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Apparently Superpowers Need Ukraine Welfare: McConnell, King Charles, Iran Oil, and Europe’s Economic Hangover Arrive Right on Schedule with Receipts · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Hello, good morning, welcome.
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  I am Samuel Trapp.
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  This is International Flavor.
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  You are listening to DAM Radio and damn
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  glad to have you.
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  I'm damn glad you are indeed listening.
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  Tell you what, we've got some...
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  You know, I really would like to find
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  out where these girls are.
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  I listen to them all, fairly regularly, but
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  I don't know where they're from.
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  It seems to me that they are...
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  It's a musical group of girls that, I
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  don't know, 30s maybe, singing in the in
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  the villages in the outskirts of either Russia
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  or Ukraine, and they're called in, you know,
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  basically white gold.
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  Let's see.
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  Let's find out where they are from though,
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  because that would be interesting to know.
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  They, well, it's a white, it's a, you
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  know, the white rose.
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  They're from, oh, Norilsk, Siberia.
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  Wow.
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  Well, they're always singing songs from the villages.
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  I mean, it's really, they're really good.
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  And now, of course, it's all in Russian,
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  but I always wondered, because they dress in
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  these folksy sorts of outfits, you know, when
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  will I play a song or two from
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  theirs today?
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  Just because I listen to them, you know,
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  rather frequently, and they have some good stuff.
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  And I like listening to stuff anyway.
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  Let's see.
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  We're gonna get into some news today.
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  It's been King Charles, you know, he's been
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  here, and we've got U.S. senators talking
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  about superpower status depending on Ukrainian aid.
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  This is entertaining.
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  Okay.
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  And of course, leave it to the genius
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  that is Mitch McConnell.
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  Oh, my God.
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  This is the guy that wrote the book
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  talking about how he got into politics, selling
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  pizzas to his, you know, buy-in votes,
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  basically, in Republican Mitch McConnell blasting Donald Trump,
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  claiming he has continued Joe Biden's strategy of
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  failing to meet Kibb's needs.
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  Now, what the hell does McConnell know about
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  Russia or Ukraine, for that matter?
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  I mean, he's never said anything reasonable about
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  this.
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  They don't even have any current pictures of
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  this guy.
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  Where is he these days?
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  The U.S. must expand its support for
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  Ukraine, says he, if it wants to preserve
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  its status as a global superpower.
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  I get it.
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  So we lose our superpower status if we
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  don't give money to a B.S. war,
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  to a B.S. leader of, frankly, now
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  a B.S. country that, you know, they're
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  so corrupt.
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  And if there's anything positive, somebody call and
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  argue with me.
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  I'd love to hear the opposing sides of
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  this, you know, without claiming, by the way,
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  you can't claim the B.S. that we
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  all know is now B.S. You can't
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  claim Putin wants to take over the world,
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  OK?
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  He's like the brain and Donald Trump is
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  pinky.
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  And what are we going to do today,
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  brain?
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  What do we do every day, pinky?
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  We're going to take over the world.
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  Well, Mitch McConnell, you know, would be a
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  much better pinky than the old Trumpster, actually,
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  because it implies idiocy.
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  And if you believe that you can't be
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  a superpower without giving money to Ukraine, you
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  got troubles.
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  So the veteran lawmaker and former Senate majority
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  leader, glad he's not any more, criticized military
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  officials in the administration of the old Trumpster
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  for carrying out the policy of shifting the
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  burden of Ukraine assistance onto European NATO allies
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  in an op-ed published by The Washington
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  Post yesterday.
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  This is great.
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  Americans, according to him, can't learn from a
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  war if they can't properly observe it.
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  What the hell does that mean?
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  I mean, seriously, we got to go watch
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  it now.
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  We got to be embedded with these guys
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  and watch them lose.
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  This is what we got to do.
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  Nonsense.
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  We can't learn from a war if we
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  can't observe it.
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  Right.
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  He's calling for more military trainers to be
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  sent to Ukraine so they can witness the
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  conflict up close.
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  You go, McConnell.
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  Why don't you hike your ass over there
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  and go check it out?
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  You want to send people over there for
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  a losing cause?
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  Let's do it.
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  Why are we so hell-bent on losing
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  causes in America?
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  I don't get it.
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  Why do we got to take on these
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  war postures that we can't win?
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  You can't win in Ukraine against Russia.
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  It's not happening.
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  And we're not committing.
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  It's not going to happen.
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  Americans don't want to die for Ukrainians.
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  It's no longer, Mr. McConnell, about democracy.
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  That fib has been gone long ago.
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  Okay.
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  And certainly, with yesterday's approval of another 90
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  days of martial law till August 2nd in
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  Ukraine, we are far from over with this
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  war.
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  Ninety billion dollars and another ask for 19
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  more from the old zillioni goblin.
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  This stress is different.
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  Green goblin.
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  It would be zillioni goblin.
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  And so it's good stuff, Maynard.
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  He's calling for more military planners so they
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  can witness the conflict up close and better
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  understand the use of drones in modern warfare.
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  If you don't get it by now, no
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  trip to Ukraine is going to help you.
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  Start putting your money in drones.
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  Drones can hold off the sixth fleet.
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  Drones can hold off the Gerald Ford, the
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  who else is over there?
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  I forget which one.
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  The George Bush is over there.
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  The Abraham Lincoln.
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  Isn't it?
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  The three, there's three aircraft carriers and they're
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  being held off by what?
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  Drones.
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  Yeah, they're being held out of the Straits
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  of Hormuz by drones, people.
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  So let's go witness the conflict up close
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  and better understand the use of drones in
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  modern warfare.
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  China.
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  No, no.
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  Let's throw China in the mix too.
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  He says, is doubtlessly watching this conflict closely
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  as it refines its military investments and plans.
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  And what is our one and a half
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  trillion dollars doing for this?
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  You know, what about us as we refine
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  our own military investments?
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  You get, did you get your chunk, Mr.
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  McConnell?
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  We're sure you did.
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  If we're keen on remaining the world's preeminent
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  superpower, we shouldn't let get this unelected defense
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  officials determine us leadership and obstruct deepening ties
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  with Ukraine's innovative military and industrial base.
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  You're picking the wrong side.
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  You moron.
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  This is nuts.
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  McConnell singled Pentagon undersecretary of war for policy,
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  Elbridge Colby, accusing him of withholding congressionally approved
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  assistance for Ukraine and insisting that real Americans
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  back continued support.
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  Listen, I'm a real American.
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  And I know that the vast majority of
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  us are tired of these BS wars and
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  these we do not.
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  And we're real Americans.
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  So are you a real American?
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  Do you even know what a real American
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  is any longer?
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  Somehow?
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  I don't think so.
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  Real Americans do not back continued support for
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  Ukraine.
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  They might have when they were foolishly wandering
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  around in 2022, waving Ukrainian flags and knew
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  nothing.
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  But now the majority of the people know
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  the scam that's been perpetrated, not only on
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  us, but on the rest of the world
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  that Vladimir Putin is not the bad guy.
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  You know, you don't just get to go
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  out and pick a bad guy.
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  And that's it.
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  McConnell.
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  Well, wait a second.
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  Trump, who ran for a second term pledging
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  to scale back aid to Ukraine, repeatedly criticized
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  Joe Biden for directing U.S. resources toward
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  a conflict with Russia.
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  McConnell argued that both approaches ultimately fail to
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  give Ukraine what it needs.
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  They just got 90 billion.
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  What more do you need, for God's sake?
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  What was Russia's budget last year for what
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  it what is?
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  I forget.
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  I forget the number.
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  So I'm going to look it up.
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  What is Russia's annual military budget?
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  OK, let's let's do this.
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  Russia's military spending surged due to the Ukraine
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  war with the twenty twenty four budget at
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  six to seven percent of its GDP or
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  one hundred and twenty five to one hundred
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  and forty nine billion dollars.
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  Twenty twenty five expenditures were around one hundred
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  and sixty billion, one tenth of what the
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  United States spends.
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  Of course, they spend it far more wisely.
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  Did you hear that everybody's switching to South
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  Korean arms?
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  All the Europeans, they canceled a bunch of
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  fighter jet things from the United States, Canada's
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  canceling stuff, and also they are running scenarios
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  now with that.
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  I believe what's going to happen is they're
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  going to expand the EU to turn it
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  into a military alliance as well, because Russia
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  doesn't object to Ukraine being part of the
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  EU.
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  But the EU, if they're they're starting to
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  do all these analysis of whatever.
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  And the the defense pact of the EU
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  is actually stronger than the one of NATO.
