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Romania Draft Escape, Iran Oil Panic, Zelensky’s Europe, and Hungary’s Ukraine Cash Scandal · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Hello, good morning. Welcome. I am
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  Samuel Trap. This is International
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  go there and find all the uh old
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  content, last week's shows, stuff like
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  that. Um
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  it's already Tuesday.
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  already Tuesday and the weather is good.
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  We've had some some uh extremely
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  fortunate weather here in mid Missouri
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  and I am headed to
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  Florida. Florida. Got to go to Florida
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  today and uh that'll be exciting. Um
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  or not,
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  depending on how you look at it. Uh
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  freaking hot down there. And uh I've
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  never really become a fan, but uh uh I'm
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  I'm not against it. It's just I'm not
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  necessarily for it. So it's not I mean
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  people love it because of the weather.
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  And you know what I like? I like uh this
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  is going to sound terrible. I like
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  wandering that wandering around the
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  house in some boxers or something or
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  some some jammy pants because it's
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  comfortable. you know, you can just
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  wander around.
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  Not so in Missouri.
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  It doesn't matter. It's still cold in
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  the house. You can't keep your house at
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  like 78. You know, that's a unfortunate
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  part of life. So, that part I did kind
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  of like. Anyway, that is uh uh the uh
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  not where I really intended to go today.
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  We still got war in the world and people
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  aren't concerned with my uh uh heat uh
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  you know the necessity for heat and the
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  aversion to cold weather in my old age.
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  You know uh I I grew up a significant
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  portion of my childhood in uh places
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  where it got really cold in the winter.
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  Utah, Colorado,
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  Minnesota. And Minnesota is freaking
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  cold. Um, I do recall it snowing once on
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  my mother's birthday, June the 3. And uh
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  that uh was an interesting holiday. And
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  uh at any rate, uh I don't I'm and and I
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  loved it then. You know, in Minnesota,
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  the snow don't snow slow you down. Why
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  would it? You know, it's like the heat
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  doesn't slow you down in Qatar. And you
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  know, but uh there it was too damn hot.
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  You know, you didn't uh you didn't sleep
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  too much. Anyway, who really are we
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  really talking about the weather? Does
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  anybody really care? Does anybody really
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  know what time it is? And does anybody
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  really care? I wanted to talk about a
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  draft dodger who uh really
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  now this is exciting. Okay, this is the
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  31year-old
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  has asked for asylum. So he's a
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  Ukrainian trying to avoid the war and uh
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  he has uh uh dodged the draft in a plane
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  that uh let's see he asked for asylum in
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  Romania and cited his desire to avoid
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  the draft. So Ukrainian man is facing
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  charges in Romania after fleeing to the
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  country in a small aircraft to escape
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  the draft. According to the Romanian
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  border police, the man crossed the
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  border in the mountainous region of
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  northern Romania.
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  Uh, I always wanted to get to Romania
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  because I learned how to say mutumos.
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  And mutes fumos in Romanian means uh,
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  good morning. And I learned that when I
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  was in neighboring Malddova because
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  Malddova used to be a part of Romania
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  and Transylvania is also as I understand
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  in the eastern mountainous portions of
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  Romania and uh and so I wanted to get
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  there but we couldn't go there after the
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  collapse of the wall and uh they were
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  all because we tried it was um when I
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  was in u Malddova way back when working
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  for who? I hate to admit it. US Agency
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  for International Development borrowed
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  us uh interpreters and sent us over
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  there and I was in charge of a team had
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  a guy named
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  Lindsay running the uh
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  Lindsay what was Larry Larry Lindsay
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  Lawrence Lindsay uh major one each OD
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  green in color actually he was an
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  African-American man and uh he was a
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  real good guy but they wouldn't talk to
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  him in uh uh nobody would talk to him
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  there were very very very very
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  few black people in uh Romania
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  in Malddova and nobody would talk to him
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  and he was in charge of our team and on
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  the plane over he said to me he goes
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  Sergeant Trap uh
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  I hear he and he didn't know he hadn't
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  been there either but uh he was one of
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  the few in the proud in Russia too for
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  that matter matter. But uh they're
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  they're uh is that's changed a little
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  bit on the Russian side. I don't know
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  about the Maldovven side. Anyway, I'm
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  wandering today, but he um he had Larry
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  was a good guy. And uh he he he said,
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  "Sergeant Trap, uh nobody's going to
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  talk to me." I said, "Sir, if nobody
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  talks to you, we're going to be here for
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  like 18 weeks. You know, we're here for
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  a long time delivering humanitarian aid,
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  which all got stolen anyway." And uh uh
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  we and it was corrupt corrupt corrupt
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  corrupt and and they didn't care either
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  if you reported it to to somebody. This
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  was after the collapse and everybody was
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  stealing everything they could and so
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  everything we delivered got stolen
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  anyway and we found it in the markets on
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  uh uh on the weekend. It's like, "Hey,
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  we just gave this to a hospital and here
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  it is being sold as if somebody brought
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  them a brand new container full of uh
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  drugs and here's the drugs for sale at
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  the local yarmaka. It was right in the
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  market and they were sale and it's like,
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  hey, you know, can I buy some? You're
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  buying your own stuff." Anyway, sorry
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  that's a terrible story, but uh but it's
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  true. and and don't think that the exact
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  same damn thing isn't happening with
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  your stuff right now in Ukraine in
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  anywhere that's being sent because
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  that's the way the world works in other
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  places in that are not organized in
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  Ukraine absolutely not organ well
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  organized crime you know they steal
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  everything and so the Ukrainian man
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  flyed across to Romania to go to become
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  a vampire in Transylvania IA and he's
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  going according to the Romanian border
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  police he crossed a border in the
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  mountainous region of northern Romania
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  very nice area allegedly and I wish to
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  go there uh landing in a field near the
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  village of Fratuli Veti in Sukav
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  Sukavia
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  County on Sunday the photos shared by
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  Romanian Meter it's a cool it's a cool
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  photo it's a little it's a oneman man
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  aircraft. And uh photos shared by
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  Romanian media show that he used a
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  German-made Icarus Comco C22. We need to
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  get one of these. We need an Icarus
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  Comco C22, a two-seater highwing
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  tricycle gear ultraight aircraft.
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  Residents who spotted it alerted
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  emergency services, prompting a response
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  from local police and the border guards.
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  Officers identified the man as
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  31-year-old Ukrainian with database
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  checks confirming he had not entered
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  Romania legally.
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  Nope, he didn't. He flew on in. Uh he's
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  lucky he didn't get shot down. Um he was
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  taken to the local border police
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  headquarters where he requested asylum
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  saying he was fleeing the draft in
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  Ukraine. And uh in Romanian it says, you
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  know, the story, I can't translate it,
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  but uh Ukraine, you know, whatever. But
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  uh there it is. They got several
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  pictures of his little plane and uh all
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  of the excitement. Police said his claim
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  will be reviewed by the general
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  inspectorate for immigration and he can
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  remain in the country until a decision
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  is made just like we do for illegals.
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  Okay? So illegals uh come wandering in
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  and we allow them to stay until they get
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  before a judge. That's the little piece
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  of paper they get. Well, Romania has
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  such sophisticated methods as well. And
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  they're they really don't care for
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  Ukraine right now. They they uh and
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  nobody does over there. And uh so uh a
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  lot of them are uh uh you know anti this
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  this whole stuff and think that Ukraine
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  just needs to shut the hell up and uh
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  settle it. You know you've lost that
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  land anyway and uh it's not going to you
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  know nothing good is going to happen. Oh
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  99 year old uh what the hell was his
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  name? Son of a nutcracker. I can't
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  remember his name. The key Watergate
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  witness is dead at the age of 99. Oh,
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  darn it. What's his name? I know. I know
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  it and I just I can't can't pull it. Um,
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  well, it doesn't matter. We're going to
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  go back to the Ukrainian uh who ran
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  away. He will be able to stay in the
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  country. The authorities have opened a
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  criminal case against him. See, now
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  here's what they do that we don't do
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  when you're talking about illegal
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  immigration. We don't open up criminal
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  cases against them for illegal border
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  crossings. Oh, no. Not in America. We
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  honor you and give you uh give you u uh
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  social security.
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  You need to have some money. You've
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  you've escaped your country. You escaped
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  that terrible Ukraine. And here you
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  come, boy. Here's $3,000 a month. We
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  need you to live to live well. As long
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  as you're going to be here, we can't
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  have you wandering the streets without
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  any money. So, here's some pocket
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  change. Here's your Obama phone. Here's
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  your free uh uh what do you call it?
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  food card. Um the uh what do what do
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  they get the food? Um I don't remember,
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  but they get a food card. Um and then
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  they get So you get a food card. You get
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  $3,000 a month. You get uh oh uh here's
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  your house. You need to have uh section
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  8 sort of to housing. Here you go.
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  Here's your free house. And that is uh
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  you know completely free of charge. And
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  if you don't uh like this place, we'll
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  move you to a hotel down the street
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  because you're only going to be here a
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  year, year and a half while this
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  happens. Maybe 3 years if you're in
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  America. So in Ukraine, this guy's uh
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  living pretty here so he doesn't have to
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  go back and be drafted. But let me tell
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  you, I'll bet you anything that this guy
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  that right now, very seriously, either
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  this guy will end up dead, some
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  Ukrainian special forces unit will come
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  over and kill him, or somebody will pull
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  a Donald Trump style, I got to go steal
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  Maduro. And uh but the Ukrainians will
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  do it. And we all know they're they are
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  classy. They can they're they're going
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  to save the world from Iran. remember
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  they're going to come and teach the the
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  NATO how to fight uh Iranian drones
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  because they've been fighting Iranian
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  modeled drones that were manufactured in
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  Russia and upgraded seriously by the way
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  in Russia. But Ukrainians know how to
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  fight those uh Iranian drone Iranian
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  drones and therefore their teams could
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  probably come over and take over Cuba
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  which I hear everybody's on the borders
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  of Cuba right now. Cuba is without power
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  right now and the Iranian war is going
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  to end. According to one story I heard
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  last night um that uh said that you know
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  what all these Americans are going to
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  leave and they're going to leave uh
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  Israel and the Arabic countries hanging.
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  Why? Because the power is out in Cuba
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  and Donald Trump has a better
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  opportunity to steal Cuba
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  than he would ever have at stealing
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  Iran. And so, uh, he's he's he wants to
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  surrender. Now, I'm reading this. Trump
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  says no deal with Tyran to end the war
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  without an unconditional surrender. And
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  probably he gets to pick he gets to pick
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  the next leader. We're living in in
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  comedy times. This is like uh Comedy
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  Central or better, Comedy Cloop, which
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  is Comedy Club in Russia, which are
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  which are very hilarious. They have some
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  uh some seriously funny shows over
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  there. So, uh, anyway, back to the
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  Ukrainian
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  the Ukrainian border authorities have
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  been notified. So, this is his death
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  sentence right here. This is this is how
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  you die avoiding the Ukrainian war.
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  Well, if you're not going to die on the
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  front and be part of the um meat
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  assault, as they call it, if you are not
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  going to be part of the meat assault,
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  then we'll kill you another way.
