Latest / International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better / Blockading the World? Hormuz, Dollar Trouble & Trump’s Wild Week Explained

Transcript

Blockading the World? Hormuz, Dollar Trouble & Trump’s Wild Week Explained · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

• 0:01
  We're going to interrupt the silence
• 0:03
  with my voice this morning. How's it
• 0:05
  going? I'm Samuel Trap. This is Dam
• 0:08
  Radio. You are listening
• 0:11
  to International Flavor. Coming to you
• 0:13
  live from the Lake Ozark Real Estate
• 0:16
  Studio on this.
• 0:19
  Can't stand the weather. You know, I
• 0:22
  can't stand you. I can't stand the
• 0:24
  weather because
• 0:26
  either be cold or be hot. You can't be
• 0:29
  both. It drives me crazy, makes me sick,
• 0:31
  stuffs my nose, does, you know, weird
• 0:34
  stuff. I I I turn lethargic and cocoon
• 0:38
  up. It's ridiculous. Uh I I I dislike
• 0:41
  it. Somebody whoever's in charge needs
• 0:44
  to fix this. Apparently, I am not in
• 0:46
  charge because I've been bitching about
• 0:48
  it for years and so far nothing has
• 0:51
  worked. So, at least when I grew up as a
• 0:54
  child in Minnesota, uh uh it was cold,
• 0:58
  you know. Heck, it was cold. That was
• 1:01
  it. It's cold. Starting in October,
• 1:04
  ending in May, and then you'd have
• 1:06
  reasonably cool weather, you know,
• 1:08
  rarely hot, and life was good, right?
• 1:12
  At least they had a a see a uh what do
• 1:14
  you know, pattern here? We got nothing.
• 1:17
  One day it's 90, the next day it's 22.
• 1:20
  It's nuts. And I dislike it. Uh but I
• 1:23
  don't like being in uh uh I shouldn't
• 1:25
  say that. I like being in Florida, but
• 1:27
  I'm not a big fan. I don't know why.
• 1:29
  That just hasn't grown on me yet. Um,
• 1:33
  however, uh, much do about much in the
• 1:39
  news going on. Apparently, the war
• 1:42
  proceeds as we all knew it would, at
• 1:44
  least those of us who knew anything. Um
• 1:47
  because
• 1:49
  Trump can't accept the realities that
• 1:51
  are being forced upon him because it uh
• 1:54
  he he actually gets nothing off out of a
• 1:57
  huge war. What does he get? Seriously.
• 2:00
  And out of creating something in and by
• 2:02
  the way yesterday I saw something
• 2:04
  hilarious. Now this was funny. Trump
• 2:08
  posted something on uh his uh whatever
• 2:11
  it is true social or whatever. The only
• 2:13
  way he communicates really is uh uh he
• 2:16
  put something out there about the
• 2:18
  wonderful who I I mean get this Lindsey
• 2:22
  Graham
• 2:24
  is getting endorsed by Trump. You're
• 2:27
  desperate you're endorsing that dude.
• 2:29
  No, I mean that's nuts. And uh uh why in
• 2:33
  foreign policy, this is another
• 2:35
  interesting question that that I was
• 2:37
  pondering all day yesterday that I still
• 2:39
  don't have an answer for. Why in the
• 2:41
  world
• 2:42
  does your secretary of state, your
• 2:45
  foreign dude, your your your your
• 2:49
  top foreign person,
• 2:52
  why does he not go to the uh uh meeting
• 2:57
  in u Islamabad?
• 3:00
  Why isn't he off to Pakistan? Why are
• 3:02
  you sending why are you sending Vance?
• 3:06
  It's an interesting question to me and I
• 3:08
  really don't know the answer to that
• 3:10
  question. I think Rubio's another uh
• 3:12
  another uh what you call it dude I was
• 3:15
  just pitching about um
• 3:18
  Lindsey Graham you know Graham you know
• 3:21
  what that'd be a great ticket to run to
• 3:24
  run for president next time. It could be
• 3:27
  Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio as your
• 3:30
  as your tag team back again. Uh, woo.
• 3:34
  There it is for you. Uh, we had much in
• 3:38
  the election news. Uh, Miger beat or
• 3:40
  Magar, I'm sorry, beat Orbin
• 3:43
  um, in the, uh,
• 3:47
  Hungary wars. So, Orbin, who's been in
• 3:50
  power for a long time, uh, pretty much
• 3:53
  pro-Russia, certainly pro-Russian
• 3:55
  energy. Uh, and it was a pretty
• 3:58
  substantial defeat. And I tell you what,
• 4:02
  I re I I I've traveled in that area of
• 4:05
  the world. Never Hungary, haven't been
• 4:07
  there. But you know, I'm telling you,
• 4:09
  the Poles, the Latians, Lithuanians,
• 4:12
  Estonians, even to some extent the the
• 4:15
  the people of Baru Bellarus, especially
• 4:18
  those that run off to Florida, they are
• 4:21
  extremely pro- Europe and they love the
• 4:26
  the concept of we hate Russia and and
• 4:29
  we're supposed to hate Russia and they
• 4:33
  they truly they just love it. I don't I
• 4:35
  don't understand what it is. You know,
• 4:37
  jealousy comes in many ways. And uh
• 4:40
  maybe that's it. I don't know. I don't
• 4:42
  get it because I personally don't see
• 4:46
  Russia as the big bad wolf and I can't
• 4:49
  figure out why everyone else does. Um
• 4:52
  the only uh it really truly makes no
• 4:56
  sense. And uh you know, people are
• 4:59
  stupid anymore and they really don't do
• 5:01
  their own research. And uh and I'm
• 5:04
  thinking that the globalists who have
• 5:07
  tried and now do control Hungary, they
• 5:10
  got only the the the one guy left. Um
• 5:14
  whatever his name is, FSO in uh they
• 5:17
  only got one one person left that's
• 5:19
  really independent over there in Europe.
• 5:23
  The Europeans are nuts and they're
• 5:25
  they're they're building for war.
• 5:27
  Britain yesterday put out a plan to uh
• 5:30
  uh build for war. We're building up for
• 5:32
  war against Russia. Everybody's building
• 5:34
  for war against Russia. Uh, you know,
• 5:37
  build it and they will come. You know,
• 5:39
  that's that's how it goes. Everybody
• 5:40
  thinks Russia's on a tear to take over
• 5:42
  the planet. Um, I don't see it that way.
• 5:46
  Never have. And I'd like to see somebody
• 5:50
  coherently state what leads them to that
• 5:54
  conclusion. I think economically Russia,
• 5:58
  China, India, uh, Mongolia, these people
• 6:01
  are going to dominate in the in the next
• 6:05
  20, 30 years. And, um, you know, maybe
• 6:10
  it's time that that somebody in a little
• 6:13
  bit more detail
• 6:16
  outlined why. Um, and and I think I will
• 6:20
  endeavor to do that because I'm telling
• 6:23
  you there there's something screwy going
• 6:27
  on in the world. Uh, so the hu and and
• 6:32
  and Trump's deeply involved in it
• 6:34
  because I believe as as crazy as I think
• 6:38
  his commentary and his BS are, I think
• 6:43
  ultimately he understands and he truly
• 6:46
  doesn't know the right alternatives and
• 6:48
  how to repair it. Okay,
• 6:52
  the petro dollar, no matter what, and I
• 6:55
  believe this is what we've just
• 6:57
  discovered, what he's absolutely just
• 7:00
  discovered, and now if I can't have any
• 7:04
  horm, nobody can have horm. I'm going to
• 7:07
  blockade the world because that's what I
• 7:09
  do. That's what I live for. I am king. I
• 7:13
  am in charge of the planet. I'm sorry,
• 7:15
  the the title is God Emperor. I thought
• 7:18
  I was going to be the first God emperor
• 7:20
  of the planet, but apparently it's going
• 7:22
  to be uh Donald Trump. Yesterday he said
• 7:24
  he was Jesus or something. He equated
• 7:27
  himself to Jesus after the Pope. There's
• 7:29
  a whole story on it. Oh man, I I
• 7:34
  I can't take it. Where where is this? I
• 7:37
  got to find this for you. Um Trump cast
• 7:40
  himself as Jesus. This is great.
• 7:44
  Um let's see. Uh where is he? Where is
• 7:48
  he? US president portrayed himself as a
• 7:51
  holy healer while some noted a
• 7:53
  similarity between the man being healed
• 7:56
  and Jeffrey Epstein in the photo.
• 8:00
  US President Trump has shared an AI
• 8:03
  generated image of himself as a robed
• 8:06
  Christlike figure healing a bedridden
• 8:09
  man flanked by eagles, fighter jets, and
• 8:12
  US service members with the Statue of
• 8:14
  Liberty US flag in the background. The
• 8:16
  post triggered backlash, no doubt, with
• 8:19
  some users suggesting the figure being
• 8:21
  healed resembled the late convicted sex
• 8:23
  offender Jeffrey Epstein. I don't give a
• 8:26
  crap about the guy being healed. I give
• 8:28
  a a crap about Trump playing Jesus. He's
• 8:31
  got light coming out of his hands,
• 8:33
  people. The guy and he This is nuts.
• 8:38
  What in the hell are you doing? This I I
• 8:42
  don't get it. the guy has gone off the
• 8:45
  deep end or something. The image was
• 8:47
  posted on True Social yesterday after
• 8:51
  Trump took a broadside at Pope Leo I
• 8:54
  14th calling the Chicago born pontiff
• 8:57
  weak on crime and terrible on foreign
• 9:00
  policy. What do we care if the Pope is
• 9:02
  weak on crime and terrible on foreign
• 9:04
  policy? Trump is weak on foreign polic
• 9:06
  Well, if Trump is terrible on foreign
• 9:08
  policy and I don't know about crime, you
• 9:11
  know what? Whatever. I don't like the
• 9:12
  way he's doing it, but I the terrible on
• 9:16
  foreign policy. Jesus, that projection
• 9:18
  much. Um, in the in the picture, Trump
• 9:21
  didn't give himself a halo, you know,
• 9:24
  but he's seen wearing red and white
• 9:25
  drapes, colors of symbolizing bloodshed
• 9:28
  and Christ sacrifice for humanity as
• 9:32
  well as his own absolute purity. The
• 9:35
  Pope criticized the USIsrael attack
• 9:38
  against Iran and described Trump's
• 9:41
  threats to destroy Iranian civilization
• 9:45
  as truly unacceptable. Now, I'm not the
• 9:47
  Pope, but I agree that's truly
• 9:50
  unacceptable
• 9:52
  for Israel to destroy a civilization,
• 9:57
  which is what they're doing, and for the
• 9:59
  US to say he's going to do the thing and
• 10:01
  and create a threat against the entire
• 10:04
  people. What happened to saving them?
• 10:08
  What happened to, oh, gee, we're gonna
• 10:10
  save the people of Iran from themselves
• 10:12
  and their terrible leadership? What
• 10:14
  happened to that? US president
• 10:17
  described himself as a
• 10:18
  non-denominational Christian. Also
• 10:21
  stated, "We don't like a pope that's
• 10:23
  going to say it's okay to have a nuclear
• 10:26
  weapon." Well, we have nuclear weapons.
• 10:29
  What's the pope think about that? Trump
• 10:32
  said, "Is it okay for us to have a
• 10:34
  nuclear weapon?" I truly There's no
• 10:38
  equality of nations. every the only
• 10:40
  thing that we have to go on here in
• 10:42
  America apparently is saying that
• 10:46
  everybody else since you're not us
• 10:49
  you're nothing and that's what we do and
• 10:52
  and we say you know a sovereign country
• 10:54
  screw you you're not sovereign we tell
• 10:56
  you who's sovereign we are England in uh
• 11:00
  uh you know when the Americans uh the
• 11:03
  the colonists departed for uh brighter
• 11:07
  shores in America and didn't want the
• 11:09
  tyranny me. You think You think Iran
• 11:12
  wants us there? I mean, you think they
• 11:15
  they're inviting us in with open arms?
