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Doha Upends the West: Trump’s Strategy, Tucker’s Exposés, Hillary’s Denial, and Putin’s India Vision Reshape the Global Order · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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Hello, good evening, welcome. Actually, good morning and welcome. I am Samuel Trapp.
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This is International Flavor. You are listening to DAMN Radio and I'm damn
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glad to have you. A lot went on over the weekend. I don't know if you were paying
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attention or not, but there was plenty going on. So all the talk over this
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weekend was over Trump's new policy plan, foreign policy. There was an
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international meeting in Doha. Lots of people, Doha, Qatar, beautiful city. Love it
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there. And lived there for a little while. It's a great place to be. If you
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haven't visited, you can visit. Did you know that you can fly from, you can get
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on American Airlines, fly from Columbia to Dallas, and from Dallas to Doha. One
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trip on Qatar Airways. And Qatar is connected with, or Qatar Airways anyway,
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is connected with American. And it's a great flight. And Qatar is probably the
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number one or number two airline on the planet. They switch
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between Emirates Air and Qatar Airways. All their planes are brand new. Their
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food is fantastic. The flight attendants are extremely nice. It's not like
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getting on American Airlines. Most of the places and getting treated like a piece
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of dog meat. You know, they don't, they just don't treat you well here in America.
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They do not. But if you take an international airline like Qatar Airways,
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Arab Emirates, or Turkish Airlines is always really good. In fact,
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Aeroflot is very nice. You know, taking Aeroflot is a good way to go. And that's,
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they treat you well. They just treat you well here. It's like you're a
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burden to them. You know what I mean? And at any rate, I wanted to talk some about
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that international forum, about the Trump plan, because the world
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shifted dramatically in Doha, I believe. Anyone paying attention felt the ground
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move. You don't need a political science degree. You don't need a Pentagon
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clearance to understand what is happening. All you had to do was watch
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the way the room reacted to the people that spoke. You had Donald Trump's foreign
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policy vision laid out with clarity that nobody expected from Washington. You
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had his son explaining the world America is actually living in, instead of the
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fantasy land the State Department prefers. You had Tucker Carlson doing what
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American journalists gave up doing 20 years ago. You had Hillary Clinton
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delivering a sermon that no one believes. And you had
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Gulf nations, Russia, India, China, and a lot of Africa, quietly demonstrating that
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they no longer take moral direction from the West. Then, just as the dust was
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settling, Vladimir Putin delivered one of the most strategically honest
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interviews of his career. He sat with India's press, tore down the myths the
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West built around him, brick by brick. For anybody that was listening, the message,
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the unified message, was simple. The unipolar world of globalists is dead, and
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the people who killed it are pretending they don't see it.
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Trump's foreign policy document wasn't the ramblings of a man trying to sound
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tough. It was a blueprint, a new doctrine, a flat statement that the United States
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cannot afford to continue playing world schoolteacher, while its own
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foundation rots. It wasn't written in a diplomatic fog or a bureaucratic gibberish.
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It was written in plain English. Intentionally so, because I believe
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Trump is not speaking to the State Department. He is speaking to the
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American people. If you haven't read this, you probably should. It's out there on
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the Internet. And to the governments around the world, who are
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tired of America using democracy as a pretext for bombing people. He laid out
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the real threat. Losing energy advantage. Losing industrial base. Losing
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intelligence edge. Losing the borders that define the country of America in
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the first place. There's nothing radical in that. It's what every nation on earth
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already believes about itself. The only radical thing was that an American
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president finally said it. And when Trump Jr. stood up in Doha, well actually he
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was sitting I think, and talked about a three-year window to reset global
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discourse, he wasn't joking. He wasn't performing. He was acknowledging reality.
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America is not atop the mountain giving orders anymore. It's at a table with
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competitors who have out-strategized America, out-produced it, out-negotiated
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and most importantly outlasted their own patience for America's endless wars.
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Trump Jr. looked at a room of Gulf officials, CEOs, diplomats, media figures
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and said what half of Washington knows, I say all of Washington knows really, but
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they refused to say it either way. America has no moral authority left to
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squander, to waste. If it wants to be taken seriously again, it will have to
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rebuild itself. And the audience understood this. They were not naive
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people. Most of us are not. These are nations that have lived under American
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lectures for 30 years, 50, and decided they're not interested in more sermons.
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Meanwhile in Russia, Solovyov, the guy I like to listen to and other analysts
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were watching all of these events with a sort of amused realism that's been
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perfected by the Russian global, let's call it the Russian political class.
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They don't see Trump Jr. as a loose cannon or somebody some you know pampered
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rich kid taking the temperature of a world, deciding whether America under
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Trump is a predictable partner or a destabilizing echo of the Biden
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administration. They recognize that Trump's team, unlike Washington's
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permanent class, understands energy flow, understands industrial policy, and
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understands capital shortage. They also believe that the role of the Gulf in the
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next technological century is quite a bit larger than what they're pumping out
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in Washington think tanks or New York. They understand something else also.
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Trump is the first American president who is not trying to resurrect the
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globalist American Empire. That's I'm starting to believe it after reading his
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his foreign policy, foreign security statement. He's trying to rescue America
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from the Empire's remains, from all the crap that we've done over the last 50
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years. And that brings us to Tucker Carlson who was also there and he
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delivered one of the most devastating interviews in American foreign policy
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history. He sat across from Qatar's foreign minister and unraveled 20-30
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years of lies and professional gaslighting. He asked the question no US
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network would ever allow out of a producer's mouth. Here's the question.
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Isn't it true that the United States and Israel asked you to host Hamas? And when
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Qatar said yes, no hesitation, no spin, no winks, they said it plainly. The narrative
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the West has been feeding the public about Qatar funding terror collapsed in
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a five-second interview. Then Tucker asked about Israel bombing Doha during
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negotiations and Qatar confirmed that too and confirmed that Trump demanded
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Israel apologize. Think about that. An American president told Israel, the
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supposed untouchable partner, to apologize to an Arab nation. Seriously,
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think about that. Nothing like that has happened anytime in modern diplomacy. That
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alone should have blown up the entire premise of American Middle East policy
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if the media had any integrity. So then comes Hillary Clinton on the other hand.
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She goes into Doha. I don't know how she got invited truthfully but she was there
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and she was being interviewed and she stuck in 1998. She recited the same old
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tired crap. She compared Saddam Hussein to the current events in the Middle East.
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Good versus evil, wants more weapons, more intervention by the US, more
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escalation, and wants to talk about our moral superiority. The room did listen
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but nobody believed her and everybody knew it. The Gulf nations have lived
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through the consequences of American assertiveness. They saw Iraq collapse,
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Libya burn, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Ukraine, and Gaza. They don't need a
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lecture from the architect of at least half of those disasters. She spoke the
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language of the unipolar world again in a room where the unipolar world no longer
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exists. The audience, they didn't listen. They were not convinced. Well, they may
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have listened but they certainly weren't convinced. And the age of bowing to
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Washington's brand of morality has over, I mean, if this showed it, this
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is it. Doha revealed something else, the press will never admit. Zelensky was not
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invited. That was huge. The world is done performing emotional theater for Ukraine.
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Doha was for nations shaping the future, not nations begging for weapons and
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scolding the donors of those weapons. Zelensky's absence says everything you
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need to know about that. The conflict in Ukraine is no longer a global moral
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crusade. It is a European burden, a NATO failure, and an American political
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liability. The Gulf sees that, Asia sees that, Africa sees that, Russia sees that.