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  We'll figure out how to sneak into
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  Romania. We'll probably use several of
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  the planes like you bought the ultra
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  light German models. Fly in, bomb you,
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  turn around, fly back, and you'll be
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  dead. Or you can come in and just die on
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  the front lines like you're supposed to,
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  right? The Ukrainian military faces a
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  deepening manpower crisis due to the
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  battlefield losses, draft evasion, which
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  is in the number of nearly 400,000
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  have ran away like this guy. A lot of
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  them in America, a lot of them in well a
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  butt ton of them in in Europe and then
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  Russia has has more than any of them
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  combined. They've gone to Russia and
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  well they speak Russian. It's easy,
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  right? you don't have to go learn
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  Romanian and learn how to say mult right
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  so you take off to the neighboring sides
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  and you know you're not going to go die
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  for them and you know that Russia's
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  going to win anyway and so long term
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  your best option go to Russia right uh
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  because the US is no longer going to
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  give you tomagaki tomagucks uh the
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  Ukrainian military does face a deep uh
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  manpower crisis though and some infantry
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  companies are reportedly operating at 30
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  to 40% strength with a few volunteers,
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  you know, very few. Kiev relies heavily
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  on mandatory conscription, which is the
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  story in and of itself cuz they're
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  beating the crap out of people in the
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  streets. Now, the Ukrainians have armed
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  them. These uh uh what do they call
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  them? It's bification is the word
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  they're using. You know, bification is
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  the word for uh uh a horror story
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  getting the crap beat out. You thrown in
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  a van and dragged off to get to whole
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  two weeks of training and then thrown
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  into the meat assault line on the front
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  lines and uh you know
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  and die. So they have with few vi and I
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  don't mean to laugh about that. If it if
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  it wasn't so sad, it would be funny. But
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  it's truly sad. And uh KIV relies on
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  mandatory conscription, a highly
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  divisive issue because a lot of people
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  those remaining if they if you haven't
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  if you weren't with the initial crowd
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  that was you know the standard idiots
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  trained by the US to think that they are
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  going to win and that Russia is just
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  going to capitulate.
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  those idiots that that are just like our
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  idiots everywhere that think that
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  Ukraine and Iran and and even Cuba and
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  in some extents Venezuela are just going
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  to bend over. They're just waiting their
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  time out. That's it. They're waiting
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  their time out. They know Donald Trump
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  is a temporary
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  three-year and you know you the one
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  thing that you cannot stop time will
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  never end. And so therefore, these
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  people, all they're doing is playing the
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  game. And all they got to do is survive.
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  That's it. And so they're they're doing
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  whatever they can to survive so that he
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  doesn't kill everybody in in Venezuela.
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  He doesn't kill everybody in the Middle
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  East. He doesn't kill everybody in
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  Eastern Ukraine. Uh because
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  unfortunately, that's the way it looks
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  to me right now. That's all we're doing.
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  We're We're out there. We have zero
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  reason to take over Cuba. We have zero
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  reason to take over uh well, we don't
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  have the re We have oil. That's always a
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  reason if you accept that that is the
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  reason. And gez, we got it. We got to we
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  have to secure the international oil
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  market. Well, guess what? If you hadn't
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  have cocked it up in the first place,
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  you wouldn't have to fix it, would you?
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  And now we got to go and and and get
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  involved in wars where we don't need to
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  be. They're not you're not going to
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  solve the Persian Empire which has been
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  around for 2500 years with two weeks of
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  bombing. It's not going to happen. And
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  the the Iranians aren't going to allow
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  it by the way as neither is anyone else
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  in the region. Just not going to happen.
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  So uh and and Cuba, I'm not sure what'll
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  go on down there. Marco Rubio will be
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  all over that. And we can have all kinds
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  of excitement down there in Cuba and in
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  Venezuela. We have to take over the Gulf
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  of America. We got to take it over.
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  Anybody in there? That's a Jeez, didn't
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  you didn't you read the memo? The memo
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  says it's Gulf of America. That's it.
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  You're not American. Get out
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  or become American. You know, Cuba can
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  be uh 50 state 50. Where are we at? 53.
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  No, 54 because Israel is state 51,
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  Canada is 52. Well, you could break that
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  down in a 52 A B C D. You know, Ottawa,
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  Quebec, you know, go go down the line
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  and give them each a a dash designation.
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  You know, Ottawa can be dash one. Uh
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  Quebec can be dash two, you know,
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  Ontario three, you know, stuff like
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  that. And uh you can take all their
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  hockey teams and give them American
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  flags to to to stitch into their sleeve,
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  you know, and say the captain is Donald
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  Trump. The captain of the team is Donald
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  Trump. And then when you go play soccer
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  down in Cuba, everybody there can have a
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  a a football uh in the shape of an
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  American flag they can sew it on and
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  they can it'll have Donald Trump's face
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  on it, right? He's the world he's the
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  world conquest god. He's taking over the
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  world and he ain't listen Iran
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  capitulate.
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  Venezuela, we get to pick your next
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  leader. You know, lick my rear end until
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  I'm out of office and then, you know,
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  maybe JD Vance or maybe Rubio or whoever
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  the hell the next moron's going to be.
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  Can uh uh have you lick his rear end,
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  too? Because that's we're America. We're
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  America. Listen up. So, a few
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  volunteers, heavily mandatory
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  conscription, and highly divisive death
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  issues in Ukraine and uh uh officials
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  tracking draft eligible men are accused
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  of excessive force and videos of clashes
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  during busification
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  where I shared a a news about a guy
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  getting the some of these guys getting
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  the crap beat out of him by a truck
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  driver. truck driver got out of his
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  truck. They ran in front of him. He
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  almost hit him. And so he got out of his
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  truck and he started beating the crap
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  out of him. I could have killed you. So
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  he's beating the snot out of these two
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  uh these two uh border uh not border
• 20:40
  Ukrainian bification artists. Um anyway,
• 20:44
  now they can use weapons to take these
• 20:46
  people and they can shoot them. You
• 20:47
  don't come, we're shooting you.
• 20:49
  Nonsense. The violent detention of
• 20:52
  military-aged men by recruitment
• 20:54
  officers are in the Ukrainian media
• 20:57
  daily. You get new ones daily. Watch
• 20:59
  Telegram, you know. Watch it. And some
• 21:02
  of these are pretty darn frightening.
• 21:04
  And uh yeah, that's our that's Democracy
• 21:07
  America. We're fighting for democracy.
• 21:10
  Defense Minister Mikail Fedlerov earlier
• 21:12
  said around 2 million potential recruits
• 21:16
  are on a wanted list for draft evasion
• 21:20
  and 200,000 troops have deserted. That
• 21:24
  number is low and crap. That is not the
• 21:27
  truth. That uh uh is nearly double the
• 21:31
  troops that have deserted.
• 21:34
  According to the Ukrainian State Border
• 21:36
  Guard Service, Romania is the top
• 21:40
  destination for draft evaders. It's not
• 21:42
  true. Romania's border police said last
• 21:45
  month that 31,600
• 21:48
  men illegally crossed into Romania from
• 21:52
  February 2022 to February 2026. So four
• 21:57
  years, nearly 32,000 men. That's 8,000 a
• 22:02
  year. That's what three three
• 22:06
  uh um where are we in that? About 870
• 22:13
  a month, right? We'd be in there
• 22:16
  somewhere. Whatever it is, it's less
• 22:18
  than a thousand but more than 500. Um
• 22:20
  let's just get with the easy math. Um I
• 22:22
  don't have a calculator in front of me
• 22:24
  and I I'm too lazy to figure it out
• 22:26
  myself. Often facing extreme conditions
• 22:29
  while attempting to reach the border.
• 22:31
  Many of them died, especially as the
• 22:33
  route passes through high alitude
• 22:35
  mountain terrain and the Tissa River.
• 22:39
  Although the crossings are illegal,
• 22:42
  Romanian law generally treats the men as
• 22:45
  asylum seekers and after detention all
• 22:49
  almost all request temporary
• 22:52
  protections. And under EU and Romanian
• 22:56
  regulations, they are not deported to
• 22:59
  Ukraine while their claims are examined.
• 23:03
  And uh you know, I thought it would be
• 23:05
  interesting to go through a study that
• 23:07
  would say how many uh actually get to
• 23:10
  stay of this 8,000 a year versus how
• 23:13
  many um
• 23:16
  get sent back because there's 32,000.
• 23:19
  And and you wonder, you know, in the
• 23:21
  beginning they probably let them stay
• 23:23
  more than they're letting them now.
• 23:25
  There's probably some agreement between
• 23:27
  the between the uh governments or
• 23:30
  something. I I'm not positive of that.
• 23:33
  But uh according to Russia, the
• 23:37
  Ukrainian army is disappearing. Kiev is
• 23:41
  losing the attrition war due to a
• 23:43
  shortage of conscripted reinforcements.
• 23:46
  And uh there's these are actual numbers.
• 23:49
  They're at 30 to 40% strength in a lot
• 23:52
  of these truly. And Kiev's ability to
• 23:55
  supply fresh soldiers to the front line
• 23:58
  is severely curtailed
• 24:01
  um and put the Ukrainian army on a
• 24:03
  downward spiral. And I've been watching
• 24:05
  I still watch the um the military
• 24:10
  summary channel which combines
• 24:13
  consolidates
• 24:14
  all the losses every day and the loss of
• 24:17
  of all the ground. Now they've
• 24:20
  concentrated a little bit in Zaparoia
• 24:22
  trying to figure out how to uh push back
• 24:25
  right there but uh uh that is that is
• 24:31
  small holding off for a little while.
• 24:34
  The bigger cities like uh you know we
• 24:36
  already talked about Prosk and Mir
• 24:38
  Negrad which were never going to fall.
• 24:40
  These are these are red line. Ukraine
• 24:42
  will never lose this. We'll never lose
• 24:44
  well you're losing it. And now they're
• 24:47
  toward almost to the big city of
• 24:49
  Zaparisia and the Neprop in the big in
• 24:52
  the along the river there. The places
• 24:55
  where and and and and I still maintain
• 24:58
  the same as I did when this war started
• 25:01
  and when they were arguing about it even
• 25:02
  before the war. Well, the war has been
• 25:05
  going on since 2014. So, every time I
• 25:08
  say something like that, I don't want
• 25:09
  people to go um you know, gee, the war
• 25:12
  started in 2022. It did not. It started
• 25:15
  in 2014 with Ukraine killing their own
• 25:18
  people after Detsk and Lugansk said they
• 25:22
  were going to um uh be become
• 25:25
  independent and maybe join the Russian
• 25:28
  Federation. They had referenda and Kiev
• 25:31
  didn't like it. So they started bombing
• 25:33
  them and killing their own people.
