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Nebenzya Schools Kallas at the UN While Europe Tightens Control and Trump’s ‘God Emperor’ Moment Raises Eyebrows · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Hello, good morning.
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  Welcome.
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  I am Samuel Trapp.
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  This is International Flavor.
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  You're listening to DAMN Radio today.
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  Coming to you live from the Lake Ozark
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  real estate of the art studio.
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  Happy to, you know, offend everyone equally, I
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  suppose, whilst I sit here and opine on
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  events of the day.
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  I think one of the first things I
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  wanted to share with you, and I'm hoping,
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  why is it always echoing?
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  I'm, I feel like I'm echoing.
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  One of the things I'd like to share
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  with you is, there was a pretty good
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  speech by Nubenzia Vasili, I forget his middle
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  name, but usually, you know, like, you would
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  call him, you know, Sergeyevich, Mikhailovich, whatever his
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  middle name is.
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  But I don't have his middle name, Vasili
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  Nubenzia, that's all I know.
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  And so Vasili, I like listening to him,
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  and every time I see something pop up
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  with him that's a direct quote, this one
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  was an attack on Kayakalis, and deservedly so.
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  I mean, the lady's really not too bright,
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  you know, and how these people get the
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  positions that they get just drives me.
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  It's like, show your idiocy, your stupidity, and,
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  you know, you get promoted.
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  That's what we always used to say in
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  the Army, you know, I may have said
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  it before, Jack be nimble, Jack be quick,
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  Jack got stupid and stepped or tripped on
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  his, oh, we won't say that word on
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  the radio, and then he got promoted.
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  That's the end of the limerick, as you
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  will.
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  But anyway, if you feel like calling in,
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  I might even answer today.
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  I got plenty of information.
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  I tell you what, I watched, and I
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  want to save for you and provide it,
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  the indictment, basically, that Nubenzia gave to the
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  EU.
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  And I tell you what, I don't mean
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  to criticize.
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  I mean, it's, well, I do, but I
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  mean, it's harsh that it has to be
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  so punch yourself, punch people in the face
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  because of the stupidity of what is going
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  on in the world.
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  And this indictment by Nubenzia of the EU
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  is, you know, as a hypocritical, centralized, increasingly
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  detached from both reality and history.
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  You know, because while Russia is attacking the
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  European model, or the Western hegemony, because when
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  he is, he's attacking the U.S. system
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  as well, because we've all been part of
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  the same unipolarity forever.
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  China's offering an alternative, and they're offering something
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  different.
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  You know, I've talked about this before, being,
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  you know, they're not offering bombs or blockades
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  and, you know, ultimatums.
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  They're offering a framework, a system, more importantly,
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  infrastructure worldwide.
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  I mean, that's what they've been doing.
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  That's what they were doing in Venezuela that
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  Trump just couldn't handle and that the West
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  can't handle.
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  And we've created China as the boogeyman, even
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  more so than Russia.
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  And the realities are, you know, China has
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  billions.
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  They have the strongest economy in the world
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  if you go on purchase power parity.
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  And the U.S. is second to them.
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  If you go on what the yuan will
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  buy, and they're forcing the yuan, not them,
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  but everybody else.
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  You know, China is dealing with other people
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  as well.
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  And so, but they're offering a system and
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  a framework.
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  There was a meeting, Xi Jinping met, whether
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  it was over the weekend or Monday, I
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  don't remember, but they met with Saudi Arabia.
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  And then another EU, not EU, another Middle
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  Eastern country, and another crown prince, you know,
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  a couple of them, they've been talking about
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  them.
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  They've been working with Saudi Arabia.
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  They've been working with, you know, a couple
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  other countries trying to get this, including Iran,
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  trying to get these things figured out and
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  offering suggestions.
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  And, you know, they, I want to share
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  that with you.
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  But I thought that first I would bring
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  to you the the translation of what Vassily
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  Nevbenzia said.
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  And I hate to laugh about it.
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  And it's actually, it's much better in Russian,
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  of course, because it's a beautiful targeted language.
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  And they can say things in one word
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  that we can't say in a paragraph, you
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  know what I mean?
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  And they have, some of these are just
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  very interesting to me.
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  And this is Nevbenzia.
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  Take about, I don't know how many minutes
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  it'll take me to get through this.
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  His whole speech was about 10 minutes.
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  So it'll take me about 10 minutes to
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  get through his speech, I assume in English,
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  assuming if there are any improper translations I
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  got to clarify or anything.
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  But it's important.
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  And listen to what the ambassador to the
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  UN is telling, to her face, Kayakalos and
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  the hypocrisy of it all.
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  Ready?
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  Mr. Chairman of the European Union, including at
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  the UN, many years, the chairman managed to
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  position herself as domain peacekeeper and mediator, defender
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  of international law at the UN.
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  This is the UN is supposed to be
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  the defender of international law, the guide of
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  universal human and democratic values and human rights,
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  as well as a selfless benefactor for developing
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  countries.
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  Most of which, however, have been robbed by
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  the Europeans for centuries.
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  However, now all of these double standards and
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  hypocrisy are rapidly emerging.
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  This is straight to the faces of all
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  the Europeans sitting at the UN.
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  And I mean, he's straight up.
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  Instead of going into a conscious dialogue on
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  the construction of a common security architecture, as
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  it was proposed by Russia on more than
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  one occasion, European countries have grown a Russophobic
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  mood for Ukraine, narrowed it into war with
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  Russia, not taking into account the fates and
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  lives of ordinary people.
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  They have planned and torpedoed the negotiation process
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  and continue to do so actively.
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  Mrs. Kayakalos, a former prime minister of Estonia,
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  said that the defeat of Russia would not
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  be so bad.
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  She claimed that again, it would not be
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  so bad if a large power became smaller.
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  Perhaps by promoting mediation efforts around the world,
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  Brussels also has its own idea that someone
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  should become smaller or bigger.
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  As for international law, we pay attention to
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  the call to comply with the right of
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  nations for self determinations, self determination, because they
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  complain about this all the time.
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  And you can only self determine if you
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  agree with the EU in the United States.
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  It's absolutely true.
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  The EU members once again show their dual
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  nature about the principles of the UN Charter,
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  and they recall their communication only when it
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  came to Greenland.
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  Greenland can self determine.
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  The topic is absolutely taboo for them as
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  it is applicable to the population of Crimea
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  and other new Russian regions that, you know,
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  self determined.
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  The irony here is that the EU, which
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  invented and promoted for a long time the
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  concept of peace and order based on rules,
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  became the counterweight to international law.
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  Now it is an object, not a subject
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  of its own false concepts.
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  As for freedom of security and trade, the
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  EU demanded its support for the Armenian Strait,
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  but at the same time tries to limit
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  the movement of ships transporting goods in the
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  interests of the Russian country by force.
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  By imposing democratic, and he quoted that, you
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  know, the little parentheses, you know, like Austin
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  Powers would use, by imposing democratic standards on
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  the UN member states, the EU elections have
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  become a training ground for the development of
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  political and information technologies.
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  The EU is betting on preventing the strengthening
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  of the position of alternative political forces, which
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  is absolutely true.
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  Any means of censorship, control over the digital
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  spaces, pressure, persecution, and the requirement to reexamine
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  incorrect election results are always in motion.
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  We have seen this recently in Romania and
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  Georgia.
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  We have seen it more than once.
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  The third party countries have one task in
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  mind, to maintain or bring to power the
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  most loyal political forces to Brussels.
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  The corruption that the Europeans and the countries
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  of the global south are looking to, um,
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  that's not the right word there, are looking
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  to involve in the EU, are blooming in
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  the European Union itself.
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  The corruption, the scandals that have emerged in
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  Europe over the past year, including the participation
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  of the former high representative of the EU
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  on foreign affairs and security policy, Federica Mogherini,
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  and the head of the European Commission, Ursula
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  von der Leyen, are the tip of the
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  iceberg.
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  As for the last one, I would like
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  to remind you that the European court ruling
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  speaks in plain language about her attempts to
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  conceal evidence of the corruption of the head
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  of the European Commission.
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  The real vicious circle operates with the transfer
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  of tens of billions of euros as part
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  of its assistance to Kiev, most of which
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  eventually end up in the pockets of the
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  euro bureaucrats themselves.
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  Is the assistance of the European Union selfless?
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  Most of our friends tell us that the
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  new trend that is fueled by the refusal
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  to cooperate with Russia.
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  The European Union has also demonstrated complete irresponsibility
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  in the matter of food security, when, due
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  to its anti-Russian sanctions, the countries of
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  the global south faced unprecedented difficulties in acquiring
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  Russian and Belarusian fertilizers and food.
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  All of this is true, by the way.
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  We are talking about the breakdown of logistical
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  chains, payment problems, insurance, and delivery of agricultural
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  goods and fertilizer.
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  The EU officials clearly state that they have
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  provided for the appropriate removal of restrictions on
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  the trade of agricultural products, but they keep
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  silent that they exist only on paper.
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  And in fact, they do not work, and
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  they are unnecessary for the performance of EU
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  member states.
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  It is not uncommon to hear how EU
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  representatives in their states show off that Europe
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  is among the main donors of development programs
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  which are implemented under the auspices of the
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  World Organization.
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  In 2024, the EU system allocated about 16
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  .6 billion euros, 12.7 billion euros for
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  EU member states, and 3.4 billion euros
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  from the total EU budget.
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  At the same time, more careful consideration and
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  observation shows that this so-called aid to
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  development goals, included within the framework of the
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  EU Global Access Initiative, is intended to guarantee
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  Brussels privileged access to the global south's natural
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  resources.
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  All the investment, infrastructure, and projects implemented by
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  the EU under the auspices of the World
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  Organization are primarily intended to serve only Europe.
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  Mr. President, the Europeans clearly do not have
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  enough time for what Friedrich Merz at the
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  Munich conference called the normative legal excesses that
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  is, in fact, the creation of moralizing cover,
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  they're creating moral cover for their policies.
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  All the force of the EU are now
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  focused on striking Russia with a strategic defeat.
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  The EU continues to do everything to further
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  escalate the conflict in Ukraine, including strengthening the
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  Kiev regime with arms and military equipment in
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  violation of its own criteria of export control
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  and of international obligations.
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  This makes it and its member states accomplices
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  in the crimes and terror attacks carried out
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  by Ukrainian militants using these weapons.
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  At the same time, fearing discontent from President
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  Trump, the European bureaucrats and their Ukrainian puppets
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  support the intermediary initiatives of the United States,
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  but in practice they sabotage the implementation of
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  any realistic agreement, fountaining with inevitable impassibility and
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  sometimes absurd conditions, none of which is taken
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  into account by the principle or the point
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  of view of Russia and cannot in the
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  long term achieve stable peace.