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The only people pretending otherwise are in America. They're the ones who built
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their careers, like Hillary Clinton, on the illusion of American superiority. The
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Ukraine is the center of world politics right now. That brings us to Putin's
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interview in India. And clearest, most unfiltered articulation of Russia's
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worldview since 07, when he spoke at the Munich World Conference. He didn't dodge
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a single accusation. He didn't deflect. It was a great interview. He didn't sugarcoat.
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It was an hour and a half long by Indian press, by the way. He confronted every
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Western talking point directly. Are you trying to rebuild the Soviet Union? No,
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because it's impossible, undesirable, and stupid. Are you an imperialist? No. And the
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people asking that question are the ones who invaded Iraq and destroyed Libya. Are
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you obsessed with restoring lost Russian glory? No. I'm running a modern state that
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has no interest in absorbing populations that do not want to be absorbed. Do you
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want Ukraine? Take it over? No, but I will not allow NATO to set up missile bases
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on my border or turn Ukraine into a military colony pointed at Moscow, like
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Poland, like the pre-Baltic states. He explained the history of the
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region in the way an adult explains things to a child, calmly, factually, no
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apologies. Kievan Rus was the origin of both modern Russia and Ukraine. Ukrainian
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lands fell under Lithuania and Poland for centuries. They rejoined Russia by
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request, by the way, not by conquest. Language, religion, culture have been
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intertwined for a thousand years. This is not myth. This is history. And when the
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interviewer asked about civilians shocked by Russia's actions, Putin asked the only
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question that mattered. Shocked by what? He said, who was it that bombed Donetsk
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for eight years when nobody said a word in the West? Who banned the Russian
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language, he asked. Who shelled schools and homes in the Donbass? It was
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not Russia. This war didn't begin in 2022, he said. It began in 2014. And the West
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pretended not to notice, because admitting that would reveal who really
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destabilized the region. Putin's discussion of NATO was pretty much
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equally blunt. Security cannot be built at another nation's expense. Ukraine can
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choose its own path, but not if that path puts NATO missiles five minutes from
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Moscow. The U.S. wouldn't tolerate Russian missiles in Mexico, and everybody
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knows it. The difference is that Russia's honest about its red lines, while the
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West pretends it has none. He emphasized something else Western audiences never
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hear. Russia doesn't demand special treatment, only that Washington, you
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know, when they make their promises, that those promises are honored. NATO promised
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not to expand eastward many, many times. It did so anyway. The West broke security
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architecture and then blamed Russia for responding to the wreckage America and
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company were creating. Putin's remarks in India could not have been more
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strategically important, especially about India itself. He outlined a
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partnership built on ideology, not on desperation, and on decades of trust.
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Are you aware that Russia and India have been partners for a very long time, even
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before the collapse of the Soviet Union? Russia is investing in India's refining
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capacity long before it has been, way before the start of the Ukraine conflict.
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Russia supplies energy to India, defense technology, nuclear cooperation, and
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economic opportunity with no moral conditioning. He calls Modi his friend
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and he meant it. India is not a pawn to Russia. It is a peer, a partner, a
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civilizational power with its own destiny, and the West really hates
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this, because we can't control it. You know, he was met on the red carpet by
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Modi, and that never happens. Modi does not meet people at the airport, but he
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met Putin when he got off his plane. He was on the tarmac with a red carpet
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rolled out. Russia and India share something deeper than trade. He was
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there for two days, you know, at the same time this Doha thing was going on.
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And the release of this Trump plan, I mean, it came out in late November,
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but people have only been talking about it for the last few days, this Trump
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security plan. You know, basically Russia and India share an understanding, real
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sovereignty for each other. They want to pick things, not the American version,
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which means you're free as long as you do what we want. You're a sovereign, but
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only when you agree with our globalists. India and Russia reject that model, as
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you can tell, I mean, from this weekend. It was a pretty big deal. Both nations
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have been carved up, manipulated, colonized, pressured, lectured, and
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threatened for generations. Both emerged from that experience with the same
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conclusion, never again. That is why India buys Russian oil, Russian weapons, Russian
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reactors, and has Russian engineers everywhere, and they do this without
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hesitation. Why? It's not because Russia's cheap. It's because Russia
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doesn't interfere in India's internal affairs. That's what's happening. Russia
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doesn't tell India what to think about gender policy, carbon tax, digital
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censorship, Ukraine, Gaza, the Taliban, name it, or whatever the latest Western
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moral crusade is. They don't accept those lectures. China, Russia,
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India, and many, many others no longer will do it, and that was made clear here.
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Russia treats India like an equal. The West treats India like a, I don't know, a
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rebellious teenager. Which one would you prefer? Which one does India prefer? So in
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the interview that Putin was asked why Russia recognized the Taliban, and Putin
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responded pretty clearly, Afghanistan has suffered decades of war. Governments have
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come and gone, and whether the West likes it or not, the Taliban controls the
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territory and are fighting terrorism inside it, and they're doing it more
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effectively than the Western installed regimes ever did. He doesn't endorse them.
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Who would? He doesn't whitewash them. He simply states a reality. Russia does not
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have the right to dictate Afghanistan's internal affairs. Neither does America, by
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the way. Russia engages with a government that exists, not the one the State
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Department wishes existed. India understands this also. India hates
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instability on its own doorstep, and Russia is one of the few global powers
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capable of helping maintain balance in the region without exporting its own
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ideology. That's a big point, people. We're trying to force another country to
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think like you do, like we're doing in Venezuela, by the way. I still disagree
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with that, but it seems to have calmed down a little bit. But Putin's definition
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of terrorism is another strategic clarity moment. Terrorism is not defined
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by slogans, flags, or political motives. Terrorism is defined by the method you
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use. If you are harming civilians, you are not a freedom fighter. You are a
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criminal, and that is terrorism. The West blurs this line, and it
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supports rebels in one country, terrorists, while condemning identical
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rebels in another country, depending on whose side the rebels are on. This is
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historic, and Putin said it flat out in his interview. It was a great interview.
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Russia doesn't play that game, and they really don't. India doesn't play that
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game, neither does China. Those two nations understand the price of
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terrorism in blood, not in editorials. When he was asked about NATO expansion,
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he explained the principle at the heart of every stable security system. One
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nation's safety cannot come at the expense of another's. This is not an
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invention of Putin or of Russia. It's the foundation of the Helsinki Accords,
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European declarations. NATO has broken all of them. For 30 years, Russia has been
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warning that surrounding it with US-controlled military infrastructure
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is aggression. Washington ignored that, not because they didn't believe Russia,
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because obviously they did, but they didn't believe that Russia had the
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strength to respond to them, and the West miscalculated. They bet that Russia would
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complain and do nothing, like they had for many years. Instead, Russia defended
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its own red lines, and now the West claims it was blindsided by a war it
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spent years provoking. Putin pointed out something else Western journalists
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never mention. Russia has never demanded that Ukraine become a satellite state.
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Russia has never demanded control over Ukrainian politics. Russia has never
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demanded the right to appoint Ukrainian officials or dictate domestic affairs.
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Russia demanded only one thing. Do not let NATO use Ukraine as a forward
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operating base. They were consistent about it. They said it all the time. This
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is a demand that every major power would have made. The United States invoked the
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Monroe Doctrine to justify military action in the entire Western Hemisphere.
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China demands the same regarding Taiwan. India demands the same thing regarding
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its own borders. Only Russia is told that defending its security is illegitimate. So
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when he was being interviewed, he also brought up civilians in Eastern
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Ukraine shocked by the war, and Putin dismantled that framework immediately.
