
• 34:17
  all he can do is have martial law
• 34:20
  and keep this war going on and he
• 34:22
  says That now is time to make a
• 34:24
  deal according to Trump both sides want peace
• 34:27
  The no, that's not true Zelensky all he
• 34:31
  wants is a Ceasefire he never wants peace.
• 34:36
  He wants this to continue.
• 34:37
  He just wants to delay delay delay and
• 34:40
  the Russian side they want peace And Peace
• 34:46
  is done at the negotiating table and they've
• 34:50
  said that for several years now that you
• 34:53
  sit down at a negotiating table and you
• 34:56
  resolve the end of the war and by
• 34:58
  the way, it was resolved in 2022 and
• 35:02
  Everybody knows that part of the story Once
• 35:07
  again, though Trump Trump, he can't get he
• 35:10
  can't go through a press conference without saying
• 35:13
  it.
• 35:14
  Here's what he says This war wouldn't have
• 35:17
  started if I'd been president This is Biden's
• 35:21
  work.
• 35:21
  Sorry, buddy.
• 35:22
  He quit saying that for though.
• 35:23
  He didn't say it this time In fact,
• 35:25
  he's quit saying is Biden's war because it's
• 35:27
  not not anymore.
• 35:29
  This is Trump's war This is Trump's war
• 35:32
  and now Putin may be willing to negotiate
• 35:35
  Putin is always has always been willing to
• 35:38
  negotiate He has always been willing to negotiate.
• 35:42
  He gave you the terms of what the
• 35:43
  negotiation would be Said that we can sit
• 35:46
  down and do this, but I'm not just
• 35:48
  gonna give you a ceasefire.
• 35:50
  It's not gonna happen he's been very clear
• 35:52
  on that and for years for Years and
• 35:56
  years and he does not want Russia to
• 35:59
  take all of you Well, that's nice so
• 36:03
  so why don't you stop the war and
• 36:06
  and instead if you really could stop this
• 36:09
  war Mr. President if you just cut off
• 36:13
  Ukraine, so what the discussions between Lavrov and
• 36:18
  Rubio are circling around What the initials are
• 36:24
  if you get to a ceasefire, did you
• 36:28
  know that this is what they're they're saying
• 36:30
  If you get a ceasefire, what would be
• 36:33
  the terms of the ceasefire?
• 36:34
  The Russians have somewhat backed off the stance
• 36:38
  of saying What I have been saying which
• 36:42
  is exactly what they've been saying and they
• 36:44
  somewhat backed off against it because Putin respects
• 36:48
  Trump and vice versa and so they have
• 36:51
  even been willing to say look we don't
• 36:54
  want this to go on forever and We
• 36:56
  don't want long-range weapons bombing into into
• 36:59
  Russia, you know, we don't want that and
• 37:02
  we are willing to Have a ceasefire if
• 37:07
  you we will stop on the ground if
• 37:12
  you don't provide any sort of Military intelligence
• 37:19
  to Ukraine During them during the ceasefire.
• 37:22
  You don't Provide them new weapons.
• 37:26
  You don't provide them new ammunition.
• 37:29
  You don't allow them to Remobilize and rebuild
• 37:34
  the front and re-entrench and all of
• 37:37
  these things we need verifiable stopping on the
• 37:40
  ground that says they are not going to
• 37:43
  cut this and nobody will agree to it
• 37:45
  and so this is why I Assume that
• 37:50
  why the old Trumpster has been convinced into
• 37:54
  saying that Sanctions are now the answer once
• 38:00
  again sanctions aren't gonna change anything which we'll
• 38:04
  get into here in a little bit He
• 38:07
  was asked questions at this crazy This crazy
• 38:12
  reversal With Ruta he was asked about these
• 38:17
  border drug boats and he he's defending these
• 38:20
  strikes in international waters, and he's saying that
• 38:23
  he might even do land operations and With
• 38:27
  congressional notice he'd have to notify.
• 38:29
  It's nonsense He talked about the White House
• 38:33
  ballroom, and he's talking about privately funded East
• 38:37
  Wing replacement and showed renderings and Talked about
• 38:41
  transparency stuff like that, and then he did
• 38:44
  a final blurb on tariffs he said Supreme
• 38:49
  Court on tariffs coming up is one of
• 38:51
  the most important and Says that tariffs make
• 38:57
  the u.s. Rich and secure and He
• 39:01
  might be right on that.
• 39:02
  I don't know.
• 39:03
  I'm not I'm not an expert on that
• 39:05
  I was trying to figure out like I
• 39:07
  told you earlier if the timing of these
• 39:10
  sanctions was really At the same it was
• 39:13
  the same day morning cable hit hit with
• 39:17
  Ruta's visit and the Oval Office Was about
• 39:21
  midday, and then Trump canceled a little bit
• 39:25
  out and talked about new sanctions then then
• 39:28
  the Treasury posted the press release and That
• 39:32
  that came out in the afternoon, so I
• 39:35
  think they although they did somewhat overlap it
• 39:38
  was designed to have them come out after
• 39:41
  the Ruta meeting and Trump announced it in
• 39:45
  the Oval Office and then formalized it With
• 39:50
  the Treasury shortly right after and remember these
• 39:54
  are full blockades of Rosneft and Luke oil
• 39:58
  and dozens of their Subsidiaries and they gave
• 40:03
  a couple of Exemptions especially for Kazakhstan and
• 40:09
  their oil flows and They give a wind
• 40:12
  -down time period until November 21 of 2025
• 40:15
  so these Sanctions are a month away.
• 40:19
  Okay, so they're they're trying to push some
• 40:22
  things like that, but he said yep Um
• 40:25
  Budapest canceled sanctions are now they're tremendous the
• 40:29
  great word No tomahawks to Ukraine Because He
• 40:36
  actually said this and it is the first
• 40:38
  time I've heard him say this That he
• 40:42
  admits that And he had to have gotten
• 40:46
  this from his converse well He didn't ensure
• 40:48
  he knew it, but I'm sure that Putin
• 40:50
  reiterated it when they talked to last Thursday
• 40:54
  He said Listen if we give them tomahawks
• 41:00
  It's still us that's firing them and and
• 41:03
  he actually admitted it during this meeting is
• 41:07
  what he said and Why all this now
• 41:10
  and who's in his ear, you know Ruta
• 41:13
  was sitting there?
