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Breaking the Ice: Alaska Summit, Russophobia, and a New Path Forward · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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Well folks, here we go.
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I believe we've started on the topics here
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today.
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Had some pretty wonderful events take place.
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There they were in Alaska.
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I have every reason to believe that they
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had a program and that something will actually
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come from this and that much has been
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discussed.
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Nobody knows the details yet.
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Everybody's still up in their guessing phases but
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hopefully we'll have something that comes pretty soon
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on this topic and we have plenty more
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to go through.
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But I listened to the little 12-minute
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blurb and the most alarming, I don't want
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to say alarming to me, I suppose it's
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alarming because first of all Trump doesn't do
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that very often and what Trump has done
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is he has played a diplomat.
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He has played a diplomatic role.
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What he did was he allowed Putin to
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speak first and frankly that's a big step
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for a guy like Trump.
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What I meant to do before the show
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and I never did was go back and
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review whether or not he allows anybody else
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in America to speak first.
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You know, it would be typical in another
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place but usually the host will speak first
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and introduce someone but in this one Putin
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spoke first and what did Putin speak about?
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What did he talk about?
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He jumped.
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I have the transcript here somewhere.
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Let me tell you what it says and
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I will tell you what this transcript is
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putting on about us and let's go to
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where we are on this.
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Hold on one second while I pull it
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up and we can see because I'm telling
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you the optics of the press conference and
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the significance of Trump's restraint, especially in allowing
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Putin to go first, could have been one
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of the smartest political steps of the old
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Trumpster's career.
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We'll talk about today because remember Russophobia is
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still an enormously popular thing in the West.
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You're supposed to be popular.
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I'm telling you I live in a city
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called Northport and I've told you this before
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on this program and in Northport there are
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all kinds of Russian and Ukrainian speakers.
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They're everywhere.
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So you go to the Ukrainian, I don't
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know, Stolovaya, you go to the international flavor,
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well international flavor, that's me, to the international
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market.
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You know, you go to some of those
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stores and to buy international foods and everybody
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there speaks Russian.
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You know, there are tons of them and
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they all speak Russian and everybody knows they
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speak Russian and they don't like to speak
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Russian sometimes, especially if they're in Ukrainian.
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And so the fun thing to do is
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to pretend that you don't speak Russian or
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to make a point of showing that you
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won't speak Russian.
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So a Ukrainian comes to the United States,
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speaks fluent Russian in a community where everybody
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speaks Russian and they won't speak Russian, they
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speak Ukrainian.
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And I've already told you about the girl,
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little young 17, 18 year old girl who
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knows nothing about any of this history anyway.
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She don't know anything about it and she,
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or very little, she's just, I don't know,
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emotionalizing the entire content.
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You're supposed to hate all Russians and hate
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even the Russian language because you have a
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conflict in your state.
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That is cancel culture at its best, alive
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and well in America.
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So you're supposed to cancel generations, a thousand
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years of Russia.
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Why?
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Because of a single dispute.
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Well, what does that do to Egypt?
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What does that do to the Pharaoh?
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Should Egypt be canceled because they had a
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bad Pharaoh?
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Should Rome be canceled because they took over
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Germania back in, I don't know when.
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Should the Austria-Hungary empire be demonized forever?
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This too will pass.
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I mean, we all know this, but it's
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still the foolishness of the world.
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And Trump recognizing that I think is worthy
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of some sort of note that he did
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allow Putin to speak first.
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But think about this.
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I mean, this happened to me in Istanbul
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yesterday.
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Yesterday in Istanbul, I'm in an elevator and
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it's one of those keyed elevators where the
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floor doesn't work unless you have a key
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for that floor.
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And a couple got on that were speaking.
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It seemed to be Russian, but apparently it
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was Ukrainian because when I said something to
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them in Russian, because they were standing closer
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to the point where you have to mark
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your key, I said something to them in
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Russian about the key.
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You know, I have to touch that with
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the key.
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And then they answered me in English.
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And so I said something again in Russian
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and they said, we won't speak Russian.
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What kind of nonsense is that?
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You are clearly not speaking Turkish.
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And I suppose if you're in Istanbul, you
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should be speaking Turkish.
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I don't speak Turkish.
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You know, their English was terrible and I
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couldn't understand what they were saying.
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And, you know, they speak Russian.
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I don't speak Ukrainian, but oh no, you're
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better.
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I had to push the button and use
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the keypad myself because God forbid they get
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offended by an American speaking Russian.
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God knows if they had any idea, you
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know, that I wasn't Russian either.
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I just thought it would be better to
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attempt to speak Russian with people who speak
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Russian.
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It's how foolish, what kind of world have
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we come to where this is what passes
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for decency in the world.
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It doesn't, not in my book anyway.
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And I read also there was a Reddit
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or I don't use Reddit, but so where
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did I get it?
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I don't remember.
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It could have been on a YouTube part.
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There was a couple, Russian couple living in
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Lithuania.
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So I'm getting ready to go through Lithuania
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to go somewhere.
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And I wanted to check and see, you
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know, whether, and I know that they do,
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you know, their former Soviet Republic, they certainly
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speak Russian or there's going to be plenty
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of people who do speak Russian.
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But I saw something that said it was
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a couple living in Lithuania, Russians that don't
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want to use the Russian language because they
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don't want to offend anybody.
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I don't know.
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I'm tired of this.
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I'm tired of this whole, this whole nonsensical
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debacle and whether or not we should be
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demonizing an entire culture because of a Western
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initiated horror story in a former Soviet Republic,
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Ukraine.
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And they're not alone.
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We're doing it in others as well.
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This is continuing.
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I'm not saying Russia is absolutely and completely
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right here, but I'm saying they had a
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good point.
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You know, they, they certainly had reason to
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be offended.
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So it's, it's unfortunate that we are where
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we are.
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But the fact is, we are where we
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are, and we're going to have to extricate
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ourselves from it somehow.
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Don't you believe that that would be nice
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to do at some point?
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And I think that Trump may have done
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something quite smart in allowing that to be
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the case in allowing Trump, I'm sorry, Putin
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to speak first.
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And you notice what Putin did when he
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started his, where is my transcript?
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Because I have a transcript of this somewhere.
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And I wanted to read you or go
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through what he said, because it's also important
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what he said, because if you, he said
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first, I would like to thank once again,
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my American counterpart for the proposal to travel
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here to Alaska.
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It only makes sense that we meet here
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because our countries, though separated by oceans, are
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very close neighbors.
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So people talk about the romanticism of the
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Russians.
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And that's absolutely true.
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When Scott Ritter and I did our interview,
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you know, a couple of weeks ago, he
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talked about that.
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He talked about his surprise back in college
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days, that he, you know, wanted to meet
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the soul that they talked about with Dostoevsky.
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And I'm telling you that Russians have a
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very romantic streak.
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This was a big deal for Putin.
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And I think that we as Americans, we're
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always fast food, we're always fast food, fast
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everything, fast bucks, fast food, fast politics, and
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fast, fast living.
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And nobody takes the time to smell everything
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or think about how big a deal is.
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But think of how big the deal is
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when no Russian president has ever stepped foot
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in Alaska.
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And here we are.
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So take Putin's point from that.
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So he says, so when we've met, when
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I came out of the plane, and I
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said, Good afternoon, my dear neighbor, he thought
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about that before he said it.
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Okay, he thought about it being first here,
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just so you know.
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And he said, It's very good to see
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you in good health and to see you
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alive.
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That's the fact that people have been trying
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to kill it.
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You know, he wanted to mention that, you
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know, he's, he's positive about that.
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I think it's very neighborly.
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And I think that some kind of words
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that we can have to say to each
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other, meaning we don't have to be enemies,
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here we are together.
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We're separated by the Strait of Bering, though
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there are two islands, though there are only
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two islands, basically between the Russian island and
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the US island.
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We're only four kilometers apart.
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We're very close neighbors.
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And it's a fact.
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It's also important that Alaska has to do
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with our common heritage, common history, and many
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positive events have to do with that territory
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and about that trade deal.
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There's still a tremendous amount of cultural and
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heritage going back to Russian American in Alaska
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specifically, talked about lend leases during the World
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War Two and how military aircraft exchanging aircraft
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themselves and supplies between the two countries through
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Alaska.
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They couldn't do it through Europe, of course.
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And so they had pilots that brought things
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very close.
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And so Putin is doing something important, right?
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And he is doing something that he believes
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to be necessary.
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He did the same thing when he talked
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to Tucker Carlson, where he was given the
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history lecture in the beginning.
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And maybe he did go a little too
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long.
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I don't know.
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But I think that Tucker Carlson didn't understand
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it.
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I think that Trump allowing it to go
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on and not interrupting, I was thinking that
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any minute he would interrupt and say something
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to kind of blow the moment.
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But it was an important moment that I'm
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glad he recognized it and allowed it to
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happen.
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And he said that it was known.
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He then pivoted and said, you know, it's
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known.
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There haven't been any summits between Russia and
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the U.S. for four years.
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And that's a long time.
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It's hard for bilateral relations, let's be frank.
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They have fallen to the lowest point since
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the Cold War.
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And it's not benefitting our countries or the
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world as a whole.
