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Greenland for Sale? The U.S. Purchase Playbook, Venezuela Oil Seizures, BRICS Hype, Zelensky’s Munich Meltdown, plus NATO F-16sality Check · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Hello, good morning, welcome. I am Samuel Trapp. This is International Flavor. You are listening
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  to DAM Radio. I've seen all over the screens today, I didn't know this when I walked in, that
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  the Reverend Jackson is no longer with us. That's truly sad. I don't like to see people,
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  um, important people pass away. You know, I realize everyone has to go through that journey
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  at some point. And I too shall go through that journey at some point. And it'd be nice to
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  hopefully have a person or two speak for me when I, when, uh, when I go is that was an all right
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  dude, you know, something like that. Um, sometimes I'm not so hopeful of that. Sometimes I think,
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  well, of course, you know, but it's a crazy old world out there. And, uh, that guy was,
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  um, if nothing, if he wasn't volatile during the years and, um, it's, um, uh, it's unfortunate,
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  but, uh, all the news is about that. I don't know any of the details. I haven't even looked. In
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  fact, this is the first I saw it this morning. Um, I've been working on a couple of other projects.
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  So if it's been a couple of days, I apologize for being the last to the table. Um, I've been,
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  uh, taking care of some things. The, I tell you what, my, my mind is still full of the, uh, uh,
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  craziness of the, the, um, Munich security conference. Um, I have yesterday I didn't get
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  to it and I thought it would be, I still think it's a valuable lesson to go through what Vladimir
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  Putin, uh, had, uh, said in 2007 versus what Rubio is saying, uh, presently, you know, it's,
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  uh, the, the cheerleading for war, uh, was just nonsensical in, in my thought process for the
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  so-called security conference. They aren't talking about security. They're talking about,
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  uh, the same old crap. Um, but I, I really, uh, uh, I'm tired of the cheerleading for,
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  for more war. I'm tired of the, uh, of the same old standard. Um, meanwhile, all the audio and
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  video coming from Ukraine right now where there's a, so they're supposed to be engaging in, uh,
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  talks. Okay. In Geneva, Russia, Ukraine, United States, Russia has sent its highest level team,
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  um, ever. And so this is a, a pretty good, um, sign in my humble opinion that, uh, perhaps
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  there could be something come of this, but, uh, I really don't think so. You know, I, I, I don't
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  think there's anything going to come of it. We're still, uh, doing the same old crap.
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  A lot of people are saying, well, uh, if anybody has a chance of bringing the world back to some
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  semblance of, uh, normalcy, it's, uh, Trump meaning globalist theory. You know, it's, um,
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  uh, if anybody can bring any, I got an, I got an email yesterday from somebody don't even know who
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  it was unlabeled. And the email was the email said, and it was on X. And, and I, honestly,
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  I don't get on X all that often. I, I should probably get on there right now and see where,
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  where my X feed went, or if anybody made any commentary on mine. And, uh, here's the issue.
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  The problem is that in, uh, that, uh, this, this article came to me, this X post from some guy says,
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  uh, in the, in the article attached said something like, uh, BRICS is dead. BRICS is dead,
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  Russia coming back to the dollar. Okay. And so I read the article and, and I read it. I was like,
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  well, that that's, that's interesting. That's not what the article said inside of it at all.
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  So it's basically clickbait to get somebody like me to go and read it, but that's not what it says.
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  The, the process was, uh, something like this. It was something like, uh, well, here's, here's
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  BRICS, Russia wants to end the war in Ukraine on its own terms. You know, that's what, that's what
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  they want to do. And so there's a suggestion somewhere in there that allegedly somebody
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  passed out that from the Russian side, uh, some foreign minister or another that sent out that
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  we will come back to the dollar. We will come back to the dollar.
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  And what do you think of that? Uh, what's, what's the process on that? And that's it.
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  Somebody allegedly floated the idea. There's nothing definitive about it at all. It's just
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  somebody, you know, asking a question. And the pretty funny part is, is that, uh, every time
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  I beat up on anything, the Trump team does, I am told, well, you just don't understand how Trump
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  works. You don't understand the transactional nature of Trump. Trump is a, uh, transactional
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  guy and he's always engaging in the art of the deal. He's, he's, uh, posturing. It's all posturing
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  with Trump. Life is one big posture event for Trump when he's yelling at somebody on, uh, X,
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  or I'm sorry, uh, true social when he is, you know, wearing his, uh, uh, I'm a dictator and I'm
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  going to take over the world and I'm Greenland's hours. We got to have it that you guys can all
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  kiss off. That doesn't mean what he says. That's just posturing. Uh, obviously he's not posturing
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  Venezuela. He was posturing about, uh, narco terror. That's not anything remotely similar
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  to what he said. And he immediately on air force one, right after the, uh, invasion of, uh,
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  of, uh, Venezuela to steal the leader of a sovereign country, uh, right after it,
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  he completely came out of the closet and said, uh, Oh, by the way, this was all for oil and to
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  keep China out of, uh, Venezuela. So, uh, and, uh, you know, throw Russia in there too. And then
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  he started season Russian boats. And, uh, so those, those are activities. Those are not, uh,
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  posturing in the art of the deal. But this article that was sent on the bricks,
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  uh, was a weak article. Number one, number two, there's no, uh, no real depth to the article.
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  Some, somebody allegedly said, we'll come back to the dollar and here you go. And then somebody
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  is like, see Trump, Trump's killing bricks. All right. Bricks is officially dead because an
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  article was written. And so I posted something and I never post on, on X. I don't really post
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  much on anything anymore. I have an audit automatic post to my show goes out, uh, like on Facebook and,
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  um, a couple other places, you know, but I don't usually get on there anymore. And, and, and right.
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  I used to, you know, get on right lengthy diatribes about this, that, or the other. Now my outlet is
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  right here. And I don't generally do as much of that anymore, or I'll write a formal article,
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  um, publish it in Russia or write a formal article here, publish it in English on my own platform
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  here and on ukraine.ru in, uh, in Russian and a couple other places, or speak with somebody live
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  on the radio or something like that. And I'm trying to get my, uh, my, my Russian language
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  version back up and running again. I've been, I've neglected it for a while. I've been pretty busy
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  with other things lately, other projects, but I do intend to go back to it because I do think
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  it's important to, uh, say that, Hey man, um, you know, I'm interested in a dialogue with people
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  who's a point of view. I may not necessarily agree with, but I'm certainly curious. And,
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  and I think that a lot of Americans are curious and they don't want the BS that is thrown their
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  way all of the time. Like bricks is dead because some Western journalists decided bricks is dead
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  in an effort to get a feeding frenzy going of Trump supporters saying, see, told you bricks
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  is going to be dead because Trump said so he's going to kill bricks. Well, I think that's
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  possible that that's what he's trying to do. I don't think it's very likely he might slow them
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  down. But, uh, but I think that ship has already sailed and a notable, uh, article came out the
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  other day. Where is this? So right now there's some fights in the EU over Russian steel that now
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  they're trying to do the same thing to Russian steel in Europe that they already screwed Europe
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  with Russian low cost gas, Russian low cost oil, and, uh, uh, any sort of petroleum products that
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  coming from, from Russia, any sort of low cost energy of any kind and rare earths of any kind
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  coming from Russia. The goal is still for the West to be able to dominate and tell Russia what
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  they're going to do and artificially keep the price of oil low by stealing 50 million barrels
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  of oil from Venezuela. When you look at your, your, uh, prices of oil in the U S I was, um, uh,
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  pleased like everybody else. When you look at the pumps, but don't think that's not just as
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  artificial as the $4 was several years ago. Um, these are artificial inflations and artificial
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  devaluations. If you can keep us distracted with other positives like OG oil prices and gas prices
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  are affordable. You can hide a lot of, uh, a lot of wrongdoing in that because in general, everybody's,
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  uh, you know, life is looking okay. You know, everybody is able to afford, uh, to drive to
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  grandma's house in, uh, I don't know, Kentucky. And, uh, um, my grandma lived in Cincinnati,
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  but, uh, both of them. And, uh, so, uh, I don't know where you drive, but whatever,
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  maybe you can afford to get there now because gas prices are lower and people can take road trips.