• 41:16
  But I don't know I still see something
• 41:19
  deeper because I you know I don't I
• 41:22
  just don't like it and it's continually like
• 41:24
  this so what did the US actually do
• 41:27
  like I said, they fully blocked Ross Neft
• 41:29
  and Luke oil and the long list of
• 41:32
  their subsidiaries the Treasury paired this with an
• 41:35
  explicit call for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine
• 41:41
  Russia won't do an immediate ceasefire without some
• 41:43
  kind of a guarantee that the conditions already
• 41:47
  mentioned are met and Let's see, they're gonna
• 41:51
  secondary sanctions foreign banks Okay that conduct or
• 41:56
  facilitate significant transactions for Ross Neft and Luke
• 42:02
  oil and They're trying to make this a
• 42:07
  pretty big stick, but they have all these
• 42:09
  carb carb outs like CPC and Tenga Shiva
• 42:14
  Tenga Chevroil, which is Kazakhstan Petroleum services that
• 42:19
  are they're authorized firms get a wind down
• 42:22
  through November 2021 It allows them to divest
• 42:28
  and transfer debt equity and derivatives through November
• 42:31
  21 also Luke oil retail gas stations that
• 42:36
  are located outside of Russia get to keep
• 42:39
  on Operating without blocking account mechanisms, right?
• 42:43
  And so Here's what Russia's I mean, you
• 42:46
  know Washington says they say this is going
• 42:49
  to be a revenue squeeze and Leverage take
• 42:53
  the two biggest brands in Russia put them
• 42:56
  under a full block Raises Russia's financial friction
• 42:59
  and pushes Moscow toward a ceasefire now Treasury
• 43:02
  said that outright on their US Department of
• 43:05
  Treasury website And allegedly this will also scare
• 43:10
  non US banks Frankly, I think it'll have
• 43:13
  the opposite effect but the the foreign bank
• 43:16
  warning is designed to chill any financing or
• 43:20
  trade credit or settlement for Ross Neft and
• 43:25
  Luke oil Allegedly even outside of the dollar.
• 43:29
  That's why they're taking these foreign banks and
• 43:32
  they want to avoid a supply shock That's
• 43:34
  why they put this although the price of
• 43:36
  oil went up a dollar today, right?
• 43:38
  And it might even have gone up more
• 43:40
  I haven't looked recently but it was a
• 43:42
  dollar up right after this Okay, and that's
• 43:45
  gonna continue to rise So what is Moscow
• 43:49
  saying and what it's saying is likely to
• 43:51
  happen and I think this more likely this
• 43:53
  is what's happened with every other sanctions package
• 43:56
  and I don't think this will be any
• 43:58
  different especially If you don't get now Trump
• 44:01
  again yesterday said that Modi told him that
• 44:04
  he was gonna quit buying Russian oil I
• 44:07
  think he's full of crap and the Ministry
• 44:09
  of External Affairs of India has said repeatedly
• 44:13
  that he's full of crap That's not what
• 44:15
  Modi said and there's no intention of them
• 44:18
  doing anything different and Jaishankar came out and
• 44:21
  said it too The whole pile of Modi
• 44:23
  has said it everybody has said it from
• 44:24
  the Ministry of External Affairs of India They
• 44:27
  haven't changed their tune since Trump first floated
• 44:30
  this out several last week late and now
• 44:33
  he's here He's again saying no.
• 44:35
  No, he threw it out again today said
• 44:37
  that.
• 44:37
  Yep.
• 44:37
  They I'm sure Modi did tell me that
• 44:40
  They're not gonna be buying anymore But you
• 44:43
  never know, you know Trump is always posturing
• 44:45
  somehow and and and again why do I
• 44:49
  have to keep defending myself that I'm not
• 44:51
  anti Trump because I'm not I just Think
• 44:55
  that some of the things he does just
• 44:56
  make no sense No, I have friends good
• 44:59
  friends and neighbors who tell me that everything
• 45:02
  he does is gun done with they That
• 45:05
  he's a genius and he's got this all
• 45:07
  wrapped up and this is gonna Come about
• 45:10
  and it's all gonna work.
• 45:11
  Okay?
• 45:13
  I'm just waiting to see it.
• 45:15
  I'm waiting.
• 45:16
  So here's what Moscow says gonna happen zero
• 45:19
  to 30 days near near term there will
• 45:22
  be operational continuity inside of Russia refineries and
• 45:25
  field on the Annexes or domestic and they
• 45:29
  keep running they get paid in usual in
• 45:31
  rubles the pinches in international Payments not in
• 45:36
  barrels in the pipeline.
• 45:37
  They're gonna have plenty of Barrels in the
• 45:40
  pipeline.
• 45:40
  So what is going to be targeted is
• 45:43
  payment reroutes Okay, but the payments will be
• 45:47
  rerouted.
• 45:47
  They won't stop traders and buyers will pivot
• 45:50
  harder where?
• 45:53
  To non US dollar settlements and smaller Regional
• 45:58
  banks some in the mainstreams of Asia some
• 46:02
  MENA banks may step back due to the
• 46:05
  secondary sanctions risk, but that you know where
• 46:08
  where there's some where there's a purchaser and
• 46:11
  a seller Money finds a way and that's
• 46:15
  all there is to it.
• 46:16
  There's not going to be the Caspian pipeline
• 46:20
  carve-out is insulating Kazakhstan.
• 46:22
  So they're not gonna have any problem with
• 46:23
  that And their exports are through Russia Hmm,
• 46:29
  isn't that odd?
• 46:30
  Luke oil abroad stays open for now retail
• 46:33
  networks outside of Russia continue under other Orders
• 46:41
  and so there's not really any immediate hit
• 46:44
  at the pump in most countries and the
• 46:47
  price move fades until Enforcement's bite, right?
• 46:51
  So the prices aren't gonna do anything for
• 46:53
  another month and they'll stick only if secondary
• 46:56
  sanctions enforcement turn aggressive somehow and The the
• 47:01
  real story and here's where it becomes important
• 47:04
  is one to six months.
• 47:07
  Here's what's gonna happen There's gonna be higher
• 47:09
  friction and higher costs more paperwork Blocked account
• 47:14
  workarounds and pricier trade finance Will will mean
• 47:19
  the transaction costs do go up, but it
• 47:22
  won't kill the volume You know that's similar
• 47:24
  to what occurred all through 2022 to 2025
• 47:28
  Everything to date and this is even supported
• 47:30
  by the US Treasury Department Treasury sanctions major
• 47:35
  Russian oils and they've said this they mentioned
• 47:37
  this Then they're gonna talk about these shadow
• 47:41
  services which go even deeper than they are
• 47:44
  now and where are they gonna go?