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  The last example is the so-called ultimatum,
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  the ultimatum of Miss Callas.
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  She was sitting in the room and he
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  was looking straight at her and she wouldn't
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  look up, she stared down at her paper,
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  the ultimatum of Mitch Callas, which is a
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  list of absurd requirements of Russia, without which
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  the EU does not intend to allow Kiev
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  to go into a peaceful settlement with Moscow.
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  In fact, the European bureaucrats reject the very
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  idea of diplomatic discussion and carry out an
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  outright propaganda war, at the same time increasing
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  sanctions pressure on our country, which not only
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  proved its ineffectiveness, but also caused colossal damage
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  to the countries of the European Union and
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  has already led to inflation and a serious
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  drop in the real incomes of ordinary Europeans.
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  The damage is also inflicted on other countries.
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  The weapons on paper supplied by the Kiev
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  regime later spread to Africa, Asia and Latin
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  America.
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  With their EU efforts, Ukraine is the largest
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  center of illegal armed circulation in the world.
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  According to the calculation of the American Institute
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  for the Study of War, every third assault
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  rifle that fell into the hands of extremist
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  and terrorist groups around the world is of
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  Ukrainian origin, was supplied by Ukraine.
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  So all the corruption, they're taking all the
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  weapons that we provide and they're mailing them
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  all over the world.
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  They're found all over the is true also.
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  Mr. Chairman, Russia is fully aware that we
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  are with European countries on the same continent.
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  The geography cannot be rewritten and history should
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  not be rewritten.
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  Although the outstanding, this is great, although the
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  outstanding historical knowledge of Miss Callas was attributed
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  to Russia by as many as 19 wars
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  initiated by Russia, not counting the African wars
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  and only in the last 100 years.
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  That's absolutely not true.
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  She has no idea what she's talking about,
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  but she claimed that Russia started 19 wars
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  in the last century.
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  I can't name any.
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  You could argue on the Ukraine side who
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  started it, but Russia's been involved in two,
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  maybe three, but not that many.
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  Let's see if you, let's see, because there
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  was a little skirmish down in Georgia, in
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  between Georgia and Russia, and I forget the
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  name of the oblast, the region there.
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  Anyway, not counting African wars that Russia's been
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  involved in, I don't know anything about those,
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  and I even looked, can't find any.
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  We have been in favor of an equal,
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  hell, the U.S. has been in 19
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  in the last week, probably.
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  We have been in favor of an equal,
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  mutually beneficial, cooperative nature and consideration of security
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  concerns.
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  This is necessary not only for Russia, but
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  also for Europe.
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  As German Chancellor Helmut Kohl said in the
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  2000, the date didn't come out, I think
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  it was 2006, though, Helmut Kohl, the future
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  of Europe, if it wants to remain as
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  an independent civilization center, must necessarily work together
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  with Russia.
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  We naturally complement each other, and if this
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  does not happen, Europe will gradually disappear.
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  This is what we are seeing today.
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  However, there is a significant deficit of large
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  -scale politicians in Europe now, and he meant
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  intelligent ones, is what he really meant.
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  There's plenty of politicians, but none of them,
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  the current generation are European bureaucrats, convincing the
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  population of the countries of the inevitability of
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  a direct military clash with Russia, and they
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  are feverishly preparing for war with Russia.
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  Moreover, we're well aware that the Russophobes from
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  the Baltic countries exist.
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  The transfer of their national Russophobic complexes to
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  the general Jesuit level became possible after they
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  appropriated the development and implementation of the Eastern
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  course of the European Union.
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  There's a wide myth that the existential threat
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  to Europe will soon disappear.
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  The militaristic anti-Russian rhetoric is reinforced by
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  specific practical actions.
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  From February 2022 to 2025, EU member states
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  have increased defense spending by almost 60%.
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  As a result of last year, the amount
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  of donations reached 381 billion euro.
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  This is the second place in the world
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  after the United States.
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  At the same time, the task of increasing
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  Europe's defense capabilities by 2030 has also been
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  set.
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  The increase in military assignments will only be
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  possible as a result of a reduction of
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  spending on other budgetary items, primarily social in
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  nature.
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  These large-scale military preparations will only be
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  possible if we are forced to react mirroredly.
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  And none of the conquerors who come to
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  us with a sword left Russia in good
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  health.
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  He's pointing back all the way across many,
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  many hundreds of years.
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  Such an open military course will cause much
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  less surprise if you look at those who
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  are responsible for its development.
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  I'm talking about the total professional inadequacy of
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  the European Union, authors of this plan.
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  In particular, the head of euro diplomacy.
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  This is her.
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  This is this is Kayakos again.
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  In particular, the head of euro diplomacy is
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  about to insult her.
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  Speaking at a conference of the Institute of
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  Security Studies of the EU last year, commenting
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  on Vladimir Putin's speech at the events in
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  China celebrating the end of World War Two,
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  wherein Russia lost 26 million and China lost
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  28 million people.
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  The solemn events in China said the following.
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  This is Kayakos last year.
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  Well, Russia addressed China and said Russia and
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  China fought in World War Two.
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  We won World War Two.
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  We defeated Nazism.
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  That's what Trump.
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  I mean, Trump.
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  That's what Putin said to Xi Jinping.
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  And I thought this is something new, she
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  said.
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  If you know history, then it raises many
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  questions.
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  This is what the high representative of the
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  EU on foreign affairs said, which obviously knows
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  nothing about that is the people of the
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  Union and of China, who took the main
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  blow for the world.
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  And we would like her to get acquainted
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  with her history teacher.
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  And he's looking at Miss Collis.
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  We would like to get acquainted with your
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  history teacher.
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  And so he said to finish up, he
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  says, to sum up, I want to say
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  that apparently from the beautiful post-war idea
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  of a united Europe, the EU is moving
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  to the construction of the next Reich.
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  We hope that the European countries and the
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  international community as a whole, that there are
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  still sober heads there who will oppose such
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  developments.
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  Thank you.
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  Now, that was Vasily Nebensia, who really is
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  critical.
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  And I don't know his speechwriter is, but
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  I like them generally.
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  And they're pretty blunt and on point when
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  you get to speak to them.
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  But you never hear about that stuff over
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  here.
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  You might get a small, what do you
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  call it, blurb out of something.
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  And I apologize for sharing the parts that
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  might not have been that entertaining.
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  But I think you need to understand what
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  other people are thinking.
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  And I provide that here for you in
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  my own little world.
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  So Xi Jinping also gave a pretty tight
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  statement because there was, now I got to
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  go all the way back here to my
• 24:09
  notes, which I've lost my notes.
• 24:12
  Here they be.
• 24:15
  We'll get to him in just a second.
• 24:17
  But listen, Europe, did I point out that
• 24:22
  today is Wednesday?
• 24:23
  I don't think I did.
• 24:25
  Do you know that today is Wednesday?
• 24:27
  It's the biggest day in radio and I
• 24:28
  get to start it all up.
• 24:30
  It's also tax day.
• 24:32
  Let's all cry about that.
• 24:34
  See what we can do to get working
• 24:38
  on that.
• 24:38
  That doesn't make me happy at all.
• 24:41
  But that's the par for the course in
• 24:43
  these days of trouble and gloom where passing
• 24:47
  ruffians can say need at will to old
• 24:49
  women.
• 24:50
  The cleanest way to talk about the speech
• 24:55
  of Mr. Nubenzia is it is freaking accurate.
• 24:59
  He was accurate.
• 25:01
  He's truthful.
• 25:02
  He, you know, these European nuts are all
• 25:05
  pro war, pro war, pro war, pro, uh,
• 25:10
  pro, uh, you know, destruction of Ukraine, pro,
• 25:13
  uh, killing, uh, did, you know, Friedrich Mertz
• 25:15
  yesterday, uh, day before maybe he, uh, had
• 25:19
  a meeting with the Z monster.
• 25:23
  And we're talking about by the end of
• 25:26
  the year, sending all of the Ukrainian men
• 25:30
  home and they're, they're getting ready to deport
• 25:34
  them all because Ukraine doesn't have anybody left.
• 25:36
  So now they're scrounging all the people that
• 25:40
  left and they're going to, they're going to
• 25:43
  deport them.
• 25:43
  Poland's been doing it or trying to find
• 25:45
  them for a little while.
• 25:47
  And many of the countries have said, this
• 25:50
  is what we're going to start doing because,
• 25:52
  uh, uh, the Z monster is asking them
• 25:55
  in addition to the 90 billion, which the
• 25:57
  funny part is of the 90 billion, they
• 25:59
  estimate that 60 billion of it will go
• 26:02
  to the EU.
• 26:05
  30 billion will go to Ukraine.
• 26:07
  The amount that actually gets to the front
• 26:09
  line and equipment and you know, uh, supplies
• 26:14
  is about a 10th of it.
• 26:16
  You know, it's, it's really nothing that what
• 26:19
  they get, the corruption is so massive that
• 26:21
  they don't get any of it.
• 26:23
  And I don't know that the accuracy of
• 26:24
  those numbers, even that, that sounds a little
• 26:26
  high to me that they even get that
• 26:28
  much because, uh, they're all just splitting it
• 26:31
  up and getting their share and, you know,
• 26:33
  pay, paying people to look the other way.
• 26:36
  And everybody's looking the other way long as
• 26:38
  it ain't them having to die.
• 26:39
  And then their boosification is, is, uh, taking
• 26:42
  people down and, you know, beating the crap
• 26:45
  out of them.
• 26:45
  And those videos are everywhere and throwing them
• 26:48
  in under the front line.
• 26:50
  Uh, Russia meanwhile is making, uh, allegedly have
• 26:54
  started their, uh, summer offensive or their spring
• 26:58
  offensive, I suppose you would call it.
• 27:01
  And, uh, they're hitting hard, lots of drones
• 27:04
  last night.
• 27:05
  Um, that we're headed toward, uh, Harkov, um,
• 27:11
  up in the, near the Sumi region up
• 27:13
  there.
• 27:13
  And when they crossed the border from Belgrade
• 27:15
  down south, uh, that they'd been talking about
• 27:18
  building a buffer zone along there, told you
• 27:21
  yesterday that they've gotten quite a bit of
• 27:23
  the, uh, of the territory of the whole
• 27:26
  Donbass already.
• 27:27
  Um, but you know, something needs to happen
• 27:32
  with all these wars.
• 27:33
  And frankly, even though I didn't think he'd
• 27:35
  be able to resolve it in a day,
• 27:37
  I thought the efforts would be to resolve
• 27:41
  war.
