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Putin’s Battlefield Realities, Europe’s Delusions, and Ukraine’s Coming Collapse as the Shadow Fleet War Hits Dangerous New Levels · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  going on in Russia, what they are saying
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  over there.
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  you know, if you listen to me at
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  all, is Solovyov, in Evenings with Solovyov, and
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  Vladimir Solovyov, he's a very strong supporter of
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  the Russian government, let's call it that, but
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  I like listening to him, and if you
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  listen, and the format of his show is
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  fantastic, I'd like to create a show like
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  this over here, where you get six or
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  seven, well, he does, he actually does his
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  shows like every night, two and a half
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  to three hours, right, and so I like
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  the Sunday one, it's usually kind of a
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  bigger ticket one, you know, there's a lot
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  of topics that are discussed, because a lot
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  of people can't watch every night, like me,
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  you can only really watch once a week,
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  and get what they're doing, but I do
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  try to listen to it on my talk
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  radio, and listen to what they're saying, because
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  I think it's important, and we never get
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  that sort of discussion deep enough over here,
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  in my humble opinion.
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  Now, we do have some truth-tellers out
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  there, there's quite a few of them, that
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  are the truth-tellers, I believe I'm one
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  of them, and I also don't believe in
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  sugar-coating stuff, I'm just not that way,
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  and so one of the things I like
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  to do is listen to what they say,
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  so I watched some Solovyov, there was a
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  three-hour deal that was last night, well
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  for them, it was, the show last night
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  actually would have come out for us about,
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  by the time it's done, they show over
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  there, I think his show is in the
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  evenings, and so you get the feed to
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  it, I get it around ten o'clock
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  in the morning, and so if I can
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  watch it and keep current, then I try
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  to, and yesterday I was able to, and
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  you know, but I'm always listening to it
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  in the background, and I sometimes don't have
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  the opportunity to get it full on, but
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  I did yesterday, and so it was a
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  good show.
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  Also yesterday, there was a presser that was
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  conducted with Vladimir Putin, another one with Sergei
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  Lavrov, I mean it's big talk over there
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  too, what is going on in the peace
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  efforts and Kushner and Witkoff have departed Moscow,
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  you know, and I give a little bit
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  of that, but I wanted to go through
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  some of what Vladimir Vladimirovich, that's Putin, has
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  actually said in the discussion yesterday, because I
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  think it's important.
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  There's been, okay, there's a city called Pokrovsk,
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  that's been the focus for a long time,
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  over the couple of months at least, there's
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  been an encirclement of Ukrainian forces, and when
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  I first started talking about this a couple
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  of months ago, it's a big city, it's
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  a strategic hub that, you know, a guy
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  named Gordon, last name of Gordon, who's a
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  commentator in Ukraine, was talking about how important
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  this city was, you know, a year ago,
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  nine months ago, he was talking about, oh
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  geez, we can't lose this city, we can't
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  do it now, he's of course backtracking and
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  saying, oh gee, it's not that important of
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  a city, there's not much there, and so
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  there was a presser with what Pokrovsk is,
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  and Pokrovsk, the Russians have always called it
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  Krasnodarmysk, and Krasnodarmysk is this city, and that's
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  the name it was, well Ukraine was changing
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  city names and all of that when they
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  took over power, if you will, when the
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  Soviet Union collapsed, and when they, there's also
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  talks that they're developing nuclear weapons right now,
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  to keep, to have themselves with nuclear weapons,
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  you know, which is against the nonproliferation treaties
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  of various types, and it's against the Budapest
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  Accords, it's against a lot of things like
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  that, but there's been some discussion of that,
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  don't know how truthful it is, excuse me,
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  but people have been talking about it, Ukraine
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  wants to go back to being a nuclear
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  power, now, I think that's a huge mistake,
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  they've lost half their population, and there's talks
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  about the old Z monster not making it
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  another, you know, by mid-December, he'll be
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  gone, is what's said, and certainly no later
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  than December 31, the old green goblin will
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  be gone, and well now he's a black
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  goblin, because he always wears black now, and
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  every once in a while he wears a
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  suit coat, but I wanted to go through
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  the Putin discussions, especially on Krasnodar, Minsk, and
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  Pokrovsk, there's a city right next to Pokrovsk,
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  it's also another, it's kind of a big
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  conglomeration, the two cities are maybe, I don't
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  know, 10 miles apart, maybe less, and well,
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  the outskirts, you know, that each of the
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  suburbs run in, you know, kind of run
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  into each other, Mironograd and Pokrovsk, and they're
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  big cities, or pretty big cities, and pretty
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  strategically important, you know, and so they, they
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  encircled, the Russians encircled both these cities back
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  two months ago and said, you know, we
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  got about 10,000 Ukrainians in there, surrounded,
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  yesterday the Ministry of Defense of Russia has
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  declared that we now completely control Pokrovsk, there's
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  been a couple of things all over Telegram
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  that are showing, it's pretty funny, because one
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  of the shows that I watched, I went
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  through a video that was posted by the
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  Russians, showing in the middle of Pokrovsk, there's
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  a, I believe it's a university with the
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  top of the building, and the two Russian
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  guys are standing there with the flag, Russian
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  flag in the center of Pokrovsk, that they
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  have taken the city, and the city is
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  now in complete Russian control, and all of
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  the Ukrainians have either been killed or captured,
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  very few escaped, you know, and the Russians,
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  on the western side, Mirnagrad, is now completely
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  surrounded with Pokrovsk on the west, and they're
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  completely surrounded, and they say, now back two
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  months ago there were 5,000 soldiers there,
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  and another 5 in the city of Pokrovsk
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  is what they were saying, well now all
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  the ones in Pokrovsk are destroyed, according to
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  the Russian Ministry of Defense or captured or
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  have retreated but the city of Myrnogrod to
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  the east is now completely surrounded and it's
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  even worse in there and so they've got
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  all that's left in there now according to
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  the Russians is 200 now what they did
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  in Petrovsk when the Russians took it over
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  and showed that video I was telling you
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  about there's another video that is clearly AI
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  generated and fake which takes the two soldiers
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  holding up the Russian flag and turns the
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  flag into a Ukrainian flag now there's several
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  questions that that brings up if you've already
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  held Petrovsk why in the world do you
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  have to show that you've captured Petrovsk is
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  number one why do you have to show
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  that you've got a video which is identical
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  the soldiers are identical the only thing difference
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  is the flag and a couple of other
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  key points so in the Russian video you
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  can see on the right the one when
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  they took over the the the city was
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  geolocated and all that stuff and you can
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  see a little part of a destroyed building
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  that had collapsed from the university part and
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  because the Russians bombed the crap out of
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  it before they went in and it shows
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  this thing well and in the AI generated
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  version it took that little they showed a
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  part of the roof that had been blown
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  off and the part of the roof that
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  was on the ground the AI video turned
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  it into a car traveling down the the
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  center of the street as if traffic was
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  still coming back and forth and they showed
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  some other cars in the background as it
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  was clearly an AI video well that's what
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  the Ukrainians are posting as as proof that
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  they still have Myrnogrod but it's identical to
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  the Russian telegram videos it's pretty damn comical
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  so anyway those are some of the backdrops
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  for what has been discussed and so I
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  wanted to walk through the questions and it
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  shouldn't be too long but I think it's
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  important to say what other people you know
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  what the old the old Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
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  is actually saying so he gave a presser
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  and I want to walk you through it
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  kind of the question by question because I
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  believe it matters and so Krasnoyarsk and Pokrovsky
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  what he said the first question was simple
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  you visited a command post and emphasized the
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  seizure of Krasnoyarsk Pokrovsk it is said to
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  be fully controlled now by the Russian army