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Those are important statements.
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And it needs to be heard.
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You know, and when you hear it through
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a translator and it doesn't go the way
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you're, you know, or as quickly as you
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want it to go, you know, it has
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to be perhaps beaten into your head a
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little so that you get it.
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And Putin goes on and says, in this
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case, a personal meeting between the two of
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us is long overdue.
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And it's been serious and painstaking work.
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And I hope that it is successful, you
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know.
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And he said, talked about Whitkoff coming and
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traveling to Russia several times and the advisors
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of their foreign ministries, that they're striving, you
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know, to speak personally, to help facilitate a
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resolution of the Ukrainian conflict.
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And Ukraine has to do with fundamental threats
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to Russian security, right?
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And he wants to keep talking about that.
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And we have always considered the Ukrainian nation
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as a brother.
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He said it multiple times.
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However, it may sound as strange as it
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seems.
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We have the same roots and what is
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happening is a terrible wound for us.
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And so, therefore, we're sincerely interested in making
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sure this done.
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I agree with President Trump, as he said,
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that the security of Ukraine should be ensured
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as well.
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And we're prepared to toward that.
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And then they talked about, you know, trying
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to get these dealings, get these things back
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together.
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And, you know, to try to keep Kiev
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and the European Union from throwing a monkey
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into the works, a monkey wrench into the
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system.
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And so there's a lot, a lot riding
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on this is basically what he's saying, but
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he doesn't.
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And he says, I hope that we succeed.
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And he wanted to thank President Trump for
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the work.
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And I think they did a good job.
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This is a very high level thing.
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So when Trump saying he wants to get
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us back on track, let's get back on
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track, basically.
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And he says, I think that overall, Trump
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and I have built a good business life
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and trustworthy contact and have every reason to
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believe that coming down this path, we can
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come to an end to the conflict.
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And then Trump comes in.
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And so Putin only spoke for not quite
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nine minutes.
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And the entire thing was done in 12
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minutes or 13.
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So Trump didn't speak very long at all.
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And he let it go.
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Now, there's been plenty of analysis on it
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that I haven't.
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It's interesting to see what they claim, you
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know, from, because I wanted to put, see
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the special report that we have discussions on
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Lavrov as well.
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And that he says, uh, uh, remember in
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the Lavrov before, before the, uh, summit, who
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was discussing about this and, uh, Trump gave
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it a, uh, percentage of failure of 25%.
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Remember that?
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And he said that, uh, they're hoping that
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this, uh, that this is, uh, something that
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can be resolved, right?
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It's, uh, uh, and so he was far
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more positive and Lavrov is, you know, a
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pretty good, a pretty good foreign minister and
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he's been doing it for a very, very
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long time.
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And so I'm, I'm, I'm hopeful that something
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comes to this.
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I really am.
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And there is so much to discuss and
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to talk about on this end that when
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you get to it, um, let's talk about
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this summit.
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It was a pretty big day.
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Kirill Dmitriev was in Alaska.
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Lavrov was in Alaska.
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Some people are saying, um, that he was
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wearing a, uh, uh, USSR sweatshirt that he
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had in Putin.
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And there are photos of Peskov who's going
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to be traveling with Putin when they went
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to a dinner in Alaska, you know, the
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Russian delegation arrived and, you know, the first
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meeting was a one-on-one between Trump
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and Putin.
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And, uh, so, you know, we wanted to
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know what, what all that, that had, you
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know, what, what they had put out.
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It was, uh, I don't know, they were
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15, 20 minutes away.
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Um, and, and they were still, nobody knew
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what was going to happen.
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Nobody knew.
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And so we don't know what their, uh,
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what the delegation's first initials were, but they
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were, they, they had top military, top economic,
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top, uh, secretary of state activities.
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Everybody was there.
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So they, you know, interesting that Kellogg was
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not there.
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That guy's a waste anyway, because all he's
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going to want to do is, uh, uh,
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I shouldn't say that, but, but we know
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what he's going to say, you know, give
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back everything, you know, this, this has got
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to be taken care of this, this Ukrainian,
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uh, farce has got to be ended.
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You know, it's, uh, they, they, I think
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they've pretty well said that we need to
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talk about the root causes and it is,
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they're still talking about root causes and they're
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still talking about engaging in trade.
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Maybe this can happen.
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And so that this first meeting and hopefully,
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uh, what happened is, is that now Putin
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and company can go home and Trump and
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company can get to work, forcing something upon
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Ukraine and upon Europe.
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I think what that needs to happen.
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I mean, the U S delegation, everybody was
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there.
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Trump was there.
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Vance was there.
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Rubio was there.
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Besant was there.
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Whitcoff was there.
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Right.
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And, uh, geez, they had the same thing
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with, uh, uh, from the Russian side, heads
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of all the largest parts were there.
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So, you know, Lavrov talked to media Lavrov
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said, uh, they've been pretty clear in their
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position and they said the same thing that
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they've always said.
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Right.
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Um, you know, Trump said to, to, to
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Fox news that, uh, 25% chance of,
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uh, uh, that it will fail.
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Right.
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I mean, the 75% that, uh, it's,
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uh, uh, that it, that something will, something
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positive will happen.
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Right.
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Let's, let's hope that that's the case.
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You know, we're there's, there's plenty, there's plenty
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of good that could possibly come to this.
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And, uh, you know, oh, there was a
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part of the speech that, uh, uh, that
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Putin gave when he said, you know, Trump
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has said repeatedly that if he was in
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office, this war wouldn't have happened.
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And so here is the Russian president buttering
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up the old troaster.
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I mean, that was pretty smart too, wasn't
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it?
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He gets to come out and say, you
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know, I think that if Trump was president,
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this war wouldn't have started either.
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I think he would have done something to
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make sure that it didn't.
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And so I think that was a very
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good, um, a helpful thing to say.
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And that I think it may bear some
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fruit.
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And by the way, I'm doing this show.
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It's actually very, very late on Friday night
22:44
in Florida time, but I'm betting that I'll
22:50
probably have to use this show and my
22:53
first impressions of the summit in Alaska as
22:58
my show for Sunday night, because I will
23:00
be traveling and there's some big things going
23:04
on.
23:04
I'm hopeful to do an expose on something
23:09
with our team.
23:09
I have my requests out.
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They haven't been, uh, finalized yet, but that's
23:15
what I'm trying to do either in Russian
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or in English when I get to, uh,
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when I get to Moscow, but I want
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to, uh, uh, discuss that, you know, and
23:27
see what, see, see what we can get
23:30
to.
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But in the meantime, I think that maybe
23:33
I will have to use this as my
23:35
show for Sunday night, although I'm, I'm live
23:38
streaming it right now on, uh, on my,
23:42
uh, internationalflavor.com website or web stream.
23:48
I am currently live.
23:49
And so, uh, you can call in, there's
23:52
a button you click.
23:53
If you go to my, uh, internationalflavor.com
23:57
website, you can click on the button and
23:59
it's just like a call in.
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Right.
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So, um, so, you know, so far nobody
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knows anything about what's going to happen in
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these meetings and what they have come up
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with.
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And I haven't seen anything after the fact
24:16
either.
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I saw exactly what I thought we would
24:18
see, which was some deep strikes inside of
24:23
Russian territory by Ukraine, some more incursions, some
24:27
more losses on the Ukrainian side, all along
24:34
the front line.
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I saw, uh, some discussions about, uh, Belarus,
24:40
uh, giving up, uh, some, some, uh, political
24:49
prisoners that, that Trump had a discussion with,
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uh, Lukashenko as well recently, or his counterparts
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did.
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And so they're all trying to get this,
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you know, it's the, the Ukrainian military is
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collapsing all along the front and, you know,
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what are they going to try to do?
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They're all surrounding, um, Pokrovsk with these, as
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of guards, like I told you about a
25:16
couple of days ago, to try to prevent
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the regular armed forces of Ukraine from, from
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running away.
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The Russians are dropping leaflets, telling people to
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surrender.
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And, uh, there's been some of that happen,
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right?
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And, uh, there are plenty of, plenty of,
25:38
of good things.
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And from good, let's talk about the, the
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war, you know, ending this war.
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I think that needs to happen.
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And I think it is happening.
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And so, you know, this war is going
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to be ended.
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And I think that there is so much
25:59
going on that if the Russians continue to
26:05
stand the way they have stood so far,
26:09
and if Putin, Lavrov and company keep playing
26:13
the world stage the way they're playing.
26:18
And if Trump keeps, and don't think that
26:21
Trump's weak, that would be a mistake.
26:23
Don't think that Trump is, uh, is not
26:26
attempting to end this war because I think
26:28
he is.
26:29
But I also think they have the whole
26:32
team listening.
26:33
And if, and if they took care of
26:37
this, finally enforced some kind of an agreement,
26:40
I still say the only way the agreement's
26:43
going to come about is if Trump cuts
26:46
off military technology, military intelligence, military data coming
26:52
from satellites in America, and, uh, you know,
26:56
quits providing weapons, quits providing, um, money, quits
27:03
providing ammunition that this war will be over
27:06
very quickly.
27:07
It's already ending.
27:08
Russia is winning.
27:10
Okay.