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Shocked by what, he said. By Russia responding after eight years of shelling
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in the Donbass. By Russia intervening after the Minsk agreements, one and two,
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were both deliberately sabotaged by the West. By Russia stepping in after the
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Ukrainian government banned the Russian language, targeted ethnic Russians, and
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deployed ultranationalist battalions in the Donbass. The West expects everybody
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to forget that Ukraine's own president admitted on camera that he never
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intended to implement Minsk. If you haven't seen that, you should go check
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that out. He was even laughing about it. He goes, we never intended to do that, but
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they signed it anyway. The entire negotiation process was a stall tactic
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according to him, according to Germany, according to France, and they, it was
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used to arm Ukraine for war. Russia remembers this. Lugansk, Donetsk, remember
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this. The West pretends that it didn't happen, though, and Putin explained that
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in his interview. His explanation was not nostalgic. It was
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evidence. Western analysts call it a myth because they either don't understand
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Eastern European history, or they hope their audiences don't. I do. If you've
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ever been over there, I went to Brest. Oh my god, what a place, and watching, you
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know, the fortress there was unbelievable, overrun for hundreds of
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years, and it was quite the history lesson. Well, not that I didn't know most
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of it anyway, but boy, that entire area was run over, including all of Ukraine.
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It's unbelievable and very interesting to see that stuff in reality, you know,
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checking out history as it occurred. Ukraine was never a single unified state,
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never, until the Soviets assembled it, created Ukraine. Pretending it's an
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ancient sovereign nation of its own, threatened by Russian imperialism, is a
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fairy tale, and it's created for Western audiences, not a historic reality. When
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Putin explained where the ancient Rus came from, where the language evolved, how
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the land shifted, and why Ukraine is not a modern, simple victim, but a complicated,
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very complicated, historical region, he was trying to give a context that the
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West refuses to provide, but I do. You know, he did. The most devastating part of
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his interview was not his answer about Ukraine. It was what he said about India.
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He doesn't speak like a man hoping for diplomatic cover. He speaks like a leader
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confident that Russia's future lies not in begging the West for acceptance, but
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in partnering with nations that actually matter. Russia, China, India, all the
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entire global South. He described India's development as colossal, and it is. It is
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unbelievably fast growing right now. He talked about Modi as his friend. He
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talked about energy, defense, nuclear cooperation, industrial growth, all as
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partners, not as patron and client, like the West does. India wants predictability.
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Russia can deliver it, and they have for quite a few years. India wants sovereignty,
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and Russia respects that. India wants multipolarity, and Russia is building it.
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And Trump's state plan acknowledged this. This is why Western pressure campaigns
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have been failing for years. The other, the rest of the world understands
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something fundamental about a new global order. Nations outside the West now are
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thinking for themselves. They aren't taking orders. They don't fear sanctions
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the way they used to. They don't measure morality by what CNN says is moral. They
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measure it by their own self-interests, stability, and sovereignty. And Doha and
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Putin's interview shows and confirms this for everybody. And the Palestinians
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are not the only ones whose tragedy exposes Western hypocrisy. Wait until
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Venezuela. You want to see some hypocrisy, check out Venezuela. Ukraine exposes it.
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Gaza exposes it. Syria, Libya, Yemen, they all expose this. The West talks about a
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rules-based order, but the rest of the world sees a pattern. There are rules for
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everybody else, and loopholes for the West to do what they want. When Qatar's
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foreign minister said on camera that Qatar would not rebuild Gaza because we
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did not destroy it, he wasn't taking a stand. He was pointing out the hypocrisy
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of demanding Russian assets to pay for Ukraine's reconstruction while refusing
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to demand that Israel pay for Gaza's. That's a big deal. That was in the Tucker
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Carlson interview. Tucker caught it instantly. The audience caught it instantly.
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Hillary Clinton and the globalists pretend not to notice this. And what made
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Doha extraordinary was not the content of the speeches, it was the tone just about
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everywhere. It was the way the world responded to American voices versus
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everyone else. When Hillary Clinton spoke, the reaction was respectful but
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distant. When Donald Trump Jr. spoke, the reaction was curious, engaged, and alert.
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And when Tucker spoke, the reaction was electric. And when Putin spoke in India,
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the reaction across the global South was recognition. Not agreement with
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everything, but recognition that the world's center of gravity has changed. I
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wanted to play for you at least the Trump Jr. interview. I think we have
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time for it and to get to all of my stuff. I want to get to my history here
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and see if I can find it. It's only about eight minutes and here let me see if I
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can tee this up correctly because there was a he was introduced and I got to get
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to the spot that I wish to be. Damn it, it's not letting me. There we go. And he
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there were some pretty good moments in here. Let's see where we start. I'm not
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positive where this is starting. Let me see if I can put the the speaking on.
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Let's see. They keep there were two people there and they were talking about
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the Elon Musk hundred and fifty million dollar fine that the EU gave him.
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Meanwhile, in Germany, Frederick Merz has filed five thousand plus charges against
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people who bad-mouthed him on social media. That's freedom of speech, isn't it?
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And they were talking about that a little bit. This whole interview, damn it,
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I don't want this one. I want the one that's only eight minutes long and in
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the history here. I got to go to my history to find it because that one's
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30 minutes but there were several versions of this that came out and I
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can't I can't find it. Let me do a quick search for it while while I babble here
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for a minute. So if you type in Trump Jr. Doha, you get quite a few that come up
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and here's one. Here it is. This is only nine minutes and so I think we're
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gonna get to where he's supposed to be. So let us listen to this and see what we
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come up with. Ukraine corruption is out of control and all of that. I mean he was
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on a roll that is for sure. So let's hear some Donald Trump Jr. in Doha and he
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tore into Zelensky. So listen up here. The last decade but he got there by
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being a builder so he understands how to do that. I do also know though that he
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understands that the American public isn't going to do what they used to do
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for years where we're just going to be the big dumb guy with the checkbook and
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we're going to cover all of the world's problems and no one else has to do their
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part. I think he can be you know the greatest construction manager in the
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history of the world but no one in America wants to bear the entire
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responsibility of that. That's happened for far too long. Everyone has their
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ideas. Everyone wants to do XYZ. When it comes to actually writing a check and
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breaking out their own checkbook, well we're not interested in that. That
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changes things. The American public doesn't have the appetite to fund
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everything for everyone all over the world with no direct benefit to
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themselves. So I think he can be the manager that brings that together but
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everyone's gonna actually have to step up and do their part and not just leave
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it to the United States to cover everything. Omid, do you think that the
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private sector has a role to play when it comes to say the reconstruction of
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Gaza? I'm sure. I mean I think that there will probably be an opportunity for the
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private sector but also there'll be governments that step up and you know to
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help solve this issue. I mean again we're here as business people and our focus is
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mostly in the United States though. I want to focus on Ukraine because of
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course as you say you're both here in the capacity of business leaders but
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you've also been instrumental in shaping the message of the administration. You
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talked about Europeans and Europeans are concerned that Ukraine is going to be
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abandoned. Are those fears valid? I don't think your Ukraine is going to be
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abandoned but I think for years again it was the same thing as the last answer
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which is well we want to attack Russia, we want to do this, we want well when it
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comes to actually writing a check ourselves no no the US is gonna do it.
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The American public doesn't have an appetite for that since the you know since
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the invasion of Ukraine I heard major leaders Mitch McConnell the leader of
33:30
the Senate in the United States saying it's the number one issue for
33:32
Republicans in the United States and I say that's weird I speak to Republicans
33:36
all over the country every day probably far more than Mitch has ever spoken to
33:40
despite his 379 year career in politics. I did that on a weekly weekly basis and
33:46
I surveyed people at every talk I did it got to the point where it's probably well
33:50
over 200,000 Americans that I spoke to directly and I'd be in a room like this
33:55
and I'd ask is Russia Ukraine a top three issue for anyone in the room?
