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NATO’s Ukraine War, Britain’s Political Theater, and Iran’s Hormuz Hotline in a Multipolar Morning · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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Hello, good morning, welcome.
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I am Samuel Trapp and this is International
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Flavor.
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You're listening to damaradio.com forward slash live
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this Tuesday morning the 23rd of June.
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Isn't today the summer, what do they call
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it, solstice, the summer, the longest day of
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the year?
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Or was it two days ago and I
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missed it?
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Are we on the downhill slide?
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See, I always said when I was on
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my way to 40 that it was all
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uphill, you know, 41.
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The average man, at least at that time,
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was living to about 82 and therefore the
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midpoint would be around 41.
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So the rest of it's a downhill slide
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that just keeps getting closer and closer.
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Impending doom is coming for us murderous bastards.
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It's on the way and we're not sure
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how we're going to handle it when we're
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called to the, what was that line, the
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seats of judgment and the court of the
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Lord isn't like the court of any earthly
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court that you can trick and bamboozle as
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apparently is the want of many who engage
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in legal or lawfare as they call it
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in some circles.
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What are we doing today?
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Today happens to be an all day long
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Tuesday, if you can believe it.
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Tuesday, when it's Tuesday, it goes the full
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24 hours, you know, and that, you know,
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once I discovered that, it was really a
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surprise to me.
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I have an interview with a state rep
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coming in later today.
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We're going to do some recordings and interview
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him.
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That would be awesome.
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I don't know if I'm going to pick
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a time on it, but I may actually
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be, you know what I was going to
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do?
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I was going to have a look at,
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because sometimes I just like to look at,
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you know, it'd be really fun to end
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my sentence right there with at, with a
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hanging or a hanging preposition or a dangling
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sentence.
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I haven't even completed this sentence and I
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can leave it with a preposition like people
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who end sentences with at.
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Where are you at?
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That's, it's very Missouri of you to say
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it that way.
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Thank you.
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Where are you at?
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Where be you?
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I don't know.
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Why can't we say it any way we
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feel like?
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Well, because there are grammatical rules, people, and
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you must follow them.
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Certainly, if you're going to engage in producing
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content on, uh, on, uh, damn radio.
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You know, there's a grammar test to get
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in here.
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If you want to have a show, contact
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me.
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I'll help you get in because there's a
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pretty serious grammar test to make sure that
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you can speak appropriately and you can't be
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running around saying things like Missouri.
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You know, you can't, you're not allowed to
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say that.
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That's not permitted because it sounds fake.
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Sounds practiced with many people who would say
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Missouri.
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No, we say Missouri because why it's spelled
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with an I, not an A H.
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And so what we're going to do real
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quick is have a look at the old
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schedule and what with Jr not coming on
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until two on this wonderful Tuesday, I'm believing
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that, uh, my show is going to go
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all the way till nine, like it does.
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Then I'm going to take a break and
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I'm going to conduct an interview or a
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discussion.
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That's more fun to do a discussion in
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an interview, uh, probably around 10 with a
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gentleman who's running for speaker, uh, and is
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a rep this year.
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And, uh, you know, we wish to discuss
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things with him.
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Uh, I have some very interesting, well, things
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that are of interest to me.
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I don't know if it's of interest to
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him, but I want to chat with him
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and, uh, see where he goes.
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I don't know him very well.
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I've met him a few times.
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And, uh, and I like going into the,
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uh, what with having a, uh, a, uh,
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uh, charitable organization called civic outlaws that we
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do our podcast every Friday.
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I may use it for that.
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Uh, but either way I'm doing some interviews.
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If you're interested in providing some questions, you
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can send them to me by email, uh,
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Samuel T at international flavor.com or always,
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uh, live at damn radio.com.
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And you can send in your information here.
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Sometimes I actually read it.
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I think it's, I have to open it
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up.
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And a lot of times I forget to
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open it up.
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So there you have it.
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And, uh, I don't know where it goes.
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Let's see if you get to the, uh,
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to the news, that's where we're going today.
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I wanted to join with you yesterday and
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talk some about what occurred yesterday, because, um,
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I think, and I'm going to quickly go
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through this because I like to do it
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every week.
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And yesterday I didn't do it.
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Um, I watched, uh, most weeks I watched,
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uh, Soloveyov, uh, Vecher's Soloveyov.
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And, uh, I watch an evening with, uh,
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Soloveyov.
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And like I told you, I really liked
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the format.
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I think it would be really entertaining to
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have a format of people sitting in a
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room, just bring in the, like he, he
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brings in like 12 every week, every show.
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And he has, uh, uh, six in the
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first session and then six in the second
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session.
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And he, he gives a topic in on
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the evening with Soloveyov from a Sunday, he
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opened up with, uh, uh, uh, condemnation of
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the rocket attacks into Russia and framed it
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as the, uh, European U.S. Ukrainian attacks,
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not, uh, this is not just Ukraine and
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it never has been.
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It's a, it's a rather large, uh, attack
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by all of NATO.
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And so the core frame is that, you
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know, here Russia is under attack, not merely
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Ukrainian attack.
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They're under attack from NATO, the whole NATO
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block.
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And so Ukraine, which we all know this
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to be true.
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So, uh, you don't hear this in, in,
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in, in the West as much, but even
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so everybody still knows it's the case because
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Ukraine, they can't afford even their basic needs
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right now.
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They got nothing and they are living completely
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off of donations from the West.
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And I don't mean to laugh about that,
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but they got nothing that their country's, uh,
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very decimated and corrupt anyway.
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And, uh, now it's even worse and, uh,
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they are extremely corrupt over there.
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The they're used to it that way.
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They're probably the most corrupt government in the
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world.
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And, uh, it's, it's not even a bad
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joke anymore.
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No, it's not.
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Everybody knows it.
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And, uh, it's not, they, they never mentioned
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that.
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Oh, by the way, and, and nobody wants
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you to understand this.
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And I don't know why they act like
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everybody's morons because they're not.
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And, uh, they, they want to have you
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believe that, uh, Zelensky is a properly, uh,
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uh, elected leader.
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He wasn't 2019.
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He's supposed to be gone in May of
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2024.
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And we're a full two years of martial
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law of him, dictating of him, jailing all
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of his, uh, anybody who's against him.
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And you don't even have to be only
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political and the political guys that are leaving
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are getting large parachutes to, to, to run
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off to Israel or to wherever else they're
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off to.
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And, uh, you know, large villas in, uh,
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the, the, the Caribbean or the Mediterranean, um,
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or off to Israel and like, um, oh
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man, now I can't remember his name, but,
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uh, uh, all of his chiefs of staff,
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this is where they go.
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All of his former advisors are gone.
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Searsky, uh, is trying to save himself over
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in, um, uh, uh, Konstantinovka.
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He's trying to save himself over there.
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Searsky is the commanding general and, uh, the
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former commanding general ran off to England and
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was appointed the, after he was blamed for
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the losses of the, uh, offensives of the
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two years ago, three years almost, they sent
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him off to England to be the ambassador.
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And there's a strong likelihood that he will
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be, uh, um, against Zelensky for president when
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the elections, if they ever do occur, finally
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do.
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So everybody knows that Ukraine is a huge
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mess.
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It's a large sinkhole in the budget of
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Europe.
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It's, uh, uh, the, the Ukrainian sinkhole collapsing
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into, uh, oblivion perhaps, but that's not how
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they're propagandizing it and advertising it.
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And, uh, Russia.
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So I, I, I watched a show the
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other day that came across as, uh, Ukraine
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is sending missiles now steadily into Russia instead
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of, uh, just the drones, a couple hundred
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a day drones into here and there and
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everywhere.
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And, um, now they're sending missiles as well.
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And Ukraine cannot send missiles independently.
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They're being sent from somewhere and these, uh,
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the targeting data is coming from France, from
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England, from Germany, from the United States, through
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Starlink.
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This is how they are targeting.
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Ukraine cannot target their own.
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Uh, they try to claim that they can
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by saying, Oh, gee, we're going to make
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some of these in, uh, we're going to
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make some of these in, uh, Ukraine.