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  And so what they're going to do is
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  they're holding all these exercises now without America,
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  without American support.
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  And they're starting to hold all these.
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  There's a EU summit that went on over
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  the weekend with the old Green Goblin showing
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  up with his hand out as usual.
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  And wonder if old McConnell went to that.
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  Give Ukraine what it needs.
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  McConnell, who has represented Kentucky, get this, since
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  nineteen eighty five, this guy's represented Kentucky.
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  I mean, my entire adult life I joined
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  the army in nineteen eighty five and I
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  was holy shnikes.
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  Yeah, that was a good a good 40
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  years ago.
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  Isn't that nuts?
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  Crazy sauce.
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  He has built his reputation as a political
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  operator and mostly fundraiser.
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  He announced his intention to step down.
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  Holy crap.
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  In February twenty twenty four, following a string
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  of public health episodes.
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  And now he serves as the on the
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  chair of the Senate Rules Committee, although he
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  publicly endorsed Trump's reelection bid.
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  Reports have suggested that in private he is
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  sharply critical of the old Trumpster and calls
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  him a despicable human being, unfit for office.
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  Well, that's what I think you are and
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  have been for years.
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  That's what I think.
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  And not that I'm a huge Trump supporter.
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  I'm not a big detractor, but certainly on
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  the international side, I am against them all.
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  But, you know, you can't call Trump a
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  human, a despicable human being without looking in
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  the freaking mirror, dude.
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  And according to a biography by journalist Michael
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  Tackett, Russia maintains that any Western aid to
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  Ukraine, all it does is prolong the conflict,
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  but will not alter its outcome.
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  Moscow says that Kiev has a vested interest
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  in rejecting peace talks to keep getting the
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  cash.
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  To ensure the continued supply of funding so
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  that corrupt officials all over the planet can
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  benefit from it, embezzle from it and do
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  all kinds of stuff.
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  Here, get this.
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  Here's another exciting story from another lunacy, Julie
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  Davis, who's Julie Davis, you might say.
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  She looks like she's about 12.
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  So I don't know if that's a good
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  thing or a bad thing, but she's a
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  U.S. envoy to Ukraine, right?
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  She's going to leave her post in protest
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  over dwindling aid to Kiev.
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  Acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Julie Davis
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  is going to leave her post over disagreements
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  with Donald Trump regarding his waning support for
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  the country, says the Financial Times, and cites
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  three people familiar with the matter.
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  State Department confirms Davis' departure, but denied that
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  she was leaving because of differences with the
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  president.
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  Ambassador Davis has been a steadfast proponent to
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  the Trump administration's efforts to bring about a
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  durable peace between Russia and Ukraine.
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  Well, Ms. Ambassador, what the hell have you
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  done to stop this war?
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  Anything?
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  Are you for it?
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  Probably so.
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  Let's see, that was a statement by Tommy
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  Piggott in a statement he said on Tuesday.
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  He said that Ms. Davis will depart Kiev
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  in June.
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  Davis has served as charged affairs in Ukraine
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  since May 2025, following the resignation of her
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  predecessor, former ambassador Bridget Brink, who accused Trump
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  of appeasement toward Russia.
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  Unfortunately, the policy since the beginning of the
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  Trump administration has been to put pressure on
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  the victim.
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  Aw, the victim.
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  Ukraine is nothing but a victim here, right?
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  So bomb a bunch of Russians for eight
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  years in your own country, kill them all,
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  refuse to allow them to speak their own
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  language.
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  In fact, the EU says they can't come
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  in unless they protect minority rights, including those
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  of ethnic Russians.
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  Yeah, well, let's figure that gonna happen in
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  Ukraine, right?
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  Rather than, oh, we don't want to blame
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  it on the victim, Ukraine, rather than on
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  the aggressor, Russia.
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  And Brink wrote this in her op-ed
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  in the Detroit Free Press shortly after resigning.
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  Everybody has to leave.
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  And then right there, tell all stories, sell
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  a book, make some money.
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  Wonder if she has a book.
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  Trump has angered many in Kiev and the
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  EU by suggesting that Ukraine may, they will,
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  there's no may about it, have to make
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  concessions to Russia, including potentially, see, they always
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  throw it in the possible, could potentially, maybe,
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  ceding some territory.
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  That's what Merz said yesterday.
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  Or was it Saturday?
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  I don't remember.
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  The story was yesterday.
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  He also criticizes, does our Trump, Zelensky, the
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  Green Goblin, who he once branded a dictator,
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  which he is, and he's corrupt, which he
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  is.
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  Everybody in his team has been corrupt.
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  He has to keep rotating through and finding
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  somebody that can hide it a little better
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  than the last one.
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  The US mediated several rounds of negotiations between
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  Russia and Ukraine through 2025, but they did
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  not result in any breakthroughs.
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  Big surprise if you refuse to give up
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  some territory.
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  Trump also broke with the Western diplomatic boycott
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  of Russia by hosting President Putin in Alaska
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  in August of 2025.
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  Isn't that crazy?
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  Let's share about Mr. Merz, who said the
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  exact same thing, is Ukraine might have to
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  cede some territory.
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  Now, he's really frightened over what's going on
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  in his country, so we'll give him a
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  little bit of pass here.
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  He's normally all hawk.
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  He and Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham would
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  fit in the same room together.
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  You know, more, more, more war, please.
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  And we got to have more war.
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  We should get counseling.
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  Let's all go get counseling because there's no
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  war going on that we can, you know,
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  that American troops aren't on the ground in
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  Ukraine.
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  Well, they are, but, you know, secretly.
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  But we haven't sent enough training, you know,
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  training sergeants over there.
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  You know, I was trained in NCO, and
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  I suppose they could send me over there.
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  You know, I'll train them how to surrender.
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  How to give up your territory.
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  Let's end the war.
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  How about that?
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  People are dying, who don't want to fight,
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  who get little training, and they get thrown
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  out onto the meat lines and slaughtered.
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  That's it.
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  Russia is having similar problems now.
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  I was reading some, some articles that said
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  that they're, they're considering more
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  mobilization efforts.
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  And there were stories.
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  One of the, one of the guys on,
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  was it Solovyov?
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  I can't remember where I heard it, but
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  I was watching the show and they said
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  that some of these, some of these contracts,
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  and you see signs for them when you
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  go to Russia, you see all kinds of
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  signs for them.
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  And they say, you know, $8 million bonus
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  to, to sign up.
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  I assume you don't get it till the
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  end.
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  I don't know.
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  But why would you want it until the,
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  I mean, you'd prefer it at the end,
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  I would say.
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  And so, if you could, you know, sign
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  up, then they're extending contracts, is what I
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  hear.
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  That they're extending these contracts.
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  Oh, this is really cool.
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  Look what I'm watching on, on JR's TV
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  spread up here.
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  Mother's Day cookie boxes.
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  Order them now at keksi.com.
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  It's K-E-K-S-I.
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  But you know what keksi means?
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  Cakes.
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  It's cakes in Russian.
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  Keksi.
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  And if they're Russian made, they're gonna be
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  good, these cookie boxes.
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  Because they have some very good treats over
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  there.
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  Tasty, tasty.
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  We do too, of course.
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  But if you'd like a different sort of
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  flavor, they make them, they make different, you'd
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  be surprised how different the food is.
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  But it's very, very tasty.
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  Uh, let's see.
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  But according to Mertz, an eventual peace deal
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  will require concessions by Kiev.
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  Now, he said this.
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  Trump has said this.
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  Now he said it.
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  Ukraine may have to accept the territorial realities
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  on the ground.
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  Who's been saying that?
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  Peskov, Lavrov, Zakharova, Putin, uh, who else?
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  Medvedev.
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  Pick a, pick a number of them.
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  Trump, any reasonable person has been saying it
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  for years, because they know the realities on
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  the ground.
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  Moscow maintains that for a lasting peace, Kiev
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  must pull its soldiers from the regions of
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  Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, Zaporizhia, as well as recognized
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  Russian new territories, including Crimea.
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  All the regions overwhelmingly voted to join the
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  Russian Federation of 2014-2022.
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  And we know all this stuff.
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  Um, the annual budgets could go back to
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  normal.
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  Annual budgets for military spending don't have to
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  be 1.5 trillion dollars when you're nearly
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  40 trillion dollars in debt.
• 22:54
  I think that is sorely depressing.
• 23:00
  That is what I think.
• 23:02
  So, um, I'm not going to, uh, I'm
• 23:08
  not going to, I don't know what, make
• 23:14
  that an appropriate, uh, positive thinking, because I
• 23:19
  don't think positive about it at all.