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  why is this city so important I think
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  that question was staged number one he wanted
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  to talk about this and his answer isn't
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  some vague patriotic you know BS he's got
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  a cold I mean military response he says
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  basically look Krasnoyarsk which is also known as
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  Pokrovsk has been a priority target for both
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  sides for a long time why and he
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  laid this out he said it's a major
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  infrastructure hub and this is what Gordon and
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  Erastovich the on the Ukrainian side have been
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  talking about for nine months and everybody knows
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  this is a key city I can't remember
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  the population pre pre encirclement or pre-capture
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  but I believe it was 60 to 100
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  ,000 it's a bit it's a bigger in
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  the whole conglomeration with that in Myrnograd I'm
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  sure it's double that but because it's a
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  big it is a big hub and you
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  know they they have done it so he
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  says it's a major infrastructure hub for road
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  rail and logistics and it's plugged into the
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  communication network of the region and he said
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  and most importantly in military terms it's a
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  bridgehead that's a platzdarm for them it and
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  this platform that he calls it the Russian
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  forces can move in all directions and the
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  general staff says this is quite promising this
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  is what he says in other words the
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  city for the Russians well for the Ukrainians
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  too is not about symbolism it's about geography
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  it's about logistics it's the kind of place
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  you seize if you plan to drive deeper
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  and and the Pokrovsk needed to be held
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  by the Ukrainians you want a sign of
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  collapse take the loss of Pokrovsk as a
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  sign or Krasnoyarsk as a big sign of
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  the collapse of the Ukrainian entire front because
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  that was a strong logistics hub and now
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  they have nowhere and now the next step
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  is literally a huge bunch of fields and
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  smaller places that the Russians have been churning
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  up for the last year and a half
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  you know they've been churning it's going slowly
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  they're trying not to destroy everything but they're
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  getting rid of of any resistance in there
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  and the Ukrainian army is on its heels
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  there's no doubt about that so he wanted
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  he reminded everybody that this was one of
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  the strongest fortified areas of the Ukrainian side
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  in Donetsk and now according to the commander
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  of the center group of forces it is
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  fully in Russian hands that's what he this
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  is what Putin reported yesterday and why is
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  he so insistent about this because he's pushing
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  back against this messaging and against these fake
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  videos that show the the show the the
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  Russian video that was taken in the center
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  and turn it into Ukrainian and Ukrainian flags
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  and AI stuff this and Ukraine's been very
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  good about that ever since the escalation back
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  in 2022 they have been creating these these
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  videos and he said no no it's contested
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  you know this is what the he goes
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  the Ukrainians are all saying it's contested it
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  isn't contested they're on their heels on the
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  western edge of Pokrovsk and the Russian commander
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  of the center group of forces says they've
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  pushed him out of this huge you know
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  critical plots darm this huge critical platform and
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  he says the Ukrainians say it's contested but
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  they are definitely exaggerating and then he goes
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  further he says if anyone doubts it come
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  and take a look now he's been saying
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  that for a while he because when two
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  months ago right a month and a half
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  when they had it encircled and I said
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  that he had offered any Western reporters CNN
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  reported yesterday that Ukraine is oh geez they're
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  still attacking it's good it's going pretty well
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  over there no sorry it's not and he
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  said I already offered this to you you
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  know come and have a look if you
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  want to get in we'll guarantee your safety
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  we'll help you get there we got them
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  surrounded both cities he said this six or
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  eight weeks ago said you want to come
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  in Western reporters have a look we'll get
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  you there well CNN is reporting without going
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  and taking a look the same crap that
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  that Ukraine is pumping down their throats these
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  fake videos and stuff like that saying oh
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  geez Pokrovsk is has not been seized but
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  it has and so he repeated his offer
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  to bring in foreign journalists or Ukrainian journalists
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  into the city so they can see who
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  actually controls it and he said previously Kyiv
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  tried to threaten journalists who might go that's
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  why they didn't come according to him now
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  he says Kiev has nothing to do with
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  it because the city is completely under Russian
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  control and he admits it is a dangerous
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  front line drones in the air situation is
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  not safe in the sense of civilian living
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  there but he points out that the Russian
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  war correspondents are already working there and they're
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  broadcasting from there and they're safe and Russia
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  is prepared to do what it can to
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  protect any foreign reporter who's actually willing to
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  report the situation on the ground you guys
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  want to sponsor me I'll go over there
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  I'll fly I'll fly over there to Pokrovsk
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  right now and well it'd have to be
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  after this afternoon but you somebody send me
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  the cash I'll fly over there and my
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  visa is good I'll get in and I'll
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  I'll go over and I'll report to you
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  from Pokrovsk no problem and I'll see who's
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  who's lying and who's not now I want
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  a pretty good set of geez maybe we
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  could visit a police department they're also militarized
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  these days I could go in as a
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  SWAT guy and just change it all to
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  say press and get my my Kevlar crap
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  all going because police departments aren't for peace
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  anymore they're not peace officers they're militarized guys
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  like that and maybe some of you like
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  that I don't I think this display of
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  of militaristic stuff of police is just wrong
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  I've always felt that way but in summary
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  the the first answer to the question for
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  any listener that's actually paying attention or listens
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  to what Putin is saying which is far
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  more truthful unfortunately than anything you get here
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  in the West he says Russia is presenting
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  Krasnoyarsk and Pokrovsk as a decisive operational win
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  and a launchpad for future push and that
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  is exactly the truth and he is confident
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  enough to make a claim again to say
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  come and see just like he did when
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  they had him encircled six eight weeks ago
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  so the second one is is Kupyansk Alexander
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  well let's say no no I'm sorry that's
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  the name of the reporter Zelensky said recently
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  that Russian troops are still in Kupyansk what
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  did he mean and he this was kind
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  of a half briefing and he shrugged it
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  off and he goes well why don't you
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  ask him he says Kupyansk has been in
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  Russian hands for weeks not days he says
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  Russian leadership lives on another planet he said
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  they're constantly traveling begging for money detached from
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  both economic reality and the frontline reality and
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  then he explained now so he that's a
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  political you know response to say geez we're
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  kicking the crap out of him all they're
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  doing is wandered around the planet begging for
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  money yesterday the old Z monster was in
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  Ireland and in Ireland he got a hundred
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  fifty million bucks they say that the hell's
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  his name's illusion II who has been in
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  who he was the guy that got fired
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  by Zelensky as the commander-in-chief of
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  the military when Sears key took over whatever
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  it was 18 months nearly two years ago
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  and they sent him to England to be
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  the the ambassador for Ukraine to England well
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  now people are saying because they want to
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  continue this and now it's clear to the
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  EU then and NATO that they got to
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  get rid of Zelensky because all the corruption
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  and everything that is going on they got
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  to get rid of him so the talk
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  is that they're pushing Zaluzhny and Zaluzhny's in
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  Kiev right now when he was well and
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  he's in Kiev meeting with people while Zelensky's
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  out you know begging for cash and so
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  he's out in Ireland and the Ireland government
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  gave him 150 million bucks so they're still
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  pumping money down this rat hole in this
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  corrupt rat hole and so Ireland sends this
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  money but meanwhile Zaluzhny who is the favorite
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  of the CIA according to everything that I've
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  seen is the favorite of the CIA in
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  the West and the US and especially England
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  to push him to be the next guy
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  in charge of Ukraine so what they're saying
• 21:49
  is it just wait because now that Zaluzhny
• 21:52
  is over there Zelensky will be gone by
• 21:57
  the end of the month by the end
• 21:59
  of December by the first of the year
• 22:00
  he'll be gone and guess who will be
• 22:02
  installed?
