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Missiles, Oil, and Gatekeepers: Venezuela’s ‘Peace’ Threats, Pokrovsk’s Black Hawks, and Kaliningrad’s Sea Bridge—International Flavor Tonight: Sanctions, Seizures, and Hypocrisy · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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Really awesome music to bring you some incredibly
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awesome political talk on Dan radio Hello, good
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evening.
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Welcome.
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I am Samuel trap.
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This is international flavor Coming to you live
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from the Lake Ozark real estate of the
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art studio this wonderful Sunday night the very
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first Show of the week.
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I believe I think I am the first
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one.
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I can't you know what?
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I don't know if If The power of
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truth was on this evening or not sadly,
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I wasn't I wasn't paying attention too poor
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to pay attention as Some people are fond
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of saying if you feel like calling in,
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please do five seven three seven four six
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eight zero two zero and we shall proceed
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with some of the hilarity of The I
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wasn't here Thursday night.
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I was Trying to figure out a little
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bit of a Family event.
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I apologize for that, but we will proceed
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from here My article was published in the
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Russian Newspaper on that day had quite a
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bit of content on there have another one
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coming out this week And I may I
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may write yet one more.
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I'm getting fond of writing these Russian stories
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and they do continue to Publish them so
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long as they'll publish them.
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I'll Freaking write them.
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How do you feel about that?
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But let's get into the hilarity of the
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day.
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Do you remember me telling you a little
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bit ago Couldn't have been more than a
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month About the Nobel Peace Prize not going
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to The old trumpster that he didn't get
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it.
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There's quite a few reasons for that.
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We'll go into some of them tonight I
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don't know that this guy is Necessarily a
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peace president.
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This could be a horror story of a
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year militarily as far as regime change and
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Money, you know attacking for oil and threatening
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people for that.
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It's kind of crazy Let's see But the
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hilarity of the day begins with the Nobel
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Prize winner Maria Karina Makado Basically, she is
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calling the Nobel Peace Prize has gone to
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her and She says the only way to
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Oust the illegitimate Nicholas Maduro she says is
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For the u.s. To blow him up
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Let's start a war let's let's do some
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regime change this is nonsense friends and neighbors
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and of course she's sitting in the cat
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bird seat because they want her to To
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take on over.
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Oh Been a rough week.
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Oh, you know what?
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I I Completely forgot till my mother told
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me on the phone today That it was
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fall back We gained an hour.
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Aren't you gaining an hour that way are
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we losing an hour?
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Yeah, I think we gain an hour.
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Yeah They're blowing up more drug boats, and
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I'm gonna tell you a little bit about
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that But let's uh, you know, what are
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we up to like 45 people blown up
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was no evidence Kill him it's a peacetime
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president, right?
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Blow up everyone We're gonna bomb everybody I'm
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sitting there thinking well, maybe it's some kind
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of a deal you leave me alone In
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Venezuela while I go for free oil there
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or Nigeria while I go for more free
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oil there And how about I leave you
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alone?
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Mr. Vladimir Vladimir Vich in the old Ukraine?
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We're not gonna bother you over there.
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Haven't heard a lot of news on that
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recently Not a whole lot going on Let's
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let's tell you about the Washington's alleged anti
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-drug campaign off of the Venezuelan coast the
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US military build-up off Venezuela's coast Will
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help bring about regime change says opposition figure
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Maria Karina Makoto Makoto the Nobel Peace Prize
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winner this year said she would welcome Welcome
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US strikes on the country if they will
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remove president Nicolas Maduro Doesn't matter, you know
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if we what we need is more Ukraine
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style Democracy somewhere else, right?
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Oh Good stuff and we'll get to it.
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We'll get to some more stories on that
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Washington's Washington is accused Maduro Again no proof,
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you know, they just to keep make accusation
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decide that's the that's the deal and he
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might be I don't know I don't care
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but but do more than just say it
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government says a lot and they never get
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anywhere But Washington has been accused Maduro of
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having ties to drug cartels.
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Oh, yeah, just like you know most of
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our politicians have ties connections to the deep
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state you know Washington calls Maduro a Narco
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terrorist you throw in that word terrorist and
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all the All the people who aren't paying
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attention or too dumb to read all they
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see is Terrorist and that means we can
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blow them up.
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Let's blow up those ships in the in
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the Caribbean earlier this year the old trumpster
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deployed a naval armada to the Western Caribbean
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and since September US force had been blowing
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up alleged drug smuggling boats off of Venezuela
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media reports say that Washington is expanding its
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naval presence Suggesting that the mission could extend
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beyond counter narcotics.
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It's not counter narcotics now This is this
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is blowing up people to make sure that
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we all shut up and nobody says a
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word about it Because we don't care and
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to see politically whether blowing up speedboats in
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the water is gonna bother anybody that's why
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we're doing it and You know Trump denies
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so far Planning direct strikes in Venezuela, although
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he did say he was sent in the
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CIA there last week remember we talked about
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that that the CIA is operating inside of
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Venezuela in the efforts of Creating some further
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regime change, right?
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But he's denying it and in reportedly Is
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reviewing strikes inside of Venezuela as a list
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of potential targets?
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He was asked on Bloomberg's Bloomberg's the Michelle
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Hussein show if she backs the u.s.
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Military action and Makoto Makoto said I believe
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Escalation that's taking place is the only way
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to force Maduro to understand It's time to
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go She claimed that Maduro Illegally seized power
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in last year's election from which she was
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barred from participation Well, I don't understand why
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we're worried about elections in other countries.
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I mean if we're worried about elections Again,
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why don't we have a look at Ukraine?
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There are no elections there.
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There's no democracy there There There's no Alternative
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party there.
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There's only the man of the people Vladimir
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Zelensky, isn't that crazy?
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Makoto also claimed that opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez
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European won the election Ousting major Maduro.
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She says will not be regime change Since
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he's not the legitimate President anyway, but according
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to her he is the head of the
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narco terrorist structure This is not regime change.
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This is enforcing the will of the Venezuelan
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people she stressed now when has anybody Worried
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about the will of the people if we
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are worried about the will the people I
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hate to say it again But look on
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the other side of the planet away from
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Venezuela, let's go back into Ukraine where 76
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% was it in our in our thing
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last week said they're ready to end the
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war at the current lines Do you hear
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about the helicopter?
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Oh Man, I got to find that one
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and see if I can give you the
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the entertainment.
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It's not even entertaining.
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It's really sad It's depressing and so for
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a limited period of time the Ukrainians were
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oh they had a victory a big one,
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but we shall see it wasn't really but
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that's what they've been pumping all over The
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place it's depressing.
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So let's see.
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Anyway, let's finish with the Maduro genius telling
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us We had to start laughing.
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This ought to be the Samuel trap comedy
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hour for this because this is funny Maduro
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accuses Mikado of channeling u.s. Funds to
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fascist Anti-government groups and calls her a
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front for Washington interference in Venezuelan affairs Mikado
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surprise surprise has close contacts with the u
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.s. Government and has for decades in 2005
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President George W Bush received her at the
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Oval Office Does this mean we're all gonna
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have to start wearing blazers and You know
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red ties, you know if George Bush is
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still in charge.
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Maybe we need to dress like him Maybe
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a pair of cowboy.
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I have a couple of pair of cowboy
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boots I could put them on with a
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pair of jeans, but as long as you
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wear a blazer all is well Later asked
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if military force is the only way to
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remove Maduro Mikado said the threat alone might
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be sufficient So if we if we line
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up how many warships was it like seven
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or eight and sixty thousand freaking troops on
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them all That maybe that will scare him
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into leaving Hmm.