• 47:46
  They're gonna go away from Swift They're gonna
• 47:49
  go away from Global trading on the West
• 47:53
  that are dollar based or euro based and
• 47:57
  they're gonna go to Rupee based to yuan
• 48:00
  based to peso based, you know they're gonna
• 48:03
  go they're gonna go somewhere else and they're
• 48:07
  gonna start through the Currencies of and by
• 48:12
  the way, this includes Middle Eastern countries that
• 48:15
  are they're already doing it and and they're
• 48:19
  already Financing some of these outside of the
• 48:22
  dollar because money will find a way it's
• 48:25
  just gonna find a way and it isn't
• 48:27
  gonna kill the volumes and so If Washington
• 48:31
  extends or renews carve-outs This is what
• 48:34
  you should be watching for is next is
• 48:37
  November 21 November 21 when these are supposed
• 48:40
  to you know geez now it's time to
• 48:43
  shut down Luke oil outside of Russia to
• 48:46
  now it's time to not allow for any
• 48:50
  Payment mechanisms that we said we're not going
• 48:53
  to allow and if these things lapse Or
• 48:56
  they name they start naming foreign banks that
• 49:00
  they're gonna sanction these foreign banks, this is
• 49:03
  going to increase the effect of the sanctions,
• 49:07
  but it's also gonna be a It's gonna
• 49:12
  force a bigger and faster Change to the
• 49:16
  way international banking is accomplished and they're gonna
• 49:19
  go to different different Currencies and continue to
• 49:25
  do country-to-country exchanges through their own
• 49:28
  national banks, which is on the bricks plus
• 49:30
  sort of sort of Scenarios as we've discussed
• 49:36
  before So it's it's this is theater This
• 49:41
  is once again.
• 49:42
  We're in the theater and this is pressure
• 49:44
  theater more than any sort of choke point
• 49:46
  with CPC protected that's the Kazakhstan places and
• 49:51
  Luke oil retail abroad spared flows will keep
• 49:55
  on moving Just like they did yesterday And
• 49:57
  they're gonna do that for another month and
• 49:59
  then by the time they get there Russia
• 50:01
  will figure out how to route around it
• 50:03
  They'll still be moving oil might be slightly
• 50:06
  costlier, but they'll still be moving it and
• 50:09
  as long as China and India have the
• 50:15
  Demand that they have this isn't gonna work,
• 50:18
  and I don't believe that they're gonna change
• 50:20
  so what to watch for next as well
• 50:23
  bank behavior especially in the United Arab Emirates
• 50:28
  India China and Turkey why because if do
• 50:32
  if large banks like these if They exit
• 50:36
  Ross Neft and Luke oil That could be
• 50:41
  that that could be an indicator or do
• 50:44
  they tighten their own compliance and say that
• 50:46
  you know We're doing this, but we're doing
• 50:48
  a different way and and there's licensing decisions
• 50:51
  that come out before November 21 Mean they'll
• 50:54
  be able to extend them after that.
• 50:56
  I think that the hardline pressure expires And
• 50:59
  there will be no real material disruptions the
• 51:03
  oil price trend after a knee-jerk pop
• 51:06
  Watch and see if the prices continue to
• 51:08
  escalate or if it fades if trade routes
• 51:12
  Renormalize, which is probably what's gonna happen and
• 51:15
  I?
• 51:17
  Don't know Russia's been pretty much reporting the
• 51:20
  same thing as everyone Else they have emphasized
• 51:24
  that this is probably the Biggest price step
• 51:30
  yet or sanction step yet and Talked about
• 51:36
  you know how it defeats the diplomatic purposes
• 51:38
  of what they've been talking about between Putin
• 51:43
  and The old trumpster and So I watched
• 51:50
  an interesting this one It was a YouTube
• 51:53
  video, and it was and I don't remember
• 51:56
  who it was It's What was a guy's
• 52:00
  name?
• 52:00
  I think I have it here No, I
• 52:03
  can't find it, but it's a rock Moscow
• 52:06
  furious and demands answers right and Here's how
• 52:10
  it said us has delayed once again and
• 52:14
  put in doubt a proposed Trump Putin summit
• 52:17
  Despite earlier momentum after the October 16th phone
• 52:21
  call between the president's Moscow is allegedly Angry
• 52:25
  and demanding answers to proposals.
• 52:27
  It says were put to Washington in the
• 52:30
  Anchorage Alaska meeting last month media chatter about
• 52:35
  a ceasefire first is called false or misleading
• 52:39
  both In Russia anyway both Russia and US
• 52:43
  readouts of the Lavrov Rubio call on October
• 52:46
  20 Said it was constructive and didn't mention
• 52:49
  a ceasefire They all spoke of next steps
• 52:53
  and a durable resolution so Russia calls for
• 52:57
  a durable resolution a final Negotiated peace and
• 53:02
  the West is calling for a ceasefire So
• 53:05
  let's talk about who's serious about ending the
• 53:08
  war right this nonsense that you have to
• 53:10
  have a ceasefire to end the war is
• 53:13
  BS I Don't believe that makes no sense
• 53:17
  Moscow's position is No immediate ceasefire They're pursuing
• 53:23
  direct negotiations toward a full final settlement that
• 53:27
  addresses what the root causes Jesus I'm like
• 53:30
  a broken record how long have they been
• 53:32
  saying that ever since I've been doing this
• 53:35
  show which is more than a Year plus
• 53:38
  and then on my Russian versions way before
• 53:40
  that probably another nine months before that Ukraine's
• 53:46
  permanent neutrality, that's what Russia wants no NATO
• 53:50
  protection of Russian-speaking population all the same
• 53:54
  Europe's alleged coalition of the willing is Pushing
• 53:59
  a 12-point ceasefire freeze to hand Trump
• 54:03
  while Hungary is allegedly working to salvage the
• 54:06
  summit Russia says Preparations are continuing in principle,
• 54:11
  but timing and location remain unsettled so Let's
• 54:17
  talk about the timeline of this.
• 54:19
  I Didn't get I wasn't able to do
• 54:22
  the whole thing, but October 16th Trump Putin
• 54:27
  phone call Lasted two and a half hours
• 54:29
  Trump says that both agreed to a Budapest
• 54:32
  summit Russia side You know said it wasn't
• 54:36
  quite like that, but they did talk about
• 54:40
  it or bond Victor Orban and she jarred
• 54:43
  Oh from Hungary Talked about logistic and working
• 54:47
  the phones Bulgaria says that their airspace is
• 54:50
  available for Putin's plane Poland says will threaten
• 54:53
  to deny engage any flight of Putin over
• 54:56
  our airspace and you know, they're you know,
• 55:00
  Provocations, you know is what they're doing on
• 55:02
  Monday, October the 20th Lavrov and Rubio had
• 55:06
  a phone call Russia says it's constructive focused
• 55:09
  on specific steps to implement the October 16
• 55:13
  understanding u.s. Says we discussed our next
• 55:17
  steps and the upcoming engagement to advance a
• 55:21
  Durable resolution is what even the u.s.
• 55:24
  Was calling it that is aligned with Trump's
• 55:26
  vision and there is no ceasefire language Okay,
• 55:32
  October 22 today Reports say that Budapest is
• 55:37
  now off.