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Now we're going to make storm shadows in
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Ukraine or whatever.
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Uh, that doesn't mean the targeting is any
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less Western.
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It's any less the ability for you to,
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uh, uh, uh, create your own.
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You still gotta target them with data.
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You don't have a satellite system.
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You don't have any targeting ability.
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You have to, you get it from your
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NATO, uh, your partners.
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You compliment my partner, my, our partners.
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Yeah.
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Our partners.
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Yeah.
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Your, your gay partners is what we're talking
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to guys.
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It'll keep on funding you.
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Uh, cause it's a, it's a bad marriage,
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but, uh, they're going to keep on funding
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you because they like to stick it to
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Russia if they can.
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And, uh, that's the only reason they're still
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funding you.
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They wouldn't fund you if it was a
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positive for them.
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They are, they fund you because you're corrupt
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and it's easy to launder money through you.
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And so these are the themes.
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And so when, when you watch the core
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of these frames, uh, from the Russian side,
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Russian television of any sort, and especially Solovyov
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is not framing these attacks as Ukraine hit
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Russia.
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Uh, just like here, they would advertise every
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time they'd say the war in Ukraine, they'd
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say Putin's unprovoked war in Russia, or they'd
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create some kind of adjectival description of what
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it is and how it's a evil doing
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from the very beginning.
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Well, you can say the Ukrainian sinkhole X,
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uh, exploits of NATO, uh, in attacking Russia,
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or, you know, the core frame is the
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non-independence it's, uh, the NATO's direct war
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against Moscow with missiles that are being thrown
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by Ukraine perhaps is the best way to
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explain the war instead of pretending, uh, which
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nobody believes anyway, that Ukraine is acting independently.
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Only the extremely stupid believe that Ukraine is
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doing all of this independently because everybody knows
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the money is, is only two for, I
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mean, their pensions, everything is paid by the
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West.
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There is no GDP.
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There's nothing left.
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And, uh, the only thing they can do
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is keep on keeping on, but they're not
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doing it on the front lines.
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All they have left is the propaganda war.
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That is it.
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And the only way they can continue it
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is with, if missiles are supplied, uh, somebody
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reported yesterday, um, uh, not on BBC, I
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think it was an Al Jazeera thing that
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they said that, uh, Starmer leaving that in
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his last, uh, his last, uh, minutes, it
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was, uh, last minutes and on.
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Well, he's still in office, but I mean
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that he is supplying and giving authorization to
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use British, uh, storm shadows to, uh, attack
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inside of, uh, Ukraine and all the, and
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all the data.
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And, uh, meanwhile, pumping up England and going,
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Russia's going to attack, you know, well, the
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only way they would is if you provoked
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them.
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And even then they'd be a foolish thing.
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You're too damn far away.
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Would, I mean, it's the only reason you
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get to attack Russia is because you're, you're
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passing all your crap off to Ukraine, but
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they had a lot of money invested in,
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uh, Odessa, uh, England in specifics.
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And that's, that's, uh, um, quite a bit.
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So anyway, they want to talk about the
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Russian economy, all they can do.
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So the economic argument is more of an
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indirect argument.
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And so the Western claim is that these
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strikes inside are weakening Russia, which of course
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they are.
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They, they aren't, um, destroying Russia infrastructure.
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They're frightening people, you know, in there, but
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the resolve is still there.
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Now I haven't been there in a year,
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so I'm, I'm eager to go back and,
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uh, uh, and I will, and, uh, and
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I'm going to do it fairly soon.
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I'm hoping it's before, uh, January where I'm
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going to go to St. Petersburg for the
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Christmas holidays.
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But, um, but, uh, I'd like to go
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before that.
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I really like fall and, uh, I'd love
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to be fall in a sanatorium for 10
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days.
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That'd be freaking amazing.
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But I also got the brick sting coming
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up and, uh, I'm, I'm trying to figure
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that out as well.
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And that's in India this year.
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So I'm, I'm eager to go to New
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Delhi for that.
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Um, at any rate, the, the panel that
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was discussing this economic argument that Russia is
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collapsing, finally, you know, more sanctions, finally, we're
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package number 21.
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Finally, these sanctions are going to be the
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one that, uh, destroy Russia ultimately, but the
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panel, all of them rejected that claim that
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it's weakening.
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They talk about the failure of sanctions, Russia's
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ability to continue production for wartime.
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And, you know, they have a very heavy
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duty industrial base and NATO's economic pressure hasn't
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translated into battlefield collapse.
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Now there has been some effects recently because,
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uh, somebody got smart and did the same
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thing to Russia that Russia was doing to
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Ukraine.
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They're fighting, um, the, uh, uh, on the
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supply lines in the rear parts, especially in
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the Crimea areas, and they're attacking bridge supply
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routes.
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So there's some, uh, talk that in Zaporizhia
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especially that, uh, the bridge is being knocked
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out and all that are really damaging, but
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Russia is attacking all the bridges in the
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larger cities as well now, which frankly, I
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can't believe they weren't torn out anyway.
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But, uh, they also don't want to rebuild
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all this stuff in the Donbass when they
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go in, they finally do finish up, you
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know, where, where they are.
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And so, um, finish up the takeover of
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the rest of the, uh, of the Donbass.
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Um, they discussed Mark Rutte's claim that Russia
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spends an enormous portion of his budget and
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tax revenue on defense.
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And those numbers, uh, were called out as
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false.
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They're trying to say that, uh, they spend,
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uh, an inordinate number or amount of money
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on defense, but they say Russia is not
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collapsing.
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Europe is overestimating its own industrial capacity, which
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only was successful with Russian, uh, resources.
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The West is forcing Ukraine to consume enormous
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funding and Europe is being militarized and that
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those are both true.
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So Russia sees itself as having adapted into
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a wartime economy rather than having been, uh,
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destroyed by sanctions or having to worry about
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any of those.
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So, eh, not that they didn't, they, they,
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they know about those, um, wartime, uh, effects.
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Definitely.
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They obviously, you know, people are living through
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them, but it doesn't, they consider it a
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cost, not a collapse.
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And, and, and, and if that doesn't make
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sense to you, it's much more of a
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resolve sort of thing than it is, uh,
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oh gee, we're collapsing.
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That's not, this is a cost of, of
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defending yourself.
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This is what we have to do.
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And, um, so the argument is that Russia's
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adversaries keep mistaking costs for collapse.
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And that is a very different argument, you
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know?
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So, you know, the recent attacks against Russian
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territory are all on, on civilian centers, economic
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centers, uh, buses for God's sake, you know,
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they're, they're, uh, hitting buses, schools, children, family,
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industrial objects, uh, Crimea is hitting, being hit
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hard right now, Kurson region and the broader
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drone campaign, and now missiles.
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It argues, um, the point though, for me,
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when they do this, when they, when they
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do exactly what you're accusing them of, which
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is you have nothing, you can't push back
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the Russians on the front.
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You're not.
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Sierski is losing.
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He, he's in, uh, uh, like I said,
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um, uh, big trouble where he is right
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now.
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And, and there's talk that if he isn't
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successful in holding off the Russians through the
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summer, um, from, uh, Konstantinovka that he's done,
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you know, that he's on the way out
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anyway, and they're going to make it even
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worse for him.
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Um, Ukrainian attacks, uh, yesterday was a holiday
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in, in Russia.
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Well, it's not a holiday.
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It's more of a day of remembrance.
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It's, uh, but they remember it and it
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is the anniversary of Nazi Germany invasion into
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the Soviet union was 22nd of June.
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And, uh, so Ukrainian attacks are designed, especially
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according to them for media effect, because, uh,
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it's a symbolic date.
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It's a day of, of, of memory for
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these people.
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And so, um, they argue that Russian resilience
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was shown then, and it's still shown now
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they're very upset.
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So there was a lot of discussion on
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the show about, um, once again, and Solovyov
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doesn't like it.
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He, he, oh man, he goes, he goes
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nuts, starts yelling about it.