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I don't know but I sure hope we
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don't Attack I you know, that's So much
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for getting a Nobel Peace Prize, huh?
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That ain't gonna work.
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She said it was absolutely Indispensable to have
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a credible threat.
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She added that the Venezuelan opposition is Ready
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to take over the government.
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I bet she is Backed by the military
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and the police Claiming that more than 80
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% of them are joining.
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Well, you know her apparently and will be
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part of this Orderly transition as soon as
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it starts, so we'll trade one But you
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know alleged drug lord for the oil Lords,
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right?
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We'll go in there and that's the whole
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point.
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This whole thing is all about oil Maduro
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denies u.s. Drug trafficking Accusations accuses Trump
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of fabricating a new war Caracas called the
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u.s. Operations a violation of their sovereignty
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and a coup attempt Reportedly seeking help.
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Well Caracas is reportedly seeking help from Russia
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China and Iran to strengthen its defenses Russia
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ratified a strategic partnership treaty with Venezuela on
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Monday less than a week ago and of
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course condemns the u.s. efforts So what
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was I telling you?
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Well, we have this this article said there
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were only so far 16,000 troops off
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the Venezuelan coast according to the Washington Post
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The American forces in the area reportedly include
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eight Navy ships a special ops vessel and
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a nuclear submarine How about that the u
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.s. Is deploying?
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massive military contingent to the area near Venezuela
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the move indicates or may indicate plans to
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expand Operations the u.s. Has Repeatedly accused
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Venezuela of aiding Narco-terrorist, this is an
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oil grab people.
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This has put somebody in familiar To to
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us all it's happened before this is what
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we do and Trump's no different than the
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rest of them when it comes to globalists
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seizing power Assets and giving them to u
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.s. Businesses Trump's a businessman and Trump is
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doing the same thing that everyone else is
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but he's using the army to do it
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You know, they're I assume if he gave
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money to Maduro what difference would it make?
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Do you think there ought to be some
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sort of effort to attempt to do it?
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No, they want to control it so we
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have to put in according to a common
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belief we have to engage in regime change
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and Then Then we have a puppet Zelensky
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Zelensky South, you know Zelensky South America puppet.
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We have the same thing so crazy crazy
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stuff So eight thousand or I'm sorry eight
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Navy warships The aircraft carrier USS Gerald Ford
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which is expected to arrive next week Will
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bring with it three more military vessels and
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four thousand more military personnel Additionally f-35
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fighter jets are stationed at a u.s.
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Base in Puerto Rico The arrival of the
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carrier group suggest Washington's plans extend beyond to
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counter narcotics No, I Believe it you think
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says nothing to do with narcotics it has
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everything to do with oil Okay.
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Oh Boy the director of the Americas program
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in a Center for strategic and international Studies
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added that US President Trump has a month
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to make a major decision Before the group
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would need to be Redeployed multiple outlets have
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reported the White House has been weighing potential
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military action in Venezuela Senator Rick Scott told
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CBS last night that Maduro's days are Numbered
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remember me sharing some of that with you.
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He's not the only one to have said
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it Washington Post claimed on Thursday that Washington
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had already identified Potential targets including Matilda military
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facilities Allegedly, so you have to say it's
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all about drugs.
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These military facilities are allegedly used for drug
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smuggling When asked about the report on Friday
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Trump said no, it's not true But last
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month Trump confirmed authorizing the CIA to carry
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out lethal covert ops in the Region does
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that bother anyone or is it just me?
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I mean, I suppose it's just me cuz
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Everybody I talked to about it seems reasonably
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okay with it nuts nutty stuff We're gonna
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go back to where we're hello.
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Hello.
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Hello I included some articles that I've been
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reviewing here and one of the things I
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wanted to talk about was Checkpoints in C
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lanes and logistics between Russia and Belgorod and
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Not Belgrade Russia and Belarus and Kaliningrad now
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for those of you who don't know and
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I don't know how often you look at
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a map or don't understand it.
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It's Kaliningrad is part of Russia But it's
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on the Baltic Sea.
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And so it's on the other side of
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Latvia Lithuania Estonia so It's a it's a
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part of like a little island inside of
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Europe, but it's not an island, you know
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figurative island it's a Russia outside like Transnistria
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in Moldova, which There they they want to
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be part of the Russian Country and so
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a Kaliningrad is and it's on the Baltic
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Sea and If you remember a couple of
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times once while I was in Belarus driving
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through to Lithuania I May have told the
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story.
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I'm 90% sure I did that the
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stops at the border are just nutty and
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they drag on forever and so, you know,
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they say but and it's true because I've
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seen it but driving out of Lithuania into
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Belarus doesn't take any time at all that,
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you know, there's a big busload of us
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and you know, we waited in line for
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a little bit, but not very long and
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then you you just get out do a
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bag drag they check y'all out the
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bus goes through and you hop back on
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and Keep on trucking right maybe an hour
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an hour and a half tops but on
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the way back from Belarus in to Lithuania
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the the Passenger part, you know like buses
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and cars.
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They're Serious lines there are three different lines
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going through their trucks hauling goods there are
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commercial Tourist buses and stuff like that and
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then there's also a line for private vehicles
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people You know driving around In their own
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private car and those to go fairly quickly
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the buses and well, I'll fairly quickly Call
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it four to six hours.
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We were there like four and a half
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if I recall on the way out of
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Belarus but the truckers and all the stories
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we heard that that's not uncommon for even
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passenger buses in Vehicles to wait, you know
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up to they tell you to you know
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plan for 24 hours just to cross the
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border because they're limiting who can come in
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Which is really weird because a Schengen visa
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allows you to travel all over Europe And
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so you'd have to if you have a
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Schengen you had to be able to get
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in there pretty quick, right?
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You gotta be able and then once you
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get in you can go to any European
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country But oh, no They now it's stuck
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and so I read a rather It's kind
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of a comical thing that you read and
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you see the logistical changes of what's happened
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and the And I'm gonna tell you about
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how this works.
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There's been You know from checkpoints sea lanes
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how the Baltics have tried to squeeze Kaliningrad
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out of the Russian Federation Basically, and why
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the workarounds are faster than the alternatives a
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lot of people claim that these blocks of
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Russian Belarussian truckers Trying to go through Lithuania
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to get to Kaliningrad are Intentional and they're
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just having them delayed so that they can
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squeeze Kaliningrad out of the Russian Federation And
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make them, you know, I don't know what
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independent become an EU Subject, you know something
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like that But it hasn't been working so
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but there's been 20 years of promises two
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years of sanctioned lawfare and now balloons Lithuania
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has shut the Belarus crossings thousands of trucks
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have stacked up and Brussels reinterprets the rules
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of sanctions again so we're gonna look at
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how the Baltic choke points have been built
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how Russia and Belarus have begun to route
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around them and Why the st.
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Petersburg Kaliningrad sea bridge, which they've built is
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is here to stay so before this all
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started there was a Kaliningrad compromise in 2002
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in 2003 as Lithuania was preparing to join
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the EU Moscow and Brussels Struck a transit
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agreement so Russians could move people and products
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goods to and from Kaliningrad through Lithuania and
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the way they did this with the key
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instrument of it all is called facilitated transit
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documents the Kaliningrad Compromise and what did it
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really mean?
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It meant that Lithuania got to keep its
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Sovereignty and control of trucking, you know, it
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wasn't like a military corridor but the EU
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pledged smooth transit consistent with this agreement that
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they had so it's that kind of a
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political expectation that Kaliningrad would not be isolated
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Like a little island by EU borders, right?