• 22:03
  Zaluzhny and they will they will throw the
• 22:06
  old Zaluzhny back in there he's a military
• 22:09
  guy he was the one in charge he
• 22:11
  you know there's they say that he's the
• 22:13
  guy that masterminded if you want to call
• 22:16
  it that the destruction of Saverny Potok 2
• 22:20
  Nord Stream 2 up in the the Baltic
• 22:26
  when this all started and Joe Biden was
• 22:29
  saying we'll take care of that and then
• 22:31
  it happened to get done I don't think
• 22:33
  he did it without US intelligence you know
• 22:38
  he and well anyway I think I mean
• 22:41
  there's some big stuff going on plenty of
• 22:43
  big stuff but Zaluzhny Putin went a little
• 22:47
  a level deeper he said along the riverbank
• 22:50
  there's another settlement called Uzlovoye in the Kupyansk
• 22:54
  area and he said there's 2,000 buildings
• 22:56
  in there and there's active fighting he says
• 22:59
  600 to 650 of those structures are already
• 23:03
  under Russian control and he says they plan
• 23:06
  to fully take Uzlovoye in the next few
• 23:10
  days so that's another big city and he
• 23:12
  says on top of that that the Ukrainian
• 23:14
  group of 15 battalions is on the left
• 23:17
  bank of that river and Russian troops have
• 23:19
  begun liquidation of that force so Western coverage
• 23:23
  is talking about Kupyansk is contested same as
• 23:27
  they talked about Pokrovsk and the Russians are
• 23:30
  trying to advance what he's saying is that
• 23:33
  there's always a picture where the urban area
• 23:36
  is already in Russia's hands the surrounding settlements
• 23:40
  are being taken slowly and piece by piece
• 23:42
  in the forward movement is progressing and a
• 23:46
  large Ukrainian group is now the target of
• 23:49
  systematic destruction these battalions that he says are
• 23:52
  on the other side of the river you
• 23:53
  have to believe it I don't care you're
• 23:55
  allowed to be skeptical but if you want
• 23:57
  to understand how Moscow thinks it's doing you
• 24:00
  got to listen to them this is how
• 24:01
  they're framing it it's not holding on you
• 24:05
  know we're not holding on and being pushed
• 24:07
  back as they want to claim every time
• 24:09
  Zelensky picks up another 150 million they want
• 24:12
  to talk about you know we're not we're
• 24:15
  not holding on we're grinding down and we're
• 24:18
  destroying plenty of Ukrainians and that's terrible then
• 24:24
  there was a question third question with him
• 24:26
  was where is Europe in the peace process
• 24:28
  it appears that they have walked out so
• 24:32
  he said so the the actual question was
• 24:35
  you're about to meet Steve West Whitcoff who
• 24:39
  come to Moscow specifically for meeting with you
• 24:41
  negotiations seem to be happening only through the
• 24:45
  American side why are the Europeans have they
• 24:48
  absent and he went into some pretty good
• 24:53
  diplomacy his answer went like this he said
• 24:55
  first of all Europe is not silent they
• 24:59
  are deeply offended he says they're offended at
• 25:02
  being excluded but he insists that nobody actually
• 25:07
  excluded them that they cut themselves off and
• 25:11
  that's a big difference and that's you know
• 25:13
  over here it's like oh gee Putin won't
• 25:16
  negotiate you know nobody will be there but
• 25:18
  what he says is no we've asked him
• 25:21
  we've said for years meet with us honor
• 25:25
  our position they are at least consider our
• 25:29
  position because nobody ever does they just want
• 25:31
  to steal Russian money and say that they're
• 25:33
  bad guys but nobody even talks to them
• 25:36
  and that's what he's saying he says nobody's
• 25:38
  excluded them they have cut themselves off he
• 25:41
  describes how Russia used to have close contact
• 25:44
  with a number of European leaders Putin speaks
• 25:47
  German fluently and he was stationed over there
• 25:50
  when he was a KGB guy years ago
• 25:52
  in his German is fantastic in so they
• 25:55
  could sit and discuss with Germany all kinds
• 25:59
  of stuff the two biggest players but that's
• 26:01
  absent everybody's absent and he's talking about that
• 26:04
  but they he says they cut themselves off
• 26:07
  and he describes how you you know use
• 26:09
  how it used to be and he said
• 26:12
  that has been done at Europe's initiative not
• 26:15
  Moscow's the reason for that he says is
• 26:19
  that European elites have adopted the idea of
• 26:22
  Russia's strategic defeat and they've built their policy
• 26:27
  around that fantasy world but even now he
• 26:30
  says they know it is impossible for them
• 26:33
  to defeat Russia you know strategically it's not
• 26:39
  going to happen they know it's impossible but
• 26:42
  they are unable to admit it politically because
• 26:45
  of how bad they'll look how bad they'll
• 26:47
  say this is what he said okay I'm
• 26:50
  not you believe or disbelieve but this is
• 26:52
  what he said then he laid out three
• 26:56
  steps of this which are against Europe he
• 26:59
  said they remove themselves from this process they
• 27:02
  walked away from talks and can't complain now
• 27:05
  about being excluded they sabotaged every peace attempt
• 27:10
  in including all of those under Trump which
• 27:14
  have been numerous since Trump took office a
• 27:17
  year ago almost and they have pounded this
• 27:22
  Zelensky's against it every EU guy France is
• 27:26
  against it right now they're talking about sending
• 27:28
  troops over there seriously sending troops people are
• 27:32
  blowing up Russian what they call them shadow
• 27:36
  fleet they're going in and attacking them there
• 27:38
  been two ships attacked which I'm gonna try
• 27:40
  to get to today and I talked a
• 27:43
  little bit about one of them yesterday but
• 27:44
  I have some more information on that of
• 27:46
  what they they attacked but he says first
• 27:49
  they remove themselves second they sabotage peace attempts
• 27:52
  included under Trump and they interfered with them
• 27:55
  worse because they didn't like where the talks
• 27:57
  might lead that Russia might be considered you
• 28:01
  know a major superpower again they don't want
• 28:03
  that they need a strategic defeat and he
• 28:06
  says they do not have any peace agenda
• 28:08
  they have a war agenda even they when
• 28:12
  they pretend to be adjusting their peace proposals
• 28:15
  for example Trump's plan they keep adjusting but
• 28:19
  those adjustments are just attempts to block talks
• 28:23
  by piling on conditions they absolutely know that
• 28:28
  Russia will reject so the bottom line is
• 28:34
  Europe's goal as he sees it is to
• 28:36
  force Russia to walk away from the table
• 28:38
  so they can say look the Russians don't
• 28:40
  want peace this is what he said and
• 28:43
  if Europe is ready to return to reality
• 28:45
  based on the actual situation on the ground
• 28:47
  Russia will allow them at any time to
• 28:51
  come back into the process so that's the
• 28:54
  Kremlin's version I don't care if you believe
• 28:55
  it or not but that's what he is
• 28:57
  saying but it's a lot more specific than
• 28:59
  the cartoon version you get you know here
• 29:02
  in the west that they don't say anything
• 29:04
  they take one or two sentences of what
• 29:06
  Putin says or take it whatever they can
• 29:10
  do to turn it into a threat that
• 29:12
  is exactly what they do and so are
• 29:16
  you know the next question Hungarian excuse me
• 29:20
  I'm dying over here Hungarian foreign minister should
• 29:23
  Jarrow so Jarto has warned that NATO's European
• 29:27
  wing is preparing to deploy troops implying a
• 29:30
  serious risk of war with Russia he said
• 29:33
  are you prepared for war with NATO with
• 29:37
  all of Europe and listen to this because
• 29:39
  this is blunt and important and this is
• 29:41
  why I like listen to him he doesn't
• 29:43
  mince words either Putin doesn't mince words he
• 29:47
  gets in there and says exactly what he
• 29:49
  means to say and maybe these questions are
• 29:52
  staged I'm sure maybe they are I don't
• 29:54