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And, uh, I don't disagree with him, but,
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uh, I don't know what you could do
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about it because the filming of the results,
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for example, I saw a bridge, um, in
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the Crimea region that was, uh, blown to
23:10
bits by Russian or by Ukrainian missiles yesterday.
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And immediately some citizen went up and was
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taking a picture of it and saying, here's
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a bridge and, uh, here's, you know, they've
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destroyed it and here's what it's got.
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And look, they took out this and took
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out that and Solovyov goes bananas.
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He says that the, they ought to be,
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uh, they ought to be arrested.
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Um, he said, and there's a point to
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this.
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It's, it actually is a decent point.
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I don't necessarily agree with how they send
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it out, but, uh, there that these citizens
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in, uh, in Russia that take these videos
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and try to get their, uh, clicks going
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on VKontakte or on YouTube.
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Um, then while YouTube's pretty much a non
24:04
-starter over there anymore, but, um, uh, you're
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helping Ukraine targeting systems and AI route planning.
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So if you give, uh, remember the discussion
24:16
that I had a few, uh, maybe it
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was only last week, but a couple of
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weeks ago that talked about, um, the, um,
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the use of these drones at the children's,
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uh, the pedagogical university where those, uh, children
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or the, well, young, young people were studying
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to become teachers and said that they had
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used AI driven data from people that upload
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their social media on telegram, on Instagram, on
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any of the grams and, uh, use it
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to consolidate targeting data, like geofix all your
25:01
places and take all the data and use
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that video.
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There are services that go out and collect
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it for you, especially with AI and they
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can generate a screen of the inside of
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a building on the other side of the
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planet.
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And then say, here's, here's what we're, because
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people are always uploading something, uh, here in
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America, we do these walkthrough tours of a
25:22
home to sell it.
25:24
And then that is always out there.
25:26
So people have the layout of your home.
25:29
If they're, if they're criminals, they can take
25:31
it.
25:32
Now, if you're, uh, paranoid about that, well,
25:36
you know, that's, that's the way it is,
25:39
but, uh, uh, don't, don't, don't put them
25:41
out.
25:42
But the fact is that most of it
25:44
is most of your privacy is disappearing anyway.
25:47
And that's unfortunate, but true.
25:50
But, uh, these AI planning is helped by
25:54
uploading video of attacks that occurred today.
25:59
So they call all of them call for
26:02
harsh punishment of people who post these videos
26:05
of strike results, um, claiming that, you know,
26:09
these videos are training material for the Ukrainian
26:12
targeting systems, which is true from a military
26:16
intelligence perspective.
26:17
So both sides understand the battlefield is not
26:21
only missiles and drones it's video it's made
26:25
a data it's telegram clips, social media, bragging
26:28
rights, AI, and the public itself as the
26:34
intelligence source, you know, everything that is uploaded,
26:38
tell me you couldn't walk through, you know,
26:40
any building, um, at the lake with AI,
26:45
you probably could.
26:47
And maybe I'll take that experiment and take
26:49
that bet.
26:53
No coffee today.
26:55
So I'm drinking my, uh, my water.
26:57
I'm a very bad water drinker.
27:00
And, uh, so I always take the electrolyte.
27:02
I try to do a couple of them
27:04
a day to propel waters.
27:06
You know, you buy by the crate, like
27:09
$15 a crate, frigging water.
27:12
Okay.
27:13
But I buy it anyway, but I buy
27:16
it for the electrolytes.
27:17
Somebody told me that you can buy these
27:18
packages of, of stuff and put it in
27:20
the regular water.
27:21
And I tried them way too sweet for
27:23
me.
27:23
I got to do something less.
27:25
I like propel cause it's not very sweet.
27:27
And, um, you know, I don't like sugary,
27:30
sugary things.
27:32
Um, let's talk about NATO and these long
27:36
range attacks though, that are enabling this deep
27:39
strike strategy.
27:40
Ukraine does not possess the full technical systems
27:44
needed for deep targeting, route planning, AI support,
27:49
or the fusion of all of these intelligence
27:52
modules together.
27:53
AI is making it easier and you can
27:56
do it here, right?
27:57
But whether or not you fully accept that
27:59
or not, that is what the Russians are
28:02
saying to people.
28:04
Um, from the Russian side, they argue that
28:07
cruise missiles or long range drone attacks are
28:11
not Ukrainian military actions.
28:14
They are Western targeting systems, Western escalation and,
28:19
and Russian domestic psychological trauma or resilience that
28:26
they've got to, um, spend on this.
28:33
So, um, you know, they were very aware
28:36
about Western propaganda.
28:39
Um, they accuse Ukraine and Western governments of
28:43
hiding battlefield losses.
28:45
That is absolutely true of exaggerating Ukrainian success.
28:51
And then, and then I say it's worse
28:53
than an exaggeration of Ukrainian success.
28:56
It is Ukrainian, uh, the lies, you know,
29:03
that these, um, drone strikes are helping in
29:10
Ukraine cause they're not.
29:12
The fact is the war is being lost
29:15
on the front line.
29:17
Although the Ukrainians would have you not don't
29:21
look at that.
29:22
Look at the squirrel over there.
29:23
The squirrel is outside of Moscow where we
29:26
just bombed another gas station.
29:28
And, uh, that's, they're blowing up gas stations.
29:33
And, uh, there was a town in, um,
29:35
Crimea, I think that, uh, fuel remaining fuel
29:42
is only for the government.
29:45
And, uh, the mayor of a city came
29:47
out and said in Russia, in Crimea said,
29:52
all the gas stations are destroyed and, uh,
29:58
we can't, um, provide for you any, uh,
30:06
fuel for your car.
30:07
You can't get gasoline for your car.
30:10
And everything is reserved for the military or
30:14
for government purposes because the military is all
30:19
diesel.
30:19
Okay.
30:20
And, um, the Russians manufacture tons and tons
30:26
of diesel.
30:26
They, they, all kinds of it, but they
30:30
import most of their, uh, unleaded gas from
30:33
other places, including, um, Belarus where they get
30:39
some of it from.
30:40
And, and that's one of the, you know,
30:43
when Zelensky was making his threats against Lukashenko
30:46
the other day, he was saying, quit supplying
30:48
them with gas.
30:49
You know, we're blowing up all their gas
30:51
stations and, uh, you're still supplying them with
30:54
gas.
30:55
They would be, you know, the, the public
30:57
would be on their knees because there's no,
30:59
uh, there's no gas for them to get
31:02
around.
31:03
And, uh, the government is limiting in some
31:06
cities, the amount of gas that you can
31:08
get, or saying it's only, uh, possible for
31:12
you to get it, uh, if you're in
31:15
the government, you know, for, for government vehicles.
31:18
Mm.
31:20
But even most of those are, are all
31:22
diesel and the military's virtually all diesel.
31:28
And, uh, so, but the, the pressure of
31:30
the gas is starting to hit them.
31:33
And so that, that is true.
31:36
Ukraine publicizes Russian damage aggressively.
31:40
I mean, you see that you do see
31:42
on the news over here, it's really weird.
31:44
They don't say crap about Ukraine.
31:48
Entire cities are flat and you don't, and
31:51
I don't mean to laugh about it, but
31:52
there's no news and Ukraine suppresses its own
31:56
damages.
31:57
They don't want people to know instead they're
31:59
still pumping victory, victory, victory.
32:02
And then the West amplifies the Ukrainian propaganda.
32:06
They send it all out and go, look
32:08
at them.
32:08
They're, they're brave and they're fighting off those
32:11
Russians.
32:11
Yeah, but they're losing and you don't catch
32:13
it because you send a drone over the
32:15
same, same principle as going in and attacking
32:18
Kursk a couple of years ago.
32:21
Uh, but Russia should tighten the, you know,
32:25
what they were saying, Solovyov especially was that
32:30
Russia should increase the penalties and tighten the
32:35
law on public strike footage.
