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The War Nobody Wants: Ukraine, Russia, Drones & Western Media Narratives · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  internationalflavor.com.
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  And every once in a while we get a
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  little bit uh
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  I don't know, a little bit pushy with
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  the powers that be and we get on Civic
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  Outlaws every Friday and we uh I don't
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  know, we throw out some good words about
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  some uh people that I think might not
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  necessarily be good people. That's
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  probably a bad thing to say, but uh
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  power grabbing. You got to grab that
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  power. When you need your power, by God,
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  you better take it because you're not
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  going to get a chance twice. Need that
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  power. So,
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  big in the news. And uh I haven't been
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  able to get the uh the full meeting uh
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  transcript for you which I would uh like
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  to do but uh Mr. Putin he met with a
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  bunch of soldiers. So there is a bunch
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  of things going on about the uh
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  the war in Ukraine. Uh it is
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  it is people don't uh people are getting
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  frustrated by it. So there's been a
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  change over the last couple of months if
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  you haven't been paying attention. We're
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  back in the world to uh to well the the
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  proper stuff the the YouTube friendly
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  variety in the uh the western media love
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  uh variety would say that Russia is
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  losing now based on the stuff that you
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  know Russia's been winning for a long
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  time if you you know it's a it's a long
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  and slow slog and some people disagree
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  with that with how the war is being uh
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  prosecuted, I suppose, would be a good
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  word to say it, by the uh the Putin
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  side. Uh but you have Zalinski cruising
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  the planet sending out uh threat letters
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  and uh s surrender now letters and you
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  have Macron and uh Mer and Starmer
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  getting together in with with the Green
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  Goblin and talking about um
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  we're with you till the end. We have uh
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  the Trumpster over the weekend on his
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  his birthday, I suppose. Um um um he got
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  a call. Well, I know he got a call from
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  Vladimir Vladimir to wish him happy
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  birthday, and he took
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  40 uh 55 minutes out of his uh
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  out of his
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  busy birthday to meet with
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  um
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  to meet with
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  Well, that's not right. That that is no
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  way correct, you bunch of a-holes. Okay.
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  Um,
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  sorry. I got something being done and I
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  was checking on it and I'm interrupted.
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  But 55 minutes out of your day by the
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  old uh
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  uh Trumpster is a good deal. So 55
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  minutes they talked and allegedly the
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  content had a lot to do with uh Iran and
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  Ukraine and uh Ukraine
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  uh you know that's just empty talk. You
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  know there's and at the end of it
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  allegedly the geniuses that are going
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  over to settle this conflict. Who are
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  they? Kushner and Witkoff. Okay. They
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  haven't done crap so far. And uh I don't
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  I think they'd be much better off in a
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  uh
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  a deal for the United States. Why don't
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  they work on this? How about this? This
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  This is where they would shine.
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  Interstellar variety shining for these
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  two. If you put them to work getting rid
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  of
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  excess government lease property or
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  government property subject to lease
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  that they can't get rid of because the
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  idiotic rules in the government for
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  buildings that you are paying for
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  anyway. And so, you know, if you were in
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  your personal life, your person, you
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  just declare bankruptcy and move on. Um,
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  the United States can't declare
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  bankruptcy. Well, they can. They
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  probably should. You wouldn't surprise
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  me from the drumster. Go, sorry,
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  America's bankrupt. Put this in front of
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  a judge and have a judge decide what
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  gets paid and what doesn't. Uh, because
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  that's what it happened in the
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  bankruptcy code. And I wonder which
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  state the United States would pick. So,
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  if you know anything about bankruptcy
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  law at all and in and any basically
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  federal type of law like IRS law,
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  bankruptcy law, pick stuff that would
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  would Now, bankruptcy might not
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  necessarily fit the clean variety of
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  everybody else's, but uh I mean of being
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  national, but it's a national rule.
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  Okay? The US allows bankruptcy. a
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  certain state can't go, nope, you don't
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  get to go bankrupt because bankruptcy
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  exists. But what a state can do and does
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  is it has its own bankruptcy
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  limits. So the inside of a federal law,
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  when you create a federal law, you have
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  a little carveout section where they
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  don't finish or they leave it vague and
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  then the states can come in and
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  interpret that portion of the law for
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  themselves. And one of it has to do with
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  exemptions and whatnot where you can uh
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  uh what you get to keep like and I don't
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  know the rules today but years ago when
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  I was practicing law you could have for
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  example in Missouri $15,000
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  in equity in a home. Uh $3,000 equity in
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  a car. If you file bankruptcy, you want
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  to do it in Texas or a state like that.
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  you basically get to keep everything and
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  you walk away from all your debt, right?
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  And uh I went to law school in Texas.
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  And it was pretty funny because there's
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  a chunk on the bar exam having to do
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  specifically with bankruptcy because
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  everybody runs to Texas to do their
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  bankruptcies. And uh so anyway, on a
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  bigger picture, maybe the United States,
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  Donald Trump could run to Dallas uh get
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  a you know, I could point him to a
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  friend of mine does bankruptcy down
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  there and uh uh he could, you know, do
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  bankruptcy for the United States of
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  America and wipe out that 39 pushing 40
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  trillion
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  in debt that uh you know, we only have
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  one trillionaire on the planet. it.
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  Then we have one detor on the planet
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  with 40 times as much debt as Elon Musk
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  has income in a year. Now that is
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  depressing.
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  What a country we live in. Isn't that
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  great? Anyway, uh on the other side of
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  the planet is a country called Russia,
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  mother Russia. And it's led by Vladimir
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  Vladimir Putin. and Vladimir Vladimir
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  gave a speech. Um they had a meeting
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  with soldiers and uh the reason I bring
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  it up to you is because we we started my
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  my uh sort of rolling conversation with
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  the fact that
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  that
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  the impression that people are trying to
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  give over here in the west is that
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  somehow Russia is losing this war. Uh
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  admittedly on my part and starting to be
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  on the part of the pundits on the
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  Russian side of the planet is the fact
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  that the continual and uh aerial
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  bombardment of Russia
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  isn't all that popular in Russia. Now,
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  you're far more likely, you know,
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  yesterday, uh, the old Green Goblin
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  posted a, uh, he had new poll data from
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  Russia that said that Putin's, uh,
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  popularity rating has dipped. It's gone
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  from like 84 85%.
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  Down to 65 to 70%.
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  you know, and he's parading this uh this
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  around like, you know, it's his victory
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  that it's working. We got him. You know,
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  he's it it's working. Well, I haven't
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  been there recently. Still waiting on my
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  passport. Russian consulate. Please send
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  it. I need to go to Russia and and get a
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  temperature gauge and gauge the people's
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  uh
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  gauge the people's uh
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  Putin love level, which I I I I tend to
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  do when I go over there. And uh I'd
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  really like to go to some of the places
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  that are getting attacked by these uh by
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  these u drones. So drone warfare has
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  become uh what what we do. I mean the US
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  Navy uh the US Army we are really
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  disadvantaged today. The playing field
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  is leveling for Iran to strategically
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  defeat the United States or hold them at
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  bay for as long as they have is a a
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  couple of testaments to two things. And
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  the first one is people are tired of
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  war. And people don't like it. Americans
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  don't like it. I don't think Trump is as
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  popular as he was. He's certainly not
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  with me with some of the things that he
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  is doing, which I disagree with uh on
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  have a big old something just crashed
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  outside. Maybe you know how you hear
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  that uh screech and then you don't get
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  that satisfying crunch at the end when
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  you hear all these breaks and then you
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  don't hear the boom at the end. You get
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  all depressed. Uh well, we heard the
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  boom and today we got the boom and so we
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  have it. Anyway, the the the fact is is
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  that um
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  drone warfare is a fact these days. And
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  point number two, cuz I said point
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  number one was the fact that people hate
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  war. And point number two is everybody
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  can play a video game. and war has
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  turned into a video game and they're
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  regularizing it. Next thing you know,
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  somebody's going to get one of those
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  robot style great big uh instead of a
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  tank, you got a big robot that runs
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  around and shreds thing like uh a
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  transformer, you know, one of them kid
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  toys. He gets to turn into a u a
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  robot, a war robot to to that you can
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  lead around. You know, Elon Musk could
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  build one. I'm sure they got ideas to
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  build one and just go in and uh and
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  destroy and tear things down and uh uh
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  rip them up. And so war has become far
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  more abstract. and uh you know the
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  people losing their lives on the front
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  line. The old Green Goblin absolutely
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  does not want to uh
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  broadcast
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  that fact, you know, that he can't fill
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  the front lines. I watched uh uh 60
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  Minutes Russia uh well listened to it
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  whilst driving uh a long distance this
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  past weekend and uh uh I listened to 60
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  Minutes and they were uh interviewing
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  some some people on the front lines
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  and talking to him about it and there
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  were horrible stories about this
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  bification and they showed repeatedly ly
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  uh video after video after video of
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  these guys. There was a guy they picked
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  up and in and his and they were
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  interviewing him in the backseat of his
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  wife's of of the car that took him. They
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  broke the window and opened the door on
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  the car that he was in and hauled him
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  out and put him and he was laying in the
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  back seat of his car and they took him
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  out, beat the snot out of him. He had
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  just come out of the hospital for God's
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  sake and is I mean he was out of the
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  hospital. Whatever he was doing in
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  there, he was half naked right when he
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  came out of the hospital. He's he's he's
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  clearly groggy and they're dragging him
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  out of the car and put him in the back
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  of another car and and they four four
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  busification officers beat the snot out
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  of him. I I don't mean to laugh about
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  this. This is freaking sad. and threw
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  him in the back of this car. And then
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  his wife is videoing in the car when
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  they're there pushing her away and they
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  get you. But there's the car, broken
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  window. You know, these guys are beating
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  the snot and they're four healthy young
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  men throwing this middle-aged dude who
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  just got out of the hospital in the back
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  of a car and taking him to the
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  busification center. This is what's
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  going on. And these are not AI generated
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  videos. Okay? And there's uh uh uh these
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  videos they are frightening. They are uh
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  the only way you can travel anymore. And
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  people are starting to take uh to take
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  action against them. Like bands of
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  people. You can't go anywhere without
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  taking a band of people. If you're a
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  solitary man walking down the street,
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  you better watch out. You're going to
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  get some boostification right now. and
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  uh time of day doesn't matter. They are
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  very very short and um but nobody's
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  focusing on these things. They're all
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  focusing on the fact that uh Zalinski is
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  not talking about this. No way. What
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  Zilinski is talking about is the defeat
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  that he has put upon Russia. Now these
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  that is a complete lie. But the fact
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  that everything is done without people
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  anymore and he doesn't need people. All
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  he needs is more money and he can kill
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  the people on the front lines. Russia uh
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  took over uh what's the name of the
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  city? There's a couple there like
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  Kromaturk is right there. They're
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  getting ready to take over Kromaturk,
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  which is a big uh I think metallurgy and
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  stuff like that in Kromaturk and they've
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  got these big factories over there and
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  uh they are putting in and Ukraine
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  meanwhile is pulling people out of these
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  areas in the in the western Dawnbass
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  which there's nothing left and Russia's
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  almost done to the end. it's like down
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  to 10% or something of what is left of
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  on the Ukrainian side that they're
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  fighting for. And some of these big
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  cities uh that are being fought for um
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  are really
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  the final front line as it were for
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  these people and for Ukraine I mean in
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  order to keep it and they're going to
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  lose. They are losing. It's um
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  it's
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  truly sad uh what is going on in Ukraine
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  and worse still is the advertising that
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  goes on on this side of the planet about
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  how you know how wonderful things are
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  going in Ukraine cuz they are not
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  wonderful and it's
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  the people are sick of war, but they're
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  sick of war in Iran. They're sick of war
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  in Ukraine. And uh the G7 meeting is
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  supposed to be going on here. Is it
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  today? I'm pretty sure it's today. It's
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  probably already been going on because
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  we're 7 8 hours behind them. And uh so
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  Geneva ahead of the summit, the police
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  were, you know, they're demonstrators in
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  Switzerland big time. Riot police in
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  Geneva were with uh clashing with
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  protesters uh yesterday. Uh there's a
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  group of seven summit that's going to
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  happen in France and uh the violence
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  disrupted a no G7 demonstration that
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  drew thousands of people. Uh Geneva is
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  about 30 kilometers from a French resort
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  town on Lake Geneva where the G7 summit
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  is scheduled to take place Monday
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  through Wednesday and Trump is supposed
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  to attend. The Swiss authorities closed
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  25 of 35 border crossings citing
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  security. They don't want people to go
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  over there and protest. Say close a
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  border. Around 60 organizations
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  representing causes including feminist
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  groups, trade unions, supporters of
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  Palestine, Kurdish statehood uh took
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  part in the Geneva March. Organizers
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  said 20,000 people attended and a crowd
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  of 7,000 was at the start. and violence,
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  you know, did come up. The police were
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  there with the big hoses. You know,
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  there was windows of a bank that were
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  knocked out. A Tesla car was burned out.