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So Brussels the the EU they promised continuity,
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but Vilnius keeps the keys and that tension
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was you know heavy but sat there for
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two decades and generally worked reasonably well, but
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since it was cold Controlled only by Lithuania
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and Lithuania hates Russians and Russia and you
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can't even speak there, you know Russian without
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people having a fit, you know and Canceling
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you even in the back of an uber
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like I told those stories nonsense There the
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Russians which and the Belarusian or Belarus folks
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were trying to create some sort of alternative
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plan and Basically the Ust Luga or the
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in the to the Baltic rail and the
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ferry Was you know started years and years
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ago 20 years ago.
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Let's call it and railway ferries began shuttling
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these Ust Luga Baltic in the in the
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late 2000s in 2010 they added ferries and
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rail to take the things from Belarus all
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the way to St. Petersburg and then put
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them on a ferry and the ferry, you
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know the large transport ferry not for people
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but for for containers would just take them
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from St. Petersburg over to Kaliningrad, right and
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so it was the timetable was formalized in
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2020 with regular stuff and there was a
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modern lift added in 2022 new dual-fuel
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ice class ferries the Marshall Roscoe Roscoe's of
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ski and general Cherniakov ski entered regular service
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and There were legacy units older ones and
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ball and Baltic Cycled in and out after
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they were refitted in capacity has steadily Expanded
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and gotten, you know much larger and this
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this these Came from ferry shipping news.com
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back then and then from 23 to 25
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operators have reported hundreds of voyages and hundreds
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of thousands of tons moved and Rossmore port,
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which is The Russian Morskoy port Morskoy means
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seaport Russia's seaport It's a company they plan
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more terminal upgrades at Baltic and Ust Luga
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to raise the ceiling even further so what's
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the translation of all this the sea bridge
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is permanent and You know, it's they don't
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they're trying to avoid Lithuania altogether because Lithuania
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isn't it's not that they're not honoring This
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agreement, but they're just gonna make Russian truckers
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sit there, you know 24 hours Just to
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delay the goods and you know, there didn't
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seem to be any real reason for it
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I mean, how long does it take to
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check someone's?
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Paperwork in a in a Line most of
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us have been through the airport And see
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how it how you know what it takes
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to enter another country If you've traveled anywhere
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and it shouldn't take much to review Documents
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to review shipping containers that doesn't take very
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long and other countries do it pretty quickly,
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you know So they're talking about about this
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quite a bit, but when politics is pinching
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You know the land routes to sea route
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is gonna swallow all that cargo and that's
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what's gonna happen so from 21 to 23
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There were a lot of border theatrics and
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there was the first squeeze on the on
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the issue, right?
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so in 2021, there was a migration crisis
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and They've been having all kinds of people
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headed into Latvia Lithuania Estonia from Ukraine mostly
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and Latvia closed one of the two Belarus
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crossings and they said that Minsk That's Belarus
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had engineered some sort of wave of foreigners
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to come and get into the country Poland
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and Lithuania both started hardening their controls and
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stopping people from coming in But the freight
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was still flowing but much slower a lot
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more friction and Belarus Started you know, they
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were hit with at the ports first Lithuania
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moved against Belarus potash right and then state
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rail Termination and it didn't target Kaliningrad They
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were targeting Belarus to keep them from getting
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into Kaliningrad and so Rewired the Belarus Baltic
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logistics and set up, you know precedent for
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them Policy would you know by port and
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rail so before anyone ever touched any Kaliningrad
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cargo you know, they were Firing warning shots,
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you know, we're gonna The war was ramping
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up at this time, you know, and so
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they're really pushing to to kick Russia out
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and let's talk about the summer of 2022
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and Lithuania Tested a Kaliningrad ban Okay, they
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wanted to ban it in June and July
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of 2022 Lithuania began blocking rail transit of
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Goods that were already approved by the EU
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Steel and iron cement alcohol and more and
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claiming that you know the EU Was stopping
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it, but it wasn't he was it was
30:54
Lithuania itself Moscow called it a blockade And
30:58
then in the 13th of July of 2022
31:01
the EU issued guidance road Transit by Russian
31:07
operator operators was now banned But rail transit
31:11
of goods to Kaliningrad is not prohibited so
31:15
they could do it by rail Just not
31:18
by truck But there would be volume controls
31:21
and nothing that is dual use items.
31:24
Nothing that could Potentially be used by military
31:29
Lithuania said it would comply with this and
31:31
then later lifted the rail ban so the
31:34
blockade attempts collapsed and collapsed into a rail
31:37
only that was Allowed, but you couldn't do
31:41
it trucking so Even at the peak political
31:45
pressure EU had to accommodate Kaliningrad rail Which
31:51
is a legacy of that framework that had
31:53
been in existence for 20 years So the
31:57
you know Supposedly it was gonna stay open
32:00
although Vilnius pulled the brakes Brussels shifted the
32:03
you know shifted it to rail the trains
32:06
could roll but trucks could not and Then
32:10
the workarounds Became a little more difficult and
32:15
politics were escalating So the ferry lines became
32:19
the backbone of it all so Ruska Russ
32:24
Russ Kosovsky and Cherny a Kovsky in Service
32:29
and you know, they entered service in 23
32:32
and Baltice gumball came back after repairs so
32:37
this began moving millions and millions of tons
32:41
through the port and so You know, they're
32:44
modernizing terminals.
32:47
They're They're up an additional two to three
32:51
hundred Containers, you know per Route that they
32:59
have been able to improve because of the
33:02
increased size of these ferries, right and So
33:06
in October of 2025, I told you about
33:09
this last last month Lithuania closed or restricted
33:14
Belarus crossings for a month member there were
33:17
I don't know what was going on over
33:19
there, but It was it was really a
33:22
pretext and they were talking about Indefinite closure
33:27
because they were talking about Contraband cigarettes remember
33:32
that when I told you about that a
33:34
couple of week.
33:34
Oh weeks ago.
33:35
They called it a hybrid attack on cigarettes
33:39
from Europe Because they're selling the cheap Russian
33:42
ones even shutting the Vilnius airports briefly So
33:47
2,000 trucks were stranded in Belarus and
33:51
You know, there were very few exemptions that
33:55
were allowed to come out Moscow warned Vilnius
34:00
against new provocations affecting Kaliningrad Baltic harassment, you
34:05
know continued although they had a legal obligation
34:08
to perform Poland 2025 Warsaw shut road and
34:14
rail also with Belarus during during these drills
34:18
for a member Zoppen 2025 the military drills
34:22
in the West and They were hitting the
34:26
China EU artery and then reopened under pressure
34:30
Because there were a lot of things going
34:32
scarce So they keep repeating this same story
34:37
close a border on Monday EU pressure Carve
34:41
out Kaliningrad Results by Wednesday and then by
34:46
Friday you can claim victory, you know Because
34:49
you were able to shut down more transit
34:52
into Kaliningrad, so Right now The Minsk Belarus
34:59
st.
35:00
Petersburg Kaliningrad corridor Minsk is announcing that The
35:06
well their state forwarder anyway Belta more service
35:11
is formalizing a multimodal route that completely skips
35:16
Lithuania they're taking rail to st.
35:20
Petersburg than a direct ferry without Reloading to
35:24
Kaliningrad with pre-booked ferry slots and a
35:28
less than 10-day delivery Removing any Baltic
35:32
choke points entirely, right?
35:34
So it's it's plugging into existing Russian ferry
35:39
spines But why does this matter because even
35:43
if Lithuania keeps exemptions for Kaliningrad rail?
35:47
Political risk is still high as you've seen
35:50
from the from them continuing to stop it.
35:53
So the seabridge turns into the default logistics
35:58
route so the money and And all of
36:03
the movement stays in Russia and no transit
36:08
fees no Terrorists know anything on goods because
36:16
it's all gonna stay Russia to Russia and
36:19
so Lithuania once again You know kicks itself
36:24
in the foot, right?