32:38
Um, Ukraine propaganda is built around, you know,
32:44
various spectacles, you know, drones, refinery fires, dramatic
32:49
videos, and their claims that they're technologically superior
32:54
to, uh, to Russia and the Ukraine and
32:59
the West side say Russian propaganda is built
33:04
around inevitability, patience, endurance, historical destiny, and the
33:12
Russian steamroller.
33:13
But the real question is which propaganda line
33:17
matches the battlefield reality and, uh, Ukraine, their
33:23
drone war is a complete substitute for any
33:26
success on the ground.
33:28
And it proves nothing regarding a strategic victory.
33:34
Um, uh, Raya Alexandrovka, Konstantinovka, Liman Krasny, and
33:42
Krasny Liman, uh, the Slavyansk Kramatorsk, uh, areas,
33:48
Kharkov and forced evacuations.
33:51
These are themes all over Ukraine that they
33:55
just keep more cities.
33:57
What about, uh, uh, uh, the cities we
34:03
were talking about, uh, last year, uh, and
34:07
all those cities that now people have forgotten
34:09
that are gone.
34:10
What about, um, um, the losses on the
34:15
battlefield?
34:16
You never get them.
34:17
So the Russian argument is pretty simple.
34:19
If Ukraine is winning, um, why are they
34:23
evacuating more and more towns?
34:27
Russia has advanced, whatever it is, 20, 20,
34:30
30 kilometers into, uh, uh, Kharkov and into,
34:37
uh, Sumy regions.
34:40
And, uh, if, if people are leaving these
34:44
large areas and Ukraine is evacuating people out
34:50
of them, how are you winning?
34:54
It just makes no sense to me.
34:57
It's a very strong logic.
35:01
You got problems.
35:03
And what about the body exchanges?
35:06
You know, um, Russia has returned literally a
35:11
hundred times more bodies than any bodies that,
35:16
uh, uh, you know, than it has received
35:18
back.
35:19
So, and this happens all the time when
35:22
they change bodies, Russia will report numbers like,
35:26
and Ukraine will too, that here's your, here's
35:29
your 30, 60 fallen soldiers repatriating their, uh,
35:37
their, uh, remains to their homeland.
35:42
Ukraine doesn't want them.
35:44
Number one, they can't afford them because every,
35:47
every time a body comes back, it's, uh,
35:51
uh, literally, um, a couple of $300,000
35:56
that has to be paid out to the
35:59
families.
35:59
They don't want to accept them.
36:00
And they leave them sit in Russia, you
36:03
know, frozen as long as, uh, as long
36:06
as possible because they don't have the money
36:08
to come up with it.
36:09
And it didn't, they have to.
36:10
So Zelensky goes on his, um, grifting tour
36:13
of Europe and the rest of the world,
36:16
uh, fairly frequently and goes out and, uh,
36:20
has his hand out everywhere and, um, you
36:23
know, pushes the charity case.
36:26
And so the numbers that are turned over
36:29
are consistently reported as, as minuscule on the
36:35
Russian side of bodies that are turned over
36:37
and Russia will turn over 10,000, you
36:41
know, for, they'll turn over a thousand and
36:44
get back in response, you know, 40, you
36:47
know, it, and these numbers are consistent.
36:49
So the body exchange is its own propaganda
36:54
battlefield.
36:55
And they're right.
36:56
These ratios, um, argue that Ukraine is suffering
37:00
a far greater losses than Russia.
37:03
Now I see it as numbers that might
37:06
not necessarily be, um, uh, unexplainable because I
37:15
believe they are explainable.
37:17
The numbers can, um, show the Russia is
37:24
advancing.
37:25
So if you consider that Russia is advancing,
37:28
if Ukraine was going the other direction, they'd
37:31
be collecting the bodies of the fallen as
37:34
they advanced.
37:35
So the Russians are collecting the dead bodies
37:38
of soldiers as they advance.
37:41
All this does is indicate that they are
37:44
advancing and they're collecting the bodies when they
37:48
do it.
37:48
So of course they'd collect their own bodies.
37:51
So we have no idea, you know, as
37:53
well as the Ukrainian soldiers, they have no
37:56
idea how many, um, but, um, how many
38:00
Ukrainian, how many Russian bodies that they don't
38:07
report that we don't have those numbers on
38:09
the West because Russia doesn't release them.
38:11
But Russia is all too eager to send
38:14
out that, Oh gee, we collected 10,000
38:16
bodies and you turned over 23.
38:18
Well, that makes sense because Russia's advancing.
38:25
So Ukraine avoids emphasizing these ratios for sure
38:29
because the casualty perception affects the morale, the
38:33
more advanced mobilization, these boosification fights, uh, and,
38:39
and, and any Western support, you know, collapses
38:42
in that, uh, in that, uh, environment, which
38:47
certainly does.
38:49
Um, we're going to take a break a
38:52
little bit early today, um, before we begin
38:56
part two and we're going to play for
39:01
you a mix of songs.
39:04
The last is six whole minutes.
39:07
How do you like that?
39:08
But I like this and, uh, I maybe
39:12
you will too.
39:13
It's a Hamid Shaks.
39:15
It's a playlist.
39:16
It's pretty cool.
39:17
And, uh, it's, it's, uh, the original of,
39:20
of dreams on here.
39:22
So enjoy.
39:26
Very nice.
39:29
So I like listen to that type of
39:30
music and, um, it, uh, I don't know
39:35
if you've watched them, but, but think about
39:37
this.
39:38
You here's, here's a, a business venture for
39:41
you.
39:42
Um, because this is what's happening in reality,
39:45
get on YouTube and find it so you
39:48
can go.
39:48
And I started watching these things cause I
39:51
don't sleep well.
39:52
And, uh, so I try to find, uh,
39:55
like the sounds of rain or the sounds
39:58
of beaches or whatever.
39:59
Some of the best sleep I ever had
40:02
was, uh, when I was in the military
40:04
and I would sleep in the front, in
40:07
the front of a, of a truck with
40:10
a hut on the back, you know, so
40:12
you'd have a pickup truck, basically with a,
40:14
with a hut on the back with all
40:16
your electronic equipment.
40:17
And there were three people on the team.
40:20
One guy would be, um, sleeping in the
40:23
front of the truck for eight hours.
40:25
Truck has to run 24 seven because it
40:27
powers all the equipment in the back.
40:30
And, uh, here's military memories of if you're
40:33
in the field as a collection and jamming
40:35
guy, and, uh, you'd have a collection and
40:38
jamming team, whether you were set together or
40:40
apart depended sometimes, uh, like some, some, you
40:44
could do collection and jamming on the same
40:46
site, but most of the time you were
40:47
either on collection or jamming.
40:49
And on the collection side, those with greater
40:52
linguistic abilities would be on the, uh, on
40:56
the collection side because they can understand what's
40:58
being said and report it back.
41:00
And those without would be on the jamming
41:02
set or those not so good would be
41:05
on the jamming side.
41:07
And, uh, they would be able to, you
41:10
know, they would identify it as Russian language,
41:12
but that may not know exactly what they
41:14
were saying.
41:14
And so you, you would jam.
41:17
Anyway, if you happen to be on a
41:19
jamming team, the generators were loud and enormous,
41:23
but they were also loud in the collection
41:26
collection site because you have a truck with
41:28
a PTO on it that, uh, uh, powers
41:31
the entire back of this, uh, massive energy
41:35
drain.
41:36
And so you need serious power.
41:38
And so the PTO would be kicked in
41:40
all the time and you need to have
41:41
these, uh, you know, if you're within five
41:44
feet of the truck, the sound is like,
41:48
and that's it.
41:49
And that sound goes on 24 seven.
41:51
Well, I loved that.
41:53
You know, the best sleep is to fall
41:56
and get in the front of a pickup
41:57
truck and sleep to that because, uh, you
42:03
know, you don't hear anything else.
42:04
Of course, if any, uh, anybody came to
42:07
blow you up, you know, the fact that
42:08
you, you were not really in a war,
42:11
uh, became apparent because if you were in
42:14
a war, they'd have blown you up anyway,
42:15
because they heard you.