• 27:42
  And, you know, you haven't heard him say
• 27:43
  anything about the war in Ukraine in a
• 27:45
  while, been too busy with their own, uh,
• 27:49
  their own, um, I don't know their own
• 27:55
  projects, you know, project Ukraine has taken a
• 27:58
  back seat because we have project Iran project
• 28:00
  Israel.
• 28:01
  And, uh, that's, um, you know, not good.
• 28:05
  So the fact that Europe is becoming less
• 28:10
  democratic and more centralized government and seizing the
• 28:14
  power, I, of course, you know, noticed it
• 28:17
  for, for years and, um, you know, I,
• 28:20
  but I pay attention to it and, but
• 28:23
  Europe is less democratic, more centralized.
• 28:25
  Now, Hungary is the new test case.
• 28:28
  So I saw a video last night, news
• 28:34
  channel in, um, I can't remember where it
• 28:37
  was, was a India, uh, times of India
• 28:40
  or something like that, that, uh, they were
• 28:44
  saying, and I've been searching for it, but
• 28:47
  I can't find it that there's a 27
• 28:50
  point plan that the new guy Magyar is
• 28:57
  going to have to comply with to get
• 29:01
  the money from Ursula von der Leyen and
• 29:05
  from Brussels.
• 29:06
  They are going to put a knife in
• 29:08
  the veto.
• 29:08
  That's for sure.
• 29:10
  Um, so Europe is not democratic at all.
• 29:14
  It's totally centralized, especially on the foreign policy
• 29:18
  level.
• 29:18
  Like we told you yesterday about the, uh,
• 29:20
  the events trying to terminate it, but China
• 29:23
  is moving into the diplomatic vacuum in the
• 29:26
  middle East.
• 29:27
  There's no diplomacy going over there.
• 29:29
  Um, that is, if you want to call
• 29:31
  what they're doing diplomacy, it's nonsense.
• 29:33
  And they are counterposing multilateralism to American force.
• 29:39
  Naked force is what they, what they are
• 29:42
  calling it.
• 29:42
  Uh, and Trump is looking, according to some
• 29:45
  now, I'm not sure if I agree with
• 29:47
  this, but, but they do have a point.
• 29:49
  Okay.
• 29:50
  Um, they, they have a point.
• 29:52
  Um, I I've brought up some of it
• 29:54
  here myself because something's happening.
• 30:01
  You know, the, the, the things that he
• 30:04
  has, has said lately on his true social
• 30:08
  are extreme, even for him.
• 30:10
  And he's looking erratic.
• 30:12
  He's taking personal attacks to a new level.
• 30:15
  And I don't know that he's restrained in
• 30:19
  anything he does.
• 30:21
  And, uh, there's nothing we can do to
• 30:23
  stop it.
• 30:24
  I mean, they get to do whatever the
• 30:25
  hell they want.
• 30:25
  And, uh, but people are saying that there
• 30:29
  is no government apparatus that all there is,
• 30:34
  is Trump making these decisions so that whether
• 30:38
  it's a good or a bad thing, these
• 30:40
  decisions are made in the Trump vacuum.
• 30:42
  Um, allegedly when Vance was at the, uh,
• 30:48
  Iranian, uh, talks in Islamabad, um, last week,
• 30:54
  Trump called 21 times in 22 hours of
• 30:59
  negotiation, uh, to speak with him and direct
• 31:03
  him and talk about it.
• 31:04
  I mean, if that's true, it's ludicrous.
• 31:06
  Okay.
• 31:07
  Netanyahu spoke and Netanyahu said this himself.
• 31:12
  Netanyahu says that he got a call from,
• 31:14
  uh, uh, JD Vance while he was in
• 31:17
  there and outlined it.
• 31:18
  And it was right after that, that it
• 31:20
  was done.
• 31:20
  And that, uh, the U S always calls
• 31:22
  him, um, immediately, you know, with everything that's
• 31:25
  going on.
• 31:26
  That's frightening.
• 31:27
  Who in the hell is he?
• 31:30
  This is nonsense.
• 31:32
  So I'm not sure, but if you take
• 31:34
  all of these together, Europe is way out
• 31:37
  there.
• 31:38
  Um, Trump is looking a bit erratic in
• 31:42
  China is trying to be stable adult in
• 31:46
  the room.
• 31:46
  Xi Jinping with what some of this says
• 31:48
  today, because who is operating, you know, according
• 31:53
  to any institution, any rule of law, any
• 31:57
  real strategy, what is it?
• 32:00
  Europe doesn't act according to any rule of
• 32:03
  law, you know, Europe, they're a bunch of
• 32:05
  nuts and they don't believe in it.
• 32:08
  They just, they, they won't even talk to
• 32:11
  somebody that they don't like.
• 32:13
  And this is unfortunately how I believe our
• 32:16
  children, uh, and I mean, world children, not
• 32:19
  just America, but confrontation.
• 32:22
  You can't have it.
• 32:23
  You just write those people off and you
• 32:25
  don't even deal with them.
• 32:27
  There's, there's no such thing as conflict resolution.
• 32:30
  No, no, no.
• 32:31
  We just separate.
• 32:33
  There's us and them.
• 32:35
  That's it.
• 32:36
  And unfortunately that's the world we live in.
• 32:40
  Nobody can get rid of disputes.
• 32:42
  You know, they have to up the fight.
• 32:46
  Everybody's a narcissist.
• 32:48
  Everybody, everybody must hate the opposing party.
• 32:52
  You have to hate the other side.
• 32:54
  I don't get it.
• 32:55
  And, uh, I, I, I truly don't.
• 32:57
  And so that means that I would draw,
• 33:00
  you know, I'll tell you my opinion on
• 33:01
  the air, but I don't like fighting with
• 33:03
  people.
• 33:04
  If you can't resolve it amicably, I'm not
• 33:07
  interested, you know, legally fine.
• 33:10
  You know, that's, that's a different animal, but
• 33:13
  it's not like I'm going to get in
• 33:14
  a fight or a war with you or,
• 33:15
  or be a proponent of war.
• 33:18
  I think war is an extreme last resort.
• 33:22
  And I don't believe we've used it as
• 33:24
  one.
• 33:24
  We've used it as a war of choice,
• 33:26
  first resort.
• 33:27
  We use it to show our power, to
• 33:30
  force our way of thinking on other people.
• 33:34
  That's what I believe.
• 33:35
  And I don't single out Trump for that.
• 33:38
  I mean, that's what we've done forever.
• 33:40
  And, uh, uh, you know, these things that,
• 33:44
  you know, and think about here, here's the
• 33:46
  one move.
• 33:47
  So the key point about, you know, that
• 33:50
  I brought up yesterday about Victor Orban losing
• 33:53
  his seat and Peter Maguire taking over.
• 33:56
  Okay.
• 33:57
  The key point is that Brussels moved instantly
• 34:01
  to convert Orban's defeat into further institutional power.
• 34:07
  Okay.
• 34:08
  This Maguire, they're saying that he's pretty conservative,
• 34:11
  right?
• 34:13
  Ursula von der Leyen didn't wait around at
• 34:15
  all to test Maguire's independence.
• 34:17
  She's going to move in for the kill,
• 34:19
  right?
• 34:20
  She moved immediately toward ending or weakening the
• 34:23
  veto that had allowed Orban to block EU
• 34:26
  foreign policy, especially on Ukraine.
• 34:30
  That's the real story.
• 34:31
  It's not just Hungary changes the government because
• 34:34
  Hungary is now a slave.
• 34:37
  Hungary is now a vassal state because there
• 34:40
  are allegedly 27 points and I haven't been
• 34:44
  able to find them.
• 34:45
  You know, it is, the center is taking
• 34:47
  advantage of this opening to, you know, pin
• 34:51
  Maguire to the mat now, and then, you
• 34:54
  know, slam him in a cell and lock
• 34:56
  the door behind it.
• 34:57
  Hungary is no longer an issue at all,
• 35:00
  and they will not be.
• 35:03
  So from the Financial Times reports that Brussels
• 35:09
  is linking the release of 35 billion in
• 35:13
  frozen funds for Hungary to now.
• 35:17
  So first it was, Ursula says, listen, if
• 35:21
  you vote, we need to vote for the
• 35:24
  best guy.
• 35:25
  So the Soros's of the world jump in
• 35:27
  there and say, vote, vote for Maguire, vote
• 35:29
  for Maguire and get rid of Orban.
• 35:31
  Orban's the problem.
• 35:32
  Orban's the problem, just like Trump's the problem
• 35:34
  in America, according to the rest of the
• 35:35
  world.
• 35:36
  And, you know, get rid of this guy
• 35:38
  and you will be rewarded, Hungary.
• 35:41
  We will release this money because they've been
• 35:45
  holding money that is due to Hungary in
• 35:49
  projects, funds, loans, benefits, all kinds of stuff
• 35:54
  that come to them.
• 35:56
  But they won't give it up because they've
• 35:57
  been trying to force Orban to not veto
• 36:01
  the money that they give to Ukraine.
• 36:03
  But Orban says, look, I still need Russian
• 36:07
  oil.
• 36:07
  Maguire says the same thing, by the way,
• 36:09
  but he's going to run into some serious
• 36:11
  problems.
• 36:12
  They're going to give him the $35 billion,
• 36:14
  but he's still not going to be able
• 36:15
  to get Russian oil.
• 36:17
  He claims he's going to be independent and
• 36:20
  that he's going to try to work that
• 36:21
  out himself.
• 36:22
  But immediately, Ursula Fonda Pirate, as what's his
• 36:29
  name?
• 36:30
  Alex Cristoforo calls her Ursula Fonda Pirate.
• 36:33
  And I really don't remember why I heard
• 36:35
  him first call her that, you know, a
• 36:36
  year and a half, two years ago.
• 36:38
  And but I don't remember why he calls
• 36:40
  her that.
• 36:41
  Maybe because she's always robbing stuff from other
• 36:43
  countries.
• 36:44
  And but she's she's the Fonda Pirate and
• 36:47
  Ursula.
• 36:49
  She says now, immediately afterward, first it was
• 36:53
  get rid of Orban.
• 36:54
  Now that Orban is gone, she says, no,
• 36:56
  no, no, no.
• 36:58
  We have 27 conditions that you're going to
• 37:00
  have to agree to to get the $35
• 37:03
  billion.
• 37:04
  So it says Maguire's whole platform rested on
• 37:10
  restoring alignment with Brussels and unlocking those funds,
• 37:15
  which means her leverage is.
• 37:17
  I mean, that's his that was his primary
• 37:21
  campaign promise.