• 23:22
  This war needs to be over, as does
• 23:24
  the one in Iran.
• 23:25
  Well, don't get me started on that.
• 23:27
  I had a, uh, well, you know what?
• 23:29
  That's going to be part two of the
• 23:31
  show.
• 23:31
  And so I either should play the song
• 23:33
  I was going to tell you about now.
• 23:35
  I also wanted to tell you about, um,
• 23:38
  uh, I'm not sure when the interview is
• 23:40
  going to come up.
• 23:41
  We're still, uh, hemming and hawing about the
• 23:43
  interview, but I'm supposed to be interviewed by
• 23:46
  a journalist I met in Kazan.
• 23:48
  And I've had, uh, three of them contact
• 23:51
  me in the last several weeks.
• 23:54
  And, uh, uh, I got one from, um,
• 23:59
  this journalist who wants to interview me about
• 24:03
  my impressions of Russia last year and, you
• 24:05
  know, all that other stuff and, and talk
• 24:07
  about what is going, you know, what is
• 24:10
  going on in American's impressions of, uh, war
• 24:16
  and stuff like that in Ukraine and Iran.
• 24:19
  And then I had another girl start, um,
• 24:22
  uh, swapping, uh, shorts with me.
• 24:28
  Um, shorts is probably the wrong word.
• 24:30
  Um, the snippets of, of, of, uh, audio
• 24:34
  and video, uh, conversation where since, you know,
• 24:40
  we're eight, nine hours apart, depending on what
• 24:43
  area of Russia you're in and depending upon
• 24:46
  what, uh, um, they don't do, um, daylight
• 24:53
  savings time over there.
• 24:55
  And so depending on what time of year
• 24:57
  it is, so it changed around, you got
• 24:59
  to pay attention to that thing or you
• 25:00
  always miss out on what it was.
• 25:02
  And she, she, um, ever since the Ukraine,
• 25:06
  uh, not Ukraine, the Iranian thing started the
• 25:12
  call I got, uh, or the message I
• 25:14
  got, um, March 1st, you know, the day
• 25:17
  after this, uh, attacks by Israel shortly followed,
• 25:21
  you know, by the U S jumping on
• 25:25
  board, uh, and been bombing the crap and
• 25:27
  decapitating and killing everybody.
• 25:29
  And she, she calls and, um, she says
• 25:32
  to me that, you know, they, uh, are
• 25:38
  killing civilians.
• 25:40
  How do you feel about that?
• 25:42
  That, uh, Trump, you know, what do, what
• 25:44
  do Americans think about this?
• 25:46
  And I really want to know, she goes,
• 25:49
  do you support this?
• 25:50
  You know, and I don't never have, but,
• 25:53
  but it's still a question that people would
• 25:55
  want to know if they meet you over
• 25:57
  there, you know, they think you're a normal
• 25:59
  person and then, uh, uh, oh, get this
• 26:03
  scientists are calling for a ban on boiling
• 26:05
  lobsters alive.
• 26:10
  And the justice department is readopting the firing
• 26:14
  squad.
• 26:15
  Well, now that I am not sure.
• 26:20
  Oh, no.
• 26:21
  Why would they do that?
• 26:21
  I suppose you'd put a squad because I
• 26:23
  guess you could all argue that, um, I
• 26:27
  didn't shoot.
• 26:28
  I didn't kill him.
• 26:29
  I had blanks in my, in my gut.
• 26:31
  Maybe they put, I don't know how that
• 26:33
  works.
• 26:33
  I wonder how the firing squad actually works
• 26:36
  and that, you know, you want to be
• 26:38
  a firing squad is coming back.
• 26:44
  Oh, I don't know about that.
• 26:47
  Um, I, I'm not sure I I'd have
• 26:50
  to really review my, uh, my, uh, my
• 26:54
  own thoughts on that matter because, um, truly
• 26:57
  I'm not so positive on all of that.
• 27:01
  Where is, we're going to go, um, take
• 27:04
  a short break and come back and I
• 27:06
  want to bring for you, I'm either going
• 27:08
  to play maybe some or even all of
• 27:12
  this.
• 27:13
  Um, Vladimir Vysotsky is one of my favorites.
• 27:17
  I went to a, uh, a, um, museum
• 27:22
  of his, and he was very, very popular
• 27:24
  in the, um, in the Soviet era.
• 27:28
  He died quite some time ago.
• 27:31
  And, uh, uh, but his music was always,
• 27:35
  uh, quite popular.
• 27:36
  Um, I listened to a, uh, uh, something
• 27:41
  called Kojira, if you ever get a chance
• 27:43
  to listen to that.
• 27:44
  Yesterday, I told you about OTA, O-T
• 27:46
  -T-A, the orchestra and the Royal Safari.
• 27:50
  That was some really good stuff.
• 27:51
  And here's a pure flamenco that I was
• 27:53
  listening to also.
• 27:55
  It kind of randomly goes through and picks
• 27:57
  some of these, uh, some of these songs
• 28:00
  for me.
• 28:02
  And, uh, uh, you know, it just plays
• 28:05
  and I, and I picked the ones that
• 28:06
  I, that I think are pretty, pretty cool,
• 28:09
  but I'm going to play for you the
• 28:11
  group that I was telling you about called
• 28:14
  Belya Zlata.
• 28:16
  And, uh, it's, uh, a Russian folk ensemble.
• 28:21
  And, uh, there was, uh, a lilac and
• 28:26
  here's what we're going to play.
• 28:27
  This is a pretty song, regardless if you
• 28:30
  understand the words or not, and the girls
• 28:32
  sing it quite well.
• 28:34
  So here you go.
• 28:37
  What's interesting to me is that that song
• 28:40
  is, uh, actually, I mean, seriously done live
• 28:44
  while they're walking down a village road.
• 28:50
  You hear the wind blowing in the background
• 28:53
  and whatnot.
• 28:53
  Somebody is obviously in front of them with
• 28:55
  a camera and a microphone, you know, on
• 28:58
  a, on a boom or something walking in
• 29:00
  front of them.
• 29:01
  But, uh, it's, I mean, that's, that's four
• 29:06
  girls, one balalaika.
• 29:07
  That's it.
• 29:08
  And, uh, it's, uh, uh, just amazing that
• 29:13
  you can come up with a sound like
• 29:16
  that, you know, of a nice, clean Russian
• 29:19
  song called, uh, uh, Siren, Siren.
• 29:24
  And, uh, it's, uh, uh, Belya Zlata, which
• 29:32
  means basically, uh, it's a little rose, but
• 29:36
  it's white rose.
• 29:37
  Okay.
• 29:38
  And, uh, but there you have it.
• 29:40
  Um, good stuff.
• 29:44
  Maynard.
• 29:45
  We're going to go to Germany is tumbling
• 29:48
  once again into creases, but we want to
• 29:52
  talk about the Charles, the King Charles jokes
• 29:56
  about burning of the white house, the British
• 29:59
  Monarch commented on Donald Trump's decision to demolish
• 30:04
  the historic East wing to construct a ballroom.
• 30:09
  King Charles, the third cracked a joke about
• 30:12
  us president Trump's controversial white house ballroom, comparing
• 30:17
  it to the burning of the iconic building
• 30:20
  by the British troops in 1814.
• 30:24
  He also issued what was widely seen as
• 30:27
  a subtle rebuke of Trump's criticism of NATO
• 30:30
  amid friction in the U S UK ties.
• 30:33
  I heard that he touched him and that
• 30:35
  was a big no-go that he's not
• 30:37
  supposed to touch the King.
• 30:39
  And he did in October, 2025, the Trump
• 30:42
  administration demolished the historic white house East wing
• 30:46
  to build what the president said would be
• 30:49
  a privately funded grand Bali ballroom.
• 30:53
  The project surprise surprise met regulatory pushback.
• 30:58
  Oh my God.
• 31:00
  Regulators they're everywhere.
• 31:02
  You can't swing a dead cat without hitting
• 31:05
  a regulator.
• 31:07
  But the controversy escalated on Monday after Senator
• 31:11
  Graham, good old Senator Graham advocated for legislation
• 31:16
  to fund the construction with more than 300
• 31:20
  million in tax payer money.
• 31:23
  Of course, Graham is always about spending money
• 31:26
  as long as he gets his chunk pushed
• 31:30
  back into his campaign to continue to run
• 31:33
  for office.
• 31:35
  Wouldn't that be great.