  know but he knows the answers but but
• 29:56
  I believe he does what Trump does talks
• 29:58
  off the you know it's easy to say
• 30:01
  something when you're not reading from a bunch
• 30:04
  of cue cards when it's something that you
• 30:07
  believe it's much easier to talk about when
• 30:10
  it's something that you can back up you
• 30:13
  already know it in your head I mean
• 30:15
  that's true but if you got to come
• 30:17
  with some political statement and follow a line
• 30:20
  you gotta memorize something and all of these
• 30:24
  people in the West he says that's all
• 30:27
  they're doing but his question is blunt is
• 30:29
  there going to be war with Europe that's
• 30:32
  what everybody's afraid of even on both sides
• 30:34
  of the planet they're afraid of this escalation
• 30:37
  so he repeats that Russia does not intend
• 30:41
  to fight Europe at all and never has
• 30:45
  and he said he has said that a
• 30:48
  hundred times but then comes the second half
• 30:52
  he says and he's always been clear about
• 30:55
  this if Europe sorry dying if Europe decides
• 31:01
  to start a war with Russia he says
• 31:04
  that Russia is ready right now for that
• 31:07
  no mobilization panic no long build-up his
• 31:12
  line was we are ready and we you
• 31:16
  know if you if you want to you
• 31:18
  know knock on the door we're here basically
• 31:21
  and he stresses that this would not be
• 31:24
  like the current conflict in Ukraine and and
• 31:28
  this is also quite important what he said
• 31:32
  was this will not at all be like
• 31:35
  the current conflict in Ukraine he says the
• 31:39
  operations in Ukraine have been surgical they have
• 31:43
  been careful and he explicitly lined out this
• 31:47
  is right now this in Ukraine is not
• 31:51
  a war in the direct modern sense of
• 31:54
  the war think about that and they're there
• 31:58
  they have killed a million plus some estimates
• 32:02
  a million five Ukrainian military personnel and he
• 32:07
  says this is a surgical careful they're not
• 32:09
  trying to kill people they don't want to
• 32:12
  kill people but he says in a real
• 32:14
  war with Europe the way I took it
• 32:17
  was would be more like World War II
• 32:21
  where he warns it would escalate very quickly
• 32:25
  to a point where in his words there
• 32:30
  is no one left to negotiate with now
• 32:34
  that is a cold threat now that's a
• 32:37
  stark deterrent message I say it's aimed at
• 32:42
  these European idiots who are casually talking about
• 32:45
  throwing boots on the ground in Ukraine or
• 32:49
  peacekeeping forces like it's a you know I
• 32:52
  don't know tabletop exercise people playing a game
• 32:55
  of risk and moving around you know little
• 32:58
  pieces he says you escalate this beyond Ukraine
• 33:03
  beyond what it is and he called it
• 33:06
  specifically a proxy war he said you know
• 33:10
  everybody knows this is a proxy war with
• 33:13
  NATO right now and you're killing Ukrainians and
• 33:17
  we really didn't want to do that but
• 33:19
  that's what we're doing pretty soon it will
• 33:22
  be a war with you and that ends
• 33:25
  very badly for you is what he says
• 33:29
  now that if you want to take as
• 33:32
  a threat and you want to take that
• 33:34
  is what has been said by Vladimir Putin
• 33:37
  that is exactly how he said it but
• 33:40
  the important part is he says we don't
• 33:43
  intend to fight them we've been trying not
• 33:45
  to fight them we've been trying to engage
• 33:48
  in diplomacy with them they aren't listening they
• 33:53
  keep escalating they keep upping the ante and
• 33:58
  he goes if you keep on escalating you're
• 34:00
  going to push it now trust me they
• 34:03
  said this for years and years before that
• 34:05
  they said that sorry excuse me he said
• 34:11
  you escalate that you're in bad shape and
• 34:14
  it ends well for you I mean ends
• 34:16
  poorly for you and well for us frankly
• 34:19
  I think that is probably true everybody is
• 34:22
  saying that if Europe had to without US
• 34:25
  support had to get ready to do something
• 34:28
  they better get started if they think they
• 34:32
  have to they're talking that by 2030 they
• 34:34
  want to be at war with Russia and
• 34:37
  that's what they're planning that's why everybody's talking
• 34:39
  about this 5% now and not just
• 34:42
  Trump you know Trump's gone you know what
• 34:45
  up your own stuff NATO take your own
• 34:47
  stuff I believe what Trump is doing is
• 34:49
  probably correct you know backing off on this
• 34:52
  a little bit trying to finalize this between
• 34:55
  the only two that matter and it's it's
• 34:59
  hard to say that Europe doesn't matter but
• 35:01
  it's true and Ukraine certainly doesn't matter and
• 35:04
  certainly doesn't matter to the EU or they'd
• 35:06
  stop killing them all but that's what they're
• 35:09
  doing you cannot defeat Russia on the ground
• 35:12
  in Ukraine it's not going to happen the
• 35:14
  only victory for you Europe Ukraine is politically
• 35:17
  that's it I see some changes going on
• 35:24
  on the stuff that I set up I'm
• 35:26
  gonna end it at the right time you
• 35:28
  know and I already had that set up
• 35:32
  and I put in my my Christmas song
• 35:34
  for my early exit if you happen to
• 35:38
  be paying attention so I already had it
• 35:40
  set to do exactly what needs to happen
• 35:43
  to be out of the studio we're still
• 35:46
  making this up as we go along when
• 35:48
  we get out of here but I've actually
• 35:49
  pondered it and set it up correctly just
• 35:53
  so you know those who are listening at
• 35:56
  any rate that was the Putin not all
• 35:59
  of it because there's a couple more questions
• 36:01
  and he they talked specifically so there were
• 36:04
  two ships attacked and he says it's you
• 36:08
  know everybody believes that it was done by
• 36:10
  Ukraine or worse may have involved friend France
• 36:14
  now this is frightening okay this if because
• 36:18
  he said that what when Zelensky was in
• 36:23
  France a couple of days ago he met
• 36:27
  with you know his his best buddy which
• 36:31
  is Macron and that Macron put out after
• 36:37
  that and said that you don't have to
• 36:41
  worry about Russian economy for long the Russian
• 36:46
  economy will collapse pretty soon and right after
• 36:50
  that there are two attacks on shadow fleet
• 36:54
  tankers okay I told you about one of
• 36:57
  them yesterday then he talks about he was
• 37:00
  asked about he was asked said please comment
• 37:03
  on the attacks on tankers near the Turkish
• 37:06
  coast now I've been to Istanbul I love
• 37:09
  Istanbul Istanbul is fantastic the Bosphorus is right
• 37:13
  there the Straits that go through and connect
• 37:17
  Asia and Europe basically it's a beautiful city
• 37:22
  and and and I really you know I've
• 37:25
  been there five six times now and I
• 37:28
  like Istanbul in heck you can live there
• 37:33
  comforts expensive as hell but you know European
• 37:36
  city like that but it's huge they have
• 37:38
  like four or five international airports you can
• 37:40
  get from anywhere it is a central hub
• 37:44
  for the world that is very very significant
• 37:48
  and the Straits of Bosphorus also anytime day
• 37:54
  or night huge ship tankers going through there
• 37:58
  connecting Asia and Europe and they and they
• 38:02
  come out of the Black Sea and they
• 38:04
  connect to the Mediterranean and it's it's freaking
• 38:07
  beautiful to watch and now Russian shadow fleet
• 38:12
  ships are being attacked near there okay and
• 38:15
  so he was asked to comment about this
• 38:17
  and he said he hasn't yet received all
• 38:20
  the full details but he knew the basics
• 38:22
  and what has happened is these tankers were
• 38:26
  attacked in neutral waters or those that are
• 38:30
  in the exclusive economic zones of a third
• 38:34
  country in this case Turkey they are not
• 38:36
  in Ukraine or Russian territorial waters and so
• 38:40
  what he says he says this is piracy
• 38:44
  pure and simple and then he says he
• 38:47