• 11:17
  They want some Trump. Give me some
• 11:19
  Trump. I want that. And we want people
• 11:21
  What are we fighting for?
• 11:24
  If we're not fighting for the people of
• 11:28
  Iran, which was what was alleged at
• 11:30
  first, we're going to decapitate these
• 11:32
  guys and then we're going to be fighting
• 11:34
  for the people of Iran. Usually it's
• 11:37
  we're fighting for democracy. And that
• 11:39
  was BS, too. But now we're just straight
• 11:44
  up about it. We're going to destroy your
• 11:46
  civilization. Been around 5,000 years.
• 11:49
  We're going to destroy it. You know,
• 11:51
  we're going to make you martyrs. By the
• 11:52
  way, the Shia, they like being martyrs.
• 11:55
  They they want to be martyrs. To them,
• 11:57
  that's a glor That's glorious. Okay. To
• 12:01
  many, that's glorious. I I mean I'm
• 12:04
  against death, certainly my own. I'm
• 12:07
  against it all. But to die defending
• 12:09
  something you believe in, I I
• 12:14
  there's worse ways to go. You know,
• 12:17
  senseless, mindless destruction. That is
• 12:21
  crap. I' I'd prefer not to go that way.
• 12:24
  You know, if I'm going to go, I'd like
• 12:26
  it to be doing something I appreciate.
• 12:28
  I'd like it to be doing something I
• 12:30
  believe in and not going over and
• 12:34
  destroying
• 12:35
  another culture. I think that's crap and
• 12:38
  it's just wrong. And so, and for Trump
• 12:41
  to talk like that is truly offensive to
• 12:44
  me and it should be offensive to a lot
• 12:47
  of the people. And by the way, I think
• 12:48
  it is. I think after, you know, he
• 12:51
  supported Orbin, okay, he sent sent JD
• 12:54
  Vance over there to pump Orbin in his
• 12:56
  last minutes. Do you think that helped
• 12:58
  with what Iran is going through right
• 13:00
  now and what Europe is going through
• 13:02
  because of it right now? What the
• 13:03
  freaking world is going through because
• 13:06
  of it? People can't afford gas. Who do
• 13:08
  they blame? Trump. So you send somebody
• 13:10
  over as Trump to go and do it uh to go
• 13:12
  and support his guy. You know, I want
• 13:15
  him to support Lindsey Graham because I
• 13:17
  think if anything, it'll take Lindsey
• 13:19
  Graham down. I mean, that'll never
• 13:21
  happen because our system is such that
• 13:24
  people like Graham control it. And uh
• 13:26
  there are a lot of people saying that uh
• 13:28
  there's going to be interference in our
• 13:29
  own elections. And I'm not an expert on
• 13:31
  that. I know the JR has has interesting
• 13:34
  uh point of view on that and I like
• 13:36
  listening to him. And u so anyway, Trump
• 13:39
  finished up by saying, "I'm not a fan of
• 13:42
  Pope Leo."
• 13:44
  And then Governor Newsome posted
• 13:47
  something in return. Did you see it with
• 13:49
  uh the the uh with Trump in a uh black
• 13:54
  cloak with a make a America great hat
• 13:57
  on? Very skinny, bony looking arms.
• 14:00
  Epstein looking over his shoulder and
• 14:02
  he's got a uh uh uh they they call what
• 14:07
  do they call him? A sigh. Well, it's a
• 14:10
  sickle of some sort, but but uh I I
• 14:12
  think the the instrument itself is
• 14:14
  called a sigh, but I don't remember. and
• 14:16
  uh but whatever the uh the grim reaper
• 14:18
  carries around. So Trump's the grim
• 14:20
  reaper and uh Mark Kelly was quick to
• 14:23
  condemn he's a Democrat condemned the
• 14:25
  remarks and he said as a Catholic and
• 14:28
  I'm not a Catholic and I still find it
• 14:30
  abhorrent but he he says as a Catholic I
• 14:33
  find it abhorrent that the president of
• 14:35
  the United States would publicly attack
• 14:37
  the successor of St. Peter. Kelly wrote
• 14:40
  on X, "Donald Trump is flailing,
• 14:45
  his war in Iran has led to the death and
• 14:47
  injury of American service members and
• 14:49
  the death of Iranian children." Now, I
• 14:52
  believe both those things. Um, you and I
• 14:55
  also believe that Donald Trump is
• 14:56
  flailing right now. The blockades of the
• 14:59
  ports of Iran, the blockades of the of
• 15:02
  the uh Hormuz Strait, he doesn't get it
• 15:04
  yet. and uh uh that you know how quickly
• 15:08
  is that going to turn around the uh
• 15:12
  economies of these places? You think
• 15:15
  that nobody getting through is better
• 15:18
  than a trickle?
• 15:20
  I don't think so. But the Christlike
• 15:22
  imagery that he posted is far from
• 15:25
  accurate, by the way. and uh former
• 15:28
  Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor
• 15:30
  Green and former Trump ally said the
• 15:34
  president's post was more than
• 15:36
  blasphemy. She called it the Antichrist
• 15:39
  spirit. Now, have any of you noticed?
• 15:41
  Now, I have
• 15:44
  and it saddens me. It really does. Um
• 15:47
  Trump attacked in a rant of ungodly
• 15:51
  proportion. I believe it was on
• 15:53
  Saturday, this long,
• 15:57
  hardened to read, difficult to
• 16:00
  comprehend
• 16:02
  diet tribe about the evils of a number
• 16:06
  of his former allies. If you piss the
• 16:10
  man off, you're suddenly an idiot, a
• 16:12
  worth nothing. If you tell him
• 16:15
  what you believe to be the truth and he
• 16:18
  disagrees with it, you are worse than
• 16:24
  which is absolute nothingness. You're
• 16:27
  you're a nishtova nothing and uh and so
• 16:31
  low you can't even reach up and touch
• 16:33
  the bottom. You're so low that you could
• 16:36
  play handball against the curb. You are
• 16:39
  low. you are despicable and disgusting.
• 16:42
  And that is how he treats former allies.
• 16:47
  I always used to tell people when I was
• 16:48
  practicing law that you can always tell
• 16:51
  a uh uh a person who really did love
• 16:55
  their uh exspouse
• 16:58
  if they don't treat them poorly. Okay.
• 17:01
  Now, you can say bad things about about
• 17:03
  your ex-spouse. I' I've got several that
• 17:06
  I uh wish I was aware of when I married
• 17:09
  them.
• 17:10
  things that I wish I had known. But I
• 17:13
  don't blame them. I blame me for not
• 17:15
  finding out first. And they all had
• 17:17
  their huge strong points. And uh I try
• 17:21
  hard not to destroy them. The first one
• 17:24
  in particular was a raven nut job, but
• 17:27
  she was awesome. You know, there was
• 17:29
  great things about that woman. And uh we
• 17:33
  had some very, very good times in my
• 17:35
  youth. You don't take people that you
• 17:37
  once thought highly of and turn them
• 17:41
  into the antichrist. You can disagree.
• 17:43
  You can disengage. You can even do what
• 17:46
  many people do and cut them off forever
• 17:50
  and just say, you know what, I don't
• 17:51
  want this person in my life anymore.
• 17:54
  Because in reality, it is you that is
• 17:57
  supposed to uh
• 18:01
  create your own form of happiness. and
• 18:05
  be free to uh create that form of
• 18:07
  happiness as you like. And if you're no
• 18:10
  longer happy, something needs to be done
• 18:12
  about that. If you can't make yourself
• 18:15
  happy, you know, I had a relationship
• 18:17
  with somebody once said, "Well, you
• 18:19
  know, you you don't even try to make me
• 18:20
  happy." I said, "Who am I to make you
• 18:22
  happy? It's it's not that's not my job.
• 18:26
  I'm supposed to be happy, and you're
• 18:28
  supposed to be happy, and we're supposed
• 18:31
  to share each other's happiness.
• 18:34
  we because there's more happiness
• 18:37
  between the two of us.
• 18:39
  You know, put two put two pots of h two
• 18:42
  glasses of happiness together, right?
• 18:45
  Let's say it's 5 milliliters in each uh
• 18:48
  tube, you got 5 milliliters. If you pour
• 18:51
  my happiness into your happiness,
• 18:53
  something wonderful happens. There's
• 18:54
  really a hell of a lot more than 10
• 18:56
  milliliters of happiness because your
• 18:59
  happiness it it grows better. And and
• 19:01
  that's really weird to put together, but
• 19:03
  that's what I freaking believe. And and
• 19:05
  I don't believe that it's my job to make
• 19:08
  anyone happy. It's my job to make except
• 19:10
  myself. It's my job to make myself happy
• 19:13
  and attempt to share that happiness with
• 19:14
  others. That's it. I mean, what more do
• 19:17
  you want in the world for God's sake?
• 19:19
  And Trump sees it totally different. He
• 19:21
  thinks that if you disagree with
• 19:22
  someone, sometimes disagreement is the
• 19:25
  right answer, by the way. And he does
• 19:27
  not want any disagreement.
• 19:30
  And the true Trumpers, the truly truly
• 19:32
  Trumpers, they they agree with that.
• 19:34
  They they think that's how it's supposed
• 19:36
  to be. You can't you can't say anything
• 19:38
  bad. Um I was a little surprised also
• 19:42
  over the weekend, and this this leads me
• 19:44
  to believe some things are not going as
• 19:48
  planned. Um and this is probably the
• 19:51
  biggest thing for me. It struck me as so
• 19:55
  odd that
• 19:59
  uh I I it makes me begin to believe
• 20:03
  something like this will make you
• 20:05
  believe the sniping from the sides that
• 20:09
  say that Trump's got something really
• 20:11
  big that he's trying hard to hide.
• 20:14
  Because there have been a lot of people
• 20:16
  over the last week say including Tucker
• 20:18
  Carlson said something uh that Trump has
• 20:20
  something truly hor truly maybe it's not
• 20:24
  even horrible but it's horrible to
• 20:26
  himself according to them to hide and if
• 20:28
  anything would make me believe that it's
• 20:30
  not the commentary of Tucker Carlson or
• 20:33
  Alex Jones or any of these people that
• 20:35
  Trump now hates instead of you know
• 20:38
  before loved and and uh he it it is this
• 20:44
  Milan IA Trump. And if you haven't seen
• 20:46
  it, you should watch it. She made a
• 20:48
  surprise Epstein video statement.
• 20:52
  And I'm not going to play it for you,
• 20:54
  but uh you should you should go out and
• 20:57
  watch it. And if anything, that was an
• 20:59
  alarm bell to me that things are
• 21:02
  certainly a miss. and they went out of
• 21:04
  their way to report that Trump didn't
• 21:07
  know about it um before it occurred and
• 21:10
  that it was a surprise statement that
• 21:12
  she did it through her own press office,
• 21:14
  press secretary, whatever she does. And
• 21:16
  I I don't know. I haven't really dug
• 21:18
  into it that much, but I did watch the
• 21:20
  video and truthfully, uh, I've never
• 21:24
  seen her speak publicly about much
• 21:29
  before because she doesn't take that
• 21:32
  role really. People don't follow her
• 21:35
  that much. I'm not saying that everybody
• 21:38
  follows her, but they don't hang on her
• 21:40
  every word. Now, way back when when
• 21:42
  people were trying to destroy Barbara
• 21:44
  Bush or Nancy Reagan, you know, that
• 21:47
  happened or even Michelle Obama, uh they
• 21:50
  would uh they would follow him around
• 21:51
  and listen to their every word. Well,
• 21:53
  you don't really see that as much with
• 21:55
  Melania because she's so uh
• 21:59
  unappro not unapproachable,
• 22:00
  unattackable. you know, she's she's just
• 22:03
  she, you know, by all accounts, she's
• 22:06
  apolitical and she's a a very good
• 22:08
  person, the great mother. All the things
• 22:10
  that you would want in a fantastically
• 22:12
  beautiful woman like that. So, while
• 22:15
  some users are scrambling to defend
• 22:17
  Trump, insisting that his latest post
• 22:21
  did not offend Christian worshippers.