• 25:36
  That's what they did. And it was after
• 25:38
  our wellfunded takeover of the Ukrainian
• 25:42
  government and overthrowing a guy who we
• 25:46
  didn't like. Standard story, standard
• 25:49
  American path. We created nothing but
• 25:53
  well well, let's put it this way. We
• 25:54
  created far worse turmoil with people
• 25:58
  like Nuland and and other people
• 26:01
  thinking that they get to control the
• 26:03
  world like Donald Trump and I get to
• 26:06
  pick the next leader of Iran. Yeah, good
• 26:08
  luck. And it's it's it ain't going to
• 26:12
  happen. And so and total capitulation,
• 26:17
  you may get a victory, a limited
• 26:19
  victory, but you'll never get total
• 26:21
  capitulation. We'll we'll be there for
• 26:23
  20 years. What would America do? No. No.
• 26:26
  And I say stuff like that. But wait,
• 26:28
  we're we're going to kick the crap out
• 26:30
  of more America. All right. Let's see.
• 26:34
  Um
• 26:36
  would you
• 26:38
  seriously and and here's a would you if
• 26:40
  it's America. So assume, let's assume
• 26:43
  that uh the the roles were reversed and
• 26:47
  we had uh 250
• 26:49
  uh million um Muslims come come over
• 26:53
  here and and we're talking the the kind
• 26:56
  that believe that uh you know the the
• 26:58
  the very very very limited kind that
• 27:03
  chant Death to America for public
• 27:06
  consumption
• 27:08
  because they're not like that in
• 27:10
  reality. Okay. Very, you know, Muslim.
• 27:13
  You can't say Muslim like and mean it as
• 27:16
  a bad word. That's that's a that's
• 27:18
  that's a that's an idiot talking. That's
• 27:20
  all that's because Muslims are not
• 27:23
  violent people. And uh so I now I I
• 27:27
  might not feel the same only for for the
• 27:30
  because of of Israel's Israelis those
• 27:33
  guys are have a death wish and they they
• 27:36
  like to uh give death to other people.
• 27:39
  You want to look at a a a warhungry and
• 27:43
  death people. There you have it. And at
• 27:46
  least their leaders are that way. And I
• 27:48
  don't see why people don't condemn them
• 27:50
  for that type of behavior. You know,
• 27:53
  maybe you got some people chanting it in
• 27:56
  Iran, but they're not doing they're not
• 27:58
  going to uh they're not going to force
• 28:00
  their views on other people. They
• 28:03
  haven't so far, have they? And yeah, but
• 28:06
  we need to take them out because they
• 28:07
  say they're going to. Yeah, people say a
• 28:09
  lot of things, but in Donald Trump
• 28:12
  saying it and thinking he's going to get
• 28:14
  away with it, what will be the result?
• 28:17
  The exact same that it would be here in
• 28:20
  reser re reverse if we were on the
• 28:22
  chopping block, as you want to, you
• 28:24
  know, as we call it. What are people
• 28:26
  doing? They're destroying the
• 28:28
  infrastructure. You you come here to
• 28:30
  steal our oil, screw you. We'll we'll
• 28:33
  blow it all up. You'll have to start all
• 28:35
  over at least. And then when you build
• 28:36
  new stuff, we'll blow that up too. If if
• 28:39
  your world and who's who's more who's
• 28:43
  more dependent upon it, us or them? And
• 28:47
  there was some studies that say that uh
• 28:49
  uh 40%
• 28:52
  40%
• 28:54
  of the global oil need is right here and
• 28:58
  in in in America. and the rest of the
• 29:01
  world, you know, they have they have
• 29:02
  their numbers are growing, but they can
• 29:05
  they can uh live through it easier than
• 29:08
  we can. Okay. So, uh anyway, I I've been
• 29:12
  lecturing. I really don't mean to, but
• 29:13
  the Ukrainian already army's strength
• 29:17
  is being sapped by mass desertion and
• 29:21
  public resistance
• 29:23
  to mandatory conscription.
• 29:26
  Estimates of Ukrainian military
• 29:28
  casualties like dead 520,000
• 29:33
  just in 2025
• 29:36
  and 1.5
• 29:39
  million since 2022.
• 29:42
  General Sergey Rudskoy, head of
• 29:45
  operations at the Russian general staff,
• 29:47
  said in an interview Friday. Presently,
• 29:50
  the Kiev regime has lost the ability to
• 29:54
  replenish its units through obligatory
• 29:57
  mobilization. The number of recruitments
• 29:59
  for per month has dropped about two
• 30:03
  times.
• 30:04
  Ruscoy told Kras Vizda the Russian armed
• 30:08
  forces official newspaper like our army
• 30:10
  times navy times a friend is uh a trend
• 30:14
  is forming for the decrease of the
• 30:16
  Ukrainian army's strength.
• 30:19
  Uh during his nomination hearings last
• 30:22
  month, Ukrainian Defense Minister Mikail
• 30:26
  Fedruff told lawmakers that two million
• 30:29
  potential recruits were on the wanted
• 30:32
  list for draft evasion and that 200,000
• 30:36
  troops had deserted. Now, this is a guy
• 30:39
  that's a trying to get the job of
• 30:41
  becoming the defense minister of Ukraine
• 30:44
  because they have to get rid of
• 30:46
  everybody because they are corrupt. So
• 30:50
  he's the next in line applying for that
• 30:52
  job. And so he says that there's 2
• 30:55
  million recruits on the wanted list and
• 30:57
  200,000 deserted. That number is really
• 31:00
  nearly double for the at least for the
• 31:04
  draft evasion troops and the people that
• 31:06
  had deserted. Okay? So it's it's closer
• 31:10
  to 400,000. That 200,000 number was used
• 31:13
  back in 2024 for God's sake. they were
• 31:16
  talking about that number and 2025 was
• 31:19
  the worst year yet. So this month,
• 31:22
  humanitarian rights onbudsman Dimmitri
• 31:25
  Libinets uh reported a sharp rise in
• 31:28
  complaints against mobilization
• 31:30
  enforcers and called it a uh systemic
• 31:35
  crisis. New videos of violent
• 31:38
  confrontation
• 31:40
  between conscript patrols and civilians
• 31:44
  are published by Ukrainian media daily
• 31:47
  even as authorities claim such footage
• 31:49
  is fabricated.
• 31:52
  Oh no that's not true. That's people out
• 31:54
  there you know using chat GPT. In the
• 31:57
  interview, Rudskoy discussed Russian
• 31:59
  battlefield progress and techn
• 32:01
  technological changes that affect
• 32:03
  military planning. Modern warfare
• 32:06
  demands faster AI assisted
• 32:10
  decisionmaking and broad deployment of
• 32:12
  robotic systems, said he. Mass use of
• 32:16
  drones in the conflict has made them
• 32:18
  comparable to artillery in the terms of
• 32:20
  damage inflicted. Can you imagine? And
• 32:23
  and it's true. It's uh uh it's uh
• 32:30
  terrible. I mean it I mean it really is
• 32:33
  because the these drones are the ability
• 32:35
  to move your artillery anywhere and
• 32:39
  artillery is no longer ballistic.
• 32:41
  artillery can fly and avoid your uh your
• 32:44
  radar and and it does and the Russians
• 32:47
  have figured out how and so have many
• 32:50
  others by the way have figured out how
• 32:52
  to do the uh wireg guided for long
• 32:55
  periods of time and uh completely avoid
• 32:58
  they have e u electronic warfare modules
• 33:01
  actually put into the drones this is
• 33:04
  what they've returned back to Iran so in
• 33:08
  the beginning of the war Iran had made
• 33:10
  these shahed one Shahed 2 drones and
• 33:12
  then I forget what the other ones called
• 33:14
  but they had made all these drones and
• 33:16
  sent them to Russia and Russia upgraded
• 33:18
  them made them uh warfare they've
• 33:21
  increased their payload what they can
• 33:23
  carry they put larger um uh grips down
• 33:27
  below to hold the uh to hold the stuff
• 33:31
  and whatever munition you're going to
• 33:34
  put in there uh because they use them
• 33:36
  for food too and half of them are uh
• 33:38
  going to be um
• 33:41
  uh decoy anyway because the whole game
• 33:44
  is to do what they're trying to do in
• 33:46
  Iran is send over so many that your air
• 33:50
  defenses which cost a million bucks a
• 33:53
  shot and and in in order to defend and
• 33:56
  you can send over a swarm of drones with
• 34:00
  only 10 15 of them with with warhead uh
• 34:04
  capabilities on them and so you got to
• 34:06
  pick and choose with a Patriot missile
• 34:09
  to shoot down something. That's uh
• 34:13
  that's crazy stuff. So, the mass use of
• 34:16
  drones in the conflict has made them
• 34:18
  comparable to artillery for sure and
• 34:21
  also comparable to um um
• 34:26
  defense busters, you know, uh what do
• 34:30
  you call it? Um
• 34:32
  uh air defense capabilities. You're
• 34:35
  destroying them. And and so what you do
• 34:37
  is they send over the swarm. They send
• 34:39
  over like nightly in Ukraine. They send
• 34:42
  over two 300 drones of whatever.
• 34:47
  And uh uh that's two 200 drone small
• 34:52
  drones. Then they send smaller missiles.
• 34:54
  Then they send some Kali and some of the
• 34:57
  bigger bigger bigger ones, right? And
• 35:00
  then uh they beat up on that's why all
• 35:03
  the patriots are gone over there and
• 35:04
  they really don't have any air defense.
• 35:07
  Uh mass use of drones in the in the
• 35:09
  conflict. The drones have also redefined
• 35:12
  the front line creating a zone of
• 35:15
  blanket kinetic action that extend up to
• 35:19
  15 kilometers from friendly positions.
• 35:23
  And that's that's true. And uh there was
• 35:27
  another story story I wished to share
• 35:30
  with you and and while I do I'll I'll
• 35:32
  provide some commentary in it because
• 35:35
  this is a pretty serious matter and uh
• 35:38
  the the story is titled uh why Zalinski
• 35:42
  this this came out uh this morning and
• 35:45
  why Zalinski should fear Trump's war
• 35:48
  with Iran and you know for obvious
• 35:50
  reasons but there's some less obvious
• 35:53
  ones here because the outcome will
• 35:55
  redefine US do uh US dominance and leave
• 36:00
  Europe and Ukraine scrambling. It's an
• 36:03
  interesting perspective and it's written
• 36:05
  by a guy named Valentine Laggininov
• 36:08
  uh a Russian journalist specializes in
• 36:11
  uh political process
• 36:13
  Ukrainian leader Zalinski and his
• 36:16
  European partners. They always talk
• 36:18
  about parti
• 36:20
  my partners. Yeah, they're your
• 36:22
  partners. All right. Uh, you're there
• 36:25
  lackey is what it is. Just like just
• 36:29
  like Donald Trump and company well and
• 36:32
  many many many before him are
• 36:34
  Netanyahu's lackeyis. That's what we
• 36:36
  are. And his European partners have
• 36:39
  plenty of reasons to closely monitor the
• 36:42
  situation in the Middle East. Not just
• 36:44
  because Donald Trump is wasting valuable
• 36:47
  air defense missiles that the EU could
• 36:50
  have purchased for Ukraine. Kiv has
• 36:53
  already voiced concerns about a shortage
• 36:56
  of American weapons and uh uh that was
• 37:00
  in an article uh well that's in Russian.