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Nothing. Is it a top ten issue for anyone in the room? I think I got three people
34:08
that once said it was a top ten issue three out of hundreds surveyed if
34:13
hundreds of thousands every weekend for two years till basically through the
34:18
campaign. One person misunderstood the question he thought it was a double
34:21
negative one person was actually from Kiev so he was like it was a big deal
34:26
for him and the other person was you know I think on the board of Raytheon so
34:30
there was no appetite for that but that didn't stop a Republican Party from
34:36
saying it's the number one issue it's not and we actually have to listen to
34:39
the will of those people so we want peace we want to stop the death but I
34:43
even saw that yesterday where you know on this very stage what was the idea for
34:48
Europe who is on the border of Ukraine who has much more at stake if this
34:54
happens well our plan is to win economically when pressed on the issue
34:59
how are you gonna do that well well we're just gonna wait for Russia to go
35:02
bankrupt that's not a plan that's not an idea the gentleman from Spain was a
35:09
lovely guy saw him last night later on at the forum but Spain was putting in
35:13
2.2 percent rather than the 5 percent required by NATO because my father
35:17
actually wanted people who are these biggest stakeholders to get into the
35:21
game well we feel that our 2.2 percent is being utilized more efficiently and
35:26
therefore we're not that's not an answer that's not a solution and again I
35:30
understand why they are there because America has set a precedent for decades
35:35
that they'll just write the check but if the will of the people isn't there
35:39
everyone needs to step up everyone has to do their share and that includes what
35:44
what's happening here in the Middle East if we do that collectively we can
35:47
get to an answer but if we default to the old ways of America's just gonna be
35:50
the big idiot with a checkbook that's not gonna work that's not gonna happen
35:54
and you saw what happened my father starts threatening they're gonna pull
35:57
out we're not gonna do this anymore because he's listening to the people
36:00
that elected him to office big idiot with a checkbook I love that line you
36:06
know you know when he tears apart Ukraine it gets even better so we're
36:10
gonna continue listening to this because I like it the whole world this is
36:15
outrageous it's not outrageous it's common sense when we're bombing drug
36:20
boats in the Caribbean people who are literally bringing in fentanyl to
36:24
America something that kills a hundred thousand Americans a year okay just for
36:29
perspective that's two Vietnam Wars a year in America this I don't like you
36:34
can't justify it this way you still need to have some some sort of due process
36:39
some sort of tribunal something but and so I disagree with his part the neocon
36:45
establishment the Democrats how dare you do this I mean that's a far greater
36:50
clear and present danger to the United States than anything going on in Ukraine
36:53
and Russia it doesn't mean you don't give people some kind of a tribunal and
37:00
yet they're against it think of the insanity of that so my father has a
37:04
common-sense approach to everything that's because rather than being a
37:07
lifelong bureaucrat who's never actually done anything in the real world he has
37:12
and he understands what that means and we have to act accordingly yeah so I
37:16
just want to say one thing on that and going back to the gentlelady that spoke
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yesterday I think she had a Freudian slip at least I hope it was one where
37:22
she talked about what we did to the Russians in Afghanistan that's not a
37:26
great comp by the way okay that's a horrible comp what we were doing we're
37:29
funding a Mujahideen that create radicalization in that country and we
37:33
know what we reaped after that let's just I'm a business person I look at this
37:37
we've spent almost 300 billion dollars over there and now we find out the
37:41
Zelensky's number two is under investigation for corruption where's
37:45
the audit of where any of that money went we should be asking those questions
37:48
we have over 300,000 people dead it doesn't make sense as the United States
37:53
to have enemies it's a lot more than that so he's incorrect on that he's in both
37:59
Russia China and then also at Iran in there so from a strategic standpoint
38:03
again speaking as a private citizen my sense is you should act as a reverse
38:07
Kissinger neutralize the Russians and then focus on the real threat that
38:10
nobody seems to want to talk about except his dad who started the
38:13
conversation that China is the one they need this is Omad Malik is put one of
38:18
his partners to focus on one of the most amazing things I got to witness I was
38:22
this summer with my beautiful girlfriend Bettina in Monaco and we were driving
38:26
around here it comes this is this is a huge takedown on Ukraine and on an
38:33
average day 50% of the supercars the Bugatti's the Ferraris that this all had
38:38
Ukrainian plates do we think that was actually earned in Ukraine I'd been to
38:43
Ukraine 20 years ago it wasn't like there was a plethora of wealth there and
38:47
yet you see the number two they're getting arrested for stealing hundreds
38:50
of millions of dollars you hear all the rumors about what's going on when I see
38:54
every license plate on a supercar in Monaco being Bugatti's the rich fled
38:58
they let what they believed to be the peasant class fight these wars and there
39:03
was no incentive to stop because as long as the money train was coming and they
39:06
were stealing it no one was auditing anything the leaders the decision-makers
39:10
there was no reason for them to ever come to peace no different than Putin it
39:14
wasn't the son of oligarchs that were fighting these wars it's someone from
39:17
Siberia that they're sending there and he utilized the war to rebuild his
39:21
manufacturing base it was very clear that the sanctions that we put on did
39:26
nothing to actually help all it did was jack up the price of oil which allowed
39:30
him to basically pay for the war with the Delta between the two while
39:33
building up his manufacturing base there was no incentive for anyone to ever get
39:37
to the table Zelensky knew he wouldn't win another election again and they
39:40
were continuing to steal Putin was building up his manufacturing base and
39:44
all we had in the wake was millions of young young men dying for nothing I mean
39:49
obviously Ukraine has a massive corruption issue and as you say it was a
39:54
far more corrupt country than Russia as delegated by the United States
39:58
government prior to this war but then because of the war and because he's one
40:02
of the great marketers of all times Zelensky became a borderline deity
40:07
especially to the left where he could do no wrong he was beyond reproach years of
40:12
corruption years of graft and theft on a world stage that everyone in this new
40:16
room knew was happening was totally absolved and and it's ridiculous we're
40:21
not dealing in reality but is your hunch that President Trump is going to
40:25
walk away I think he may what's good about my father what's unique about my
40:30
father is you don't know what he's going to do the fact that he's not predictable
40:35
he's not following the playbook of every clown who's again been a bureaucrat for
40:40
decades you don't know and so that forces everyone to actually deal in an
40:45
intellectually honest capacity which has not happened in far too long I want to
40:51
ask you about Elon Musk because yeah let's not go well you know what though
40:56
it does have something to do with freedom of speech so I will finish this
40:59
out there's only like 20 seconds left let's see if he puts a quick answer in
41:04
there I think it might but I don't want to go too much further I have more to
41:08
cover is of course your company 1789 deeply invested in many of Elon's
41:15
companies I mean speaking of mediation have you guys played a role in we've
41:21
seen the relationship and this video doesn't get to it it's a it's it's
41:25
basically over but I that that showed how Trump sees the future how'd you like
41:36
that part about the corruption in Ukraine how'd you like that part about
41:41
nobody ever knows what my dad's gonna do I love that nobody knows this is why
41:48
Trump's foreign policy is resonating globally Trump isn't promising the world
41:54
freedom he's promising consistency you know I've been skeptical let's call it
42:03
about the old Trumpster for quite a while I've been I've been skeptical Oh on
42:08
international I like most of what he's done nationally I'm not a huge Trump er
42:14
you know I was definitely not a Biden definitely not a Harris you know I
42:19
could never justify either of those morons you know further again and Trump
42:26
like his son said here they're running a they're running trying to run America
42:33
like a business do I agree with everything absolutely not but you know
42:37
this consistency promise you know a lot of the stuff that's come out about
42:42
Modi about Xi Jinping about Putin you know what is there that America does not
42:48
have and it's extremely hard to keep because you change direction every four
42:53
years is consistency is straight beliefs not coming in every four years and
43:00
tearing up not only America but the entire world because you disagree with
43:06
your predecessor it's nonsense and I don't like it that you know the contrast
43:11
between Trump's realism and Hillary's you know nostalgic oh gee let's go back
43:17
to the you know the new world order was it was quite sharp Hillary talk like
43:22
somebody trying to rewind the VCR back to 1995 and Trump jr. talks like somebody
43:30
who knows that beta and VCR VHS snapped years ago all the tapes are destroyed
43:38
Tucker talks like somebody tired of being lied to by his government Putin