• 22:23
  I'll tell you what, I consider myself
• 22:25
  Christian regardless of the
• 22:26
  non-denominational status I have. And
• 22:29
  and it offended me. It's nuts. It's BS
• 22:32
  to put who the hell you think you are.
• 22:34
  Apparently, he thinks he's God. And at
• 22:38
  least the god emperor. I can't imagine
• 22:40
  he hasn't taken my title yet. And uh,
• 22:42
  you know, we're changing the names of
• 22:44
  the war department. Maybe he could be
• 22:47
  the god of war. Uh, other people wonder
• 22:50
  whether the bedwritten fix figure was
• 22:52
  Jeffrey Epstein. We just wonder, you
• 22:55
  know, it's um strange. Uh a mixed up,
• 23:00
  muddled up, shook up world that is for
• 23:05
  sure.
• 23:07
  Uh I want to tell you what my belief is
• 23:10
  on what happens after this uh blockade.
• 23:14
  Okay, let's say let's say that the the
• 23:17
  blockade goes on. Now, lots of people
• 23:19
  are uh up in arms about this. Think
• 23:22
  about this. China. Think about who are
• 23:25
  we trying to beat up the most on? Okay.
• 23:27
  And who by the way is this affecting the
• 23:29
  least? Okay. It is going to affect
• 23:31
  China. It is affecting India. It's
• 23:34
  affecting people that we really don't
• 23:36
  want it to affect. It's it's it's uh
• 23:39
  forcing some activity and it's fact
• 23:43
  affecting it much much much
• 23:47
  uh more than Trump believed it would in
• 23:49
  the beginning. The economy of the world
• 23:52
  is on fire and uh it is not going to end
• 23:57
  well. There are countries already empty
• 24:01
  have no no fuel, nothing. They they uh
• 24:04
  are are pricing it is so expensive.
• 24:07
  There are protests all over Europe.
• 24:09
  There are protest Europe's got it really
• 24:11
  bad because they can only buy the stuff
• 24:13
  from us. Where else? They can't get it
• 24:15
  through Straits of Hormuz. They uh they
• 24:17
  not going to get it through the Suez
• 24:18
  Canal because people are going to block
• 24:20
  that. They're not going to get it
• 24:21
  through the Red Sea. They're not going
• 24:23
  to get it through the Black Sea. They're
• 24:24
  not going to get it through the
• 24:25
  Mediterranean. I'm telling you, things
• 24:27
  are are are really going to hell in a
• 24:29
  hand basket fast economically. And we
• 24:33
  aren't uh an isolated uh pillar of hope
• 24:37
  in America financially. Uh our uh GDP
• 24:42
  was adjusted down to 0.24 or something
• 24:44
  like that from last year. was 4.0
• 24:47
  and it's going down and uh uh you know
• 24:50
  everybody wants to say Trump is going to
• 24:52
  repair the economy and fix all the
• 24:54
  stuff. I and and you know what I was for
• 24:57
  it but I believe he's lost the path and
• 25:00
  and and he certainly doesn't have a
• 25:01
  path. I was for a few of the things that
• 25:04
  he was doing. And I was never totally
• 25:05
  for terrorists in his international
• 25:07
  policy and I didn't think they would
• 25:09
  work the way he wanted. And then when
• 25:10
  the Supreme Court overturned them, he it
• 25:13
  has really created a a big problem. And
• 25:17
  remember what we're trying to do right
• 25:19
  now with the Straits of Hormuz, what the
• 25:21
  war really is and what Iran is pushing.
• 25:26
  So the Straits of Hormuz are how many
• 25:28
  miles across? 21 at the widest point? 21
• 25:32
  miles across.
• 25:34
  And uh Oman's on one side, Iran's on the
• 25:36
  other. Okay, at this narrowest point,
• 25:40
  it's full of mines. There are paths that
• 25:42
  you have to get through. The uh there
• 25:44
  are no warships, American warships in
• 25:46
  the area. And uh where are they going to
• 25:49
  block them from? You know why the
• 25:51
  American warships and destroyers won't
• 25:52
  go in there? Cuz it's only 21 miles
• 25:56
  across. They're not going to go in
• 25:58
  there. Certainly not during a time war.
• 26:01
  They're not going to go in there because
• 26:04
  they know that their that their defenses
• 26:07
  against a mass swarm of drones
• 26:12
  isn't what it ought to be. And what are
• 26:15
  they going to do? Have guys on the on
• 26:17
  the on the uh aircraft carrier shooting
• 26:20
  them out of the sky with with guns. Uh
• 26:23
  they don't have the ability to take them
• 26:25
  all down at once. And it's a uh
• 26:27
  logistical portion. Uh mostly it's a uh
• 26:31
  defensible it's it's not a defensible
• 26:34
  position to send in American uh
• 26:37
  destroyers, American uh
• 26:41
  uh fighter uh jets on um
• 26:46
  platforms, you know, floating floating
• 26:49
  platforms. It's uh it's not a good deal.
• 26:52
  And I told you before about Iranian
• 26:54
  subs, the little mini subs that are
• 26:56
  they're not virtually undetectable, but
• 26:58
  they're very hard to find uh when you
• 27:00
  get there. And so now the block the
• 27:04
  block of the straits moves blocks off
• 27:06
  gas to the rest of the world from the
• 27:08
  most vital po portion of the world that
• 27:11
  needs to supply it and Trump's doing
• 27:15
  that. Okay? So you cut it off already.
• 27:17
  the trickles are only going into certain
• 27:19
  countries and Trump, you know, he's free
• 27:22
  to blockade wherever he wants according
• 27:23
  to himself. He's blocking uh Venezuela.
• 27:27
  He's blocking Cuba now. He's blocking
• 27:29
  Hormuz. He wants to block every port in
• 27:31
  Iran. He wants to do all these things.
• 27:34
  And the the fight is
• 27:37
  because
• 27:38
  those
• 27:40
  that are being allowed through are
• 27:43
  paying Iran in yuan, the Chinese
• 27:46
  currency. All of the shipping that is
• 27:50
  coming out of there is being paid for in
• 27:52
  Chinese currency. This is going to tank
• 27:54
  the US markets, which it's already done
• 27:57
  in in that regard. And it's going to get
• 28:00
  worse.
• 28:02
  And uh you know Russia is now finishing
• 28:05
  is just finished recently. Uh
• 28:09
  Russia right now it's it's finishing up
• 28:11
  the final touches right now. They're
• 28:13
  finishing a new pipeline to China right
• 28:16
  now. Construction will end this year
• 28:18
  with gas flow, liquid natural gas
• 28:22
  beginning in January of 27.
• 28:24
  And that one pipe is why Europe is
• 28:27
  paying triple prices for energy. why the
• 28:30
  US dollar is getting pushed a shot aside
• 28:32
  and why China is solving one of its own
• 28:36
  biggest energy nightmares. Right? What
• 28:39
  is actually being built here is the Far
• 28:41
  Eastern route pipeline from Sakalene
• 28:44
  Islands to northeast China. Construction
• 28:48
  will finish in 2026. The pipe will carry
• 28:51
  12 billion cubic meters of gas a year.
• 28:56
  Originally it was only 10 billion.
• 28:59
  Russia and China agreed to boost
• 29:01
  capacity by 20%. Why? Because China
• 29:07
  asked. That's why um two state giants,
• 29:12
  one of is Russia's Gazprom
• 29:15
  and the other one is China's National
• 29:17
  Petroleum Corporation
• 29:20
  that runs the side in China. two giants,
• 29:24
  12 billion cubic meters is huge. But the
• 29:27
  real story is a little bit different
• 29:28
  than that. The pipeline is the smallest
• 29:31
  piece smallest piece of a much larger
• 29:36
  machine. The far eastern route is only
• 29:39
  the warm-up round because behind the far
• 29:42
  eastern route sits Power of Siberia 1.
• 29:46
  Now, I've been following this one for a
• 29:48
  while. Power of Siberia 1 is already
• 29:51
  pumping 38.8
• 29:54
  billion cubic meters per year to China,
• 29:58
  800 million above what Russia was uh was
• 30:03
  originally going to provide. And it's at
• 30:06
  full capacity every single day of every
• 30:09
  single year. And there's Power of
• 30:12
  Siberia 2 that they signed late last
• 30:15
  year. I did an entire program on it for
• 30:17
  you.
• 30:19
  Power of Siberia 2 was well I think they
• 30:21
  signed it in August, September,
• 30:23
  something like that. And uh uh that one
• 30:26
  is going to be 50 billion cubic meters
• 30:29
  per year and it will cross Mongolia to
• 30:32
  get to China. So Mongolia will get some
• 30:35
  out of there too. Excuse me. And that's
• 30:37
  a beautiful area down there by the way.
• 30:41
  4,000 kilometers of pipe construction is
• 30:45
  has started already and the far eastern
• 30:48
  route 12 billion power of Siberia 3 38.8
• 30:52
  8 billion, right? Power of Siberia 2, 50
• 30:56
  billion. By the early 2030s,
• 30:59
  Russia will be sending China over 100
• 31:02
  billion cubic meters annually.
• 31:07
  That's the same volume Russia used to
• 31:09
  send to Europe before the Ukraine war.
• 31:13
  Nice and cheap, good gas, and the end
• 31:16
  and and through Ukraine. Ukraine made
• 31:18
  piles of money off it. Ukraine doesn't
• 31:20
  have its own gas. They have to get it
• 31:22
  from US as well. This is foolishness on
• 31:25
  everybody's count. You're going to pay
• 31:27
  triple for what you got. Europe cut off
• 31:30
  Russian gas. Russia turned to the east
• 31:33
  and found a bigger, hungrier customer.
• 31:35
  And by the way, they're they're they're
• 31:38
  uh dealing with India as well. They're
• 31:40
  shifting totally Southeast Asia with
• 31:42
  their energy needs because Southeast
• 31:45
  Asia Trump tries to cut off from the
• 31:47
  Straits of Hormuz because he don't want
• 31:49
  them paying in bricks currency which is
• 31:51
  the yuan basically or the the ruble.
• 31:54
  Half of Russia's uh funds are paid to
• 31:58
  them in ruble half are paid in the
• 32:00
  rupee. I'm sorry that if it comes from
• 32:03
  India and from China it comes from the
• 32:04
  yuan. And so that, you know, here's
• 32:09
  here's why the customer China uh is is
• 32:12
  is hungry anyway. You know, they're they
• 32:15
  have the the largest
• 32:17
  industrial capacity on the planet, which
• 32:20
  we helped formulate. 70% of child's oil
• 32:24
  oil imports pass through one narrow
• 32:28
  straight that it's controlled by who?
• 32:30
  The US Navy. That's a nightmare for
• 32:33
  China, right? That's a Chinese problem.
• 32:36
  Um, and because they don't like it. They
• 32:39
  don't like that. They don't want to be
• 32:40
  controlled by the United States. And so
• 32:43
  they're not. But that nightmare China
• 32:46
  saw as a vulnerability.
• 32:48
  Uh, and so most of its imported energy
• 32:52
  arrived by sea. 70% of its crude passes
• 32:56
  through the straits of Malaa. That's a
• 32:58
  narrow the one I was trying to remember
• 33:00
  the other day between Malaysia and
• 33:02
  Indonesia to get to there 70%. And if
• 33:06
  the US Navy ever decides to block that
• 33:08
  straight, China's economy would grind to
• 33:10
  a halt. Factories would close. Military'
• 33:13
  be out of fuel. Prices will spike. Uh
• 33:16
  Chinese officials call this the Malaa
• 33:19
  dilemma. And they've called it that for
• 33:21
  more than 20 years. Landbased pipelines
• 33:24
  between Russia and China
• 33:27
  eliminate that risk. So a pipe buried in
• 33:30
  the ground delivering gas every single
• 33:33
  day. That's why Russia's gas matters
• 33:36
  more than the price. It's about national
• 33:40
  ability to uh uh diversify to have oil.