• 31:36
  He framed it as a national security imperative
• 31:40
  after a gunman tried to storm the white
• 31:43
  house correspondence dinner at the Hilton hotel speaking
• 31:47
  at the white house on Tuesday, Charles humorously
• 31:52
  mentioned the ongoing construction saying, I cannot help
• 31:56
  noticing the readjustments to the East wing.
• 32:00
  I'm sorry to say that we British of
• 32:02
  course made our own small attempt at a
• 32:05
  real estate redevelopment of the white house in
• 32:08
  1814, the reference to the British troops burning
• 32:12
  the building during the war of 1812.
• 32:14
  But how can that be in 1814?
• 32:16
  Hmm.
• 32:17
  Curious.
• 32:18
  You know what we're going to do?
• 32:19
  We're going to try to hear.
• 32:21
  Oh, they're still playing music on that other
• 32:23
  thing.
• 32:23
  Hang on.
• 32:23
  Why is that happening?
• 32:25
  We didn't want that.
• 32:27
  Oh man.
• 32:28
  Where is the old king?
• 32:30
  Let's let's talk about the king here for
• 32:32
  just a second.
• 32:33
  Let's see if his show will come up.
• 32:35
  Ready?
• 32:36
  And if I may say so, it is
• 32:38
  a particular pleasure to be back in this
• 32:40
  wonderful building, the heart of your democracy on
• 32:44
  this occasion, I cannot help noticing the readjustments
• 32:49
  to the East wing, Mr. President, following your
• 32:54
  visit to Windsor castle last year.
• 32:57
  And I'm sorry to say that we British
• 32:59
  of course made our own small attempt at
• 33:02
  real estate redevelopment of the white house in
• 33:05
  1814.
• 33:11
  Well, that was entertaining, wasn't it?
• 33:14
  His actual words.
• 33:16
  We heard him.
• 33:18
  Boy, those British always coming over to bomb
• 33:20
  us, right?
• 33:21
  Or to beat us up.
• 33:23
  He saved a second lighthearted barb for Trump's
• 33:27
  habit of reminding Europeans that the US supposedly
• 33:31
  saved them from speaking German during world war
• 33:34
  two.
• 33:35
  Dare I say that if it wasn't for
• 33:38
  us, you'd be speaking French.
• 33:42
  Charles added in a nod to British's Britain's
• 33:46
  defeat of France in the seven years war,
• 33:49
  which paved the way for British control over
• 33:53
  North America.
• 33:54
  During his visit, King Charles took the opportunity
• 33:58
  to take a subtle swipe at the old
• 34:01
  Trumpster over his criticism of NATO, which escalated
• 34:06
  after the block refused to support the US
• 34:09
  in its war in Iran.
• 34:11
  Charles recalled that the only time NATO invoked
• 34:15
  a mutual defense clause was in the immediate
• 34:18
  aftermath of September 11, 2001.
• 34:23
  Despite the cordiality and jokes being taken as
• 34:27
  intended, the white house posted a video of
• 34:30
  Trump and Charles captioned two Kings, which comes
• 34:36
  amid a standoff in historically close US-UK
• 34:40
  ties.
• 34:42
  Trump has branded UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer
• 34:46
  a coward and called him no Churchill after
• 34:50
  Starmer said the Iran conflict is not our
• 34:54
  war.
• 34:55
  It isn't.
• 34:57
  How you could be any clearer about that?
• 35:01
  It's not.
• 35:02
  It's America's and Israel's, mostly Israel's.
• 35:06
  It's not ours either.
• 35:07
  It shouldn't be.
• 35:08
  But here we are.
• 35:10
  In addition, Washington threatens a big tariff on
• 35:14
  British goods unless London scraps its digital services
• 35:17
  tax on US technology companies.
• 35:23
  Isn't that depressing?
• 35:26
  Isn't that depressing?
• 35:30
  Recent fragile stabilization of EU's largest economy, Germany,
• 35:36
  is being erased in the Iran war.
• 35:40
  Get this.
• 35:41
  This is troubling for Germany, for sure, but
• 35:49
  for the rest of the world also.
• 35:52
  Germany's economy is struggling to stay afloat.
• 35:57
  High energy costs, partly the result of rejecting
• 36:00
  cheap Russian gas, have rendered much of the
• 36:03
  country's heavy industry uncompetitive, while its export orientation
• 36:07
  model has come under pressure from shifting economic
• 36:10
  trends, not the least being rising competition.
• 36:13
  Germany no longer sits alone in its niche
• 36:16
  and it hasn't yet adapted.
• 36:18
  Hey, I watched an economic analysis last night
• 36:24
  and I'm not sure how I feel about
• 36:27
  this.
• 36:27
  Looking at the, I'm going to have to
• 36:32
  do a little more research on this, but
• 36:34
  I believe this, my initial reaction is I
• 36:38
  believe it to be true.
• 36:40
  But I have to have a little more
• 36:45
  research on this.
• 36:47
  But I told you yesterday, the economic aftermath
• 36:51
  of Iran and all that other stuff and
• 36:54
  the effects of, it's been eight weeks now,
• 37:01
  and the last of the shipments of oil
• 37:08
  that went through the Straits of Hormuz are
• 37:11
  arriving in foreign ports now.
• 37:15
  And there's allegedly a bunch of ports going
• 37:20
  to open up in America, that more and
• 37:24
  more are coming to America.
• 37:26
  That's really not the case.
• 37:28
  They're headed north because that isn't sweet crude,
• 37:32
  that is the sour type of crude that
• 37:34
  comes from the Middle East and it's different.
• 37:38
  And the place that you get that, one
• 37:40
  of your alternative places to that, you know
• 37:42
  what, I should see if I can find
• 37:44
  that article for you, because I might just
• 37:47
  play it for you.
• 37:51
  No, it was like 40, it was like
• 37:53
  30 minutes, but the basics of it was
• 37:56
  the following.
• 38:00
  And it was, I watched it last night
• 38:03
  after my, because I had heard a little
• 38:05
  bit of discussion about, look, and a lot
• 38:09
  of people are talking about it, how the
• 38:11
  eight weeks is ending and now the fuel
• 38:15
  has ended, the free fuel that's coming up.
• 38:19
  Now it's fuel that has come through and
• 38:22
  the Chinese, somebody paid 2 million yuan to,
• 38:28
  or $2 million worth of yuan to Iran
• 38:31
  for a shipload and that's off to Far
• 38:36
  East, off to Asia, going over there.
• 38:42
  And now there aren't any more coming out
• 38:47
  of the Middle East.
• 38:49
  The Middle East, the UAE yesterday left NATO,
• 38:53
  NATO, OPEC, left OPEC, and they say they're
• 38:56
  going to take a land route and maybe
• 38:59
  build a pipeline to ship to a port
• 39:03
  south of the Straits of Hormuz.
• 39:07
  And they are going to leave NATO because
• 39:09
  they don't want to have, or NATO, shit,
• 39:11
  twice, OPEC, they don't want to leave OPEC,
• 39:14
  or they're going to leave OPEC so they
• 39:16
  can produce as much as they like of
• 39:21
  oil and they're going to need to change
• 39:25
  it around.
• 39:25
  So this is having a large effect on
• 39:27
  other things.
• 39:28
  Also, the crude that comes out of the
• 39:31
  Middle East is not the same as the
• 39:33
  crude that comes out of the U.S.
• 39:35
  or out of Venezuela.
• 39:38
  It's not the same.
• 39:40
  And the refineries are built to match the
• 39:43
  source, right?
• 39:45
  And where do you think the matching source
• 39:48
  comes from?
• 39:49
  Canada.
• 39:50
  So Canada has a matching source and they
• 39:53
  are developing a port to take everything west
• 39:56
  and their imports have gone up astronomically, or
• 40:00
  exports, I mean, to China especially, they're headed
• 40:03
  west.
• 40:04
  And they're creating a, they have a mountain
• 40:07
  pipeline that goes up and all the way
• 40:09
  to the west coast and then they're starting
• 40:11
  to ship things out of there and they're
• 40:13
  going to develop their northern ports.
• 40:15
  And so they're going to try to get
• 40:19
  alternatives and this has really, and they're not
• 40:24
  shipping it out of eastern ports.
• 40:25
  That's not happening.
• 40:27
  They're going to end up taking it in
• 40:29
  Yuan before too long, just like everybody else,
• 40:32
  and taking their money in Yuan and transferring
• 40:35
  it over.
• 40:35
  This is what's going to happen.
• 40:37
  It might take a little while, but it's
• 40:39
  going to happen.
• 40:39
  And so Canada is going this way.
• 40:44
  The effect on the oil markets are going
• 40:47
  to be astronomical.