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  One of the best things to do in America is take a road trip. If you haven't gotten on interstate
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  80 headed West, you're missing out people, you know, Custer battlefield out that way,
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  driving across South Dakota and then across Wyoming. Those are an into, into Idaho. Those
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  are fantastic drives and anytime a year, but especially in the summers when you see the
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  planes and, uh, and, and all that stuff. And, uh, there are, are tons and tons of, uh,
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  National parks up that way. So anyway, if you keep the prices of energy low,
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  you can hide a lot of wrongdoing. And so that's a lot to say to get to, uh, to both the Munich
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  security conference, which had nothing to do with Munich, the release at the same time of this
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  anti bricks, uh, I don't know, rhetoric that is, that has come out or that we've defeated them.
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  The Navalny OG, some guys killed him or Putin killed him with frog poison, nonsense. And, um,
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  and I don't even care if it's true. It's still nonsense. It's, and I find it extremely hard
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  to believe. And once again, here's the doubting Sam and me, and, uh, uh, I need to relate to you
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  something about the doubting Sam portion. And I know there's a lot of doubting Americans and I
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  hate to be always questioning. That's been me my entire life. I've I've, I've said that I always
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  questioned just because somebody said it doesn't make it true. And I have always wanted to know
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  more. Yeah. But why? I always have a question. Well, why does that work that way? How does that
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  work that way? I don't get it. I don't get it. Give me something more. I don't just accept the OG.
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  The sky is blue. You know, I want to know, all right, is that really blue? Is it? I see blue as
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  being a lot more blue than this, uh, than this color, you know, maybe my form of blues, a deeper
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  blue. And I want to know why this guy can change colors of different blue or different hue of blue
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  or whatever. And, uh, so I'm just a questioning individual. Okay. And a lot of people don't want
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  to do that. They won't question why gas is suddenly $2 and 40 cents a gallon. And, uh, two years ago,
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  it was $4 also unexplained, also artificial. And, uh, but they won't ask when it's artificially
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  low or who would, you just need to, uh, you know, a lot of people, including me, it's like, man,
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  just shut up and not say anything. You don't want these idiots to raise the price on you again.
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  You know, maybe it's good. We, we stole all this, uh, uh, uh, what do you call it? Uh, petroleum,
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  uh, products from, uh, Venezuela. And maybe it's good that we're, we're keeping the price of oil
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  low globally. And, uh, so that we can defeat, you know, strategically defeat Russia and, but it,
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  and it hurting, it hurts everyone. Okay. And the only ones that are allowed to benefit,
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  according to those who say that, that Trump is the, uh, be all end all and has a huge plan
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  to take over the world for the next three years, um, and, and leave it, uh, it into,
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  you know, a golden period, this three year golden period, you know, unless we can steal,
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  uh, and, and, and put our own people back in Venezuela, put another set in Canada,
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  a third set in, uh, um, Greenland, and then somehow, uh, keep China out of Taiwan and a
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  blow up Iran with Israel. I mean, there's all of these things interlocking and trying to go
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  together. I just sometimes make jokes about it. It's like, yeah, but does one really affect the
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  other? It's, there's no doubt in my mind that the, the theft of a 50 million barrels of oil
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  from Venezuela and claiming that they've given it to us is, uh, uh,
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  you know, effects. There's some effect on it right now. There's conversations going on. And,
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  and, uh, because what the effect is that they're trying to get, it's all over the TV.
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  Even now that Trump was trying to get additionally a break with Iran, they want to take Iran out
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  of where post Maduro Venezuela. They're trying to take a, whatever her name is the,
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  the, uh, I forget her name. Rodriguez. Was it? I can't remember her new name.
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  Um, I, I'm going to say Rodriguez, but what the hell do I know? And, uh, so will Caracas break
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  with Iran? U S is pushing for Venezuela investment and energy sector warrants about
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  legitimacy of legitimacy of Chinese deals. Cause those deals are legitimate. They have
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  legitimate deals on the table where they put a hundred billion dollars or, uh, into, uh, uh,
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  over the last periods of time into Venezuela. So all of these things, maybe they're all
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  background noise for the exact same result that you get to publish on a piece of paper and say,
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  bricks is dead. Okay. Uh, but on the other side of the planet, and maybe that is the case. Okay.
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  Maybe that's the case, but on the other side of the planet, there is an article that came out
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  that says the following world news. Okay. This is a new world news link.
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  This one came out 17th of February today. Bricks needs strategic maritime cooperation,
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  cooperation between the navies of member countries would help protect C lanes said Nikolai
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  Petrushev, the bricks countries need strategic maritime cooperation in order to enhance security
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  along global shipping lanes from Western piracy from Trump stealing ships. And now we need to
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  have some kind of, uh, you know, we're escalating and going war talk here. Uh, Russian presidential
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  aid, Nikolai Petrushev's comments calling for cooperation between bricks countries
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  comes at a time when the U S is seizing tankers all illegally by the way, law firm for you,
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  not for me. I create the law. I am King Trump. And this is, I don't have to worry about those.
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  I seize tankers. Why? Because I claim they are transporting sanctioned oil. And so what, uh,
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  this Petrushev said was we will tap into the potential of bricks, which needs to be given
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  full fledged strategic maritime dimension. He told the Russian outlet argument effective on,
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  and that means arguments and facts, obviously on Monday, the member countries are already conducting
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  joint naval exercises said Petrushev citing drills held in January and February. Um,
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  Oh, let's see. That's what Petrushev said. There's a nice little video of it that you can watch.
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  And then they talk about the joint maritime exercises and how long they run. And it says
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  the will for peace. Uh, and you know what, this, this is a Sam commentary when, when you have an,
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  an, an activity, a war games, something like that, uh, called will for peace 2026.
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  That's a hell of a lot different than golden dagger, uh, 20, 27, you know, where we go in
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  and we kicked the crap out of the next country in line, right. As I started off of the coast of this,
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  these, uh, will for peace started off the coast of Cape town, South Africa,
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  days after the U S forces seized a Russian flagged oil tanker over claims it breached
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  Washington sanctions against Venezuela, Russia, China, and Iran participated in the maneuvers.
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  Petrushev, who was also the chairman of the Russian maritime board said
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  the UAE also took part in the exercises. That's curious. Remember UAE is a block member.
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  Moscow has condemned the recent seizure of Russian cargo vessels, which Western countries conduct
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  under various pretenses. Everything's a pretense with the West. Uh, they get to, uh, impose
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  illegal rules like this. This is not a posturing politically. This is theft. That's all it is.
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  So, but it keeps our gas down or our, our, our, uh, fuel for our vehicles and everything down to,
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  uh, under $2, 50 cents a gallon. So we should all be up and cheering for this type of thing,
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  right? We get a beat up on the Russian and Venezuelan and many other, uh, uh, what do you
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  call it? Economies around the world. Uh, but that's okay. We're America, right? This is, this
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  is, this is what we do as long as we can keep the masses shut up. This is like the, you know,
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  uh, let them eat cake. Uh, what, what was the French queen said? All that let them eat cake,
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  you know, uh, give them cake long as, as long as they got their cake, life is going to be good.
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  Uh, and, and then for us, the cake is the, uh, oil products, right? So NATO countries are plotting
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  an illegal maritime blockade of Russia, particularly in the Baltic and Arctic.
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  Moscow's ambassador to Norway, Nikolai Korchunov said recently the U S led block is developing
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  plans for a partial or complete Naval blockade of the country said the envoy. These comments came
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  after reports that U S defense or UK defense secretary, John Healy met with counterparts in
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  the Baltic and Nordic nations on the sidelines, the Munich security conference, where they were all
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  rattling sabers for war, you know, more war to discuss the seizing of Russia linked oil tankers.
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  And Trump is defending his push for Greenland as a way to counter Russia, China,
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  while Moscow and Beijing dismissed these claims. They're talking about, uh, uh, you know, the,
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  the keeping the sea lanes safe. NATO is planning to increase its military presence in the Arctic
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  around Greenland, a spokesman for the block said earlier this month. Now that's kind of driven by
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  the, uh, um, EU members more than the U S members. And Canada is involved in that as well.
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  And people are like, look, now they're just as worried. Well, first of all, they're not worried
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  that, uh, China or Russia are going to take over Greenland. Nobody's been worried about that.
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  That's not even a serious, uh, complaint. You know, they're not worried about that.