• 33:46
  Right now, Russia's gas makes up only
• 33:49
  20% of China's total gas imports. But
• 33:53
  when Siberia uh 2, power of Siberia 2 is
• 33:57
  online, the number's going to go way up.
• 34:00
  China will get more energy security and
• 34:03
  Russia gets a pretty much a captive
• 34:05
  audience. And the US notably loses what?
• 34:10
  Dollars that it used to get from
• 34:12
  Beijing. But mostly it loses its most
• 34:16
  powerful lever over Beijing. What about
• 34:20
  the sides that uh Europe that walked
• 34:23
  away from Russian gas completely?
• 34:27
  Same thing happens to them. China's busy
• 34:29
  locking in cheap gas and Europe made a
• 34:31
  very different choice.
• 34:34
  Very different. Before the Ukraine war,
• 34:36
  Russia supplied 40% of Europe's gas.
• 34:39
  40%.
• 34:42
  Today that number is 13%. They say that
• 34:45
  next year it's only going to be 5% and
• 34:47
  it's going to be blocked off for good in
• 34:50
  2027. They're banning all Russian
• 34:52
  pipeline gas by September 2027, which
• 34:55
  has been going on since the Soviet era,
• 34:58
  these huge pipelines built from before.
• 35:01
  And uh that now so Turkey gets it
• 35:03
  through Turk stream. Um there's another
• 35:05
  stream, I forget the name of it, that
• 35:06
  goes through uh to to cover places like
• 35:09
  Serbia and places like that to come up
• 35:11
  through Greece. Um so Europe is instead,
• 35:14
  what are they doing? They're buying
• 35:16
  American liquid natural gas shipped
• 35:19
  across the Atlantic and it's very
• 35:24
  expensive. In early 2025, the EU paid an
• 35:28
  average of a a euro and 8 cents per
• 35:31
  cubic meter.
• 35:33
  In 2025, Russian LNG is only 51 cents of
• 35:40
  that euro. So half a euro. So Europe is
• 35:43
  paying more than double
• 35:46
  uh
• 35:48
  in Europe is you know that's more than
• 35:50
  double. Europe is paying triple for the
• 35:53
  gas that China gets cheaper through a
• 35:56
  pipe and and then they have to have it
• 35:58
  shipped which in adds all kinds of costs
• 36:02
  and so you know Europeans they don't
• 36:04
  have any manufacturing competitiveness
• 36:07
  they're shutting down Volkswagen
• 36:09
  factories after you know 70 years or
• 36:13
  whatever it was. Um meanwhile Russia
• 36:17
  hasn't felt any loss at all. they just
• 36:20
  shifted to another market and they
• 36:23
  already replaced Europe with a much
• 36:24
  bigger customer. And uh but the real war
• 36:27
  is not over the gas, it's over the money
• 36:29
  that they use to buy it because all of
• 36:32
  the stuff that they the reason for this
• 36:35
  Europe says, "Well, Russia needs our
• 36:37
  dollars. They have to have our dollars
• 36:39
  or they're going to they're going to
• 36:40
  fail miserably." Russia says, "No, not
• 36:42
  really. We get the yuan. They have their
• 36:45
  own payment mechanisms." And I'm telling
• 36:47
  you, people are flocking to these
• 36:49
  payment mechanisms. I've been saying it
• 36:51
  forever. Some people are saying it's
• 36:53
  going to cause the the dollar and the
• 36:55
  world market to collapse. And who's
• 36:57
  going to step in to save it? It isn't
• 36:58
  going to be the US because nobody's
• 37:00
  going to lay on us any money and we're
• 37:01
  not going to be able to borrow anymore.
• 37:03
  We already dropped to a double A rating
• 37:05
  instead of a AAA. Um, so where are we
• 37:07
  going to get it? And when we get it,
• 37:09
  it's going to cost us more. What are we
• 37:11
  going to do? We're going to print more.
• 37:12
  What does that cause? Inflation. And
• 37:14
  it's going to it's not going to be good.
• 37:16
  People are frightened over this
• 37:17
  economically.
• 37:19
  You know, I'm
• 37:21
  I'm not happy with it. You know, there's
• 37:23
  some real uh this this is nonsense.
• 37:26
  These pipelines are priced only in yuan
• 37:30
  and rubles. No dollars involved.
• 37:34
  What's happening with Russian payments
• 37:36
  and gas flowing to China? It's paid for
• 37:38
  in 50% rubles and 50% yuan. Not a single
• 37:42
  US dollar goes through that transaction.
• 37:46
  across all Russia and China trade, not
• 37:48
  just gas. Now over 95% bypasses the
• 37:52
  dollar completely. They have built their
• 37:55
  own payment system, their own banks, and
• 37:57
  their own rules, their own insurance
• 37:59
  companies. Why do you think London is so
• 38:02
  up in arms about this and everybody's
• 38:04
  pissed off at Russia because they're not
• 38:07
  even buying insurance through Lloyd's
• 38:08
  London anymore? The only people that
• 38:10
  used to be able to ensure international
• 38:12
  shipping were Lloyd's London. And now,
• 38:15
  now what? Well, some in New York, too.
• 38:18
  But, uh, not anymore. There's insurance
• 38:20
  being provided by others, but they won't
• 38:21
  accept them at their ports. There
• 38:23
  there's all kinds of fights in this area
• 38:25
  on the economics. Trust me, this war
• 38:28
  that we're seeing with Iran, it has
• 38:29
  nothing to do with wanting to liquidate
• 38:32
  the Iranian people. It has to do with
• 38:34
  Trump wanting to steal their oil and
• 38:36
  make them submit just like he is try to
• 38:39
  do in Venezuela, which long term isn't
• 38:41
  going to work either. But uh you know
• 38:44
  it's
• 38:46
  it's all over the dollar hegemony which
• 38:49
  is dying. I've been saying it you know
• 38:51
  for a long time that the dollar is is is
• 38:55
  it's not it's not not going to die.
• 38:56
  It'll always be a currency and it'll
• 38:58
  take a long time to get us there. But
• 39:01
  it's coming. You know it's it's
• 39:03
  certainly coming. People aren't going to
• 39:05
  put up with this. They're just not. And
• 39:07
  uh they're not going to put up with uh
• 39:09
  Lindsey Graham saying you got to fight
• 39:11
  for democracy in Ukraine when we know
• 39:13
  it's not about democracy. They aren't
• 39:15
  going to accept the lies anymore.
• 39:17
  Somebody has finally been put to task
• 39:19
  and have been said to put up or shut up.
• 39:22
  And most of people are putting up.
• 39:24
  They're they're going, "Well, fine.
• 39:25
  Screw you then. Uh we're not going to
• 39:28
  trade in dollars if at all possible."
• 39:30
  And by the way, it's not just uh people
• 39:32
  that are unfriendly towards us. It's uh
• 39:36
  friends too.
• 39:38
  They're diversifying all over Europe.
• 39:41
  They're diversifying in Turkey, Canada.
• 39:43
  Diversifying. And are they using US
• 39:45
  dollars? Not always. So now China and
• 39:49
  Russia have built an off-ramp from this
• 39:51
  system. China gets cheap energy. Russia
• 39:54
  gets paid. And the US dollar is being
• 39:57
  squeezed out of the world's largest
• 40:01
  energy deal. Nobody else has a deal.
• 40:05
  this huge? Nobody. This is the largest
• 40:09
  energy deal. And so where does this
• 40:12
  leave America's own energy ambitions?
• 40:15
  Because guess what? The United States
• 40:18
  just spent billions betting that China
• 40:21
  would keep buying gas from us. And that
• 40:24
  bet is falling apart. America has built
• 40:28
  massive LNG export terminals uh thinking
• 40:31
  they were going to sell it to China. and
• 40:33
  China just is stopping to buy stopped
• 40:36
  buying it.
• 40:39
  Let's look at that the numbers. In the
• 40:41
  first eight months of 2025,
• 40:43
  China's LNG imports dropped from the US
• 40:47
  dropped 18%.
• 40:49
  Why?
• 40:51
  Because Russian pipeline gas is cheaper
• 40:54
  and arrives over land.
• 40:57
  US currently supplies only about 5% of
• 41:01
  China's LNG.
• 41:04
  That number is about to fall even
• 41:06
  further. The Far Eastern route alone
• 41:08
  adds 12 billion cubic meters per year uh
• 41:12
  power of Serbia will add another 50
• 41:14
  billion and that gas uh no longer has to
• 41:17
  be purchased uh by ship from America.
• 41:21
  The LNG exporters spent a decade and
• 41:23
  billions of dollars building terminals,
• 41:26
  infrastructure, and now they have to
• 41:28
  sell it all to Europe. They were betting
• 41:29
  on Chinese demand and and their
• 41:32
  business, but the Russian pipelines are
• 41:35
  undercutting them on price and delivery.
• 41:37
  A ship from the Gulf Coast takes a month
• 41:40
  to reach China. A pipeline gas is
• 41:44
  delivered in days, cheaper, faster,
• 41:47
  unblockable by the Navy. So you got to
• 41:51
  do a direct attack on one of them or the
• 41:53
  other of them to destroy their supply.
• 41:56
  Uh so the US LNG boom was built on the
• 41:59
  assumption that China is going to keep
• 42:01
  on buying it and that assumption is now
• 42:04
  wrong.
• 42:05
  But here's the twist with that. Even if
• 42:07
  this uh even with all this leverage,
• 42:10
  Russia isn't uh and China aren't
• 42:13
  rushing. So, you know, they they signed
• 42:17
  this agreement in September 25, but
• 42:19
  China is still trying to push Russia
• 42:21
  further and get a better price. Russia
• 42:23
  has other other customers, Turkey,
• 42:26
  Central Asia, Global LNG. China has
• 42:29
  other suppliers too. Qatar, Australia,
• 42:31
  Turk Manistan. Uh there are two large
• 42:33
  economies trying to fight this off. And
• 42:35
  Power of Siberia 1 is flowing at record
• 42:38
  levels. Power of Siberia 2 is on its
• 42:42
  way. And they've agreed to the route
• 42:44
  upon uh Mongolia.
• 42:48
  All right, sir. How may I help you this
• 42:50
  morning?
• 42:54
  >> Unblockable.
• 42:54
  >> You have to turn me down.
• 42:58
  >> Hey,
• 43:01
  are you with me?
• 43:04
  Hello.
• 43:07
  >> Hey, can you hear me?
• 43:08
  >> I I can hear you. What's going on?
• 43:12
  Oh, hey. I I don't I don't know that
• 43:15
  it'll take forever for the uh dollar to
• 43:18
  be worthless if um
• 43:19
  >> Well, I didn't say the dollar would be
• 43:21
  worth That's That's not what I said. I
• 43:23
  didn't say the dollar would be
• 43:24
  worthless.
• 43:25
  >> I said it's no longer going to have
• 43:27
  >> There's a possibility that happens
• 43:29
  pretty fast.
• 43:30
  >> Well, I I I think we're we're headed
• 43:32
  toward a huge correction. That's what I
• 43:34
  think.
• 43:36
  Well, if there's if there's lots of
• 43:39
  quote dollars and uh
• 43:43
  everybody with big assets is is uh
• 43:46
  trying to get away from the dollar, then
• 43:49
  uh only one stuck with just dollars is
• 43:52
  uh poor people.
• 43:54
  >> Well, that's right. It's the US and uh
• 43:56
  uh and people aren't buying US.
• 43:58
  >> We don't have anything to produce.
• 44:00
  >> No. if we don't have anything to produce
• 44:01
  or or any commodities to sell or or uh
• 44:06
  any any services to provide. No, this
• 44:09
  you you know and this this is why way
• 44:12
  back when I've I was always
• 44:15
  uh pretty much pro Trump at least
• 44:18
  nationally because he was starting to
• 44:21
  look inward and not try to control the
• 44:23
  rest of the world trying to develop our
• 44:26
  capacity because we're one of only two
• 44:28
  countries in the world that can
• 44:30
  basically supply all of our own energy
• 44:34
  and all of our own needs internally. Not
• 44:37
  without a refineries.