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  Um, but it wasn't clear if it was
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  deliberate or not, but it caught fire.
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  Um, Elon Musk, the co-owner and CEO of
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  Tesla, is the world's first trillionaire
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  after SpaceX raised 75 billion. And I
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  Well, if you're that close, I guess it
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  really doesn't matter. What's another 75
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  billion? I mean, come on.
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  It's among friends. How how about
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  throwing us a billion, you know, toss me
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  a billion and you'll be happy you did
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  it. You know, that's that's what I'm
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  saying. You know, give give a little bit
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  of your money to me. Give a little bit
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  of your fame. No, I don't want any fame.
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  I just want the money. Okay, just give
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  me the money. Um apart from these
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  clashes there was a 5 kilometer march
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  that took along the shores of Lake
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  Geneva which passed near the UN
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  headquarters and uh um or quarters I
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  mean where people all they lived. It's a
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  whole region and it was they were loud
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  and colorful but contained is what they
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  say. They chanted slogans against
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  fascism against imperialism and
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  capitalism. One picture, a banner
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  described President Trump as a dinosaur
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  and he's devouring the earth. Okay,
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  Donald Trump the dinosaur is devouring
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  the earth. So the G7
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  get this is a funny part for me and the
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  reason I'm telling this the G7 was
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  formed in 73 as a club of the world's
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  largest economies but his influence has
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  def declined because none of them are
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  the largest economies. So especially
• 19:56
  China has gained greater weight in
• 19:58
  global economy. Critics argue that the
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  format is very outdated and far less
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  relevant than uh even the G20. But
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  they're pushing toward the bricks and
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  stuff like that. Uh Zalinski isn't on
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  the G7 meeting list, but guess who's
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  going to be there anyway? The Green
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  Goblin. Um they're trying to uh he's
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  expected to attend uh to seek what? more
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  money, more money to fund Kiev's drone
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  war because that's all they got left is
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  a drone war. And Politico reports that
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  Ukraine hopes to raise up to $20 billion
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  on his visit. Well, if uh the old uh you
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  know, we can't have um Elon Musk giving
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  him too much money because then he might
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  dip below the one trillion mark. You
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  know, if he got below there, that would
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  be he's no longer a trillionaire. or
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  what? It's going to f be flexible. So,
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  Green Goblin, don't expect anything from
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  the old Elon Musk. But it's a pretty
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  cool photo. Maybe I should post it on my
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  website. The dinosaur uh Trump. I love
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  his hairdo. It's very nice. And he's
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  devouring the earth. So, it could be
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  worth I'll save the I'll save the uh
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  image. We'll save the image
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  in my SAM folder because that's what we
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  do here at DAM radio. We save things in
• 21:26
  the proper place. Isn't that right? Of
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  course, I can't find it. But, you know,
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  oh well. Can't have everything. Uh,
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  garage isn't big enough. You know, if I
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  had a bigger garage, maybe I could have
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  everything. Um, let's see.
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  We are going to save this dinosaur.
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  we're gonna save him. And then we had uh
• 21:50
  here's an opinion piece for you. Uh but
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  I'm not going to share it with you till
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  after I tell you what happened with the
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  old um Putin over the weekend. Uh so
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  last week they were um Russia day came
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  and went and uh he invited to the Kreml
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  to they came to the Kremlin. There's a a
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  a huge
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  uh set of tables probably 30 40
• 22:21
  uh soldiers all in a big round sort of
• 22:24
  format but it wasn't round it was square
• 22:26
  sorry uh but it was all the tables put
• 22:28
  together so they could each look across
• 22:30
  and see Vladimir Vladimir and he had a
• 22:33
  senior a very senior department of
• 22:36
  defense guy in the room and basically
• 22:38
  they televised a uh I don't know 45
• 22:42
  minute um speech of uh uh uh a meeting
• 22:49
  of Putin to take their questions. And
• 22:54
  these guys were not generals. These guys
• 22:57
  were, you know, were
• 23:00
  they were frightened
• 23:02
  to be there speaking with Putin. One guy
• 23:05
  could was stuttering all over himself
• 23:08
  and and and he's just like he kept
• 23:10
  going, "Listen, excuse me. I'm very uh
• 23:13
  you know overwhelmed here trying to
• 23:15
  speak to you and uh young man you know
• 23:17
  maybe uh 30 if if that and uh the
• 23:21
  average age in the room was was was
• 23:23
  pretty young these young soldiers and uh
• 23:26
  captains um uh sergeants uh they had uh
• 23:31
  a couple of proper cheeky u
• 23:35
  uh warrant officers what that would
• 23:37
  would translate to those types and then
• 23:40
  uh uh so it's basically ally your
• 23:42
  frontline supervisory forces like what I
• 23:45
  was in the in the army as as a I was
• 23:48
  most I ever was was a platoon sergeant,
• 23:50
  right? Running 60 80 guys, right? And so
• 23:54
  this this is those type of people, the
• 23:57
  commanders of of a frontline units. all
• 24:01
  these guys were uh on the front lines
• 24:03
  and they were talking about the the
• 24:06
  their needs during the war and uh um
• 24:08
  they were they got the the chance to ask
• 24:11
  questions and I don't believe these
• 24:12
  questions were um
• 24:16
  propaganda were were were put together
• 24:18
  as questions that that were there and I
• 24:21
  was trying to and I thought I had
• 24:23
  already done it gotten the full
• 24:26
  translation of it but I haven't I might
• 24:28
  get it for you for tomorrow but the
• 24:29
  important point was they were all
• 24:32
  talking about uh technology. They were
• 24:35
  all talking about we're winning and they
• 24:38
  were also talking about but our hands
• 24:41
  are somewhat tied
• 24:43
  and uh uh you know we want to we want to
• 24:48
  go forward you know we want to do more
• 24:52
  and uh they're very all these guys were
• 24:55
  um
• 24:57
  he he said he told the minister of
• 24:59
  defense he said hey I want you to give
• 25:01
  all these guys a couple of days of of
• 25:03
  rest Now, for me, I thought that was a a
• 25:07
  weak point of the uh of the uh
• 25:12
  session. I I don't think I'd have
• 25:15
  offered that were I him. Those guys were
• 25:18
  clearly not there for vacation. And they
• 25:21
  didn't come to get a rest in Moscow. But
• 25:23
  he as he was going around the room, he
• 25:25
  he interviewed one guy, he said um he
• 25:29
  said that he was from whatever region
• 25:31
  and I didn't catch the region. And I,
• 25:34
  you know, and I wasn't taking notes cuz
• 25:35
  I was driving. And uh, but he said to
• 25:39
  the kid, uh, and the kid, you know, I I
• 25:41
  I I I the kid couldn't have been, I
• 25:44
  don't know, 30. He was a young man. And
• 25:46
  he stood up and he said, "Listen, I'm
• 25:49
  from and they introduced themselves. I'm
• 25:51
  from this area. I do this. Uh I'm a I'm
• 25:54
  a uh frontline
• 25:57
  I don't know artillery commander, you
• 26:01
  know, and and this is what I do. I have
• 26:03
  a team of of 20 guys. I do this and and
• 26:06
  this is this is my part in this uh war
• 26:09
  that's going on. And uh uh Putin
• 26:13
  interrupted him and he said, "Uh
• 26:16
  are you're from that region?" He he
• 26:18
  said, "Yeah." He said, "That's a that's
• 26:19
  our our largest coal region." And he
• 26:22
  said, "Yes." He said, "Uh," he goes,
• 26:24
  "Uh, have you worked in the coal mines?"
• 26:26
  And the guy goes, "Yeah, uh, my my
• 26:29
  family has wor." He goes, he said, "For
• 26:31
  generations, people have worked in those
• 26:32
  coal mines in our, uh, you know, you
• 26:34
  know, how are things there?" And they
• 26:36
  talked for a few minutes about, uh,
• 26:38
  about coal production or a few seconds.
• 26:41
  I mean, a few minutes. No, they didn't.