36:26
But if your neighbor keeps playing with the
36:29
gate You know you build your own gate
36:31
get around it, right so with all the
36:36
sanctions that are coming out in in the
36:39
the ports and rail contract pressures and now
36:43
border theatrics with all these You know Crazy
36:48
talks about cigarettes and anything else Coming how
36:53
can you?
36:55
All the workarounds I tell you a lot
36:58
about Russia getting creative to do in and
37:02
and their allies Getting creative to avoid these
37:05
sanctions and every time a new sanctions package
37:08
comes out Russia gets even more creative and
37:13
where there's a need the money will find
37:18
a way right and so all of these
37:20
things they're they're doing it and Everything that
37:24
the West does not just the u.s..
37:26
But the EU and everyone else Is not
37:31
it'll be temporary hiccups which every sanctions package
37:36
has been They're on their 19th sanctions package
37:40
the lunatics running the Baltics in Lithuania Latvia
37:44
and to some extent Poland are only kicking
37:49
themselves in the in the rear end by
37:54
Stopping this transit.
37:57
I mean what do they expect Russia to
38:00
do you know the Geography you know EU
38:04
can can enforce their own rules and but
38:07
Russia and Belarus are Again creating more what?
38:14
Infrastructure more ports more ferries more terminals and
38:19
the long game this is going to reward
38:21
hard infrastructure You know in Russia and everybody
38:27
else, I mean jeez it's Ideology right the
38:33
ideology of canceling everyone is just you end
38:37
up canceling yourself and Energy logistics transportation all
38:45
of that Tends to favor Russia once again
38:52
in these Sanctions don't really in my humble
38:57
opinion Work all that well, I don't think
39:02
that they do So I don't know what
39:07
should should Kalinin grad rail Fail well you
39:13
can just take it up to the port
39:16
in st.
39:18
Petersburg and Take It around there, right Well,
39:26
let's what are we gonna talk about here?
39:29
We have another another story there were Some
39:37
more Talk about Pokrovskaya, I don't know if
39:44
If you recall from Wednesday night when we
39:48
were talking about that there were there's a
39:53
Pokrovsk is completely surrounded and Vladimir Putin said
39:58
that He would open it up for Media
40:03
to go in and talk to the Ukrainian
40:05
soldiers that are surrounded instead of Western journalists
40:12
Ukrainian journalists Would all be granted Safe passage
40:19
and No attack If they wanted to go
40:24
and talk to him So that has happened
40:27
and there's still some surrounding of Pokrovskaya that
40:30
has some some very interesting Ends, and there's
40:33
a couple of people while I was watching
40:35
that to figure it out there were There's
40:41
been several stories about Killing of Mercenaries
40:52
now they wouldn't I realize that sounds like
40:55
it has to do with the Journalists that
40:58
that we're going in so far I'm not
41:00
aware of any journalists taking up Russia on
41:03
the offer of going in in order to
41:05
finish that story out I should tell you
41:07
because I don't want it to to merge
41:09
into what I'm about to tell you here
41:11
because somebody is Reporting there's a couple of
41:14
several different outlets that there's Polish and French
41:21
mercenaries up to 600 of them the core
41:25
claim is that to Iskander M's Which is
41:30
a Strategic rocket hit an abandoned factory that
41:37
was being used as a foreign mercenary camp
41:40
near Kharkiv and The video showed a pretty
41:44
large mushroom.
41:46
It was a like cloud you know huge
41:50
It was probably a fab fab 3,000
41:53
at least And it had a huge cloud
41:58
in a collapse of a reinforced building So
42:01
the target was a French Polish Detachment that
42:06
rotated from the kupyansk region and more than
42:10
600 were inside the halls at the time
42:15
of the impact and The Saying this is
42:20
electronic intelligence electronic warfare and recon groups from
42:25
the strike detachment Irlan see the Irish But
42:30
it's a Russian a Russian group but they
42:32
call themselves the Irish that they had infiltrated
42:35
the area days in advance and so Meanwhile
42:40
Russia is putting pressure on kupyansk Lyman Pokrovsk.
42:45
It's this is not random.
42:46
They are there are people allegedly coming to
42:51
assist Ukraine to try to bust through that
42:54
line in Pokrovsk and Russia and Russian intelligence
42:58
is working to make sure that they Aren't
43:03
getting in especially on the mercenary sides now
43:06
for a long time they have stated that
43:08
they're the Russians have stated that they are
43:18
I'm sorry excuse me had something in my
43:20
throat there They have said for a long
43:24
time that they are not going to allow
43:28
The mercenaries to I Don't know not be
43:34
struck in the area.
43:35
They're they're gonna treat any mercenaries that show
43:38
up Whether they're foreigners or not Foreign detachment,
43:42
whatever they're gonna blow them up.
43:44
Anyway, they're gonna treat them just like they
43:47
would Ukrainians And so that's not that's what
43:51
that's what they're saying And so they found
43:53
this group of 600 and there's been three
43:55
people or three different sources that have outlined
43:58
it But I haven't found anything about it
44:01
in Western media just yet But that doesn't
44:05
mean we won't find something here in a
44:08
little it a little bit and So these
44:11
Iskander M's which are short-range ballistic missiles
44:15
less than 500 kilometers Mach six or seven
44:18
They're maneuverable upon re-entry.
44:22
They have multiple conventional warheads.
44:24
They can do fragmentation cluster rounds Penetration bunker
44:28
busters, they're designed to beat area defenses and
44:32
go after hard targets, right?
44:34
so they're there they're They can dodge but
44:38
they're fast and they are pretty damn heavy.
44:41
So the Patriot struggles against them and multiple
44:46
sources are summarizing that the ballistic missile interceptions
44:51
by Patriots fell 37% from from August
44:57
to September and Russia keeps tweaking its maneuvers
45:01
and trajectory This is bad news.
45:04
If you're sheltering you big fixed sites like
45:07
the one that allegedly blew up full of
45:10
full of French and Polish mercenaries, right so
45:18
what we can confirm is EAD daily is
45:23
based to English say that in Iskander's hit
45:26
the AFU locations and foreign mercenary sites around
45:29
that same time frame Russian Ministry Ministry of
45:33
Defense says that that week And they you
45:38
know last week they boasted that blowing up
45:41
temporary deployment points and foreign mercenaries, but You
45:47
know Russia Pokra Kupyansk and Prokhorovsk are doing
45:52
are doing quite well allegedly those 5,500
45:57
that are surrounded in Prokhorovsk they're starting to
46:01
Surrender, but I haven't found any nothing mass
46:05
surrender, but They're beginning to trickle in all
46:11
the surrenderings Um Nobody in the West has
46:18
verified that 600 people 600 mercenaries that were
46:26
That were there but the Chinese said it
46:28
occurred there their News news agency said that
46:35
these They had taken out a foreign fighter
46:38
camp near Kharkiv with French and Polish and
46:42
About 600 present the Chinese said it So
46:45
whether the 600 number holds up or not
46:48
the pattern is pretty clear Russia's you know
46:50
mixing infiltration electronic warfare and ballistics and squeezing
46:55
Kupyansk and Prokhorovsk and Western trackers say that
47:00
there's tons of infiltration pressure Patriot performance is
47:07
Way Substandard and So what would be the
47:13
net effect of this is that foreign fighters
47:15
are definitely a priority target for Russia that
47:18
they find them They're gonna blow them up,
47:20
and if you have a huge Conglomeration of
47:25
them or even a I mean 600 it
47:27
wouldn't necessarily be huge, but that's a that's
47:30
a bad bet to put that many in
47:32
the same Facility because one is Scandor can
47:36
take all of that out and without having
47:38
any Patriot defenses, that's a fool's errand if
47:43
that's what's really happening I Don't know but
47:48
there's these rear area hammers You know that
47:51
they're blowing up these people further into the
47:54
rear.