27:10
And so somebody needs to force Europe and
27:15
Ukraine to understand that if that means cutting
27:18
off Ukraine, frankly, I think that, uh, saves
27:24
more lives, uh, than the alternative for sure.
27:30
And so you could argue that, Oh, gee,
27:32
Ukraine's our ally.
27:34
Are they, are they our ally or are
27:37
they are pushing around?
27:54
Very sorry about that.
27:56
I had a phone call right in the
27:57
middle and I had to, uh, um, put
28:01
it off for, for an hour while I
28:03
finished this up.
28:03
And so that's what I'm going to do.
28:05
But think about this.
28:06
There's a, uh, a, uh, tendency in the
28:12
U S to think that all we do
28:14
is always correct and that we are the
28:17
ones who are right all the time.
28:19
And we are not always that case.
28:22
And I watched Trump in that press conference,
28:26
let Putin speak first, let Putin be the
28:35
romantic, let Putin say what the parameters were
28:42
of the, of the meetings and let it
28:46
be a diplomatic victory for all of them,
28:52
actually.
28:54
And, uh, we have a comment from lady
28:58
Maryland that says that we know who's running
29:01
the show.
29:02
I think that, I, I think that's probably,
29:05
I don't want to say accurate, but I
29:08
want to say that I appreciate that point
29:10
of view because if, uh, if I don't
29:14
want to say that Putin's running the show,
29:15
but the fact is Russia is winning.
29:19
And so I think that Trump has finally
29:22
had to come to terms with that, that
29:26
the world is changing, that the only alternative
29:32
to allowing Putin to have this diplomatic, if
29:41
you want to call it a victory, I
29:42
think, I don't know that it's a victory
29:44
because there are still things that, that could
29:47
come about, but this is standing up for
29:49
yourself.
29:50
And I think the world is going to
29:54
see it as this, but I also think
29:56
that there's no other choice.
29:58
What are they going to do?
29:59
What are, what are we going to do?
30:01
We're going to say, oh gee, let's keep
30:03
according to the numbers that Trump gave out
30:05
today, the numbers Trump gave out today, that
30:09
if we agree to something, and I believe
30:11
he's going to try to force the issue
30:13
on Europe and on Ukraine, whatever the issue
30:16
is, cause they didn't come out with exactly
30:18
what they're going to offer.
30:19
But he said, we're losing five, five to
30:22
6,000 soldiers a week in this war.
30:26
And those numbers are probably accurate or low.
30:30
And, um, and we will see, you know,
30:36
it's, it's going to be an interesting next
30:43
move.
30:45
And I'm not positive what that next move
30:47
is, but we'll get news on it today.
30:49
I imagine by the time my, my plane
30:52
touches down where I'm traveling that, uh, that
30:55
there will be some news about, about what
30:58
the response is.
30:59
Although we already know that Kiev, we already
31:02
know that Europe are all crying about this
31:05
anyway, and they, but they need to be
31:09
told what to do.
31:11
And so if we, if Trump now tells
31:14
them what is going to happen, I think
31:18
it's actually going to turn out to be
31:19
better for the world.
31:21
That's what I think.
31:22
And I, I think that is exactly what's
31:25
going to happen.
31:26
Um, but I've been wrong before and who
31:30
knows, there's a lot of deep state BS
31:33
that is still going on.
31:35
And all of these deep staters want this
31:38
world, uh, war to keep on going.
31:41
You know, Lindsey Graham wants his sanctions in
31:44
place, you know, and all of the military
31:47
industrial complex wants to continue to fund Ukraine.
31:52
And, uh, you know, but I think when
31:55
the, the summit and not the summit, when
31:58
the tariffs and the, uh, sanction amounts were
32:04
seen to be as weak as they were
32:08
in China, in India and in Brazil that
32:13
they, I, but we're the adults, you know,
32:18
and they said, no, you know what we're,
32:20
we're, we're, we're going to do what's best
32:22
for our country.
32:23
And what's best for our countries might not
32:25
be what's best for the U S but
32:28
this is where we're going.
32:29
And if that means these tariffs have to
32:32
take place, well, then that's what that's play
32:34
take place.
32:35
But you saw what Trump did.
32:37
Trump put off for 90 days, again, the
32:41
China tariffs, because we need China more than
32:45
China needs us.
32:48
How do you like that?
32:50
I, and, and I think that's mainly because
32:52
of all of the debt that China is
32:55
unloading.
32:56
It's a U S debt.
32:57
And I think that at the very highest
33:00
levels, our country is finally facing up to
33:04
it.
33:04
Now don't, don't take this to mean that
33:06
I'm anti America, that I'm anti Trump, that
33:09
I'm anti anything because I'm not, but it
33:12
takes a big man to stand up and
33:14
recognize that you're no longer the biggest dog
33:19
in the planet.
33:20
I had a partner who used to say,
33:22
Oh, well, it's kind of rude.
33:24
So I don't think I'll, I'll share what
33:26
he says, but basically it's the difference between
33:30
a young man's thinking and then in an
33:33
aging man's thinking, you know, when you're a
33:36
young man thinking, you know, you want to
33:37
go, you want to go out and conquer
33:41
the world.
33:41
When you're an old man thinking, you want
33:43
to ease into your control of the world.
33:47
You know what I mean?
33:48
You don't need to conquer it.
33:50
And so Trump, Trump 2.0 is a
33:55
little bit, quite a bit different than Trump
33:57
1.0, you know, Trump 47 is a
34:00
hell of a lot different than Trump 45,
34:05
if I said that right.
34:08
And so I like what went on and
34:13
I was pleasantly pleased when I saw the
34:20
initial press conference.
34:22
There's about two hours of questions that I
34:25
want to watch, which if I do end
34:27
up being able to do my show live
34:29
on Sunday night, which I'm still hopeful to
34:32
do, I will have them all read and
34:34
reviewed by then.
34:36
I am attempting to set up a, because
34:40
everybody knows on my show, I do like
34:43
to talk legal points as well.
34:46
And I'm doing a and I've already started
34:49
with my interview of Scott Ritter on my
34:53
freedom of speech shows.
34:58
And I put one out the other night
35:00
about the freedom of speech, which is basically
35:03
adult suggestive and sexual content and attempts to
35:12
limit that in the United States and abroad.
35:16
And I don't really care about it.
35:17
I just, it's part of the equation.
35:20
And so I made sure to point that
35:22
out.
35:22
Well, everybody knows that I always go after
35:25
what the department of justice did to RT,
35:29
Russia Today, the channel, the US, or I'm
35:33
sorry, the English speaking channel from Russia that
35:37
puts out its point of view.
35:41
And, you know, a lot of people say
35:43
Scott Ritter was one of them.
35:45
He said, you know, we put out this
35:47
opposing point of view and he goes, oh
35:49
yeah, we call it the truth.
35:52
It happens to be the same as what
35:54
they publish on RT.
35:56
And I happen to agree with that point
35:58
of view.
35:59
And so I'm doing a survey on that.
36:03
And so I have dug into the history
36:09
of the actions against RT
36:16
and some of their journalists.
36:22
And I've gone pretty far into that.
36:24
And I want to get deeper into it.
36:26
What I'm hoping to do is when I
36:28
get into Moscow is to find an RT
36:33
English speaking and or Russian speaking, because I'd
36:37
like to do it in both and discuss
36:40
these cases and explain why it's important from
36:45
the point of view of the United States,
36:47
how it's important as far as freedom of
36:49
speech and why it matters.
36:52
And because remember from Scott Ritter's own testimony
36:59
on my interview with him a couple of
37:02
weeks ago, he believes it was part of
37:05
the same deal.
37:07
He was being targeted as being part of
37:09
RT and RT is nothing but another news
37:15
channel.
37:16
And, you know, we're going to target these
37:18
news channels.
37:20
Why?
37:22
Are we really afraid of freedom of speech
37:27
in America?
37:28
Is the government really afraid of other people
37:33
saying something?
37:36
You know, when we were kids, it was
37:38
always, what was that one little kids had
37:42
run around the street, you'd call somebody a
37:44
name and somebody to go sticks and stones
37:47
may break my bones, but words will never
37:50
hurt me.
37:51
You kids know it.
37:53
How do we not know it?
37:56
Why are we taking such great lengths?
37:59
I talked about, and I'd love to interview
38:01
this girl.
38:02
If I could find her, I would.
38:05
But it would have to be in Russian
38:08
because her name is Panchenka and I haven't
38:11
looked, but her channel was deleted from YouTube.
38:14
And I wanted to see if she was
38:16
back on YouTube.
38:18
Maybe I'll look right now and see if
38:21
she is back.
38:23
I will do a quick look for Panchenko.
38:29
She doesn't even come up anymore when you're
38:32
searching.
38:34
She doesn't even come up.
38:37
And there is Diane Panchenko.
38:40
There was an interview with her four months
38:43
ago with Glenn Dyson.
38:49
And where is she?
38:51
She's got nothing four months ago, but her
38:54
channel is gone.
38:56
Her channel is completely gone.
39:00
It is finished.
39:02
And she published, she's been very much against
39:07
the war, very much against this Russophobia, very
39:17
much against all of that.