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  It's, it's, it's nonsense for, for us to be claiming that, Oh, gee, that's in the plans,
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  but it is in the plans. And you can believe what Trump says, even if you believe that it's just
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  posturing, you know, and when I first heard it, I laughed about it when he first said it way back
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  when, and, uh, I don't laugh about it anymore. I think the guy's gone off the deep end as far
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  as all that stuff that, Oh, gee, I'm the King. I can do what I want. Got, you know, forget law,
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  law doesn't matter. And law has been completely ignored to so far. And now we're becoming used
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  to it. You know, I've given you lots of discussions about Carney and lots of things about,
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  um, the hedging of bets in the EU and otherwise. And I believe they're all just doing the typical
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  bureaucrat person in power thing. When you're dealing with a big bully is they're just marking
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  time until he's gone. And hopefully they can go back to business as usual. That's why the Marco
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  Rubio rise in the, uh, the keeping of the, uh, unit party, the, uh, uh, Neil cons and the,
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  and the Democrats all, all aligned with the same desires is, uh, will rise again.
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  And now they'll just claim, well, geez, you know, Trump was really good for us
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  because he stole Venezuela. Maybe he'll steal a Greenland. And if they do, they'll never give it
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  back. So they take these extreme positions, but, but I can tell you this, if the America did
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  seize Greenland, they're not going to give it back. Okay. So the, these stories about bricks,
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  uh, creating the, or disappearing because Trump is posturing are far less likely, uh,
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  than further escalation of wartime footing on both sides. And now the discussion about bricks
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  needing strategic maritime cooperation. There's also the article about the steel, which I wish
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  to share with you because now what are we on sanction package? Number, number 20 just went
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  by. I think we're on sanction package number 21 now, you know, to bring Russia to its knees.
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  Um, I'll share with you the, um, uh, we need somebody also urged might even be the same guy
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  urged, uh, retaliation to Western piracy. Um, meanwhile, everybody has to keep, uh,
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  um, naysayers like Orban in line and, uh, kick any Russians out of their country,
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  according to Zelensky. And if you haven't heard his, uh, FU bombs, uh, while he was at the, uh,
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  security conference in, um, in, uh, Munich, you should listen to him. The guy's nuts. And, uh,
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  well, in my opinion, that's of course, Sam's opinion. He may or may not be nuts, but he, uh,
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  certainly, uh, is, is non-diplomatic. Let's put it that way. So the, the next thing I'd like to
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  share with you is the high stakes fight erupting in the EU. This is through Euro news over Russian
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  steel. Lawmakers are attempting a backdoor ban and it's facing resistance from people that rely
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  upon such imports, you know, Russian steel, uh, inexpensive. So the European union is bracing
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  itself for a, yet another fight over proposed ban on Russian steel imports as lawmakers attempt to
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  push restrictions through a legislative backdoor members of the European parliament and EU members.
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  All these people are unelected by the way, uh, state, uh, you know, they will begin negotiations
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  next week on whether now to completely ban Russian steel in line with a wider EU sanctions campaign
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  over Ukraine. So the standard people, Belgium, Italy, Czech Republic, and Denmark are resisting
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  this measure saying they rely on Russian semi-finished steel for further processing
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  said Euro news on Tuesday. What began as sanctions debate morphed into a high stakes political fight
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  according to the outlet. Uh, so the attached steel ban, you know, they have attached it to a
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  separate piece of legislation like we do in the United States. You know, you could have legislation
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  on who knows what, um, I don't know, uh, the banning of, uh, building buildings in, um, uh,
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  state parks say that, and you have one topic and what you can do is you can throw on in there
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  something about transgender rights, you know, and the slide that in as part of another, well,
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  here's a paragraph. And by the way, uh, nobody can say the word transgender on the airwaves
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  without, uh, paying a fine, you know, something like that. And you can just slide in a little
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  paragraph and get people to say, well, gee, I want this one thing, and I don't really care
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  about transgender rights. All right. I'll sign it. Well, that's what they're trying to do in Europe
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  is a slide in with a separate piece of legislation, a bill renewing steel safeguards
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  that expire in June under world trade organization rule safeguards are designed to protect the EU
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  steel industry from global over a global overcapacity. Unlike sanctions that require
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  unanimous support, trade files need only a qualified majority. So they're back to the same
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  old tricks. The maneuver allows the European parliament to bypass countries that otherwise
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  could veto Orban. Hello. The parliament is playing politics. Again, an industry source told Euronews
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  one diplomat insists that banning Russian steel and protecting the EU from overcapacity totally
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  are totally different goals. Russia consistently dismisses sanctions on production. Uh, Moscow
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  maintains a measure hurts EU more than hurts Russia. That's absolutely true. Uh, Russia has
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  a pretty captive audience to the east. The European union doesn't produce enough steel and
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  semi-finished products to meet its own needs and is heavily reliant on imports. Gee, wonder where
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  they'll get them. Perhaps the U S and our gas prices will go down even further. So the campaign
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  is being led by Swedish MP, uh, Karen Carlsboro, who has expressed astonishment that EU imports
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  of Russian steel are nearly 3 million tons annually or $1.78 billion. Sweden produces
• 30:25
  semi-finished steel as well, including steel slabs. The volume of Russian imports is equivalent to
• 30:32
  Sweden's entire yearly steel output. Current EU sanctions prohibit Russian finished steel.
• 30:40
  Semi-finished steel remains permitted under quota system designed to phase it out by 2028.
• 30:46
  So there you have it. Um, let's talk about what the, the U S is, uh, attempting to do here was,
• 30:56
  there was an interesting, uh, article I've talked a little bit about it. And, uh, then I want to get
• 31:02
  into my, my review of, uh, of, of Putin, because I want to share that with you and let's see here,
• 31:13
  but can you buy a country is the name of the article came out this morning. Um, and it's a
• 31:23
  reasonably long article. And so, uh, and it has some, um, uh, some, uh, pretty good facts in it.
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  That's why I want to share it. I like this story and it's by a guy named Evgeny Norin,
• 31:36
  and he's a Russian journalist and historian. And, uh, you know, he's focused on war conflict and,
• 31:43
  you know, history, and it's a pretty good article, you know, full of, uh, maps and, uh, stories.
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  So in, uh, it's short enough. It's not going to take long, five, eight minutes, something like
• 31:55
  that. Uh, when U S president Trump revived the idea of buying Greenland and refused to, to rule
• 32:02
  out stronger measures, if Denmark declined, I'll take it over, sell it to me, or I'm going to come
• 32:08
  kick your ass. Uh, the reactions across Europe were swift and indignant. The proposal was framed
• 32:14
  as an anachronism, a throwback to Imperial horse trading. We always want to talk about whenever
• 32:20
  Trump speaks, he's only horse trading. It's art of the deal that modern international politics has
• 32:25
  supposedly outgrown, but they haven't, we still do it. Um, but if we don't get what we want,
• 32:31
  we just go steal it. But the outrage obscures an uncomfortable historic reality. United States,
• 32:38
  not only forged through revolution and war, it also builds through transactions, large-scale
• 32:47
  territorial purchases concluded at moments when the balance of power left the seller with limited
• 32:54
  options. Now that's where Trump is creating these options. That's why I wanted to share these and
• 33:00
  Trump is engaging in the deal. So those of you who, who live, breathe, and eat Trump, you're
• 33:06
  going to love this. You're going to eat all this stuff up. You know that, Oh, geez, he's great
• 33:10
  salesman. Well, he's not supposed to be a salesman. He's looking out for us. No, he's creating his
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  legacy. And that's all he's doing. Uh, from continental expanses to strategic islands,
• 33:23
  Washington repeatedly has expanded its reach by writing checks backed by leverage backed by
• 33:31
  military leverage. I say if the idea of buying land now sounds jarring, it is worth recalling
• 33:39
  that some of the largest such deals help shape the United States into the country we know today
• 33:46
  to understand why Greenland debate resonates so strongly. We need to revisit the major
• 33:52
  acquisition that redrew the American map, Louisiana, the biggest purchase French
• 34:02
  explorers ventured into the Mississippi Valley in the late 17th century, claiming new territory
• 34:08
  and name this vast expanse Louisiana after King Louis the 14th in 1718, they established
• 34:17
  New Orleans at the mouth of the Mississippi and gradually populated the colony, not just with
• 34:23
  French settlers, but also through policies enacted by Louis that granted freedom to children born
• 34:31
  of unions between white settlers and black slaves. Still, the population was sparse. The region's bad
• 34:39
  climate and complex relationships with native Americans made settlement difficult. As a result,
• 34:46
  France, France didn't particularly value this territory despite its huge size.