• 26:42
  Um, the the whole conversation with the
• 26:44
  guy was about four or five minutes. and
• 26:47
  uh and he spoke with this kid and this
• 26:48
  kid was like, "Yeah, uh you know, our
• 26:51
  our region is uh is growing. I'm glad to
• 26:53
  be representing my region and the and
• 26:55
  the coal of whatever." And uh you know,
• 26:59
  and uh you know, he worked in the in the
• 27:01
  mines. So did his family, all his
• 27:03
  brothers and mothers and stuff like
• 27:04
  that. And now he's a uh How long have
• 27:07
  you been in the military? He's in the
• 27:08
  military for four or five years. And he
• 27:10
  went to the command school in St.
• 27:12
  Petersburg or wherever. And and he did
• 27:14
  this with quite a few of them. which
• 27:16
  command school, which this and they
• 27:17
  have, you know, tons of command schools
• 27:18
  that are going over. Putin's pretty well
• 27:20
  informed, done where they go, what they
• 27:22
  do, and he was talking about it. And uh
• 27:24
  uh so uh this guy this guy and he tries
• 27:29
  to make them feel a little more
• 27:30
  comfortable is what I'm is what I'm
• 27:32
  thinking. That's what I would do if it
• 27:34
  was me. And and that's what it seemed
• 27:35
  like he was trying to do. Public
• 27:37
  speaking is a uh kind of a tough skill.
• 27:40
  Uh, you know, years ago I was in Toast
• 27:43
  Masters and uh surprises me how people
• 27:46
  can't get up and state their point of
• 27:48
  view. Uh, you know, that's one of the
• 27:50
  scariest things on the planet. And this
• 27:52
  guy, one of the first ones to stand up,
• 27:55
  not the coal miner guy, but he had a
• 27:57
  similar question to one of the first
• 27:58
  guys that stood up. And the first guy
• 28:00
  that stood up said, "Listen, uh, I'm I'm
• 28:03
  freaked out here." And he's stuttering
• 28:06
  all over trying to talk. And he's like I
• 28:09
  I excuse me excuse me Vladimir Vladimir
• 28:12
  Vituvi and he calls him uh they call him
• 28:15
  the supreme um glavna commandoi which is
• 28:19
  u the sup well basically supreme
• 28:22
  commander and in uh and he's very very
• 28:25
  and they they give the title and the
• 28:28
  reason I always say Vladimir Vladimir is
• 28:30
  because when you speak to someone in
• 28:33
  Russia that you are unfamiliar with you
• 28:37
  have to use the emia ova and the emia is
• 28:40
  the nameva is the middle name that's
• 28:43
  your father's name basically it'd be
• 28:45
  like saying son of clifford you know um
• 28:49
  you whoever uh uh Vladimir son of
• 28:53
  Vladimir basically is what they're
• 28:55
  saying and and it's a respectful way to
• 28:58
  talk and so uh you know Vladimir
• 29:00
  Vladimir is how they refer to him but
• 29:02
  for him he gets
• 29:05
  gloand and sometimes some other stuff is
• 29:09
  honored or potty would be honored and
• 29:12
  you've got all these other words that
• 29:13
  you could throw in there to make it nice
• 29:15
  and flowery when you're going to speak
• 29:17
  to someone who you respect. But a
• 29:20
  respectful way to deal with them is find
• 29:21
  out what their father's name was and and
• 29:24
  usually that'll be there, you know, for
• 29:26
  you to find out. And uh and you don't
• 29:28
  just get to go, "Hey Vlad, what's going
• 29:30
  on?" You know, that's that's rude. Okay.
• 29:33
  And so, uh, this guy was was up there
• 29:36
  and he's like, "Listen, I'm I'm totally
• 29:38
  freaked out." But many of the questions
• 29:41
  that the first guy, the second guy, they
• 29:43
  were talking about um drones and they
• 29:48
  were talking about, you know, we make
• 29:50
  all this progress and we get all and and
• 29:52
  we're we're kicking the the snot out of
• 29:54
  them uh up and down the thousand mile
• 29:57
  thousand kilometers of um front line,
• 30:01
  which is true. Then they are advancing
• 30:04
  slowly, churningly. Even Putin said it.
• 30:07
  He said that that it was going slow. And
• 30:09
  I'm only telling you this as a backdrop
• 30:10
  for uh for the article I'm going to
• 30:12
  share with you. And uh it's um you know
• 30:16
  the geniuses that are running Europe
• 30:18
  don't get it. And the Zalinskis that
• 30:21
  don't get these guys are not somebody
• 30:24
  you just roll over with a few drones.
• 30:28
  and the fact that uh Putin may have
• 30:30
  dropped some in the polls because uh
• 30:32
  Zalinski has nothing left to throw at
• 30:36
  him except drones
• 30:39
  is a testament to propaganda arms and
• 30:43
  financing arms that are giving him the
• 30:46
  money to do it for their own reasons.
• 30:50
  That's the point of all of this. And
• 30:53
  when when Putin started his speech and
• 30:56
  he and before he spoke with these guys
• 30:58
  and and he talked quite a bit about the
• 31:00
  drones because many many questions about
• 31:02
  the drones from a bunch of guys out
• 31:05
  there and what we can do and some and
• 31:07
  some suggestions. He suggested that one
• 31:09
  guy meet specifically with the head of
• 31:12
  the uh department of defense that one of
• 31:15
  the you know whoever the glo command the
• 31:17
  guy that was sitting right next to him
• 31:19
  uh from the department of defense that
• 31:21
  guy he was uh uh saying look you need to
• 31:24
  get with this guy because it looks like
• 31:26
  your ideas and he and he says untie the
• 31:29
  hands of the people on the front lines
• 31:31
  and and one of the conversations was let
• 31:34
  us buy we know how to fix some of these
• 31:37
  things and can do it ourselves. But just
• 31:40
  like in the regular army, you got to go
• 31:42
  up and you know in the United States I
• 31:44
  mean where where where our ideas
• 31:48
  were accepted and desired but the wheels
• 31:52
  of implementation go forever and you
• 31:55
  never get to put them in. you may have
• 31:57
  an idea, you know, that uh could save, I
• 32:00
  don't know, hundred bucks, you know, on
• 32:02
  every part you put out. And the waste
• 32:05
  that that I I saw in the military was
• 32:10
  ungodly waste. And I'm sure they have
• 32:13
  something similar in the bure any
• 32:15
  bureaucratic system is just a wasteful
• 32:17
  system. And uh you're you're
• 32:19
  overburdened with idiots that don't have
• 32:22
  jobs and they they just got to punch a
• 32:24
  button and they hold the the key to this
• 32:27
  this rubber stamp that you need to you
• 32:29
  know that's stuck in a box behind their
• 32:32
  desk. And the only way you can get that
• 32:34
  rubber stamp to get something stamped on
• 32:36
  your on your paper to give you the
• 32:38
  approval to go and buy this item or pick
• 32:42
  it up at the supply shop in uh uh the um
• 32:47
  in the rear, you know, where people have
• 32:50
  where the the supply sergeant is is you
• 32:52
  got to have this this particular stamp
• 32:55
  from this particular sergeant who
• 32:57
  approves all these. So, you got to go
• 32:59
  lick his rear end for a while. And then
• 33:02
  they give you the stamp and hold it out
• 33:04
  and know they have power over and lord
• 33:07
  it over you. And then you get to go to
• 33:09
  the guy in the back. If if there's only
• 33:12
  one step, you just need the one stamp.
• 33:14
  If you need six stamps, Jesus, you're
• 33:17
  you know the welcome to the United
• 33:18
  States Army. And then you finally get to
• 33:21
  go to the place where you get your stuff
• 33:24
  and that guy makes you wait for an hour
• 33:26
  and a half and has a sign on it that
• 33:28
  says your failure to plan doesn't create
• 33:31
  my emergency
• 33:33
  and uh basically I'll get to you when I
• 33:37
  get to you and how come you didn't think
• 33:39
  about this emergency two years ago when
• 33:42
  you should have and uh you know that's
• 33:45
  that's what these soldiers were bitching
• 33:47
  about was bureaucracy.
• 33:49
  It's like, man, I had to go to Russia
• 33:51
  and open an arm of civic outlaws over
• 33:54
  there because what do we about the
• 33:56
  most? Bureaucracy.
• 33:59
  So, I could tell you a ton of stories
• 34:02
  about bureaucracy, but I'll give you a
• 34:04
  quick one. Uh, for 4 months, let's see,
• 34:08
  I bought a truck
• 34:10
  uh I don't know, four or six months ago,
• 34:12
  long time ago. And uh I mailed the
• 34:15
  paperwork to get my license plates, sent
• 34:19
  them off, shipped them away, they got
• 34:23
  sent back, said, "Well, we don't accept
• 34:26
  the Missouri form. You need a Florida
• 34:28
  form." And here the Florida form, you
• 34:30
  can download it here. It's like, Jesus,
• 34:32
  what what the hell you Why don't you say
• 34:34
  that in your initial, you know, it's
• 34:37
  nobody ever puts all the rules out
• 34:39
  there. Jesus, how you going to get
• 34:40
  anything done?
• 34:42
  How you going to how you going to have
• 34:44
  bureaucracy with a job? You know, you
• 34:47
  don't have a job if you have something
• 34:49
  simple and by God, you can't do anything
• 34:51
  on. So, long and the short of it is uh
• 34:54
  two mailings and a trip to Florida and I
• 34:57
  finally got license plates on my truck,
• 35:00
  which has been sitting gathering dust
• 35:03
  because I can't drive it because it's
• 35:05
  got no plates. And uh uh so, but now I
• 35:08
  finally got the freaking plates. And uh
• 35:10
  it was it was a nightmare. And uh
• 35:16
  only because uh well not only because I
• 35:18
  I assume because it was going back and
• 35:20
  forth and uh when I went down there the
• 35:22
  the funny part is I got there. They're
• 35:24
  open on Saturdays and I went there at
• 35:26
  and I got there at 9:20 in the morning
• 35:29
  and I was number 68 that had come up uh
• 35:33
  you know 68 people in front 67 in front
• 35:36
  of me in other words. And uh so you're
• 35:40
  not place is packed. It's like holy
• 35:43
  crap. What do they sleep in here? Like
• 35:44
  it's a concert or something. But appar
• 35:47
  you know there's not a lot open. And so
• 35:49
  uh uh at any rate I'm in there. I get I
• 35:52
  get up there finally at 11:15 in the
• 35:56
  morning. Uh no no I'm sorry. It was
• 35:58
  11:35 in the morning. They uh uh at
• 36:02
  11:15 they said no more people can come
• 36:05
  in the door. And um so 11:35 I get up
• 36:10
  there. I give them all my paperwork.
• 36:12
  I've already been through this twice by
• 36:14
  mail, right? And I I give them all my
• 36:16
  paperwork, pass it over. Lady does it.