• 37:22
  I'm going to get you the money that
• 37:24
  you promised us.
• 37:25
  And we're going to fix inside of.
• 37:29
  Hungry, including gas shortages, oil, the prices of
• 37:34
  oil, they're not going to fix that, they're
• 37:37
  still going to have three times the price,
• 37:39
  unfortunately.
• 37:40
  So the instability is going to continue.
• 37:42
  And if you think and now they're trying
• 37:45
  to turn Ukraine, they're they want because they've
• 37:48
  been blocking Ukraine from being a kind of
• 37:52
  a junior member, if you will, of the
• 37:55
  EU.
• 37:57
  And, you know, they want to they want
• 37:59
  to allow them in.
• 38:00
  That's what Ursula Fonda Pirate is going to
• 38:02
  do.
• 38:03
  And so, you know, it doesn't list all
• 38:07
  the 27 conditions that alleged conditions that were
• 38:12
  linked by the Financial Times.
• 38:14
  And I looked in the Financial Times and
• 38:16
  although they stated there were 27 conditions, they
• 38:19
  didn't count what they were.
• 38:20
  So I can't find them.
• 38:22
  Hopefully I'll be able to find those for
• 38:23
  you tomorrow.
• 38:24
  But so far, I haven't.
• 38:26
  So I don't know.
• 38:28
  There's no line by line list of the
• 38:31
  27.
• 38:32
  But Brussels is is reported in several sources,
• 38:35
  not just the Financial Times, to having these
• 38:38
  27 conditions.
• 38:40
  But either way, Magyar's in for a probably
• 38:45
  rude awakening and he's going to realize he's
• 38:48
  nowhere near as powerful as was Orban.
• 38:53
  And now he has said, I'm not going
• 38:55
  to just take this money willy nilly.
• 38:57
  That's not what you promised in your elections,
• 39:00
  you know, in your campaign speeches.
• 39:02
  That is not what you promised.
• 39:05
  So I don't know.
• 39:07
  Orban lost on Sunday and by Monday, Brussels
• 39:10
  was already trying to make sure that no
• 39:13
  future Orban could ever slow them down again.
• 39:16
  And that's true.
• 39:18
  And they are punching hard to take him
• 39:22
  down now as he's brand new.
• 39:25
  He doesn't know what the hell he's doing.
• 39:26
  And there's a 16 year bureaucratic.
• 39:32
  I don't.
• 39:34
  How do I want to say this?
• 39:35
  The I don't claim to be an expert
• 39:38
  on the bureaucracy of Hungary.
• 39:40
  I imagine it's large.
• 39:42
  I also imagine there's their own share of
• 39:45
  corruption in Hungary of what's going on.
• 39:48
  But it's.
• 39:52
  Oh, here's a true social.
• 39:54
  Here's another Trump.
• 39:55
  China is very happy that I am permanently
• 39:58
  opening the straight to four moves.
• 40:00
  I'm doing it for them in the world.
• 40:03
  This situation will never happen again.
• 40:05
  They have agreed not to send weapons to
• 40:07
  Iran.
• 40:08
  President Xi will give me big fat hug
• 40:10
  when I get there in a few weeks.
• 40:12
  We're working together smartly and very well.
• 40:15
  Doesn't that beat fighting?
• 40:16
  But remember, we're very good at fighting if
• 40:19
  we have to.
• 40:20
  Far better than anyone else.
• 40:22
  Donald Trump.
• 40:26
  You know, it's really sad, but I long
• 40:29
  for the days of normal.
• 40:31
  This is just not normal.
• 40:33
  And I don't know.
• 40:35
  At least there wasn't anything horror story in
• 40:37
  there that except the constant we're better than
• 40:40
  everybody, you know, tune that he's got to
• 40:42
  put.
• 40:43
  And not that I don't think we are.
• 40:45
  I think we are.
• 40:46
  You just don't need to brag about it
• 40:48
  all the time.
• 40:49
  And I'm so tired of it.
• 40:51
  I truly am.
• 40:52
  But that's the way it goes.
• 40:53
  Xi Jinping for his part.
• 40:55
  OK, so because Trump's thing on the screen
• 40:57
  TV up in front of me just now
• 40:59
  folded in perfectly into my next part, which
• 41:02
  is about Xi Jinping and is for he
• 41:05
  has a four point plan.
• 41:08
  He is going to the Gulf states and
• 41:12
  he is meeting with people in the Gulf
• 41:15
  states that he is talking to.
• 41:17
  And I want to find this quote specifically
• 41:21
  because I think it's important.
• 41:25
  Where are we, America?
• 41:27
  China is stepping more visibly into the Middle
• 41:31
  East crisis, and Xi Jinping is outlining four
• 41:35
  point proposal for peace, just as the US
• 41:38
  Iran talks stall intentions escalate across the region.
• 41:43
  The framework which was proposed during President Xi
• 41:46
  Jinping's meeting with the crown prince of Abu
• 41:50
  Dhabi, Sheikh Khalid bin Mohammed bin Zayed al
• 41:54
  Nahyan, was shared with Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson
• 41:59
  Mao Ming, presenting Beijing's vision for stabilizing the
• 42:03
  Middle East and signals that China is intent
• 42:07
  on positioning itself as a diplomatic alternative at
• 42:11
  a time when the US is struggling to
• 42:14
  produce results.
• 42:15
  Xi Jinping's four point formula is as follows,
• 42:19
  and at the core of it is peaceful
• 42:22
  coexistence.
• 42:23
  China argues that Middle Eastern countries, particularly the
• 42:27
  Gulf states, are geographically bound and must find
• 42:31
  ways to coexist through cooperation rather than confrontation.
• 42:37
  That's pillar one.
• 42:38
  The second pillar focuses on state sovereignty.
• 42:43
  Xi stressed that the sovereignty and territorial integrity
• 42:47
  of countries must be respected.
• 42:50
  The message appears directed at ongoing military actions
• 42:54
  in the region that reinforce Beijing's stance against
• 42:58
  unilateral force.
• 43:00
  The third element centers on international law.
• 43:04
  China called for adherence to a rules-based
• 43:07
  global order anchored in the United Nations, warning
• 43:12
  against selective application of international law.
• 43:16
  I want to spend a little time on
• 43:17
  this one because both China and Russia for
• 43:21
  years have been, I don't know what I
• 43:28
  would say to that, they have been broadcasting,
• 43:31
  both in the UN and elsewhere, that look,
• 43:35
  we already have a platform.
• 43:38
  It's called the UN.
• 43:41
  If you ever paid attention to the rules,
• 43:45
  all of these endeavors by people who ignore
• 43:52
  the rules wouldn't be, would not have been,
• 43:58
  wouldn't have happened.
• 44:00
  Israel especially, US also, Europe listed in there,
• 44:06
  you know, that these actions are there.
• 44:08
  We already, both of those countries, and several
• 44:12
  others by the way, India says the same
• 44:13
  thing.
• 44:14
  They say we have it, but since they
• 44:16
  are controlled, I mean more than controlled, they
• 44:22
  are dictated by the appointments of western people.
• 44:28
  It's always somebody from the west or from
• 44:31
  very specific backgrounds that runs the UN, that,
• 44:35
  you know, engages, you know, that controls the
• 44:42
  discussions that go on there and stuff like
• 44:45
  that.
• 44:46
  You'll always have Nibenzia and the Chinese foreign
• 44:49
  minister and a couple others, you know, sniping
• 44:52
  from the sidelines like happened to the one
• 44:54
  I read to you today, but nobody cares.
• 44:57
  Nobody listens.
• 44:58
  They sit and they listen and Kayakolas just
• 45:02
  sits there, puts her head down and listen
• 45:03
  to, okay, here's the attack I need to
• 45:06
  take, but we don't care because we control
• 45:09
  the process.
• 45:13
  We control the system.
• 45:16
  And China and Russia have been saying things
• 45:18
  about that.
• 45:19
  Why do you think the rest of the
• 45:20
  world is looking for alternatives?
• 45:22
  Because we never follow the rules.
• 45:24
  The rules do not apply if you are
• 45:28
  the United States, Europe, whoever they decide at
• 45:33
  a particular time, you know, whoever they decide.
• 45:37
  But if you're somebody that pisses off those
• 45:38
  two things, the deep state, you're screwed.
• 45:42
  You get nothing.
• 45:43
  That's it.
• 45:44
  So the final pillar, which I want to
• 45:47
  talk about, because that one's the most serious
• 45:48
  and it's constant that they talk about that.
• 45:52
  And the final pillar links with development.
• 45:55
  Xi Jinping emphasized that long-term stability cannot
• 45:59
  be achieved without economic growth and offered China's
• 46:05
  model as a potential pathway for regional countries.
• 46:09
  He's talking about belts and roads.
• 46:11
  He's talking about the building of infrastructure between
• 46:17
  countries.
• 46:18
  The proposal comes immediately after the collapse of
• 46:21
  the U.S. and Iranian talks in Islamabad.
• 46:25
  And, you know, with Washington shifting toward only
• 46:28
  military, including naval deployment, China is presenting a
• 46:33
  contrasting approach rooted in dialogue and economic integration.
• 46:38
  Notably, Beijing has been expanding its own role
• 46:42
  in the Middle East from brokering the Iran
• 46:44
  -Saudi rapprochements to deepening economic ties of its
• 46:50
  own across the Gulf.
• 46:52
  By putting forward a structured peace framework now,
• 46:56
  China is signaling that it wants a more
• 46:58
  central role in shaping the region.
• 47:01
  China once again slammed Donald Trump over the
• 47:05
  president's Iranian naval blockade.
• 47:07
  This is in contrast to what Trump said.
• 47:09
  Oh yeah, they love it.
• 47:12
  I don't know where he's living, but that's
• 47:14
  not what was said.
• 47:16
  The blockade caused a move dangerous and irresponsible.
• 47:21
  The Chinese foreign ministry attacked Trump came a
• 47:24
  day after Russian minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in
• 47:28
  Beijing for an official visit.
• 47:30
  I'm going to tell you a little bit
• 47:31
  about that here in a minute too.
• 47:32
  The U.S. side's escalation of military deployment
• 47:36
  and its targeted blockade will only intensify conflict,
• 47:41
  exacerbate tension in the region, and undermine the
• 47:45
  already fragile ceasefire and further jeopardize safety of
• 47:50
  passage through the strait.
• 47:53
  China says, the minister of defense says, this
• 47:58
  is a dangerous and irresponsible act.
• 48:01
  China believes that only a comprehensive ceasefire and
• 48:04
  a cessation of hostilities can fundamentally create the
• 48:08
  conditions for easing the strait.