  reminds everybody that Ukraine previously has tried and
• 38:52
  with some success hit Russian seaports you know
• 38:56
  on the Black Sea they've been attacking Crimea
• 38:59
  they've been attacking Sevastopol there's a couple other
• 39:02
  cities down there on the north edge of
• 39:04
  the Black Sea that they've been after and
• 39:07
  they have all of these drone ships that
• 39:09
  Russia is constantly dealing with they've tried to
• 39:13
  take out the long bridge between Russian mainland
• 39:17
  and Crimea on quite a few occasions and
• 39:20
  he said Russia is going to respond with
• 39:23
  its own strikes according to him but they
• 39:26
  were more powerful and effective now this mean
• 39:31
  and he was pretty blunt about it he
• 39:33
  goes in the Black Sea and other places
• 39:36
  they know when American or Western ships are
• 39:43
  coming and they have destroyed a several of
• 39:47
  them on their way to Odessa or whatever
• 39:52
  other port they pick on the black usually
• 39:54
  it's only Odessa and Russia is now that
• 39:59
  they have Pokrovsk the next step would be
• 40:02
  Nikolaev and Odessa those two southern places you
• 40:06
  know he was talking about that so they
• 40:09
  are prepared for the escalation they're also prepared
• 40:12
  for what Macron has been saying to take
• 40:15
  out these other you know ships that might
• 40:20
  be coming to deliver ammunition to deliver equipment
• 40:24
  to Ukraine so you know he says that
• 40:29
  these strikes that Russia's take are far more
• 40:33
  surgical they're focusing on ships carrying weapons and
• 40:36
  ammunition for Ukraine what the ships attacked yesterday
• 40:39
  was carrying sunflower oil and France is trying
• 40:43
  to take out these Russian the Russian economy
• 40:46
  and how do you do that you take
• 40:48
  away its ability to supply things in the
• 40:52
  sea and you have to come up with
• 40:54
  other ways to track it or you destroy
• 40:57
  their rail yards you destroy their infrastructure for
• 41:02
  for the refinery of oil stuff like that
• 41:06
  and so he's talking about he is even
• 41:12
  secondary explosions he said but what's happening now
• 41:15
  with the attacks on civilian tankers and third
• 41:18
  countries and economic zones he says this is
• 41:22
  piracy and not legitimate warfare it's like terrorism
• 41:26
  so what does he threaten to do what
• 41:29
  does he say the answer of Russia will
• 41:31
  be is to expand the list of targets
• 41:35
  among Ukrainian port facilities and ships that are
• 41:38
  going into Ukrainian ports he said he would
• 41:43
  consider not not as a promise but consider
• 41:47
  retaliatory measures against ships from countries that are
• 41:51
  helping Ukraine carry out these attacks and this
• 41:55
  is in response to Macron being an idiot
• 41:57
  and Macron saying we're going to destroy the
• 42:00
  Russian economy the EU idiots saying that we're
• 42:04
  going to destroy the Russian economy and how
• 42:05
  are we going to do that we're going
• 42:07
  to attack Russian ships Russian shipping even on
• 42:10
  their shadow fleets they're there you know saying
• 42:15
  that that's they're going to do and what's
• 42:16
  Putin say he says well we're going to
• 42:18
  take out some more Ukrainian port facilities and
• 42:21
  we're going to consider retaliatory measures against ships
• 42:25
  from countries that are helping Ukraine you're taking
• 42:28
  out third country ships that are carrying Russian
• 42:31
  produce or Russian products and you know in
• 42:36
  economic zones of third-party countries you're engaging
• 42:39
  in territory piracy blowing up these these ships
• 42:42
  or attacking them well we're going to consider
• 42:44
  doing the same to you and then the
• 42:47
  most radical option he named was to cut
• 42:50
  Ukraine off from the sea entirely now that
• 42:56
  is what I have stated this is the
• 42:58
  first time I've heard him come out and
• 43:00
  say this he said we will cut them
• 43:04
  off entirely well how do you do that
• 43:06
  because so far they haven't done it the
• 43:09
  next city especially after well there's a cup
• 43:11
  there's another city I forget what it's called
• 43:13
  I want to say Zaporizhzhia over to the
• 43:15
  west that they would have to take two
• 43:18
  right on the Dnieper River but they've got
• 43:21
  to get over there but the next step
• 43:23
  after that and they've already crossed over is
• 43:25
  Nikolaev they already have everything from Zaporizhzhia on
• 43:31
  that side but not the city of Zaporizhzhia
• 43:34
  that that'd be the next big chunk which
• 43:37
  is in Zaporizhzhia now the west of that
• 43:41
  is Nikolaev and then the little southwest of
• 43:44
  that is Odessa and Odessa is a big
• 43:47
  seaport historic Russian importance Odessa on the Black
• 43:53
  Sea is has been a Russian port naval
• 43:57
  port even from Sevastopol is the main one
• 44:00
  down there but as a as a big
• 44:02
  port city but this is the first time
• 44:08
  he has said that this is where we
• 44:11
  could cut them off from the sea entirely
• 44:15
  so if you want to take that as
• 44:17
  a threat again you can do that and
• 44:18
  he ends with a warning to Kiev and
• 44:20
  those that are standing behind Kiev think hard
• 44:23
  about whether you really want to continue this
• 44:25
  practice of attacking peaceful ships carrying sunflower oil
• 44:32
  you know to some foreign port in the
• 44:36
  neutral waters or economic zones of third parties
• 44:40
  this is this is bad stuff this is
• 44:44
  like you know in my opinion the US
• 44:46
  blowing up ships in that are leave our
• 44:50
  boats that are leaving Venezuela this is just
• 44:54
  dead wrong no matter how you slice it
• 44:56
  you don't blow up first and ask questions
• 44:59
  later the diplomacy has got to occur not
• 45:03
  firing upon non-military vessels whether you think
• 45:07
  they're carrying drugs or sunflower oil I frankly
• 45:10
  happen to agree with that so he did
• 45:14
  say think hard about whether you really want
• 45:16
  to continue this practice we're gonna come back
• 45:19
  to those tankers if we have some time
• 45:21
  it's the Kairos and the Virat and there's
• 45:23
  a couple others later in the show cuz
• 45:25
  that story is bigger than just two hulls
• 45:28
  and a bunch of insurance paperwork but that
• 45:31
  is that was the end of the Putin
• 45:35
  presser and I spent quite a bit of
• 45:37
  time on that but I wanted you to
• 45:39
  hear exactly what he had to say and
• 45:41
  because they never tell you and they don't
• 45:44
  tell you the reason why they don't tell
• 45:45
  you anything behind it over here you get
• 45:48
  a cup all you would have got from
• 45:50
  that entire presser if it was somebody other
• 45:52
  than me is OG Putin's threatening to blow
• 45:56
  up civilian ships or OG Putin says you
• 46:00
  know he's gonna destroy you know other cities
• 46:04
  well there's a huge explanation behind that and
• 46:09
  behind what he says and you know you
• 46:12
  were never gonna get rid of this war
• 46:14
  unless we listen but nobody listens in fact
• 46:18
  nobody tells you the real story to listen
• 46:20
  to I appreciate you listening to me here
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  solutions four to six in the Ike Skelton
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  radio show which I like to listen to
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  good stuff well I wanted to cover a
• 47:02
  little bit you know maybe I'll go maybe
• 47:04
  I'll skip forward here and go to those
• 47:08
  ships because I think those ships are important
• 47:11
  we had the arrest Ovich the guy who
• 47:17
  talks about you know the former Zelensky a
• 47:20
  there was a good show that he put
• 47:22
  out yesterday too but I think I'm gonna
• 47:24
  go to the the shadow fleet the dangerous
• 47:30
  game that's being played with these ships you
• 47:33
  know the Kairos de Verat in this dangerous
• 47:38
  game so let's talk about the tankers and
• 47:40
  piracy and more of a concrete terms who
• 47:45