• 37:03
  Um,
• 37:05
  Russia is is uh wiping its hands of the
• 37:08
  matter. Ukraine is threatening problems
• 37:11
  uh with a p Ukraine is threatened by the
• 37:14
  problems with the patriots uh and the in
• 37:17
  the war according to Reuters. And so uh
• 37:21
  that and that's true too. Um so that's a
• 37:23
  Reuters story coming out. I have the
• 37:25
  Russian version though so I'm not going
• 37:27
  to uh read it to you. Um, nor is it
• 37:30
  because the White House is going to lose
• 37:32
  interest in resolving the Ukraine
• 37:34
  conflict as the war with Iran, which
• 37:38
  never should have started, in the
• 37:39
  opinion of Samuel, drags on. Something
• 37:42
  Brussels is very worried about. During a
• 37:45
  meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich
• 37:47
  Merittz on March 3rd, Trump dismissed
• 37:50
  these insinuations and affirmed that the
• 37:52
  Ukrainian crisis is his top priority.
• 37:55
  One of my top priorities, merits, come
• 37:59
  on now. It's a top priority for the
• 38:01
  administration. You haven't heard crap
• 38:03
  about it in two weeks, but you know,
• 38:06
  well, 10 days, two weeks, you know, is
• 38:09
  coming. And they're bombing the snot out
• 38:12
  of Iran some more. I just saw uh an
• 38:14
  article that said 200 targets yesterday.
• 38:18
  Uh the real reason for concern in Kiev
• 38:22
  and Brussels is on a broader
• 38:24
  geopolitical level. The fate of Trump's
• 38:27
  foreign policy doctrine. He has one.
• 38:30
  Yeah, he's he's the king of the world,
• 38:32
  right? He's the I'm king of the world. I
• 38:35
  said that yesterday. I can't repeat it.
• 38:37
  Paul, uh, we we somebody should do a
• 38:40
  meme and put Trump's face on the front
• 38:44
  of the Titanic with uh uh instead of
• 38:48
  DiCaprio saying he's the king of the
• 38:50
  world and then
• 38:53
  we can all hope that it doesn't end as
• 38:55
  poorly as uh it ended for poor Leonardo.
• 39:00
  Um, so but the fate of Trump's foreign
• 39:03
  policy doctrine is currently being
• 39:05
  decided in the Middle East. And whatever
• 39:08
  his doctrine is, you can't figure it
• 39:10
  out. It's I told you. I told you you're
• 39:13
  going to get a spanking if you don't
• 39:15
  follow daddy like we got Ruth to do way
• 39:18
  back when. We got Ruth uh to to to
• 39:21
  listen to daddy way back when. and the
• 39:24
  rest of the world better listen to or
• 39:26
  you're gonna end up either like Maduro
• 39:28
  in a federal prison in New York. Uh I
• 39:31
  wonder if he could just stay with his
• 39:32
  wife or not. H or not. Essentially, the
• 39:35
  outcome of this conflict will determine
• 39:38
  whether the US plunges into a new even
• 39:41
  more hawkish phase defined by might
• 39:45
  makes right mentality. And might does
• 39:48
  not make right. and and you know all you
• 39:51
  mighty people out there should probably
• 39:54
  learn that lesson or returns to a path
• 39:57
  of moderate peacemaking
• 39:59
  which Trump advocated during his
• 40:02
  campaign and abandoned with abandoned
• 40:06
  with such surprising ease. He just got
• 40:10
  rid of it. Now, when's the last time you
• 40:13
  heard him say anything about peace?
• 40:17
  Oh, never. Um, oh my god, Rick Santorum
• 40:23
  is still out there advising people. Holy
• 40:28
  crap, he's on the TV screen. We got to
• 40:30
  turn those off. I don't like to watch
• 40:32
  them. So, why does Kib disport the
• 40:35
  dismantling of the rules-based order?
• 40:38
  You know, where is this alleged
• 40:40
  rules-based order that exists in the
• 40:42
  rules? They exist for everybody but the
• 40:46
  United States and whoever they choose to
• 40:48
  put it in. Anybody else has to get UN
• 40:51
  approval. They have to have and we're
• 40:52
  members of the We signed the UN charter.
• 40:55
  That is a treaty. We are supposed to
• 40:59
  honor it. We just, you know, blew it up.
• 41:01
  It doesn't matter if you're Donald
• 41:03
  Trump. It doesn't matter if you're
• 41:05
  Lindsey Graham and the hawks who, oh
• 41:07
  jeez, we're defending the world against
• 41:09
  against evil in Israel. And I'm telling
• 41:12
  you, the UN charter doesn't defend those
• 41:14
  guys either in Israel. They have been
• 41:18
  flaunting the rules forever. And now
• 41:22
  Donald Trump is right in there with
• 41:24
  them. And he wasn't at first, but he
• 41:27
  sure is now. and uh Trump's large scale
• 41:31
  largecale military operation against
• 41:34
  Iran launched unilaterally
• 41:37
  by the White House in defiance of
• 41:39
  international law and the UN charter
• 41:42
  should be perceived by Kiev as
• 41:45
  unprovoked aggression.
• 41:48
  This view is underscored by the fact
• 41:51
  that even the Pentagon acknowledges
• 41:53
  there is no evidence that tan is
• 41:56
  preparing attacks on either Israel or US
• 41:59
  bases in the region. In contrast, Russia
• 42:04
  prior to launching its military
• 42:06
  operation in Ukraine actively urged the
• 42:10
  guarantors of the Minsk agreements,
• 42:13
  France and Germany to take notice of the
• 42:16
  buildup of Ukrainian forces near the
• 42:18
  border of Daetsk and Lugansk people's
• 42:21
  republic and the significant spike in
• 42:24
  the shelling of those territories in
• 42:26
  February 22 before they entered Detsk
• 42:31
  and Lug. Gansk. They tried to enforce
• 42:34
  international law repeatedly
• 42:37
  through both the Minsk Accords and the
• 42:40
  UN charter and people ignored it. Not so
• 42:43
  here. The the the Russians actually
• 42:46
  followed the law or tried to, but
• 42:50
  they're not part of the rulesbased order
• 42:53
  and so they were completely ignored. And
• 42:55
  by the way, the US was actively helping
• 42:58
  Ukraine build up the um forces, the
• 43:03
  Ukrainian forces, arming the Ukrainian
• 43:06
  forces, providing patriots, missiles, uh
• 43:10
  highars, everything US. They we had
• 43:13
  training battalions over there, training
• 43:17
  the Ukrainian military to fight Russia.
• 43:20
  We pushed that as and I don't mean we me
• 43:24
  you. I mean we America and the West have
• 43:28
  have been engaged in this crap and Trump
• 43:30
  was against it. Well that's not really
• 43:33
  true. He he he he let it go on during
• 43:36
  his first term as well
• 43:39
  because it was it went on from gez 2014.
• 43:43
  We you know after we we flipped the uh
• 43:46
  the the internals, right? So, I mean,
• 43:50
  here we go again. You know that story.
• 43:52
  And what have we done if we abandon it
• 43:54
  now? You know, first we can claim we
• 43:56
  were never involved, right? Well, we
• 43:57
  were never involved. We're not gonna be
• 43:59
  able to do that under the Trump things.
• 44:01
  Trump is just the one thing you got to
• 44:04
  respect about it. At least he's blatant
• 44:05
  about his foolish activities where, oh
• 44:08
  yeah, it's mine. I got to pick the next
• 44:11
  Iranian leader. Lindsey Graham, why
• 44:13
  don't you get over there and pick the
• 44:14
  next one for me and give me some
• 44:16
  recommendations that you know Lindsey
• 44:19
  Graham there marching. Yeah, with a
• 44:23
  little flag wandering down the streets
• 44:24
  of Thrron. That'll be great. Um anyway,
• 44:29
  Russia asked them to take care of it.
• 44:31
  Even the special monitoring mission of
• 44:33
  the OCE, that's the European Security
• 44:36
  Council, recognized that by midFebruary
• 44:40
  2022, the intensity of hostilities in
• 44:42
  the Donbass had reached peak levels
• 44:45
  similar to those before the ceasefire in
• 44:47
  2020. According to the OCE report from
• 44:50
  February 19, four day five days before
• 44:54
  the SMM recorded 222 ceasefire
• 44:57
  violations in Daetsk by the Ukrainians,
• 45:00
  135 explosions. In the previous
• 45:02
  reporting period, there were 189
• 45:04
  violations. In Lugansk, the mission
• 45:06
  observed 648 violations and 519
• 45:09
  explosions. Ignoring his own aggression
• 45:12
  against the Russian population in
• 45:14
  Donbass that led up to the Russian
• 45:16
  offensive, Zilinski says spent the last
• 45:19
  four years cultivating an image of
• 45:22
  Ukraine as a victim. They aren't and
• 45:25
  never have been. Logically, one would
• 45:27
  expect him to also consider Iran as a
• 45:30
  victim of unprovoked aggression.
• 45:34
  But Zalinski chose a different strategy.
• 45:37
  On the eve of the USIsraeli strike on
• 45:39
  Tran, Zalinski claimed that the Iranian
• 45:42
  people want to change the current
• 45:45
  regime. Yeah. Well, what about Danetsk?
• 45:48
  What about Lugansk? While it is true
• 45:50
  that there are people in the Islamic
• 45:52
  Republic advocating for political
• 45:55
  change, the most notable, the ones here
• 45:57
  in America are hopeful that Trump will
• 45:59
  choose them to take over. uh as
• 46:01
  evidenced by the protests in January,
• 46:04
  Zalinski seems to have forgotten that
• 46:07
  his own approval rating was barely above
• 46:10
  17% just before the start of the Russian
• 46:13
  military operations according to the
• 46:16
  Kiev International institute. Did that
• 46:18
  mean that the Ukrainian people could
• 46:20
  have gotten rid of an unpopular
• 46:22
  president who had soon come to disregard
• 46:25
  the Ukrainian constitution just as much
• 46:27
  as he uh um
• 46:30
  uh disrespects the uh UN charter or the
• 46:36
  you know he he's one he is actually
• 46:39
  quoted as saying that the Minska courts
• 46:42
  oh that was those those aren't those
• 46:44
  aren't real agreements those don't those
• 46:46
  don't mean anything. Those aren't real
• 46:48
  agreements, so we don't have to honor
• 46:49
  those. That was just to give us time to
• 46:51
  build up and beat up on these people
• 46:53
  ourselves. Did that mean the Ukrainian
• 46:56
  public could have gotten rid of this
• 46:58
  unpopular president? On February 28,
• 47:01
  following the US and Israeli attacks on
• 47:04
  Iran, Zilinski revealed a personal
• 47:07
  motive for supporting Trump's actions
• 47:09
  and he argued that Iran has backed
• 47:12
  Russia in the Ukraine conflict. His
• 47:16
  contradictory stance on the war with
• 47:18
  Iran goes beyond the fact that his power
• 47:20
  hinges on the duration of the conflict
• 47:22
  with Russia.