• 40:48
  And one of the key facts that I
• 40:51
  heard yesterday was that I need to verify
• 40:55
  for sure and to make sure that it
• 41:00
  is there.
• 41:00
  But one of the facts that was put
• 41:02
  out on that program and on one other
• 41:05
  one was that Donald Trump, what he has
• 41:09
  been saying that we, and he keeps saying
• 41:12
  it this way, and this is the way
• 41:14
  I always hear it too.
• 41:15
  We are a net energy exporter.
• 41:19
  We're a net energy exporter.
• 41:21
  The oil isn't going to hurt us any.
• 41:23
  We have our own.
• 41:25
  Well, according to several economists, several other sources,
• 41:35
  that just isn't true.
• 41:37
  We are a net energy exporter, but we
• 41:43
  are not even remotely a net oil exporter.
• 41:50
  Natural gas, hell yeah, but we don't put
• 41:54
  natural gas in our cars.
• 41:56
  They exist.
• 41:57
  Those type of cars over here, they do
• 42:00
  exist, natural gas cars, but we don't have
• 42:04
  very many of them, and that's not how
• 42:07
  our cars are run.
• 42:10
  So Trump saying that we are a net
• 42:13
  energy exporter is true.
• 42:16
  That's true, but it includes all forms of
• 42:20
  energy and not only oil.
• 42:24
  So that I think we need to have
• 42:32
  a look at, and I was thinking about
• 42:34
  doing it for tomorrow's show, last one of
• 42:37
  the week, and then Civic Outlaws on Friday,
• 42:43
  and I didn't have time to dig into
• 42:45
  it last night.
• 42:46
  I'm working on a couple of projects that
• 42:48
  are of a little more importance to me,
• 42:51
  but what is happening in all these markets
• 42:55
  that do not have the ability to create
• 43:02
  their own energy, they're really in bad shape,
• 43:08
  and Germany is one of them, and so
• 43:11
  after consecutive years of negative growth in 2023
• 43:15
  and 2024, Germany was able to show a
• 43:19
  marginal gain in 2025, and this tentative emergence
• 43:24
  from the doldrums was a massive increase in
• 43:28
  government spending aimed at infrastructure and defense, but
• 43:33
  German exports declined for the third straight year
• 43:37
  in 2025, a sign that structural weakness has
• 43:42
  certainly not gone away, but whatever fragile recovery
• 43:48
  may have taken root, whether it was governmental
• 43:52
  or otherwise, it's been wiped out by the
• 43:55
  war in Iran and subsequent economic mayhem that
• 43:59
  that has produced worldwide.
• 44:02
  A number of indicators in Germany are flashing
• 44:04
  at multi-year low.
• 44:07
  Gfk consumer sentiment.
• 44:10
  German consumers are suddenly much less positive about
• 44:15
  where things are headed these days.
• 44:17
  The consumer climate index fell to minus 33
• 44:23
  .3 in May, the lowest level in two
• 44:29
  years.
• 44:30
  The drop from April is the steepest monthly
• 44:33
  decline since 2022, driven by rising energy prices
• 44:39
  and massive geopolitical uncertainty.
• 44:44
  The data is showing that households are growing
• 44:46
  pessimistic about their finances, income expectations are plunging,
• 44:52
  and many fear inflation will once again outpace
• 44:56
  wage growth, while the willingness to spend has
• 45:00
  weakened dramatically.
• 45:03
  The propensity to buy dropped to a two
• 45:05
  -year low to uncertainty over rising energy bills.
• 45:09
  The propensity to save, however, remains elevated, indicating
• 45:13
  households are prioritizing financial security and are wary
• 45:18
  of more economic shock to come.
• 45:23
  Yes.
• 45:25
  Germany's services sector has practically fallen, you know,
• 45:31
  in April again as well, with the plunged
• 45:36
  to record lows in the business volume, with
• 45:40
  their sharpest drops in three and a half
• 45:41
  years.
• 45:42
  Things are not going well.
• 45:45
  Inflation.
• 45:46
  Nothing strikes fear into consumers more than a
• 45:49
  decline in their own purchasing power, and that's
• 45:52
  what's happening.
• 45:53
  Inflation in Germany.
• 45:54
  By the way, this is only in a
• 45:56
  representative.
• 45:57
  It's all over Europe, and it's your friend
• 45:59
  here in America too, by the way.
• 46:03
  It's not your friend, but inflation in is
• 46:06
  picking up again.
• 46:07
  The Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices rose in
• 46:10
  March from 1.9 to 2.8 year
• 46:14
  -on-year.
• 46:15
  This uptick comes after a period in 2025
• 46:18
  when inflation, you know, appeared to have subsided,
• 46:23
  and March's reading was the highest since 2024.
• 46:27
  And this is the due in prices of
• 46:30
  energy, which jumped by 7% compared to
• 46:34
  a year earlier.
• 46:36
  And it's not looking good.
• 46:37
  Human, the German inflation list is way up.
• 46:44
  Way the hell up.
• 46:46
  The Indicator of Economic Sentiment, a survey of
• 46:49
  financial market experts that measures expectations for the
• 46:53
  economy, over the next six months, tumbled 84
• 46:56
  points in March.
• 47:00
  And the drop is notable as it is
• 47:02
  relatively stabilized through 2025, but it came right
• 47:06
  after the war was started up in Iran.
• 47:09
  Germany has never really recovered from the shock
• 47:12
  of 2022, which was overlaid on top of
• 47:15
  an erosion in the country's economic competitiveness.
• 47:18
  I told you about three, four months ago,
• 47:21
  the largest Volkswagen plant shutting down, and the
• 47:29
  tentative, you know, federal budget spending increasing by
• 47:33
  6.5% from the previous year, helped
• 47:37
  them stay out of it a little bit.
• 47:41
  Looks like the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated
• 47:44
  the Republican map in Texas.
• 47:47
  Now, that's news.
• 47:49
  You know, I'm going to read on that.
• 47:51
  I did an analysis last Friday on civic
• 47:55
  outlaws of the flock cameras, and I've been
• 47:59
  working on something, quite a bit more of
• 48:03
  something that, these video lottery terminals, and I'm
• 48:09
  going to talk some on that this week.
• 48:12
  I'm going to another meeting this week with
• 48:18
  legislators and company people and stuff like that.
• 48:22
  I've been working on this for a little
• 48:23
  bit, and I believe we're going to have
• 48:26
  that topic coming up on Friday for civic
• 48:30
  outlaws, should you get the chance to visit
• 48:34
  that day.
• 48:38
  We come on at 7 a.m. on
• 48:42
  Fridays.
• 48:44
  Let's see.
• 48:45
  We're going to find some, we got a
• 48:50
  couple more songs for you.
• 48:52
  One of my favorite people to listen to,
• 48:56
  where is this one I was listening to
• 48:57
  yesterday?
• 49:02
  This is a little bit, and I'm only
• 49:06
  going to play about three, four minutes of
• 49:09
  it, but it is quite good, and that
• 49:16
  song appears to go on for another six
• 49:19
  minutes.
• 49:19
  That's not going to happen.
• 49:22
  That's just too long.
• 49:23
  Sorry.
• 49:24
  So, we're going to start all over.
• 49:28
  I've looked at some new topics of what
• 49:34
  I was thinking about last night.
• 49:39
  I've got, so last night, I have all
• 49:41
  of these economic posts.
• 49:43
  There were a couple of interesting ones that
• 49:45
  I went through that I wanted to talk
• 49:47
  about, like this Iranian delegation talking badly about,
• 49:52
  a short story version of it would be
• 49:54
  that the U.S. Vice President was called
• 49:58
  21 times by Trump and two times by
• 50:02
  Netanyahu while they were in the alleged mediation,
• 50:09
  or whatever you want to call it, like
• 50:11
  it's going to happen.
• 50:13
  I wanted to focus on a couple of,
• 50:18
  these are important things, but think about this.
• 50:23
  The the U.K. is suddenly incredibly unhealthy.
• 50:34
  Britain is one of only five nations where
• 50:38
  health is significantly worsening and ranks second to
• 50:44
  last in the developed world.
• 50:48
  Healthy life expectancy in the U.K. has
• 50:52
  fallen by about two years to just over
• 50:57
  60 for both men and women, making Britain
• 51:02
  one of only five wealthy nations where people
• 51:05
  live fewer years in good health.
• 51:08
  The findings based on data from the Office
• 51:11
  of National Statistics between 2012 and 2014 and
• 51:15
  2022 and 2024 show the measure drop from
• 51:19
  62.9 years to 60.7 for men
• 51:23
  and 63.7 to 60.9 for women.