• 44:39
  >> Well, well, I agree. But, but I all I
• 44:42
  mean is resource-wise. Resource wise.
• 44:47
  Resources.
• 44:48
  Remember him saying we have we have our
• 44:50
  own lumber. We don't have lumber. We
• 44:52
  have trees. Uh wood gets gets processed
• 44:56
  before it gets sold. You know what I'm
• 44:58
  saying? We don't we don't have tire
• 45:00
  factories. We we can't
• 45:03
  we can't isolate
• 45:05
  if we don't have any any electronics or
• 45:08
  any any tires or any gas refineries or
• 45:12
  >> right we've diversified everything out
• 45:15
  of the country and but what I what my
• 45:18
  point was is that Trump when he was
• 45:20
  running for office said that it's time
• 45:22
  to bring that back. When I when I think
• 45:24
  about and I'm not one of the MAGA guys
• 45:26
  that runs around wearing a hat. I don't
• 45:29
  do that. But when they talked about make
• 45:31
  America great, I I was always pretty
• 45:33
  much for the concept of bringing
• 45:37
  manufacturing and industrial capacity
• 45:39
  back to the United States because we've
• 45:41
  exported it all over the world. All of
• 45:44
  our auto manufacturing basically went to
• 45:46
  uh Mexico. Um all of our manufacturing
• 45:51
  manufacturing went to China and and uh
• 45:55
  Vietnam wherever all our textiles are
• 45:58
  all way over. We don't have anything
• 45:59
  anymore.
• 46:00
  >> Sir, my my point is my point is if if
• 46:03
  you're going to make a m if if you're
• 46:04
  intend if you're uh earnest in your
• 46:07
  intentions, you you set it up first. You
• 46:11
  see what I'm saying?
• 46:12
  >> Mhm.
• 46:14
  >> Yeah. Well, we may be too late for that.
• 46:16
  You could be right. in in 2015 when he
• 46:19
  said that uh he was going to make
• 46:20
  America great again, I knew right away
• 46:23
  he started off with uh he liked uh tax
• 46:26
  loopholes and uh he he was going to do
• 46:29
  he's going to give us trickle down and I
• 46:31
  was like oh hell here we go. And so my
• 46:34
  idea make America great again is there
• 46:37
  should be a lot of concrete factories uh
• 46:40
  pe people building heavy equipment for
• 46:42
  for roads you know steel factory. See,
• 46:46
  I've had similar commentary on that
• 46:48
  because the rest of the world through
• 46:50
  China and China's belts and roads has
• 46:53
  been building infrastructure
• 46:56
  and and they've been building
• 46:57
  infrastructure between countries and we
• 47:00
  got nothing here. We can't build a road
• 47:02
  from from anywhere, you know, a
• 47:05
  highspeed rail, you know, can't do it
• 47:07
  and everywhere else the world is doing
• 47:09
  it right now.
• 47:11
  China's steel industry uh they produce
• 47:16
  35 times what what we do and uh they
• 47:18
  they have all kinds of super alloys and
• 47:21
  stuff. I know
• 47:21
  >> and uh uh China has has two two parts of
• 47:27
  the economy. They have a private economy
• 47:29
  and then they have stuff they consider
• 47:32
  uh vital interests or
• 47:33
  >> state state run interests huge
• 47:36
  >> and and and the country
• 47:39
  invest money in that stuff and what I
• 47:42
  keep telling people around here is you
• 47:45
  can't expect a private company
• 47:48
  to organize good enough to uh compete
• 47:52
  against China and everybody else they
• 47:55
  have to and plus plus the rest of the
• 47:58
  You see what I'm saying?
• 47:59
  >> I I I see exactly what you're saying.
• 48:00
  And by the way, you're absolutely
• 48:02
  correct and uh uh that I've said similar
• 48:05
  things for months is that you can
• 48:07
  disagree with how China is run, how
• 48:10
  Russia is run, but one thing you can't
• 48:12
  disagree with is that they have state
• 48:15
  protected interests. I t talked earlier
• 48:17
  in this program about Gazprom and um the
• 48:20
  Chinese national refineries um that that
• 48:24
  that have this gas companies that these
• 48:26
  two work for themselves. But the those
• 48:28
  aren't private organizations trying to
• 48:30
  make a profit. Those are governmentrun
• 48:34
  industries that pay very well that have
• 48:36
  tons of engineers that are very highly
• 48:39
  uh capitalized, but they're capitalized
• 48:42
  by the government. and uh and the
• 48:44
  government decides how that money will
• 48:47
  work so that you don't have 20 different
• 48:49
  competing. I'm not saying capitalism
• 48:51
  bad, communism good. That's not what I'm
• 48:54
  saying. But there's a there's I'm I'm
• 48:57
  not saying anything like that. But we
• 48:59
  are recognizing right now in America
• 49:02
  that all of the things that we want,
• 49:05
  highspeed rail, huge ports, new airports
• 49:08
  everywhere are not really at an optimum
• 49:12
  capacity for our system
• 49:16
  because our system is so fractured and
• 49:19
  and state rights is what it is. So we
• 49:21
  don't have one global thing and so very
• 49:25
  good points. I thank you.
• 49:28
  All right. Well, and uh so Trump says um
• 49:32
  we're probably going to need 1.5
• 49:34
  trillion next year.
• 49:36
  Nobody Nobody Nobody batting the
• 49:38
  eyeball.
• 49:39
  >> No, no, no, no, no. And that's a that's
• 49:41
  a a 60% incre Well, it's 160% increase
• 49:45
  cuz last year it was only uh just under
• 49:48
  900,000. So you're going to add 600
• 49:50
  that's 66%
• 49:52
  on top of what you had last year. And
• 49:54
  now, by the way, they ask for another
• 49:56
  200 billion for Iran. And that's just
• 49:58
  the beginning.
• 49:59
  >> Yeah. Yeah. That that was before
• 50:02
  >> that was before all this. That was a
• 50:03
  month ago almost.
• 50:04
  >> He want He wanted He wanted 200 billion
• 50:06
  right now. We need
• 50:08
  >> 200 billion.
• 50:10
  >> It is. This is not going to end well.
• 50:12
  We're we're almost to 40 trillion and
• 50:14
  and and it's uh not going to get
• 50:16
  smaller. And by the way, nobody's buying
• 50:19
  American debt anymore except people were
• 50:21
  forcing to buy it. Well, well, that's
• 50:24
  what I was saying is uh the uh the
• 50:27
  dollar will come crashing down when it
• 50:29
  when it doesn't represent anything.
• 50:31
  >> It's truly possible. It's possible. Um I
• 50:34
  saw a couple of shows.
• 50:36
  >> Well, I you you might be right. I still
• 50:39
  try to hold out some hope for the other.
• 50:41
  And I listened to a Russian economist uh
• 50:44
  what the hell was his name? It was a
• 50:45
  really good show and I I actually have
• 50:47
  it here as one of my topics for today.
• 50:50
  um Kazin uh Mikail Khazin and he's a
• 50:53
  really good really smart guy and uh and
• 50:55
  I like listening to him and he talks
• 50:57
  about the global economic stuff just
• 50:59
  like just like what we're doing right
• 51:01
  now only he's an econ now I'm an
• 51:03
  economist I got an economics degree but
• 51:05
  that don't mean anything this guy has
• 51:07
  worked in economics his entire life
• 51:10
  right and he uh and I understand the
• 51:12
  concepts but he he gets it you know he's
• 51:14
  like a Jeffrey Sachs level but in Russia
• 51:17
  and he's a really smart guy and uh So
• 51:19
  he's talking about some of the exact
• 51:21
  same things that I I believe that the
• 51:25
  dollar is going to sticker. I mean
• 51:27
  dollar is going to be around forever
• 51:28
  just like the British pound which take
• 51:30
  took a beat and they switched to the
• 51:32
  euro then they switched back to the
• 51:33
  pound and and all that. There's there's
• 51:37
  >> these common things with all the debt
• 51:39
  are what's going to kick our kick us
• 51:41
  right in the in the in the dudads and
• 51:45
  we're going to be in in some trouble.
• 51:47
  But I don't think it's the end of the
• 51:50
  dollar that I don't think I think we go
• 51:52
  back to being a minor currency. Not back
• 51:54
  to we go back to being a regular world
• 51:56
  currency and people are going to start
• 51:58
  because everybody's recognized from all
• 52:00
  this Ukraine BS. All this uh Iran now BS
• 52:04
  there, it's an even bigger lesson.
• 52:06
  What's what the US is doing in
• 52:08
  Venezuela, it's that you cannot trust
• 52:10
  what America is going to do because
• 52:12
  rules don't apply to us. We we make them
• 52:15
  up as we go along. and uh and we to do
• 52:18
  whatever power does just like people
• 52:20
  have done. Sorry to interrupt. Go ahead.
• 52:24
  >> Yeah. Yeah, I interrupt you, but but uh
• 52:27
  uh I I think most of the world's already
• 52:29
  known that I think I think the uh
• 52:31
  general population of America is
• 52:33
  starting to starting to figure it out.
• 52:35
  >> They may be starting to figure it out
• 52:37
  that uh that we have been building our
• 52:39
  economy on the backs of the rest of the
• 52:42
  world and that is ending.
• 52:44
  >> I very much appreciate your call. Thank
• 52:46
  you.
• 52:48
  >> All right. Goodbye.
• 52:49
  >> Have a good day.
• 52:51
  And there he goes. As they say on some
• 52:53
  channels in or some shows on this very
• 52:56
  station. So, uh, let's talk about that
• 52:58
  pipeline going through Mongolia, though,
• 53:00
  because from Mongolia, that pipeline's
• 53:02
  going to mean what? That's going to mean
• 53:04
  some income for them because they get
• 53:06
  transit. They get what Ukraine used to
• 53:08
  get. They get transit fees and they get
• 53:10
  to suck it off for themselves. And
• 53:12
  Mongolia is not backward. I haven't been
• 53:14
  there yet, but I've seen some beautiful
• 53:16
  things and I really wish to go. I'm
• 53:18
  hoping. So, this year the India has the
• 53:21
  bricks conference and I'm trying to
• 53:22
  figure that out. It's in October and I
• 53:24
  really want to go and uh I'm setting
• 53:27
  that up. I got to get my press
• 53:28
  credentials um uh accepted by them. Uh
• 53:32
  and then I can go. It's got to be
• 53:34
  through their foreign ministry or
• 53:35
  whatever. And so far their instructions
• 53:37
  are pretty vague. But I'm I'm trying to
• 53:39
  set that up now because I think I don't
• 53:41
  want to say the bricks is the answer to
• 53:43
  it all. It's not. But I I'm certainly
• 53:45
  wanting it's not even a defensive
• 53:47
  capability sort of thing or a joint.
• 53:49
  It's not a NATO. It's more of an EU kind
• 53:52
  of thing spread around the world. More
• 53:54
  of an economic u grouping and these
• 53:57
  regional groupings are really going to
• 53:59
  matter and bricks is really going to
• 54:01
  matter. and the fact that China and the
• 54:03
  Shanghai Cooperation Organization and
• 54:05
  all of these two these two things are
• 54:07
  are what you need to watch. Shanghai
• 54:10
  cooperation
• 54:11
  and bricks and uh
• 54:15
  there's some things to talk about in
• 54:16
  there. But the fact that uh US hegemony
• 54:21
  is ending I think is now generally
• 54:24
  accepted. Okay. Now, it wasn't when I
• 54:27
  first started spouting off about it
• 54:29
  several years ago and which is what led
• 54:32
  me to it was about a when I heard that
• 54:35
  the bricks conference was going to be in
• 54:37
  Russia. I'm telling you, I was so
• 54:39
  excited about it. It was about a year
• 54:41
  before. So that that conference was in
• 54:43
  October of 2024 and it was somewhere
• 54:46
  about a year and a half before that that
• 54:48
  I was in Russia during May of 2023 or
• 54:51
  something like that and when I first
• 54:53
  heard about it and and that's when I
• 54:55
  first checked on their website uh to see
• 54:57
  if what was going to happen and that's
• 54:59
  when I first started taking a very big
• 55:02
  interest in bricks and uh and hegemony
• 55:05
  and I'm a talker everybody knows it and
• 55:08
  so when I get in a room with a group of
• 55:10
  people and we get to talk uh politics or
• 55:14
  reality or things like that, I'll do it.