• 34:55
  French Louisiana encompassed not just modern day Louisiana, but either partially or wholly the
• 35:03
  modern States of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Wyoming, North and South
• 35:11
  Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, Texas, only the East half, New Mexico, and even parts of
• 35:21
  Canada. Despite this, it is hard to find a Frenchman. It was hard to find a Frenchman beyond
• 35:30
  New Orleans. Okay. And so they owned all this New Orleans and it went all the way up through
• 35:36
  Ottawa, Canada, Quebec, Canada, and all the way up to Newfoundland almost. Okay. Well,
• 35:44
  all the way to Newfoundland in so different parts of it. And remember, they were huge up in the
• 35:51
  up in the Great Lakes area, the French and Spain owned parts of, you know, Texas, Florida, stuff
• 35:59
  like that. And in between them were, you know, Louisiana is with that port of Louisiana, but it
• 36:06
  went all the way up to Fort Bourbon in, which one is that? It's not Ottawa. It's, well, Quebec and
• 36:17
  Ottawa in Ontario, but up in the Great Lakes areas is where they are. And so these territories were
• 36:26
  ceded by France to Great Britain in the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. Okay. And so Great Britain owned
• 36:35
  the parts that were East, but all that was there, the Louisiana territories were, you know, the 13
• 36:44
  original states basically. And the French had forts everywhere. Fort Bourbon, way up north,
• 36:50
  Fort Dufresne, Fort, these are in Canada, Fort St. Pierre, Fort, I can't even pronounce that one,
• 36:58
  but there are hundreds of them, you know, through Quebec, all the way through there, all these forts.
• 37:02
  Anyway, story continues. 1763, following a seven years war, France ceded Louisiana to Spain.
• 37:09
  The Spanish administration didn't oppress the French settlers and manage the colony
• 37:14
  competently. However, much of this enormous land remained largely uninhabited, aside from the Native
• 37:21
  Americans. The total number of settlers, including black slaves, amounted to several tens of thousands
• 37:26
  of people. By the early 19th century, Europe saw many changes. Napoleon regained control of
• 37:34
  Louisiana, aiming to revive France's overseas empire. However, this ambition crumbled when
• 37:40
  his attempt to restore French rule in Haiti failed. A force sent by Napoleon was decimated
• 37:46
  by black rebels and succumbed to tropical disease. Against this backdrop, Napoleon quickly realized he
• 37:54
  could not hold Louisiana, and the English or Americans would easily seize it. As for the U.S.,
• 38:00
  it had mixed feelings about Louisiana. Controlling the mouth of the Mississippi was crucial,
• 38:04
  but Americans were also wary of potential French aggression.
• 38:08
  Finally, U.S. President Thomas Jefferson initiated negotiations with France for the purchase
• 38:14
  of Louisiana. Napoleon saw this as a big opportunity. He recognized that he could get
• 38:21
  real money by selling the territory, which France didn't really need and couldn't control anyway.
• 38:29
  Jefferson on the American side initially aimed to purchase only New Orleans and the surrounding
• 38:33
  areas and offered $10 million. However, the French surprised their American counterparts.
• 38:39
  They asked for $15 million, but as part of the deal, offered vast territory stretching all the
• 38:46
  way to Canada. Beyond New Orleans, the French essentially sold the freedom to claim land
• 38:53
  inhabited by Native Americans. The French had very little control over this territory,
• 38:58
  and the Native Americans didn't even understand what the sale entailed. In fact, aside from the
• 39:03
  Native Americans, the vast territory was inhabited only by 60,000 settlers, including Black slaves.
• 39:09
  Regardless, the deal was concluded, and America's territory effectively doubled overnight.
• 39:14
  Robert Livingston, one of the founding fathers in the U.S. ambassador to France, famously declared,
• 39:19
  we have lived long, but this is the noblest work of our whole lives.
• 39:26
  From this day, the United States will take their place among the powers of the first rank.
• 39:34
  So you get somebody who can't control a piece of property, and you get to take it all. It's already
• 39:40
  owned by Indians, but you don't care about that. And it goes all the way through the Idaho River,
• 39:48
  or Snake River, whatever that is up there that divides the Idaho line, and almost all the way
• 39:54
  through Montana, all the way up to the Canadian border. And all they really wanted was the port
• 40:01
  to enter the Mississippi, because this was all west of the Mississippi, right? So that's that.
• 40:09
  That was the Louisiana Purchase. Florida, in Louisiana's footsteps. In the case of Louisiana,
• 40:15
  both parties were pleased with the agreement. However, when it came to Florida, the seller
• 40:20
  wasn't particularly thrilled. Spain discovered Florida in 1513. At the time, however, Spain
• 40:30
  didn't see much value in the territory, and early colonization efforts were sluggish. It was
• 40:36
  mainly used as military outpost. In the 18th century, Britain seized Florida from Spain,
• 40:42
  but during the American War of Independence, Spain regained control of the colony.
• 40:47
  Similar to the situation with France and Louisiana, however, formal ownership did not
• 40:52
  equate to actual territory authority in the territory. Meanwhile, American settlers flooded
• 41:00
  into Florida. Conflicts smoldered at the border. American settlers encroached upon Spanish land,
• 41:07
  turned Florida into a constant battleground, including the U.S., Native Americans,
• 41:12
  and occasionally the British. Spain struggled to respond effectively to these incursions.
• 41:19
  Furthermore, between 1807 and 1814, Spain was embroiled in a grueling war against Napoleon,
• 41:26
  during which the French temporarily occupied mainland Spain. And after the war, Spain was
• 41:31
  devastated and unable to fend off the Seminole Indians, who were raiding the colony. Frustrated
• 41:36
  by the issues caused by the Seminoles, the Americans occupied most of Florida, claiming
• 41:42
  that the land had essentially been abandoned. Yeah, Indians don't count. They've abandoned it.
• 41:50
  So, Spain decided that any gain was better than losing the territory outright. America offered
• 41:55
  to compensate Spain five million dollars for the damage resulting from its own invasions,
• 42:01
  and by 1819, Spain had no choice but to cede Florida to the United States. So, that's what
• 42:10
  happened. The Virgin Islands. The 19th century was the age of colonial empire, but the U.S.
• 42:20
  acquired the Virgin Islands in the 20th century, during the First World War. Denmark isn't the
• 42:26
  country that comes to mind when discussing the struggle for control over the Caribbean.
• 42:32
  But in 1672, the Danish West India Company annexed the small island of St. Thomas, followed shortly
• 42:41
  after by the island of St. John. Denmark may have been an unusual colonizer, but its ambitions were
• 42:47
  quite ordinary. The Danes established sugar plantations and relied on slave labor. Sugar
• 42:53
  was the backbone of the Virgin Island economy, but by the mid-19th century, global market prices
• 43:01
  plummeted and prompted the Danes to consider getting rid of this asset. Meanwhile, America
• 43:08
  was interested in acquiring the port of St. Thomas, but at the time, the deal fell through.
• 43:14
  U.S. decided that Alaska was a better investment and purchased it from Russia, which didn't need
• 43:20
  this remote territory. Remember, I did several weeks ago a deal, a couple of months ago, I guess,
• 43:28
  did an analysis of the purchase and why a bridge between, a bridge through the Bering Strait would
• 43:37
  be a useful deal. Anyway, U.S. decided that Alaska was a better investment, purchased it from Russia,
• 43:43
  which didn't need that northern remote territory. For Russia, Alaska was far away, hard to defend.
• 43:48
  All the way on the other end of its huge continental gains that it had already held.
• 43:54
  Plus, the Russians already reaped a quick profit from it. So, the Virgin Islands remained under
• 44:00
  Danish control until the 20th century. During World War I, the Americans revisited the idea
• 44:06
  of acquiring the Virgin Islands. Officially, the U.S. was concerned that Germany might seize Denmark
• 44:14
  and take over the islands, using them as a submarine base. It sounded like a pretext,
• 44:20
  gee, surprise, surprise, since building a base so close to the U.S. would not have been an easy task
• 44:26
  and supplying it would have been even harder. Regardless, the U.S. decided to acquire the Virgin
• 44:32
  Islands and Denmark received an offer it couldn't ignore. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sent a
• 44:40
  clear warning. If Denmark didn't sell the islands,
• 44:45
  America would occupy them, of course, merely to prevent them from falling into German hands.
• 44:52
  To soften the blow, Wilson sweetened the deal with an offer of 25 million in gold,
• 44:59
  which was about half of Denmark's annual budget at the time. Sound familiar?