39:19
And her channel, she had 2 million subscribers
39:24
and she was deleted.
39:27
Now that's a YouTube channel.
39:31
So clearly the government, well, maybe the government
39:34
is attempting to enforce that, but all of
39:37
these things weave together in a horrible scenario
39:44
where the world is supposed to be and
39:50
is afraid of what?
39:54
Of speech.
39:55
We aren't allowed to talk anymore.
39:58
We aren't allowed to discuss because we need,
40:04
and we joked about it because it was
40:06
so stupid years ago.
40:09
Safe spaces, places where you wouldn't be afraid
40:14
because somebody doesn't like you.
40:18
What?
40:19
It's called your home.
40:21
Your safe space is your house.
40:23
If you go out in public and you
40:25
can't take the free speech that's out there,
40:27
well, perhaps you should stay in.
40:30
Nobody's going to attack you.
40:32
And if they do attack you verbally, that's
40:35
what we're supposed to do.
40:37
We're supposed to keep things verbal and you
40:41
don't go up to people and call them
40:43
names and expect no consequences.
40:45
You don't go up and go, well, you
40:47
dumb mofo or whatever.
40:49
You want to call him some bad name.
40:51
You don't want to do that.
40:52
That's a bad plan because you could run
40:54
into the wrong person and that person could
40:59
kick your rear end and send you to
41:01
the hospital.
41:02
I'm not saying that's right because it's not,
41:05
but the words you shouldn't be afraid of.
41:10
But if you go up picking a fight
41:12
with the biggest bully in town, you're probably
41:16
making a mistake.
41:18
But that doesn't mean that it's still not
41:22
just words.
41:23
I've had my butt kicked before by people
41:25
I've said to my point of view and
41:28
they didn't appreciate it or didn't accept it
41:33
and wanted to go another way.
41:36
That way was, let's put Sam in the
41:39
hospital.
41:39
No, I've never been put in the hospital
41:41
for that, but I have had my butt
41:44
handed to me.
41:46
But pretty rarely, it has happened though.
41:50
But we're supposed to be able to have
41:53
public discourse, public discussion in an attempt to
41:58
resolve issues.
42:00
Why can that not go on now?
42:03
Why is Russophobia a thing?
42:09
I mean, seriously, why if I want to
42:12
go into a Ukrainian shop and spend my
42:18
money there and purchase things that I like
42:21
to eat, that happen to be ethnically pleasing
42:24
from the Slavic side of the world, whether
42:28
they're made by Ukrainians or made by Russians,
42:31
I don't give a rip.
42:33
You know, I just want the good food
42:35
because I like it.
42:37
And if we happen to speak in Russian
42:40
while we're in there, what difference does it
42:42
make?
42:43
Everybody speaks Russian and they know it.
42:48
But you run into it.
42:51
I think the more people recognize and the
42:54
more people put it down and go, well,
42:56
you know, this is nonsensical.
42:58
Maybe this should be something that we are
43:04
much more likely to accept.
43:12
This Russophobia needs to go away.
43:15
If I could defeat that in even a
43:20
small way, I tell you what, if people
43:22
are listening just to that, that would be
43:26
beautiful.
43:34
There's plenty of discussion to go around about
43:38
this.
43:44
I'm losing my train of thought here.
43:47
And I still got, I hope to be
43:49
able to use this show.
43:51
And so I'm going to go back to
43:56
my train of thought from previously and talk
44:01
about the effect on what will happen when
44:08
the EU comes back and say they want,
44:10
if they ever want to get rid of
44:12
this, um, these Russophobic things, we may
44:22
have to go back to Tulsi Gabbard and
44:27
speaking about the Russia gate and the documents
44:32
they're, they're investigating and everything that is going
44:35
on.
44:36
And by the way, I am not for
44:38
that for any other purpose, except to get,
44:47
get back to normalcy of some sort.
44:51
You know, Putin was never trying to steal
44:54
the U S elections or even to affect
44:59
them other than let's say, uh, put out
45:02
the Russian point of view.
45:03
What does the U S do everywhere where
45:07
we've had voice of America and, um, voice
45:11
of Europe or whatever it was called that,
45:14
uh, uh, that these U S funded propaganda
45:20
tanks have been out there to influence the
45:24
world to do what think like Americans think
45:30
like American democracy influence what goes on in
45:36
Ukraine, who did that U S agency for
45:40
international development, U S, um, new U S
45:45
news organizations or U S sponsored news organizations
45:49
have been affecting freedom of speech or using
45:55
their form of speech, which are sanctioned by
45:59
the Ukrainian government and put to the top
46:03
of the list while people who have a
46:04
dissenting view, Penchenka, Diane getting kicked off of
46:10
platform.
46:13
And so who's killing free freedom of speech
46:18
in America?
46:19
What is going on with that?
46:22
Maybe we have to go into Russia gate
46:25
further, but only for that purpose, only because
46:30
we don't want it to happen again.
46:32
I don't like one, uh, regime, I suppose
46:40
you'd call it one, one administration coming in
46:45
and destroying everything that the administration before it
46:49
did as if everything needs to be replaced.
46:54
That's been a problem, you know, of an
46:57
increasing nature forever.
46:59
When you come in and on day one,
47:02
you signed 250 new executive orders, destroying the
47:06
administration before you, and then saying to everybody,
47:09
well, we just got to destroy those holes
47:11
before us.
47:13
Trump did it to Obama.
47:16
Obama did it to Bush.
47:19
Uh, Bush did it to Clinton.
47:22
And it's only been increasing as we go.
47:25
Biden did it to Trump.
47:27
Trump did it to Biden.
47:29
Somebody else is going to do it to
47:31
Trump, you know, unless it's, you know, somebody
47:33
like Rubio or, uh, uh, JD Vance or
47:36
something like that, which I suppose it could
47:38
be, you know, they should have the blessing
47:40
of being next.
47:42
Don't you think?
47:43
But it's all the same concept.
47:47
It's all the same cancellation of something you
47:52
don't like all because you disagree with its,
47:55
uh, politics.
47:57
And it's the same thing as Russophobia.
48:01
And this Russophobia has been turned into a,
48:09
an education point in Ukraine.
48:11
They've changed all their textbooks to say that
48:14
Russia was the bad guys in world war
48:16
two.
48:17
And that Bandera was a hero, a guy
48:21
who was a Nazi and was killing, killing,
48:24
uh, Polish.
48:25
Right.
48:26
But they've turned him into some kind of
48:28
a folk hero.
48:29
Um, and that's what we've done in America
48:32
is turn Russia into the bad guy.
48:35
And you claim that, uh, you know, there's
48:39
Russians attempting to take our elections by doing
48:42
what, by using organizations like RT to change
48:47
the narrative, to have other people listen.
48:51
And so you're afraid of words when you
48:53
get right down to it, all you're really
48:56
afraid of is the words, where did the
48:59
U S department of justice go?
49:02
They attacked who are T they attacked RT
49:06
journalists.
49:07
They attacked Scott Ritter as part of the
49:10
R T mob, all basically over this U
49:14
S election meddling BS that never occurred.
49:19
And, and, oh, you know, so if they
49:22
get into it, which I really don't like
49:27
going back into this, but if it's a
49:28
crime, fine, I suppose they can charge people
49:31
with crimes and go to it, but it
49:33
it's more of the same destruction of the
49:38
one before the people before you it's destruction
49:42
of somebody based on having an opinion different
49:45
than yours.
49:46
And that's what, that's what Western globalism has
49:49
been doing forever is destroying any other voices
49:55
worldwide that disagree with it.
49:59
And now is the rest of the world
50:00
coming along with that or not?
50:05
Is Samuel trap, right?
50:07
Or are the people who say that globalism
50:10
needs to continue because only the U S
50:15
can give the world what it needs.
50:18
I'm not sure the rest of the world
50:20
agrees with that, that only the U S
50:23
has the type of democracy that the world
50:25
needs, right?
50:27
So I, I, I don't know.
50:29
There's, I'm not sure you're going to stop
50:32
the investigation now into this Russia gate.
50:35
There's so many people clamoring for heads on
50:38
this, that it's probably going to happen.
50:43
Tulsi Gabbard wants to keep on doing it.
50:47
People have said that Trump is Putin's puppet.
50:51
Do you think that those people are going
50:54
to be quiet after they see what happened
50:56
today at the press conference in Alaska, when
51:02
Putin was allowed to speak first, when Putin
51:06
spoke for nine minutes and Trump spoke for
51:09
three?
51:09
Are people going to use that to show
51:15
that Trump is Putin's puppet still?
51:20
I think it's nonsense, but it wouldn't surprise
51:25
me.
51:25
You know, there are people that are going
51:26
to, that are going to talk about this.
51:31
I don't know.
51:32
I, I, I truly hope that this ends
51:36
the war.
51:37
Let's get to some of the content that
51:39
I did want to get as far as
51:41
what Ukraine is doing to, uh, continue in
51:48
the war, because it was only one hour
51:50
ago where, uh, Zelensky was told by president
51:59
Trump that you need to make a deal,
52:02
right?
52:03
Um, Trump, he said this following three hour
52:07
talks in Anchorage in an interview on Friday.