• 55:16
  And I and I try hard not to condemn
• 55:18
  other people's points of view. Um you're
• 55:20
  going to have your points of view. If
• 55:22
  it's an intelligent point of view, I'm
• 55:24
  on your side. I'm with you. You know, I
• 55:26
  may not agree with you, but I'm never
• 55:28
  going to condemn you for it. It's it's
• 55:29
  and I hope you don't condemn me because
• 55:31
  my belief's different from yours. That's
• 55:33
  just the way it is. And you're not
• 55:35
  required to think like I am. And uh or I
• 55:37
  do, you know, you don't have to do that.
• 55:40
  Um, but watching all of this spread out
• 55:43
  and what what is happening is exactly
• 55:46
  what I said would happen years ago
• 55:49
  before I went to the BRICS conference. I
• 55:51
  said, you know, on a big picture
• 55:55
  strategic board where you have all of
• 55:58
  your countries on the map and you watch
• 56:00
  about who's starting to deal with you,
• 56:02
  who and why, and why they're not dealing
• 56:06
  with other people.
• 56:08
  You have to accept as a reality and and
• 56:11
  it's hard not to. Okay, the US, if you
• 56:15
  want to do business with us, what do you
• 56:17
  get? Whether it's Donald Trump or
• 56:19
  anybody else, if you want to do business
• 56:21
  with us, what do you get? You get
• 56:24
  arrogance, you get, well, we're America,
• 56:26
  you know. You want to do business with
• 56:28
  us, you're going to have to concede X.
• 56:31
  You want money from our World Bank,
• 56:33
  you're going to have to do X. You're
• 56:34
  going to have to change this. you're
• 56:36
  going to have to uh start to we it's
• 56:39
  funny because one of the biggest tools
• 56:41
  that we use at the World Bank and the
• 56:44
  International Monetary Fund are these um
• 56:47
  uh austerity measures. We say look you
• 56:52
  have uh you know 10 million people on
• 56:56
  welfare
• 56:57
  that's a lot and we think you should
• 56:59
  lower that amount to 8 million or lower
• 57:02
  the amount you give them from a,000 a
• 57:04
  month down to 800. you know, whatever,
• 57:06
  but you need to lower that. That's
• 57:08
  austerity. You're giving away too much
• 57:09
  of your uh your income to these losers,
• 57:13
  you know, people that why are you g all
• 57:15
  this? We try to push them away from the
• 57:17
  the social programs
• 57:20
  and put them into these so-called
• 57:22
  austerity measures so that we can take
• 57:25
  more of their money. And we've done that
• 57:28
  forever through the IMF and through the
• 57:31
  uh uh World Bank and through uh
• 57:33
  whoever's going to give these people
• 57:35
  loans. And we don't give them
• 57:37
  we don't give them loans to build
• 57:40
  infrastructure. We give them loans to I
• 57:43
  don't know buy food from a next door a
• 57:46
  nextdoor neighbor from another from us,
• 57:48
  you know. We give them loans and then we
• 57:50
  take the money. They have to buy the
• 57:52
  products from us. So, first of all, we
• 57:55
  we direct who you have to bank through,
• 57:58
  where you've got to buy your products
• 58:00
  and whether or not you can uh spend your
• 58:04
  own money in a sovereign way like
• 58:07
  sovereign countries do. Okay. The
• 58:09
  contrast with that is China. China
• 58:12
  doesn't do that. China for for years for
• 58:15
  for at least my lifetime, at least since
• 58:18
  I was in high school in the in the 80s
• 58:23
  uh was that uh
• 58:26
  China
• 58:28
  bought our debt. China and its massive
• 58:32
  growth funded our economy along with
• 58:36
  much of the rest of the world because
• 58:38
  that's where we were exporting our
• 58:40
  capacity to. So that the roaring 8080s
• 58:45
  uh growth in the stock market and in all
• 58:48
  of the commodities and stuff like that
• 58:50
  and people getting massively wealthy for
• 58:53
  doing nothing but uh uh moving money
• 58:56
  around to various places. People were
• 58:58
  learning how to move money around. Well,
• 59:00
  those days aren't able to be reproduced
• 59:04
  anymore because what China and Russia,
• 59:06
  that story I tell you about the energy
• 59:08
  going through in a pipeline.
• 59:11
  They're and the rest of the world is
• 59:13
  watching this intently and Canada even
• 59:17
  is doing it. Canada going to China and
• 59:20
  Donald Trump being pissed off about it.
• 59:22
  He ought to be, but he forced it. It was
• 59:24
  going to happen anyway, but he forced it
• 59:26
  more quickly. And uh you know that we're
• 59:29
  not friends in Europe anymore because
• 59:31
  Europe's doing the same thing. They
• 59:33
  won't buy gas from China from Russia,
• 59:35
  but they'll buy it from China. Where do
• 59:37
  you think China's getting it?
• 59:40
  It's just a big circle because these
• 59:43
  idiots don't want to buy uh straight
• 59:45
  from Russia because you have to have you
• 59:47
  still have to have the westernbased uh
• 59:51
  uh dog whistle. Oh geez, Russia's bad.
• 59:54
  We're good, you know, but China's
• 59:56
  becoming good. Okay. And China's
• 59:58
  becoming good, but what they're doing is
• 1:00:00
  cutting off the debt that they're
• 1:00:02
  buying, unloading American debt in
• 1:00:04
  massive quantities. Every quarter, I
• 1:00:08
  have reported to you at least 60 to 80,
• 1:00:12
  sometimes even 100 billion elimination
• 1:00:15
  of debt or not buying more debt. And the
• 1:00:19
  US can't force China to keep buying
• 1:00:21
  debt. And they're not doing it. And
• 1:00:23
  China's not buying it. and they used to
• 1:00:25
  be the largest. Now Japan's the largest
• 1:00:28
  and we're forcing it on them and they
• 1:00:30
  don't want to buy that much more. They
• 1:00:32
  can't support it. I I gave you stories
• 1:00:34
  about that. They can't support the debt.
• 1:00:36
  The Middle East doesn't want it. And how
• 1:00:38
  were they buying it? They were buying it
• 1:00:40
  through the petro dollar. So they'd get
• 1:00:42
  paid in the petro dollar, which meant
• 1:00:44
  that all petroleum had to be paid for in
• 1:00:46
  dollars. And so that would mean that
• 1:00:49
  they would get all these dollars, but
• 1:00:51
  then they'd have to hold them. So all
• 1:00:52
  the wealth that they held is in dollars
• 1:00:54
  and they're diversifying.
• 1:00:56
  Saudi Arabia is taking you on. UAE is
• 1:01:00
  taking you on. And certainly Iran is
• 1:01:03
  taking you on because they've been
• 1:01:05
  sanctioned. Why? Because they were
• 1:01:07
  taking you on. And so that's this is how
• 1:01:11
  it works. and and the system, the
• 1:01:13
  economic system. I I thought about
• 1:01:15
  reading you this uh Kazine interview
• 1:01:18
  because it was it was very interesting
• 1:01:21
  to watch the entire the entire show and
• 1:01:24
  he's he's well spoken. Anyway, um you
• 1:01:27
  know, let me finish up on this pipeline
• 1:01:30
  through Mongolia and maybe we'll go over
• 1:01:32
  to that to that uh article for you
• 1:01:34
  because uh Mongolia still does maintain
• 1:01:38
  um ties with the US. The pipeline means
• 1:01:42
  those transit fees estimate places those
• 1:01:45
  fees at about a billion dollars a year.
• 1:01:49
  With a country with a GDP of only about
• 1:01:52
  20 billion, that's huge. Mongolia still
• 1:01:55
  has ties with the US, Japan, and South
• 1:01:57
  Korea, what they call third neighbors.
• 1:02:00
  That be because they're right between
• 1:02:02
  they're surrounded by Russia and China.
• 1:02:06
  And that balancing act does make Russia
• 1:02:09
  and China cautious as far as putting a
• 1:02:12
  uh pipeline through there. And they
• 1:02:14
  haven't they haven't started digging in
• 1:02:16
  Mongolia yet. And there's talk about
• 1:02:18
  rerouting the pipeline through
• 1:02:20
  Kazakhstan if Mongolia becomes too
• 1:02:22
  difficult to work with. I think
• 1:02:24
  ultimately it'll be in both places. And
• 1:02:26
  Kazakhstan is freaking beautiful and it
• 1:02:28
  is uh uh re it is having a revival of
• 1:02:32
  sorts, you know. It is it's a beautiful
• 1:02:34
  country anyway and uh it's beautiful
• 1:02:38
  people. I I love it over there and uh
• 1:02:40
  I'd love to go back and uh and and see
• 1:02:43
  it. I mean, you know, of course I love a
• 1:02:45
  lot of places and I'd like to get to
• 1:02:47
  more. You know, that's country number 54
• 1:02:49
  or something and I'm on 57 now and uh uh
• 1:02:52
  hopefully going to get to a couple more
• 1:02:54
  this year. Uh the memorandum signed be
• 1:02:57
  with Mongolia in September 25 does
• 1:03:00
  include Mongolia, but that right route
• 1:03:02
  is not final until construction begins.
• 1:03:06
  And Mongolia has to accept that they're
• 1:03:08
  going to get paid in yuan and rubble and
• 1:03:10
  not any dollars. They're not going to be
• 1:03:11
  they'll have to convert that money into
• 1:03:13
  dollars some other way. And they also
• 1:03:16
  face pressure from the US
• 1:03:19
  to and from Russia and from China, you
• 1:03:21
  know, and it brings the the attention of
• 1:03:24
  these two superpowers
• 1:03:26
  into Mongolia or into Kazakhstan either
• 1:03:29
  way. So, so what could still delay or
• 1:03:33
  cancel this particular project that the
• 1:03:35
  state of the play is the Far Eastern
• 1:03:37
  route is being built right now. Power of
• 1:03:39
  Siberia 2 is being negotiated and going
• 1:03:41
  to be done, but the physical one is is
• 1:03:44
  operating right now. Power of Siberia 1
• 1:03:47
  12 um uh what was that number? 12
• 1:03:50
  billion uh um
• 1:03:53
  uh what do you call them?
• 1:03:57
  12 billion cubic meters of gas a year.
• 1:04:01
  And I thought it was meters, but I
• 1:04:03
  forgot the cubic part, so I had to go
• 1:04:05
  back and read it. Um, at any rate, the
• 1:04:07
  Far Eastern route is being built. And by
• 1:04:09
  the way, this is uh these are just
• 1:04:13
  occurrences. These are facts. And you
• 1:04:16
  don't have to agree with the conclusions
• 1:04:18
  that I come to because of these facts,
• 1:04:21
  but these are facts. And people aren't
• 1:04:24
  talking about them a lot. When you, you
• 1:04:25
  know, when you hear about the Straits of
• 1:04:27
  Hormuz, guess who else? Russia has a
• 1:04:30
  common border with Iran and uh uh and
• 1:04:35
  and by by default that means Iran,
• 1:04:38
  China, Russia, they're all connected.
• 1:04:41
  Now, people are saying that they have
• 1:04:42
  that if Iran can hold out, which by all
• 1:04:46
  accounts they plan to. I mean, the fact
• 1:04:47
  that they didn't come to an agreement
• 1:04:49
  over the weekend has Trump all up in
• 1:04:51
  arms and and he he has to uh he has to
• 1:04:54
  continue to posture and up the ante.