47:54
That's It's not good, and there's no air
47:57
defenses It's another note of their zero air
48:00
defense by the way.
48:02
I saw an article today about Trump allowing
48:09
Starting to allow sent more attack comes missiles
48:13
excuse me to Kiev and That he's gonna
48:16
allow deeper strikes inside of Russia, so once
48:19
again now Non wartime president His Or non
48:26
it doesn't like war he's our alleged peace
48:31
God is now gonna escalate by sending more
48:35
Missiles no tomahawks, but sending more attack comes
48:40
to To Ukraine now.
48:43
I haven't seen that confirmed yet But there's
48:47
been a couple of good sources report it
48:50
I'm not sure where that's going to end
48:54
up, right?
48:56
so Mario Zakharova gave her briefing on Friday,
49:00
just like she does every Friday and It
49:05
was a long briefing.
49:07
I only got to listen to the first
49:09
half of it because I didn't have enough
49:11
time and These She's still talking about these
49:18
Civilian targeting by the Russians I mean, I'm
49:22
sorry by the Ukrainians against the Russians that
49:25
they're targeting the civilians and the Ministry of
49:29
Foreign Affairs Is saying that drone and artillery
49:32
strikes on civilians across Belgrade beyond?
49:36
vornish danish her son and Moscow and her
49:41
Killing miners again.
49:43
She like I said she does every week.
49:45
She talks about that and She goes through
49:49
But I'll call it 15 20 incidents that
49:53
occurred And she said over the last week
49:57
alone Dozens of Russian civilians including children have
50:03
been killed in the Belgrade region and they're
50:06
using high Mars and You know these they're
50:10
bombing into homes of these people she talked
50:14
about the Coalition of the willing still had
50:20
a London meeting and They're still trying to
50:23
get the asset grab member talking about that
50:26
in the middle of last week So they
50:28
hosted Zelensky and they're pushing more arms out
50:33
for his For his use and They're all
50:40
trying to figure out how to Take Russian
50:43
assets more than they already had As a
50:48
heart of a called it a cash out,
50:50
you know, they're Stealing money because they can't
50:53
afford it to pay for it themselves So
50:55
they just steal it and they don't have
50:58
money for their own voters, but they'll pledge
51:01
Ukraine cash by stealing From another country.
51:05
That's their business model Isn't that crazy?
51:13
It's They want to Sweden wants to You
51:19
know just like This came up at that
51:22
meeting too.
51:23
They want to part fund Via the frozen
51:28
frozen Russian assets is what they want to
51:31
do.
51:32
They want to Help everybody's trying to figure
51:36
out how to steal that money out of
51:38
the bank and use it to To get
51:41
just give it to Ukraine and let them
51:43
it's somebody else's assets.
51:45
Isn't that crazy?
51:47
And there was a Another little scandal and
51:53
Kaya Kaya call us talking about the International
51:56
Criminal Court so the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
51:59
says the International Criminal Court Criminal Court is
52:03
not a UN body and the EU officials
52:07
are politicizing law and the But they don't
52:12
follow the ICC even they're all they're all
52:15
members of it and so and it's against
52:17
the law what they're doing regarding Russian sanctions,
52:20
so Brussels gets to shout about international law,
52:26
but push political tribunals and asset seizures Do
52:32
what I say not what I would not
52:34
what I do and they bend the law
52:36
for their own purposes and stealing money in
52:41
my view and in Maria Zakharova's and is
52:45
Just stealing the money.
52:47
They'll take it and but that's okay because
52:50
we're on the good guy side, right?
52:52
So people should be able to take it
52:55
nonsense So No, I'm not gonna read that
53:03
one we're gonna skip that Q got Cuba
53:08
embargo vote.
53:09
Did you hear about that coming up that
53:11
the Cuba wants to have a new vote
53:14
and want to have themselves removed from the
53:19
US terrorist list and You know a hundred
53:24
and sixty-five nations agreed and told Washington
53:28
to end this Cuba nonsense and one more
53:36
time that the alleged rules base order lost
53:40
the votes and I Don't know we always
53:46
seem to be on the we always seem
53:49
to be on the dominant side if a
53:51
certain country has has Assets, you know like
53:57
Venezuela like African countries that have lots of
54:02
gold her a rare earth, but Cuba can't
54:10
join the world order even now wouldn't it
54:13
the Obama monster that added him in not
54:16
to when when he was in office and
54:18
then somehow they fell into bad bad behavior
54:22
again after that Let's see.
54:26
I have a couple of more.
54:29
I Wanted to try to get into Old
54:35
Solovey off.
54:36
He did a show that He wanted to
54:40
call well, somebody wanted to call a large
54:44
Chess board and this this show came out.
54:49
It's actually Sunday night show, but for them
54:54
the show is late at night.
54:56
So it actually finishes very early in the
54:59
morning And so four or five hours ago
55:02
is when this would have came out right
55:04
and It's a long part of it and
55:09
I want to cover some of it, but
55:13
it might take just a few minutes to
55:18
pull up the part that I want and
55:23
And See if we can get further into
55:27
that and before we go there all the
55:31
way I wanted to Tell you about the
55:41
New nuclear submarine so u.s. Sent a
55:45
nuclear submarine down to Venezuela and Russia Launched
55:51
a new nuclear submarine as well and It's
55:58
a they held a ceremony today that Unveiled
56:06
the new nuclear submarine which is called the
56:09
Khabarovsk on The Russian Dominic Russian Defense Ministry
56:15
said it's designed to carry massive torpedo shaped
56:20
nuclear powered Poseidon drones so the ceremony took
56:26
pace took place in Savorodin Savorodvinsk and was
56:31
attended by Andrei Belousov and other top brass
56:36
and dry Belousov is the Russian Defense Minister
56:40
and he said today is a significant event
56:43
for us the heavy nuclear powered missile cruiser
56:48
Khabarovsk is being lodged from the slipway of
56:52
the renowned Sevmash shipyard.
56:54
He said Carrying underwater weapons and robotic systems.
56:59
It will enable us to successfully accomplish missions
57:03
related to ensuring the security of Russia's maritime
57:07
borders and protecting national interests in various parts
57:13
of the world oceans He added that the
57:16
submarine Has to complete a series of tests
57:21
and he wished to crew well the Khabarovsk
57:24
was Specifically designed and built for the Poseidon
57:29
former chief of Russian naval staff admiral Viktor
57:33
Kravchenko told the outlet Saturday The Poseidon cannot
57:38
currently be intercepted by any means according to
57:42
Russian President Vladimir Putin Earlier this week Russia
57:46
carried out tests involving state-of-the-art
57:49
drones as well as the unlimited range Burevestnik
57:54
the These announcements have come amid a stall
58:00
in the peace talks US President Trump said
58:04
on Thursday That he has instructed the Department
58:08
of War to start testing nuclear weapons again
58:12
Citing strategic competition with Russia and China, but
58:18
Russia is not so far in an arms
58:22
race with the US said Dmitry Peskov on
58:26
Thursday when asked about this now I haven't
58:31
Heard any real cover for us That You
58:39
know, I haven't seen US nuclear testing as
58:45
being I've seen a couple of headlines on
58:49
it, but nothing from the US side that
58:52
says we're getting ready to Start up again
58:58
with nuclear Testing the only place we do
59:03
that is underground And unless things have changed
59:08
Dramatically, that's the way it goes, but I
59:11
don't I haven't seen it anywhere else Let's
59:18
see there was Well, I already shared that
59:25
with you last week because that seems to
59:28
be a repeat so I'm not gonna go
59:30
there um, I Think what we're gonna do
59:38
is go into further world turmoil and Which
59:48
is continual and this Article I don't know
59:57
it's a little bit long.