• 47:24
  The problem isn't just the fact that the
• 47:26
  Ukrainian military relies on European
• 47:29
  purchase of American weapons. The deeper
• 47:31
  issue lies in the changing social
• 47:33
  dynamics with Ukraine. The people are
• 47:35
  exhausted and eager to put an end to the
• 47:37
  war as evidenced by increasing
• 47:40
  resistance against forced mobilization.
• 47:45
  To navigate the delicate balance between
• 47:48
  maintaining his grip on power and
• 47:50
  creating the illusion of considering
• 47:52
  public interests, Zalinski has to keep
• 47:55
  some sort of dialogue open with Russia.
• 47:59
  In the current negotiation process, the
• 48:02
  US is the only party Moscow is prepared
• 48:05
  to engage with regarding the principles
• 48:08
  for ending the conflict. A complete loss
• 48:12
  of the US as a partner would mean the
• 48:15
  collapse of any dialogue with Moscow,
• 48:17
  effectively dismissing the last chance
• 48:20
  for a diplomatic resolution.
• 48:25
  Something's going on in here. Hang on
• 48:27
  one second.
• 48:31
  I don't know why, but u some strange
• 48:34
  things going on. Anyway, is Europe
• 48:36
  hypocritical? Yes, there's a question
• 48:39
  there. They're always hypocritical. Uh,
• 48:42
  the EU finds itself in an even more
• 48:45
  precarious position. Assessing Trump's
• 48:48
  action in the Middle East, it tries to
• 48:50
  avoid using phrases like unprovoked
• 48:53
  invasion, Trump's war against Iran, or
• 48:57
  fullcale war, fullcale invasions that
• 49:02
  and and I've pointed this out a bunch of
• 49:04
  times, the Western media and politicians
• 49:08
  of all levels frequently use in
• 49:11
  reference to Russia. I want you to to
• 49:13
  pick Lindsey Graham as your bastion of
• 49:16
  uh of uh grammar police here or
• 49:21
  narrative police. Never will you hear
• 49:24
  him say, you know, this uh un
• 49:28
  unfortunate conflict in Ukraine. You
• 49:30
  will always hear him say Putin's
• 49:33
  unprovoked fullscale war. That is what
• 49:37
  you will hear. And that's what you hear
• 49:39
  from people who are selling you
• 49:41
  something. They can't just talk about a
• 49:43
  conflict. They have to talk about the
• 49:45
  person who is is uh not accused if you
• 49:49
  say it often enough. Putin's war.
• 49:51
  Putin's unprovoked war. Fullcale
• 49:54
  invasion. This was none of the above.
• 49:58
  None of the above. But politicians put
• 50:01
  out these talking points and lie to you.
• 50:04
  That's what they do. That is their job.
• 50:08
  They have these talking point memos that
• 50:11
  come from whoever controls them or based
• 50:15
  upon whatever narrative they all need to
• 50:19
  match in order to convince you that uh
• 50:23
  uh Iran, for example, wants Donald Trump
• 50:27
  to uh that the people are rooting for
• 50:29
  Donald Trump in Iran. My ass. They
• 50:32
  aren't rooting for anything over there
• 50:35
  except to get to end the war and get
• 50:37
  back to the way it was to to to living
• 50:40
  to not having some aggressor from from
• 50:44
  the other side of the planet coming to
• 50:47
  steal your oil, which is all this is.
• 50:50
  And well, not not necessarily from the
• 50:53
  Israeli side, but they benefit by by
• 50:56
  destroying it. And you've watched the uh
• 50:59
  the creep of uh territorial games in
• 51:02
  Israel for years and they're just taking
• 51:05
  more land. Gez, there's more people that
• 51:07
  we got to import. Come on. We need more
• 51:10
  land. Just like America. We need
• 51:11
  Venezuela. We need Cuba. We need
• 51:15
  Greenland. And by the way, Canada, shut
• 51:17
  up. We're taking you, too.
• 51:21
  We're going to take you. Uh anyway, um
• 51:24
  now except for Spain, almost everyone is
• 51:28
  eager to support Trump. It turns out
• 51:30
  that bombing another country for the
• 51:32
  purpose of who knows what Trump
• 51:34
  administration hasn't even provided an
• 51:36
  official justification for the war is
• 51:39
  viewed as the right move. And that's
• 51:41
  true. He hasn't. His justifications are
• 51:44
  BS. You know, there's zero reason for us
• 51:48
  to do it. He gets to pick a leader in
• 51:50
  another country. Why?
• 51:53
  Why? I mean what what is the real reason
• 51:58
  that he is given
• 52:00
  nothing? We need regime change. We need
• 52:03
  to get rid the the people of Iran need
• 52:05
  us. It's democracy. What? What you want?
• 52:08
  You think Qatar is a democracy? You know
• 52:12
  Qatar is not a democracy. There's a
• 52:15
  prince over there and he is in charge.
• 52:19
  Trust me, he is in charge and the rest
• 52:22
  of the people are not. Okay? And and and
• 52:26
  and every country over there, Saudi
• 52:28
  Saudi has what a prince. I mean, geez,
• 52:33
  if we're if if we want to fight for
• 52:35
  democracy, Dan is not the place to do
• 52:38
  it.
• 52:40
  Then that's this is nonsense all the way
• 52:42
  across the board. Uh so anyway, um who
• 52:46
  Let's see. Now, except for Spain, it
• 52:48
  turns out that bombing another country
• 52:50
  is viewed as the right move, while
• 52:53
  Iran's retaliatory actions are dismissed
• 52:56
  and unwarranted aggression. So, the
• 52:58
  aggressor has become Iran. But who
• 53:01
  started this? Israel and the United
• 53:03
  States started it. Started it. And you
• 53:07
  know, we now it's unwarranted
• 53:09
  aggression. Diplomacy doesn't matter.
• 53:12
  Only who's carrying, you know, who's
• 53:14
  swinging the biggest wiener. That's it.
• 53:17
  And uh they are dismissed as unwarranted
• 53:20
  aggression if if you're an Iranian
• 53:21
  toward other Middle Eastern nations,
• 53:24
  also lacking in democracy.
• 53:28
  It seems that the Europeans failed to
• 53:30
  grasp one critical point. If the US
• 53:34
  achieves any significant success in the
• 53:37
  Middle East, the hawks in Washington
• 53:40
  will regain strength. And Trump will
• 53:43
  take more radical steps to implement his
• 53:46
  doctrine, which so far is only the law
• 53:50
  of the strongest, the fist. I'm in
• 53:53
  charge, you're not. Sit down and shut
• 53:57
  up. Uh for Europe, this could very well
• 54:00
  mean losing Greenland.
• 54:03
  You know what? If he what if what if
• 54:05
  somebody goes, "All right, Trump, take
• 54:06
  Greenland. Jesus, we don't want to go
• 54:08
  through this again." You know, take
• 54:10
  Greenland, take Cuba, take Venezuela.
• 54:13
  Jesus, take the whole world. The whole
• 54:15
  world's America, cuz Donald Trump said
• 54:18
  so.
• 54:20
  World War is coming in under these
• 54:22
  terms. I hate to be a uh you know, geez.
• 54:26
  Oh, who who's the chicken little
• 54:27
  wandering around looking at the sky is
• 54:29
  falling, but the sky is freaking
• 54:31
  falling. The sky is falling. That Sam's
• 54:34
  a nut. He's a chicken little. Maybe I
• 54:37
  am, but I sure hope not. These people
• 54:39
  are nuts. And we have the law of the
• 54:41
  strongest is fully in charge in America.
• 54:45
  And we got we got the big football team.
• 54:48
  They're ready to go. And and Rubio,
• 54:51
  well, who's sitting on the bench now?
• 54:52
  It's uh uh the only sane voice in the
• 54:55
  room apparently is uh the vice president
• 54:58
  and but you don't see much of him these
• 55:00
  days. Nope. Nope. Nope. Uh because he's
• 55:04
  against all of this. And you know what?
• 55:06
  I I I think that they they've sidelined
• 55:08
  the guy. Seriously. Uh for Europe, this
• 55:11
  means probably losing Greenland. The EU
• 55:14
  support for Trump should be viewed
• 55:17
  through the lens of the settlement or
• 55:19
  prolongation of the Ukraine crisis.
• 55:22
  Europe has effectively removed itself
• 55:25
  from the negotiation process by
• 55:28
  presenting ultimatums that Russia would
• 55:31
  never agree to. A recent example is the
• 55:34
  so-called Kalis list drafted by the EU
• 55:38
  foreign policy genius Kaja Kalis which
• 55:42
  was recently shared with European
• 55:44
  nations. The document outlined the EU's
• 55:48
  demand to Russia for resolving the
• 55:51
  Ukrainian crisis
• 55:54
  among other things. This is this is what
• 55:57
  the losers are for trying to force upon
• 56:00
  Russia. Okay. The loser gets to dictate
• 56:03
  terms to Russia. Ready? Among other
• 56:06
  things, it calls for a reduction in
• 56:08
  Russian troops and their withdrawal from
• 56:12
  neighboring countries like Bellarus.
• 56:15
  See, they want to take over Bellarus
• 56:17
  badly. They want Bellarus. And Bellarus
• 56:21
  is the same thing as Ukraine. But Luc
• 56:22
  Shanka is there and Luc Shanka is a a
• 56:25
  strong supporter of Russia and they're
• 56:28
  hoping that the next one comes in and
• 56:30
  that Luc Shanka dies, you know, is all
• 56:32
  they can hope for and that they can
• 56:34
  bring somebody back who will uh make uh
• 56:39
  Bellarus the same as Ukraine and turn it
• 56:43
  into a war zone so that Europe can get
• 56:46
  free gas and oil from the Russian side.
• 56:50
  they can get that and they can do the
• 56:52
  same takeover in that regard because if
• 56:56
  they can get there then they can get
• 56:58
  through the the wide steps to the west
• 57:01
  and step with an E on the end and they
• 57:04
  can uh uh then force their way into the
• 57:06
  remaining parts of Russia and cause
• 57:08
  turmoil wreak havoc steel oil and gas
• 57:12
  and other natural resources from Russia.
• 57:17
  So their withdrawal from they also want
• 57:20
  reparation payments
• 57:23
  and some form of democratization of
• 57:26
  society and seriously Moscow will not
• 57:30
  consider this document. Moreover, the EU
• 57:34
  can't even reach a consensus on whether
• 57:37
  to resume any did I say consensus
• 57:40
  consensus with whether to resume
• 57:42
  dialogue with Russia or not. Under these
• 57:46
  circumstances, Moscow does not view the
• 57:48
  EU as a credible partner regarding the
• 57:51
  postconlict security framework on the
• 57:54
  European continent. They are not. Um,
• 57:59
  nonetheless, Europe recognizes the need
• 58:02
  to take part in the process of
• 58:04
  negotiation in some capacity to ensure
• 58:07
  that Moscow and Washington don't make
• 58:10
  deals that are over their heads. Sit
• 58:12
  down. You sit down. you know, we'll tell
• 58:14
  you what your agreement is. Uh they
• 58:16
  bypass Brussels and other Euro nations.