  and what was hit so in the past
• 47:47
  few days two tankers associated with Russian sanctions
• 47:51
  evading oil have been hit in the Black
• 47:54
  Sea both inside Turkey's exclusive economic zone so
• 48:01
  they hit the Kairos which is an old
• 48:04
  tanker operating under you know a flag it's
• 48:08
  linked to carrying Russian crude allegedly circumventing Western
• 48:12
  sanctions and the Verats another tanker the same
• 48:16
  general profile but both were were what well
• 48:19
  depended on which side you listen to both
• 48:23
  were empty at the time that which doesn't
• 48:27
  make sense to me because if you are
• 48:29
  going to attack them why would you attack
• 48:33
  them empty one of them was allegedly carrying
• 48:37
  sunflower oil or was supposed to put but
• 48:40
  who knows what what there's been various reportings
• 48:43
  they were moving to Novorossiysk to load oil
• 48:48
  when they were hit by Ukrainian naval drones
• 48:51
  the Kairos caught fire the crew had to
• 48:54
  be evacuated by the Turkish Coast Guard the
• 48:57
  Verat was damaged but stayed afloat a third
• 49:00
  tanker the mid Volga 2 which was kid
• 49:02
  this is what I told you about yesterday
• 49:03
  carrying sunflower oil to Georgia was attacked in
• 49:08
  the Black Sea off the Turkish coast so
• 49:10
  these are three attacks nobody died but the
• 49:14
  point wasn't to ship a sink full of
• 49:16
  people the point was to send a signal
• 49:20
  to the Russian trade to raise insurance and
• 49:24
  risk premiums now remember the insurance and risk
• 49:27
  premiums almost exclusively worldwide been controlled by Lloyd's
• 49:36
  of London so the difficult part of shipping
• 49:41
  is to get insurance coverage for the myriad
• 49:45
  of things that can happen when you are
• 49:49
  transporting things by ship internationally storms all of
• 49:54
  that so a lot of times people won't
• 49:57
  do your shipment if you don't have the
• 49:59
  right insurance paperwork because a ship could be
• 50:03
  carrying many products from many different places and
• 50:07
  everybody has to be insured and all their
• 50:09
  products have to be insured that's part of
• 50:12
  the game well several years ago especially after
• 50:16
  the start and remember this is part of
• 50:18
  the BRICS countries as well that I talk
• 50:21
  about frequently on this show is that the
• 50:24
  insurance has to be covered from somewhere and
• 50:29
  BRICS and China especially they have started their
• 50:33
  own insurance and people are this is this
• 50:38
  is what the war is really about you
• 50:42
  know it is all of the control that
• 50:44
  London and New York have controlled forever a
• 50:47
  little bit of the other capitals and you
• 50:50
  know Brussels and Berlin that people have controlled
• 50:54
  and now China is rising and is providing
• 50:59
  some of the insurance and some of all
• 51:01
  of that so what they're when they talk
• 51:04
  about damage to this they're trying to damage
• 51:06
  the entire system wide part of this and
• 51:12
  this is raising insurance and risk premiums to
• 51:16
  attack Russian stuff they want to make it
• 51:18
  more expensive to be a Russian supplier and
• 51:22
  they want to move the war into a
• 51:25
  new domain this war is moving up this
• 51:29
  is now according to France an economic war
• 51:33
  and we're going to destroy and by the
• 51:36
  way it's a dirty economic war so and
• 51:39
  Ukraine has no problem being dirty you know
• 51:42
  they're dirty they're corrupt they will happily do
• 51:44
  this they will the the elites if you
• 51:48
  want to call them that of Ukraine have
• 51:49
  no problem killing people they have no problem
• 51:52
  destroying things if they you know they have
• 51:54
  no problem they justify this the end justifies
• 51:58
  the means so if you want to destroy
• 52:01
  Russia and that part of that is taking
• 52:04
  out a pipeline on the bottom of the
• 52:06
  Baltic Sea that's no problem we should do
• 52:09
  that and Joe Biden will back us up
• 52:11
  right so you know where Ukraine will do
• 52:15
  that you want to blow up ships oh
• 52:17
  yeah we hate Russia so we hate Russia
• 52:20
  therefore we can blow up their ships you
• 52:23
  know and if a few people die same
• 52:25
  thing I feel the same way about the
• 52:29
  Venezuela nonsense going on right now I might
• 52:33
  do a full show on that or maybe
• 52:35
  some more commentary on it later in the
• 52:37
  week but right now this is about the
• 52:41
  the escalations going on from the West to
• 52:45
  keep this war going whether economically or on
• 52:49
  the ground and destroy more Ukrainians because you
• 52:53
  know we have to fight to the last
• 52:55
  Ukrainian and then France is already talking about
• 52:58
  boots on the ground from France not good
• 53:03
  why is Turkey important in this if the
• 53:05
  war is entering into a new lane because
• 53:07
  what I just told you is Istanbul and
• 53:12
  the Straits of Bosphorus this is a big
• 53:14
  deal if you're gonna be putting some of
• 53:17
  that you know you're gonna have that economic
• 53:22
  war you got to start blowing up crap
• 53:25
  and where do you blow it up you
• 53:26
  blow it up where it is where is
• 53:28
  it the Straits of Bosphorus I got to
• 53:30
  go through Turkey to get Russian product out
• 53:33
  the south way so from Ankara perspective in
• 53:38
  this economic zones none of this happened in
• 53:41
  Russian waters not in Ukrainian waters but this
• 53:44
  is Turkish exclusive economic zones this is the
• 53:49
  area where Turkey claims economic rights and they're
• 53:53
  very I don't know they they try to
• 54:00
  keep the they protective they're very protective of
• 54:03
  these rights that they have so Ukraine is
• 54:06
  carrying out armed attacks against ships in a
• 54:10
  third country's backyard so whether or not Russia
• 54:15
  owns those ships Turkey has to worry about
• 54:18
  environmental damage if a tanker is loaded and
• 54:22
  gets hit tourism damage you know tourism Istanbul
• 54:26
  is a huge tourist location the mosques there
• 54:30
  are unbelievable it's a beautiful city and oh
• 54:35
  my god the shopping the seaside you know
• 54:38
  what we have in America does not compare
• 54:42
  I strongly recommend a trip to Istanbul if
• 54:45
  you get the chance and so they're environmental
• 54:50
  tourism damage security damage so foreign powers you
• 54:55
  know getting their ships blown up or attacked
• 54:58
  in Turkey is not a good look for
• 55:00
  Turkey either they're using their waters as a
• 55:03
  shooting gallery that's crap Turkey has called these
• 55:07
  incidents a dangerous escalation and is allegedly talking
• 55:11
  to NATO and others about Black Sea security
• 55:14
  Putin called it piracy and a justification for
• 55:19
  perhaps expanding strikes on Ukrainian port infrastructure like
• 55:23
  I told you before so we have a
• 55:27
  shadow war you know this is a war
• 55:29
  of NATO in the US against Russia a
• 55:32
  shadow war being conducted with Ukrainian bodies and
• 55:36
  killing off of you know a generation of
• 55:39
  men in fact several generations of men because
• 55:42
  the average age is like 47 and maybe
• 55:45
  higher by now be and there I heard
• 55:48
  a report yesterday that 140,000 just in
• 55:52
  the last couple of months young men have
• 55:57
  run to Europe from Ukraine because they're afraid
• 56:01
  that the 18 to 25 year old exemption
• 56:04
  which they haven't mobilized any anybody in that
• 56:07
  age you can only volunteer if you're that
• 56:10
  age everyone else's 26 year older and so
• 56:14
  that's why I have an aging force that's
• 56:16
  why they don't have enough people but all
• 56:18
  the young men are running so whether it's
• 56:21
  war whether it's departure from the city you
• 56:25
  got nothing left in Ukraine they've lost half
• 56:28
  of the population at least so now it's
• 56:32
  shadow fleets versus shadow war so these ships
• 56:35
  to Cairo's to Verat and others have been
• 56:38
  described as part of Russia's shadow fleet their
• 56:41