59:59
I'm not sure I want to share it
1:00:00
all I would I think I might You
1:00:05
know what I think I'm gonna skip it
1:00:07
for now, sorry, I mentioned it Let's go
1:00:09
let's go to the clown to the clown
1:00:12
show Let's go to Zelensky and see what
1:00:15
he has to say these days this just
1:00:18
came out today and Allegedly Allegedly because we
1:00:24
don't know Kiv has received additional US made
1:00:29
Patriot air defense systems from Germany he said
1:00:34
Ukraine has been pressing its Western backers For
1:00:40
more long-range weapons Tom Hawk cruise missiles
1:00:43
and additional Patriot battles to New York Times
1:00:47
said in May That although the country possessed
1:00:51
eight Patriot systems Only six were operational But
1:00:57
in a post on X on Sunday Zelensky
1:01:01
thanked German Chancellor Frederick Mertz by saying our
1:01:06
Agreements have been fulfilled more Patriots are in
1:01:10
Ukraine now and are being put into operation
1:01:14
of course More systems are needed to protect
1:01:19
key infrastructure sites and our city cities across
1:01:23
Ukraine And we will continue working to obtain
1:01:27
them Not only at political level with states
1:01:30
and leaders but directly with manufacturers of all
1:01:34
necessary air defense systems and missiles for them
1:01:39
the Russian Defense Ministry has claimed to have
1:01:43
destroyed about 40 Patriot launcher systems since 2023
1:01:52
40 I wonder how many there were in
1:01:56
in total.
1:01:57
I mean they are expensive While the US
1:02:02
President Trump has declined tomahawks He is allowing
1:02:05
NATO countries to purchase more American weapons on
1:02:09
Kiv's behalf Moscow says that no amount of
1:02:13
foreign aid Will change the battlefield into Ukraine's
1:02:17
favor Last month Zelensky said the Ukraine in
1:02:21
the US were preparing a contract for 25
1:02:24
more Patriot systems and he said This is
1:02:29
this is great this part.
1:02:31
He said that the deliveries could take years
1:02:35
unless the EU states demonstrate goodwill by Prioritizing
1:02:42
Kiv or transferring their own systems like Germany
1:02:46
just did with each system costing approximately a
1:02:52
billion dollars Ukraine hopes to finance to purchases
1:02:57
by using Russian assets I'd tell you what
1:03:06
Watch out where you put your money Put
1:03:09
it in a Western Bank, and you know,
1:03:11
they'll just seize it Nonsense do you there's
1:03:15
horrible story about?
1:03:17
This people getting stabbed on a train in
1:03:21
the UK.
1:03:21
This is nuts Multiple people were stabbed on
1:03:26
a train near Cambridge in East England Two
1:03:30
suspects were detained Ambulances and armed units were
1:03:35
dispatched armed officers attended a train was stopped
1:03:39
at Huntington Where two men were arrested a
1:03:42
number of people had to be taken to
1:03:44
the hospital police said ten people Were hospitalized
1:03:49
all but one with life-threatening injuries British
1:03:54
Transport Police said the terrorism alert was declared
1:03:57
at one point, but was then rescinded Chief
1:04:01
Superintendent Chris Casey said it would not be
1:04:04
appropriate to speculate about motive.
1:04:07
Well, why wouldn't it be?
1:04:09
You know, this is nonsense they said there
1:04:11
was a 32 year old man who was
1:04:13
a black British national and a 35 year
1:04:16
old man a British national of Caribbean descent
1:04:20
were arrested on the suspicion of attempted murder
1:04:23
Both were born in the UK There was
1:04:27
a video Showing heavy police presence, but you
1:04:31
know, it doesn't show any of that.
1:04:33
I mean not that I'd want to see
1:04:34
them anyway, but a witness told Sky News
1:04:39
that he saw extremely bloodied Passengers fleeing the
1:04:43
assailants the witnesses added that one passenger shouted.
1:04:47
They've got knives And old Keir Starmer the
1:04:52
genius condemned the appalling incident and thanked emergency
1:04:56
services for their response And his thoughts, of
1:05:00
course are with all of those affected yeah,
1:05:04
and home secretary Shabana Mahmood Said she was
1:05:10
saddened and urged the public to avoid comment
1:05:13
and speculation at this stage Why why can't
1:05:17
we comment and speculate?
1:05:19
We need to figure out what's going on
1:05:22
and You know here.
1:05:25
We've got what else do we have?
1:05:26
Protesters and government supporters clashing on the streets
1:05:30
of Belgrade, you know, here we are with
1:05:33
Serbia problems supporters and opponents of Alexander Vucic
1:05:37
and his ruling party were clashing on the
1:05:40
streets on Sunday And this is the first
1:05:42
anniversary of the train station canopy collapse That
1:05:47
killed 16 people and here the protesters many
1:05:51
of them university students are demanding accountability for
1:05:56
the tragedy and Have accused the government of
1:05:59
corruption and mismanagement.
1:06:01
No who would believe that?
1:06:04
There was one crowd led by Dejana Hurka
1:06:07
whose son died in the collapse They had
1:06:10
gathered outside the Serbian Parliament building and government
1:06:13
supporters and students opposing protesters tactics of blockading
1:06:19
Universities rallied in Pioneerski Park where they had
1:06:23
been camping out since March tons of people
1:06:27
out there lots of police and Then you
1:06:31
know Clashes hitting each other all these things
1:06:35
are broken out this there were a lot
1:06:37
of videos Vucic repeatedly claimed the protests were
1:06:41
incited by people from abroad and he rejected
1:06:46
allegations that his own supporters were responsible for
1:06:49
the clashes and the Blockaders can't tolerate a
1:06:53
differing opinion.
1:06:54
He told the TV station crazy stuff Going
1:07:01
on in the world is what I say
1:07:07
Let's see, where else are we gonna go
1:07:10
today?
1:07:12
Did you hear about the UK mercenary that
1:07:17
was found dead in Ukraine.
1:07:19
I think I said something a little bit
1:07:21
about it last week well, no, I didn't
1:07:25
I Was telling somebody else about it.
1:07:28
This is a kind of a sad story
1:07:30
but find get this so a UK mercenary
1:07:37
joins the Ukrainian army and Turns up dead
1:07:44
but The mother You know his mother wants
1:07:51
to know what happened to him get this
1:07:53
story So there's a British mercenary killed in
1:07:56
mysterious Circumstances while allegedly fighting in Ukraine's International
1:08:01
Legion She has appealed to his former fellow
1:08:05
colleagues to reveal the truth about his death
1:08:10
Jordan Chadwick who is aged 31 had served
1:08:14
in the Scots Guards before joining the Ukraine
1:08:18
Legion in late 2022 he was found dead
1:08:23
in June of 2023 with his body bound
1:08:28
and then dumped in a reservoir near Amatorsk
1:08:33
his mother Told was told at the time
1:08:37
the case was being treated as a murderer
1:08:40
on Friday she told the Telegraph that two
1:08:44
years later She still has no answers and
1:08:47
fears that her son was killed by members
1:08:50
of his own unit.
1:08:52
I Always knew Jordan would be in danger
1:08:55
while serving in Ukraine But I never thought
1:08:58
the risk would come from people on On
1:09:01
the on whose side he was fighting if
1:09:04
there are witnesses to what happened.