• 58:20
  So, on the one hand, Europe supports the
• 58:23
  US in order to stay involved in the
• 58:25
  negotiation process. But on the other,
• 58:27
  there's likely a very faint hope in
• 58:29
  Europe that if the hawks regain power in
• 58:32
  Washington, Trump might make a U-turn
• 58:35
  and adopt a anti-Russia stance, despite
• 58:39
  the risk this poses for Europe itself.
• 58:44
  And what about the old Trumpster?
• 58:48
  Donald Trump came to power promising no
• 58:51
  new war abroad and criticizing George W.
• 58:56
  Bush for the Iraq war, weapons of mass
• 58:59
  destruction never existed. Yep, that's
• 59:02
  true. Yet now he seems to have started
• 59:06
  the biggest Middle Eastern conflict they
• 59:09
  say in two decades. I say forever. This
• 59:12
  contradiction hasn't gone unnoticed by
• 59:16
  politicians and commentators across the
• 59:19
  political spectrum. However, it is
• 59:22
  important to view Trump's actions in a
• 59:25
  broader context. his seemingly
• 59:28
  now I don't believe this but well I
• 59:31
  believe the final point of this but his
• 59:33
  seemingly disconnected moves in Europe,
• 59:37
  Greenland, Latin America and the Middle
• 59:40
  East are appearing to form a coherent
• 59:45
  strategy. Essentially, Trump is shifting
• 59:49
  America's focus from the ex export of
• 59:53
  democracy to the direct destabilization
• 59:57
  of undesirable
• 59:59
  regimes, I say picked by Lindsey Graham,
• 1:00:02
  either to weaken them, as we are
• 1:00:05
  witnessing in Iran, or to install their
• 1:00:08
  own loyal governments without any
• 1:00:11
  superficial democratization,
• 1:00:14
  as seen in Venezuela. A and Trump is
• 1:00:18
  saying the same. I get to pick who's in
• 1:00:20
  charge. I pick.
• 1:00:24
  It's it. It's me. I'm king. This is my
• 1:00:26
  risk board. The rest of you, forget it.
• 1:00:29
  You know, go play some other game
• 1:00:30
  because I have all the I have all the
• 1:00:32
  pieces. Trump has uh Trump no longer
• 1:00:36
  relies on alliances. It seems he's not
• 1:00:38
  even concerned with the opinions of
• 1:00:40
  Europe and currently shows no intention
• 1:00:43
  of even defending the Gulf monarchies.
• 1:00:47
  That's why it is quite curious to see
• 1:00:49
  how the European establishment
• 1:00:52
  represented by Mertz is eager to please
• 1:00:55
  him please Trump. As for Trump, he is
• 1:00:58
  unapologetically
• 1:01:00
  blunt in his assessment. Germany is
• 1:01:04
  excellent because it does what he wants.
• 1:01:08
  Spain is terrible. It dared to stand up
• 1:01:11
  to him, but who cares what Madrid
• 1:01:12
  thinks? The US will lose its paces in
• 1:01:15
  Madrid anyway. And the UK, he's
• 1:01:18
  disappointed because it doesn't support
• 1:01:20
  him as fervently as the vassal state is
• 1:01:24
  supposed to. Trump also had some
• 1:01:26
  unpleasant words for the old Z monster,
• 1:01:29
  referring to him as PT Barnum, the 19th
• 1:01:32
  century American showman known for
• 1:01:35
  promoting sensational hoaxes. Trump is
• 1:01:38
  clearly signaling to Europe and Ukraine
• 1:01:42
  that it occupies a secondary role in his
• 1:01:45
  worldview. He's attempting to recreate a
• 1:01:49
  contested form of hegemony. It is not
• 1:01:52
  about multipolarity championed by
• 1:01:54
  Russia, China, and countries of the
• 1:01:56
  global south. Instead, it's a vision for
• 1:01:59
  a new kind of global empire where
• 1:02:02
  decisions are made unilaterally by the
• 1:02:05
  United States without even consulting
• 1:02:08
  any close allies like the EU. And there
• 1:02:13
  is a lot at stake. We are not just
• 1:02:16
  talking about the upcoming midterm
• 1:02:18
  elections in November. And I think he's
• 1:02:20
  going to lose heavy in November because
• 1:02:23
  of this. The future of US global
• 1:02:26
  dominance depends on the outcome of the
• 1:02:29
  conflict in the Middle East, which will
• 1:02:31
  have significant implications for
• 1:02:34
  Europe. If the conflict in Iran ends
• 1:02:38
  with some sort of tangible success for
• 1:02:41
  the US,
• 1:02:43
  Washington's tone toward Europe and
• 1:02:46
  perhaps even Russia will shift when it
• 1:02:49
  comes to addressing the situation in
• 1:02:51
  Ukraine. Conversely, if the military
• 1:02:54
  campaign yields no clear result,
• 1:02:58
  non-conservatives may suffer a
• 1:03:00
  longlasting defeat, which would also
• 1:03:04
  impact the Ukraine crisis. Regardless of
• 1:03:07
  the outcome, the lesson learned from the
• 1:03:10
  conflict in Iran will undoubtedly
• 1:03:13
  influence the shifting power dynamics in
• 1:03:17
  Europe. Now that uh line of u reasoning
• 1:03:24
  as I told you was uh uh my commentary
• 1:03:27
  and reading it in in between by a guy
• 1:03:29
  named Valentine Lagginino uh who who uh
• 1:03:33
  wrote the article. It was first
• 1:03:34
  published in uh where was it first
• 1:03:39
  published?
• 1:03:41
  I think it was um uh RT Russia and is
• 1:03:45
  where it was first published. So I
• 1:03:47
  didn't want to not cite the proper
• 1:03:48
  person. Um
• 1:03:51
  let's see. Russia is for its part
• 1:03:54
  talking about Gulf oil production. Now
• 1:03:57
  Qatar has already shut off its natural
• 1:04:00
  gas and it isn't producing anymore. It
• 1:04:04
  is gone. Number three in the world now
• 1:04:07
  not producing at all. And Russia, well a
• 1:04:09
  lot of people, not just Russia, is
• 1:04:11
  making warnings about u the markets.
• 1:04:15
  It's uh I haven't looked yet this
• 1:04:18
  morning,
• 1:04:20
  but there was some pretty volatile
• 1:04:22
  movements yesterday on the on the gas.
• 1:04:25
  And so, let's talk about the price
• 1:04:30
  per barrel this morning
• 1:04:35
  at present. We want to to make sure we
• 1:04:38
  have it. Um where are we? Brent crude.
• 1:04:42
  Oh, it dropped back below 100. It's
• 1:04:44
  $9341.
• 1:04:47
  And so the uh chart price if you go to
• 1:04:51
  either markets businessinssider.com
• 1:04:53
  on commodities or you can go to uh crude
• 1:04:57
  oil prices today at oilprice.com
• 1:05:02
  and uh let's see where that was cuz uh
• 1:05:05
  the reports were that it was over
• 1:05:08
  over
• 1:05:10
  um
• 1:05:12
  over there uh 100 mark over the weekend.
• 1:05:17
  So, wow, that's an interesting one. Rare
• 1:05:20
  earth. Well, you go to some of these
• 1:05:22
  pages. They got some pretty good stuff,
• 1:05:23
  but I don't want to be interrupted. Uh,
• 1:05:25
  oil production dependent on the straight
• 1:05:27
  of moves could come to a complete
• 1:05:29
  halt within a month, says Putin. He
• 1:05:32
  warned about the serious risks that the
• 1:05:35
  US and Israel's uh we we should call it
• 1:05:40
  what it is, fullscale invasion of Iran,
• 1:05:44
  fullscale war against Iran. You can't
• 1:05:47
  just say uh you have to say Trump's
• 1:05:50
  full-scale war against Iran, you know,
• 1:05:52
  you can't just say the the conflict um
• 1:05:55
  in Iran. That's not that's not honest.
• 1:05:58
  You have to say Trump's full-scale war
• 1:06:00
  in Iran could pose a threat to the
• 1:06:02
  global energy markets.
• 1:06:05
  Last year, around a third of the global
• 1:06:07
  seaborn oil exports went through the
• 1:06:10
  strait, Putin said at a government
• 1:06:12
  meeting on the global energy markets on
• 1:06:15
  Monday. That's 14 million barrels a day.
• 1:06:20
  80% of that went to Asian and Pacific
• 1:06:23
  nations, he said. Now this route is
• 1:06:26
  closed. Traffic through the straight h
• 1:06:29
  has dropped by 80% over the past week
• 1:06:34
  after the US and Israel launched their
• 1:06:36
  bombing campaign against Iran. Several
• 1:06:39
  tankers were hit in the exchanges. The
• 1:06:42
  uh developments pushed crude above 100
• 1:06:44
  and prompted expectation of emergency
• 1:06:47
  measures from the EU and other major
• 1:06:49
  economies. I saw an interesting um um
• 1:06:52
  analysis yesterday. So up near the the
• 1:06:56
  northern part of the Gulf, there's a an
• 1:07:00
  uh there's an island and two there's two
• 1:07:02
  islands owned by Iran there. One very
• 1:07:04
  close which is down in the southern
• 1:07:06
  southern part right at the tip of the u
• 1:07:10
  of the straits of Hormuz when you go up
• 1:07:12
  through that through that loopy place
• 1:07:14
  where they got to get through the crow
• 1:07:15
  the the one crowded space right and the
• 1:07:19
  um
• 1:07:21
  the other is a larger island up toward
• 1:07:23
  the north. both controlled by Iran.
• 1:07:25
  Okay. And Iran has uh this island up on
• 1:07:28
  the top where uh it it was loading it's
• 1:07:32
  where they load tankers with oil.
• 1:07:36
  And so there were three tankers in there
• 1:07:41
  and these tankers are um
• 1:07:46
  they weren't wanting to leave. Well,
• 1:07:50
  what what they are saying is that the
• 1:07:52
  Iranian tankers are being allowed
• 1:07:55
  through the Straits of Hormuz.
• 1:07:57
  And so those three ships are expected to
• 1:08:01
  be loaded and leave with Iranian oil
• 1:08:04
  headed for China. And they have to go
• 1:08:07
  around the Straits of Hormuz. But they
• 1:08:09
  won't get shot up by the Iranians
• 1:08:12
  because they're Iranian. Well, they're
• 1:08:14
  not even Iranian vessels. They're tagged
• 1:08:16
  with they're flagged with flags from a
• 1:08:19
  foreign country, some other country, but
• 1:08:22
  they're hauling Iranian gas. And so they
• 1:08:24
  will go around that or oil, I mean. And
• 1:08:27
  so they will go around the Straits of
• 1:08:28
  Hormuz, and they're going to be
• 1:08:30
  completely safe.