• 1:04:56
  Well, fine then. I'll block all of them.
• 1:04:58
  Okay. So what are we fighting for in
• 1:05:00
  Iran? We were fighting for no nukes. Uh
• 1:05:02
  then we were fighting for the the
• 1:05:04
  Straits of Hormuz to open because nobody
• 1:05:06
  picked that. The Straits of Hormuz were
• 1:05:08
  open before. They were open before this
• 1:05:10
  war ever started. Nobody had to pay a
• 1:05:12
  nickel. It was never there. It's never
• 1:05:14
  even been questioned. Well, now people
• 1:05:16
  are questioning why is it that you are
• 1:05:19
  allowed to charge a fee in the Suez
• 1:05:21
  Canal, charge a fee in the in the Malaca
• 1:05:24
  Straits, charge a fee in Panama, charge
• 1:05:27
  a fee to go through the Great Lakes, any
• 1:05:29
  of these other common waters that you're
• 1:05:31
  charging a fee from, but but other
• 1:05:33
  countries, Iran and uh uh Oman cannot uh
• 1:05:37
  charge a fee to go through the Straits
• 1:05:38
  of Hormuz. It's ludicrous. I mean, level
• 1:05:41
  playing field, fellows. you know, we we
• 1:05:44
  got to have a level playing field and we
• 1:05:46
  don't, you know, uh and now Trump is
• 1:05:48
  going to try to force that issue. And
• 1:05:49
  so, what's he going to do? He's going to
• 1:05:51
  destroy a civilization. That's what he
• 1:05:54
  says. And and and I'm telling you, he's
• 1:05:57
  losing the in the in the court of public
• 1:05:59
  opinion. He is losing a huge swath. And
• 1:06:03
  uh I think the Victor Orbin thing
• 1:06:06
  occurring over the weekend. I don't
• 1:06:08
  think that the Trump uh uh support of
• 1:06:12
  Orbin helped much. I don't think so. I
• 1:06:17
  think uh the young people uh they said
• 1:06:19
  there was a huge turnout and the young
• 1:06:22
  people all want Europe. They all want
• 1:06:24
  their social free this and free that.
• 1:06:27
  And uh uh and all the globalists, you
• 1:06:30
  know, they want to keep up with that
• 1:06:31
  freedom. They still want Europe as the
• 1:06:33
  uh as the global superpower uh like the
• 1:06:36
  United States. It's not. But uh uh they
• 1:06:40
  think Trump is a short-term problem and
• 1:06:43
  uh we'll get back to business as usual
• 1:06:46
  as soon as another uh another person
• 1:06:48
  comes in and then maybe they'll go back
• 1:06:51
  to uh following America's lead
• 1:06:53
  everywhere they go. But nobody's willing
• 1:06:55
  to right now. And frankly, I don't blame
• 1:06:58
  them. you know, some of the some of the
• 1:07:00
  mistakes that I'm being seen that I am
• 1:07:02
  seeing being made. You don't have to
• 1:07:04
  agree with me. A lot of people don't.
• 1:07:05
  That's that's fine by me. But uh uh I I
• 1:07:09
  think it's important to uh to discuss
• 1:07:12
  this stuff. Uh what else did we want to
• 1:07:15
  put on uh on the Hungary thing? You
• 1:07:17
  know, Trump casting himself as a Jesus.
• 1:07:19
  I already did that. That's crazy. Um
• 1:07:22
  there was another guy that uh
• 1:07:26
  uh there was another huge
• 1:07:30
  um what do you call it?
• 1:07:35
  Beating uh you know uh two things that I
• 1:07:39
  wanted to talk about in Ukraine.
• 1:07:41
  Ukrainian draft enforcers, you ought to
• 1:07:43
  see this video, beat and drag a man from
• 1:07:47
  his apartment. And uh there's a video of
• 1:07:50
  it circulating on Telegram. It is not
• 1:07:52
  good. And uh people are all up in arms
• 1:07:55
  about it because they're still doing it.
• 1:07:58
  They're dragging people out, beating the
• 1:08:00
  crap out of them, sending them to the
• 1:08:01
  front to die. They're still dying in big
• 1:08:04
  numbers, you know, huge. And um it's not
• 1:08:09
  good. And if you're if if you think that
• 1:08:12
  Ukraine is fighting for democracy, you
• 1:08:15
  better think again. They're they're
• 1:08:17
  they're fighting to be the place where
• 1:08:19
  the US puts all its money. That's all
• 1:08:22
  this is about is where the US can stand
• 1:08:25
  across the border from Russia and with
• 1:08:28
  our NATO forces and, you know, glare at
• 1:08:33
  Russia in the eye and uh and dream about
• 1:08:37
  how Europe really wants all of Russia's
• 1:08:40
  uh resources. It's a once again resource
• 1:08:43
  war.
• 1:08:45
  Ukraine tried to attack the Russian
• 1:08:48
  space base during the launch of the uh
• 1:08:54
  um
• 1:08:55
  satellites for um internet. So Kiev
• 1:09:01
  orchestrated a do drone raid on Pacets
• 1:09:05
  as Moscow was deploying 16 satellites
• 1:09:08
  two weeks ago. According to Dmitri
• 1:09:10
  Bakanov, Ukraine attempted to strike a
• 1:09:13
  Russian cosmodrome the same day as
• 1:09:15
  rockets carrying the satellites into
• 1:09:17
  orbit was taking off. Russia's space
• 1:09:19
  agency Ross Cosmos confirmed. Speaking
• 1:09:22
  to Russian President Putin, agency head
• 1:09:25
  Dimmitri Bakanov said that an attempted
• 1:09:28
  drone strike on Pacets Cosmodrome in the
• 1:09:30
  northern part of the country was foiled.
• 1:09:32
  Bakhanav, who has led Dascosmos since uh
• 1:09:35
  February of 2025, made the comments
• 1:09:37
  Saturday prior to the Cosminot day,
• 1:09:40
  which was a a big um a big celebration.
• 1:09:43
  It was yesterday, I think. Uh which
• 1:09:45
  marks the first h I did my Russian show
• 1:09:47
  yesterday um in um well, in Russian. I
• 1:09:52
  did it in Russian and I did it here in
• 1:09:53
  the studio and I figured out how to do
• 1:09:55
  it on YouTube at the same time. And so I
• 1:09:58
  was able to go live on YouTube and get
• 1:10:01
  commentary and there were a bunch of
• 1:10:02
  people who because I haven't done it for
• 1:10:04
  a while because um I wanted to do it
• 1:10:07
  here in the studio and I wanted to do it
• 1:10:09
  uh as it occurred and recorded and do
• 1:10:11
  them both same time. one live on damn
• 1:10:13
  radio. And so yesterday morning um I and
• 1:10:16
  I haven't picked a concrete time, but I
• 1:10:18
  really intend to go back to doing my
• 1:10:20
  Russian language version of it once a
• 1:10:22
  week and uh compiling together all of
• 1:10:26
  the topics or uh uh highlighting the
• 1:10:28
  topics that I spoke about the week
• 1:10:31
  before and topics that are coming up.
• 1:10:32
  Well, yesterday was uh the day that uh
• 1:10:35
  the first human uh went into outer
• 1:10:38
  space. A guy named Yuri Gagarin in uh
• 1:10:42
  1961
• 1:10:43
  when it he was the first person to go
• 1:10:46
  into space and uh Putin had uh meetings
• 1:10:49
  with his uh agency heads and I like how
• 1:10:52
  he does that too. They're all public.
• 1:10:54
  They're all televised and they're all
• 1:10:56
  put on TV and every once in a while I'll
• 1:10:58
  watch them. And I watched this one. I
• 1:10:59
  went back and watched the Cosmodrome
• 1:11:01
  one. That's what got me interested in
• 1:11:02
  this story a little bit because the
• 1:11:04
  Ukrainians are trying to uh uh destroy.
• 1:11:07
  They don't want Russia to have the
• 1:11:08
  ability to get the internet and Elon
• 1:11:10
  Musk has cut him off from u from
• 1:11:13
  Starlink. Um and is is doing a better
• 1:11:16
  job of finding the terminals that Russia
• 1:11:18
  stole from the Ukrainians or killed
• 1:11:20
  people and took um and and so they have
• 1:11:23
  had a little bit of difficulty, but
• 1:11:25
  that's all going away now. And they say
• 1:11:26
  that Russia now has the capabilities of
• 1:11:29
  doing their own internet. And this is
• 1:11:31
  what I keep talking about. More and more
• 1:11:33
  countries are going to begin to send
• 1:11:36
  their own satellites into orbit because
• 1:11:38
  they don't want to be held by somebody
• 1:11:41
  who is under the control of Donald Trump
• 1:11:45
  or anybody else or or that some rich guy
• 1:11:48
  who owns all the satellites in the sky
• 1:11:51
  can just go, "Huh, I support this side,
• 1:11:53
  so you're screwed." you know, and
• 1:11:55
  unlevel the playing field to make the uh
• 1:11:58
  uh playing field slant in one person's
• 1:12:01
  favor. And uh so Bakhanov said that the
• 1:12:04
  uh um in in uh you know celebration of
• 1:12:09
  cosmonaut day um you know uh he was
• 1:12:12
  telling about the fact that they were
• 1:12:14
  able to put these uh state um backed
• 1:12:18
  internet things into orbit and uh Putin
• 1:12:22
  praised the March 23 launch as a key
• 1:12:24
  milestone for Russia's space program.
• 1:12:27
  Bakanov said that Ukraine attempted to
• 1:12:29
  disrupt it. Placets Ksmodrome is about
• 1:12:32
  800 kilometers north of Moscow and about
• 1:12:34
  1,300 km from the Ukrainian border. So
• 1:12:37
  when they say space is beyond politics,
• 1:12:39
  our friends did everything to prevent
• 1:12:41
  this launch. He said that day there were
• 1:12:43
  serious strike attempts on the cosmo
• 1:12:46
  drrome, but the joint combat crews of
• 1:12:47
  Ross Cosmos Enterprises and the space
• 1:12:50
  forces completed their mission. Uh
• 1:12:53
  Bakanov did not provide details on the
• 1:12:55
  attack. The defense ministry did not
• 1:12:57
  explicitly comment on the space-based
• 1:12:59
  assault, but did report the downing of
• 1:13:01
  dozens of drones cost the country around
• 1:13:03
  that date. Excuse me. Ross Cosmos was
• 1:13:06
  referring to the launch of Sou's 2.1
• 1:13:09
  billion 2.1b rocket, I'm sorry, not
• 1:13:12
  billion, uh, uh, medium lift launch
• 1:13:14
  vehicle used as the workhorse in the
• 1:13:17
  Russian space industry. The rocket was
• 1:13:19
  carrying 16 satellites belonging to the
• 1:13:22
  Raset constellation. Uh, Rasviet means
• 1:13:25
  dawn. Uh, developed by Russian private
• 1:13:29
  aerospace firm Bureau 1440. Widely
• 1:13:32
  described as Moscow's answer to Elon
• 1:13:36
  Musk's Starlink. Russian officials have
• 1:13:39
  been suspicious of Starlink, which isn't
• 1:13:41
  operating in their country, but is
• 1:13:44
  actively used by Ukraine.
• 1:13:47
  Russian satellites operate as 5G base
• 1:13:50
  stations. They interconnect via laser
• 1:13:52
  communication links and are capable of
• 1:13:54
  transmitting data at speeds up to 1
• 1:13:57
  gigabits per second. Their target
• 1:14:00
  orbital altitude is 800 km. Bureau 1440
• 1:14:03
  is planning to deploy more than 900 low
• 1:14:07
  orbit relays by 2035.