• 55:37
  Trump says it's canceled and You know Washington
• 55:42
  hasn't answered and now Trump is all the
• 55:44
  sudden right back on with sanctions and Reversals
• 55:48
  and not talking to Putin who knows what's
• 55:51
  gonna happen with Rubio and Lavrov.
• 55:53
  I mean What's the point?
• 55:56
  You know, what is is this?
• 55:58
  Is this the same sort of?
• 56:02
  Position based bargaining that Trump has always been
• 56:05
  so famous for you know, you just throw
• 56:08
  out, you know, whatever position you're Available for
• 56:11
  today and it'll change tomorrow So let's keep
• 56:15
  an eye on this by the way, I
• 56:18
  wanted to point out that This week.
• 56:21
  This will be my last show of the
• 56:24
  week.
• 56:24
  I shall not have a Show tomorrow night.
• 56:28
  I Apologize for that.
• 56:29
  I thought I might be able to pre
• 56:31
  record one but unfortunately, I am otherwise engaged
• 56:36
  and tied up and do not have time
• 56:38
  to I Have too many things that I'm
• 56:42
  trying to do to record a show in
• 56:44
  the meantime, and I like doing these at
• 56:46
  night but I might come back Friday night,
• 56:48
  I don't know and do it on Friday
• 56:49
  and I just may do that and but
• 56:52
  we'll see we'll play it by ear but
• 56:55
  stay tuned Same back channel and we'll figure
• 56:59
  out what we're gonna do.
• 57:00
  Alrighty.
• 57:01
  Let's keep on trucking Let's see Here's what
• 57:08
  and now allegedly this is what the the
• 57:12
  this video that I watched is That McCrone
• 57:18
  and Starmer the the the numbskulls over in
• 57:21
  the European Union are pushing a 12-point
• 57:24
  plan to put Trump's ceasefire You know, they
• 57:27
  want a ceasefire But then Rubio and Lavrov
• 57:31
  never talked about a ceasefire Nor did the
• 57:34
  u.s. Put that out as what was
• 57:36
  to come from those two things They said
• 57:39
  they were looking at a long-term resolution
• 57:41
  to get rid of the war completely.
• 57:43
  I wouldn't agree to it You know that
• 57:45
  but that's me, you know, I wouldn't do
• 57:47
  that, especially if I'm winning Russia's winning Russia
• 57:52
  Is kicking the crap out of Ukraine, you
• 57:56
  don't have to believe that go find out
• 57:57
  yourself check it out I'm gonna go over
• 58:00
  some of that for you here in just
• 58:02
  a minute and tell you about the status
• 58:04
  on here today But allegedly but there are
• 58:07
  also other people that are saying Lavrov and
• 58:10
  Rubio call blew up on the 20th because
• 58:12
  Russia refused to a ceasefire so the summit
• 58:15
  is off now, I didn't hear that after
• 58:17
  the the Lavrov Rubio call.
• 58:21
  This is the first time I've ever heard
• 58:22
  that and so the They had question and
• 58:29
  answers afterward after this show after the Lavrov
• 58:32
  Rubio call right and Did the Lavrov Rubio
• 58:37
  call?
• 58:38
  Collapse over a ceasefire No, the Russian readout
• 58:42
  calls it constructive u.s Readout said talks
• 58:45
  about next steps and there was no ceasefire
• 58:48
  language Anyway said who proposed Budapest and why
• 58:52
  did Moscow prepare while sounding cautious?
• 58:55
  Well, we talked about that last night and
• 58:57
  the night before The speaker on this video
• 59:01
  said that Trump floated Budapest during the October
• 59:03
  16th call Hungary worked in logistics Victor Orban
• 59:07
  said it would be great for them to
• 59:09
  come over and didn't deny it and Russia
• 59:12
  Was working on it and then Bulgaria said
• 59:15
  it would be okay What exactly does Moscow
• 59:19
  want before any summit?
• 59:22
  a Clear answer from Trump to the Anchorage
• 59:25
  proposal is no interim ceasefire Go straight to
• 59:29
  a full settlement Something that addresses root cause
• 59:33
  why in the world is this any question
• 59:35
  anymore?
• 59:36
  So I mean it just it really isn't
• 59:40
  Where do I want to go we were
• 59:45
  going to look at The cancellation of the
• 59:53
  summit from the points of view of other
• 59:56
  people what they have said over the last
• 59:58
  24 hours and most of them did talk
• 1:00:02
  about The Trump Commentary at the very beginning
• 1:00:09
  and Let's see.
• 1:00:12
  We had some Ross Adam.
• 1:00:14
  Where is my next segment?
• 1:00:17
  I'm scrolling right now.
• 1:00:18
  Sorry Here it is front by front detail
• 1:00:26
  that is what I wanted to get you
• 1:00:28
  to okay So there's a channel I watch
• 1:00:32
  and it's not the typical one I mean,
• 1:00:34
  I watch a couple of different ones, but
• 1:00:36
  the one I usually watch is a military
• 1:00:38
  summary channel And he has pretty good pretty
• 1:00:42
  good news segment up front for two three
• 1:00:45
  minutes and then another 20 minute View of
• 1:00:49
  the front on each day and he does
• 1:00:52
  one One twice a day.
• 1:00:54
  I believe he does him I don't watch
• 1:00:57
  them all you know But but I but
• 1:00:58
  I try to catch one every other day
• 1:01:01
  or something like that and I keep a
• 1:01:03
  pretty good eye on it well, there's another
• 1:01:04
  guy I watch his guy his guy this
• 1:01:06
  guy is named Ruslan Belov and he says
• 1:01:10
  that the Russian for and he has a
• 1:01:12
  pretty good summary of what's happening in in
• 1:01:16
  the Point of view that he makes is
• 1:01:20
  mostly from what the Russian Department of Defense
• 1:01:25
  is saying but he also backs it up
• 1:01:29
  with Ukrainian mappers just like The military summary
• 1:01:35
  channel does and so I try to take
• 1:01:37
  the ones that are mapping based upon official
• 1:01:41
  statements, but verified by Unofficial on the other
• 1:01:47
  side right so the Russians are saying here's
• 1:01:49
  what we've done The Ukrainians are showing on
• 1:01:52
  their own maps.
• 1:01:53
  There's a guy called and his name He's
• 1:01:56
  not well.