• 36:18
  And she looks at she goes, "I need
• 36:20
  this." I was like, "It's right there."
• 36:23
  She goes, "Yeah, but it doesn't say this
• 36:25
  on it. Doesn't say zero." And ba basic
• 36:28
  basically I needed something from the
• 36:30
  car dealer to uh show that I that you
• 36:35
  know that I paid them what was needed.
• 36:38
  There was a down payment number, a pile
• 36:39
  of money and then there was another part
• 36:42
  that was going to be financed and I said
• 36:44
  no it's got a lean. You know you just
• 36:46
  stamp lean and off you go. You know of
• 36:48
  course I paid that or I wouldn't be here
• 36:51
  with all that. You go. Nope. Just got to
• 36:53
  say got to say paid or got to say zero.
• 36:55
  I said, "But they don't do them that
• 36:57
  way." She goes, "Florid ones do." Like,
• 36:59
  "All right." So, I get up. It's like,
• 37:03
  "Oh, I got 20 minutes to figure
• 37:06
  this out." And sorry to swear like that.
• 37:08
  And I said, "20 minutes to figure this
• 37:10
  out." I get out. I start harassing the
• 37:11
  BMW dealer up in Colombia. And sorry for
• 37:16
  to give the name. I probably shouldn't,
• 37:18
  but I call him up. I was like, "Jesus,
• 37:19
  can you give me this? Here's the
• 37:21
  contract. Here's this." He goes, "Well,
• 37:22
  this is old. No kidding. I've been doing
• 37:25
  this from afar and now I finally came
• 37:28
  down to get this done. This is why I'm
• 37:30
  here. And uh uh it's I don't want to
• 37:34
  drive and go to jail. Jesus, I'd love
• 37:36
  that, you know, to to to to get you for
• 37:39
  no plates and throw you in prison for
• 37:41
  six years. That'd be great. And uh so I
• 37:45
  I u coerced this guy to sending me the
• 37:49
  paper. I go back up to the line. And
• 37:51
  there's still uh I go up to the same
• 37:53
  lady and uh uh she's got another
• 37:55
  customer of course and I was like she
• 37:57
  goes email it to this address. I email
• 37:59
  it to that address and I'm interrupting
• 38:01
  the other people cuz Jesus I only got to
• 38:03
  one day I flew down there for this and
• 38:05
  uh so she she she says um nope that
• 38:10
  won't work. You have to have this. And I
• 38:13
  it says it right there. Nope. It's got
• 38:15
  to say here. I said all right. So I
• 38:17
  called the guy back up. I said, "Hey,
• 38:19
  how's it going? That's not going to
• 38:22
  work." He goes, "Why not? It's I don't
• 38:23
  know. It's bureaucracy. Just put this on
• 38:26
  it." And he did. And he sent it back.
• 38:28
  And I stood there. And by the time I So
• 38:30
  now there the line is there. The people
• 38:32
  in front of me were registering like
• 38:34
  four cars to this lady, right? She told
• 38:36
  me to wait till after them. And uh so
• 38:39
  I'm waiting for them. And they're having
• 38:40
  fun. in the line and you know there's
• 38:42
  things going on and and it's a uh the
• 38:45
  place is starting to empty out. I was
• 38:48
  the very last person.
• 38:51
  I got out of there at 2:15. They closed
• 38:54
  at noon. I got there at 9:20 something
• 38:59
  and uh that was it. Anyway, that was my
• 39:01
  bureaucracy. Well, these soldiers that
• 39:03
  are talking to Putin are bitching about
• 39:06
  what bureaucracy. I have an idea. He
• 39:10
  said, "We all know." One of these guys
• 39:11
  stands up. He says, "I have an idea. We
• 39:13
  all know that these things transmit at
• 39:16
  the uh between the the ranges of u uh I
• 39:20
  don't know whatever gigahertz, 50
• 39:22
  gigahertz, and 250 gigahertz." And this
• 39:25
  band is where they are. And these guy we
• 39:28
  and the ones that we have don't go that
• 39:30
  low. They need to go a couple bands
• 39:32
  lower. I can go to a local shop and buy
• 39:35
  this sort of um uh bandwidth in enhancer
• 39:41
  and uh I can um uh we could probably fix
• 39:45
  it on the front line. We you know we we
• 39:47
  we you know I need these I need these
• 39:50
  things. I need to be able to do it but I
• 39:52
  can't really do it. And then I also need
• 39:54
  the ability to get this idea to somebody
• 39:56
  and tell them what we need. And uh uh
• 39:59
  Putin says you've spoken to your
• 40:00
  commander. He says, "Yes, I've spoken to
• 40:02
  my commander and I've gone forward." And
• 40:04
  uh the reason I tell you this story is
• 40:06
  is it's because this is what if Putin is
• 40:12
  losing the
• 40:14
  propaganda war. It's because this uh
• 40:18
  drone warfare is beating up things and
• 40:22
  blowing up uh girls uh pedagog
• 40:26
  pedagogical school and killing 25 uh
• 40:29
  young students. You know, the Ukrainians
• 40:31
  are brutal and uh they are just brutal.
• 40:34
  They attack these things on purpose.
• 40:36
  There ain't no way they made that
• 40:38
  mistake, you know, three times and you
• 40:40
  go and they they've done it before. The
• 40:42
  beaches at BH at I'm sorry, the beaches
• 40:45
  at um on the Crimean shoreline where
• 40:49
  they took uh uh what do they call those?
• 40:52
  uh fragmentation grenades that uh uh
• 40:56
  that shoot out little balls of uh of uh
• 41:00
  BB's and stuff and did it on a beach on
• 41:02
  a Sunday afternoon in Crimea. I mean,
• 41:05
  people don't even talk about this
• 41:07
  but this is what they're doing. And
• 41:09
  they're doing it to bring the war home
• 41:12
  to the Russian people. and they're
• 41:16
  attacking non-military
• 41:18
  targets because there are people that
• 41:21
  have suffered in Ukraine as well. Okay.
• 41:24
  And uh now but Russia very very very few
• 41:29
  have of their they they don't
• 41:31
  intentionally target and nobody can
• 41:34
  point to the intentional target. They've
• 41:36
  tried to, you know, with the BHA thing
• 41:37
  that was a fake and then they talk about
• 41:39
  Russian disinformation and all that
• 41:42
  happy crappy. But when Putin is
• 41:44
  listening to these soldiers,
• 41:46
  I I think something like that, a meeting
• 41:49
  like that, the reason I wanted to listen
• 41:52
  to it and and watch it is because that
• 41:57
  is reality. those guys. I I you know,
• 42:00
  you think about it and I'm sitting there
• 42:02
  thinking about it from the military
• 42:04
  point of view of of Sam, the young
• 42:06
  sergeant who was in charge of a lot of
• 42:08
  stuff and uh uh you know had had uh at
• 42:12
  one point the students in the student
• 42:15
  realm I had a hundred students that
• 42:18
  reported to me and but in the combat um
• 42:21
  prep in Fort Hood, Texas, you know, the
• 42:24
  most I ever had was I was in a regiment,
• 42:27
  flight regiment And and we had small
• 42:29
  teams. I had like 12 guys. That's it.
• 42:31
  And um but you know in combat I I'd had
• 42:35
  three helicopters and uh uh because I
• 42:38
  was signed for them damn things. I don't
• 42:40
  fly a helicopter. I never qualified but
• 42:42
  I can't fly the damn thing. I just jump
• 42:45
  out of them or or or
• 42:48
  anyway it's uh the bureaucracy and the
• 42:52
  frontline stuff. These are front line.
• 42:54
  You can imagine what the commanders of
• 42:57
  these guys are all watching. I I
• 43:00
  guarantee it. The the guys in charge,
• 43:02
  the guys at the table talking to Putin
• 43:05
  are definitely watching. And these guys
• 43:08
  have got to be careful what they say.
• 43:11
  and they say, you know, we we we uh
• 43:14
  greet you from the unit of whatever
• 43:18
  150th guards and and we're frontline
• 43:20
  unit in the uh the Saver group of forces
• 43:24
  or the Euji group of forces, whatever.
• 43:26
  And we will, you know, we we greet you
• 43:30
  and honor you from this unit. And now
• 43:33
  here's my question. You know, I and and
• 43:36
  trust me, the commanders are watching.
• 43:38
  They're go, but I hope this kid don't
• 43:39
  screw it up. Hope he doesn't point out,
• 43:42
  you know, anything bad about the unit.
• 43:44
  And B, you can't I guarantee you the
• 43:46
  boss is sitting in the back list or
• 43:48
  another office miles away. You know,
• 43:50
  obviously back back on the front line
• 43:53
  still going, "Hope this guy doesn't
• 43:55
  screw it up for me." And the guy says,
• 43:58
  "Uh, well, with these drone things, we
• 44:00
  can't work them cuz you know, Jesus, the
• 44:02
  stuff you give us is uh uh 200 200 hertz
• 44:06
  out of range and we can't uh we can't
• 44:08
  get there." And Putin, here's here's
• 44:10
  Putin's answer to him. He says,
• 44:13
  "Have you spoken to uh your commanders?"
• 44:16
  "Yes, I have. Have you passed this up?"
• 44:18
  He said, "Yes." He said, "Well, the
• 44:20
  wheels of uh uh progress, you know,
• 44:23
  sometimes turn slowly." He said, "What I
• 44:25
  want you to do is meet with this guy
• 44:27
  right here. He's he's the, you know,
• 44:29
  afterward you come meet with him." He
• 44:31
  said, "There may be things that you can
• 44:32
  do." And he said he said, "How long are
• 44:34
  you guys here?" You know, and he said
• 44:37
  something to the whole crew. Well, they
• 44:38
  sent him up. Has any Have you been to
• 44:40
  Moscow before? You know, and some of
• 44:42
  them yes, some of them no. And he goes,
• 44:43
  "Well, I you know, we're going to keep
• 44:46
  you here a couple of days, you know.
• 44:48
  How'd you like that? You know, we're
• 44:49
  going to keep you here a couple of days.
• 44:51
  You relax. You find out the city. You
• 44:53
  meet with this guy. I want all of your
• 44:55
  ideas." And uh it and the the commander
• 44:59
  or the the Department of Defense guys,
• 45:02
  uh yeah, he's right. He takes it. And it
• 45:06
  was such a real meeting, you know what I
• 45:09
  mean? It was it was a real uh a real
• 45:13
  event and um and for these soldiers
• 45:17
  obviously something huge and um it's
• 45:26
  I I don't know. It was worth the hour
• 45:28
  that it took me to watch it, you know,
• 45:31
  or to listen to it. And uh uh he he
• 45:36
  Putin is an interesting fellow no matter
• 45:38
  how you slice it. And uh I believe he's
• 45:41
  got his country's uh uh you know just
• 45:44
  like Trump, he's got his country's uh
• 45:47
  best interests at heart as he sees them.