43:43
talks like somebody building the next 50 years of global policy and the world is
43:49
reacting the future will not be decided by the European Union the United
43:55
Nations or more importantly the US State Department it'll be decided by energy
44:03
states manufacturing states technology states and civilization states Russia
44:11
China India the Gulf and whichever Western nations wake up first and join
44:19
the new reality instead of resisting it did you remember me telling you about
44:24
the interview I did in Kazan last year and the girl running around with the
44:29
picture of Putin and what I had said at that time and I think it will bear out
44:34
is you know was the BRICS conference and she said if you could ask Putin one
44:39
question what would you ask you know and she may in this Russian TV it's do I
44:44
looked at the picture and I said well you know could we join BRICS America
44:49
join BRICS in 10 years you know could we join you know as are we part of it you
44:55
know we wouldn't let Russia join NATO but could we join BRICS one you know
45:00
working together with people is a hell of a lot different than dictating to
45:05
them it's that's not diplomacy that's dictatorial stuff and the world's tired
45:09
of it Doha made this clear Putin confirmed it the West and Hillary
45:14
Clinton can keep pretending it's the 90s but the rest of the world has moved on
45:19
perhaps the clearest sign that the world has moved on is not in the speeches of
45:27
Doha or even in Putin's interview but in the silence of Zelensky where'd he go
45:35
two years ago any major meeting any forum would have shoved him onto the
45:42
main stage surrounded him with flags and and you know Ukrainian blue and yellow
45:49
everywhere violence tears and then they would have declared that he was the
45:54
spirit of democracy he's resisting tyranny now he didn't even get an
46:00
invitation there was no spotlight and no interest the world is exhausted by
46:07
Ukraine's endless demands by Western governments pretending that this is a war
46:12
between good and evil instead of a geopolitical struggle that was unleashed
46:17
by NATO expansion and then ends the 2014 coup in Ukraine even those who
46:23
still support Ukraine privately admit the war is unwinnable the corruption is
46:29
bottomless and the Western narrative has collapsed under its own contradictions
46:37
Doha and the people there treated Ukraine exactly the way global
46:44
powers treat regional conflict polite indifference and that is what terrifies
46:50
the Western establishment especially the military-industrial complex they know
46:55
that once the emotional manipulation surrounding Ukraine has evaporated all
47:01
that remains is the cold truth Europe has dragged itself into a war that it
47:06
cannot win American money funded a war that we can't explain and Russia walked
47:15
into a war it spent eight years preparing for while the West was busy
47:20
debating pronouns and social media censorship the longer the war goes on
47:28
and the more ground Russia takes which has been quite a bit even over the
47:33
weekend the more obvious this imbalance becomes you know Trump jr. talking about
47:41
all the Bugatti's and all the foreign cars that's true in Miami as well there
47:45
are plenty of Ukrainians running around with Ukrainian license plates that are
47:51
that were funded by our money and they get rich from it and then they leave the
47:56
country that's how it works those are the ones who have been successful and
48:02
they get out they don't want to live in Ukraine that's destroyed they want to
48:06
live elsewhere and show off all the money that they have corruptly lifted
48:12
from the the government of Ukraine while the US government from us basically the
48:21
countries that were in Doha weren't interested in symbolism they're
48:25
interested in results Trump's foreign policy document which I've read offers
48:30
results cut unnecessary war he was a little more silent about Venezuela though
48:37
rebuild American industry restore America's energy dominant dominance and
48:43
negotiate from a position of strength instead of fantasy Trump jr. talked about
48:49
this acknowledged multi polarity stopped pretending Europe defines global morality
48:55
and recognizes that America's decline is not inevitable if America changes course
49:05
Tucker offered results also hypocrisies that have poisoned u.s. credibility for
49:12
decades I agree Qatar offers results negotiate with
49:17
whoever controls reality not whoever writes to press releases which is
49:23
American foreign policy has been for years Russia offers results mutually
49:29
beneficial trade programs military partnerships and energy cooperation
49:35
without interfering in the ideology of the country India offers results its own
49:42
stability its own development in its own vision of the future no longer dependent
49:48
on Western permission to do something you know what one of the biggest iron is
49:55
is is that the only people who didn't offer results are the ones who claim to
50:01
defend the old rules based order why Hillary Clinton was ever on the stage
50:09
I'll never understand I'd play some but it's not worth it but she did talk about
50:14
restoring the world that America used to run but the world she's talking about
50:20
doesn't exist anymore she warned about dictators taking over the planet but the
50:26
crowd listening to her understands perfectly well that the only country
50:31
invading nations for the past 25 years wasn't Russia it was America and she
50:39
warns about disinformation but the same American establishment she represents
50:45
lies about weapons of mass destruction lied about Libya lied about Syria lied
50:52
about Afghanistan lied about NSA surveillance lied about Ukraine
50:57
corruption and lied about Gaza so nobody was impressed by her appearance and all
51:05
these things because she was the architect of at least half of that crap
51:09
and something else in Doha was undeniable Qatar is the new Switzerland
51:13
not the Switzerland of the old world the one that hid bank accounts and avoided
51:18
war but the Switzerland of global mediation neutrality and power remember
51:25
that when it used to be Switzerland the difference Switzerland collapsed under
51:29
Western pressure and abandoned neutrality to please Brussels and Washington Qatar
51:36
has done the opposite despite years of US senators smearing them as terrorism
51:43
sponsors despite relentless Western media propaganda despite Israeli pressure
51:49
Qatar has stood firm and become a diplomatic backbone of the Middle East
51:54
I'd love to have a house there place is awesome they hosted Hamas at the US
51:59
and Israeli requests they brokered ceasefires they facilitated hostage
52:04
releases they mediated energy deals they built some of the Western relationships
52:10
that America relies upon but nobody acknowledges and Tucker's interview was
52:17
actually real if you get a chance you should watch that Qatar wasn't acting as
52:23
an extension of Washington which they were Clinton was trying to force they
52:27
acted as a sovereign power making their own sovereign decisions and the West
52:31
doesn't like that the West only likes mediation when it controls the mediator
52:36
when Qatar proved it can't be controlled to Western to smearing Qatar but Doha
52:42
doesn't care they're wealthy stable and influential there at the center of all
52:48
global energy their center of AI expansion infrastructure finance
52:53
Middle Eastern diplomacy their position between China's Belt and Road initiative
52:59
between Russia's energy network and India's manufacturing rise they're also
53:06
involved in if Africa's emerging consumer markets that's why Doha is so different
53:13
they don't have arrogance maybe a little but they have they're very confident
53:18
what you see in Doha was the emergence of a political culture that does not
53:24
depend on Western approval that's why this is terrifying to the West for
53:31
decades Western governments could destroy careers topple governments
53:37
silence dissent through narrative alone that era we hope is over it appears to
53:47
be on an international stage but at home they're still doing it when the
53:50
Gulf Russia India and China now speak the West cannot censor them when Qatar
53:57
broadcasts all of its interviews the West can't shadow ban them can't put
54:02
them at the back can't tell you to don't run them when Tucker speaks from Doha
54:07
instead of from Fox News the West cannot fire him they can't get rid of them the
54:13
American media establishment is no longer the gatekeeper of the truth what
54:20
they claim is the truth Doha demonstrated that the West lost
54:24
something far more important than geopolitical dominance it lost the
54:29
narrative think about that narrative dominance is what held the unipolar
54:35
world together the you know globalism held it together by narrative the idea
54:42
that the West decides who the villains are who the heroes are who gets so
54:49
called democracy and who gets sanctions who gets invaded who gets lectured who
54:56
gets weapons who gets starvations all of that has evaporated you know basically
55:03
since the Trump foreign policy document you know this past weekend in that crazy
55:10
the people in Doha didn't weren't asking for permission they didn't defer
55:14
they didn't they didn't flatter they spoke like equals because that's what
55:19
they are and Russia India relations excuse me relationship has sealed this
55:26
reality Putin's interview was showing a leader that understands his own
55:31
country's interests and understands the trajectory of global power he wasn't
55:36
begging India for support he acknowledged India's rise as a pillar of
55:42
global stability he didn't lecture India about democracy he praised its
55:47
development he doesn't treat India like a colony he treats it like a partner
55:53
think about that because that's a big difference the West's relationship with
55:59
India is transactional and conditional but real lush but Russia's