• 1:01:57
  I don't think I don't think he's in
• 1:01:59
  the deep state, but that's what he calls
• 1:02:01
  himself so if you go out and do
• 1:02:03
  a Telegram because he's not anywhere else Well,
• 1:02:07
  not that I'm aware of but if you
• 1:02:09
  go out to telegram and watch on telegram
• 1:02:12
  channels what he is Putting out this guy
• 1:02:16
  named deep state his maps are the ones
• 1:02:20
  that they rely upon the most in Ukrainian
• 1:02:25
  areas and he is A presumed in fact
• 1:02:29
  if the government does the government has shut
• 1:02:32
  him down or Dictated what he couldn't couldn't
• 1:02:36
  say on several occasions because he was being
• 1:02:39
  too truthful and so that you know, but
• 1:02:42
  he's pretty accurate on the mapping and so
• 1:02:44
  the fall of Pokrovskaya allegedly happened and I
• 1:02:48
  want to get back to that here in
• 1:02:50
  a minute, but the the gist of what
• 1:02:52
  the video says in the beginning is That
• 1:02:55
  the Russian forces made again today multi-sector
• 1:02:59
  gains on October 22 2025 with Pokrovskaya Myrnograd
• 1:03:07
  Axis and the eastern Zaporizhzhia Nova Pavlovka Presented
• 1:03:11
  as the most consequential They there are some
• 1:03:14
  stage some stations that are saying that all
• 1:03:17
  of Pokrovskaya has been seized And that is
• 1:03:20
  completely there There's an encirclement risk for Myrnograd
• 1:03:23
  which is part of Pokrovskaya conglomeration which claims
• 1:03:27
  that Russian troops have crossed the railway lines
• 1:03:30
  in central Pokrovskaya and are pushing north and
• 1:03:32
  have pinned Ukrainian units and They're basically trapped.
• 1:03:36
  Some say that the Ukrainians have been withdrawing
• 1:03:39
  in northern Myrnograd, but they aren't yet backed
• 1:03:43
  by geo Geofencing geolocated and then in eastern
• 1:03:48
  Zaporizhzhia, they say that Russian full control of
• 1:03:51
  Pavlovka with military Department of Defense and Poltavka
• 1:03:55
  which is western to Goloi Polia and from
• 1:03:59
  Malaya Tokmachka and near And this is these
• 1:04:03
  are big parts of Zaporizhzhia Okay, which is
• 1:04:07
  remember there are four well five, but Crimea
• 1:04:11
  is gone long ago and The Donbass is
• 1:04:14
  basically taken which is Lugansk and Zanetsk and
• 1:04:17
  then when you get to Zaporizhzhia and Kherson
• 1:04:20
  those are the other two and and Kherson
• 1:04:23
  is basically mmm 80% Zaporizhzhia more than
• 1:04:28
  that that they're still pushing on these and
• 1:04:30
  so I believe if this continues to go
• 1:04:33
  and I'm still I'd still be surprised if
• 1:04:37
  All of this stuff is still ongoing and
• 1:04:39
  Russia ends up taking all of Zaporizhzhia all
• 1:04:43
  of Kherson and finishes up the slivers of
• 1:04:46
  The Donbass that they still haven't seized yet
• 1:04:49
  whether they will stop or whether they will
• 1:04:52
  continue Because they're also up in the Sumy
• 1:04:54
  region.
• 1:04:55
  They're still up in Kharkiv up in the
• 1:05:00
  top above there and they've been crossing in
• 1:05:02
  those borders and they still have crossed a
• 1:05:04
  couple of rivers and now as if you
• 1:05:06
  remember from a couple of weeks ago, and
• 1:05:08
  I was saying that they that the Reason
• 1:05:13
  that the Russians are still active up in
• 1:05:15
  those areas is because they want to Perhaps
• 1:05:18
  just like Ukraine was trying to take part
• 1:05:21
  of the Kursk area last year they want
• 1:05:25
  to say that well, I think if we
• 1:05:29
  take some a Sumy we take some of
• 1:05:32
  Kharkiv and we take maybe we get into
• 1:05:35
  some of the Nikolaeva or we even some
• 1:05:38
  of Odessa no, they're not there yet that
• 1:05:40
  I'm aware of on the Odessa side, but
• 1:05:44
  The Nikolaeva they have a small sliver I
• 1:05:46
  think that they've taken there that they could
• 1:05:48
  trade these slivers and these other places to
• 1:05:51
  get the rest of Zaporizhzhia and What do
• 1:05:57
  you call it just lost my train of
• 1:06:00
  thought Zaporizhzhia and the Donbass regions they can
• 1:06:03
  get them all and and her son and
• 1:06:05
  get whatever is left at there and so
• 1:06:07
  that's been some of the arguments that they've
• 1:06:10
  put out on that and So I wanted
• 1:06:13
  to go back and I thought about the
• 1:06:15
  so here in Pokrovsk, they're saying some cartographers
• 1:06:20
  market is totally Russian controlled, but there hasn't
• 1:06:23
  been any official military Confirmation of that and
• 1:06:28
  then on the southern part There's Ukrainian FPV
• 1:06:31
  strikes hitting Russian assaults.
• 1:06:33
  And so therefore the railway is under the
• 1:06:36
  firm You know is under control of Russia
• 1:06:39
  And the same goes for Mirna grad and
• 1:06:42
  the retreating lines Ukrainians are are Retreating and
• 1:06:47
  you know there he's they and many stations
• 1:06:51
  are saying now that the city of Pokrovsk
• 1:06:54
  will be gone collapse in the next days,
• 1:06:57
  not the next weeks and in the northern
• 1:07:01
  near near Kucherev Yar there's been a lot
• 1:07:05
  of Ukrainian counter-attacks up there, but in
• 1:07:08
  Kupyansk and some of the other areas of
• 1:07:11
  There's just been not a lot of movement
• 1:07:14
  and so since most of us don't know
• 1:07:17
  where those exactly are located and don't follow
• 1:07:19
  the maps like I do it's Probably pointless
• 1:07:23
  to tell you the names of these cities
• 1:07:25
  when they aren't When they aren't there the
• 1:07:28
  fact is though that the Russians have been
• 1:07:30
  making steady advances for quite some time not
• 1:07:36
  huge advances, but steady and they have gained
• 1:07:40
  a lot of ground in the last several
• 1:07:44
  months and just grinding it out war of
• 1:07:49
  attrition Ukrainians don't have any people to throw
• 1:07:52
  back at the front line their their Mobilizations
• 1:07:56
  are just crap and aren't going anywhere, and
• 1:07:59
  they have basically run out of folks I
• 1:08:06
  Thought and I read some of the things
• 1:08:07
  this very first thing this morning I Read
• 1:08:14
  Apparently and I found this rather interesting, so
• 1:08:17
  I'm going to share the whole article with
• 1:08:19
  you that That I read this morning, you
• 1:08:24
  know there might even be a second one
• 1:08:26
  because there was a second one and There
• 1:08:30
  was another French Museum robbed How about this?