42:17
And, uh, uh, so that's that, that was
42:19
a trouble with some collection and jamming is
42:21
a little more quiet these days, but not
42:23
the jammer portions jammer.
42:25
I'm sure they, well, unless they solve that
42:27
problem somehow, but, uh, you can't have continual,
42:31
uh, uh, jamming without a lot of noise.
42:34
Anyway, I started listening to these, uh, I
42:37
like listening to the sounds of rain, rainstorms,
42:41
thunder, and you can find these things that'll
42:44
get online and they'll play for eight to
42:46
eight to 12 hours.
42:48
You know, you can find a 12 hour
42:50
rainstorm or fire crackling, or, uh, I don't
42:55
know, hell, you can find Christmas music if
42:57
you want or anything on YouTube.
42:59
And so what's been popular lately are these
43:02
AI generated music mixes that people are creating,
43:08
going through the licensing protocols at YouTube and
43:13
then having a 12 hour video circle, AI
43:20
video or rotation of the same video for
43:24
12 hours, this video would go through.
43:28
And in the background you have the sounds
43:31
of thunder or whatever.
43:33
And so you also have a lot of
43:35
this, uh, sort of background music, like the
43:39
one that I just played for you.
43:40
No words, no nothing just plays for, so
43:43
you can find the shorter ones.
43:45
I mean, that was, that one was actually,
43:47
you know, a mix and they have a
43:49
mix of several of these that you can
43:51
get them, but what a business idea, huh?
43:54
It used to, you take, um, you take
43:57
several days, create your library of music, which
44:01
you have to update all the time.
44:03
Nobody wants to watch the same thing.
44:04
The ones right now are all of these,
44:07
uh, well, maybe it's only me, but, uh,
44:09
I don't think so because they got hundreds
44:11
of thousands of views are these, uh, trance
44:14
music things that people are doing and, or
44:18
they'll play a DJ will be at a,
44:22
uh, and I've been to several of these
44:23
shows.
44:24
Um, my wife tells me about the ones
44:26
in, uh, in, uh, Egypt that she goes
44:28
to is very popular over in Qatar, uh,
44:30
that you would go to.
44:31
And that was years ago.
44:32
That was 10 years ago.
44:33
I lived in Qatar and they would, um,
44:36
uh, you could go up on the top
44:37
of a roof of some high rise building
44:40
and they would have a bar and, uh,
44:42
and a DJ up there, you know, and,
44:45
and on one end and then several hundred
44:48
people, you know, an enormous number of people,
44:52
uh, watching the DJ, uh, who is usually,
44:56
uh, uh, uh, a cool looking dude or
44:59
a very attractive young woman.
45:02
So now they're putting those experiences.
45:05
You could just download them and watch them
45:07
on YouTube and, and, uh, some of them
45:09
are live, but now they're all being AI
45:11
generated.
45:12
So you can have these AI generated background,
45:16
the AI generated music, the AI generated vocals,
45:19
the AI generated beautiful woman to Mount on
45:23
the, on the thing.
45:23
Who's whatever, whatever perfect woman you want to
45:27
create or man, you know, you can create.
45:30
And so you create, people are creating their,
45:33
um, avatar and this avatar goes out and
45:37
they claim it's themselves, but perfect, you know,
45:42
imagine Sam, but, uh, you know, uh, finally
45:46
having shed the 10 pounds he's carrying around
45:48
extra, you know what I mean?
45:50
Something like that.
45:51
So you create these perfect bodies and, uh,
45:54
entertainment is changing as well.
45:57
It's all fake and, uh, it's AI.
46:00
Anyway, I didn't mean to spend time with
46:02
that just to explain a song that I
46:04
played for you, but I have, and you
46:06
know why?
46:06
Cause it's my show.
46:09
Let's talk about, there was some, you know,
46:12
Keir Starmer resigned.
46:13
He was crying yesterday and, uh, uh, you
46:16
know, well, I feel for him, but good
46:19
riddance is, is what I say.
46:22
Uh, and, and I'm not even from, uh,
46:24
England.
46:25
So, you know, that's a plus for the
46:27
world to get rid of that guy.
46:30
And, um, there's a article, uh, put out
46:35
by a person named Konstantin von Hofmeister, who's
46:41
a political culture, uh, commentator from Germany.
46:45
And he wrote a book called the fate
46:47
of white America.
46:49
And he's a director of what's called the
46:51
multipolar press.
46:54
So he wrote the following.
46:58
It's a little longer than I want it
47:01
to be, but, uh, cause I definitely want
47:03
to get to this.
47:04
Iran is setting up a Hormuz hotline with
47:07
the United States.
47:08
We got to cover that story.
47:10
That's going to be fun.
47:11
But first let's talk about the old Starmer
47:14
and the illusion of democracy.
47:17
Okay.
47:18
And by Konstantin von Hofmeister, these are not
47:20
my words.
47:21
I'm sharing them with you, uh, from, uh,
47:24
the multipolar press, uh, British prime minister Starmer's
47:28
resignation Monday exemplifies the cynical sham of democratic
47:33
renewal in a system dominated by globalist plutocratic
47:38
interests.
47:39
Starmer stood outside 10 Downing street and announced
47:42
he was stepping down as leader of the
47:45
labor party and head of government.
47:46
He cynically masked his political execution as a
47:51
voluntary departure made with good grace for the
47:55
sake of the party's chances at the next
47:58
election.
47:59
But the grim reality is that his hand
48:01
was forced by an imploding cabinet and years
48:06
of plummeting approval ratings fueled by economic para
48:09
paralysis, disastrous U-terms and outright voter disgust
48:15
all over England, by the way, um, media
48:19
outlets immediately framed his moment as historic historic
48:26
loss, by the way.
48:29
Uh, but anyway, a signal that the system
48:32
had listened, that accountability had prevailed and that
48:35
Britain can now chart a different course.
48:38
Yet this narrative rings quite hollow.
48:42
Starmer's departure is not a rupture, but another
48:46
installment in a long running political theater designed
48:49
to sustain the illusion of choice while preserving
48:53
the underlying structures of power in contemporary Western
48:58
democracy, genuine transformation remains elusive because the system
49:05
functions less as ruled by the people and
49:10
more as management by a self appointed aristocracy
49:15
whose priorities consistently diverge from those of the
49:21
native population.
49:23
Now I'm sharing this with you because we're
49:25
in the same boat, friends and neighbors.
49:28
That's why I'm sharing this opinion piece with
49:31
you.
49:31
I happen to agree with the bulk of
49:33
it.
49:34
Starmer's labor government, like the conservative administrations that
49:39
preceded it, continued or accelerated policies that many
49:43
voters perceive as detrimental to national interests, record
49:49
levels of legal and illegal immigration, the continued
49:52
aggressive pursuit of net zero carbon targets, which
49:57
have driven up household energy bills through massive
50:00
grid upgrades needed to integrate intermittent wind and
50:05
solar power along with the phasing out of
50:08
cheap fossil fuel and a foreign policy closely
50:13
aligned with supranational institution rather than British priorities,
50:19
remember America first, whatever happened to that, all
50:23
persisted under Starmer's watch.
50:26
And so this is where Nigel Farage is,
50:29
you know, using the Trump agenda, the Trump
50:36
playbook to hopefully get elected, right?
50:40
His resignation changes none, Starmer's, none of these
50:44
trajectories at the structural level.
50:47
A new leader is going to inherit the
50:50
same institutional constraints, the same donor network, the
50:55
same media ecosystem, and the same international commitments.
51:02
This is the same as America, by the
51:04
way, which is why really the only defense
51:08
is what?
51:09
Term limits, friends and neighbors, the term plutocracy
51:13
describes a system in which wealth and concentrated
51:16
economic power determine political outcome far more effectively
51:22
than a ballot.
51:23
In Britain and across the West, this plutocracy
51:27
operates through interlocking networks of finance, multinational corporations,
51:34
media conglomerates, and supranational bodies, such as the
51:39
World Economic Forum, the European Union, even post
51:44
Brexit, its influence is still present in England,
51:49
by the way, and global financial institutions.