• 51:28
  Of the 21 richest countries, the U.K.
• 51:31
  saw the second steepest decline in healthy life
• 51:34
  expectancy.
• 51:36
  Now, that's not life expectancy, it's healthy life
• 51:39
  expectancy.
• 51:40
  Life expectancy is the amount you're supposed to
• 51:43
  live.
• 51:44
  But if the, let's say your life expectancy
• 51:47
  years ago in America was 84 for women,
• 51:50
  82 for men, was what it was.
• 51:54
  And I'm not sure what it is today,
• 51:56
  but they're saying that the healthy portion of
• 51:59
  that would be 64 for women, at least
• 52:04
  in 2014, and 60, it's 60 now.
• 52:10
  So they're saying they got years of unhealthy
• 52:12
  where they're not gonna be healthy.
• 52:16
  And so this is interesting.
• 52:19
  Britain has tumbled from 14th to 20th place
• 52:23
  in these rankings.
• 52:25
  Denmark, Portugal, and Spain have also seen their
• 52:28
  HLE numbers plummet.
• 52:31
  According to this analysis, health and wealth inequality
• 52:37
  has become a major indicator for healthy life
• 52:40
  expectancy, with data showing that those in the
• 52:43
  wealthiest 10% of areas could expect to
• 52:47
  have around 20 more years of good health
• 52:50
  than those in the poorest.
• 52:53
  In London's upscale suburb of Richmond, healthy life
• 52:57
  expectancy for women was 70 years, while in
• 53:01
  the industrial northern port town of Hartlepool, it's
• 53:04
  only 51 years.
• 53:06
  In more than 90% of the areas
• 53:09
  in the UK, HLE now falls short of
• 53:13
  the state pension age of 66 and is
• 53:16
  below 55 in one out of 10 areas.
• 53:19
  London was the only region where the measure
• 53:23
  went up, where it improved.
• 53:26
  The Health Foundation has blamed the decline on
• 53:29
  a combination of poverty, poor housing, obesity, this
• 53:35
  one's crazy, the lingering effects of COVID-19,
• 53:40
  oh boy, and a surge in mental health
• 53:43
  illnesses among young people.
• 53:46
  Andrew Mooney, the think tank's principal analyst says,
• 53:50
  and he warned, of a significant economic cost
• 53:54
  with poor health driving people out of the
• 53:57
  workforce and locking young people out of education,
• 54:01
  employment, and training.
• 54:02
  The Health Foundation has called the findings a
• 54:05
  watershed moment and urges policymakers to treat public
• 54:10
  health as an economic priority.
• 54:15
  Russia's health life expectancy was 63.4
• 54:25
  in 2024, which is above Britain's, but not
• 54:30
  by much, according to Russian health minister Mikhail
• 54:34
  Murashko, and overall life expectancy is 74 years.
• 54:43
  The Kremlin has designated increasing life expectancy to
• 54:48
  81 years by 2036 as a priority.
• 54:53
  I wonder what it is in the United
• 54:54
  States today.
• 54:55
  Okay.
• 54:56
  What?
• 54:58
  Because the numbers I gave you are 10
• 55:01
  years old, the last time I looked was
• 55:03
  a long time ago.
• 55:06
  The life expectancy rate in the US.
• 55:15
  We're going to find out.
• 55:17
  Oh, it's down.
• 55:20
  Oh, well, it says it declined.
• 55:27
  It used to be a lot higher than
• 55:29
  this.
• 55:29
  US life expectancy at birth has risen to
• 55:34
  79 years in 2024 and rebounded to its
• 55:41
  highest.
• 55:43
  At age 65, individuals can expect to live
• 55:47
  an average of 19.7 additional years, 18
• 55:51
  for men and 20 for women.
• 55:54
  Wow.
• 55:55
  Let's see.
• 55:56
  Where is this chart?
• 55:57
  I want to see this chart.
• 56:00
  Boy, they're not making it very easy to
• 56:02
  see, are you?
• 56:04
  Let's see.
• 56:06
  So in 2019, it was women were...
• 56:11
  I wonder how far this thing goes because
• 56:13
  I would have swore that the numbers we
• 56:16
  were using, I suppose it depends on where
• 56:18
  you get your numbers.
• 56:20
  It says it's pre-COVID, it was 81
• 56:26
  for women and only 76 for men, 79
• 56:32
  if you average everyone together at 79.
• 56:36
  And Russia was saying that theirs was 74,
• 56:42
  so about five years lower.
• 56:45
  Let's see.
• 56:48
  I wanted to talk a little bit about
• 56:50
  Bangladesh's Russian-backed nuclear power project.
• 56:54
  Okay.
• 56:55
  They have a four...
• 56:58
  This is huge.
• 56:59
  This is enormous.
• 57:00
  $12.8 billion nuclear power facility.
• 57:05
  And it's a $12.8 billion Roper facility.
• 57:10
  Russia's backed nuclear power project has entered the
• 57:14
  final stage.
• 57:16
  Fuel is being loaded into the first unit
• 57:18
  on Tuesday.
• 57:20
  That was yesterday.
• 57:21
  DACA's Ministry of Science and Technology said the
• 57:23
  next step will be for commercial electricity generation
• 57:27
  to begin gradually on a trial basis located
• 57:31
  at 160 kilometers from the capital DACA.
• 57:34
  The Roper facility is Bangladesh's first nuclear power
• 57:37
  plant and most expensive infrastructure project in South
• 57:42
  Asian country history.
• 57:44
  It is backed by Russia.
• 57:47
  Moscow has financed $11.9 billion of it
• 57:51
  in state loans for the project and estimated
• 57:54
  the total cost to be $12.8 billion.
• 57:58
  The project is being implemented by the Bangladesh
• 58:02
  Atomic Energy Commission and involves the construction of
• 58:06
  two units, each with a capacity of 1
• 58:09
  ,200 megawatts.
• 58:12
  It's a pretty big deal.
• 58:13
  Today, Bangladesh has joined the club of states
• 58:16
  to use peaceful nuclear energy as a reliable
• 58:19
  source of sustainable development, said Ross Adams CEO
• 58:24
  Alexey Likhachev said.
• 58:27
  Might be Likhachev, but they didn't put a
• 58:30
  yo in front of it.
• 58:31
  For Ross Adams, this project is another important
• 58:34
  step in the development of global nuclear power
• 58:37
  and in strengthening friendly relations with foreign partners.
• 58:42
  Now, remember, Russia is also building a six
• 58:46
  reactor nuclear power plant in India, and this
• 58:52
  is a very big deal, what Russia is
• 58:56
  doing.
• 58:57
  I wonder, I mean, are we building any?
• 59:00
  Let's see.
• 59:02
  And remember, in Bangladesh, this is one of
• 59:04
  the places where they are out of fuel,
• 59:08
  basically.
• 59:09
  You ought to see the lines of trying
• 59:12
  to get fuel, and 170 million people in
• 59:16
  Bangladesh with no fuel.
• 59:19
  They can't get gas because of Iran being
• 59:23
  blocked, or the Straits of Hormuz.
• 59:28
  So the project is going to meet up
• 59:31
  to 12% of Bangladesh's, the whole country's
• 59:34
  electricity demand.
• 59:36
  And Russian ambassador to DACA, Alexander Kozin, told
• 59:39
  local media this reflects the country's continued commitment
• 59:43
  to the project.
• 59:44
  Mosul has agreed to the long-term supply
• 59:47
  of nuclear fuel, technical maintenance, management of spent
• 59:51
  nuclear fuel rods, fuels, full-scale electricity generation,
• 59:55
  and integration of the national power grid is
• 59:58
  expected to take about 10 months to a
• 1:00:00
  year.
• 1:00:00
  Bangladesh imports 95% of its energy needs.
• 1:00:08
  Commissioning a single plant is estimated to save
• 1:00:12
  a billion annually in fuel imports.
• 1:00:16
  And so this is crazy.
• 1:00:21
  DACA expects to slash the country's dependence on
• 1:00:24
  coal and gas generation and optimize the national
• 1:00:29
  energy balance with the launch of the Roper
• 1:00:31
  facility.
• 1:00:33
  And coal and oil-powered plants function for
• 1:00:36
  25 to 30 years.
• 1:00:38
  Nuclear plants last about 60, and that lifespan
• 1:00:43
  can be extended for another 30 years with
• 1:00:46
  proper maintenance and refurbishment.
• 1:00:50
  So, you know, you got to take care
• 1:00:53
  of them.
• 1:00:54
  60 years goes by pretty quick, you think.