• 45:51
  Is he always right? Not remotely. Is he
• 45:54
  doing a good job and is he liked by the
• 45:56
  people generally? Yeah. So, and and I
• 45:59
  feel similar about uh Trump with plenty
• 46:03
  of reservations, you know, and I got
• 46:05
  reservations about Putin, too. But
• 46:06
  Putin's not my glavna commander. He's
• 46:09
  not my uh my uh supreme leader, you
• 46:13
  know, my supreme commander. It's not
• 46:15
  it's not him. Mine is uh uh and I'm
• 46:18
  supposed to about Trump. and watch
• 46:21
  in that meeting with these guys. These
• 46:25
  are guys who were allowed to
• 46:30
  Uh so you bring them in and and I'm
• 46:32
  telling you it uh and you know how you
• 46:34
  start a trend like uh nobody wants to be
• 46:37
  the first one to and the first one
• 46:39
  gets up and he says, you know, my m my
• 46:41
  name is Simon Simonovich or whatever it
• 46:44
  is and I uh um am in the front lines and
• 46:47
  whatever. My god, I'm really I'm really
• 46:49
  scared to be here. I I I can't talk. And
• 46:51
  he's stuttering and he's and he's and
• 46:54
  Putin's like, "Listen, just just calm
• 46:56
  down. It's okay. We're we're very glad
• 46:58
  we're here. You we honor you. We think
• 47:00
  you're" and he put the guy at ease just
• 47:03
  like any normal uh person trying to
• 47:06
  solve a problem would. He put the guys
• 47:09
  at ease and talked to them. And the
• 47:11
  whole point of this meeting was that
• 47:13
  they could come and bring their issues
• 47:15
  and concerns from the front line and
• 47:17
  that uh uh Putin could do exactly what
• 47:20
  he's doing which is appear to be um uh
• 47:26
  listening paying attention and he was
• 47:29
  and uh and he listened and he talked to
• 47:31
  these guys and sure it's propaganda you
• 47:34
  know them posting that and it being
• 47:36
  available on YouTube which it was taken
• 47:38
  down you know I can't find it Now, you
• 47:41
  know, you could you could you have to go
• 47:43
  search for these things and it's crazy
• 47:45
  and uh this is
• 47:49
  it's
• 47:51
  the the lack of freedom of speech in the
• 47:54
  west or the lack or the the fact that
• 47:56
  they just get rid of stuff. You know, I
• 47:59
  still about Panchchena not being
• 48:01
  available anymore on YouTube that she
• 48:04
  got she got uh too confrontational. I
• 48:07
  listened to Alex Christophoru as you
• 48:09
  know and he put up something and he said
• 48:11
  he was uh he was blocked uh and what do
• 48:14
  they call it? Throttling. He was
• 48:16
  throttled
• 48:18
  uh by YouTube for unpopular uh you know
• 48:23
  he he he said some things about Ukraine,
• 48:26
  about Iran. You can't do it or YouTube
• 48:29
  will throttle you. YouTube's Google and
• 48:32
  uh you know if you're not arguing with
• 48:34
  your AI that comes from Google or your
• 48:37
  AI that comes from China or your a you
• 48:40
  know whether you're using DeepSeek
• 48:43
  whether you're using Claude whether
• 48:45
  you're using Grock whether you're using
• 48:47
  chat GPT all of their data and here's
• 48:51
  the problem if there's a problem with
• 48:53
  the AI this is why everybody and why
• 48:55
  Putin talked about in his economic forum
• 48:58
  last week which I brought to you why he
• 49:00
  talked talked about we need our own AI
• 49:03
  platform because otherwise you're
• 49:05
  getting LGBTQ crap thrown in it thrown
• 49:09
  at you from the West. You're getting uh
• 49:11
  you can't be rude to uh uh Donald Trump
• 49:14
  or you'll get throttled on certain
• 49:16
  channels. You can't uh spout anything
• 49:20
  that appears to be anti-Israel or you
• 49:24
  will get throttled
• 49:26
  and and that's that's what they we are
• 49:29
  li our freedom of speech is limited. Can
• 49:33
  I sit here at the and come to you live
• 49:35
  from the Lake Ozark real estate of the
• 49:37
  art studio? I sure can. And I can say
• 49:40
  whatever JR will allow me to say and so
• 49:42
  far he hasn't limited me. He hasn't said
• 49:44
  well you can't do that. And uh and if he
• 49:47
  did, I'd be pissy about it, you know,
• 49:50
  because my words are my words. My
• 49:52
  opinion are my opinion. I don't need Fox
• 49:55
  News, CNN, anybody else giving me my
• 49:59
  opinion and telling me what to think.
• 50:01
  I'm not telling you what to think. I
• 50:03
  don't care what you think. I'm telling
• 50:05
  you what I think. I mean, I shouldn't
• 50:07
  say it that way. That sounds rude. I do
• 50:08
  care what you think. But what you think,
• 50:11
  I might be able to influence, but I
• 50:14
  would never demand. you know that you
• 50:16
  bow down and go, "Oh, gee, that's Sam's
• 50:18
  genius. He's right." No. Sam has his own
• 50:21
  opinion, and you should have yours. And
• 50:22
  as long as it's developed and based upon
• 50:27
  a a healthy review of the data at hand
• 50:31
  about a particular thing, great. Uh, you
• 50:35
  know, and and you can disagree, you can
• 50:37
  come to a different conclusion. You
• 50:39
  could watch the same video that I
• 50:41
  watched with the old Vladimir Vladimir
• 50:44
  and all those soldiers coming to him
• 50:46
  from the front lines and interrogating
• 50:49
  him and come to a different conclusion.
• 50:52
  I get that, you know, that's that's
• 50:55
  freedom of speech. That's what I mean.
• 50:57
  But these guys were able to go and talk
• 50:59
  to him and you know it's not like any of
• 51:01
  them are going to the gool log because
• 51:03
  they brought up that you don't have this
• 51:05
  200 hertz range and they were he he he
• 51:08
  was truly interested in what they had to
• 51:11
  say and that was the important part. He
• 51:15
  wanted to know what they had to say and
• 51:17
  everybody demonizes Putin. You know I'm
• 51:20
  supposed to be a Putin lover. Well, you
• 51:22
  you that demonizing him demonize him
• 51:25
  haven't listened. All you're getting are
• 51:28
  the tiny little chunks that they
• 51:31
  propagandize
• 51:33
  over here. Okay. And uh I'm going to
• 51:37
  play I'm going to take a tiny song break
• 51:39
  and hopefully be able to get a a a
• 51:41
  coffee during that. But there's a song
• 51:44
  that I've been meaning to play over
• 51:46
  here. It's a Russian song, but it's
• 51:48
  about uh uh Pikachu. Uh you remember the
• 51:52
  little uh
• 51:55
  what are they called? The little I I
• 51:58
  don't know what they're called. The
• 51:59
  little uh stuffed animals that the kids
• 52:02
  play with.
• 52:04
  It's not a gremlin. What do they call
• 52:06
  those guys? I don't remember. But
• 52:09
  uh he's he's a little Chinese dude,
• 52:12
  Pikachu. And they used to have these
• 52:14
  cards that they would everybody had
• 52:16
  these trading cards with all these uh
• 52:18
  little warriors and Pikachu was one of
• 52:20
  them and Pikachu whatever his skills are
• 52:23
  god knows I don't know but um um maybe
• 52:26
  he had bow hunting skills and uh
• 52:29
  numchuck skills kind of like Napoleon
• 52:32
  Dynamite right and uh so you know he had
• 52:35
  skills and so anyway there's a song
• 52:37
  about Pikachu
• 52:39
  and it's a pretty funny song now oh it's
• 52:42
  not that long know that's not going to
• 52:43
  give me time to get any coffee. So,
• 52:45
  we'll make sure that Tanya Tatana
• 52:48
  Cortova is afterward. Matushka is after
• 52:52
  Balaya Birinka. She's going to be
• 52:55
  second. But first, we'll get the Pikachu
• 52:57
  song and I'll go grab a bottle of water
• 52:58
  or a coffee. Just a bottle of water is
• 53:01
  what I'm going to do. And then we'll
• 53:02
  take a break and we will come back and
• 53:06
  have some more entertainment. Here she
• 53:10
  comes.
• 53:12
  Well, that is a yeah, pretty popular um
• 53:18
  Russian song the last couple of years.
• 53:20
  And uh let's see.
• 53:24
  I wanted to share with you, you know,
• 53:26
  Russia is answering these drone attacks
• 53:30
  they're answering. And so when you watch
• 53:35
  uh what is going on
• 53:37
  financially, diplomatically,
• 53:40
  politically, everybody is trying still
• 53:43
  trying the same. You know, I talked to
• 53:44
  you last week about the sanctions
• 53:46
  package number 21. You know, today is
• 53:48
  going to be the G7, the the seven
• 53:52
  most worth except for the United States,
• 53:55
  of course, the seven the seven or the
• 53:57
  others, you know, you just wonder what
• 54:00
  are the changes. I mean what do they
• 54:02
  really get out of meeting as a G7? What
• 54:05
  do they get is they get Mcronone. France
• 54:09
  is a tiny relatively I mean when you go
• 54:12
  compare the rest of the world what are
• 54:14
  they doing in G7? G7 presumes the top
• 54:17
  seven. The reason they made it was the
• 54:19
  top seven economies. These countries
• 54:21
  inside the G7 aren't in the top seven.
• 54:25
  They're not. England's not. France
• 54:28
  isn't. Germany's bar if if Germany's
• 54:30
  there uh they're barely there and uh so
• 54:33
  it's the world has changed since the G7
• 54:37
  people in fact some of the protesting I
• 54:39
  was telling you about earlier is because
• 54:41
  it's irrelevant what's relevant is more
• 54:43
  along the lines of the G20 and even that
• 54:46
  has some problems because only the the
• 54:49
  chosen few get the chance to run the
• 54:52
  show. So people that's what people are
• 54:54
  bitching about. That's why they're
• 54:56
  protesting. That's why they're starting
• 54:58
  crap on fire in in places is because the
• 55:02
  world is changing and Trump and company
• 55:06
  and I don't mean Trump specifically, but
• 55:08
  the dinosaur metaphor probably works.