• 1:08:32
  And I wonder when the US side,
• 1:08:38
  cuz I don't put it past them, will start
• 1:08:41
  bombing those. And I haven't had chance
• 1:08:43
  to research that and find out, excuse
• 1:08:46
  me, what is going on. So far, the only
• 1:08:49
  ones that have been uh shot at and
• 1:08:54
  destroyed are western really. You know,
• 1:08:58
  um the the the
• 1:09:00
  US coalitions are are destroying um
• 1:09:06
  Ukrainian Navy ships or alleged Navy
• 1:09:09
  ships and they're doing that even in Sri
• 1:09:11
  Lanka like we reported last week. But um
• 1:09:14
  and then that one they shouldn't have
• 1:09:16
  blown up. That that one that one was
• 1:09:18
  nothing. Trump's like, "Oh jeez, they're
• 1:09:20
  out there. They weren't even safe over
• 1:09:22
  there." That's because they weren't they
• 1:09:24
  didn't even have any weapons on board.
• 1:09:25
  They had nothing. They had gone for a
• 1:09:27
  parade sort of thing in China. And on
• 1:09:30
  the way back, Trump blew them up. They
• 1:09:32
  weren't weren't involved. Couldn't be
• 1:09:34
  involved. Had no armaments of any kind
• 1:09:37
  because that was part of the deal for
• 1:09:39
  being able to participate in the fleet
• 1:09:41
  thing that was showing up. and it was
• 1:09:43
  Iran and they were t talking with China
• 1:09:45
  and I think that if uh that that there
• 1:09:49
  is some sort of fine line being uh taken
• 1:09:53
  and I haven't had enough chance to
• 1:09:55
  research it yet that is uh talking about
• 1:09:59
  um
• 1:10:01
  uh defining it uh as as
• 1:10:06
  China supports Iran and so therefore you
• 1:10:10
  don't want them to get the oil from
• 1:10:13
  Iran, but you also don't want to piss
• 1:10:16
  off China, right? That's not something
• 1:10:18
  that uh that uh
• 1:10:22
  I don't know. I wonder if there's any
• 1:10:24
  effort to be careful on any of this is
• 1:10:26
  all I'm asking. And with who's who's
• 1:10:29
  getting bombed. Anyway, Putin goes on.
• 1:10:31
  That's 14 million barrels a day, traffic
• 1:10:34
  through the straight um and and the
• 1:10:37
  price is over 100. Oil production
• 1:10:40
  dependent on the straight is fully
• 1:10:43
  stopping in the coming months and it's
• 1:10:47
  already dropping, the president said,
• 1:10:50
  and restoring production will take weeks
• 1:10:53
  or even months after this.
• 1:10:56
  Global oil prices are already rising,
• 1:11:00
  Putin said, adding that the increased
• 1:11:03
  amount to over 30% in the past week,
• 1:11:06
  disruption in energy supplies is
• 1:11:08
  boosting inflation and is leading to
• 1:11:11
  industrial output de decline. The world
• 1:11:14
  is about to find itself in what Putin
• 1:11:18
  calls
• 1:11:19
  an inevitable new price reality.
• 1:11:24
  And Russia remains a reliable energy
• 1:11:27
  supplier, he said, adding that it will
• 1:11:31
  continue to provide oil and gas to its
• 1:11:34
  friend nations that it considers
• 1:11:37
  reliable partners. And according to
• 1:11:40
  Putin, the list includes a many Asian
• 1:11:44
  nations and EU members Slovakia and
• 1:11:47
  Hungary. And on Monday, Hungarian Prime
• 1:11:51
  Minister Victor Orban and Foreign
• 1:11:53
  Minister Peter Sajarto
• 1:11:56
  um urged Brussels to lift the ban on
• 1:11:59
  Russian oil and gas, especially amid the
• 1:12:02
  escalating conflict in the Middle East.
• 1:12:05
  And earlier, the genius of Scott Bessant
• 1:12:10
  sends, you know, he announced we're
• 1:12:12
  easing sanctions on Russian oil to
• 1:12:14
  stabilize the market. We're even going
• 1:12:17
  to let India buy them. You know, we'll
• 1:12:19
  let them. How about that? So, there you
• 1:12:22
  have it. Um, this will piss off a lot of
• 1:12:26
  people in America, right? Russia has won
• 1:12:29
  its first parolympic gold of 2026.
• 1:12:34
  Uh, varonina
• 1:12:38
  varina.
• 1:12:41
  And you know what? That would have to be
• 1:12:42
  where the right udenia, the right stress
• 1:12:44
  is. Voronina
• 1:12:47
  won the super G, whatever that is, as
• 1:12:50
  Russia returned to the Parolympics under
• 1:12:52
  its own national flag for the first time
• 1:12:56
  in 10 years.
• 1:12:58
  Alpine skier uh Veroni won the women's
• 1:13:03
  super G title on Monday at the 2026
• 1:13:07
  Parolympics in Italy, giving Russia its
• 1:13:10
  first gold member of the games as a
• 1:13:12
  country made a symbolic return to the
• 1:13:14
  competition under its own flag. This is
• 1:13:18
  the first time since 2014 that Russian
• 1:13:21
  athletes have competed under their own
• 1:13:23
  flag following a decade of restrictions
• 1:13:26
  and bans from international parolympic
• 1:13:29
  competitions. The Super G or Super Giant
• 1:13:33
  Slalom is an alpine skiing discipline
• 1:13:36
  that blends elements of traditional
• 1:13:38
  downhill speed with giant slalom's more
• 1:13:41
  technical turning, demanding precision
• 1:13:44
  and high velocity from competitors. And
• 1:13:48
  Veroina's victory continued her
• 1:13:51
  successful parolympic campaign as she
• 1:13:53
  had already won a bronze medal in the
• 1:13:55
  downhill event, her first parolympic
• 1:13:58
  um podium visit. Another Russian alpine
• 1:14:01
  standout, Alex Buggay took bronze in the
• 1:14:06
  men's downhill event, adding to Russia's
• 1:14:09
  early medal hall. The Russian Parolympic
• 1:14:13
  team was cleared to compete earlier this
• 1:14:16
  year after Moscow won an appeal in the
• 1:14:19
  court of sport arbitration against the
• 1:14:22
  International Ski and Snowboard
• 1:14:24
  Federation. The body had barred athletes
• 1:14:27
  from Russia and Bellarus despite the
• 1:14:29
  International Parolympic Committee fully
• 1:14:32
  reinstating athletes from both nations
• 1:14:36
  and many Russian athletes were banned
• 1:14:38
  from competing after the World
• 1:14:41
  Anti-Doping Agency investigated in 2015
• 1:14:46
  uh following allegations of doping which
• 1:14:48
  Moscow denies. Dozens of bans were
• 1:14:51
  overturned on appeal which said there
• 1:14:54
  had been no evidence to impose
• 1:14:56
  sanctions. The Milano Cortina 2026
• 1:15:00
  opened on Friday in Verona and are
• 1:15:03
  scheduled to run through March 15. Six
• 1:15:06
  Russian athletes are competing.
• 1:15:10
  So there you go.
• 1:15:14
  Let's see. The Iran war has shown that
• 1:15:19
  EU sanctions on Russian energy are
• 1:15:22
  strategic blunders, especially when
• 1:15:25
  prices crossed $100 a barrel, said
• 1:15:28
  Kuriel Dimmitri. In a series of posts on
• 1:15:31
  X on Sunday and Monday, Dimmitri
• 1:15:34
  commented on the rise in oil prices
• 1:15:37
  since the start of the USIsrael, let's
• 1:15:40
  call it what it is, the unprovoked mass
• 1:15:43
  invasion. the unprovoked Donald Trump
• 1:15:47
  and Netanyahu war on Iran last month. In
• 1:15:51
  one of the messages, he mocked, Demitri
• 1:15:54
  did, the EU policy makers over what he
• 1:15:56
  described as short-sighted policy.
• 1:16:00
  Bingo. Welcome to 100 plus $100 plus
• 1:16:04
  oil. Most thought this was impossible.
• 1:16:07
  Predicted hundred plus dollars maybe in
• 1:16:09
  June. Now, as most EU bureaucrats still
• 1:16:12
  don't grasp the consequences, pro
• 1:16:15
  predict Russian energy vital and
• 1:16:18
  survival and strategic blunders of
• 1:16:21
  restricting it will be fully exposed.
• 1:16:24
  Diversify to survive. He said those are
• 1:16:28
  important words. Diversify to survive.
• 1:16:30
  And a lot of the world are learning it.
• 1:16:33
  Uh because Trump is threatening Iran
• 1:16:35
  with 20 times more death, fire, and
• 1:16:38
  fury.
• 1:16:41
  Trump's unprovoked war in Iran. As the
• 1:16:45
  Brent prices peaked at $120 a barrel,
• 1:16:48
  Demetri have noted that 150 plus is the
• 1:16:50
  new oil target. Maybe even $200 plus a
• 1:16:54
  possibility in a prolonged conflict. He
• 1:16:58
  went on to explain the oil issue is no
• 1:17:01
  longer about just a straight at Hormuz,
• 1:17:04
  but about attacks on oil and gas
• 1:17:07
  infrastructure across the Middle East.
• 1:17:10
  The oil rally is somewhat mitigated by
• 1:17:13
  reports that G7 countries are discussing
• 1:17:17
  a coordinated release of oil from their
• 1:17:20
  strategic reserves, which are also down,
• 1:17:23
  but they have them. The USIsraeli
• 1:17:25
  strikes on Iran triggering Terron's
• 1:17:29
  retaliation significantly raises the
• 1:17:32
  risk for vessels passing through the
• 1:17:34
  straight of Hormuz the key artery.
• 1:17:37
  Maritime traffic through the waterway
• 1:17:39
  collapsed by an estimated 80%.
• 1:17:43
  Um plus none of them can get insurance
• 1:17:47
  and you have to have insurance to leave
• 1:17:48
  the port. The EU faced a similar price
• 1:17:51
  shock when it sanctioned Russia
• 1:17:53
  following the escalation in 2022. Blah
• 1:17:55
  blah blah. US President Trump brushes
• 1:17:57
  off the ongoing price surge on Sunday.
• 1:18:00
  Said that the higher oil cost caused by
• 1:18:03
  his unprovoked war against Iran uh or a
• 1:18:08
  very small price to pay for USA and
• 1:18:12
  world safety and peace.
• 1:18:15
  Oh yeah, that's what we're creating.
• 1:18:17
  world safety and peace.
• 1:18:21
  This Donald Trump is still the peace
• 1:18:24
  president in other words, right? We
• 1:18:26
  still have a peace president. Friends
• 1:18:28
  and neighbors, I forgot.
• 1:18:30
  I forgot that we had a peace president.
• 1:18:34
  How could I be so foolish?
• 1:18:38
  Where is uh let's see. This was
• 1:18:41
  entertaining.
• 1:18:43
  I I I just like listening to her. She
• 1:18:46
  stumbles all over herself when she
• 1:18:48
  speaks and you can never you you never
• 1:18:50
  know what she's going to say. And now Ka
• 1:18:54
  Kaja Kalis has said that the block the
• 1:18:57
  EU has given $195
• 1:19:01
  billion in aid since 2022.