51:53
These actors prioritize borderless capital flow, cheap labor,
52:01
regulatory harmonization, and cultural liberalization, because such
52:06
arrangements maximize their return and minimize resistance from
52:12
rooted national communities.
52:15
Frederick Ingalls, who lived for decades in Manchester
52:18
and closely studied Britain's political order, diagnosed the
52:23
same structural reality more than a century earlier.
52:28
In his 1891 introduction to Karl Marx's The
52:33
Civil War in France, Ingalls declared that the
52:37
state is nothing but a machine.
52:40
Remember this, this is important for those of
52:42
you who don't understand your political science.
52:45
Ingalls declared, and he wrote the forward to
52:49
Karl Marx's books, the state is nothing but
52:53
a machine for the oppression of one class
52:56
by another, and indeed in the democratic republic,
53:02
no less than in the monarchy.
53:04
Those are the words of Ingalls.
53:07
He elaborated in The Origin of the Family,
53:11
Private Property, and the State in 1884, that
53:15
universal suffrage functions only as, quote, the gauge
53:20
of the maturity of the working class, and
53:24
cannot and never will be anything more in
53:29
the modern state.
53:30
Now that, telling you, government's been the same
53:34
forever.
53:37
Government is not your friend.
53:40
Excuse me, the TVs are on here in
53:42
the studio, and several minutes ago, there was
53:46
a picture of Ronald Reagan came up with
53:48
a quote next door to it, and it
53:49
said, the most frightening, I'm paraphrasing, the most
53:53
frightening words in the English language are, somebody
53:57
knocks on your door, are, I'm from the
54:00
government, I'm here to help.
54:02
That's absolutely not true.
54:05
Anyway, continuing, for Ingalls, the British parliamentary system,
54:10
even after successive reform acts extended his franchise,
54:15
was not a genuine arena of popular sovereignty,
54:19
but a refined instrument of class rule.
54:23
Alternating parties, like the liberals and the conservatives
54:27
at that time, now it's the same year,
54:30
are you liberal or are you conservative?
54:32
Same damn thing.
54:34
Serve as competing administrative teams for bourgeois interests,
54:40
preserving capitalist dominance behind the formal ritual of
54:44
debate, election, and leadership change.
54:48
Starmer's resignation and the expected elevation of a
54:53
successor fits the pattern precisely, another rotation of
54:58
personnel within an unchanged framework where the plutocratic
55:04
imperative of global capital, immigration policy, and economic
55:10
orthodoxy continue uninterrupted.
55:14
Sounds like the Democrats and the Republicans, doesn't
55:17
it?
55:19
Sustained high immigration depresses wages in lower skilled
55:25
sectors, strains public services, and alters the demographic
55:30
balance in ways that native citizens did not
55:33
vote for.
55:35
Energy policies framed as climate necessity impose costs
55:41
that fall disproportionately on working and middle class
55:44
households, but benefit green tech investors and international
55:49
energy traders.
55:51
Cultural shifts promoted through education, media, and corporate
55:56
diversity mandates harm the shared identity and social
56:01
trust that have historically underpinned stable democracies.
56:06
When voters express discontent through protest, low voter
56:11
turnout, or support for outsider candidates, Donald Trump,
56:17
the response is rarely substantive policy reversal.
56:21
Instead, the system offers a spectacle.
56:27
I mean, is there anything in this article
56:29
so far that is inaccurate in any way
56:33
with our system as well?
56:35
By the way, this is why I'm sharing
56:36
it with you.
56:38
Resignations function as a particularly effective herd control
56:43
mechanism.
56:45
The dramatic exit of the prime minister generates
56:48
wall-to-wall media coverage, parliamentary farce, and
56:52
public catharsis.
56:53
Citizens are encouraged to believe that the system
56:57
works because a failing leader has been removed.
57:01
Joe Biden.
57:03
Historical examples abound.
57:05
Boris Johnson's 2022 downfall involved dozens of ministerial
57:11
resignations within days.
57:13
It was portrayed as a spontaneous revolt of
57:17
principle.
57:18
Liz Truce's brief tenure, remember her?
57:21
She lasted, what, a week?
57:23
Ended in market chaos and swift replacement.
57:26
Theresa May and even Margaret Thatcher's departures carried
57:30
similar dramatic weight.
57:33
Each episode produced intense coverage, temporary polling shift,
57:38
and the sense that accountability mechanisms were indeed
57:41
functioning.
57:42
Yet as the spectacle dissipates, the new occupant
57:46
settles into the same institutional furniture and the
57:51
public attention moves to the next distraction, sports,
57:55
entertainment, or the next celebrity scandal.
58:00
This cycle keeps populations docile.
58:05
The modern equivalent of Roman's bread and circuses
58:09
include expansive welfare systems that foster dependency, ubiquitous
58:15
digital entertainment that dull the people's reasoning faculties,
58:19
like me and the AI music, and a
58:22
news cycle engineered for outrage rather than analysis.
58:27
That's why I like Solovyov so much, by
58:29
the way, because at least you got different
58:33
forms of analysis in a large scale and
58:36
nothing just...
58:37
Not these BS two-second segments that you
58:40
gotta pick a side.
58:43
Oh, look, it's a Ukraine flag, it's yellow
58:45
and blue, isn't that pretty?
58:46
We hate that hammered sickle from old Russians,
58:49
they must be the bad guys.
58:51
All right, bad guys, game over.
58:52
Oh, look, squirrel.
58:54
The mainstream media acts as a ruthless guardian
58:58
of the status quo by relentlessly pushing identity
59:03
-based conflict that fragment public attention and block
59:07
unified opposition to the ruling economic order.
59:11
This calculated distraction deliberately shields depredatory architecture of
59:18
financialization, offshoring, and elite regulatory capture, all while
59:25
advancing policies hostile to the ethno-cultural interests
59:29
of white British people, the destruction of the
59:32
traditional British heritage, and institutional favoritism towards non
59:36
-native groups at the expense of the historic
59:40
majority.
59:41
When frustration builds to the point of threatening
59:44
stability, a high-profile resignation or leadership contest
59:49
is staged.
59:50
The message is clear, your voices have been
59:53
heard, change is coming.
59:55
In practice, the new leader often accelerates elements
59:59
of the previous agenda or introduces cosmetic reform
1:00:02
that leave core power relations absolutely intact.
1:00:08
The illusion of choice is reinforced by the
1:00:11
party system itself.
1:00:13
Now, remember, I'm giving you this and telling
1:00:17
you to analyze the American system in the
1:00:20
same way.
1:00:22
Maybe a little cynically, but we're similar, okay?
1:00:27
Britain's first past the post-electoral framework, winner
1:00:32
-takes-all system in which the candidate with
1:00:34
the most votes in each constituency wins the
1:00:38
seat even without an overall majority, and the
1:00:42
dominance of two major parties with an occasional
1:00:45
third party perturbation create the appearance of alternation
1:00:50
while enforcing convergence on fundamentals.
1:00:55
Now, think about this, because it's the same
1:00:57
in America.
1:00:58
The world has not changed since the time
1:01:02
of Ronald Reagan.
1:01:05
I mean, seriously, Ronald Reagan was the last
1:01:08
great reformer, right?
1:01:09
And what's changed since then?
1:01:12
Through all the, I mean, what have we
1:01:15
had?
1:01:16
Who have we had that's a valuable president
1:01:17
through there?
1:01:18
Seriously, somebody that changed the world.
1:01:22
Trump might, but the rest of them, cookie
1:01:24
cutter.
1:01:25
Trump, frankly, I think is, you know, what
1:01:29
are we, year and a half in?
1:01:32
And I don't see anything different.
1:01:38
It's the same in two and a half,
1:01:40
three and a half, oh shit, I can't
1:01:41
even talk.
1:01:42
Two and a half years from now, they're
1:01:44
just gonna, you know, go right, you know,
1:01:47
oh gee, look, somebody came into office and
1:01:49
issued their own 500 executive orders.
1:01:53
Everything's changed.
1:01:54
Open the gates, get knocked down those walls.