• 48:12
  China urges all parties to abide by ceasefire
• 48:15
  arrangements, focus on dialogue and negotiation, and take
• 48:21
  concrete actions to de-escalate the regional situation
• 48:25
  and restore normal passage in the straits as
• 48:29
  soon as possible.
• 48:31
  So let's see what is the U.S.
• 48:36
  says that the U.S. will not allow,
• 48:39
  let's see, where is this?
• 48:42
  Gas prices ultimately have to come down.
• 48:44
  We produce more Saudi Arabia and add Russia
• 48:48
  to it substantially more by next year.
• 48:51
  We'll have, this is Trump, we'll have double
• 48:53
  that amount so we don't need it, but
• 48:55
  the world needs it.
• 48:57
  This is his quote, where is that?
• 49:00
  I wish I could find the exact quote,
• 49:02
  but many ships are heading to our country
• 49:03
  now as we speak to load up with
• 49:06
  the best sweet, what did he call it,
• 49:08
  sweet crude, and that's what it is called,
• 49:11
  but really I guess you could say somebody
• 49:13
  wants the best and sweetest.
• 49:15
  I don't know exactly what sweet is, but
• 49:17
  when it relates to oil it's a good
• 49:18
  thing, said Trump, but they're coming to our
• 49:20
  country right now.
• 49:22
  There are many boats coming to our country
• 49:23
  right now.
• 49:24
  It would be well, it could very well
• 49:27
  be this is going to be settled before
• 49:29
  that.
• 49:30
  We've been called this morning by the right
• 49:32
  people, the appropriate people, and they want a
• 49:34
  deal.
• 49:35
  They would like to work a deal, and
• 49:38
  I don't, frankly I don't believe that.
• 49:43
  I don't believe that, at least not the
• 49:47
  right people.
• 49:48
  Maybe you got somebody else, you have Modi
• 49:52
  or somebody bitching about it and saying, look
• 49:55
  you got to end this, but I don't
• 50:00
  know.
• 50:01
  I haven't seen anything else that says it
• 50:03
  except Trump, but it's never reported anywhere else,
• 50:06
  and let's see.
• 50:12
  Earlier Xi Jinping said during a meeting with
• 50:15
  Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, they call for
• 50:19
  close cooperation to oppose.
• 50:21
  Now remember Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez is a
• 50:24
  guy that said you're not flying over our
• 50:26
  country for that.
• 50:27
  They call for close cooperation to oppose what
• 50:30
  he called the world's retrograde, well retrogression into
• 50:36
  the law of the jungle.
• 50:38
  Both China and Spain stand on the correct
• 50:41
  side of history, according to Xi Jinping.
• 50:44
  We must strengthen our dialogue and communication, solidify
• 50:48
  our mutual trust, and engage in close cooperation.
• 50:53
  We must firmly oppose regression of the world
• 50:57
  back to the law of the jungle, and
• 51:00
  collectively champion and defend multilateralism, thereby safeguarding the
• 51:07
  peace and development of the global community.
• 51:11
  How about that?
• 51:12
  Isn't that crazy?
• 51:15
  And then, you know, there's a couple other
• 51:18
  parts, but I think, let's see, I'm gonna
• 51:23
  go to, where's the Lavrov deal?
• 51:25
  Lavrov in Kitai, in China, which is Kitai
• 51:31
  in Russian.
• 51:33
  Let's see, I do not only have it
• 51:36
  in Russian, I thought I had it in
• 51:38
  English, I'm sorry, but China's trying to become
• 51:44
  the adult in the room, and Washington is
• 51:46
  just banging on the table as usual.
• 51:48
  I haven't had to beat up on Hegseth
• 51:50
  too much lately though, you know, the, put
• 51:53
  me in coach, put me in, that guy,
• 51:56
  but Jeffrey Sachs went off last, and I
• 52:00
  watched something with him last night, and this
• 52:03
  is, this is tough, but it was, it
• 52:08
  was tough to watch, it really was, but
• 52:12
  for me, it was tough to watch because
• 52:17
  it's, you can't necessarily say that he's
• 52:27
  wrong.
• 52:28
  That's the horror story of it all, okay?
• 52:30
  I don't, I'm not saying I believe it,
• 52:33
  I'm saying this is one man's opinion, and
• 52:36
  I have trouble with the same things that
• 52:39
  he is saying, I come to a slightly
• 52:41
  different conclusion, but I have trouble with them,
• 52:45
  I already told you some of them, you
• 52:47
  know, Jeffrey Sachs says, I mean, he isn't
• 52:50
  merely criticizing Trump's policies, although he always does
• 52:54
  that internationally, you know, as do I, you
• 52:57
  know, I, Trump's policies internationally are not good
• 53:01
  for America, in my humble opinion, but hey,
• 53:05
  I've been wrong before, once, did I remember?
• 53:07
  Could be, this is the second time, who
• 53:09
  knows, and we shall see, but Sachs, he's
• 53:14
  questioning whether the current process, there's any institutional
• 53:17
  process at all.
• 53:19
  Now, I never thought there was, I always
• 53:20
  thought that Trump is the God Emperor, you
• 53:24
  know, he's in charge, you know, I've said
• 53:26
  that before, that he is the guy in
• 53:28
  charge, so it was interesting to hear Sachs
• 53:32
  say something like this, he said that he
• 53:34
  was questioning the institution, he brought together, he
• 53:37
  said something about watching the Cuban Missile Crisis,
• 53:43
  that the people study it, now remember, he's
• 53:45
  a professor, and he says that people study
• 53:50
  the Cuban Missile Crisis, how it occurred, as
• 53:59
  it occurred, and what he said was that
• 54:02
  when Kennedy made a decision, he'd call the
• 54:07
  cabinet together, all of them, and all of
• 54:10
  the heads of every major agency were there,
• 54:13
  and they would talk about them, he would
• 54:15
  assign each of them, he assigned each of
• 54:18
  them to do something, to check on this,
• 54:20
  check on that, check on these things, and
• 54:22
  he said that if you go back into
• 54:25
  history, now I've never taken, obviously, as in
• 54:27
  -depth a level as what he has said,
• 54:30
  but, you know, I have no reason to
• 54:34
  disbelieve what he's saying, either, and he said
• 54:37
  that you go back and people study all
• 54:41
  of the tapes, that they taped it all,
• 54:43
  they recorded it all, they were just coming
• 54:46
  into the world of being able to record
• 54:47
  it, that there's paperwork regarding it all, that
• 54:50
  you could write entire books on the Cuban
• 54:53
  Missile Crisis, which many people have done, based
• 54:56
  on the content that is out there, okay,
• 54:59
  and he said that that was normal statecraft.
• 55:06
  Now, I don't think that presidents have acted
• 55:11
  maybe in that regard for a long time,
• 55:14
  you know, I think they're all nuts, and
• 55:16
  that they, you know, Biden was senile, Trump
• 55:23
  is just Trump, and he runs things how
• 55:25
  he sees fit, and I see that as
• 55:27
  similar to the ways that the abominator ran
• 55:30
  things, too.
• 55:31
  He was just in charge, but there's no
• 55:33
  doubt, in my mind, that the decisions made
• 55:36
  were made by him, and the decisions made
• 55:41
  in Trump's are only made by him.
• 55:44
  Other people are making them, there's no autonomy
• 55:47
  to act on your own, you know, to
• 55:51
  act in the best interests, and report later,
• 55:54
  to run your department.
• 55:57
  If I'm a plant manager, I'm hiring an
• 56:01
  operations manager to handle the operations, and I'm
• 56:04
  generally going to let him run it as
• 56:07
  he sees fit.
• 56:09
  If I'm, you know, hiring an administrative, you
• 56:13
  know, an accounting guy, I'm going to let
• 56:15
  him run the accounts the way he, you
• 56:19
  know, I hire a professional, hire somebody that
• 56:21
  can tell me what's going on, and won't
• 56:23
  rob me, that's what I'm hiring.
• 56:25
  And if I'm hiring somebody to handle the
• 56:28
  administrative side of the house as a human
• 56:31
  resources person, those people are doing it.
• 56:33
  I don't believe that exists, I don't think
• 56:36
  it existed with Obama, I sure as hell
• 56:38
  don't think it exists with Trump, and, you
• 56:41
  know, Trump is a micromanager.
• 56:43
  Trump keeps only the loyal people around him,
• 56:49
  and you only get one shot.
• 56:51
  If you're, if you say something negative, Trump,
• 56:55
  you're suddenly disloyal, and you're out the window,
• 56:58
  that's it.
• 56:59
  And that's the end of the game.
• 57:01
  And that's how he plays.
• 57:02
  And so that means that you have a
• 57:05
  whole, he's surrounded by nothing but yes men.
• 57:08
  This, I believe, that Trump is surrounded by
• 57:11
  yes men.
• 57:12
  And the people who want to continue after
• 57:15
  him are just marking time and saying yes,
• 57:19
  sir, yes, sir, three bags full, sir, until
• 57:23
  the time is done.
• 57:25
  And then they'll distance themselves from Trump.
• 57:28
  That's the way our system works.
• 57:31
  And I'm eager to see what happens in
• 57:34
  the coming elections.
• 57:38
  And I'm not so sure that they've got
• 57:43
  it under control.
• 57:44
  But we'll see.
• 57:45
  I'm not sure, there's so much drama happening
• 57:49
  at the national and international level.
• 57:52
  Anyway, that it's hard to focus on the
• 57:54
  drama going on in Missouri.
• 57:56
  And we got plenty of that as well.
• 57:59
  But Sachs' core argument is that what's happening
• 58:03
  is not normal.
• 58:05
  There's no file, memo, deliberation, interagency review, congressional
• 58:10
  involvement, unless it's Lindsey Graham.
• 58:12
  And instead, he describes it as a one
• 58:14
  -man show.
• 58:15
  And he says the words he used are
• 58:18
  delusional and incompetent, are the words he used,
• 58:23
  and very, very personalized.
• 58:25
  Now, this is, if you want to talk
• 58:27
  personalized, I've always had a difficulty with Trump
• 58:30
  being so touchy.
• 58:35
  He's a big figure.
• 58:38
  People aren't going to like him.
• 58:41
  But he busts out and he's like the
• 58:46
  insult comic.
• 58:48
  If you say something anti-Trump or something
• 58:52
  even not pro-Trump, if you just say,
• 58:56
  remember him at the whatever they call that
• 59:02
  press dinner or whatever at the White House
• 59:04
  several years ago when people were saying bad
• 59:06
  things about him, it was the end of
• 59:07
  the world.
• 59:09
  And he about came unglued after that.