56:06
relationship with them is strategic powerful and respectful when Putin
56:13
called India's growth colossal he was describing a geopolitical fact it is a
56:19
fact India is one of the only countries in the world capable of matching China's
56:25
demographic size Russia's natural resources and America's technological
56:32
potential India is not a client state India is not a junior partner India is
56:40
not a pawn in someone else's game they are now and we helped create it by the
56:47
way a civilizational power set on its own course and that is exactly why the
56:55
West is struggling with its rise it's absolutely true the West expects
57:01
loyalty to globalism from India Russia offers partnership the West expects
57:08
ideological alignment Russia offers cooperation the West expects and the
57:15
India to choose sides yeah remember this you got to choose a side you got to pick
57:20
a side Russia Ukraine Russia Ukraine Russia offers India the chance to avoid
57:25
choosing sides entirely and India understands that Russia's view of the
57:29
world aligns far more closely with its own historical experience colonialism
57:37
taught India that Western moralizing is often a mask worn to allow exploitation
57:47
neocolonialism taught India that Western promotion of democracy often leads to
57:55
chaos the global financial system taught India that Western control over its
58:03
capital is a weapon Russia doesn't carry any of that think about that
58:10
another revelation from Putin's interview is how confidently he
58:14
dismissed accusations thrown at him for years he didn't behave like a defensive
58:19
leader overwhelmed by pressure he behaves like a man whose country has
58:25
weathered every sanction every diplomatic assault every propaganda
58:29
blitz and it came out stronger Russia has not collapsed Russia isn't begging
58:35
Russia didn't compromise Russia has redirected its trade rebuilt its
58:41
manufacturing base you heard Trump jr. talking about that expanded its military
58:47
production deepened its own alliances meanwhile what's happened in Europe
58:52
Europe froze inflation has soared industries are gone and American
58:59
political leadership in Europe has disintegrated this is why Putin's tone
59:05
in the India interview matters he was sounded like a man speaking from a
59:10
while watching a dominant Western order unravel he isn't angry he isn't flustered
59:21
he isn't evasive he was patient and the patience is shows confidence that a
59:28
secure country secure in its future projects and that future is not a
59:35
Western dominated future it's a multipolar world order and Doha confirms
59:44
it Putin articulated it the West fears it and the rest of the world is embracing
59:52
it what Doha and the India interview revealed is that the world is finally
1:00:03
confident enough to say openly what it has been whispering privately for years
1:00:10
the Western model globalism is no longer universal no longer persuasive and most
1:00:20
importantly no longer feared countries are making decisions of their own not
1:00:27
based on Washington's approval but based on their own strategic interest economic
1:00:33
benefit their own cultural identity and most importantly they are forming
1:00:40
relationships with each other without mediation from the United States this is
1:00:45
what the West has never expected they assume that once American prestige
1:00:50
collapses the world would fall into chaos instead the world is reorganizing
1:00:57
itself peacefully pragmatically and without the West at the center I think
1:01:03
that's important to recognize you know when I when I apply all these things that
1:01:09
I researched over the weekend when I take a look at all of the horror story of
1:01:19
Ukraine and the haves and the have-nots all the people and on the stage Trump
1:01:30
jr.'s partner I forget his name Malik I think he said that there were 300,000
1:01:38
dead it's a million 300,000 closer to that on the Ukrainian side alone they
1:01:45
you know it's a some of the numbers are still being twisted just a little bit I
1:01:52
think they were prepared for this or uninformed about a couple of primary
1:01:57
factors but I tell you what it was some interesting conversation it was you know
1:02:04
Trump's foreign policy doctrine you know actually fits into this new world in a
1:02:13
way that no Mitch McConnell no Lindsey Graham no establishment politician like
1:02:21
Hillary Clinton can explain Trump doesn't believe America has the divine
1:02:26
right to police the globe at least I didn't catch it I mean you should read
1:02:31
this documents like 30 pages it's not really all that long and it's on the
1:02:37
president's website you can pull down the new internet the foreign policy
1:02:43
document security document but he doesn't believe the State Department is
1:02:49
the priesthood of international morality he doesn't believe that the Pentagon's
1:02:55
job is to fight wars everywhere except America he doesn't believe that
1:03:00
lecturing sovereign nations produces peace it seems from reading his doctrine
1:03:07
his policy that it's pretty simple America should be strong wealthy
1:03:13
sovereign and respected not feared not resented not overextended God I hope
1:03:22
this this actually works his document when I read it I mean if you listen to
1:03:26
me regularly you know what I think about Trump's international policy ends there
1:03:34
was an interview with another guy that said do you think he's gonna he's gonna
1:03:40
abandon Ukraine and there's 400 million still in the budget I saw a report this
1:03:46
morning in the new Pentagon budget there's still 400 million in there for
1:03:51
for Ukraine which I think is BS but it's still there and I've said forever if he
1:03:57
cut off the intelligence and cut off the funding and left it to Europe if they
1:04:02
want to let them do it I think we're headed that way I really do because his
1:04:08
foreign policy document said that it's strategically important quite important
1:04:14
to work with Russia Trump jr. talked with a you know clarity you tell me he
1:04:20
ain't involved with his father you know he is he is you know his father often
1:04:27
buries you know logic and bluster you know what I mean he's always attacking
1:04:33
somebody but his son is a lot more direct and he said America has a narrow
1:04:38
window to reset its approach to the world not by force but by strategy he
1:04:44
himself said that energy industry technology will define the next 50 years
1:04:49
now where do you think he got that that's what bricks has been saying bricks
1:04:55
has been saying this in their conferences he's you know Trump jr. also
1:05:00
said that nations with cheap energy and strong industrial bases will dominate the
1:05:05
AI era which is upon us he said that America has to rebuild what it allowed
1:05:11
to be outsourced to India and China and dismantled and Mexico too by the way the
1:05:17
you know all of the Gulf everybody at I really wish I could have been in Doha
1:05:22
for this it would have been fantastic and the Gulf understands this because
1:05:26
they're sitting on energy resources that are powering the AI revolution Russia
1:05:32
understands this because it's the only it is one of the only countries with the
1:05:38
resources and the scientific base to compete on the world stage remember me
1:05:44
going through several weeks ago the number of engineers that come from
1:05:47
Russian schools versus American the number that come from India and China
1:05:52
all these engineering engineering is the wave of the future in America hasn't
1:05:57
done anything to encourage it India understands all of this because India has
1:06:05
been positioning itself as the world's next manufacturing and technological
1:06:11
superpower they might even and they have the ability to go against not against
1:06:17
but to compete with China and because of the number of people India is the
1:06:22
largest country in the world 1.48 billion compared to China's 1.44 billion or
1:06:28
something like that and so and they're both growing they aren't shrinking like
1:06:34
the rest of the world where birth rates are down America under Trump is you know
1:06:40
at least his document that he put out shows that we could work with those
1:06:44
nations mutually realistically respectfully I think India and China
1:06:50
standing up to Trump and saying not so fast ghostwriter we are gonna do it we
1:06:56
think is best for us you know that's not America under Biden or Clinton you know
1:07:02
let's he has to treat these nations not as children needing supervision but as
1:07:07
equals that difference in Trump defines almost everything the West cannot
1:07:15
understand why the global South gravitates toward leaders like Trump or
1:07:21
Putin or Modi instead of the intellectuals of the Atlantic Council
1:07:26
instead of the Hillary Clinton's of the world the answer is simple because the
1:07:32
polished intellectual lecturers destroyed more than half of the world
1:07:40
pragmatic nationalists have built their own Hillary Clinton and Doha was
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symbolic like a ghost from the past from the unipolar era that's been trying to
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haunt a room that no longer believes in ghosts she warned about dictators but the
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audience saw instability created by quote democracy she warned about Russian
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aggression but the audience knows who ruined Iraq and Libya and Afghanistan
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she warned about disinformation but the audience has watched Western media
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manipulate every global conflict for more than 30 years she warned that Trump
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would weaken America that was funny but the audience knows America is
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collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions and by the way collapsing