1:01:56
Get those out of the way.
1:01:59
We need to let those immigrants back in.
1:02:03
Outsiders, outsider challenges, whether from reform UK or
1:02:09
any left wing insurgent are contained through negative
1:02:13
media framing, institutional barriers, or co-option.
1:02:20
The result is a managed pluralism in which
1:02:23
voters select from pre-approved options whose differences
1:02:27
are really non-existent, I say, but are
1:02:31
largely stylistic or tactical rather than structural.
1:02:37
Andy Burnham, this is the guy they're talking
1:02:39
about as being the next in line, okay?
1:02:44
Andy Burnham's emergence as a potential successor illustrates
1:02:50
this point.
1:02:52
His by-election triumph was hailed by some
1:02:56
as a rebuke to starmarism, yet Burnham's record
1:02:59
as greater Manchester mayor and his positioning within
1:03:03
Labour's broad church suggest continuity rather than change.
1:03:08
Whether the next occupant hails from the party's
1:03:12
right, center, or soft left, the institutional incentives
1:03:17
push toward accommodation with the plutocratic consensus.
1:03:22
Same with Republican Democrat here, by the way.
1:03:26
True democratic renewal would require mechanisms that genuinely
1:03:31
empower citizens to alter foundational policies, stricter controls
1:03:39
on elite influence through campaign finance reform, actual
1:03:44
referendums on immigration and constitutional questions with a
1:03:48
binding force, and devolution of power that reduces
1:03:53
the distance between rulers and ruled.
1:03:56
Instead, the current arrangement offers periodic leadership musical
1:04:01
chairs while the music global capital preference continues
1:04:06
uninterrupted.
1:04:08
Starmer's resignation will be remembered as another well
1:04:12
-choreographed scene in a production whose directors remain
1:04:17
firmly in their chairs.
1:04:20
The British public, like most citizens across the
1:04:23
West, grow increasingly aware of this dynamic, just
1:04:27
like we are in America.
1:04:30
Polling has shown deep distrust in institutions, which
1:04:34
needs to exist, by the way, and a
1:04:37
sense that the political class operates in its
1:04:40
own interest.
1:04:41
Oh my god, what a revelation.
1:04:43
Did you know that?
1:04:45
We have institutional distrust and a political class
1:04:49
that operates in its own interest, yet awareness
1:04:53
alone does not alter the structure.
1:04:56
Until mechanisms exist for ordinary people to impose
1:05:00
real costs on elites who disregard national interest,
1:05:04
the cycle of spectacle and continuity will persist.
1:05:08
Resignation will come and go.
1:05:11
New puppets will be installed, and the plutocracy,
1:05:15
globalist by nature and insulated from the consequences
1:05:19
of its own preferences, will continue to rule
1:05:23
in democracy's name.
1:05:26
The question is no longer whether the next
1:05:29
leader will be different in any fundamental way.
1:05:32
He will not, but whether citizens will continue
1:05:36
to accept the performance as the substance of
1:05:40
self-government.
1:05:43
Self-government doesn't exist in either system.
1:05:47
It doesn't exist in England, and it sure
1:05:50
as hell doesn't exist here.
1:05:55
It just is not so friends and neighbors.
1:06:01
I wanted to get to today, and I
1:06:03
only got about 15 minutes left.
1:06:07
I wanted to talk a little bit about
1:06:09
Iran, and Andy Burnham, who is prepping for
1:06:16
the takeover.
1:06:20
He is ready.
1:06:24
He's ready.
1:06:25
He's going to be the next one that
1:06:28
we'll have to watch as he's already arrived
1:06:33
at 10 Downing Street.
1:06:39
He gets a new house out of there,
1:06:40
right?
1:06:43
I don't know.
1:06:44
I'm not sure what's going to go on
1:06:46
in the world, but either way, everybody's musical
1:06:49
chairing the leaders of Europe.
1:06:51
Starmer was, what, 16% favorable rating.
1:06:57
Macron is 11% approval rating.
1:07:03
Merz is less.
1:07:08
I think he was over 20, but barely.
1:07:12
It's pretty terrible, these three globalists.
1:07:19
All of them, notably, they call it the
1:07:22
Zelensky curse, by the way.
1:07:25
They all support Ukraine, and they all support
1:07:30
Zelensky.
1:07:31
They all support the Green Goblin.
1:07:38
Here's the new puppet, Andy Burnham, in 2015
1:07:42
labor leadership election.
1:07:45
The first country I will visit, if elected,
1:07:48
is Israel.
1:07:51
Meet the puppet, same as the old one.
1:07:54
This is a Twitter feed.
1:07:57
It's pretty funny.
1:08:00
There's several articles on this out in the
1:08:03
international press, which are one of the main
1:08:06
questions.
1:08:07
Are Andy Burnham and Keir Starmer really different?
1:08:11
Aesthetical differences aside, Starmer and Burnham are both
1:08:15
products of the same political pipeline.
1:08:17
Both were educated in England's elite universities.
1:08:20
Starmer studied at Oxford and Burnham at Cambridge.
1:08:24
Both represent the centrist managerial new labor of
1:08:28
Tony Blair, not the left-wing labor of
1:08:31
Jeremy Corbyn.
1:08:32
Back in 2015, both tried and failed to
1:08:36
prevent Corbyn from taking control of the party
1:08:38
after the resignation of Ed Miliband, with Starmer
1:08:43
endorsing Burnham's failed leadership bid.
1:08:48
These guys are buddies from way back.
1:08:50
Starmer eventually succeeded Corbyn in 2020, used accusations
1:08:55
of antisemitism to oust one of Britain's most
1:08:58
vocal supporters of Palestine.
1:09:00
He has since reshaped the party as Atlanticist,
1:09:07
pro-Israel political force, and there's no indication
1:09:11
that Burnham will abandon this course.
1:09:15
Labor's position on Israel-Palestine and its conflict
1:09:18
is existential for the party.
1:09:21
Under Starmer, Palestinian action was listed as a
1:09:25
terrorist organization, and the PM called for the
1:09:28
policing of language and banning of anti-Israel
1:09:32
protest.
1:09:33
As a result, Labor's left-wing base has
1:09:36
abandoned the party in droves, switching allegiance to
1:09:40
the pro-Palestinian Green Party.
1:09:43
Against public protests and complaints from his own
1:09:46
MPs, Starmer refused to call for a ceasefire
1:09:49
in Gaza in 2023, and affirmed Israel's right
1:09:53
to cut off power and water to the
1:09:56
Strip's two million residents.
1:09:58
They cut off power and water.
1:10:00
Burnham, like Starmer, is a member of Labor
1:10:04
Friends of Israel, a group that only a
1:10:07
quarter of Labor MPs have joined.
1:10:09
He backed Starmer's coup against Corbyn, describing the
1:10:13
party as embroiled in antisemitism, and his 2015
1:10:18
leadership bid, he promised that his first overseas
1:10:22
trip would be going to Israel, which he
1:10:25
praised for its long history of promoting, protecting
1:10:29
minorities, and promoting civil rights.
1:10:35
None of this is going to ingratiate Burnham
1:10:38
with Labor's left-wing, nor will it help
1:10:41
with Muslim voters, two-thirds of whom will
1:10:44
say they no longer consider voting for the
1:10:48
party, according to a poll taken last month.
1:10:53
Burnham backed the Iraq War.
1:10:57
Starmer famously marched against the U.S. invasion
1:11:00
of Iraq in 2003, but prevaricated when the
1:11:04
U.S. and Israel began striking Iran in
1:11:06
February.
1:11:08
After an initial public statement in which he
1:11:11
condemned Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu's attempts to
1:11:14
impose regime change from the skies, Starmer went
1:11:18
on to allow the U.S. military to
1:11:21
conduct what he called defensive strikes on Iran
1:11:25
from British bases.
1:11:27
For his part, Burnham voted in favor of
1:11:30
joining the 2003 invasion of Iraq, a decision
1:11:34
he has since described as agonizing.