• 59:11
  What he did this past weekend was not
• 59:13
  good.
• 59:14
  And Sachs says these three things may, you
• 59:18
  know, say his quote, not mine, okay, is
• 59:24
  what he said is that Trump may have
• 59:27
  lost his mind.
• 59:28
  And he notes the same things that I
• 59:31
  note, the bizarre overnight social media posts that
• 59:36
  he's talked about, that one page one where
• 59:38
  he ripped into Tucker Carlson, a couple other
• 59:42
  people.
• 59:43
  Now I didn't say that, but it was
• 59:45
  certainly bizarre in my mind.
• 59:47
  And it was very difficult to read.
• 59:50
  And, you know, Jeffrey Sachs is openly saying
• 59:53
  that many people are muttering around Washington right
• 59:58
  now that Trump's conduct looks unfiltered, personalized, irrational,
• 1:00:03
  and potentially mentally unstable, and that he's going
• 1:00:08
  the same route as Biden.
• 1:00:10
  That was the nature of his discussion.
• 1:00:13
  I don't agree with that.
• 1:00:15
  You know, if you watch, I saw Trump,
• 1:00:19
  I guess it depends on the time, you
• 1:00:22
  know, on the timing of it all, because
• 1:00:24
  most time he's rational, he's detailed, he can
• 1:00:29
  tell you a full comment and a full
• 1:00:35
  discussion of what he's saying.
• 1:00:36
  It's logical.
• 1:00:37
  It makes sense.
• 1:00:39
  You don't have to agree with it.
• 1:00:40
  And most time I don't, but I don't
• 1:00:43
  like these middle of the night postings.
• 1:00:46
  And I think, you know, somebody ought to
• 1:00:48
  be handling that for him.
• 1:00:52
  And he says, you know, the press gave
• 1:00:54
  him an out yesterday.
• 1:00:55
  Was it you that posted that?
• 1:00:56
  You know, and oh, yeah, that was me.
• 1:01:00
  When you're asking him about the Jesus Christ
• 1:01:02
  reference, when he was supposed to be a
• 1:01:05
  doctor, you know, that doesn't look like any
• 1:01:07
  Red Cross outfit I ever saw put on.
• 1:01:10
  But okay, you know, at least he admits
• 1:01:12
  it, you know.
• 1:01:13
  But I think a better thing to do
• 1:01:16
  would have been to, gee, I'm sorry for
• 1:01:18
  the, you know, maybe I should have reviewed
• 1:01:21
  it a little more before I published it.
• 1:01:24
  Maybe that, you know, because to me, that
• 1:01:27
  was, you know, a spiritual figure, you know,
• 1:01:31
  blessing, a dying, you know, whoever he was,
• 1:01:34
  I don't believe it looked sufficiently like the,
• 1:01:39
  what's his name?
• 1:01:40
  But who knows?
• 1:01:42
  You know, that's what people have been talking
• 1:01:43
  about.
• 1:01:46
  What Sacks said, though, that makes you think
• 1:01:51
  about it is that it's not necessarily a
• 1:01:55
  Trump problem.
• 1:01:57
  The problem is the deinstitutionalization of U.S.
• 1:02:02
  decision making.
• 1:02:04
  And he talked about this for a little
• 1:02:06
  bit, the use of amateurs, corrupt political systems,
• 1:02:10
  and above all, the refusal to accept the
• 1:02:13
  fact that other countries exist, you know, that
• 1:02:16
  it's a multipolar world.
• 1:02:18
  And so the fact is that when Trump
• 1:02:21
  brings people in, all he cared about was
• 1:02:24
  loyalty, was loyalty and somebody that's going to
• 1:02:28
  back him completely.
• 1:02:29
  Now, he got screwed in his first term.
• 1:02:32
  And some argue that he, and I don't
• 1:02:37
  know enough to take a position on it
• 1:02:39
  one or the other, but whether or not
• 1:02:43
  he, the election was stolen, I tend to
• 1:02:46
  think it was, but I don't have any
• 1:02:48
  proof to that, that I can bank upon.
• 1:02:51
  And I haven't researched it directly myself.
• 1:02:54
  But I believe that he was screwed by
• 1:02:58
  his own people in the first term.
• 1:03:01
  And so protecting yourself in the second term
• 1:03:05
  by bringing only people that are loyal to
• 1:03:08
  you and getting rid of them immediately, immediately,
• 1:03:12
  as soon as they take a position contrary
• 1:03:16
  to something you want to do.
• 1:03:18
  I get that.
• 1:03:20
  What I don't get is turning them into
• 1:03:23
  pieces of dog meat once you do and
• 1:03:26
  taking somebody who you used to like and
• 1:03:28
  used to say, have high regard for and
• 1:03:31
  say good things to, and turning them into
• 1:03:34
  the Antichrist, turning them into morons and idiots.
• 1:03:37
  I don't like that.
• 1:03:40
  And I don't think it's fair to them,
• 1:03:43
  to the country, to anybody.
• 1:03:45
  If they were such idiots, why'd you hire
• 1:03:47
  them in the first place?
• 1:03:48
  Why'd you put them in there?
• 1:03:50
  Why'd you go on Carlson's show, Tucker Carlson?
• 1:03:54
  Why'd you go on his show?
• 1:03:55
  Why'd you talk with the other people, MAGA?
• 1:03:59
  Why'd you do that?
• 1:04:01
  And now he has other sycophantic people that
• 1:04:05
  are with him, like Lindsey Graham.
• 1:04:08
  Lindsey Graham has figured, has learned Trump's number.
• 1:04:12
  And so he's loved now by Donald Trump.
• 1:04:14
  Wonder how long that'll last.
• 1:04:17
  Not so sure.
• 1:04:20
  He says, Sacks, that the day-to-day
• 1:04:23
  events make no sense.
• 1:04:25
  There's chaos rather than cleverness.
• 1:04:28
  And Trump appears to believe he can bluff
• 1:04:31
  or bomb his way to success.
• 1:04:37
  That's scary.
• 1:04:39
  And that this is a personalized, de-institutionalized
• 1:04:42
  process rather than a normal government apparatus.
• 1:04:45
  He says Trump's recent conduct is outside of
• 1:04:49
  normal presidential behavior.
• 1:04:51
  By several, and he's an economist, so he
• 1:04:54
  used the term by several standard deviations.
• 1:04:57
  I made sure to note that.
• 1:04:58
  He's several standard deviations away from normal.
• 1:05:03
  Several.
• 1:05:04
  Now that's funny.
• 1:05:06
  And that there's a real possibility that he
• 1:05:08
  has serious mental problems.
• 1:05:10
  Now, I don't know about that.
• 1:05:12
  I worry about that when people get older.
• 1:05:15
  But I don't know that I'm where he
• 1:05:17
  is yet.
• 1:05:17
  But the three things that happened that really,
• 1:05:21
  that give me pause, let's say, is that
• 1:05:28
  diatribe long thing about Tucker Carlson and whoever
• 1:05:32
  else, Alex Jones and whatever the girl's name
• 1:05:37
  is that I can't remember off the top
• 1:05:38
  of my head.
• 1:05:39
  There's that one.
• 1:05:40
  There's open the effing streets.
• 1:05:43
  That was nuts.
• 1:05:47
  That was crazy.
• 1:05:49
  Why are we putting that out there?
• 1:05:50
  You're the freaking president.
• 1:05:52
  You know, I could talk like that.
• 1:05:54
  That's not.
• 1:05:55
  But that's just unpresidential.
• 1:05:57
  Let me say that.
• 1:05:59
  And then and most of them have to
• 1:06:01
  do with this rule ruling by by truth
• 1:06:07
  social.
• 1:06:08
  Um, and to me, that's a problem.
• 1:06:12
  And that is bizarre.
• 1:06:14
  I don't and nobody can know.
• 1:06:17
  I don't want anybody controlling the president.
• 1:06:19
  I don't want that.
• 1:06:20
  So don't take it the wrong way.
• 1:06:21
  I want him and not Joe Biden.
• 1:06:24
  You know, hell, even if he is, even
• 1:06:27
  if he is senile, I'll still take him
• 1:06:29
  over Joe Biden any day.
• 1:06:32
  But does this reflect a bigger problem?
• 1:06:34
  Are we going to have to put age
• 1:06:36
  limits on these people?
• 1:06:38
  I mean, I remember when Reagan was was
• 1:06:41
  in office and they were worried about him
• 1:06:43
  and some of the things that he was
• 1:06:45
  doing.
• 1:06:45
  And, you know, I remember all the way
• 1:06:48
  back then thinking, geez, you know, why would
• 1:06:50
  he say something like that?
• 1:06:52
  That just doesn't make sense.
• 1:06:53
  And maybe I like more of a diplomatic
• 1:06:59
  approach when it comes to.
• 1:07:02
  International things like this, you know, like everything
• 1:07:05
  that I bitch about Trump about the really
• 1:07:08
  I don't I don't bitch about him in
• 1:07:10
  the country.
• 1:07:11
  I might disagree, but all right, that I
• 1:07:14
  can I can understand a little bit.
• 1:07:16
  This international stuff blowing up the world.
• 1:07:19
  I do not like it and I don't
• 1:07:22
  like it at all.
• 1:07:25
  You know, Trump's explanation of this Jesus Christ
• 1:07:29
  image and and the world reaction to it.
• 1:07:32
  Nobody believes him that he pretended he was
• 1:07:35
  a doctor in the Red Cross.
• 1:07:37
  I don't believe that.
• 1:07:39
  And I don't believe it looks remotely like
• 1:07:41
  that.
• 1:07:42
  And if that's what he sees when he
• 1:07:43
  looks at it, well, that's that's indication that
• 1:07:49
  he isn't seeing properly.
• 1:07:51
  It's all I'm saying.
• 1:07:53
  And I really don't mean to beat up
• 1:07:54
  on the guy.
• 1:07:55
  I think he's been a good president overall.
• 1:07:58
  So, you know, they're talking about more pipeline
• 1:08:04
  things being attacked in Iran, in the Middle
• 1:08:09
  East.
• 1:08:10
  And I believe that, you know, the calm
• 1:08:12
  before the storm has come and especially if
• 1:08:15
  the blockade continues.
• 1:08:17
  So I worry about policy with Trump.
• 1:08:20
  But the reason I worry about policy is
• 1:08:22
  because of all the lunacy surrounding the dramatization
• 1:08:27
  of it all.
• 1:08:28
  You know, the commentary made and I've not
• 1:08:31
  been in favor of that since 2015 when
• 1:08:34
  he first came on the stage.