• 1:19:06
  And Trump says, and I think he's I think
• 1:19:08
  he's pretty much accurate, it's well
• 1:19:10
  over 150 billion, but Trump says 300
• 1:19:14
  billion. I think he's conflating and
• 1:19:16
  adding the the two numbers together and
• 1:19:19
  I think it is closer to 350 billion
• 1:19:22
  between them all and Orbin right now is
• 1:19:25
  holding up um with his uh veto and one
• 1:19:29
  other place uh is is holding up with a
• 1:19:32
  veto. the other um 90 billion that's
• 1:19:36
  supposed to be coming. Um let's see.
• 1:19:39
  European Union is 195 billion on
• 1:19:42
  Ukraine.
• 1:19:44
  According to uh Kaakala, she revealed
• 1:19:46
  the updated figure amid growing unease
• 1:19:49
  and division among state members about
• 1:19:52
  Brussels continuing to fund the military
• 1:19:55
  and financial aid to Kiev. Uh, frankly,
• 1:20:00
  you know, I wonder too, you know, when
• 1:20:02
  does it end? When do they quit doing it?
• 1:20:04
  To date, the EU is Ukraine's number one
• 1:20:07
  supporter with 195 billion. That's $225
• 1:20:12
  billion since 2022. Kus said on Monday
• 1:20:16
  in a keynote at the EU Ambassador
• 1:20:18
  conference. These guys have so many
• 1:20:20
  conferences. This this chick is forever
• 1:20:22
  at a conference. I mean, she doesn't
• 1:20:25
  have to work. You just go to conferences
• 1:20:27
  and give platitudes to everybody around
• 1:20:29
  the world. Well, yeah, it's great, man.
• 1:20:32
  Give more money. Pay me, you know, give
• 1:20:34
  me I control the money. The previous
• 1:20:36
  estimate released by her in December was
• 1:20:39
  at 187 billion. It's actually um you
• 1:20:42
  know about 10 billion dollars more about
• 1:20:45
  uh 8 billion
• 1:20:48
  77 something billion uh euro higher. The
• 1:20:51
  figure does not include the 90 billion
• 1:20:55
  the $105 billion loan but 90 billion
• 1:20:59
  euro loan that is currently in the works
• 1:21:03
  that Ukraine is waiting for. They want
• 1:21:05
  that badly and Orban is holding it up.
• 1:21:08
  Uh the loan faces uncertain future as
• 1:21:11
  Hungary blocked it last month as part of
• 1:21:15
  its dispute about Kiev halting Russian
• 1:21:17
  oil supplies via the Dujba pipeline.
• 1:21:20
  Slovakia signaled it may veto the loan
• 1:21:23
  with Prime Minister Fico FTO slamming it
• 1:21:26
  as essentially a gift that Ukraine would
• 1:21:29
  not repay. Last week, uh Ukraine's
• 1:21:33
  Zalinski issued a threat, and he really
• 1:21:36
  did against Hungarian Prime Minister
• 1:21:38
  Orbin for blocking the funds and said he
• 1:21:42
  would let the Ukrainian military speak
• 1:21:45
  to Orbin in his own language. So he's
• 1:21:49
  going to send the military into Hungary
• 1:21:51
  into unless he supports this 90 billion.
• 1:21:55
  Meanwhile, fresh concerns about
• 1:21:57
  corruption in Ukraine have been raised
• 1:22:00
  again after Hungarian authorities seized
• 1:22:02
  tens of millions of dollars in cash and
• 1:22:05
  nine kilos of gold from Ukrainian
• 1:22:08
  armored vehicles near Budapestt last
• 1:22:11
  week. Ukrainian officials accuse Hungary
• 1:22:14
  of theft and state banditism, and
• 1:22:17
  Budapest demands immediate answers from
• 1:22:20
  Ukraine, saying that the shipment raises
• 1:22:22
  serious question about the Ukrainian war
• 1:22:27
  mafia.
• 1:22:29
  And Kiev has been hit by multiple
• 1:22:32
  corruption scandals in November.
• 1:22:34
  anti-corruption agencies uncovered a
• 1:22:36
  $und00 million kickback scheme uh of
• 1:22:40
  Energam. That investigation led to the
• 1:22:43
  re resignation of several highranking
• 1:22:46
  officials um including Minister German
• 1:22:49
  Galena and Zalinski's Andre Yermach
• 1:22:53
  number two that they got rid of. And so
• 1:22:56
  the mafia is all in control in Ukraine
• 1:23:00
  funded by Cayakalis, right? Hungary and
• 1:23:04
  Slovakia are the only EU nations
• 1:23:07
  standing up to the Godfather in Kiev.
• 1:23:10
  And they truly uh these two Hungary and
• 1:23:13
  Slovakia are the only ones that truly
• 1:23:16
  represent European
• 1:23:18
  um interests.
• 1:23:20
  And that's this is by Tariq Amar. I've
• 1:23:23
  shar shared some stories with by him in
• 1:23:26
  the past. Not sure I can get through it
• 1:23:28
  though.
• 1:23:30
  Um probably not. It's probably too long,
• 1:23:33
  but we're going to give it a shot. We'll
• 1:23:35
  try some speed some speed recital.
• 1:23:39
  Politics can be very rough, yet usually
• 1:23:41
  as long as they don't collapse into war,
• 1:23:44
  at least in public, a certain minimum
• 1:23:46
  pretense of decorum is maintained,
• 1:23:48
  especially by governments vitally
• 1:23:50
  dependent on each other's support.
• 1:23:52
  Ukraine under the rule of never
• 1:23:55
  reelected Vladimir Zalinski, however, is
• 1:23:58
  anything but a normal political system.
• 1:24:02
  In it is in this context that Zalinski's
• 1:24:05
  latest folly needs to be seen. Zalinski
• 1:24:08
  has threatened Hungary's Victor Orbit
• 1:24:10
  telling him he will hand the prime
• 1:24:12
  minister's address over to like home
• 1:24:16
  address over to our guys in the military
• 1:24:20
  so that they can communicate with him in
• 1:24:22
  their own language. Obviously, this
• 1:24:24
  isn't even a hint of violence anymore,
• 1:24:27
  but the equivalent of a mafia godfather
• 1:24:30
  placing a dead horse's head on your
• 1:24:32
  pillow or leaving a bullet on your
• 1:24:35
  doormat. The reason Orbin is exercising
• 1:24:39
  his right within the EU not to agree to
• 1:24:43
  yet another insane loan, the kind that
• 1:24:46
  will never be paid back, at least not by
• 1:24:49
  anyone in Ukraine, for Zalinsk's
• 1:24:52
  astronomically corrupt regime. Orbin is
• 1:24:56
  right about that loan. Yet, that isn't
• 1:24:58
  even the core issue of the scandal. That
• 1:25:02
  is the fact that Zalinski feels he can
• 1:25:04
  issue direct mafia style threats against
• 1:25:07
  another leader of an EU member state.
• 1:25:11
  Regarding Zalinski, there is no surprise
• 1:25:13
  here. He has been at the top of a regime
• 1:25:16
  that combines a bizarre sense of
• 1:25:18
  entitlement, shameless demands,
• 1:25:21
  outrageously greedy corruption, and
• 1:25:23
  repulsive record of sabotage and
• 1:25:25
  assassination.
• 1:25:27
  Very much even against its Western
• 1:25:31
  backers.
• 1:25:32
  Ask Germans who still have spying about
• 1:25:35
  the Nordstream attack, for instance. Or
• 1:25:38
  if you can't find a German with a spine,
• 1:25:40
  ask Orbin, who correctly calls it state
• 1:25:44
  terrorism. What needs more emphasis than
• 1:25:47
  Zalinsk's depraved sense of impunity is
• 1:25:50
  that he has a reason to feel that way.
• 1:25:53
  It is true that in his in this instance,
• 1:25:55
  the EU Commission has publicly protested
• 1:25:58
  against his barbaric behavior. But let's
• 1:26:01
  be realistic. That's a formality.
• 1:26:03
  Nothing but a slap on the wrist for
• 1:26:05
  appearanc's sake. What really matters is
• 1:26:08
  that first the West as a whole and
• 1:26:11
  recently the EU elites on their own have
• 1:26:14
  spent years emboldening Zilinski and his
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  regime by feeding Ukrainian corruption.
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  True. Accepting and spreading Kiev's
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  lies. Also true. And suppressing any
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  criticism of this sort of policy as
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  Russian talking points. You're Putin's
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  puppet. Indeed, in the EU, Hungary and
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  Slovakia as well have been harassed and
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  threatened and treated as paras for
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  their resistance to this coddling of
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  Zalinski. It is all the more remarkable
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  that both countries have principally
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  stuck to their guns, even while having
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  to concede ground repeatedly. This may
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  be a coincidence, but it is a remarkable
• 1:26:58
  fact that just one day after Zilinsk's
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  open mafia boss hit, Hungary hit his
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  ultra sleazy regime where it hurts by
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  striking at its money. It in in a
• 1:27:09
  certainly deliberate spectacular
• 1:27:12
  operation. Balaclava's body armor and
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  assault rifles included and carefully
• 1:27:17
  caught on camera. The video is kind of
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  cool. Hungarian anti-terrorist forces
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  stopped the Ukrainian currency and gold
• 1:27:24
  shipment, crossing their country in two
• 1:27:27
  armored transports, arresting and
• 1:27:29
  temporarily detaining seven Ukrainians.
• 1:27:31
  The Hungarian officials found $40
• 1:27:34
  million, $35 million, and 9 kilos of
• 1:27:37
  gold. While the detained were released
• 1:27:39
  back to Ukraine, the money and gold and
• 1:27:42
  the transporters stayed in Hungary. Kiev
• 1:27:45
  has called the Hungarian measures state
• 1:27:47
  terrorism, which is as absurd as Orban's
• 1:27:50
  assessment of the Nordstream attack um
• 1:27:54
  is compelling. The Ukrainian government
• 1:27:56
  and Oshad Bank that had organized a
• 1:27:59
  transport claimed that everything is
• 1:28:00
  legal, but the Hungarian authorities see
• 1:28:03
  things differently. Their customs agency
• 1:28:05
  say the transport is success suspected
• 1:28:08
  of being a money laundering operation.
• 1:28:10
  It is. They also maintain that among
• 1:28:12
  those detained is a former highranking
• 1:28:14
  general of Ukraine's combined
• 1:28:16
  intelligence service and secret police.
• 1:28:19
  Ukrainian journalists in turn have named
• 1:28:21
  the general as Gennady Khnitself, a
• 1:28:24
  former head of Kiev's center for
• 1:28:25
  anti-terror special operation. Budapest
• 1:28:28
  customs has made the public some
• 1:28:31
  intriguing figures. In the first two
• 1:28:32
  months of this year, total currency and
• 1:28:35
  gold shipped to Ukraine via Hungary has
• 1:28:37
  already amounted to $900 million, $420
• 1:28:42
  million, and 146 kg of gold. Clearly,
• 1:28:46
  that amount finally stopped and it seems
• 1:28:49
  seized were just a very small part of a
• 1:28:52
  much larger ongoing flow.
• 1:28:57
  Crazy times these days with the mafia in
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  Ukraine. I appreciate you being with me
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  Samuel Trap. This is International
• 1:29:06
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