  old tankers bought up by you know closed
• 56:45
  companies and foreign countries that flagged them with
• 56:51
  flags of convenience is what the West likes
• 56:54
  to call them so people can buy you
• 56:57
  know you can like here in the West
• 57:00
  everything gets flagged as a ship in Panama
• 57:02
  lots of the ships are Panama for a
• 57:05
  lot of financial reasons while they do the
• 57:07
  same thing on the other side of the
• 57:09
  planet to get through the Bosphorus maybe you
• 57:11
  need a little bit of a different flag
• 57:13
  and so they re flagged them but we
• 57:15
  do the same over here and they operate
• 57:18
  without Western insurance they're buying their insurance on
• 57:22
  the on the Chinese market which is growing
• 57:25
  and they're not using Lloyd's London and they're
• 57:28
  used to move Russian or other sanctioned oil
• 57:34
  there's no formal legal category really called the
• 57:39
  shadow fleet but that's what they mean by
• 57:41
  it is it's you know it's a political
• 57:44
  label it's a way for the West to
• 57:47
  say well these ships are bad you know
• 57:50
  there's their transporting sunflower oil from Russia so
• 57:54
  France can call them bad ships in Ukraine
• 57:57
  can attack them in a third party's economic
• 58:00
  zone they can attack them hopefully not kill
• 58:06
  anybody but disable them so they can't operate
• 58:09
  and you know nobody likes that so it's
• 58:15
  a way for the Western government to say
• 58:17
  these ships are bad and for Ukraine to
• 58:19
  justify attacking them but they're not breaking any
• 58:24
  maritime law we do it all the time
• 58:26
  over here the shadow fleet you get to
• 58:29
  attack these ships because the only reason because
• 58:33
  they're carrying Russian goods that's just as bad
• 58:36
  as claiming that narco-terrorists on a ship
• 58:40
  that you could stop that you get a
• 58:42
  blow them up I'm strongly against this there
• 58:46
  is zero justification it's only an escalation and
• 58:50
  if it continues it's going to cause serious
• 58:53
  problems this Venezuela thing is not gonna end
• 58:57
  well for Trump it just won't and I'm
• 59:00
  not here to talk about that today we're
• 59:02
  gonna keep on going but Ukraine has got
• 59:05
  a step further physically attacking ships in a
• 59:08
  third country's economic zone just like the US
• 59:13
  is attacking ships outside of Venezuela to engage
• 59:17
  in regime change it's not a legal brief
• 59:21
  you know by any stretch but what they're
• 59:23
  doing is blowing up stuff and making sure
• 59:28
  that everybody in the world knows they're blowing
• 59:31
  it up just like Trump is doing in
• 59:34
  Venezuela so it's a they torpedo these things
• 59:38
  they make sure it's caught on video they
• 59:40
  post it all over telegram so people pick
• 59:43
  it up just like the US is doing
• 59:44
  in Venezuela and they're doing it to engage
• 59:49
  in terrorism get rid of somebody that's what's
• 59:52
  happening the way I see it there is
• 59:54
  zero justification column narco-terrorists fine stop them
• 59:59
  arrest them punish them you don't kill them
• 1:00:04
  without a trial that is BS and you
• 1:00:07
  can't oh gee it's wartime we have it
• 1:00:10
  we have a drug war which drug wars
• 1:00:13
  aren't conducted by blowing up countries nonsense but
• 1:00:18
  that's you know we're very willing to do
• 1:00:24
  that sort of thing so basically you have
• 1:00:27
  a shadow fleet moving oil a shadow war
• 1:00:31
  in the Black Sea blowing them up in
• 1:00:33
  a NATO country Turkey caught in the middle
• 1:00:36
  nuclear power of Russia is talking about cutting
• 1:00:41
  off Ukraine's access to the sea completely and
• 1:00:45
  target you know ships of other nations if
• 1:00:48
  it continues now that is a scary threat
• 1:00:53
  but who's escalating it people that are blowing
• 1:00:56
  up ships in Russia's side of shadow fleet
• 1:01:00
  in the coral areas we're blowing up ships
• 1:01:03
  in the West where this is leading to
• 1:01:06
  World War three if it continues this is
• 1:01:10
  BS no matter how you slice it there
• 1:01:13
  this is the kind of escalation that doesn't
• 1:01:16
  look too dramatic on CNN nobody talks about
• 1:01:19
  it there's no big explosion with famous buildings
• 1:01:23
  or things in the background but they're all
• 1:01:25
  on video and you can see the tanker
• 1:01:28
  limping they like to show that but they
• 1:01:30
  don't want to talk about dead people we
• 1:01:32
  only do that here in the on the
• 1:01:34
  West we blow up we blow up the
• 1:01:36
  ship completely what the shadow fleet they're only
• 1:01:39
  disabling these ships to affect the economic economic
• 1:01:44
  fortunes of Russia but it changes insurance landscape
• 1:01:48
  it changes shipping routes and it's a huge
• 1:01:52
  risk changes a risk calculus for the world
• 1:01:55
  you know let's get take it back to
• 1:01:58
  the presser on what what Putin said he
• 1:02:01
  calls these sorts of attacks piracy he talks
• 1:02:04
  about expanding the strikes on port facilities and
• 1:02:08
  he raised the possibility of retaliating against ships
• 1:02:12
  that are aiding Ukraine he's talking about doing
• 1:02:15
  the same thing how many do you get
• 1:02:18
  blowing up ships in international waters America how
• 1:02:24
  many do you get Ukraine blowing them up
• 1:02:27
  in the streets of Bosphorus how many do
• 1:02:31
  you get before somebody retaliates how many do
• 1:02:34
  you get before China India other people take
• 1:02:40
  more serious notice and do something about it
• 1:02:44
  now nobody will the West you don't know
• 1:02:46
  it'd be I don't think we're making any
• 1:02:49
  friends with what we're doing in South America
• 1:02:53
  just like Ukraine isn't making it in fact
• 1:02:55
  Ukraine is losing friends by what they are
• 1:02:58
  doing so the most radical part of this
• 1:03:02
  is it's the continual escalation there's a guy
• 1:03:08
  named Alexei Aristovitch that I like to watch
• 1:03:12
  as well used to be an advisor to
• 1:03:14
  the Z monster and all of his advisors
• 1:03:19
  are now ex-advisors everybody's gone you're back
• 1:03:24
  the other day gone fired that's been a
• 1:03:27
  drama scenario that I've been following for a
• 1:03:30
  little bit apparently there were shouting matches when
• 1:03:34
  Yermak was fired and the Z monster I
• 1:03:40
  think Z monster is next on the list
• 1:03:42
  they've already gotten rid of everyone that he
• 1:03:46
  works that has worked with him that rose
• 1:03:49
  with him to this power and he's next
• 1:03:53
  and prediction Zaluzhny who has been sent back
• 1:03:57
  to you to Kiev while Z man is
• 1:04:01
  not there is that's an interesting development might
• 1:04:06
  want to keep an eye on that so
• 1:04:09
  I watched a little bit of the Aristovitch
• 1:04:14
  show you need he does every couple of
• 1:04:19
  days he does like an hour and a
• 1:04:21
  half and gets interviewed or he has another
• 1:04:23
  political talk with another guy and so what
• 1:04:27
  did he say he's a Ukrainian insider and
• 1:04:31
  in this conversation he was talking about if
• 1:04:35
  Zelensky leaves how does that affect the pace
• 1:04:39
  of the peace process now I believe this
• 1:04:43
  put Zaluzhny in place is an effort to
• 1:04:47
  on the part of the EU continue the
• 1:04:51
  war and the grift and the extraction of
• 1:04:56
  money to keep the money train flowing to
• 1:05:00
  keep the corruption flowing because they won't change
• 1:05:03
  the system in Ukraine they'll just change the
• 1:05:07
  players and it's clear that this is all
• 1:05:10
  political you have to get rid of the
• 1:05:12
  Z monster now Russia can't sign a deal
• 1:05:15
  think about this if Russia cannot sign a
• 1:05:18
  deal with Zelensky which they cannot if they
• 1:05:21
  can't sign it because he's illegitimate Russia will
• 1:05:23
  do it they can only sign it with
• 1:05:26
  the West like I told you yesterday they're
• 1:05:28
  now saying because it's enshrined in Ukraine's Constitution
• 1:05:33
  that they're looking to the West and want