• 1:00:58
  Crazy, crazy times the Russians are building, and
• 1:01:02
  what are we doing?
• 1:01:05
  Time is indicated.
• 1:01:06
  Remember me talking earlier in the show about
• 1:01:08
  the girl who called me about my thoughts
• 1:01:11
  on what's going on in Iran and what
• 1:01:14
  Americans think about it?
• 1:01:16
  And I said, I'll just listen to my
• 1:01:17
  show.
• 1:01:18
  Of course, she doesn't speak English, so that
• 1:01:20
  kind of makes it a little difficult.
• 1:01:23
  Then she does listen.
• 1:01:25
  I think she does listen to my Sunday.
• 1:01:27
  She said she does that and listens to
• 1:01:30
  my show.
• 1:01:31
  But Democrats in Congress, maybe we should report
• 1:01:35
  this to her.
• 1:01:37
  Democrats in Congress are discussing a lawsuit against
• 1:01:44
  President Trump over the war in Iran, says
• 1:01:47
  Time magazine.
• 1:01:50
  The debate is intensifying as a 60-day
• 1:01:53
  legal deadline, which falls on May 1st, right
• 1:01:57
  around the corner.
• 1:01:59
  The White House has to get congressional authorization
• 1:02:03
  for the war or halt the operation.
• 1:02:06
  White House has not indicated it plans to
• 1:02:09
  seek approval.
• 1:02:09
  Of course they're not.
• 1:02:12
  Nobody's got no luck.
• 1:02:16
  So that's not going to happen.
• 1:02:21
  Democrats say the war violates U.S. law
• 1:02:24
  as Trump initiated it without congressional approval and
• 1:02:28
  could continue operations beyond the legal limit.
• 1:02:33
  However, Democrats are divided over how to respond.
• 1:02:39
  Some, according to Time, and Trump on screen
• 1:02:42
  says, don't rush me about Iran.
• 1:02:46
  Don't rush me.
• 1:02:47
  Yeah, well, OK, we won't.
• 1:02:50
  Congress could have a legal case under exploring
• 1:02:53
  a lawsuit if Trump ignores the deadline.
• 1:02:56
  Oh, boy.
• 1:02:57
  Yeah, lawsuits help, don't they?
• 1:02:59
  Others argue litigation is unlikely to succeed, noting
• 1:03:02
  the courts have historically dismissed such disputes as
• 1:03:07
  political questions.
• 1:03:09
  Party leaders are instead focusing on legislative measures.
• 1:03:13
  Those efforts have repeatedly failed.
• 1:03:15
  War powers resolutions aimed at limiting presidential authority
• 1:03:19
  have been blocked in both the Senate and
• 1:03:22
  the House, and attempts to restrict funding through
• 1:03:24
  amendments to spending bills have also been rejected.
• 1:03:29
  House Democrats introduced articles of impeachments against, put
• 1:03:34
  me in coach, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
• 1:03:37
  over allegation of unauthorized military actions, but the
• 1:03:42
  measure did not advance in the Republican-controlled
• 1:03:47
  chamber.
• 1:03:48
  So Hegseth didn't get put in, coach.
• 1:03:50
  Boy, that's terrible.
• 1:03:53
  The conflict, meanwhile, remains unresolved despite a temporary
• 1:03:57
  ceasefire.
• 1:03:58
  U.S. has rejected Iran's latest proposal and
• 1:04:01
  canceled planned talks, while Tehran refuses to negotiate
• 1:04:05
  under the current conditions.
• 1:04:07
  A U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports
• 1:04:11
  and Iranian restrictions on traffic through the Strait
• 1:04:15
  of Hormuz remain in place.
• 1:04:18
  Amid the stalled diplomacy, Trump has signaled that
• 1:04:21
  he may escalate the conflict, posting a militaristic
• 1:04:26
  image of himself on social media alongside the
• 1:04:31
  caption, No more Mr. Nice Guy.
• 1:04:35
  Iran cannot get their act together.
• 1:04:39
  They don't know how to sign a non
• 1:04:40
  -nuclear deal.
• 1:04:42
  They better get smart soon.
• 1:04:45
  Trump's approval rating is around 40% in
• 1:04:49
  recent polls, with the Iran war itself ranking
• 1:04:53
  among the least popular U.S. military actions
• 1:04:57
  in modern history, and roughly 6 in 10
• 1:05:01
  Americans, including yours truly, saying it was the
• 1:05:06
  wrong decision.
• 1:05:09
  Now, there are some others on this show
• 1:05:13
  that, or not this show, this channel, that
• 1:05:16
  don't believe that.
• 1:05:19
  I wonder whatever happened with this, you know,
• 1:05:21
  did he, he's been arrested, you know, and
• 1:05:24
  he left the federal court building.
• 1:05:26
  This Ganon Ken Van Dyke, the guy who
• 1:05:33
  profited off of Maduro, he bet 33,000
• 1:05:37
  on Polly Market, where he won 400,000.
• 1:05:42
  And because he, that was a good bet.
• 1:05:47
  We're going to have to figure out how
• 1:05:48
  to do that.
• 1:05:49
  You know, I looked into some of that.
• 1:05:53
  Where is this?
• 1:05:55
  I wonder if I can hear this whole
• 1:05:57
  story.
• 1:05:58
  No, I'm not going to play it.
• 1:06:00
  An anti-Semitic attack in London.
• 1:06:03
  Keir Starmer has described the attack as appalling.
• 1:06:08
  And two members of the Jewish community have
• 1:06:13
  been stabbed in an anti-Semitic attack in
• 1:06:16
  London, with the assailant now in custody.
• 1:06:20
  The incident happened in the Golders Green area,
• 1:06:23
  where arsonists set fire to four ambulances operated
• 1:06:28
  by a Jewish volunteer organization a little over
• 1:06:31
  a month ago.
• 1:06:33
  That's anti-Semitic.
• 1:06:36
  But we also have, where did this go?
• 1:06:42
  I wanted to get to Belgium's, so Israel
• 1:06:46
  has been accused.
• 1:06:48
  Israel violence against Palestinians is echoing the Holocaust,
• 1:06:54
  says an ex-Masad chief.
• 1:06:59
  Netanyahu's taken some attacks, friends and neighbors.
• 1:07:02
  Violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the
• 1:07:06
  West Bank echoes attacks on Jews during the
• 1:07:09
  Holocaust and poses an existential threat to Israel,
• 1:07:13
  says former Masad chief Tamir Pardo.
• 1:07:16
  Israeli settlers live in communities built in the
• 1:07:19
  West Bank, a territory Israel captured in 1967.
• 1:07:24
  Palestinians seek as part of a future state.
• 1:07:28
  Successive Israeli governments have backed or tolerated the
• 1:07:32
  settlements.
• 1:07:33
  Pardo spoke on local media on Monday while
• 1:07:37
  touring Palestinian villages that have come under settler
• 1:07:40
  attacks.
• 1:07:41
  My mother was a Holocaust survivor, and what
• 1:07:44
  I saw reminded me of the happened against
• 1:07:48
  Jews in the last century.
• 1:07:50
  What I saw today made me ashamed to
• 1:07:54
  be Jewish.
• 1:07:56
  His comments came amid a surge in settler
• 1:08:00
  violence across the West Bank with groups carrying
• 1:08:03
  out repeated raids on Palestinian communities, torching homes
• 1:08:08
  and vehicles, vandalizing property and assaulting residents, according
• 1:08:14
  to witnesses and human rights organizations.
• 1:08:18
  In the latest incident, two Palestinians, including a
• 1:08:22
  14-year-old schoolboy, were killed last week
• 1:08:26
  after a gunman opened fire near a school.
• 1:08:30
  Attacks occur on a near daily basis and
• 1:08:33
  intensify during the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran
• 1:08:36
  between February 28 and April 8.
• 1:08:40
  Yesh Din recorded 378 incidents in that period.
• 1:08:47
  Eight Palestinians were killed and 200 were injured.
• 1:08:52
  Pardo said the settlers were behind the attacks
• 1:08:56
  and the Israeli government's failure to stop them
• 1:08:59
  were creating the condition for a future October
• 1:09:03
  7 style assault from the West Bank, referring
• 1:09:06
  to Hamas' attack on southern Israel that killed
• 1:09:09
  about 1,200 people and saw 250 taken
• 1:09:12
  hostage.
• 1:09:14
  Israel launched a military camp in Gaza in
• 1:09:16
  response.
• 1:09:18
  More than 72,000 Palestinians were killed and
• 1:09:23
  172,000 injured in Israeli airstrikes and ground
• 1:09:27
  offensive.