• 1:14:11
  So that's happening. Um so in keeping
• 1:14:16
  with uh effects on the rest of the world
• 1:14:21
  um
• 1:14:22
  3 weeks of fuel 170 million people so in
• 1:14:27
  Bangladesh the fuel shortage is getting
• 1:14:30
  horrible. Dhaka is juggling rationing,
• 1:14:34
  early shop closures, hybrid schooling to
• 1:14:37
  manage the nation's use of uh of
• 1:14:40
  petroleum resources amid the Middle East
• 1:14:44
  crisis. My daughter is sleeping in the
• 1:14:46
  ICU. This is a story. My daughter is
• 1:14:49
  sleeping in the ICU of a hospital in
• 1:14:52
  Moakali, Dhaka. and I have been in the
• 1:14:55
  queue at the trust filling station since
• 1:14:58
  1:30 a.m. and it is now4 to 3. If I
• 1:15:02
  cannot get fuel, I will leave the bike
• 1:15:05
  on the road and just walk away. I do not
• 1:15:07
  have the strength left in my body to
• 1:15:09
  push this bike all the way to the
• 1:15:12
  hospital. A Bangladesh journalist posted
• 1:15:15
  this on social media. One more voice in
• 1:15:18
  the flood of similar posts over the past
• 1:15:21
  few weeks as the energy crisis triggered
• 1:15:23
  by the war in Iran has swept across the
• 1:15:26
  nation of 177 million people. The post
• 1:15:31
  was later updated to say that the man
• 1:15:33
  finally received 5 L of fuel at 6:50
• 1:15:37
  a.m. Social media is full of images of
• 1:15:40
  long lines of gas pumps across Dhaka,
• 1:15:43
  the capital of Bangladesh, and the
• 1:15:45
  situation is is reportedly even more
• 1:15:47
  acute in other parts of the South Asian
• 1:15:50
  nation hit by the severe energy crisis
• 1:15:52
  triggered by triggered by Trump's
• 1:15:54
  conflict in the Middle East. thousands
• 1:15:56
  of fishermen across across Barishaw the
• 1:16:00
  you got to see these lines. It's faking
• 1:16:02
  incredible and and they're standing
• 1:16:05
  there for hours. These lines go forever
• 1:16:08
  and people don't have the gas and and uh
• 1:16:11
  oh my god, the the thousands of
• 1:16:14
  fishermen in the country's southernmost
• 1:16:17
  division have been passing idle days and
• 1:16:20
  suffering pretty large financial losses
• 1:16:24
  as the fishing towns are uh are uh
• 1:16:30
  uh not operating at full capacity. More
• 1:16:33
  than a thousand seagoing trwers are
• 1:16:35
  stranded in Alipur and Mohipur and
• 1:16:36
  Bishaw, leaving a 100,000 fishermen and
• 1:16:40
  workers out of work. The the I tell you
• 1:16:43
  the lines are incredible. And diesel
• 1:16:44
  fuel is costing so much money these boy
• 1:16:48
  these boys and girls can't pay for it at
• 1:16:50
  any level. So it's bad news. and uh uh
• 1:16:53
  the fuel crisis visible at gas pumps
• 1:16:56
  across the country.
• 1:16:58
  According uh including in Dhaka um in
• 1:17:02
  early March shortages were a aggravated
• 1:17:05
  by the Eid holiday banking shutdown in
• 1:17:07
  Eid is at the end of uh Ramadan and uh
• 1:17:11
  disrupted supply chains and delayed
• 1:17:13
  payments and deliveries. Stocks are
• 1:17:15
  limited, sales are cap, lines are long,
• 1:17:17
  pressure on filling stations continues
• 1:17:20
  as demand certainly exceeds supply. And
• 1:17:24
  the government has a mounting challenge
• 1:17:26
  in trying to keep this up. And so the
• 1:17:29
  world is really feeling this. Now me, I
• 1:17:33
  feel it, too. I don't like paying this
• 1:17:34
  $4 a gallon crapola for for uh for gas.
• 1:17:39
  I'm against it, especially when I
• 1:17:41
  spouted off so much about how wonderful
• 1:17:43
  it was. a short two months ago to only
• 1:17:46
  be paying 250. We're allow We We will
• 1:17:49
  forgive a lot of uh indiscretion at 250
• 1:17:52
  a gallon, but at four, we're not so uh
• 1:17:56
  uh rational.
• 1:17:58
  We don't We're not so forgiving at $4 a
• 1:18:01
  gallon. We just don't I don't like it.
• 1:18:04
  And uh uh we hope that uh that things
• 1:18:06
  end here. I'm not so sure on my own here
• 1:18:10
  that uh uh the old Trumpsters war over
• 1:18:14
  the Straits of Hormuz are going to be of
• 1:18:17
  any help uh to the rest of the planet.
• 1:18:20
  And uh it's possible that uh things get
• 1:18:25
  much worse far quicker uh if he manages
• 1:18:29
  to block uh all of the ports in Iran and
• 1:18:33
  the Straits of Hormuz. I'm not sure he
• 1:18:36
  can really do that. Certainly, there
• 1:18:37
  aren't going to be any any destroyers or
• 1:18:40
  warships of America in the Straits of
• 1:18:42
  Hormuz directly because they'll get the
• 1:18:45
  crap blown out of them. They it's it's
• 1:18:48
  too narrow. And uh it's been recommended
• 1:18:50
  according to much of the stuff that I've
• 1:18:51
  read, it's been recommended by the Navy
• 1:18:54
  chiefs and by all of the people in
• 1:18:56
  charge that you really don't want to do
• 1:18:58
  that. you don't put your eggs in a huge
• 1:19:02
  um your huge eggs in a tiny little
• 1:19:05
  basket like that or they will be
• 1:19:07
  targeted. So, I'm not so sure that is a
• 1:19:11
  good idea, friends and neighbors. Um I
• 1:19:15
  want to go back to that video. I I I it
• 1:19:17
  pulled up on my screen. They're they're
• 1:19:20
  kicking him. They're beating the crap
• 1:19:22
  out of this poor dude and he just
• 1:19:24
  doesn't want to go to war. So, they just
• 1:19:26
  kick him, drag him, beat him. uh drop
• 1:19:29
  him on his head and you know you're
• 1:19:31
  going let me kick you. This is nuts. And
• 1:19:35
  uh uh you know what are you going to do?
• 1:19:37
  You got all these thugs out there going
• 1:19:39
  to beat you. So this Ukrainian man was
• 1:19:41
  seized and beaten by these conscription
• 1:19:44
  officers in Odessa accord and it's
• 1:19:47
  footage is there another incident. Here
• 1:19:49
  it goes. Ukraine suffer uh mounting
• 1:19:53
  losses in the conflict and the pool of
• 1:19:55
  willing recruits is virtually nothing.
• 1:19:59
  They don't want to do this. These
• 1:20:01
  enforcement squads have turned to
• 1:20:03
  coercion and beatings to fill the ranks.
• 1:20:06
  This practice, as I've told you before,
• 1:20:08
  is called bification.
• 1:20:10
  shows military men being snatched from
• 1:20:12
  the streets, workplace, and residential
• 1:20:14
  areas, taken to recruitment centers
• 1:20:16
  against their will, triggering clashes
• 1:20:18
  with relatives, neighbors, passers by.
• 1:20:21
  And in a video published by Telegram on
• 1:20:23
  Friday, five officers are seen hauling a
• 1:20:26
  man out of the entrance of his building
• 1:20:27
  in Idessa, dragging him by the arms,
• 1:20:30
  legs, dragging him toward a vehicle as
• 1:20:32
  he cries out for help. "What are you
• 1:20:34
  doing? Let him go, you bastards," said a
• 1:20:36
  woman filming. from a nearby balcony.
• 1:20:39
  Another voice calls in the bystanders to
• 1:20:41
  call the police. One of the officers
• 1:20:43
  punches the man in response. The
• 1:20:46
  incident is the latest in Austral.
• 1:20:49
  It's really sad. Um it's it's just the
• 1:20:52
  latest. You know, the backlash is
• 1:20:54
  building alongside violence and uh
• 1:20:58
  there's a lady who's the ombbudsman for
• 1:21:00
  the military, Olga Retilova.
• 1:21:03
  Retilova.
• 1:21:05
  Maybe the udinia is wrong on that.
• 1:21:07
  distress said that even school children
• 1:21:09
  are now increasingly harassing draft
• 1:21:12
  officers after watching the videos of
• 1:21:14
  their violent behavior. Two conscription
• 1:21:16
  officers were stabbed in Ukraine by by
• 1:21:19
  locals when they came to collect people.
• 1:21:22
  A bunch of people attacked them and
• 1:21:23
  stabbed them. One of them got stabbed
• 1:21:25
  fatally in the neck in Lvul.
• 1:21:28
  The people are this is they are not for
• 1:21:30
  this war any longer. And I'm not
• 1:21:33
  positive that all of them ever were. it
• 1:21:35
  was only the the uh uh you know the the
• 1:21:38
  extreme nationalist Nazis where the SS
• 1:21:41
  and the swastika that were for this. And
• 1:21:44
  so earlier this month the the the
• 1:21:46
  killing of those two officers was a
• 1:21:48
  really big deal. And some uh Ukrainian
• 1:21:51
  officials they don't like to talk of
• 1:21:52
  about it but some have acknowledged the
• 1:21:54
  depth of the of the recruitment crisis.
• 1:21:58
  And according to Vadim Ivchianka,
• 1:22:02
  a member of parliament's national
• 1:22:04
  security committee, only 8 to 10% of new
• 1:22:07
  personnel are willing recruits.
• 1:22:11
  8 to 10%. They have to fill 20 to 30,000
• 1:22:15
  deaths a month. And they then only 8 to
• 1:22:19
  10% of them are voluntary. Everybody
• 1:22:21
  else is forced, beaten, dragged to the
• 1:22:23
  front.
• 1:22:25
  Moscow accuses Kie's western backers of
• 1:22:27
  fighting to the last Ukrainian. You've
• 1:22:29
  heard me say that. Russian defense
• 1:22:31
  minister Andre Belalusu
• 1:22:34
  Belellusovv has estimated that Ukraine
• 1:22:37
  has lost nearly 500 service 500,000
• 1:22:41
  servicemen in 2025 alone. And the total
• 1:22:44
  losses according to uh uh Sergey Victor
• 1:22:48
  Lavrov is that they have lost um total
• 1:22:53
  military casualties far in excess of 1
• 1:22:57
  million. That's truly depressing for
• 1:23:00
  them especially and their families and
• 1:23:03
  uh so far not ending. No uh normal
• 1:23:06
  normal normaly I guess is a good word.
• 1:23:10
  No normaly in uh in effect on the planet
• 1:23:15
  these days. It's a mixed up, muddled up,
• 1:23:18
  shook up world. Exactly. I appreciate
• 1:23:22
  you being on uh international flavor
• 1:23:24
  this morning. I thank you for joining me
• 1:23:26
  Monday through Thursday from u
• 1:23:31
  uh 7:30 until 9:00 a.m.
• 1:23:34
  Central Standard Time, United States of
• 1:23:36
  America, Chicago time. Um or I suppose
• 1:23:41
  you could call it Dallas time, too. You
• 1:23:43
  know, it's Dallas time. Let's say Dallas
• 1:23:45
  time. I'm not a big fan of Chicago, even
• 1:23:48
  though um I went to University of
• 1:23:50
  Illinois. You know, Chicago is in
• 1:23:52
  Illinois. I don't know that I would want
• 1:23:53
  to admit that too often. Right. Anyway,
• 1:23:56
  you can always go out to
• 1:23:57
  internationalflavor.com
• 1:23:59
  and uh hear these hilarious moments in
• 1:24:02
  repeat scenarios or you can go to
• 1:24:05
  damradio.com/mpodcast
• 1:24:08
  and get my program and quite a few other
• 1:24:12
  good programs that are uh played on
• 1:24:14
  damradio
• 1:24:16
  each and every week for your listening
• 1:24:18
  pleasure.
• 1:24:20
  Uh, thank you very much and I hope you
• 1:24:22
  have an extremely
• 1:24:24
  wonderful and profitable mid Missouri
• 1:24:28
  day. of a very nice