52:12
Um, Trump said it was a very warm
52:15
meeting and that the sides were pretty close
52:18
in resolving the conflict.
52:19
Right.
52:20
And he stressed that Kiev should get on
52:22
board with the push for peace for it
52:25
to have any chance success.
52:26
When he was asked what advice he should
52:29
give Zelensky, he said, he needs to make
52:31
a deal and that Putin wants to see
52:34
that it gets done.
52:35
He said, it's really up to Zelensky to
52:37
get it done.
52:38
And I would also say European nations, because
52:41
they have to get involved a bit in
52:43
order to get this done.
52:45
And somebody else is saying, and I intended
52:47
to get to this article to the Tara
52:49
Reid said that, uh, if, if, if, uh,
52:55
Zelensky gets out of the way, peace actually
52:57
has a chance.
52:58
I've been saying that for a little while
52:59
too.
53:01
Um, Trump said he was willing to mediate
53:03
between Putin and Zelensky if they like, and
53:06
that he would be at the next meeting.
53:08
Not that I want to be there, he
53:09
said, but I want to make sure that
53:11
this gets done and we have a pretty
53:13
good chance of getting it done.
53:16
So both Putin and Trump said that the
53:19
meetings were productive and useful, but they didn't
53:22
finalize any sort of agreement, but he didn't,
53:26
Putin didn't rule out meeting with Zelensky, but
53:29
he says it has to be significant progress
53:32
on settling the conflict before they do.
53:35
Uh, they also voice concerned about, uh, him
53:37
able to sign agreements like he always does,
53:40
you know, um, he always talks about that
53:43
point, but let's get to this Tara Reid
53:46
article, because this came out too, where, uh,
53:50
she said, um, uh, let's see, this is,
53:55
this is a, a, a nice article, but
53:58
it's a little on the long side.
54:00
So I might paraphrase some, some of it
54:03
to you, but I'm gonna, uh, get it
54:06
to you.
54:07
Let's see in 1860s, but it's well-written,
54:10
you know, the, in 1867, Russian empire sold
54:13
Alaska to the U S for $7.2
54:16
million, perhaps, uh, you know, the golden age
54:22
is returning basically.
54:25
Um, let's see.
54:30
Well, there was talk in the article about
54:34
getting rid of the anti-corruption team.
54:36
Trump has plenty of reasons for wanting this,
54:39
uh, negotiations to be a success.
54:43
He's, uh, really taken a little bit of
54:46
heat for this, not being his war and
54:50
him staying in it and, uh, like Senator
54:53
Graham.
54:54
So, so Graham goes up and down in
54:56
the picture, as I've been talking about for
54:58
a month now, you know, Graham controls and
55:01
then Graham backs off and then he controls
55:03
some more and then he backs off.
55:05
But I think Trump is trying to undo
55:07
lies about the war and about domestic policy
55:12
and how now all of us see it
55:14
as a lie and what has happened, you
55:17
know, even if you go back to COVID,
55:20
right.
55:21
And that's what the article talks about as
55:22
well.
55:23
And, but I think more than anything is
55:27
that, uh, you know, and I've shared this
55:29
article with you the other day is, is
55:31
two things.
55:32
One Trump recognizes that, uh, that bricks is,
55:36
is up and coming and getting stronger, especially
55:39
with Russia and the rest of them overcoming
55:42
these sanctions and his alleged tariffs.
55:45
And two, he wants this war over and
55:47
he can't have it be his war.
55:50
If he can get rid of this war,
55:53
maybe he gets his, uh, Nobel peace prize,
55:56
right?
55:57
But the answer, according to this author that
56:00
wrote the article is Zelensky.
56:03
If we can get rid of Zelensky, this
56:05
war would be over.
56:06
Zelensky is less than inconsequential to, here's the
56:10
term, the statement itself.
56:12
Zelensky is less than inconsequential to the future
56:14
of global politics.
56:16
He is a liability.
56:19
The end of this proxy war between us,
56:22
NATO and Russia will be decided between Trump
56:25
and Putin.
56:27
Right.
56:28
And I happen to agree with that.
56:30
There will be posturing economic deals and trades
56:34
made, maybe something adjoint about space, maybe lifting
56:38
sanctions and getting rid of this Russophobia that
56:42
has been fueled by Obama and Biden and
56:44
disinformation and stealing elections and all that.
56:49
Um, you know, hell, maybe, maybe we'll sell
56:53
Alaska back to Russia.
56:55
Huh?
56:56
No, that'll never happen.
56:57
No chance of it.
56:58
But, um, maybe you could give them the
57:03
territory in exchange for Ukraine.
57:07
US gets Ukraine, Russia gets Alaska.
57:10
Wouldn't that be hilarious?
57:11
We could, we could end the war then.
57:13
Russia would take it back and say, well,
57:15
we get the Arctic, now get your crap
57:17
and go get out of the Arctic.
57:19
That would be kind of comical.
57:20
Don't you think?
57:21
I don't think that's going to happen.
57:23
Just so you know, I was not being
57:24
serious when I said that.
57:26
So, um, you know, uh, one of the
57:30
funny parts at the end of the, uh,
57:32
at the end of the, uh, little press
57:36
conference that they were giving her at the
57:38
end of the joint statements anyway, um, is
57:41
Putin in English said next time meet with
57:45
us in Moscow, but Trump didn't commit.
57:48
Now that was a little weird.
57:49
I thought they had already agreed that the
57:51
next, you know, that there would be a
57:53
meeting next time in, uh, in Russia.
57:55
Maybe that's maybe he bails on that.
57:58
I don't know.
57:59
So the Russian president, he did switch to
58:03
English when he said it.
58:04
Like I told you that he, he, he
58:06
doesn't speak English very often, you know, but
58:09
he did hear, um, speaking at the press
58:13
conference, Trump called the meeting extremely productive.
58:16
And he said, we didn't get there, but
58:18
we have a good chance of getting there.
58:21
Implying the no deal had been reached yet,
58:23
but you know, something will be there.
58:24
Today's agreements will help us restart pragmatic relationships.
58:30
And, uh, president Putin then at the end
58:34
said next time in Moscow and Trump said,
58:37
that's an interesting one.
58:39
I'll get a little heat for that one,
58:41
but I can see it possibly happening.
58:44
I thought it was happening that there was
58:47
already on there.
58:48
Putin thanked Trump for what he called a
58:50
friendly tone and results oriented approach, blah, blah,
58:54
blah.
58:54
We already heard all that stuff.
58:56
So I don't know.
58:58
We, we shall, we shall see.
59:02
Um, you know, they had that hour long
59:06
45 minute long interview that he did also,
59:11
um, with, uh, Fox news.
59:13
There's news that they shared a presidential limo
59:17
ride in Alaska.
59:19
Both presidents were in the same limousine.
59:22
Now that's a big deal.
59:24
And, uh, you know, Trump greeted Putin on
59:28
a red carpet in, uh, uh, Alaska.
59:32
Um, meanwhile, Ukraine was hitting more residential districts
59:36
ahead of the summit.
59:38
And, uh, they even talked about a, uh,
59:41
uh, woman getting killed in a Ukrainian drone
59:45
strike.
59:46
And, uh, there's another article that I thought
59:49
was pretty comical as well called the EU
59:52
throws an epic tantrum as Trump meets with
59:56
Putin.
59:58
And this one was, it's pretty long, but,
1:00:00
but, uh, I might get through most of
1:00:02
it.
1:00:03
It's about Brussels and Ursula von der Leyen.
1:00:06
And this one's put on by Rachel Marsden,
1:00:08
who I like reading about she's at rachelmarsden
1:00:11
.com.
1:00:12
And she has good articles, um, that she
1:00:15
writes a lot of opinion says the European
1:00:17
union has been wailing about transatlantic unity.
1:00:21
They need unity with Trump in America, right?
1:00:24
As they kiss his rear end, you know,
1:00:27
and give him everything that he asks for
1:00:29
tariff wise, like the only idiots to give,
1:00:32
to give into it have been them.
1:00:34
Everybody else is fighting it, but Ursula von
1:00:37
der Leyen hands over the keys to the,
1:00:39
to the mall.
1:00:40
Right.
1:00:41
Um, but anyway, it's, she sounded, it's pretty
1:00:45
funny when she was crying about unity and
1:00:47
this is back to the article.
1:00:51
It daddy let go of their hand in
1:00:54
the mall and now they're lost a lot
1:00:57
of good.
1:00:58
Their rhetoric has done them so far.
1:01:00
If it wasn't for Brussels getting drunk on
1:01:03
its own transatlantic solidarity and unity propaganda, maybe
1:01:10
it wouldn't currently be an economic and political
1:01:14
dire straits, the kind where you're trying to
1:01:17
duct tape your economy back together with overpriced
1:01:22
American gas.
1:01:24
They could have charted a different path visa
1:01:27
V Russia, one that involves spearheading diplomacy rather
1:01:32
than marching in lockstep between the U S
1:01:35
behind them.
1:01:36
Sorry, the U S led NATO parade of
1:01:39
weapons and fighters on Russia's border with Ukraine,
1:01:42
which helps supercharge the conflict in the first
1:01:46
place.