• 1:08:35
  I mean, I've been pretty, pretty critical about
• 1:08:38
  that all the way back then.
• 1:08:40
  I was doing my podcast then from the
• 1:08:42
  country of Qatar and it was 2015.
• 1:08:45
  I lived in Qatar and it was I
• 1:08:49
  would two, three times a week, you know,
• 1:08:53
  after after reviewing, especially during this was the
• 1:08:56
  Hillary Trump ultimately or who was running for
• 1:09:01
  office.
• 1:09:02
  But I was analyzing all whatever it was,
• 1:09:08
  16 candidates or whatever the Republican nonsense that
• 1:09:12
  went on that year.
• 1:09:13
  And Trump was my favorite.
• 1:09:15
  But I was still critical.
• 1:09:17
  I was like, man, look at these morons.
• 1:09:20
  You know, Trump's at least not them.
• 1:09:23
  And we wanted something different.
• 1:09:25
  I want something different.
• 1:09:26
  I've been supportive, but never fully so.
• 1:09:29
  And if I would bitch about him, I
• 1:09:31
  go, man, can we just please get rid
• 1:09:35
  of this constant antagonism, this constant me great
• 1:09:41
  me stuff and get past it and tell
• 1:09:45
  me what you're going to do and quit
• 1:09:48
  offending everybody you talk to.
• 1:09:52
  You can't talk.
• 1:09:53
  You can't say that.
• 1:09:54
  And trust me, he's he's done this for
• 1:09:56
  years.
• 1:09:56
  He can't say the word Biden even today
• 1:09:59
  without saying Sleepy Joe Biden.
• 1:10:02
  You know, he just can't do it.
• 1:10:03
  And he can't call Clinton anything but corrupt
• 1:10:07
  Hillary, you know, or, you know, he had
• 1:10:10
  other names for it, too.
• 1:10:12
  And and I just want to get past
• 1:10:14
  all of that.
• 1:10:15
  I want a dialogue.
• 1:10:19
  I want disagreement.
• 1:10:23
  At a level where, you know, you don't
• 1:10:25
  have to be the insult comic, I've always
• 1:10:28
  thought that, you know, I've been told before
• 1:10:35
  that if you have when you're arguing as
• 1:10:37
  someone and you and I'm guilty of this,
• 1:10:40
  I've done it myself because, you know, I've
• 1:10:43
  done it and I still sometimes do it,
• 1:10:45
  hopefully not as often.
• 1:10:46
  But when I'm angry, I tell you what,
• 1:10:49
  I'm going to throw some some swear words
• 1:10:52
  about and and it does nothing but.
• 1:10:57
  Lessen your argument if you have to use
• 1:11:01
  that type of argument, you know, you'd be
• 1:11:04
  much better off sitting in a parliamentary style
• 1:11:08
  across the room from each other and yelling
• 1:11:11
  at each other without calling each other, you
• 1:11:14
  know, horrible names and slanderizing and calling each
• 1:11:21
  other names like they do in England, couple
• 1:11:23
  other countries in the parliamentary style.
• 1:11:25
  You get to get up and speak your
• 1:11:27
  piece, say your piece.
• 1:11:29
  Hopefully people pay attention to your piece.
• 1:11:32
  And if they do, hopefully they understand your
• 1:11:35
  point of view.
• 1:11:36
  But that doesn't mean you have to say
• 1:11:38
  they're losers there.
• 1:11:40
  Oh, gee, they can't even get on Fox
• 1:11:42
  News.
• 1:11:43
  You know, I mean, it's constant and it
• 1:11:46
  drives me crazy and always has.
• 1:11:49
  And this is from a guy that generally
• 1:11:51
  supports demand, not internationally.
• 1:11:55
  I never have, but certainly not now.
• 1:11:58
  There isn't there isn't much he can do
• 1:12:00
  internationally that will gain favor with me except,
• 1:12:03
  you know, end the war in Ukraine.
• 1:12:06
  But even that, you know, what are we,
• 1:12:09
  a year and a half almost in?
• 1:12:11
  You're in three, four months in to his
• 1:12:14
  rule.
• 1:12:16
  And it's still going on.
• 1:12:19
  No, no end in sight.
• 1:12:21
  And so, you know, these pipeline sabotages that
• 1:12:28
  are going on that are happening are breaking
• 1:12:30
  links between Russia and Europe, breaking links between
• 1:12:34
  the Middle East, Straits of Hormuz, all this
• 1:12:38
  stuff is happening huge everywhere.
• 1:12:43
  And so when you when you bring into
• 1:12:46
  the into the mix all the things that
• 1:12:50
  are going on, I really wish we had
• 1:12:55
  calm dialogue and calm discussion, especially from our
• 1:13:01
  own leader.
• 1:13:03
  I would like him to look far more
• 1:13:05
  presidential, but that's me, you know, and I
• 1:13:08
  don't think it's presidential to insult people, to
• 1:13:13
  belittle people, to say that we don't we
• 1:13:17
  got it all covered.
• 1:13:19
  Arrogance, all of those things I don't like
• 1:13:23
  when you're trying to resolve a dispute.
• 1:13:26
  And by the way, they don't help you
• 1:13:28
  resolve disputes, not remotely.
• 1:13:31
  That doesn't help you at all.
• 1:13:34
  And so it's, you know, crazy stuff going
• 1:13:40
  on in the world.
• 1:13:41
  I wanted, you know, and people like Nebenzia,
• 1:13:45
  what he said, the insults that he that
• 1:13:48
  he leveled at Kaya Kallis, that's the way
• 1:13:52
  to insult people.
• 1:13:54
  It's like, look, I'd really like to meet,
• 1:13:58
  how did he put it?
• 1:13:59
  I'd like to meet your history teacher, because
• 1:14:04
  obviously you don't know anything about history.
• 1:14:08
  You know, did you go to school?
• 1:14:10
  Did you go do something?
• 1:14:11
  Because I don't think you get it.
• 1:14:12
  Now, that is a fine way to argue.
• 1:14:17
  You know, you can put that in there.
• 1:14:18
  It's good stuff.
• 1:14:19
  And, and it doesn't require you to go,
• 1:14:22
  geez, you, you, you, you bump in there.
• 1:14:27
  Like Mrs. Othmar, or you can put when
• 1:14:29
  the swear words goes beep, or you put
• 1:14:31
  something like that.
• 1:14:32
  You don't have to do it.
• 1:14:34
  But, but that's the way to insult somebody.
• 1:14:39
  You don't call them idiots.
• 1:14:41
  You know, you just say, hmm, looks like
• 1:14:44
  when God was giving out brains that day,
• 1:14:47
  you thought he said trains.
• 1:14:48
  And you said, you know, I really want
• 1:14:50
  one that doesn't go real fast or something
• 1:14:51
  like that.
• 1:14:52
  You know, that that's a little bit better
• 1:14:54
  way to to couch your insults rather than
• 1:14:57
  going, geez, you moron.
• 1:15:00
  So anyway, but sometimes it's more fun to
• 1:15:02
  be, you know, to call people a moron.
• 1:15:04
  And he's been attacked for much of his
• 1:15:07
  life.
• 1:15:07
  So he's got a bit of victimhood going
• 1:15:10
  on.
• 1:15:11
  Anyway.
• 1:15:13
  I sure wish I'd translated all of the,
• 1:15:17
  the Lavrov thing, because it didn't come out
• 1:15:22
  all that well, because he talked about Ukraine.
• 1:15:26
  He talked about, you know, a summary of
• 1:15:29
  it would be, you know, Moscow and Peking
• 1:15:34
  are still working together.
• 1:15:37
  They have ideas for the world.
• 1:15:39
  They are going to be resolute in how
• 1:15:44
  they come across.
• 1:15:44
  I like listening to Lavrov, but he he
• 1:15:48
  had some asks that he didn't get that
• 1:15:50
  day.
• 1:15:52
  Let's see.
• 1:15:53
  There is something else about NATO.
• 1:15:57
  Get this.
• 1:15:57
  Now I've been to Slovenia and Slovenia is
• 1:16:01
  a country you can get to.
• 1:16:02
  I think it's on the.
• 1:16:03
  How did I get there?
• 1:16:04
  I think it was through the tip of
• 1:16:07
  Italy when you're going up on the top
• 1:16:09
  part of Italy and you go across it.
• 1:16:12
  And I went into Slovenia.
• 1:16:13
  I went to a to a casino there,
• 1:16:17
  not very far across the border, only like
• 1:16:19
  10, 12 miles.
• 1:16:20
  I only spent, you know, an afternoon there.
• 1:16:22
  Had I had a nice dinner, you know,
• 1:16:25
  and went back because I was staying in
• 1:16:27
  Austria and Italy.
• 1:16:30
  So I had a place in Italy and
• 1:16:31
  there was some cool lakes that one of
• 1:16:34
  the most beautiful lake I've ever seen.
• 1:16:37
  And it was fall.
• 1:16:38
  And I particularly like fall anyway.
• 1:16:40
  And I wish I remembered the name of
• 1:16:42
  that lake, because by God, I'd love to
• 1:16:44
  go there again.
• 1:16:45
  It was one of the one of the
• 1:16:46
  prettiest parks I have ever seen.
• 1:16:49
  And it was just.
• 1:16:51
  Wow, you know, if you.
• 1:16:56
  Man, I'm going to have to look that
• 1:16:58
  up.
• 1:16:58
  And that was the same the same few
• 1:17:00
  days that there's a huge, huge set of
• 1:17:05
  swimming pools and beautiful inside that they have
• 1:17:09
  in Germany that I could talk about forever.
• 1:17:12
  You know, these public pools that are inside,
• 1:17:15
  outside, and they are fantastic.
• 1:17:18
  It's not the it's not like a regular
• 1:17:20
  swim pool.
• 1:17:21
  I mean, it's a it's a complex and
• 1:17:24
  high dollar complex and put together extremely well.
• 1:17:29
  And it was it was very, very nice.
• 1:17:30
  Anyway, I'm sorry to get off on a
• 1:17:33
  tangent there, but I always do.
• 1:17:35
  And I want to talk about a NATO
• 1:17:37
  member planning an exit vote.
• 1:17:40
  Slovenia is preparing a referendum on withdrawal from
• 1:17:47
  the bloc as Trump threats deepen the internal
• 1:17:51
  divisions inside of NATO.
• 1:17:54
  Slovenia's newly elected parliamentary speaker is announcing plans
• 1:17:59
  to hold a referendum on withdrawing the country
• 1:18:02
  from NATO as the U.S.-led military bloc
• 1:18:05
  reels from its worst internal crisis in decades
• 1:18:10
  with Washington threatening to pull out from the
• 1:18:12
  organization entirely.