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I mean as a world dominated dumb as dominating the world okay and I think
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that Trump's foreign policy was the first acknowledgement that we need to
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start working as partners you know there excuse me Hillary Clinton was
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speaking in a language the world no longer uses excuse me the rest of the
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world has simply moved on Tucker's interview with Qatar's foreign minister
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demonstrated the new communication dynamic in a multipolar age Tucker
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Carlson is doing some extremely important things friends and neighbors
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excuse me instead of sanitized press conferences you get a blunt American
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journalist asking direct questions of a sovereign Gulf leader it's a great
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interview should listen to it it's on the internet instead of evasive
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diplomatic answers you had transparent response that contradict years of
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Western political messaging it's crazy Russia India's relationship with Putin's
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interview changed a lot of stuff Putin emphasized that Russia's energy
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relationship with India has nothing to do with Ukraine why are we discussing
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Ukraine when I have an energy relationship with India it predates this
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conflict by decades decades Russia has been working with India Russian
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companies have invested heavily in India's refining infrastructure India
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refines Russian oil and has been for a long time and exported the products to
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Europe ironically it makes Europe more dependent on Russian hydrocarbon even
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while pretending to impose sanctions Putin discussed this without gloating he
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didn't need to the absurdity of Western sanctions speaks for itself I've been
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saying that anybody who knows anything's been saying that for a long
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time nuclear cooperation has been going on for decades new agreements are
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already in in motion this is a big red flag for the West because nuclear
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partnerships create long-term alignment at least they have a 60-year contract
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60 years crazy stuff for decades the West has relied on its ability to define
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reality for the rest of the world it didn't matter what actually happened in
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Iraq Libya Syria Serbia Ukraine World Trade Center what mattered was what CNN
1:11:29
in Fox News said happened what the BBC reported what the New York Times printed
1:11:37
and what the State Department declared untruthfully the West controlled that
1:11:43
framework controlled the language controlled the morality if the West
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called somebody a dictator he was one if the West called a group of freedom
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fighters they were heroes if the West called the war humanitarian bombs are
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irrelevant right that era ended the moment the rest of the world has gained
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enough economic and media independence to speak for itself frankly I think it
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started around the time of kovat I think that was kind of a reset of
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everything it localized many many things and it didn't mean you know the
1:12:30
only place you could get news was from from certain sources in the West there's
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competition everywhere I love watching Indian TV there they're pretty blunt and
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I like watching Russian TV stuff from Al Jazeera that people think oh geez are a
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bunch of Muslims and that doesn't mean they're not saying things that are true
1:12:54
they aren't trying to dictate anything to you they're just talking about the
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the world as they see it and that's important Doha proved that the West no
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longer owns the global microphone and they don't Russia has a media network I
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told you about RT going into India and the huge outlay of funds there China has
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its own networks India has its own the Gulf funds world-class broadcasters that
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don't talk none of them talk in any of these places like a Washington parrot
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you know weapons mass destruction everyone is all you ever heard right
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African nations communicate with each other directly Latin America even has
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alternatives once narrative and that's one of the biggest things in Trump's
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foreign policy document he is saying that we need to focus on the Western
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hemisphere and quit doing stuff all over the world he's that's why South America
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is important to him but I still think he needs to do it more as partnerships
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instead of this forcing what's going on he's creating a new war closer to home I
1:14:10
think he's doing it for the benefit of the Mitch McConnell's of the world you
1:14:15
know those those morons need to be kicked out so once the narrative
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monopoly has disappeared which it almost has Western credibility evaporated
1:14:28
right with it because everybody knows that the West lied for years the truth
1:14:35
was simple the West's power has never been based on economics or military
1:14:41
strength it's based on the mythology of those two things when the mythology
1:14:46
broke so did the Empire this is why Hillary Clinton sounded so hollow and
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old in Doha she came with the old script the same old American spirit script
1:15:03
America leads everybody else has to follow but the room wasn't following the
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room listen to her the way one listens to an elder relative repeat stories from
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decades ago me and my army stories you know you can decades ago my important
1:15:24
contributions to the world happened in the 90s and Hillary it's the same thing
1:15:29
Hillary talked about the need for America to be more assertive in Ukraine
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nobody cares about that the audience understood that assertive means more
1:15:39
weapons more escalation more instability not less she talked about Putin like it
1:15:45
was still 2015 in the West believed its own propaganda she talked about
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defending democracy as if Ukraine was a democracy and as if the United States
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hasn't spent the past 25 years destroying nations in the name of democracy nobody
1:16:06
believed her you know you go listen to her you know in contrast every time
1:16:10
Tucker Carlson opened his mouth everybody was listening not because he's
1:16:15
beloved but because he was saying things that diplomats and journalists are
1:16:19
too cowardly to say he exposed the contradiction at the heart of Western
1:16:25
policies nations are punished not for what they do but for whom they refuse to
1:16:31
obey isn't that terrible he asked questions Western journalists refused to
1:16:37
ask because he answered would collapse the carefully curated moral hierarchy
1:16:44
that justifies constant intervention Qatar's foreign minister responded
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without fear because Qatar understands something crucial as well this is
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important the West needs Qatar far more than Qatar needs the West think about
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that Qatar is not alone Saudi Arabia has moved on the UAE has moved on Egypt and
1:17:13
Turkey have moved on Iran never cared in the first place India has moved on and
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China has never played the game Africa is moving on at lightning speed getting
1:17:24
rid of everyone South America is pushing American influence out of its own
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politics the unipolar world is a relic and the only people that haven't accepted
1:17:36
it are the West's political military industrial complex
1:17:43