1:09:06
I would like to see them give evidence
1:09:12
This is a crazy story because There's there's
1:09:21
been a couple of these, you know, the
1:09:23
Telegraph's own investigation Suggested that on the night
1:09:27
of his death Chadwick was drinking with other
1:09:30
fighters at the base before an argument broke
1:09:33
up he was allegedly restrained with zip ties
1:09:37
and driven away by the commander and The
1:09:41
group's commander was a British national known by
1:09:45
the callsign hugs hugs confirmed to the Telegraph
1:09:49
that he had been investigated by Ukrainian police,
1:09:52
but was cleared a Ukrainian Detective told the
1:09:56
paper that Chadwick's death was more of a
1:10:00
Misadventure instead of a murder, but the Telegraph
1:10:03
noted widespread speculation among foreign fighters in Ukraine
1:10:07
that in fighting and cover-ups are not
1:10:11
at all uncommon as Ukrainian officials overlook internal
1:10:16
disputes even fatal ones Chadwick's death is one
1:10:21
of several violent incidents involving foreign nationals There's
1:10:26
another guy.
1:10:26
I'm gonna tell you about named Daniel Burke
1:10:29
was shot by an Algerian Australian fighter who
1:10:36
then later fled Ukraine and In November of
1:10:39
2023 a brawl left several members of of
1:10:43
the Legion also It you know in the
1:10:49
hospital So there's another guy named Daniel Burke,
1:10:54
and he was shot by an Australian national
1:10:57
and He tried to say the killing was
1:11:01
an accident so a coroner in the UK
1:11:05
Established that a British paratrooper Daniel Burke was
1:11:08
killed in August 23 by a fellow foreign
1:11:12
fighter on Of the British state broadcaster BBC
1:11:17
quoted the coroner Zach Gullum Beck is saying
1:11:20
the 36 year old was killed by cowardice
1:11:25
and dishonor While there's evidence Presented that it
1:11:29
was an accident.
1:11:30
I Reject that based on evidence gathered by
1:11:34
Ukrainian authorities and the Greater Manchester Police Department
1:11:38
He said he added the former paratrooper was
1:11:42
unarmed and unable to defend himself at the
1:11:44
time of his death And after Burke went
1:11:47
missing Ukrainian police questioned Abdel Fida Adam Noreen
1:11:52
an Australian known as Jihadi Adam He told
1:11:58
the authorities that he had shot Burke accidentally
1:12:01
during target practice But then he led officials
1:12:06
to an underground pipe at a military training
1:12:10
ground where Burke's corpse was buried but Noreen's
1:12:16
version of events were Contradictory to the conclusions
1:12:20
of the post-mortem in addition according to
1:12:23
the BBC Ballistics tests conducted in Ukraine found
1:12:27
the weapon could not have been fired Accidentally
1:12:31
according to the article Noreen fled Ukraine and
1:12:35
is wanted by local authorities in October Sweden
1:12:40
broadcaster SVT reported that a Swedish national who
1:12:45
had fought alongside Kiev's forces since 2022 had
1:12:49
also been killed in action Several weeks later
1:12:52
the family of a 22 year old British
1:12:54
man Who had also fought with a national
1:12:58
told the media he?
1:13:01
That he perished at an undisclosed location In
1:13:06
November Russia's RIA Novosti reported another 22 year
1:13:10
old British man had been captured in Kursk
1:13:12
Five miles from Russian territory the news agency
1:13:16
shared video clips showed the man who said
1:13:19
he had served as a signalman signalman in
1:13:22
the UK Army and You know there's a
1:13:27
lot of people that are that are dying
1:13:29
over there and Even if they are The
1:13:37
mercenaries they're being thrown out to the front
1:13:40
line Let's see.
1:13:45
I Wanted to do a little bit about
1:13:50
Soloviev and he had some stories that Came
1:13:56
up and there were quite a few topics
1:14:00
in his three hour Show, but I again
1:14:05
I only got to watch about an hour
1:14:07
of it, so I'm only gonna give you
1:14:09
the first the first parts There was a
1:14:17
guy named Where is he?
1:14:21
See if I can find it.
1:14:26
They talked about tactics and Technology on the
1:14:31
front lines that was an interesting segment and
1:14:36
Talking mostly about drones, so Russia on average
1:14:44
Every every day every single day is sending
1:14:49
in 186 on average Drones Shaheed, you know
1:14:59
the the big drones that look like I
1:15:03
don't know a mini airplane basically and those
1:15:07
those drones 186 of them a Day and
1:15:13
Ukraine is doing it too, but these FPV
1:15:19
drops and And Have been devastating to what
1:15:28
is going on For the Ukrainians.
1:15:31
It's been pretty damn bad and so we
1:15:35
wanted to dig a little bit further into
1:15:39
those and See how these tactics affect places
1:15:45
like Pokrovsk and Krasnoyarsk You know what's happening
1:15:51
there is they have these UAV drones pressure
1:15:54
small unit night pushes I was talking to
1:15:58
you about this a little bit last Wednesday
1:16:03
because the Russians have these loitering drones, and
1:16:08
they get a flight in there, and they
1:16:11
are doing drone attacks I Mean they're attacking
1:16:16
other drones on the Ukrainian side I mean
1:16:20
they're of course their drone attacks, but they're
1:16:22
doing attacks on Ukrainian drones With their own
1:16:26
drones, and then they can record they have
1:16:29
so many drones in the air That they
1:16:32
can record drones being taken out and of
1:16:35
the Shaheed variant.
1:16:36
There's a hundred and sixty-eight every single
1:16:39
night And that doesn't include all the FPV
1:16:42
drones that are going out as well and
1:16:46
It has helped him quite a bit especially
1:16:49
in Pokrovsk and Krasnoyarsk There was an article
1:16:54
today and a short story on of a
1:16:58
successful Allegedly according to the Ukrainian side and
1:17:06
on the Russian side and quite a few
1:17:09
other sides it just I mean this is
1:17:13
Idiotic and foolish right so when I was
1:17:17
in the military I was a An operator
1:17:24
on a Blackhawk helicopter It was an electronic
1:17:30
warfare helicopter, so we had all kinds of
1:17:32
electronic could jam radio signals of You know
1:17:38
from wherever on the battlefield, but our main
1:17:42
job was collection of enemy intelligence Right and
1:17:47
so it was an interesting concept, and we
1:17:50
could could use you know could Pinpoint a
1:17:55
location Back in the day when there weren't
1:17:58
any pinpoints that was a different a different
1:18:01
system But the only reason I bring that
1:18:03
up is because on our flight line Our
1:18:07
helicopters were the only ones that were equipped
1:18:10
in full with all kinds of electronic warfare
1:18:14
equipment and our crew consisted of the two
1:18:20
pilots and the operators and two operators one
1:18:25
behind each pilot and so there was nowhere
1:18:28
for any other troops to be Carried around
1:18:33
Conveyed there was so much electronic equipment that
1:18:37
nobody could fit in there except the two
1:18:39
soldiers That were in the back running the
1:18:42
platforms But on the flight line there would
1:18:45
be I don't know 6080 Maybe even a
1:18:50
hundred Helicopters out there that were a different
1:18:54
type, so I'm quite familiar with the Blackhawk
1:18:56
Also a Marisol qualified which means you jump
1:19:00
or I was With known if I'd be
1:19:02
much qualified today.