• 1:18:15
  The leader of the Truth Party, a person
• 1:18:18
  named Zoran Stevanic, was elected as the head
• 1:18:22
  of the lower house last week.
• 1:18:24
  Speaking to public broadcasting service, he stated that
• 1:18:28
  the vote on leaving the bloc was a
• 1:18:30
  campaign promise he intends to keep.
• 1:18:33
  We promised the people a referendum on the
• 1:18:36
  issue of leaving NATO, and we will hold
• 1:18:40
  this referendum.
• 1:18:41
  The speaker also signaled a possible visit to
• 1:18:46
  Moscow in the near future, stating that he
• 1:18:50
  would like to build bridges and cooperate with
• 1:18:52
  all countries, regardless of the wall that has
• 1:18:56
  been built between the West and the East
• 1:18:59
  to push for a NATO exit.
• 1:19:02
  Actually, I'm trying to get a Moscow visit
• 1:19:06
  in the near future.
• 1:19:07
  I wonder if I should announce that and
• 1:19:09
  put it in the newspaper.
• 1:19:13
  Maybe I could create some sort of foreign
• 1:19:15
  relations positivity.
• 1:19:18
  Who knows?
• 1:19:19
  But I had to send my passport off
• 1:19:22
  the other day to get my new visa.
• 1:19:25
  My visa expired, and so it's currently in
• 1:19:28
  transit.
• 1:19:28
  We shall see what happens.
• 1:19:32
  But the Speaker of the House said he
• 1:19:34
  does plan on going to push for NATO
• 1:19:37
  exit, comes as the 32-member bloc has
• 1:19:41
  started to crack over President Trump's threats to
• 1:19:45
  withdraw support after European members refused to join
• 1:19:50
  the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran.
• 1:19:53
  Trump has repeatedly lashed out at European partners,
• 1:19:56
  calls them cowards, calls the bloc a paper
• 1:19:59
  tiger, stated that the U.S. membership in
• 1:20:02
  NATO is beyond reconsideration.
• 1:20:05
  His continuing threats to annex Greenland from Denmark
• 1:20:11
  have further escalated tensions.
• 1:20:13
  NATO former NATO Secretary General Jen Stoltenberg stressed
• 1:20:17
  that Trump's threats to withdraw from the bloc
• 1:20:20
  need to be taken seriously, saying that this
• 1:20:22
  is not the law of nature that we
• 1:20:25
  will have NATO forever and that it will
• 1:20:28
  or that it will survive the next 10
• 1:20:31
  years.
• 1:20:32
  Divisions inside have prompted the European nations to
• 1:20:37
  quietly accelerate work on a European NATO contingency
• 1:20:42
  plan, according to the Wall Street Journal.
• 1:20:45
  Officials have been informally drawing up plans to
• 1:20:48
  continue operating on the continent using the bloc's
• 1:20:52
  existing military structure.
• 1:20:54
  Now, I heard this is going to be
• 1:20:56
  huge structure pro-Ukraine, meaning all arms are
• 1:21:02
  going to be built in Ukraine.
• 1:21:04
  They want to start building arms factories in
• 1:21:07
  Ukraine, and Ukraine's been pushing for that anyway.
• 1:21:10
  You know that they want to do it.
• 1:21:11
  They want to be the million-man army
• 1:21:13
  ready to go after Russia at any time.
• 1:21:16
  That's what Ukraine, that's what they thought they
• 1:21:18
  were back in 2022, and that Russia was
• 1:21:23
  just going to fall apart, you know, horrible
• 1:21:25
  idiots.
• 1:21:27
  Obviously, see, now I'm calling people idiots.
• 1:21:29
  I'm just bad as Trump.
• 1:21:32
  But those are general idiots.
• 1:21:34
  I'm not calling people, you know, I'm not
• 1:21:35
  calling Zelensky an or Trump an idiot.
• 1:21:38
  In general, they have idiots for experts.
• 1:21:41
  Let's put it that way.
• 1:21:43
  According to Wall Street Journal report, officials have
• 1:21:45
  been drawing up these plans to reduce the
• 1:21:50
  role of the U.S. entirely.
• 1:21:53
  In Moscow, Russian Security Council Deputy Chair Dmitry
• 1:21:58
  Medvedev has warned that the EU itself is
• 1:22:01
  morphing into a full-fledged military component, and
• 1:22:06
  it would in some ways be way worse
• 1:22:08
  than NATO, arguing that Brussels has been inflating
• 1:22:12
  Russophobic hysteria to an extent to justify a
• 1:22:16
  large-scale military buildup in preparation for war
• 1:22:20
  with Moscow.
• 1:22:23
  Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, speculates that the
• 1:22:27
  U.S. threat to withdraw from NATO could
• 1:22:29
  be intended to shift the primary responsibility for,
• 1:22:33
  quote, containing Russia to Europe in order to
• 1:22:37
  free up Washington's hands in the Chinese direction.
• 1:22:41
  Moscow repeatedly denies any intention to attack NATO
• 1:22:44
  or the EU, argues that such claims are
• 1:22:47
  being used to justify massive investment in arms
• 1:22:51
  amid faltering economic growth.
• 1:22:56
  Whole thing is lunacy.
• 1:23:01
  Um, you know, they're talking about drafting people.
• 1:23:05
  Um, EU defense agency says they're trying to
• 1:23:08
  get all their people to, uh, um, to
• 1:23:13
  draft their young men to go to, well,
• 1:23:16
  they're men cause now they take old ones
• 1:23:18
  too.
• 1:23:18
  It doesn't matter.
• 1:23:19
  Um, I want to tell you about the
• 1:23:21
  IMF and talking about Russia.
• 1:23:23
  Now I've told you many times that, uh,
• 1:23:27
  Russia is a very developed, very modern.
• 1:23:30
  And, uh, now the IMF international monetary fund
• 1:23:35
  has raised the growth outlook for Russia.
• 1:23:38
  Uh, last year we had 0.4%
• 1:23:41
  in America that was adjusted down to came
• 1:23:45
  that, uh, it was artificially high.
• 1:23:48
  And, uh, they're not anticipating a whole lot
• 1:23:51
  of growth this year.
• 1:23:52
  And, uh, people are feeling it, especially because
• 1:23:55
  of the pocket book pinch because of, uh,
• 1:23:58
  fuel prices.
• 1:23:59
  But the IMF is, is raising the growth
• 1:24:02
  outlook for Russia, higher commodity prices while warning
• 1:24:08
  the middle East war is weighing on the
• 1:24:10
  global economy.
• 1:24:12
  The latest world economic outlook released Tuesday, the
• 1:24:16
  IMF said Russia's GDP will expand by 1
• 1:24:20
  .1% in 2026, which is an upward
• 1:24:24
  revision point of a 0.3%. The adjustment
• 1:24:29
  has been driven by higher commodity prices and
• 1:24:33
  the momentum is expected to continue into 2027
• 1:24:38
  inflation in Russia's protect projected at 5.6
• 1:24:42
  % this year down from 8.7%
• 1:24:45
  in 2025.
• 1:24:47
  Uh, Russia's economic development ministry is offering an
• 1:24:52
  optimistic look, estimating that GDP growth, uh, will
• 1:24:56
  really be at 1.3% in 2026
• 1:24:59
  and 2.8 in 2027.
• 1:25:00
  The revised IMF forecast comes as global energy
• 1:25:04
  markets have come under, uh, renewed pressure due
• 1:25:07
  to the U S and Israel war on
• 1:25:10
  Iran.
• 1:25:11
  Um, IMF warns that disruption to oil supply
• 1:25:15
  and damage to critical energy infrastructure raised the
• 1:25:18
  prospect of a major energy crisis.
• 1:25:21
  If these hostilities persist in countries heavily dependent
• 1:25:25
  on energy import are super exposed against this
• 1:25:30
  backdrop, the fund downgraded global growth forecast.
• 1:25:34
  Now expecting the world economy to expand by
• 1:25:38
  3% in 2026 down from 3.4
• 1:25:42
  % previously before rebounding to 3.2 in
• 1:25:47
  2027 expects slower growth in the U S
• 1:25:51
  and a weak dollar.
• 1:25:53
  The fund is also cut its outlook for
• 1:25:56
  the Euro saying the slowdown reflects negative impact
• 1:26:01
  of the middle East conflict and the lingering
• 1:26:03
  effect of higher energy prices since the escalation
• 1:26:08
  of the Ukraine conflict and the drag on
• 1:26:10
  manufacturing resulting there from, with the pressure from
• 1:26:15
  the Euro's appreciation said the report IMF managing
• 1:26:18
  director Kristalina Georgieva warned last week that the
• 1:26:23
  conflict in the middle East has delivered a
• 1:26:25
  major global energy shock saying that world oil
• 1:26:29
  output has fallen by 13% and ripple
• 1:26:33
  effects are going across industry, energy, commodities, and
• 1:26:40
  fertilizers that are just taking a beating.
• 1:26:44
  The wars need to end friends and neighbors.
• 1:26:46
  People need to start making money trying to
• 1:26:49
  get sit back and watch while we shoot
• 1:26:53
  the wad, you know, put it on black
• 1:26:55
  17.
• 1:26:56
  That's what I say, you know, but you
• 1:26:58
  get a one in 36 chance of winning.
• 1:27:00
  Come on.
• 1:27:01
  Those are, those are good odds.
• 1:27:02
  You know, let's take straight to whore moves.
• 1:27:04
  Let's do it.
• 1:27:05
  One in 36 chance, baby.
• 1:27:07
  That's worth it.
• 1:27:08
  Let's do it.
• 1:27:08
  Anyway.
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  I happen to be Samuel trap.
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  This is international flavor.
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  Very glad you're listening today.
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  And every day you can listen from these
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  pictures on TV.
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  Get me going.
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  Um, at any rate, um, he, uh, uh,
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  join me tomorrow.
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  Today's going to be a great day for,
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  uh, uh, for, uh, damn radio coming up
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  next.
• 1:27:34
  We have, uh, the damn swag coming up
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  and there are other shows all day.
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  You can always go to damn radio.com
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  forward slash schedule.
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  You can listen to old, older podcasts or
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  previous podcasts at damn radio.com forward slash
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  You can listen to prior international flavor episodes
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  at international flavor.com coming up Friday.
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  I want to point out for you a
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  special, um, event on a civic outlaws.
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  Got some new, uh, some new facts to
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  go over with your friends and neighbors.
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  Look forward to seeing you seven to eight
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  30 on a Friday.
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  Anyway, thanks for joining me today.
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  And I hope you have a beautiful mid
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  Missouri day.