• 1:08:38
  some 2,000 2,000 unique 18th-century
• 1:08:45
  coins Disappeared from the Denise Diderot museum museum
• 1:08:51
  days after a jewelry heist at the Louvre
• 1:08:55
  in the Louvre Geez if you break into
• 1:08:58
  there and robbed that place did it They
• 1:09:01
  need better policemen over there or better guards
• 1:09:03
  I don't know what but this is an
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  interesting story because apparently this is the way
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  to go these days This is how you
• 1:09:09
  get rich right another museum in France has
• 1:09:13
  suffered a break-in a France info reported
• 1:09:17
  on Wednesday a day after a high-profile
• 1:09:21
  jewelry heist at the Louvre nearly 2,000
• 1:09:25
  prized coins were reportedly stolen from the Diderot
• 1:09:30
  house of Enlightenment in the northern town of
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  Langrisse The case adds to a series of
• 1:09:38
  Major museum thefts in the country in recent
• 1:09:42
  months and has prompted an outcry from opposition
• 1:09:46
  politicians over the government's handling of cultural heritage
• 1:09:49
  security These gold and silver coins were stolen
• 1:09:53
  on Monday morning after museum staff discovered a
• 1:09:58
  broken front door and a shattered display case
• 1:10:02
  the hoard included 1,000 633 silver and
• 1:10:07
  319 gold coins from the 18th and 19th
• 1:10:13
  centuries with an estimated value of around 90
• 1:10:18
  ,000 euro that's a hundred and four thousand
• 1:10:21
  dollars The stolen items were part of the
• 1:10:24
  museum's treasure collection unearthed by construction workers during
• 1:10:29
  building renovations in 2011 according to the local
• 1:10:34
  mayor's office The break-in appeared premeditated and
• 1:10:38
  targeted cheese No surprise there with only selected
• 1:10:42
  valuables taken while other objects were left untouched
• 1:10:47
  local authorities reportedly tasked a private security company
• 1:10:51
  providing overnight surveillance of the site while the
• 1:10:54
  security system was temporarily closed Uh-huh this
• 1:10:59
  incident followed two other major museum thefts this
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  month And I'm gonna read you about this
• 1:11:05
  one on October 16th gold nuggets worth 1
• 1:11:10
  .5 Million euro were stolen from the National
• 1:11:15
  Museum of National History Natural History, I'm sorry
• 1:11:19
  in Paris on October 9th eight pieces of
• 1:11:24
  Napoleonic era jewelry were taken in a daylight
• 1:11:27
  break-in at the Louvre This is unbelievable
• 1:11:33
  Marianne Marichal a European Parliament member and niece
• 1:11:36
  of Marine Le Pen said France has become
• 1:11:39
  the laughingstock of the world following this ridiculous
• 1:11:43
  threat theft calling for immediate resignation of the
• 1:11:47
  cars and the museum security chief Dominique Buffon
• 1:11:51
  whom she claimed had been appointed as part
• 1:11:54
  of a feminization policy Jordan Bardella the president
• 1:12:00
  of National Rally branded the heist as the
• 1:12:02
  world's most of at the world's most visited
• 1:12:05
  museum as an intolerable Humiliation and called it
• 1:12:10
  reflective of the decay of the state of
• 1:12:14
  France Isn't that terrible?
• 1:12:17
  There's And but there was another article right
• 1:12:21
  next to it and get this one.
• 1:12:22
  This one is unbelievable, so there's another heist
• 1:12:26
  at the Natural Museum a Natural History Museum
• 1:12:30
  in Paris a Chinese national was charged with
• 1:12:35
  Has been charged over 1.5 million gold
• 1:12:39
  heist last month at the National Museum of
• 1:12:43
  Natural History in Paris Again reported by France
• 1:12:47
  info the disappearance of nearly six kilograms of
• 1:12:53
  Gold was discovered by museum staff on the
• 1:12:57
  morning of September 16th The nuggets were part
• 1:13:01
  of a permanent exhibit and get what they
• 1:13:04
  with this Chick or whoever stole, but she
• 1:13:07
  had it in her possession a court had
• 1:13:10
  some of it in her possession according to
• 1:13:12
  prosecutors The stolen items included Bolivian nuggets Donated
• 1:13:18
  to the Academy of Sciences in the 18th
• 1:13:22
  century.
• 1:13:24
  I mean you 200 years ago friends over
• 1:13:27
  300 didn't it?
• 1:13:29
  Well, I but doesn't matter pieces of Russia's
• 1:13:31
  Ural pieces from Russia's Ural region that were
• 1:13:36
  gifted by Tsar Nicholas the first in 1833
• 1:13:40
  to the museum Nuggets from California dating back
• 1:13:45
  to the gold rush Among them was one
• 1:13:49
  single gold nugget that weighed over five kilograms
• 1:13:55
  founded Australia in 1990 police Found signs of
• 1:14:00
  forced entry at two doors and get this
• 1:14:03
  each door was cut with an angle grinder
• 1:14:07
  Left openings slur slightly larger than a standard
• 1:14:12
  piece of paper, you know like a piece
• 1:14:15
  of printer paper Security footed showed a small
• 1:14:19
  woman dressed in a black Dressed in black
• 1:14:23
  slipping through one of the holes that was
• 1:14:25
  cut shortly after 1 a.m The suspect
• 1:14:29
  used a blowtorch to shatter a display case
• 1:14:33
  Containing the nuggets before exiting the building at
• 1:14:36
  4 a.m. She's there for three hours
• 1:14:40
  investigators said she wore a hat with a
• 1:14:42
  face covering veil similar to a beekeeper net
• 1:14:45
  and Looked like a circus to her circus
• 1:14:49
  artist I don't know where they get that
• 1:14:50
  from tools recovered at the scene included a
• 1:14:54
  screwdriver saws and gas canisters Police tracked a
• 1:14:59
  suspect through phone records and determined that she
• 1:15:02
  left France the same day heading to China
• 1:15:05
  She was detained at Barcelona Airport Spain where
• 1:15:10
  officers seized one kilogram of melted gold Where's
• 1:15:15
  the other?
• 1:15:17
  Kilograms one nugget weighed five kilograms.
• 1:15:21
  Where'd it go?
• 1:15:22
  The case adds to the growing list of
• 1:15:25
  high-profile museum thefts across Europe and beyond
• 1:15:30
  earlier this month thieves stole Napoleonic juror jewelry
• 1:15:35
  Estimated at 88 million dollars our euro 102
• 1:15:41
  million dollars from the Louvre a Picasso painting
• 1:15:44
  valued at 650,000 disappeared in route to
• 1:15:47
  a Spanish Museum last week.
• 1:15:49
  I think I shared that with you in
• 1:15:51
  September a 3,000 year old gold bracelet
• 1:15:54
  was stolen from the Egypt Egyptian Museum in
• 1:15:58
  Cairo four pieces of historic art including an
• 1:16:02
  approximately 25 year 2,500 year old gold
• 1:16:08
  helmet Were taken from the Drents Museum in
• 1:16:12
  the Netherlands in January so people are scalping
• 1:16:17
  some high-dollar stuff and And Sounds like
• 1:16:21
  they've gotten away with it for the most
• 1:16:23
  part that they're just taking these high-dollar
• 1:16:26
  things and people are watching Hollywood movies and
• 1:16:31
  getting ideas, huh?