• 55:11
  And I'm an old dude. So there you have
• 55:13
  it. So Russia and answer has been doing
• 55:17
  what do they call them? Mirror
• 55:18
  engagements. your mirror engagement and
• 55:21
  and they're matching and in fact by far
• 55:25
  worse scenarios they are
• 55:29
  escalating and bombing the snot out of
• 55:33
  Ukraine right now and uh they confirmed
• 55:37
  strikes last night on more military
• 55:39
  facilities. A malfunction Patriot
• 55:41
  interceptor
• 55:43
  uh
• 55:45
  struck a historic monastery in Kiev. So
• 55:48
  they're blowing up monasteries now. Um
• 55:51
  they destroyed a Sevastapole yesterday
• 55:53
  of the big story. The Ukrainians are
• 55:56
  attacking things that mean something to
• 55:59
  Russians. Okay. Now one of the unspoken
• 56:03
  agreements in war is you don't destroy
• 56:07
  historic artifacts and buildings. You
• 56:10
  don't do it. And if you do, you're the
• 56:14
  lowest of low in my opinion. you you you
• 56:17
  are uh you have suddenly
• 56:21
  that's a line that you shouldn't be
• 56:23
  crossing. Do things accidentally occur?
• 56:25
  Sure. And but but Ukraine intentionally
• 56:30
  attacked a panorama of the Russian Navy
• 56:34
  uh which um has been an icon in
• 56:39
  Sevastapole forever on the Black Sea.
• 56:43
  And so what do you do? you destroy stuff
• 56:45
  that means things uh mean things to
• 56:48
  somebody. That'd be like destroying the
• 56:50
  local mosque or the local um um
• 56:55
  cathedrals, you know, in a lot of these
• 56:57
  European cities and destroying them. And
• 56:59
  what they're saying is is the Ukrainians
• 57:02
  fired their own patriot and hit hit a
• 57:05
  historic monastery. Uh now Ukraine's
• 57:09
  going to use that to twist, oh, look,
• 57:11
  they blew up our monastery. Well, if
• 57:13
  they did, and this is that's BS, too.
• 57:16
  But if you're going to attack historic
• 57:18
  targets in in Moscow and historic uh
• 57:22
  things that mean something to the
• 57:23
  people, you should expect a hit. I don't
• 57:25
  know the facts about whether a patriot
• 57:27
  malfunctioned and hit the hit the
• 57:30
  monastery in Kiev. Hell, if I know, but
• 57:33
  it wouldn't surprise me if the if the
• 57:35
  Russians did a mirror did a mirrored
• 57:37
  response. And I'm not for it. You're
• 57:40
  destroying history. I hate it. I don't
• 57:43
  want you to do that. I'd love to go to
• 57:46
  Ukraine and see see this historic site.
• 57:49
  I'd like to go to Russia. That's the
• 57:51
  freaking point of travel is to see these
• 57:53
  things that you never get to see in
• 57:55
  life. I want to go to India and do the
• 57:57
  same thing, you know, and see I've been
• 58:00
  to 57 countries and what do I always go
• 58:02
  see?
• 58:04
  Historic places. I try to find the
• 58:06
  oldest crap in the area and go see it.
• 58:08
  And I go to tea plantations, coffee
• 58:11
  plantations, and uh alcohol
• 58:14
  distilleries. And and those are my three
• 58:16
  kind of hobbies, you know. I want to go
• 58:18
  see these things. If I go to Mexico, I
• 58:21
  go to a tequila uh factory, you know. If
• 58:24
  I go to um a a Caribbean place, I want
• 58:27
  some rum and I want to figure out how
• 58:29
  they make it. I go to Russia, I go to a
• 58:31
  vodka place. I go to Kentucky, I go to a
• 58:34
  whiskey place. get myself a bottle of
• 58:37
  whiskey, uh, you know, and shop around
• 58:40
  at five or six other places. But his
• 58:42
  history, you know, whiskey bottles, you
• 58:45
  can replace history. You can't replace
• 58:47
  that You people are nuts. Um, but
• 58:50
  the Russians have carried out overnight
• 58:52
  long range attacks on
• 58:54
  military-industrial facilities in three
• 58:56
  Ukrainian cities. And they they took out
• 58:58
  some airfields, conscript offices.
• 59:02
  Uh, that's that was announced this
• 59:04
  morning.
• 59:06
  The strikes last night involved drones
• 59:08
  and missiles from
• 59:11
  air, land, and sea platforms, said the
• 59:13
  ministry. And uh in a followup, they
• 59:16
  said a total of 16 industrial targets
• 59:19
  were hit. There was a plant to produce
• 59:21
  drone warheads and boosters for the
• 59:24
  Flamingo cruise missiles that Ukraine
• 59:26
  has been trying to uh used. They're
• 59:29
  taking over. What they've done is
• 59:30
  they're calling them the flamingo and
• 59:32
  they've take they're starting to build
• 59:33
  plants based on uh French and British
• 59:36
  designs um storm shadow or whatever.
• 59:40
  They take all the design say well since
• 59:42
  uh the technology you know you don't
• 59:44
  want to share the uh technology bring it
• 59:47
  over here we'll build them here then
• 59:49
  they'll be Ukrainian missiles and not
• 59:52
  French or British or German and we'll
• 59:55
  supply them with our own Elon Musk style
• 59:59
  because Elon's paying for all their u uh
• 1:00:02
  internet
• 1:00:04
  we're going to get out we'll we'll boost
• 1:00:06
  a couple of our own satellites. I don't
• 1:00:08
  think Ukraine has done that yet. Uh
• 1:00:10
  because they still have to be targeted
• 1:00:12
  with Western data cuz they don't have
• 1:00:14
  their own. So targeting, they still got
• 1:00:17
  to get it from somewhere. And so that's
• 1:00:19
  that's that's where they're going to get
• 1:00:21
  it. So the 16 industrials including the
• 1:00:24
  Flamingo place, the uh there was a
• 1:00:27
  strike on a postal terminal in Kiev and
• 1:00:30
  uh for logistics that delivered parts
• 1:00:32
  for drones and electronic warfare
• 1:00:34
  systems. the stuff that uh these guys
• 1:00:37
  were talking about because the new
• 1:00:38
  drones fly on a different set of
• 1:00:41
  megahertz and Russia has the uh the
• 1:00:43
  drones that fly uh they're wireg guided
• 1:00:46
  and so they they can't be jammed and so
• 1:00:49
  they and that's what this guy was asking
• 1:00:51
  Putin. He said uh you know we can't jam
• 1:00:53
  at this hertz level. They've changed
• 1:00:55
  their hertz level. We need a different
• 1:00:56
  one. I know where the parts are. I mean
• 1:00:58
  he was pretty pretty knowledgeable and I
• 1:01:01
  know how to get it. So all these things
• 1:01:03
  tie together. So Moscow said a cinema
• 1:01:06
  studio in Kiev was struck because
• 1:01:08
  Ukrainian forces used that facility to
• 1:01:11
  program kamatakazi drones uh for attacks
• 1:01:14
  on Russia. Ukrainian sources say that uh
• 1:01:19
  in Kiev Kharkov and Nipper the cities
• 1:01:22
  named in the Russian statement they
• 1:01:24
  reported these attacks. The Ukrainian
• 1:01:26
  military said it had 70 incoming
• 1:01:29
  missiles and 600 drones and a partial
• 1:01:32
  power outage in Kiev and disruption of
• 1:01:35
  rail services. Ukrainian media said uh
• 1:01:38
  and they showed and I got a video here
• 1:01:40
  you could watch on X that showed a fire
• 1:01:43
  at one of the cathedrals at Kiev Pierk
• 1:01:46
  Monastery and they said the blaze was
• 1:01:49
  linked to the Russian operations and the
• 1:01:51
  Russians say that it was a uh uh Patriot
• 1:01:57
  uh missile that did it. The Russian
• 1:01:59
  Ministry said it does not target sites
• 1:02:01
  without military value and blames the
• 1:02:04
  damage on the US Patriot interceptors.
• 1:02:07
  And uh they suggest a uh projectile
• 1:02:10
  malfunction due to old age.
• 1:02:14
  I malfunction due to old age. Uh Kiev is
• 1:02:17
  complaining of a shortage of missiles
• 1:02:20
  and Patriots and they don't have them
• 1:02:21
  and they they uh they can't pay for
• 1:02:24
  them, which I don't understand. and you
• 1:02:25
  got hundreds of of billions of dollars
• 1:02:28
  coming to you. You b sell one of your
• 1:02:31
  freaking uh uh dachas, sell a um sell
• 1:02:35
  your uh villa in um the Caribbean.
• 1:02:41
  Uh the monastery has been the center of
• 1:02:43
  a prolonged dispute over control of its
• 1:02:46
  property for a long time. Ukrainians
• 1:02:48
  have been pushing for church assets to
• 1:02:50
  be transferred from the uh Orthodox
• 1:02:53
  church to the government Orthodox Church
• 1:02:56
  of Ukraine or to the state itself. So
• 1:02:59
  Kiev is trying to steal the to well take
• 1:03:02
  take over the monastery anyway. And um
• 1:03:08
  Russian strikes are uh you know the
• 1:03:10
  escalation in Russian strikes or the
• 1:03:13
  drone strikes is huge over the last
• 1:03:15
  month or so. Um we've been watching a uh
• 1:03:18
  very serious increase in the number. KV
• 1:03:22
  is wanting yet another 20 billion to
• 1:03:24
  pick up this week uh to you know while
• 1:03:27
  at the G7 meeting and he'll get it. You
• 1:03:29
  know they'll give him more money. Oh
• 1:03:30
  yeah. Okay. Let me write you a check.