1:01:46
They could have insisted on keeping their cheap
1:01:49
Russian energy instead of sanctioning their own imports.
1:01:52
Like they're vying for the Nobel prize in
1:01:56
masochism.
1:01:58
Now the U S is daring them to
1:02:00
even close their clever little loophole in their
1:02:03
own anti-Russian sanctions.
1:02:04
The one that let them moralize about helping
1:02:07
Ukraine in the need to avoid negotiating with
1:02:10
Russia while guzzling Russian fuel on the down
1:02:12
low that was through the China and India
1:02:16
variants.
1:02:17
So they let India and China take this
1:02:20
oil from Russia, refine it and sell it
1:02:24
to them.
1:02:25
And then they bitched about India and China
1:02:31
doing business with Russia in exactly the manner
1:02:33
that they put out.
1:02:35
Nonsense.
1:02:36
But that's what they're talking about here.
1:02:39
Now, uh, let's see, uh, treasury secretary Besant
1:02:44
told them to put up or shut up
1:02:46
and either sanction the Indian and Chinese importers
1:02:48
of Russian petroleum through which they still buy
1:02:51
their own oil because they're not.
1:02:53
So while the EU indulged itself in rhetorical
1:02:56
games, Trump has dropped all pretext of serving
1:02:59
any interest, but America's entity.
1:03:02
He's not following any agenda beyond trying to
1:03:05
wrap things up in Russia and Ukraine and
1:03:07
to score some economic wins in the process.
1:03:10
Brussels has had more than three years to
1:03:12
do the same.
1:03:13
Instead, it keeps repeating the mantra that Kiev
1:03:16
has to win on the battlefield.
1:03:18
Nonsense.
1:03:19
Number one.
1:03:20
And number two, there are no other options
1:03:22
is what they said.
1:03:23
Whoops.
1:03:23
Now another option has materialized.
1:03:26
The Europeans are running behind Trump, pleading with
1:03:29
him to indulge them by letting Ukraine Zelensky
1:03:32
decide where the post-conflict borders will be.
1:03:37
What did they think the downside of the
1:03:39
win by force gambit would be if not
1:03:42
changed borders?
1:03:43
The EU insists on Ukraine fighting Russia with
1:03:47
EU cash and weapons.
1:03:49
And when Kiev loses, they say, well, this
1:03:52
sucks.
1:03:52
How about we pretend nothing happens and we
1:03:55
dial all the territorial gains and losses back
1:03:59
to a point that we'd choose, just like
1:04:01
Zelensky's been trying to do for years with
1:04:04
his peace plans, his victory plans.
1:04:06
Remember, the EU insists on waiting for someone
1:04:09
else to take the initiative for peace.
1:04:12
Now all it can do is pick up
1:04:13
its own pom-poms and cheer Trump on
1:04:15
and then hope it rewards the EU.
1:04:18
And Zelensky's self-appointed babysitters, instead of spending
1:04:22
the past week in the run-up to
1:04:24
the Alaska summit, insisting that Putin and Trump
1:04:27
allow a high chair booster seat and a
1:04:30
pack of crayons for them at the negotiating
1:04:33
table to show them where he wants the
1:04:36
borders, maybe the Europeans should have been calming
1:04:39
him down and managing his expectations.
1:04:43
He sounded like he was treating his phone
1:04:46
like a toy, calling up everyone in the
1:04:49
context under EU, Estonia, Denmark, maybe a few
1:04:53
pizza places.
1:04:55
The EU has tried to gaslight Trump with
1:04:57
the same rhetoric that it constantly fire hoses
1:05:00
onto European citizens about peace in Ukraine being
1:05:04
a dangerous gateway drug for Russia to invade
1:05:08
Western Europe.
1:05:09
Nonsense, by the way.
1:05:11
A convenient marketing pitch to justify boosting the
1:05:15
weapons industry to the detriment of domestic priority.
1:05:19
Not even Warhawk's Senator Lindsey Graham is saying
1:05:23
that now, saying that Russia is not going
1:05:28
to give, let alone the EU.
1:05:31
Finally, somebody, and that guy's had his head
1:05:34
up his own butt for so long, he
1:05:38
can't help but wonder.
1:05:40
I mean, it's so obviously war hawking and
1:05:43
war mongering and money grubbing.
1:05:45
Lindsey Graham, that's it.
1:05:47
That's what he does.
1:05:48
That's his life.
1:05:50
Any war, anywhere, he doesn't care.
1:05:53
If there were wars in South Carolina, he'd
1:05:55
be all ready to go, as long as
1:05:58
he was getting paid for it.
1:06:00
European leaders treated Wednesday's video call with Trump
1:06:03
like a win, perhaps because he didn't explicitly
1:06:06
tell them off for once.
1:06:08
But they really have no idea what he'll
1:06:10
discuss with Putin, nor do they have any
1:06:12
leverage over any eventual US-Russia deal.
1:06:16
They don't know whether Trump is placating them
1:06:18
because he doesn't need a bunch of hysterical
1:06:20
circus clowns in the mix.
1:06:23
So how could the EU spend this to
1:06:25
avoid looking irrelevant?
1:06:27
Today, Europe, the US, and NATO have strengthened
1:06:31
the common ground for Ukraine.
1:06:33
We will remain in close coordination.
1:06:36
Nobody wants peace more than us.
1:06:39
A just and lasting peace, said unelected EU
1:06:43
Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
1:06:46
Yeah, that sounds desperate for peace, all right,
1:06:49
which must be why the EU is building
1:06:52
weapon factories at a breakneck pace, according to
1:06:55
the Financial Times.
1:06:56
Nothing says we're committed to ending the war
1:06:59
like tripling down on weapons.
1:07:02
What are you going to do with all
1:07:03
those weapons if peace breaks out?
1:07:06
Toss them in the landfill and hope the
1:07:08
taxpayers forget about the boondoggle, like you did
1:07:11
with the hundreds of millions of unused COVID
1:07:14
jabs?
1:07:15
Brussels talks like a co-architect of global
1:07:18
policy, but in practice, it's more like a
1:07:20
subcontractor who has to implement someone else's blueprint.
1:07:26
The Alaska summit exclusion exposes how little agency
1:07:31
it has in resolving conflict, that it has
1:07:35
been funding and fueling so much for feminist
1:07:40
foreign policy.
1:07:42
The EU is behaving like a geopolitical trad
1:07:46
wife.
1:07:47
Whatever happens between Trump and Putin, the EU
1:07:51
has already vowed to adopt Ukraine's problems as
1:07:54
its own while crossing its fingers that Trump
1:07:57
might pitch in with any sort of assistance
1:07:59
he could give, military or otherwise.
1:08:02
Why would Trump want a piece of that
1:08:05
when Brussels has already welcomed it being dumped
1:08:09
in its lap?
1:08:10
Why settle for normalization with Russia, business, trade
1:08:14
and peace, when you can have endless soap
1:08:18
reruns instead?
1:08:20
I really like that article, that's why I
1:08:22
shared it with you.
1:08:24
Rachel Marston, that's a hell of an article
1:08:26
and I like it.
1:08:28
I did take a tiny bit of poetic
1:08:29
license and throw in my own little twists
1:08:31
in there from time to time, but 90
1:08:34
plus percent of it was hers.
1:08:38
I always like how she tears up on
1:08:39
Ursula von der Leyen, and who's the other
1:08:42
one?
1:08:44
360 Verbach, who thinks that a 180 is
1:08:48
a 360.
1:08:50
Good stuff.
1:08:52
Maynard, I tell you what, these are, as
1:08:56
my friend JR says, very interesting times indeed.
1:09:03
Very interesting.
1:09:07
We, I want to see if I can
1:09:09
see Lavrov's USSR sweater.
1:09:12
I didn't, I didn't see it in the
1:09:14
picture, but allegedly he was wearing a sweater
1:09:18
that showed, where is it?
1:09:22
Come on.
1:09:25
Reporters in a hockey arena, the summit is
1:09:28
taking place during the high tourist season in
1:09:31
Alaska, right, summer, and hotels in Anchorage turned
1:09:34
out to be fully booked.
1:09:36
To accommodate Russian journalists, local authorities had to
1:09:39
set up makeshift camps at a sports stadium.
1:09:43
So, where is this?
1:09:54
Sergei, here it is.
1:09:56
Sergei Lavrov's fashion choice sparked media buzz as
1:10:00
he arrived in Anchorage wearing a sweater that
1:10:04
emblazoned with CCCP USSR. Lavrov stated that Moscow
1:10:09
was going into the summit with a clear
1:10:12
position.
1:10:13
Let's see if I can see it.
1:10:14
I want to watch this on X, and
1:10:16
if you hear it, you hear it.
1:10:17
If not, you don't, but I want to
1:10:19
hear it.
1:10:20
I'll see if I see it.
1:10:25
Yet, he had a CCCP sweatshirt on underneath
1:10:31
his jacket.
1:10:33
It was only an 11 second clip, but
1:10:36
it sure did look like a CCCP emblazoned
1:10:41
sweatshirt.
1:10:42
That's what it appeared to be to me.
1:10:45
I like it a lot that that's where
1:10:48
it was, and so more power to him.