• 1:16:33
  That is exactly what is happening unfarking believable
• 1:16:40
  but You know Tell you what, maybe there's
• 1:16:45
  maybe there's Aspirations, maybe we should start a
• 1:16:49
  crime school, you know people want trade schools
• 1:16:52
  We could have a school of crime me
• 1:16:54
  and you set up the school of crime
• 1:16:56
  and you learn how to Evade the police
• 1:17:01
  and Robbed the Louvre Museum.
• 1:17:03
  There's a lot of stuff in there and
• 1:17:05
  there's plenty of museums around the planet and
• 1:17:08
  most of them are I don't have all
• 1:17:10
  kinds of I Don't have all kinds of
• 1:17:15
  security or the highest levels of security hmm,
• 1:17:19
  I Saw a different one Let's see Where
• 1:17:26
  were we gonna go after this?
• 1:17:29
  There was a Navy thing Lithuania remember me
• 1:17:35
  telling you I was in Lithuania and Belarus
• 1:17:39
  several a couple of months ago and Lithuania
• 1:17:47
  is threatening to close the border with Belarus.
• 1:17:52
  So I got to tell you the When
• 1:17:55
  when you're crossing from?
• 1:17:59
  Lithuania into Belarus you can do it in
• 1:18:04
  Not very much time so I landed inside
• 1:18:10
  of Vilnius and Was taking a Large
• 1:18:21
  tour bus to go into Belarus and It's
• 1:18:27
  like a I don't know two hour Two
• 1:18:31
  hour drive, but they tell you to be
• 1:18:34
  prepared for it to take Four six hours
• 1:18:38
  right to go and to get to Minsk
• 1:18:43
  and But it didn't take anywhere near that
• 1:18:47
  long so When you're leaving Lithuania to get
• 1:18:51
  into Belarus the Belarus Checkpoints where you come
• 1:18:57
  in and show your visa and your passport
• 1:18:59
  and whatnot The that was pretty short pretty
• 1:19:02
  quick, you know, it didn't it wasn't anything
• 1:19:06
  dramatic, you know, it's pretty easy You just
• 1:19:08
  got to make sure you have a visa
• 1:19:10
  and in you go Well on the way
• 1:19:13
  back so on the way back Because I
• 1:19:16
  went into Minsk and then I took a
• 1:19:18
  train from Minsk to Moscow and then on
• 1:19:20
  the way back Moscow by train to Minsk
• 1:19:23
  and then Minsk to Vilnius again by bus
• 1:19:28
  and But I stayed a little bit But
• 1:19:31
  on either end, you know two three days
• 1:19:33
  in Vilnius two three days in Belarus and
• 1:19:36
  you know one on one end and one
• 1:19:38
  on the other and Otherwise was pretty much,
• 1:19:42
  you know standard but on the drive back
• 1:19:45
  it takes It they say that sometimes the
• 1:19:52
  crossing between Minsk into Lithuania Can take 17
• 1:20:00
  hours Which I didn't know on the way
• 1:20:02
  in or I would have found a different
• 1:20:05
  way on the way out I didn't find
• 1:20:07
  out until it was like You know, I
• 1:20:10
  was leaving Minsk in there and then people
• 1:20:12
  were talking about it.
• 1:20:13
  Well, they're standing there and One lady was
• 1:20:15
  going.
• 1:20:16
  Yeah, we were here before and it we
• 1:20:19
  had to wait for all of this time
• 1:20:21
  You couldn't get in and it was like
• 1:20:23
  Jesus Let's head 17 hours.
• 1:20:27
  Well, here's why because the border is Nuts,
• 1:20:33
  and by the way when you're going over
• 1:20:34
  there, here's some crap for you This was
• 1:20:38
  this was nuts while you're going in there
• 1:20:40
  the bus driver says he gets on the
• 1:20:42
  he gets on the speaker and he says
• 1:20:47
  Listen when we get up to Lithuania Make
• 1:20:51
  sure you put your paperwork in this bin.
• 1:20:53
  These are double-decker buses.
• 1:20:55
  They're huge, you know, they're they're pretty cool
• 1:20:57
  and they're very comfortable you know nice nice
• 1:21:00
  ride and whatnot and He uh, he says
• 1:21:04
  on your way in Understand that Ukrainians get
• 1:21:12
  to go first I Was like what and
• 1:21:16
  I mean obviously he was on a speaker.
• 1:21:18
  It's like what the hell is that?
• 1:21:20
  Well, apparently the Ukrainians get to go first
• 1:21:24
  And so you're put you know in the
• 1:21:26
  bus their buses full their cars full their
• 1:21:28
  peak, you know They're everywhere and they're all
• 1:21:31
  running out And they're headed to NATO countries
• 1:21:35
  and it's funny because how in the world
• 1:21:37
  of Ukrainians and this is this is what
• 1:21:39
  I was sitting There wondering it's like alright
• 1:21:41
  so if you don't like Belarus and there
• 1:21:43
  in Belarus is supportive of Russia, which is
• 1:21:46
  generally true, but Belarus Poland Lithuania Latvia Estonia
• 1:21:52
  Ukraine They're also mixed and they have been
• 1:21:56
  for hundreds of years.
• 1:21:57
  They're just mixed There are all kinds of
• 1:21:59
  people from all kinds of places You never
• 1:22:01
  who will hold you never know who holds
• 1:22:03
  what passport, right?
• 1:22:05
  but the Ukrainians get to go first if
• 1:22:07
  they're first in line, they're moved to the
• 1:22:09
  first and especially in Lithuania and Lithuania Jesus
• 1:22:13
  you can speak Russian over there.
• 1:22:14
  They're rude to you.
• 1:22:16
  They sure were to me and And they
• 1:22:19
  can't speak they speak don't speak English for
• 1:22:21
  crap, you know, but but you know You
• 1:22:24
  speak Russian to him and they get angry.
• 1:22:26
  It's like yeah, but I don't speak Lithuanian
• 1:22:27
  and they don't talk to you so anyway,
• 1:22:31
  this story is talking about that border which
• 1:22:34
  is Two hours on the way from Lithuania
• 1:22:37
  into Belarus up to 17 hours on the
• 1:22:39
  way back Is so this is the story
• 1:22:43
  of the border and now the Lithuania is
• 1:22:46
  alleging that balloons carrying contraband cigarettes I've been
• 1:22:51
  crossing over the border from its neighbor and
• 1:22:56
  so therefore they're gonna threat They've threatened to
• 1:22:58
  close down this border Lithuanian people are just
• 1:23:02
  sick of it cigarettes Cummings cheap cigarettes coming
• 1:23:07
  from the other side of the border Because
• 1:23:09
  cigarettes are markedly cheaper on that side of
• 1:23:12
  the border Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginini if
• 1:23:18
  I said that right has threatened to close
• 1:23:20
  the border with Belarus said Lithuanian National Radio
• 1:23:25
  She said the measure would be in response
• 1:23:28
  to an alleged flow of balloons Carrying contraband
• 1:23:32
  cigarettes across the border if such balloons cross
• 1:23:37
  our borders in mass again We will react
• 1:23:41
  immediately and close the border.