• 1:03:33
  You know here you go Green Goblin have
• 1:03:36
  this and give him some more money. And
• 1:03:38
  it's another 20 billion from Western
• 1:03:41
  backers. So last week the Ukrainian
• 1:03:43
  strike caused damage to a museum in
• 1:03:46
  Sevastapole dedicated to the defense of
• 1:03:48
  the Crimean Peninsula during the 19th
• 1:03:51
  century wars with Turkey, Britain and
• 1:03:53
  France. And uh so an old facility and
• 1:03:58
  the Ukrainians blew it up. Um, so the
• 1:04:00
  tax on Ukrainian conscription centers
• 1:04:03
  came hours after the largest protest in
• 1:04:06
  Kiev that have that was huge sparked by
• 1:04:09
  force mobilization and the mass
• 1:04:11
  demonstration was broken up by riot
• 1:04:14
  police. They used tear gas and uh they I
• 1:04:18
  mean it was a big deal. um the
• 1:04:21
  anti-mobilization
• 1:04:22
  protesters. Basically, a crowd attempted
• 1:04:26
  to stop uh a gang from snatching a man
• 1:04:29
  off a street. Like I was telling you,
• 1:04:32
  the police used tear gas against dozens
• 1:04:34
  of protesters on Sunday night. An angry
• 1:04:38
  crowd gathered to defend a man who was
• 1:04:41
  being grabbed off the street by draft
• 1:04:43
  officers. And they're yelling at him,
• 1:04:45
  you know, they're yelling at these draft
• 1:04:46
  officers. Shame, shame on you for what
• 1:04:49
  you're doing. And they ambush
• 1:04:52
  military-aged men on the streets, at
• 1:04:54
  their workplaces, outside homes, in
• 1:04:56
  hospitals, and use pretty pretty massive
• 1:04:59
  force against these guys when they try
• 1:05:02
  to run. So this is uh we call it
• 1:05:05
  busification
• 1:05:07
  uh because they're shoved in into buses.
• 1:05:10
  The busific busification offtobus is the
• 1:05:13
  word. Auto they call them offtobus but a
• 1:05:17
  bus. So it's busification
• 1:05:20
  that they shove them in a bus and get
• 1:05:22
  them off. But it's not even a bus
• 1:05:23
  anymore. It's a car. So four guys stuff
• 1:05:27
  them in a car. You see a bus coming, you
• 1:05:29
  know, with booification stamped on the
• 1:05:31
  outside, but you don't see that on the
• 1:05:33
  cars. So now they just get out, beat the
• 1:05:35
  crap out of people in the streets, and
• 1:05:37
  then uh uh shove them in a car and get
• 1:05:40
  rid of them, send them off to die at the
• 1:05:42
  front line. I don't mean to laugh about
• 1:05:44
  that, but this is what it is. The D
• 1:05:47
  Deutsell uh newspaper in Deutsland uh in
• 1:05:50
  Germany said Ukrainian military is
• 1:05:53
  hooked on drugs. Big report. Big report.
• 1:05:56
  Drug addiction is a growing problem
• 1:05:58
  among Ukrainian troops. But yeah, but
• 1:06:00
  who wouldn't? you're losing your asses
• 1:06:02
  here and your lives in many uh
• 1:06:04
  scenarios. Uh growing problem among
• 1:06:06
  Ukrainian troops. Um here we are 5 years
• 1:06:10
  in and Deutschella reported this and the
• 1:06:13
  cites the experience of former Ukrainian
• 1:06:16
  Marine Corps officer who uh was
• 1:06:19
  interviewed by them cities on drugs and
• 1:06:22
  uh they attribute the problem to combat
• 1:06:24
  injuries, psychological exhaustion. Many
• 1:06:27
  servicemen spend months on the front
• 1:06:28
  line with no rest and prospects for
• 1:06:31
  demobilization.
• 1:06:32
  They all get booification and
• 1:06:34
  mobilization, but no demobilization.
• 1:06:39
  Narcotics are banned in the military,
• 1:06:41
  but heavy losses, lack of rotation,
• 1:06:43
  acute manpower shortages force wounded
• 1:06:46
  troops back to the front before they're
• 1:06:49
  fully recovered.
• 1:06:51
  And according to a report published last
• 1:06:53
  week, more than half of Ukrainian
• 1:06:56
  soldiers serving on the front line have
• 1:06:59
  great experience with drugs, alcohol, or
• 1:07:02
  a combination of both. Um,
• 1:07:07
  no army in modern history has fought
• 1:07:10
  four years without rotation, says
• 1:07:13
  psychotherapist
• 1:07:15
  eager Alfarov. He said this to
• 1:07:17
  Deutschella. He said that when
• 1:07:19
  commanders do not grant leave and there
• 1:07:22
  is nobody else to do the fighting, the
• 1:07:25
  troops feel a definite sense of
• 1:07:27
  injustice, frustration. You know, you
• 1:07:30
  can't do it. Family problems, I'm sure,
• 1:07:33
  exist that many soldiers have relatives
• 1:07:36
  that live abroad, you know, that live in
• 1:07:39
  the United States, live somewhere else,
• 1:07:41
  but they got to fight and uh these
• 1:07:44
  spouses drift. This lady, you know, one
• 1:07:46
  guy interviewed said, "My wife plans to
• 1:07:49
  stay in Europe because there are
• 1:07:50
  prospects there for the children, but
• 1:07:53
  I'm at war in Ukraine and every day, you
• 1:07:56
  know, I get closer to death." Basically,
• 1:07:59
  a former Ukrainian serviceman and a
• 1:08:01
  patient at a rehabilitation clinic said
• 1:08:04
  uh that uh drug addiction cost him his
• 1:08:08
  career. I had more than 200 men under my
• 1:08:11
  command and took part in a number of
• 1:08:14
  successful operations, he said. And that
• 1:08:17
  uh after being um his condition
• 1:08:21
  deteriorated and that he lost control of
• 1:08:24
  everything because he got addicted to
• 1:08:26
  drugs after he got wounded. And uh
• 1:08:29
  earlier this year a local resident
• 1:08:32
  rescued from Kras Narisk in the Detsk
• 1:08:35
  area was liberated by Russian forces in
• 1:08:38
  2025. That part of the city
• 1:08:42
  uh told uh the newspaper that most
• 1:08:44
  Ukrainian troops in the city used drugs
• 1:08:47
  delivered by drone in the form of
• 1:08:50
  candies wrapped in camouflage packaging.
• 1:08:54
  and then in intoxicated soldiers clash
• 1:08:57
  with civilians and uh sometimes the
• 1:09:00
  incidents end in gunfire. So, the
• 1:09:03
  Guardian reports that Ukrainian
• 1:09:05
  servicemen uh in you know large numbers
• 1:09:08
  of them are developing drug addiction
• 1:09:10
  and the scale is kind of hard to assess
• 1:09:13
  because of no official data and uh they
• 1:09:16
  link it in part to post-traumatic sess
• 1:09:19
  stress I mean and uh anxiety from
• 1:09:23
  prolonged combat exposure.
• 1:09:26
  So, I don't know. It's uh this war not
• 1:09:30
  ending has effects on everybody but uh
• 1:09:33
  on the front lines
• 1:09:36
  um Constantine
• 1:09:38
  was taken that's a big city and the
• 1:09:40
  Russians are uh uh claiming that they
• 1:09:43
  have taken that and that really opens up
• 1:09:46
  the lines for the next two cities in
• 1:09:48
  Ukraine.
• 1:09:50
  My argument is that Ukraine is throwing
• 1:09:53
  all of these drones because that's all
• 1:09:56
  they have left are, you know, people
• 1:10:00
  sitting in um
• 1:10:03
  bunker style or basement style or uh
• 1:10:07
  metro rail style bunkers and operating
• 1:10:12
  drones
• 1:10:13
  into Russia
• 1:10:15
  uh or even on the front line. But uh
• 1:10:18
  they don't get any they're not stopping
• 1:10:20
  the front line. The front line isn't
• 1:10:23
  stopping. And and what's odd to me is
• 1:10:26
  they're not defending that Ukraine the
• 1:10:29
  the reason I believe they have nothing
• 1:10:31
  is because Ukraine is not defending its
• 1:10:35
  own country. It is on the attack in
• 1:10:39
  destroying historic artifacts,
• 1:10:41
  destroying uh destroying civilian
• 1:10:44
  infrastructure,
• 1:10:46
  trying to kill regular non-military
• 1:10:50
  citizens,
• 1:10:51
  and uh
• 1:10:54
  that's all they have left. You know,
• 1:10:56
  they can't get any more people. Their
• 1:10:58
  problem is manpower, and they don't have
• 1:11:03
  it. And all they're doing is making it
• 1:11:06
  worse. So you might get some limited
• 1:11:09
  pleasure out of bombing the snot out of
• 1:11:12
  Russia, you know. Well, geez, we can get
• 1:11:15
  anywhere in Russia. Well, good for you.
• 1:11:17
  What What's it going to do? What's how's
• 1:11:19
  that going to end in the end? How will
• 1:11:21
  it be? It's not going to change a damn
• 1:11:24
  thing because Russia's still advancing
• 1:11:28
  on the front lines. Russia is pushing
• 1:11:32
  hard in the summer uh summer offensives
• 1:11:37
  and Ukraine's got nothing left. They
• 1:11:39
  sent Sirki, the the general or the
• 1:11:42
  command general into Constantinovka
• 1:11:46
  himself was in there. So he's managing
• 1:11:51
  this. And if he didn't if he doesn't
• 1:11:53
  save that, I imagine his uh uh his uh
• 1:11:59
  command time will be over. Meanwhile,
• 1:12:03
  you have this the Green Goblin. Uh
• 1:12:06
  nobody talks at all anymore about the
• 1:12:08
  fact that he's a dictator, about the
• 1:12:10
  fact that there's no elections and never
• 1:12:13
  will be. You're not getting elections.
• 1:12:15
  You're done. Zilinski runs that place.
• 1:12:18
  Zilinski is the emperor, but you know
• 1:12:21
  he's going to be the the Stalin of uh
• 1:12:23
  the UK of well Ukraine and not the UK.
• 1:12:26
  He over there they think he's Churchill.
• 1:12:30
  He's Church Hill. That guy is not Church
• 1:12:32
  Hill. Church Hill was better dressed.
• 1:12:35
  You know, it's uh maybe if he put a suit
• 1:12:37
  on once in a while, maybe. But I doubt
• 1:12:40
  it. Um let's see here. I wanted to share
• 1:12:45
  with you the uh
• 1:12:49
  an article, an opinion piece by um
• 1:12:55
  Tariq Amar, a historian from Germany. Um
• 1:13:00
  and he works on the issues of Russia,
• 1:13:02
  Ukraine, Western Europe, you know, stuff
• 1:13:04
  like that. and he he has uh some pretty
• 1:13:07
  good art articles come up and uh I'm
• 1:13:10
  going to share that with you I think
• 1:13:12
  probably the end of the show here
• 1:13:14
  because it's it's not that long.
• 1:13:17
  Let's see.
• 1:13:20
  Um
• 1:13:22
  you can't argue with a man observing the
• 1:13:26
  obvious.
• 1:13:28
  Welcome, Professor Obvious. We say
• 1:13:31
  like that to people. Uh we are living in
• 1:13:34
  unusually perilous times in the Middle
• 1:13:37
  East. The Israeli American infernal duo
• 1:13:40
  have been on a rampage of war, state
• 1:13:43
  terror, all-purpose devastation, and
• 1:13:45
  genocide that with a bonus has also
• 1:13:48
  brought the world economy to the verge
• 1:13:51
  of cardiac arrest by clogging one of its
• 1:13:54
  vital fossil fuel arteries.