1:10:53
That was pretty cool that he would wear
1:10:57
something like that, but maybe it was a
1:11:00
hockey jersey because, remember, they did beat the,
1:11:03
wasn't it 72 Olympics where they beat us
1:11:08
in hockey?
1:11:11
I can't remember, but anyway, they arrived and
1:11:16
got some pretty good treatment while they were
1:11:19
there.
1:11:20
What else is going on in international news
1:11:23
do we have that's something entertaining and enlightening
1:11:27
that we can get to that isn't so
1:11:30
serious?
1:11:35
There's a trial going on for that archbishop
1:11:38
in Armenia, you know, running up to, did
1:11:42
anybody go through the history of Alaska and
1:11:46
the dramatic history of the ocean, ice, the
1:11:50
empire, the rise and fall of Russian Alaska?
1:11:55
It's a very dramatic history and it's, this
1:11:59
legacy still mattered to Putin at least.
1:12:03
So let's go into why that is, because
1:12:06
I meant to share this with you too
1:12:07
beforehand, but I never got a chance.
1:12:10
Choosing Alaska as the meeting place for the
1:12:13
presidents of Russia and the US might look
1:12:16
a little bit unconventional, but it was deeply
1:12:18
symbolic and an intentional choice, of course, and
1:12:23
you heard Putin talk about it in the
1:12:25
final, you know, it's very romantic for them
1:12:27
and a very big deal.
1:12:29
Alaska is more than just a remote US
1:12:32
state.
1:12:33
It once, it was Russia's frontier, its only
1:12:37
significant overseas possession, and it was considered a
1:12:42
mythical land.
1:12:43
The story of Russian America, similar to those
1:12:46
other Russian frontiers, was full of drama and
1:12:50
adventure.
1:12:51
Pushing past Siberia, Russia's road to Alaska.
1:12:56
In the early 18th century, Russians had explored
1:13:00
most of Siberia and came up against a
1:13:03
natural barrier.
1:13:04
For over a century, explorers journeyed eastward in
1:13:08
search of fur, walrus ivory, and other treasures
1:13:11
that Siberia offered.
1:13:13
In the southeast, they encountered the vast and
1:13:16
largely unknown expanse of China, leading to various
1:13:20
confrontations before the borders with the Asian power
1:13:24
were established.
1:13:25
Further north, they navigated the picturesque, majestic, yet
1:13:30
seemingly impractical Kamchatka Peninsula.
1:13:35
Beyond lay only the immense Pacific Ocean, and
1:13:38
those who reached its waters felt like they
1:13:40
were standing on the edge of the world.
1:13:44
Further north, in some of the harshest terrain,
1:13:47
where survival was a challenge even by Siberian
1:13:50
standards, lay the Chukotka Peninsula, home to the
1:13:55
fierce and unchained Chukchi people.
1:13:57
This was the furthest corner of Russia, a
1:14:00
wild and hostile area fraught with danger.
1:14:05
While developing, Chukotka proved to be a challenge.
1:14:09
The explorers had a pretty good idea about
1:14:12
its contours.
1:14:13
In the mid-17th century, while searching for
1:14:16
fur, explorer Semyon Dezhnev navigated around Chukotka and
1:14:21
reported the strait to the east.
1:14:23
It didn't take long to discover the new
1:14:25
lands beyond that strait.
1:14:27
In Siberia, rumors circulated about Russians who had
1:14:31
been swept by storms onto the American continent,
1:14:35
where they settled.
1:14:37
Captured Chukchi told tales about the unknown land.
1:14:41
Over time, the conflict with the Chukchi ended
1:14:44
and gave way to trade relationships, and the
1:14:47
Chukchi became Russian subjects.
1:14:49
However, there seemed to be no reason to
1:14:52
arrange an expedition to Alaska.
1:14:54
Crossing the ocean was too costly.
1:14:59
Nevertheless, the Russians continued to explore the region.
1:15:03
In the mid-18th century, a massive research
1:15:06
expedition encompassing Siberia, the Arctic Ocean, and eventually
1:15:11
the waters of the Pacific was launched.
1:15:14
The expedition was split into seven teams, each
1:15:17
with a specific task.
1:15:19
In 1741, a group led by Captains Bering
1:15:23
and Cherikov reached the American continent aboard two
1:15:27
packed boats.
1:15:29
They didn't find any Russian settlements, but confirmed
1:15:31
this was indeed the American continent.
1:15:35
Gradually, Russians learned more about the region and
1:15:38
began harvesting marine animals, primarily various seals and
1:15:42
sea otters, in the Pacific.
1:15:45
Additionally, they discovered Arctic foxes in Alaska.
1:15:49
All these factors made voyage to Alaska economically
1:15:53
promising.
1:15:54
The Russians established settlements along the shores of
1:15:58
America, and several companies laid claim to the
1:16:02
riches of Alaska.
1:16:03
In the 1780s, they began constructing small forts
1:16:07
along the Alaskan coastline.
1:16:10
In 1784, an expedition led by Irkutsk merchant
1:16:15
Grigory Cherikov built a fort on Kodiak Island,
1:16:19
and by the end of the century, developed
1:16:21
it into a thriving fortress with residents and
1:16:25
priests who baptized local Aleutians.
1:16:28
At that time, there were barely over 500
1:16:30
Russian settlers.
1:16:32
Empress Catherine the Great sent additional settlers, laborers,
1:16:37
officials, and clergy.
1:16:39
Competition among fur traders culminated in the formation
1:16:42
of the Russian-American Company in 1797, which
1:16:46
pushed its rivals out of the market.
1:16:50
Cherikov died a wealthy man, and his heirs
1:16:53
transformed the Russian-American Company into a local
1:16:55
monopoly.
1:16:56
The Russian Empire granted it many privileges.
1:17:00
Life in Alaska was extreme, even by Russian
1:17:03
standards, but there were always people willing to
1:17:06
come, usually to escape serfdom, taxes, and oppressive
1:17:10
masters.
1:17:11
One settler shrugged off the hardship, saying, there
1:17:14
are no masters in America.
1:17:17
The Russians established friendly relations with the Aleutians,
1:17:20
the most numerous local group who eagerly adopted
1:17:23
new tools, useful Russian household items, and customs,
1:17:27
drawing closer to their Russian neighbors.
1:17:30
In 1799, Cherikov's close associate, Alexander Baranov, established
1:17:38
a fort in Sitka, Alaska.
1:17:40
Here, Russians crossed paths with English traders, and
1:17:44
more importantly, the Tlingit Indians.
1:17:47
This fierce warrior tribe believed the Russians were
1:17:50
encroaching on their land and hunting sea otters
1:17:53
within their territory, which was true.
1:17:56
Additionally, many Russians married Tlingit women, stoking resentment
1:18:01
among the indigenous men.
1:18:03
Unlike the British, the Russians also refused to
1:18:06
sell firearms to the Tlingits.
1:18:10
Confrontation became inevitable.
1:18:12
Everyone wanted sea otters, and everyday challenges heightened
1:18:16
tensions.
1:18:18
Bloodshed followed.
1:18:20
In 1802, the Tlingits attacked, captured, and burned
1:18:23
down the fort while most of the inhabitants
1:18:25
were out hunting, killing nearly all of its
1:18:28
defenders and ambushing hunting parties in the area.
1:18:31
A total of 24 Russians and 200 Aleutian
1:18:34
Eskimos were killed.
1:18:36
Baranov was furious, but kept his composure.
1:18:39
In 1804, he led an expedition back to
1:18:42
Sitka with 150 Russians and 900 Eskimos, Aleuts,
1:18:48
and allied Indians.
1:18:49
They besieged the Tlingit wooden stronghold, bombarded it
1:18:53
with cannons.
1:18:56
The Tlingits, fearing capture, killed their elders and
1:19:01
children to prevent them from falling into Russian
1:19:04
hands and fled.
1:19:06
In 1805, fighting broke out again at the
1:19:08
Yakutat fort, resulting in more casualties and brutal
1:19:12
skirmishes.
1:19:14
While these conflicts slowed Russian expansion, they did
1:19:17
not stop.
1:19:19
Fighting continued, and Baranov did not live to
1:19:22
see the end of the fighting.
1:19:23
Old and worn out, he retired and died
1:19:25
on his way back to St. Petersburg.
1:19:28
Nevertheless, Russians and Tlingits eventually found common ground
1:19:33
and divided the land.
1:19:34
In 1818, they signed a peace treaty.
1:19:38
Much like with the Chukchi on the Eurasian
1:19:41
continent, the Tlingits were ultimately subdued through trade.
1:19:46
Tobacco, potatoes, and bread proved stronger than cannons.
1:19:51
The Russians continued their journey along the shores
1:19:55
of America, and for a time there were
1:19:57
even Russian settlements in California.
1:20:00
Fort Ross, the land for this little town,
1:20:02
was acquired from native tribes in exchange for
1:20:05
three blankets, three pair of trousers, two axes,
1:20:08
and three hoes.
1:20:10
The Russians were drawn to California by practical
1:20:13
consideration.
1:20:14
Alaska was too cold, so Fort Ross was
1:20:17
established to supply food to the hunters.