• 1:23:44
  It's already closed takes you 17 hours She
• 1:23:48
  also reportedly expressed Skepticism that Vilnius could sit
• 1:23:52
  down with this neighbor and reach an agreement
• 1:23:55
  on anything.
• 1:23:56
  They don't like Belarusians either people from Belarus
• 1:24:02
  There's currently no information that this is a
• 1:24:04
  coordinated operation by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, this
• 1:24:09
  is about smuggling contraband cigarettes She said well
• 1:24:13
  if it's not Lukashenko, then why close the
• 1:24:16
  border?
• 1:24:18
  So one breath you say I'm gonna close
• 1:24:20
  the border cuz you know these these Belarusians
• 1:24:24
  We can't make any agreement with him, and
• 1:24:25
  then she goes, but I don't think it's
• 1:24:27
  anything by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko She's nuts
• 1:24:33
  according to the Baltic News Service dozens of
• 1:24:37
  balloons crossed into Lithuania overnight on Tuesday disturbing
• 1:24:41
  flights to and from the Vilnius Airport Where
• 1:24:45
  I flew it Belarusian border authorities report that
• 1:24:48
  Lithuania Unilaterally stopped border crossings for around six
• 1:24:53
  hours well according to my history Apparently that
• 1:24:57
  is a constant thing over there the head
• 1:24:59
  of the Lithuanian National Road Carriers Association Narunas
• 1:25:05
  questioned the Proportionality of the halt an air
• 1:25:09
  incident should not become a pretext for paralyzing
• 1:25:13
  road transport He said as transport sector workers
• 1:25:18
  face Intolerable conditions and waits at the border.
• 1:25:22
  He said already he said Currently Lithuania only
• 1:25:26
  has two open border crossings with Belarusia Having
• 1:25:31
  shut two down last March and two others
• 1:25:34
  in August of 2023 which is Nonsense, this
• 1:25:38
  is all so stupid because the only people
• 1:25:41
  running out of Belarus are the Ukrainians And
• 1:25:45
  that well they're trying to you know crossing
• 1:25:47
  through there, but most of them come up
• 1:25:48
  through Poland Nonsense, but you don't want any
• 1:25:52
  Russian speaking people in there these people are
• 1:25:55
  nuts They are Totally anti-russian.
• 1:26:00
  It's it's it's it's worse than the 80s
• 1:26:02
  between Texas and Mexico in all truth They
• 1:26:08
  are hateful folk up there Let's see see
• 1:26:13
  if I can find another short little article
• 1:26:16
  for you to wind down Oh, I wanted
• 1:26:19
  I did want to tell you about this,
• 1:26:21
  you know The u.s. And here's Donald
• 1:26:25
  Trump's latest, right?
• 1:26:27
  Well, not really latest, but one of the
• 1:26:29
  things another thing he said Like I've told
• 1:26:33
  you a little bit about before the u
• 1:26:35
  .s Will not help Ukraine fire long-range
• 1:26:37
  tomahawk missiles at Russian forces said Trump Adding
• 1:26:42
  that training kids troops to operate the weapon
• 1:26:45
  themselves would take many months Well, he couldn't
• 1:26:49
  do it anyway, because they would still have
• 1:26:52
  to have fire missions from the western side
• 1:26:55
  Speaking during a meeting with Mark Ruta at
• 1:26:59
  the house.
• 1:26:59
  Trump did not say whether the u.s.
• 1:27:01
  Might eventually provide the missiles But stressed that
• 1:27:05
  the weapon required long and intensive training The
• 1:27:09
  problem with the tomahawk is that it'll take
• 1:27:12
  a minimum of six months or a year
• 1:27:15
  To learn how to use them, they're very
• 1:27:17
  complex so the only way a tomahawk is
• 1:27:20
  going to be shot is if we shoot
• 1:27:22
  it and We're not going to do that.
• 1:27:25
  We know how to use it and we're
• 1:27:27
  not going to be teaching other people Trump
• 1:27:32
  earlier cautioned that allowing Ukraine to conduct strikes
• 1:27:35
  deep into Russia with long-range missiles would
• 1:27:38
  lead to an escalation President Putin has warned
• 1:27:43
  against supplying these weapons to Ukraine saying it
• 1:27:46
  would be impossible to use tomahawks without the
• 1:27:49
  direct participation of American military personnel so from
• 1:27:54
  this we do know that Trump does listen
• 1:27:56
  from time to time he also warned that
• 1:27:59
  such deliveries would severely undermine the prospects of
• 1:28:02
  a peaceful settlement said Putin and Damage relations
• 1:28:06
  between Moscow and Washington Wall Street Journal reported
• 1:28:10
  Wednesday that the Trump administration had lifted Restrictions
• 1:28:14
  on Ukraine's use of certain long-range missiles,
• 1:28:18
  but the u.s. Leader quickly dismissed this
• 1:28:21
  report as fake news saying that Washington has
• 1:28:27
  Nothing to do with those missiles wherever they
• 1:28:30
  may come from or what Ukraine does with
• 1:28:32
  them Ukraine has long requested tomahawks With the
• 1:28:37
  topic discussed during the Trump Z man meeting
• 1:28:40
  at the White House last Friday Where he
• 1:28:43
  was crying afterward he seemed to be after
• 1:28:45
  the talks to Ukrainian leader declined to comment
• 1:28:48
  although Axios reported the meeting as bad Saying
• 1:28:54
  Kiev failed to secure Tomahawks, and we knew
• 1:28:58
  all about that Isn't that curious and quizzical
• 1:29:05
  well folks I am Going to be up
• 1:29:09
  trying to I'm actually gonna prepare for this
• 1:29:12
  interview with Ukraine are The TV station and
• 1:29:18
  well media outlet they do all kinds of
• 1:29:21
  internet stuff too, and I'll be actually I
• 1:29:26
  Didn't last time it went quite well, but
• 1:29:29
  I didn't actually prepare But I'm gonna make
• 1:29:31
  sure to this time so I will report
• 1:29:34
  to you on that Sunday evening Or maybe
• 1:29:36
  Friday if I choose to do a show
• 1:29:38
  early My name is Samuel Trapp.
• 1:29:41
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• 1:29:42
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