• 1:13:58
  Indeed, that particular risk is so
• 1:14:00
  obvious that even Germany's less than
• 1:14:03
  brilliant Friedrich Merittz has long
• 1:14:07
  spotted it. In the Far East, Taiwan is
• 1:14:10
  ruled by a government h so hellbent on
• 1:14:13
  antagonizing their fellow Chinese
• 1:14:16
  mainland that Taipe's political reflexes
• 1:14:20
  seem almost as perverse as those in
• 1:14:22
  Berlin. In the west, you have German
• 1:14:25
  elite, which can't find enough billions
• 1:14:28
  to fork over to Ukraine when Ukraine and
• 1:14:30
  friends blow up Germany's vital
• 1:14:33
  pipelines and lethally its
• 1:14:37
  already ailing economy.
• 1:14:42
  In the east,
• 1:14:44
  there is Taipei getting really, really
• 1:14:47
  angry when the Philippines and Japan
• 1:14:50
  start negotiating away Taiwan's maritime
• 1:14:53
  exclus exclusive economic zone.
• 1:14:58
  Angry that is at Beijing and in the EU,
• 1:15:01
  the garden of values that is really a
• 1:15:04
  swampy jungle of eternal confusion and
• 1:15:07
  corruption. The catastrophe that in its
• 1:15:11
  foreign policy is now obvious enough for
• 1:15:15
  several European bigwigs to gang up on
• 1:15:19
  the ragingly incompetent Kaja Kaya
• 1:15:22
  Kalis. Her tenure as the de facto EU
• 1:15:27
  foreign minister has been so
• 1:15:29
  breathtakingly blundering that her
• 1:15:31
  employers aren't merely itching to kick
• 1:15:34
  her out, but think about in essence
• 1:15:37
  abolishing her job.
• 1:15:40
  Being so horrible at something that you
• 1:15:43
  won't just get fired yourself, but take
• 1:15:45
  the whole shop down with you. Perhaps
• 1:15:48
  only the Baltic girl boss wonder could
• 1:15:50
  pull that one off. But then maybe it's
• 1:15:53
  really all just another power grab by
• 1:15:56
  the EU's German queen, the absolute
• 1:15:59
  queen and US viceroy Ursula line. Either
• 1:16:05
  way, frightful insanity abides.
• 1:16:09
  We could add more scary and grotesque
• 1:16:12
  evidence, but things are clear. It's a
• 1:16:15
  grim picture all around.
• 1:16:18
  I like how he writes. So fair enough if
• 1:16:21
  you feel like being a big sad downer and
• 1:16:24
  doommonger. Where it gets weird is when
• 1:16:27
  you get your scare priorities upside
• 1:16:29
  down. Granted, from the hapless NATO, EU
• 1:16:33
  European perspective, Russia may look a
• 1:16:36
  little unsettling. After all, you once
• 1:16:38
  you've waged years of proxy war,
• 1:16:41
  sanctions, and propaganda war against
• 1:16:44
  Russia, who knows what the mood really
• 1:16:46
  is like in Moscow. As a good NATO EU
• 1:16:50
  apparatic, you certainly would not know
• 1:16:53
  because you have displayed the foresight
• 1:16:56
  of a gnat by proudly not talking or
• 1:16:59
  listening to the Russians is what I've
• 1:17:02
  been saying for years. So when you feel
• 1:17:05
  a little insecure, that might really be
• 1:17:07
  your bad conscience calling in a merely
• 1:17:10
  professional, not moral sense, which you
• 1:17:13
  are likely to lack.
• 1:17:16
  But generally speaking, the worse the
• 1:17:19
  stupidity and mistakes uh have been you
• 1:17:21
  have produced but keep repressing, the
• 1:17:25
  higher the price. Old Sigman Freud
• 1:17:28
  called it effective dability. In
• 1:17:30
  essence, it means that lying to yourself
• 1:17:35
  makes you dim. And once you're BSing
• 1:17:38
  yourself for years as if there's no
• 1:17:41
  tomorrow, you'll turn positively
• 1:17:44
  imbecillic. That's the only way to
• 1:17:46
  explain the fresh wave of transparently
• 1:17:49
  hysterical scaremongering about Russia
• 1:17:51
  in the west in particular this time in
• 1:17:54
  Britain. Thus on the occasion of the
• 1:17:56
  recent St. Petersburg International
• 1:17:58
  Economic Forum centrist mainstream
• 1:18:01
  flagship The Independent came out with a
• 1:18:03
  fascinating piece of fiction
• 1:18:06
  masquerading as analysis under the
• 1:18:09
  clickbait title puffylooking Putin is
• 1:18:13
  acting weirder than ever and that should
• 1:18:15
  chill us to the bone. Readers were
• 1:18:17
  treated to a highly imaginative horror
• 1:18:20
  tale about, in essence, a terrible loose
• 1:18:23
  cannon in the Kremlin, pondering staged
• 1:18:25
  incidents and nuclear terrorism, ready
• 1:18:28
  to blow up the world, or at least
• 1:18:30
  Europe, or maybe just Britain, because
• 1:18:32
  Russia is losing the war. And also, he
• 1:18:36
  looks puffy.
• 1:18:38
  All of this backed up, not really, by
• 1:18:41
  another statement from the high British
• 1:18:43
  military officer that things are as dire
• 1:18:46
  as never before. He and his comrades in
• 1:18:50
  arms, plus a few tweety spy gents and
• 1:18:54
  dames produce these screams at least
• 1:18:56
  twice a month. It seems to be a standing
• 1:18:59
  order. Indeed, there is such an
• 1:19:01
  inflationary overproduction of men and
• 1:19:04
  women in khaki with stiff upper lips
• 1:19:06
  crying big bad Russian wolf that even
• 1:19:09
  Politico has already produced at least
• 1:19:12
  one best of collection gathering the
• 1:19:15
  five dooiest Russian warnings from
• 1:19:17
  Britain's military.
• 1:19:20
  perish the thought that any of this may
• 1:19:22
  have anything to do with fattening
• 1:19:24
  defense budgets or driving up the profit
• 1:19:26
  of his majesty's military-industrial
• 1:19:29
  complex. Generally speaking, the West
• 1:19:31
  has a rich tradition of declaring Russia
• 1:19:34
  vanquished. Its president Putin at
• 1:19:37
  death's door or on the verge of being
• 1:19:39
  regime changed. And of course, Ukraine
• 1:19:42
  on the cusp of winning the war. Yeah,
• 1:19:45
  all three the those things are
• 1:19:47
  completely lies. And it's funny how
• 1:19:49
  often they come up. At the same time,
• 1:19:51
  they predict that Russia will attack all
• 1:19:53
  of Europe tomorrow.
• 1:19:55
  If you're losing a war against Ukraine
• 1:19:58
  and you can't win, how in the hell are
• 1:20:00
  you going to take over Ukraine, Europe
• 1:20:02
  tomorrow? And I don't understand why
• 1:20:05
  people don't get that point. Oh,
• 1:20:07
  Russia's going to kill us by 2030. We
• 1:20:09
  better arm up. Notwithstanding
• 1:20:11
  occasional and intriguing anomalies when
• 1:20:13
  a NATO commander from Trump of course
• 1:20:16
  let slip a fragment of the truth such
• 1:20:19
  that actually Moscow isn't really
• 1:20:22
  looking for conflict
• 1:20:24
  cuz they're not. In short, we're
• 1:20:26
  speaking about the severe and very sad
• 1:20:31
  uh but also funny mental condition known
• 1:20:35
  as rousophrenia. The afflicted live with
• 1:20:38
  an imaginary Schroedering Schroinger
• 1:20:41
  Russia occupying their suffering mind. A
• 1:20:44
  Russia that is always simultaneously
• 1:20:46
  half dead but very alive in a kicking.
• 1:20:49
  So much so that it's about to roll into
• 1:20:51
  their living room on a tank. In that
• 1:20:53
  sense, the silly independent piece is
• 1:20:55
  merely an almost comically perfect
• 1:20:57
  specimen of an absurd genre. Its whole
• 1:21:00
  argument boils down to Russia's
• 1:21:03
  finished. That's why it's coming for us
• 1:21:05
  all.
• 1:21:06
  Yet, there is something special about
• 1:21:08
  this particular emanation of
• 1:21:10
  rousophrenia. It's so easy to debunk,
• 1:21:13
  you must wonder if the author has any
• 1:21:15
  relationship to or respect for empiric
• 1:21:18
  empirical reality at all. Don't believe
• 1:21:21
  it? Look for yourself. The address and
• 1:21:23
  panel Q&A featuring Putin at SPEF were
• 1:21:26
  available online because that's what the
• 1:21:28
  office of the Russian presidency does.
• 1:21:31
  publishes the full video of major events
• 1:21:34
  in which Putin takes part with good
• 1:21:36
  English dubbing. H it's it's it's
• 1:21:39
  respectable English dubbing. Once you do
• 1:21:41
  the finy tiny bit of elementary
• 1:21:44
  factchecking, you see the puffy must be
• 1:21:47
  an elastic term of contemporary British
• 1:21:50
  English. Let's say Sir Kier Starmer is
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  much more obviously lobster red on most
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  days when he doesn't look pale and pasty
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  with fear of the last scandal or defeat
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  he's de des desperately trying to
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  survive.
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  More importantly, you'll also hear Putin
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  give a speech like I gave it to you. If
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  anything determinally factual, even a
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  touch dry, crammed with statistics,
• 1:22:16
  clearly worked out and balanced
• 1:22:18
  language. Whether you love or hate, like
• 1:22:20
  or dislike demand, the cornered loose
• 1:22:22
  cannon, the independent pretends to have
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  spotted is pure shameless fiction.
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  Likewise, Putin's Q&A response to a
• 1:22:30
  disingenuous public letter by Ukraine's
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  leader was certainly not friendly, that
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  indeed he would be disturbingly
• 1:22:37
  inadequate and in part deservedly
• 1:22:39
  costic. But it was also calm and
• 1:22:41
  serious, pointing out the Kiev regime's
• 1:22:43
  primitive behind-the-scenes maneuvering.
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  I'm not going to have time to finish
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  this. What we should really be afraid of
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  is the West with respect to Russia and
• 1:22:52
  not one of its so-called elites.
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  I enjoyed you being here today. Hope you
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  had a very good day and you have
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  continue to do so in uh wonderful
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  central