• 1:09:28
  The former Mossad chief warned that the violence
• 1:09:31
  unfolding in the West Bank will lead to
• 1:09:34
  similar event, albeit in a different and potentially
• 1:09:37
  more severe form given the region's complexity, adding
• 1:09:41
  that Israel is sowing the seeds for just
• 1:09:45
  such an outcome.
• 1:09:48
  That's really frightening and I don't think we
• 1:09:50
  should support that stuff.
• 1:09:52
  I don't believe it.
• 1:09:54
  A similar topic says that Israel is weaponizing
• 1:09:59
  water in Gaza, according to a medical charity.
• 1:10:04
  Israel is using access to water as a
• 1:10:08
  weapon and a form of collective punishment against
• 1:10:11
  Palestinians in Gaza, according to a report by
• 1:10:14
  international medical charity Doctors Without Borders.
• 1:10:18
  Israel has rejected the claims, of course.
• 1:10:22
  They don't give a crap.
• 1:10:23
  Let them die.
• 1:10:25
  The organization said in a report released Tuesday
• 1:10:28
  that Israel has engineered water scarcity in the
• 1:10:32
  Strip, creating conditions incompatible with human dignity and
• 1:10:36
  survival.
• 1:10:37
  Access to water, sanitation and hygiene has been
• 1:10:40
  severely undermined since the start of the Israeli
• 1:10:43
  offensive in Gaza.
• 1:10:45
  The report highlights a sharp rise in water
• 1:10:47
  shortage-related diseases, including diarrhea, skin infection, lice
• 1:10:51
  and infected wounds.
• 1:10:53
  Additionally, the lack of clean water and sanitation
• 1:10:56
  is worsening malnutrition and severely affecting mental health.
• 1:11:01
  Gaza has no natural freshwater source and relies
• 1:11:04
  on groundwater and seawater, both of which require
• 1:11:07
  treatment.
• 1:11:08
  Much of the infrastructure, including desalinization plants, boreholes,
• 1:11:12
  pipelines, sewer systems, have been rendered inoperable or
• 1:11:15
  inaccessible, according to MSF.
• 1:11:19
  Amid the collapse in the public system, MSF
• 1:11:23
  has become the largest non-governmental water producer
• 1:11:27
  in Gaza, pumping and desalinating groundwater through mobile
• 1:11:32
  units and distributing it by truck to affected
• 1:11:34
  areas.
• 1:11:35
  The report notes that multiple MSF tax trucks
• 1:11:39
  have been attacked by Israeli forces.
• 1:11:43
  The minimum humanitarian threshold is 15 liters of
• 1:11:47
  water per person per day, including 6 liters
• 1:11:50
  for drinking and 9 liters for domestic use.
• 1:11:53
  In Gaza, people are receiving this bare survival
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  level at best, with many unable to access
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  even the minimum safe amount of drinking water.
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  Israel's coordinator of government activities in the territory
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  rejects the report, of course, in a series
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  of posts calling them baseless and factually incorrect.
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  They say that Israel is facilitating, not restricting,
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  water access and cite the operation of four
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  supply lines, infrastructure repair and provision of fuel
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  and electricity for water, and they accuse MSF
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  of biased reporting.
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  Hmm, on the same or similar topic, Naftali
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  Bennett and Yair Lapid combine their parties ahead
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  of elections planned this year.
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  Former Israeli PMs are uniting against Netanyahu and
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  they formed a unified party to get rid
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  of Benjamin Netanyahu.
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  So, Bennett, let's see, 2026 and Yair Lapid
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  into a single title together, led by Bennett,
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  which they described as an effort to consolidate
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  the opposition and improve the chances of the
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  vote, which will be held no later than
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  the end of October.
• 1:13:24
  Bennett told reporters that joining forces was the
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  most Zionist and patriotic act we have ever
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  done for the sake of our country.
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  He said, adding that the era of division
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  is over.
• 1:13:37
  We are standing here together for the sake
• 1:13:39
  of our children.
• 1:13:40
  The state of Israel must change direction.
• 1:13:45
  And widely seen as Netanyahu's most formidable political
• 1:13:51
  rival, that they have joined forces before, ending
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  his 12-year tenure after the 2020 election
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  by forming the short-lived Government of Change.
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  That alliance included the Arab party, Ram, led
• 1:14:08
  by Mansour Abbas, making it the first-time
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  party representing Israeli's Palestinian minority, joined a government
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  coalition.
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  Netanyahu returned to power after winning the November
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  2022 election.
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  New partnership will run as a unified list
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  without formally merging parties, and both have said
• 1:14:30
  they would seek a form of government only
• 1:14:33
  with Zionist oppositions, excluding Arab factions.
• 1:14:38
  Bennett also said his government would advance a
• 1:14:40
  universal conscription law, halt funding for draft evasion,
• 1:14:45
  and introduce an eight-year term limit for
• 1:14:47
  prime minister.
• 1:14:49
  Well, that would be nice, because Israel is
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  trapped in its own security doctrine, you know.
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  They can't get out of it.
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  They, you know, the promise of lasting security
• 1:15:05
  is certainly uncertain.
• 1:15:07
  We should form a portion of the rampart
• 1:15:11
  of Europe and Asia as an outpost of
• 1:15:14
  civilization as opposed to barbarism.
• 1:15:18
  The sanctuaries of Christendom would be safeguarded by
• 1:15:21
  assigning them to an extraterritorial status such as
• 1:15:26
  is well known to the law of nations,
• 1:15:29
  right?
• 1:15:31
  Palestine is our ever-memorable historic home.
• 1:15:35
  The very name of Palestine would attract our
• 1:15:38
  people with the force of a marvelous potency.
• 1:15:42
  Theodore Herzl wrote in 1896 in The Jewish
• 1:15:46
  State, and he imagined a place where Jews
• 1:15:49
  would finally be safe.
• 1:15:53
  We should form a guard of honor about
• 1:15:56
  these sanctuaries, answering the fulfillment of this duty
• 1:15:59
  with our existence.
• 1:16:01
  A Jewish state in Palestine would serve as
• 1:16:03
  a sanctuary and a frontier, protecting its people
• 1:16:07
  while embedding itself with a wider moral and
• 1:16:09
  political order.
• 1:16:12
  More than seven decades after Israel's first prime
• 1:16:15
  minister, David Ben-Gurion declared independence.
• 1:16:19
  That promise is unsettled.
• 1:16:21
  Israel exists, thrives, endures.
• 1:16:23
  It has built powerful institutions, an economy, and
• 1:16:26
  one of the most capable militaries in the
• 1:16:29
  world.
• 1:16:29
  It has, in many respects, achieved the core
• 1:16:33
  aim of political sovereignty.
• 1:16:35
  Jews are no longer dependent upon others for
• 1:16:39
  survival.
• 1:16:40
  Now, I disagree with that.
• 1:16:42
  I don't think that's correct.
• 1:16:45
  They are dependent on us, or we wouldn't
• 1:16:49
  always be dragged into their nonsense.
• 1:16:58
  I tell you what, it's been a hell
• 1:17:02
  of a month, hasn't it?
• 1:17:05
  The U.S. is supposedly in stagflation for
• 1:17:08
  the first time in decades, according to the
• 1:17:10
  2008 crash.
• 1:17:12
  Prophet Ray Dalio, his warnings are coming amid
• 1:17:15
  a consumer price hike triggered by Iran war
• 1:17:18
  and economic downturn.
• 1:17:20
  These are frightening times indeed, people.
• 1:17:23
  Pay attention.
• 1:17:24
  Be safe out there.
• 1:17:26
  We could possibly be in a stagflation period.
• 1:17:30
  And he warned the U.S. Federal Reserve
• 1:17:32
  against cutting interest rates, arguing that you will
• 1:17:35
  lose credibility.
• 1:17:36
  It's a toxic combination of stagnant economy, high
• 1:17:42
  inflation, and rising unemployment gripped the U.S.
• 1:17:47
  in the 70s and the early 80s, when
• 1:17:50
  an OPEC oil embargo sent energy prices spiraling.
• 1:17:55
  Took the U.S. Federal Reserve a series
• 1:17:57
  of brutal rate hikes, pushing borrowing costs above
• 1:18:00
  20 percent to finally break the cycle at
• 1:18:04
  the cost of a severe downturn.
• 1:18:06
  Crazy stuff, friends and neighbors.
• 1:18:09
  Pay attention.
• 1:18:11
  This is Samuel Trapp.
• 1:18:12
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• 1:18:44
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