1:19:03
I had some funny stories about that, but
1:19:06
I'd rather not go into him tonight That
1:19:08
was an interesting school, but the fact is
1:19:13
That I'm quite familiar with the Blackhawk and
1:19:17
the Blackhawk is a pretty large helicopter it
1:19:23
carries I Believe the the total crew capacity
1:19:28
is either 10 or 12 Soldiers, I don't
1:19:31
remember off the top of my head, but
1:19:33
I And that I think includes the two
1:19:37
pilots, so I think it's the ten you
1:19:40
know people that can that can be carried
1:19:44
easily in a crew transport Blackhawk Not an
1:19:50
electronic warfare when you couldn't fit any troops
1:19:52
in there But Today all over YouTube telegram
1:20:02
Everywhere they were talking about this air assault
1:20:06
operation by the Ukrainian forces inside of Pokrovsk
1:20:15
now Pokrovsk is the city that is surrounded
1:20:19
at present and What they're saying is that
1:20:24
the Ukrainians and it's on video it's out
1:20:27
there on telegram You can watch this and
1:20:29
it just looks so stupid.
1:20:31
It's like who in the world Would authorize
1:20:34
this and so later?
1:20:36
Sierski and one other guy where We're Talking
1:20:44
about the positive nature of this.
1:20:46
I don't find it very positive.
1:20:48
I think it was ridiculous that These helicopter
1:20:52
guys are Flying in for what the
1:21:02
Basically basically the Helicopters
1:21:12
I'm trying to find the right fart Facts
1:21:18
on this the Russian side says that to
1:21:22
UH-60 a Blackhawks attempted to land Troops
1:21:31
on the northwest edge of Pokrovsk using two
1:21:38
and possibly three Blackhawk helicopters, so remember I
1:21:43
told you that 5,500 soldiers are trapped
1:21:47
in there in the Pokrovsk region encircled by
1:21:51
Russia and Russia, you know is picking them
1:21:56
all off.
1:21:56
Some of them are retreating but The Ukrainians
1:22:02
fly in in these Blackhawks and drop off
1:22:07
11 soldiers you see 11 soldiers get out
1:22:11
of one of the The helicopters and then
1:22:15
the helicopter gets blown up and Then I
1:22:20
don't mean to laugh about it, and then
1:22:23
the soldiers get attacked by drones You know
1:22:26
and they're running all together and one big
1:22:29
clump of people.
1:22:30
It's like Man, that's really strategic isn't it
1:22:34
you make them all one big target?
1:22:37
why would you do that and and Clearly
1:22:41
not aerosol qualified and they're they're jumping out
1:22:45
of there.
1:22:45
I mean you look at these Blackhawks the
1:22:48
Russians say That they took out one of
1:22:51
the helicopters Quite quickly and took out 15
1:22:56
Soldiers at least that were killed in this
1:23:00
failed Operation and it's the second attempt in
1:23:04
the last 48 hours I'm sitting there wondering
1:23:07
why in the world What what what tactical
1:23:11
or strategic or any?
1:23:14
Advantage is that sort of attack gonna make
1:23:18
for you?
1:23:20
Nothing I mean what what's it gonna make
1:23:22
the cumulative loss of between the two helicopters
1:23:26
the soldiers They only blew up one of
1:23:28
the helicopters the other one flew out after
1:23:30
dropping off It's people but allegedly that could
1:23:34
be up to that.
1:23:35
You know they say there were there were
1:23:36
up to 20 Soldiers and maybe three times
1:23:42
this to two helicopters one time and then
1:23:45
one more and they say in the last
1:23:47
48 hours and they say they have taken
1:23:51
out at least one UH 60 and there
1:23:54
was video of it and This is They
1:23:59
used to call us air insertion or you
1:24:03
know We were an air insertion team that
1:24:06
you go in for a specific purpose whether
1:24:08
it's reconnaissance whether it's something like that, but
1:24:12
in Pokrovsk what are they gonna send them
1:24:15
in for I I'm sitting there trying to
1:24:18
find some kind of a strategic reason or
1:24:20
a Tactical reason for them to do this
1:24:23
and for me.
1:24:24
It's just not Making sense that you would
1:24:29
fly in in an area clearly Dominated by
1:24:34
Russian artillery Russian drones and to land let
1:24:41
your guys out and then all over telegram
1:24:44
watch the Helicopter explode right after landing and
1:24:48
watch the 11 guys be hunted down by
1:24:53
Russian drones and all run into one group
1:24:56
didn't take very much to get rid of
1:24:59
them to kill them all and It's Who
1:25:03
in the world is running the show over
1:25:05
there?
1:25:06
Why are you flying in?
1:25:09
to a region encircled by the Russians What
1:25:14
what are 11 guys gonna do to get?
1:25:17
5,500 out You know, oh jeez.
1:25:22
What are you sending them messages?
1:25:23
How many MREs could you carry in there?
1:25:25
How much food not much?
1:25:28
No, how you gonna?
1:25:30
Feed them all what are you gonna wait
1:25:31
for manna from heaven or what it?
1:25:34
something seems just really stupid and There there's
1:25:40
talk again that They're trying to extract some
1:25:45
trapped NATO Officers now, I don't know about
1:25:50
that.
1:25:50
That was mentioned on solid view of to
1:25:53
that they're trying to Assist somebody Allegedly important
1:25:59
and getting out.
1:26:00
Well the way to do that wouldn't be
1:26:02
send in 35 people it'd be to send
1:26:06
in a Blackhawk and have that important person
1:26:10
jump on the Blackhawk and fly out with
1:26:12
them or Something similar if you're gonna do
1:26:16
that and I don't see it happening if
1:26:18
the Russians control the air airspaces like they
1:26:22
do So the pro-russian outlets and military
1:26:26
bloggers of all stripes Say that there was
1:26:31
a defeat of the landing and they showed,
1:26:34
you know, the claims and the footage I
1:26:36
saw the footage, but you know in the
1:26:38
days of you know, fakes online and everything
1:26:41
You who the hell knows but the Western
1:26:43
analysis acknowledges that there were insertions But they
1:26:48
don't know whether they've been killed or not
1:26:50
and some Ukrainian sources are denying the kill
1:26:54
count they have said that there were 11
1:26:58
killed but You know, they they talk about
1:27:02
the fog of war If Moscow's version is
1:27:07
whole holds up the Blackhawk insertions this close
1:27:11
to the rail Look like a high-risk
1:27:14
Attempt to get somebody important out of there
1:27:19
Evidence Kiev is under pressure inside the city
1:27:23
perimeter and You know the West is Everybody
1:27:27
we've talked about it and say that the
1:27:29
insertions happened, but they won't say so far
1:27:33
whether there were any Losses immediately after or
1:27:37
if they lost any Blackhawks out of it.
1:27:40
They won't talk about it.
1:27:42
And so I Don't know.
1:27:45
This is this is a A Foolish method
1:27:51
of attempting to win a war because there's
1:27:56
Even if there are high-value NATO people
1:28:00
in there how the hell are 11 guys
1:28:02
gonna take him out?
1:28:04
Is it gonna mean that somebody has to?
1:28:07
Surrender, what do we know?
1:28:09
What are we going to do about that?
1:28:13
We're gonna search in that story a little
1:28:16
bit more and see if we can find
1:28:18
Anything more about it?
1:28:23
Not for tonight though, that's for tomorrow, let's
1:28:27
see well as we wind down the show
1:28:33
for this evening, I Wanted to get into
1:28:38
one more story for you Oops I moved
1:28:43
to the wrong page on the analysis This
1:28:50
was rather Comical as well.
1:28:53
You know what?
1:28:53
I'm not gonna have time to go into
1:28:55
it.
1:28:55
It looks like we shall be Wrapping up.
1:29:01
Huh?
1:29:02
I thought I still had a few minutes
1:29:03
left, but I do not it is Time
1:29:07
to close up for tonight.
1:29:10
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