• 45:07
  Initially, Copenhagen hesitated, especially in the economic significance of the islands growing
• 45:15
  after the opening of the Panama Canal. But the Americans made it clear that the islands
• 45:22
  would fall under U.S. control eventually, either the easy way or the hard way. Sound familiar?
• 45:32
  Denmark held a referendum and handed over the islands to the United States. In August 1916,
• 45:39
  the two sides agreed to the sale. As part of the agreement, the U.S. acknowledged Denmark's rights
• 45:45
  to Greenland. By 1917, all the formalities were settled, the islands changed the flag,
• 45:53
  and Denmark was sold separately in 1944. Interestingly, after World War II, the U.S.
• 46:01
  once again turned its attention to Greenland, seeking to acquire it in the context of the Cold
• 46:08
  War. Denmark refused, though U.S. bases were established there. At one point, a strategic
• 46:15
  bomber carrying nuclear weapons crashed above Greenland, a fact the Danish public was wisely
• 46:23
  kept in the dark about. There was actually an X-Files story about that. They always try to
• 46:30
  keep some of it. So, in that sense, Donald Trump's proposals are less unprecedented than they
• 46:38
  appear. The United States has expanded its territory through purchases for more than
• 46:48
  two centuries. Sometimes, the seller was relieved to dispose of a distant or costly possessions.
• 46:56
  At other times, agreement following mounting pressure and strategic imbalance. Expansion
• 47:03
  through transaction has never been an exception in American history. It is a recurring method.
• 47:11
  Trump's interest in Greenland fits squarely into that historical pattern. Like his predecessors,
• 47:18
  he appears to be drawn to the symbolism of enlarging America's strategic footprint.
• 47:24
  Of course, a better idea might be to wait until Denmark finds itself in a crisis and then come
• 47:33
  out with a bag full of cash. But the wait may be long, and patience is not Trump's strong suit.
• 47:42
  So, I enjoyed that article. I hope you did. And, you know, I don't speak to all of the detail
• 47:50
  in that. But, you know, I know my history, too. I know that we did those. And those purchases,
• 47:58
  whether you agree or disagree, you know, there's a number of people out there that, you know,
• 48:02
  claim no matter what, no matter how you slice it, we didn't own it in the first place. It was not
• 48:09
  France's to sell. You don't just... Going into Venezuela, for example, and just saying,
• 48:19
  well, you're going to come along or not and not give them any money. In fact, you make them pay
• 48:25
  with 50 million barrels of oil is one thing. And at least it's clear, you know, we did that to
• 48:33
  steal your oil, you know, and we admit it perfectly. But I liked the article. I think it was
• 48:41
  great. A very good article. And history. Historic. I like it. Now, I wanted to go to the
• 48:56
  retaliation to... Or the thoughts that have come out on Zelensky's F-bomb. I don't know if
• 49:03
  everybody heard what he said. It hasn't been promoted over here like it is. The guy's really...
• 49:08
  He's a terrible diplomat. All he is is a beggar, wanders around, you know, with his hat in his hand
• 49:14
  and it's always turned upside down so you could put more cash in it. You're right. And so he went
• 49:20
  on a rant the other day in Munich. And so what he said was Ukrainian leader Zelensky delivered a
• 49:31
  profanity-laden tirade, urging Western countries to expel Russian citizens and students. Speaking
• 49:39
  to Politico playbook on the sidelines, the Munich Security Conference Saturday, Zelensky called on
• 49:47
  President Trump and European leaders to ramp up sanctions against Moscow. Europeans still didn't
• 49:55
  put sanctions on nuclear energy of Russians, on the state-run energy company Rosatom, on people,
• 50:04
  on their relatives, on their children that live in Europe, that live in the United States,
• 50:09
  which study in the universities of Europe, which have real estate in the United States,
• 50:14
  said Zelensky. So they have a lot of real estate. They have children, relatives everywhere.
• 50:25
  Fuck away to Russia. Go home, he said. And those are his words. Zelensky's remarks come as the U.S.,
• 50:33
  Russia, Ukraine prepare for round three. And what I, you know, there's very few places you can find
• 50:42
  this. Give this message to Europeans. Europeans made a lot, but didn't put still sanctions
• 50:49
  on nuclear energy of Russians, on Rosatom, on people, on their relatives, on their children,
• 50:55
  which live in Europe, which live in the United States, which study in the universities of Europe,
• 51:01
  which have real estate in the United States. So they have a lot of real estate. They have
• 51:06
  children, relatives everywhere. Fuck away to Russia. Go home. You don't respect anybody in
• 51:14
  the United States. You don't respect rules. You don't respect democracy. You don't respect
• 51:20
  Ukraine, Europe, et cetera. Go home. Why it's not right. So just, I think, to do what he can do.
• 51:29
  I think so. Well, that is your world leader right there. So, fuck away to Russia, right?
• 51:41
  You don't respect Ukraine, Ukrainian democracy. Oh yeah. You're a good world leader,
• 51:51
  showing us what democracy is and can be. No corruption in your country at all. You know,
• 51:58
  Zelensky's remarks come after the U.S., Russia, Ukraine prepare for a third round
• 52:04
  of three-way talks in Geneva. Moscow condemns measures targeting Russian nationals
• 52:09
  and cultural cancellation of everything Russian as Russophobic. I personally disagree with that
• 52:17
  type of behavior. You know, citizens are citizens. You know, you don't get a who knows what.
• 52:24
  And treat them, you know, as expendable. You know, it's nonsense.
• 52:31
  The trip also comes amid a conscription crisis. I have plenty of videos. So there are a couple
• 52:38
  of videos that if you haven't seen them, you should go out and look at them. This is frightening.
• 52:42
  Okay. And the people of Ukraine are fighting back. Now, of course, on the Ukraine side,
• 52:49
  what they say is, gee, those Russians, those are all fake. No, they're not. Those are telegram
• 52:57
  things published by Ukrainian citizens, Ukrainian nationals. And they are putting them out of this
• 53:04
  boosification patrols. You ought to see these horrific videos all over telegram. And what's
• 53:10
  happening is the people are standing up. They almost, so this, they threw an older man out into
• 53:20
  the street when he went up to try to assist in somebody taking a child or whatever. And they
• 53:28
  threw him out in the street. And so he almost got hit by a truck, a big truck, you know, like a
• 53:34
  semi-style truck. And the truck driver got out, ran across the street and started beating
• 53:41
  the military uniformed boosification officers, these recruiters who are actually, you know,
• 53:48
  out stealing citizens from off the street. He went over and started beating them up and they
• 53:53
  started running down the road, running away, going down the road. And the kid they were trying to
• 53:58
  seize and take into custody and throw out on the front lines, he ran the other direction, he escaped.
• 54:05
  And another one, they were beating some kid to throw him into a van, three guys, and a whole
• 54:11
  crowd of people went up. They don't like the way these boosification squads are doing it. The people
• 54:18
  don't like it. And Zelensky told a lie the other day when he said that, well, he has zero fact to
• 54:27
  back it up. He says 90% of Ukraine, 90%, that's not the numbers I saw in any of the latest polls,
• 54:34
  90% still support, he says, no elections, no elections. Here we are coming up on two years
• 54:46
  after his elections were supposed to happen. And he says, oh, no, no, no, the people don't want,
• 54:51
  90% of the people want it, yeah? What'd you get, nine people in a room that also have power,
• 54:58
  or 10 people in a room and nine of them said, gee, let's keep you in as power. Because they don't
• 55:04
  support that. He has no backing of that. Listen to Erstovich, listen to other Ukrainian people
• 55:10
  that are telling the more factual portions than he has the potential to tell, and probably a lot
• 55:18
  less rudely. Zelensky's reputation is tarnished by multiple corruption scandals in his inner circle.
• 55:28
  Two government ministers and his longtime chief of staff have resigned in the last five, six months.
• 55:35
  On Monday, anti-corruption agencies charged former energy minister German Galashenko,
• 55:41
  who tried to leave the country too, and F off to Israel, like his buddy Mindich. And he was
• 55:52
  taking his money laundering of a hundred million kickback schemes in Ukraine from US and Western
• 55:58
  money and headed to Israel. And they caught him at the border and stopped him from going out,
• 56:06
  but they haven't done anything about it. They just said, you can't leave. And so he is there
• 56:10
  in the country. So there you have it. I don't know. I also wanted to give to you a story that
• 56:20
  came out also. Russia has long talked about Western pilots flying F-16s for Ukraine. And
• 56:34
  China, Western mercenaries are fighting on the side of Ukraine, including US and Dutch pilots.