1:11:36
However, he went on to vote against formal
1:11:38
inquiries into Britain's conduct in Iraq, and has
1:11:42
said little about the war on Iran, describing
1:11:44
it as not simple.
1:11:47
Like Starmer and every conservative PM since 2022,
1:11:52
Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak, Burnham is
1:11:56
staunchly pro-Ukraine, promising to stand with Ukraine
1:12:02
for as long as it takes.
1:12:06
Hmm.
1:12:07
Crazy freaking sauce.
1:12:11
I wanted to share with you the Hormuz
1:12:14
hotline.
1:12:16
Iran's going to set up a hotline with
1:12:18
the U.S. and other countries to present
1:12:20
and resolve any misunderstandings involving ships transiting the
1:12:26
Straits of Hormuz.
1:12:27
The Strait will henceforth be managed under Iranian
1:12:31
arrangements and will never return to what it
1:12:34
was before the war, Ghalibaf, Mohammed Bagheri Ghalibaf
1:12:39
has said, when he returned from the first
1:12:42
round of talks with the U.S. in
1:12:44
Switzerland.
1:12:45
Problems can arise in the Straits of Hormuz,
1:12:48
so we agreed to establish a center and
1:12:50
a communication line so that if issues occur,
1:12:53
we can resolve them more quickly within a
1:12:56
30-day period.
1:12:58
Well, that's cool.
1:13:00
Yeah, that'll work.
1:13:02
A communication line will not be used to
1:13:05
obtain Iranian permission for passage through the waterway,
1:13:08
he said, saying clearance procedures will remain separate.
1:13:12
Instead, it will serve as a mechanism for
1:13:14
resolving issues involving ships and clarifying potential incidents.
1:13:19
Ghalibaf stressed that Iran will implement international laws
1:13:23
precisely and move quickly to resolve any incidents
1:13:27
or misunderstandings.
1:13:29
Naturally, just as problems may arise in Lebanon
1:13:32
or elsewhere, problems can also arise in the
1:13:35
Strait of Hormuz.
1:13:36
As you've seen in some nights, there may
1:13:39
have even been clashes.
1:13:41
Washington and Tehran agreed on a roadmap toward
1:13:44
a final accord following Qatar and Pakistan mediated
1:13:49
talks at the Swiss resort of Bergenstock over
1:13:53
the weekend.
1:13:54
While no joint statement was released, mediators said
1:13:58
the sides agreed to a 60-day path
1:14:00
toward a deal.
1:14:01
The path toward a deal?
1:14:03
Hmm.
1:14:04
Further technical negotiation and creation of a high
1:14:07
-level committee to oversee the process.
1:14:11
Tehran said the talks focus heavily on practical
1:14:14
economic issues, including the release of $12 billion
1:14:17
in frozen Iranian assets and the lifting of
1:14:22
restrictions on Iranian ports and shipping.
1:14:26
Although shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz
1:14:29
has resumed, ship owners are deeply concerned and
1:14:34
uncertain about how to navigate the waterway amid
1:14:37
conflicting instructions from Iran, the U.S., and
1:14:41
Western insurers.
1:14:42
Iran is warned that vessels will face penalties
1:14:46
or be forced to turn back unless they
1:14:49
obtain prior clearance from Tehran and follow designated
1:14:53
routes closer to the Iranian coast.
1:14:56
The U.S. and some Western insurers, meanwhile,
1:14:59
have advised vessels to use routes along the
1:15:02
Omani side of the waterway under the protection
1:15:05
of U.S. air cover, according to three
1:15:08
shipping industry executives.
1:15:10
The conflicting guidance has left ship owners uncertain
1:15:16
over which route to take, despite the Strait
1:15:20
being open to commercial traffic.
1:15:37
A story written by a guy named Robert
1:15:42
Bridge says only a gun will make an
1:15:47
American feel safe these days.
1:15:49
What does that say about the U.S.
1:15:52
society?
1:15:53
I've had a lot of people tell me.
1:15:55
In fact, I've considered it myself, and perhaps
1:15:58
I should go get one.
1:16:00
But more importantly today, Britain's first gay father
1:16:04
and his husband have been charged with child
1:16:10
sex offenses.
1:16:12
Millionaire football club owner Barry Druitt Barlow and
1:16:18
his spouse face 18 charges.
1:16:21
British businessmen who became known as the country's
1:16:24
first gay father has been charged with child
1:16:27
sex offenses.
1:16:29
Barry Druitt Barlow, 57, was facing a number
1:16:33
of current allegations alongside his current husband, Scott,
1:16:37
who is 32.
1:16:39
The couple, who bought the Essex-based football
1:16:42
club Malden and Tripp TFC in 2025, appeared
1:16:48
at Chelmsford Crown Court on Monday and hit
1:16:51
with 18 more charges, including rape and sex
1:16:56
offenses, child sex offenses.
1:17:01
The new offenses committed between 2013 and 2026.
1:17:07
According to Essex police, they were charged with
1:17:10
two counts of sexual activity with a child,
1:17:12
two counts of paying for sexual service of
1:17:14
a child, five counts of rape, four counts
1:17:17
of sexual assault, among other offensive.
1:17:20
Scott Druitt Barlow faces two additional rape charges
1:17:23
and one count of causing or inciting sexual
1:17:27
activity.
1:17:28
The pair are due to return to court
1:17:29
for a plea hearing in September.
1:17:32
They were remanded to custody in a provisional
1:17:35
trial date of January 18.
1:17:38
Isn't that crazy?
1:17:41
You own a football club and you can't,
1:17:43
you know, sleep with an adult?
1:17:45
Come on, what's your problem?
1:17:49
Let's see.
1:17:53
I believe I'm not going to start this
1:17:55
last story.
1:17:56
I'll just share with you some headlines.
1:17:58
There was a minister, the hawkish Israeli national
1:18:04
security minister, Itamir Ben-Gvir, has rejected U
1:18:10
.S. and Iranian calls to halt military operations
1:18:13
in Lebanon.
1:18:14
And he says that Lebanon should be Israel's
1:18:19
playground.
1:18:20
Yeah, a country that supports terrorism is what
1:18:25
he calls it.
1:18:26
And even with smaller number of soldiers, we
1:18:29
can achieve results if Lebanon is our playground.
1:18:33
He previously wrote on X that all of
1:18:36
Lebanon should burn.
1:18:39
Under a U.S.-Iranian memorandum of understanding, the
1:18:43
sides declared an immediate and permanent termination of
1:18:46
military operations on all fronts, including Lebanon.
1:18:52
So far that hasn't happened, friends and neighbors.
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On Monday, Vice President Vance said very good
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progress was made on the de-confliction mechanism
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for Lebanon during talks with Iran and Switzerland,
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Qatar and Pakistan.
1:19:08
But yeah, but Israel's not there.
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Neither is Lebanon.
1:19:12
They agreed on the creation of a de
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-confliction cell.
1:19:15
Yeah, we'll see about that.
1:19:18
I don't see that as being successful remotely.
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Well, friends and neighbors, it is a happy
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Tuesday.
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Like I said, I think I'm going to
1:19:31
come back on at 10, 1030 live, but
1:19:36
I might only do a recording.
1:19:39
I'm not quite sure how I'm going to
1:19:40
do it in studio with Representative Vernetti that
1:19:44
I'm going to be speaking to and recording
1:19:46
it for use maybe on Friday's Civic Outlaws
1:19:49
and maybe for tomorrow's International Flavor.
1:19:55
But we'll be keeping it and we'll be
1:19:58
doing a recording of all.
1:20:01
It's going to be entertaining and we shall
1:20:07
see.
1:20:07
And it might be just I'll record it
1:20:09
in here and have it go very nice
1:20:12
and we will meet again tomorrow.
1:20:15
I appreciate y'all being here on International
1:20:17
Flavor.
1:20:17
You can listen to damradio.com forward slash
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live.
1:20:21
You can get all the good music and
1:20:23
you can go back for past episodes of
1:20:27
International Flavor by going to internationalflavor.com.
1:20:32
Hope you have a fantabulous mid-Missouri Tuesday.