class and they just haven't processed this loss including the old Hillary
1:17:52
Clinton you know it's crazy Western politicians desperate to maintain the
1:17:59
narrative insist also that Russia's concerns in Ukraine are illegitimate
1:18:05
irrational or imperialistic nobody buys that the global South doesn't buy that
1:18:11
the only people who believe it are the ones who built their careers on
1:18:15
pretending that NATO expansion was a harmless act of goodwill instead of a
1:18:21
geopolitical strategy of containment it's crazy Doha revealed this
1:18:26
contradiction in real time while Hillary was talking about defending democracy the
1:18:32
Gulf is thinking about energy corridors security packs economic
1:18:37
diversification AI investment and multipolar balance CNN is still
1:18:43
pretending that American leadership in these fields is indispensable but Qatar
1:18:48
demonstrated that American leadership is often irrelevant Western politicians
1:18:54
still imagine themselves as referees of global morality and the rest of the
1:18:59
world is forming partnerships based on results and economics not rhetoric this
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is the core truth of the new world results infrastructure not values not
1:19:15
speeches not slogans not think-tank fantasies but results and Trump's policy
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document really does focus on results and Trump jr. his message in Doha also
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focused on results Tucker's interview expressed and exposed the lack of
1:19:39
results in Western policies Trump jr. talking about the corruption and claim
1:19:46
in cut in Ukraine as a fact was important and Putin's interview outlined
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Russia's results despite sanctions alleged isolation and pushing war to its
1:20:02
doorstop India's response shows that nations respect results not narrative
1:20:09
and Doha has exposed the West's Achilles heel it no longer delivers results the
1:20:17
West delivers stories like Hillary's and the world is tired of those stories so
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this is why Trump's foreign policy vision resonates with me and globally
1:20:30
you should read it if you haven't it's not because Trump is universally
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admired it's because Trump is a little more predictable he's transactional and
1:20:40
he's uninterested in ideological crusades mostly I still think what
1:20:46
they're doing in Venezuela he needs to back off of that too but most nations
1:20:52
most leaders prefer truth reality the world doesn't want America as a
1:20:57
preacher it wants America as a negotiator that's what we want Russia
1:21:03
wants stability India wants stability Gulf Africa China all want stability the
1:21:10
only block that seems to thrive on instability is the one that claims to be
1:21:15
defending global order NATO and company yep Putin's final message in his
1:21:24
interview in India wasn't spoken explicitly but it was unmistakable what
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he said Russia's gonna survive Russia will adapt Russia's gonna win where it
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has to win and Russia will build alliances with those who choose
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sovereignty over submission India chose sovereignty Qatar chose sovereignty much
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of the world is choosing its own sovereignty and the more nations that
1:21:50
choose sovereignty the weaker the Western narrative becomes the world
1:21:56
isn't collapsing don't don't be scared over this it's reorganizing and nations
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doing the reorganizing are not in Brussels or Washington they're in Moscow
1:22:07
Delhi Doha Riyadh Abu Dhabi Beijing Pretoria and Brasilia the future belongs
1:22:16
to energy producers infrastructure and manufacturing giants technological
1:22:23
innovators and some civilizational states not those who think moral
1:22:29
lectures about LGBTQ plus plus add some more they don't these moral lectures
1:22:39
don't replace competence Doha Trump's doctrine Putin's interview and India's
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reception of Putin all tell the same story the global center of gravity has
1:22:52
moved on those who accept it are gonna thrive those who deny it are gonna fade
1:23:00
and nothing captures this shift more clearly than the contrast between how
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the West discusses Russia and how India the Gulf and Asia actually view Russia
1:23:14
in the West Russia's portrayed as a declining isolated unpredictable
1:23:20
aggressor clinging to past Soviet glory but in the real world the world that
1:23:26
buys energy builds infrastructure and invests in future industry Russia's
1:23:32
views a stable necessary resource-rich power that has proven resilient under
1:23:39
pressure capable of long-term planning unlike the West we don't plan long-term
1:23:46
because we change direction every four years Western politicians despise Putin
1:23:52
because of this but they cannot change the simple fact that Russia is
1:23:57
indispensable to global energy global security and global balance so when Putin
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speak nations listen not only because they admire him personally but because
1:24:09
they recognize that Russia's strategic interests are clear are consistent and
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based on principles that they themselves understand sovereignty security stability
1:24:20
non-interference and respect for civilizational identity but when
1:24:26
Russian the Western sorry leaders speak nations here a demand for alignment join
1:24:34
us be like us join our definition of democracy they don't hear a proposal for
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cooperation they hear conditions not partnerships they hear warnings not
1:24:47
opportunities and the difference is profound that difference is why the West
1:24:53
has lost influence over the global South the global South is no longer afraid of
1:25:00
Western disapproval they have options they no longer depend on Western
1:25:04
financial institution they have options they no longer rely on Western security
1:25:10
guarantees they have options they no longer trust Western narratives because
1:25:16
they do have options they no longer accept how the West defines their
1:25:22
legitimacy they're creating their own definition they're aligning with
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geographic realities culture economies and history not with the fantasies put
1:25:36
out by Washington think tanks Trump's doctrine if you read it is more
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compatible with this new world than anything produced by Biden Clinton you
1:25:49
know anyone like that Trump is not promising to reshape the world as
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America he's promising to reshape America into a nation capable of
1:25:58
competing in the world that actually exists I liked it it was a good document
1:26:04
this is why Trump's foreign policy approach stripped of the media hysteria
1:26:08
is deeply pragmatic he doesn't want America to dominate through ideology he
1:26:14
wants America to succeed through strength nations respect strength they
1:26:20
recoil and dislike moral arrogance what we saw in Doha and what Putin articulated
1:26:29
from India is that the future belongs to nations that understand themselves Russia
1:26:35
understands itself India understands itself Qatar China Saudi Arabia UAE
1:26:43
understand themselves more clearly today than they did a decade ago but the US
1:26:49
and the Europe seem confused about who they are they swing between moral
1:26:55
crusades and political chaos between interventionism and isolation between
1:27:02
preaching democracy and eroding their own domestic institution this confusion
1:27:12
makes the West unpredictable in the very worst way not unpredictable like a
1:27:18
rising power challenging the status quo unpredictable like a declining Empire
1:27:23
lashing out in frustration the no world no longer adjusts itself around
1:27:29
instability it works around it the workarounds are amazing the brilliance
1:27:36
of Doha 2025 wasn't that it produced new treaties grand speeches it was that it
1:27:42
exposed for anyone willing to see it how the world has changed a decade ago the
1:27:48
US could have forced Qatar to deny Tucker's revelations or pressure Doha to
1:27:54
exclude Trump aligned speakers today it cannot a decade ago Hillary Clinton
1:27:59
could have lectured the Gulf and expected applause today she got polite silence a
1:28:05
decade ago the West could have pressured India to distance itself from Russia
1:28:10
today India responds by doubling down on further cooperation with Russia the
1:28:18
world is not anti-american the world is anti-imperial the world is anti
1:28:24
hypocrisy the world is anti-lecture the world wants partnerships not patrons and
1:28:31
Trump's foreign policy doctrine intentional or not fits the global
1:28:36
preference the unipolar world is over the multipolar world has begun nations
1:28:43
prepared to accept this are going to lead the 21st century Russia is prepared
1:28:49
India is prepared the Gulf is prepared much of the world is prepared the future
1:28:56
isn't ideological it's civilizational depends on infrastructure in closing
1:29:04
one thing is absolutely certain the world will not go backward not after
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Doha not after Putin in India not after everything the West has revealed about
1:29:15
itself in Ukraine and Gaza the global order has changed permanently and the
1:29:22
truth tastes better when you stop pretending otherwise and here on
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