• 56:46
  So the Ukrainian military is secretly using a squadron of NATO pilots to fly the donated
• 56:54
  US-made F-16 jets, said the French outlet, Intelligence Online.
• 57:01
  Moscow has long stated that Western nations are moving closer to a direct conflict with Russia.
• 57:08
  Well, the Ukrainians don't have any pilots left. They're all dead, you know, and it takes a long
• 57:13
  time to figure out how to pilot an F-16. It's not something you just learn overnight.
• 57:19
  The report, which Kiev denies, of course, said the covert missions rely primarily on experienced
• 57:26
  US and Dutch Air Force vets. The foreign personnel are deployed far from the front lines and focus
• 57:33
  on intercepting Russian long-range weapons. They are not part of their original militaries,
• 57:40
  and they work for Kiev as civilian contractors without military rank and outside the Ukrainian
• 57:46
  chain of command. That's impossible unless they're working for the US chain of command.
• 57:52
  A shortage of trained Ukrainian pilots is identified as the main obstacle to using
• 57:57
  the F-16s donated to Kiev. Training courses are reportedly undermined by language barriers,
• 58:04
  lack of qualified trainees, and other issues and have been simplified for speed.
• 58:10
  Shortly after the first F-16s arrived in Ukraine in August of 2024,
• 58:16
  Kiev began losing those pilots in botched air defense missions. Four such incidents
• 58:23
  actually acknowledged, many more that actually occurred, according to the Russians.
• 58:28
  The secret foreign squadron provides pilots with experience needed
• 58:32
  to operate these advanced F-16s, said Intelligence Online. So Moscow says the Ukraine conflict is a
• 58:42
  NATO proxy war. Now they admit it. The French newspaper is now admitting it. These are,
• 58:50
  you know, and I've said this, American intelligence, French intelligence,
• 58:55
  uh, British intelligence are all being supplied by Elon Musk satellites and military satellites
• 59:03
  because otherwise they cannot target Western missiles. They cannot use Western weapons
• 59:10
  without the associated intelligence. That's how it works. So, uh, Western specialists
• 59:19
  have been involved in Ukrainian strikes using storm shadows, scalps. These are air launch
• 59:26
  cruise missiles on Russian territory, especially recently. German officials opposed supplying
• 59:33
  tourist missiles because Ukrainians cannot launch them independently. They also can't launch storm
• 59:40
  shadows, scalps, HIMARS, any of the American ones. They, you know, they can't launch them without,
• 59:47
  um, military intelligence supplied by the source country. So Russia says Western nations in
• 59:57
  support gives recruitment, of course, and mercenaries from among their military veterans.
• 1:00:04
  Ambassador at large Rodion Maroshnik estimates that around 20,000 foreign fighters have taken
• 1:00:12
  part in the conflict on the Ukrainian side. Poland in a recent article, this came out on the 14th of
• 1:00:21
  February, is trying to give amnesty to mercenaries that have fought for Kiev and they will cover all
• 1:00:30
  crimes committed by Polish citizens since when? 2014. 2014. So the lower house of the Polish
• 1:00:43
  parliament adopted legislation that gives amnesty to Polish citizens who fought as mercenaries in
• 1:00:50
  Ukraine at any time, basically after 2014. And they're formalizing Warsaw's endorsement of
• 1:00:57
  participation in the conflict. As long as you're fighting against Russia, fine, you know, we'll
• 1:01:03
  forgive you. Go and kill away. Have fun. The bill was approved by the same and I forget, I forget
• 1:01:12
  how to say that. I knew it at one point on Friday in a near unanimous vote, 406 deputies in favor,
• 1:01:19
  19 abstaining and only four opposing. That's Poland for you. The legislation will now proceed
• 1:01:26
  to the Senate where it is also expected to pass. Amnesty will cover all crimes related to joining
• 1:01:35
  foreign armed forces, offenses that carried a sentence of up to five years in prison that date
• 1:01:40
  back to April 2014. The start of Kiev's so-called anti-terrorist operation, which is what they
• 1:01:49
  called when they were bombing the Donbass and killing their own people. It was an anti-terrorist
• 1:01:56
  operation against the people of Donbass who revolted against Western-backed Maidan coup in
• 1:02:02
  Kiev. You know, when we, and nobody makes any secrets about it now, the Maidan coup really did
• 1:02:09
  happen and it really was supported by people like Victoria Nuland. So Polish officials
• 1:02:16
  frame this legislation as a measure to forgive volunteers, formalizing a pipeline that sent
• 1:02:24
  thousands of Polish fighters to the front lines. The law allows the forgiveness and release into
• 1:02:31
  oblivion of crimes related to mercenary and recruitment activities. Lawmakers also included
• 1:02:39
  a three-month delayed implementation clause to ensure those currently in the trenches will
• 1:02:46
  receive pardons. We got to pardon everybody if they're out killing Russians or even Ukrainians in
• 1:02:55
  the wrong spot. According to Russian estimates, over 15,000 mercenaries from Poland, the U.S.,
• 1:03:01
  and Georgia have fought for Kiev since the escalation in 2022 and nearly 6,500 have been
• 1:03:08
  killed in action. Moscow maintains that foreign nationals fighting for Ukraine do not enjoy the
• 1:03:15
  protections of lawful combatants under the Geneva Convention. That's an interesting argument. I don't
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  know how legally that would play out. Russian officials stated that these individuals are
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  legitimate military targets. Well, of course, if they're fighting in the war, they are targets and
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  will be treated as mercenaries, not prisoners of war. For the Bandarites, they are nothing more
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  than expendable material, said the foreign embassy in Argentina recently and added that Kiev is not
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  interested in these wild geese returning home to tell the truth about the disastrous situation
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  at the front. And that's true. Kiev really doesn't want them to come over.
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  Wow, it's a crazy world out there, you know. I wanted to circle back to what I told you.
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  Some of yesterday. And I want to get to, where is it? Let us get to my
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  discussion about, I think it's important to share with you, a large
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  group of the discussion yesterday that I talked you out and I never finished,
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  that we can finish with Rubio. We got about 25 minutes left in the show, yeah? And I wanted to
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  talk about the, there's seven parts. So one of the speeches that I've encouraged everyone to read
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  is, and I try to frame this as carefully as I can, okay? Because I'm not anti-West.
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  I'm anti a lot of things that the West has done, you know, and I laugh about some of the
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  history repeating itself. You know, here we are, we're going to steal Greenland or force them to
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  sell it to us for, you know, God knows how much money, you know, we'll challenge them to do it
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  and steal it. It's not theirs to sell if the people of Greenland don't want to sell it. But
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  we don't care about them. We just got to pay somebody for it. Well, if you want to pay somebody,
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  pay me. I mean, I can give you as much right as the Danish can. I mean, I don't know. It's an
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  interesting world out there. You're not entitled as just a normal person to have anything if it
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  hasn't been given to you by some king or another, right? So there has to be a legal backing. The US
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  is in the same boat. Your piece of property that you own, how far back do you have to go to show
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  where it is? And is it possible for, historically, for an Indian descendant, if they can prove it,
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  to come back and say, wait a minute, my family lived right here? Well, probably not because
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  they were all nomadic. And you can go, well, wait a minute. They're just a bunch of nomads.
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  And all we did was get rid of their entire nomadic way of life. And they can no longer
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  be nomads because they got to be civilized, right? And so I assume that's the same argument
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  that would be used in Greenland, except those people have had rights to all the properties
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  up there, right? That is, I don't know. It's interesting. But when you talk about all of
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  these things, you always have to circle back to the continued dominance and the way we dominate
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  and the rhetoric of domination and the actual views of domination by seizing ships, by taking
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  over countries, by arresting foreign leaders, by overthrowing governments. And I got plenty of
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  stuff on that. I went back and had a look earlier, a couple of days ago, in preparation
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  for this week's Tales of Woe that I wanted to tell and talk about, again, the record of Russia
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  versus the United States. And I stuck only with those two because those are the big East-West.
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  And I also tried to go after 1990, let's call it, the time period that the wall came down,
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  the Soviet Union collapsed, blah, blah, blah. So just since that time, okay? So the broad record.