1:20:20
At Fort Ross, they raised livestock, planted orchards,
1:20:23
and built small ships they sold to the
1:20:25
Spanish.
1:20:27
Interestingly, alongside the Russians, several dozen Aleuts migrated
1:20:31
from Alaska to California as well.
1:20:34
Eventually, that colony dissolved, but has survived to
1:20:37
this day as an open-air museum.
1:20:39
Throughout this time, the Russians faced a major
1:20:41
challenge.
1:20:42
They were too few in America.
1:20:44
Despite the colonization of Alaska and expedition to
1:20:47
California, the Russian population in America did not
1:20:50
exceed 1,000.
1:20:52
Russia's Far East was already considered remote.
1:20:55
Even today, reaching Kamchatka or Chukotka from Central
1:20:59
Russia is difficult and expensive.
1:21:02
This was especially true in the era of
1:21:04
the Russian Empire when the Trans-Siberian Railway
1:21:07
and air travel didn't exist.
1:21:09
Kamchatka and Chukotka at the far edges of
1:21:12
the continent, meaning that to get to from
1:21:15
Central Russia, one had to travel what felt
1:21:18
like the edge of the world, board a
1:21:20
ship, and cross the ocean.
1:21:22
There were also about as many Creoles, descendants
1:21:28
of mixed marriage evolution, Eskimo, and Native American
1:21:31
women.
1:21:32
Over time, their number grew, and by the
1:21:35
mid-century, there were about 1,500 Creoles
1:21:37
and 6 to 700 Russian settlers, but they
1:21:40
were very small colonies.
1:21:42
The fate of these settlements in America mirrored
1:21:46
the story of the Viking colonies on the
1:21:48
opposite side of the continent.
1:21:50
For the Scandinavians, Greenland was a distant outpost,
1:21:54
while Vinland, America, even further beyond.
1:21:58
If the Russians had trouble exploring and developing
1:22:00
Siberia due to its vastness, no wonder they
1:22:03
didn't have enough people and resources when it
1:22:06
came to Alaska.
1:22:07
Russian priests eased the situation.
1:22:10
Missionaries carried on active work.
1:22:15
The decline and the $7.2 million sale.
1:22:23
By the mid-19th century, Russia began questioning
1:22:26
necessity of having colony in Alaska.
1:22:29
Population of sea otters declined due to relentless
1:22:32
hunting.
1:22:33
Prices paid by Russian-American country to hunters
1:22:35
were rising.
1:22:37
For a while, the colony's budget was buoyed
1:22:39
by an unconventional trade of harvesting ice for
1:22:42
California.
1:22:44
Russian rulers had several reasons to be concerned
1:22:47
about Alaska.
1:22:48
Its remote location, difficult to protect.
1:22:51
It consumed resources.
1:22:54
The return was minimal.
1:22:55
The idea to sell the territory originated with
1:22:59
Nikolai Muravyov-Amursky, Governor General of Eastern Siberia.
1:23:04
A staunch Russian imperialist who made significant contribution
1:23:08
to the development of Siberia and strengthening Russia's
1:23:12
position in the Far East, Muravyov recognized a
1:23:16
harsh reality.
1:23:17
The United States and British had far easier
1:23:19
access to Alaska, and selling it would be
1:23:22
wiser than facing potential conflict without the means
1:23:25
to defend itself.
1:23:27
These considerations led to the negotiation with the
1:23:30
U.S. government in 1867, and Emperor Alexander
1:23:34
II sold Russian America for $7.2 million,
1:23:40
a substantial sum for that era.
1:23:43
The government of Russia rightly concluded that holding
1:23:46
a territory where there were so few Russians
1:23:48
and which lacked serious economic value made little
1:23:52
sense.
1:23:54
Moreover, Russia needed the money.
1:23:55
The funds from Alaska went toward building the
1:23:58
railway network in Russia.
1:24:00
Today, many view the sale of Alaska with
1:24:04
good-natured irony.
1:24:05
The story has lingered in popular culture.
1:24:08
In one song, Russia offers America valenki, Russian
1:24:11
felt boots, to help deal with the cold,
1:24:13
while a famous Russian rock opera tells the
1:24:16
romantic story of Nikolai Rezanov, a Russian diplomat
1:24:20
and explorer who fell in love with Maria
1:24:22
Capuchin Aguela, the daughter of the Spanish governor
1:24:25
of San Francisco.
1:24:27
They became engaged, and Rezanov set off back
1:24:29
to Russia, vowing to return, but fell ill
1:24:32
and passed away on the journey.
1:24:35
The rock opera Juno and Avos, based on
1:24:37
this love story, has become a classic in
1:24:40
Russia.
1:24:40
As for Alaska, it remains the point where
1:24:43
Russia, the U.S., and the Indigenous people
1:24:46
of that rugged and beautiful land once crossed
1:24:50
paths.
1:24:51
How do you like that story?
1:24:53
I like that story, and I'm glad I
1:24:55
was able to share it with you in
1:24:57
its entirety, and I hope you enjoyed that
1:25:00
brief walk down history lane about Russia.
1:25:07
And I am still quite hopeful that our
1:25:17
war interest, America's, in Ukraine comes to an
1:25:22
end, hopefully as a result of this summit,
1:25:27
which I encourage you all to pay attention
1:25:31
to.
1:25:32
Not sure what'll come of it, but if
1:25:34
you listen to my show, I am continually
1:25:36
on the air from Sunday through Thursday nights
1:25:42
at 9 p.m. Central Standard Time, that's
1:25:48
Chicago, to about 10 30.
1:25:51
And I go an hour and a half,
1:25:54
and on Sundays I do a deep dive,
1:25:56
but not this Sunday, because I'm traveling and
1:25:59
I am putting together pre-recorded segments like
1:26:04
this one, because I will be traveling and
1:26:07
I want to make sure that I have
1:26:08
them.
1:26:09
If I can go live, I will go
1:26:11
live on Sunday, but I'm afraid that I
1:26:15
might not be able to because I have
1:26:16
a lot of things going on.
1:26:18
I'm trying to set up my meetings in
1:26:24
Russia when I get there, and hopefully I
1:26:27
have some good things to report and some
1:26:30
nice interviews to conduct.
1:26:32
I'm very much interested, like I said, in
1:26:34
the freedom of speech ones.
1:26:36
That'll be critical for me.
1:26:40
I like them, and I want them to
1:26:42
be quite successful.
1:26:45
So I encourage you to go back and
1:26:49
listen, if you get a chance, to the
1:26:51
show I did with Scott Ritter that is
1:26:55
out on both YouTube, on my At Samuel
1:26:58
Trapp channel, and it's also on my International
1:27:01
Flavor from last Sunday night's deep dive.
1:27:07
You can get back there and listen to
1:27:09
the Scott Ritter interview, which has a lot
1:27:12
to do with freedom of speech.
1:27:14
I've done several on RT and the attacks
1:27:17
by the Department of Justice against RT.
1:27:21
I did one last week about the state
1:27:24
of Missouri going after strip clubs and the
1:27:28
content that goes along in there.
1:27:30
Granted, that's a little bit, to some people,
1:27:34
not as much of a freedom of speech
1:27:35
thing or a censorship thing, but people have
1:27:39
different ways of life.
1:27:40
I don't know.
1:27:40
It'd be, if you go back and listen
1:27:42
to it, I think you may see that
1:27:45
it all gets tied in together.
1:27:48
All these Russophobia things, I think it's very
1:27:51
important that we get past this and go
1:27:55
to a different frame of mind.
1:27:59
Wouldn't it be nice to have a time
1:28:05
when we all could just accept that there
1:28:09
are different cultures, there are different ways of
1:28:12
thinking, that American democracy isn't the same democracy
1:28:17
as other places in the world, that other
1:28:20
people can be proud of their countries and
1:28:23
have a different way of leading socialism?
1:28:28
I don't care.
1:28:30
There's a spectrum available to you and a
1:28:35
different way of thinking.
1:28:37
I encourage everyone to accept what other people
1:28:41
are saying.
1:28:42
Learn all that you can.
1:28:44
Listen to everything that you can.
1:28:46
As far as us at DAM Radio, if
1:28:49
you go to damradio.com forward slash live,
1:28:53
you can listen to me on Sunday through
1:28:56
Thursday night at 9 p.m. Central Standard
1:29:00
Time.
1:29:03
Other people, if you follow the schedule, you
1:29:07
go to damradio.com forward slash schedule, and
1:29:11
you can listen to that schedule.
1:29:12
All of my shows are stored on internationalflavor
1:29:17
.com.
1:29:18
There's a great deal of them that you
1:29:19
can go back and listen to, and I
1:29:23
hope that you do.
1:29:24
There's something for everybody out there when you
1:29:27
can listen to them and hear some of
1:29:29
the stuff that we talk about.
1:29:31
I like history.
1:29:32
I like politics.
1:29:33
I like discussion on these topics.
1:29:36
I like speaking about things that other people
1:29:39
might not find time to hear all about.
1:29:44
I appreciate you all.
1:29:46
I hope that you all join me all
1:29:49
of the time.
1:29:51
Thank you so very much, and have a
1:29:54
very good evening.
1:29:56
Goodbye.