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  And Russia has been in, in 1992, Transnistria, which is a separatist state in Moldova. It's a
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  northern state. There was a Russian army contingent based there because Moldova, like Ukraine,
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  was part of the CIS. They're trying to get out of it now. They don't want to be part of the CIS
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  any longer. And supposedly that'll be done this month. But they were always part of the CIS.
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  And they had joint defense things. And so the Russian military was there. Transnistria,
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  the northern state in Moldova, wanted to separate and had a lot of, and it's all Russian. I mean,
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  the further north you went, the more Russian it was. I mean, that entire area had tons and tons
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  of Russians. And Ukraine also, by the way, crossed all through Odessa, all through that.
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  All of that has been Russian for generations, you know, the majority of speakers, including
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  all the way up to Romania and huge portions of Moldova. But Moldova wanted to, you know,
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  they're pre-Ukraine, right? And they're trying to avoid war. And Russia was involved in
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  Transnistria, okay? And Transnistria now, they get to pick their own governor,
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  you know, and they still have a little bit of this freedom. And the Russian
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  foreign troops are still there, okay? They still are sitting there. And
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  Transnistria is really part of the Russian Federation, arguably part of the Russian
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  Federation. And it's an independent, Russian-backed state of Moldova, officially, okay?
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  But on the map, it shows as part of more Russia than it would be. So 2008, there was a Georgian
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  crisis after the US said that Georgia will be part of NATO. The Georgians and the Russians
• 1:10:19
  got into some disputes in there. And so they were involved in that incursion. But that was a
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  former CIS state too, and former territory of the Soviet Union. Crimea, political upheaval in Kyiv
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  in 2014, the Russian forces were deployed to Crimea after a referendum, wherein the people
• 1:10:45
  of Crimea said they wanted to back or wanted to be part of Russia. Donbass, same thing in 2014.
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  And they did that. And that's part of the alleged terrorism that after the upheaval and the throw
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  out of Yanukovych by the Western forces, and seriously backed with all of that, which everybody
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  acknowledges these days, Russia was backing the separatist, protecting Russian-speaking
• 1:11:16
  people and people that wanted to stay part of Russia. Then Syria, Russia was invited into
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  Syria by the Syrian government, had a couple of bases in there. And yes, they were involved in
• 1:11:30
  some militarily, but not much. 2022, Ukraine, but that's it. Okay, now let's, so we have
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  arguably, and all of these are form, except Syria, are former Soviet or CIS portions that have heavy,
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  heavy, heavy Russian populations internally, including in Georgia. Even today, everybody
• 1:11:57
  speaks Russian in Georgia. When I was in Georgia, I spoke Russian all the time, and people spoke
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  Russian back. You know, there are places full of Russians everywhere, and Georgians too, and they
• 1:12:07
  have great food over there. You get a chance to go. Those are facts. That's a factual concept.
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  Okay, during the same time period, let's look at the United States. 1990s, Bosnia, Kosovo,
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  air campaigns, destruction, and not even a referendum. We just went in and announced that
• 1:12:28
  we recognize Kosovo. Kosovo is now independent because we said so, and a couple people may have
• 1:12:35
  said, oh gee, we want to be independent. They still don't control themselves, but you know,
• 1:12:41
  the US and company do, but there you have it. That's Bosnia, Kosovo, those, you know,
• 1:12:51
  incursions, let's call it, supported, this is the US militarily. 2001, Afghanistan invasion for 20
• 1:12:58
  years. We had nothing to do with any of that crap. Shouldn't have been there in the first place. I
• 1:13:03
  have been a disagreeing Samuel with that part the whole time. 2003, Iraq invasion and occupation,
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  regime removed, years of military presence, 2003. 2011, Libya intervention, right? 2014,
• 1:13:22
  Syria, air operations, ongoing operations in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, across several
• 1:13:30
  administrations. Let's go straight to Trump. Missile strikes in Syria in 2017 and 18,
• 1:13:37
  killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in 2020. Continued global, they call it,
• 1:13:45
  counter-terror operations. You know, that's behavior. This is not, you know,
• 1:13:52
  I don't necessarily believe the rhetoric on either side, okay? US has continually used
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  military force globally across the continents repeatedly. And Russians are concentrated
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  only in areas where they are. So when people claim that, oh, gee, you got to watch out,
• 1:14:13
  Russia wants to take over the world, I find little support for that. But I find a lot of support
• 1:14:20
  for what Russia claims all the time. You know, you can't, you know, where's the next war you're
• 1:14:27
  going to take? And it's hard not to find these use of forces, use of force, I mean, as a problem.
• 1:14:37
  I find this problematic. The scale and dispersion are dramatically different. You know, what Russia
• 1:14:44
  does is pretty small. And so this is arithmetic, not ideology. I'm not trying to do that. So if
• 1:14:52
  you want to get into legitimacy arguments, Crimea actually had a referendum. Donbass had a
• 1:14:57
  referendum. Transnistria held referendums. Then governments in the West said, yeah, but those
• 1:15:04
  referendums are BS. Kosovo declares independence. Few people get in a street corner and declare
• 1:15:11
  independence and no referendum. And the moment they declared they were independent, they were
• 1:15:17
  rapidly recognized as a legitimate government by the United States and many European nations.
• 1:15:25
  The only legitimate one, Scotland held a referendum and it was accepted because it occurred under
• 1:15:31
  constitutional British procedure, right? So what determines how you get recognition? It's not the
• 1:15:38
  vote. It's political, always. International legitimacy isn't mechanically derived from
• 1:15:45
  somebody counting a ballot. It's only by the powerful states recognizing that, right? So you
• 1:15:52
  can argue that Crimea's vote was illegitimate. You can do that. And the West is always doing it.
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  But they never even had votes in any other places like Kosovo. They just recognize, oh, yep,
• 1:16:06
  somebody said they're independent. Oh, guess they're independent. That's it. So you can debate
• 1:16:11
  them both. But for me, it is, what do you call it? Not apples to apples. It drives me crazy.
• 1:16:25
  You know, I'm not trying to give you a conspiracy theory. I'm talking about structural power here.
• 1:16:30
  That's what I'm doing. But you can't deny it because it all deals with who is geopolitically
• 1:16:36
  aligned. That's it. And how you get that alignment, whether you get to be the U.S. and take over the
• 1:16:42
  Virgin Islands by sending them some money and saying, well, like it or leave it, you know,
• 1:16:46
  because we are taking it one way or the other. And that article was an interesting article.
• 1:16:53
  Let's talk about NGO influence and political engineering of all these situations. Since
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  1990s, the U.S. funded NGOs, USAID programs, democracy promotion. They claim democracy
• 1:17:04
  promotion initiatives. They're across Europe and any of these former Soviet states.
• 1:17:09
  Supporters say civil society development. That's what we're doing. They didn't have society before.
• 1:17:15
  Everybody else says I'm a critic, you know, me personally. I say it's regime engineering.
• 1:17:23
  You know, both interpretations exists. I believe the stronger argument is engineering of regime
• 1:17:29
  change. But domestic grievances are real on both sides of the fence. External support
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  amplifies or, in fact, creates the outcomes. Right. Influence doesn't automatically equal
• 1:17:43
  orchestration, but influence isn't just imaginary. From Moscow's perspective,
• 1:17:49
  Western backed political movements in neighboring states are viewed not as democracy,
• 1:17:54
  but as encroachment. And that is the security dilemma and the security spiral Putin talked
• 1:18:03
  about. And I only got 10 minutes to go through it. But Putin in 2007 said unipolar dominance
• 1:18:11
  destabilizes. And what I did was I went and took his entire speech from 2007. And I want to read
• 1:18:20
  you some key sections of it that he talked about. And you can take it or leave it doesn't matter to
• 1:18:28
  me. But these are realities. Okay. He talked about unipolarity. He said, figuratively speaking,
• 1:18:39
  I mean, ideological stereotypes, double standards, and other
• 1:18:48
  templates of block thinking. Oh, hold on. We're going to take
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  and call here. Where are we? How do I get this to work? Hello, friends and neighbors.
• 1:19:01
  Hello. Good morning. Good morning. How are you, friend and neighbor? I'm well. I'm well,
• 1:19:08
  just checking on you, making sure you're doing okay. I'm totally fine. How are you?
• 1:19:14
  Oh, I'm good. I was just curious. Were you going to complain about something I said?
• 1:19:17
  Is that why you're calling? No, I'm just checking on your well being. Just
• 1:19:21
  I'm wondering if you are doing okay. You think I have Trump derangement syndrome?
• 1:19:28
  Nope. No, I just I'm just worried about your well being. I heard you laughing hysterically
• 1:19:36
  at how the world's borders are formed. laughing at Trump and
• 1:19:41
  laughing at Trump and
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  with the acquisitions that Woodrow Wilson made and Donald Trump is contemplating?
• 1:19:50
  Of course. Yeah.
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  Do you know what percentage of the world's borders are a result of conquest by chance?
• 1:20:01
  Do you know that number? I'm not talking about conquest. I was talking about purchases.
• 1:20:06
  You've talked about both, sir. Well, that's true. And so who gets to decide the conquest?
• 1:20:14
  You're for conquest, I presume.
• 1:20:18
  Actually, it doesn't matter what I'm for. I'm talking about the the history of the world and
• 1:20:24
  how borders are accumulated. Every border on the planet was done through conquest with the
• 1:20:29
  exceptions of the times United States actually bought stuff.
• 1:20:33
  Well, okay. So what? Where's the next conquest? Did we did we conquer?
• 1:20:40
  Afghanistan, for example, did we conquer Iraq?
• 1:20:44
  Well, I'm just worried about you laughing at world history when 95% of the world's borders
• 1:20:49
  were taken through conquest. And I heard you talking about it with regard to Trump and Woodrow
• 1:20:54
  Wilson and just yucking it up and just like, I'm wondering if you're okay. Well, I'm totally fine.
• 1:21:00
  I'm talking reality. What's gonna happen is... I think that's what I'm talking about is reality.
• 1:21:06
  It's like 99% of the world's conquests or the world's borders came through conquest.
• 1:21:11
  And you just think that's the craziest thing you've ever heard.
• 1:21:14
  Not conquest. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm wondering how you justify seizing,
• 1:21:20
  seizing right now, us today in a democratic world, how you justify seizing a foreign country
• 1:21:31
  under false pretext, by the way, you know, narco terror, OG, let's go in and replace, right?
• 1:21:38
  That that's okay. And you're taking it for what purpose? Is that what we're for? We're for being
• 1:21:45
  the big bully? Is that right? Okay. Um, that's a different topic. I'm talking about
• 1:21:51
  the history of the world here. How did every border come to be on the planet earth?
• 1:21:57
  Of course, I'm laughing about it. From the beginning of time to today,
• 1:22:02
  where's everybody get their borders? Well, okay. Where do we get...
• 1:22:05
  I'm telling you, it's closer to 95 plus percent of the world's borders came through conquest.
• 1:22:10
  I'm just making sure you're okay. Cause you think that's just hysterical.
• 1:22:13
  It's not like, well, that's just world history. I'm just so funny about world history.
• 1:22:18
  I, okay. I'm fine with history. I'm not fine with repeating that history.
• 1:22:24
  No, cause you were laughing cause uh, Roger Wilson just took some property and I'm like,
• 1:22:29
  well, that's how every freaking nation does it.
• 1:22:31
  No, no, no, no, no, no, no. What I was laughing at, what I was laughing at was the parallels
• 1:22:35
  of today and the parallel was he created a pretext said Nazi Germany is gonna
• 1:22:44
  take the Nazi it was a false threat and we're doing the exact same thing right
• 1:22:51
  now false threats of China taking over Venezuela China and Russia taking
• 1:23:00
  Greenland that's what I'm laughing at the continual the continual false
• 1:23:08
  narratives that are used I'll take you to your word all I thought I heard you
• 1:23:14
  laughing what was like the way the world borders have come to be no no I'm
• 1:23:18
  laughing about the repeat of history right now and whether there's nothing
• 1:23:24
  new under the Sun I agree with you right and so how do we justify that in today's
• 1:23:30
  far more intelligent smaller society right back in back in when when Wilson
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  actually I'm not maybe you're alone on that one that's not where I'm coming
• 1:23:41
  from okay well I mean I didn't know that's what you were laughing about do
• 1:23:47
  you believe there's a threat from Russia and China and Greenland a threat I know
• 1:23:54
  that the the future of security is in the Arctic and we need to have our foot
• 1:24:00
  there somewhere otherwise somebody else will I don't like you I don't have a
• 1:24:05
  problem with the United States being the world police force because the United
• 1:24:08
  States unless you are left isn't to grab ahold of is usually a force for good
• 1:24:12
  anything that you've made fun of the United States has done or what you call
• 1:24:16
  the West has been done by leftists but when the United States is doing what
• 1:24:20
  it's supposed to be doing and not we should have been in Afghanistan and
• 1:24:30
  that's that's where we we as America's policemen should be there we should go
• 1:24:34
  bomb the crap for Israel not for us out of Iran right you know what if I have
• 1:24:42
  the world's biggest military I'm gonna use it for good and if it means taking
• 1:24:46
  out evil people I think it's a virtue evil I bet you disagree with me on that
• 1:24:51
  I don't disagree with that I guess I disagree with who gets to define evil
• 1:24:56
  that's always my problem who in the world okay good or bad Maduro is I don't give
• 1:25:04
  a crap he has okay then if he's a threat why can't you be truthful about it why
• 1:25:15
  do you gotta blame it on some kind of narco-terrorist BS that nobody has heard
• 1:25:20
  about now and what happened to him since then where is he now all sorts of
• 1:25:28
  things about how the elections have been stolen
• 1:25:36
  because Venezuela's been controlling all of the elections on this globe for the
• 1:25:39
  past two decades Venezuela's controlling u.s. elections yes I shall listen to
• 1:25:49
  your show and hear that no I listen to you quite a bit but but I haven't heard
• 1:25:57
  that theory thrown out that Maduro you don't have to listen to my show just go
• 1:26:03
  to X and I would probably start with Emerald what's her name the real hot
• 1:26:09
  chick you got me sounds like a stripper to me I'm the strippers I know aren't
• 1:26:21
  named Robinson okay go to X and read the wall on Emerald Robinson she's been
• 1:26:27
  chronicling this for years how Maduro is controlling the world elections well it
• 1:26:33
  predecessor okay I will I will go and read that but how does that justify
• 1:26:44
  narco-terrorism as an excuse to steal oil to steal oil from Venezuela although
• 1:26:54
  I agree with the $2.40 price tag gas I just saw this morning but I think it was
• 1:27:00
  ill-gotten but that's okay I you know I'm I will justify that so I'm just as
• 1:27:06
  big a problem as all the rest that think this is okay activity for a
• 1:27:12
  civilized taking out the ships is all about cutting off money to our enemies
• 1:27:18
  the deep state the CIA that he's cutting off their funds at every at every at
• 1:27:23
  every turn starting with USAID well okay I agree to those in the beginning but
• 1:27:32
  we're down to two minutes in the earth three and I got a boogie so I appreciate
• 1:27:36
  you we should discuss this more I find you highly highly intoxicating with
• 1:27:44
  interesting see you later bye bye and there he goes well there there are
• 1:27:52
  plenty of things to disagree with in that in that discussion and I wanted to
• 1:27:57
  get to the old now I got to save it for tomorrow because I saved all these and
• 1:28:04
  and and I point out how if if you want to believe that well I won't I won't
• 1:28:11
  have time to get to it because I only got a minute and a half and I can't get
• 1:28:14
  that thought off in that time period but in short if you don't understand how
• 1:28:21
  history is created and the the way of the world that was what I'm laughing
• 1:28:26
  about JR is that this is more par for the course creating a narrative for
• 1:28:36
  people to buy into to say oh gee it's great let's take over Greenland oh gee
• 1:28:41
  it's fine let's go beat the snot out of Maduro in Venezuela and if Maduro was
• 1:28:48
  controlling US elections don't take out Missouri fix your elections your
• 1:28:56
  elections if that's the problem all of this has brought about well then let's
• 1:29:02
  deal with the problem we'll go into that tomorrow because now I'm interested now
• 1:29:06
  I'm on a mission but that'll have to be tomorrow because the show is coming to a
• 1:29:11
  conclusion I enjoy this program I do it for you and myself so I appreciate you
• 1:29:19
  listening here at the damn radio.com forward slash live come to us every day
• 1:29:25
  you can listen to all of my programs I store them at international flavor calm
• 1:29:30
  and JR puts them all out at damn radio.com forward slash podcast I
• 1:29:36
  appreciate you being here and challenge him to be here every day from 730 to 9
• 1:29:41
  a.m. Monday through Thursday and Fridays would be the civic outlaws day same time
• 1:29:47
  same bat channel have a good day