• 1:05:35
  to be a NATO member that Whitkoff was
• 1:05:40
  pumping to Putin yesterday that well we'll just
• 1:05:47
  make it a NATO agreement with Russia that
• 1:05:52
  Ukraine will never be admitted that way it
• 1:05:55
  doesn't matter what those idiots in Ukraine do
• 1:05:57
  we'll take care of it without them will
• 1:06:00
  force NATO to make an agreement now Russia
• 1:06:03
  doesn't believe anybody anyway like I've talked about
• 1:06:07
  this before Russia never got in a treaty
• 1:06:10
  from George Bush one that NATO will not
• 1:06:14
  go another inch to the east but they
• 1:06:17
  backed off and shut down the Warsaw Pact
• 1:06:20
  when he said that it was preamble to
• 1:06:23
  the agreement that actually was signed you know
• 1:06:26
  Budapest memorandum Budapest Accords all the the destruction
• 1:06:33
  of the Warsaw Pact and what happened immediately
• 1:06:36
  after the US NATO immediately went after all
• 1:06:40
  those former Soviet satellite countries to suck them
• 1:06:44
  into NATO and continue eastward expansion to get
• 1:06:48
  Russia so Russia won't just you know bend
• 1:06:53
  over here they're not going to and so
• 1:06:57
  that is that is how and why you
• 1:07:02
  know it's gonna Russia won't agree to anything
• 1:07:05
  with the z-monster and they might get
• 1:07:07
  something done if it's Whitkoff in the u
• 1:07:10
  .s. getting you know coming to the agreement
• 1:07:12
  but Erastovich says you know the the discussion
• 1:07:16
  they were having was if Zelensky leaves how
• 1:07:19
  will that affect the pace of the peace
• 1:07:21
  process he had a little bit different change
• 1:07:26
  they even had a little bit of a
• 1:07:28
  poll for the viewers will it speed things
• 1:07:31
  up will it create chaos will it change
• 1:07:34
  nothing because it's all scripted anyway or will
• 1:07:38
  Zelensky cling to power like you know the
• 1:07:42
  dying gasp of a man which I believe
• 1:07:45
  the three and four Zelensky's trying to cling
• 1:07:48
  to power right now he brings home the
• 1:07:50
  bacon 150 million he drifted off of Ireland
• 1:07:53
  yesterday he gets a battle give him another
• 1:07:56
  week you know what I mean but I
• 1:07:58
  don't believe anything changes because all this is
• 1:08:01
  scripted anyway and has been from the beginning
• 1:08:04
  and Erastovich is trying to be more blunt
• 1:08:08
  about it as well at least since he
• 1:08:10
  was you know sacked from Zelensky inner circle
• 1:08:15
  several years ago but he believes that the
• 1:08:17
  most likely outcome is not Zelensky reading a
• 1:08:22
  dramatic I'm tired I'm leaving speech and signing
• 1:08:26
  peace himself he thinks that Zelensky leaves but
• 1:08:30
  he disagrees with me says that someone else
• 1:08:33
  will sign a peace agreement Zelensky can't sign
• 1:08:37
  a peace agreement he said he's been pumping
• 1:08:41
  war for so long and grifting for so
• 1:08:44
  long and being a beggar for so long
• 1:08:47
  that he can't do anything about it but
• 1:08:49
  why does Erastovich thinks that Zelensky leaves and
• 1:08:53
  somebody else signs peace which I admit is
• 1:08:56
  a another potential outcome but I think if
• 1:09:00
  it's illusiony being pushed in by England that
• 1:09:04
  that's a big continue on for another year
• 1:09:09
  or so mainly with NATO funding but Russia
• 1:09:13
  was gonna continue to advance and take some
• 1:09:16
  bigger cities because truthfully the the front for
• 1:09:21
  Ukraine is collapsing anyway it's getting worse they
• 1:09:24
  can't bring people in and all the stuff
• 1:09:26
  that we know and I talk about is
• 1:09:28
  making it even worse for their mobilization efforts
• 1:09:32
  I don't have anybody left to mobilize they're
• 1:09:35
  into the sick and afflicted in the old
• 1:09:37
  right now and they can't or won't go
• 1:09:41
  any younger and take the 18 to 25
• 1:09:44
  year olds so all of them have left
• 1:09:46
  the country anyway and so but he said
• 1:09:51
  Russia doesn't want to sign with Zelensky and
• 1:09:56
  why would they they've been saying he's illegitimate
• 1:09:59
  and on principle they will not sign something
• 1:10:02
  with Zelensky but a signature has to happen
• 1:10:07
  so that means there's gonna be a different
• 1:10:09
  name on the bottom line so we talked
• 1:10:12
  about the near final state of the draft
• 1:10:15
  deal and that that's what's gonna happen and
• 1:10:22
  in his telling there are two main sticky
• 1:10:25
  points this 28-point peace plan territorial concessions
• 1:10:30
  or will Ukraine voluntarily withdraw from the the
• 1:10:35
  remaining parts of Donetsk or will the front
• 1:10:39
  line be frozen where it stands there isn't
• 1:10:42
  going to be Russia back and off Russia
• 1:10:44
  isn't gonna capitulate but that's what Ukraine's been
• 1:10:47
  pumping forever we want them to capitulate the
• 1:10:51
  winners don't capitulate that's just how it goes
• 1:10:55
  you don't capitulate if you're the winner well
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  I won okay that was great I think
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  I'll back off that ain't gonna happen so
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  NATO is in the Ukrainian Constitution Aristovitch reminds
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  us and so will Ukraine remove that NATO
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  membership clause from its Constitution and replace it
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  with neutrality and promise not to join any
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  military alliance and what he says is this
• 1:11:24
  is what Aristovitch is expected to bring to
• 1:11:27
  Moscow we haven't heard all of those things
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  yet I'm sure there's things in the news
• 1:11:33
  that I might be able to get to
• 1:11:34
  here either in the final bits of this
• 1:11:39
  show or certainly tomorrow a package where but
• 1:11:42
  Aristovitch says that Whitkoff is bringing a package
• 1:11:45
  where those two issues are clarified or at
• 1:11:49
  least negotiable and Moscow will respond to that
• 1:11:52
  in this whole game the name at the
• 1:11:54
  top in Kiev matters less than the decisions
• 1:11:58
  being made on territorial losses or gains by
• 1:12:03
  each side and NATO and Aristovitch is a
• 1:12:06
  pretty brutal guy anyway he says whoever replaces
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  Zelensky Zelushny some Parliament figure whoever will inherit
• 1:12:16
  all the political costs of either signing something
• 1:12:20
  that looks like a defeat or refusing to
• 1:12:23
  sign and continuing the war I say that's
• 1:12:27
  what Zelushny will do they will have continued
• 1:12:30
  loss and perhaps then the total collapse of
• 1:12:35
  the Ukrainian army and Zelensky won't be to
• 1:12:38
  blame because he will be retired to a
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  villa in the south of France or England
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  and if the successor whoever that may be
• 1:12:48
  says no concessions and we keep NATO in
• 1:12:51
  our Constitution the war continues and the blame
• 1:12:57
  shifts from Zelensky to the new guy especially
• 1:13:00
  if it's Zelushny and then the new leader
• 1:13:03
  is responsible for frontline collapses drone shortages corruption
• 1:13:10
  in defense the loss of cities like Pokrovsk
• 1:13:14
  Krasnodar Mesa and everything else he believes Aristovitch
• 1:13:20
  believes the Americans are determined to reach a
• 1:13:23
  deal now and I think Trump has been
• 1:13:27
  pretty clear about that whatever the deal is
• 1:13:29
  and will apply pressure accordingly to both sides
• 1:13:33
  it looks like political pressure financial pressure and
• 1:13:38
  maybe personal pressure I watched another commentator talk
• 1:13:44
  about America removing military intelligence I've said forever
• 1:13:50
  that that's very important and apparently that is
• 1:13:53
  getting close you know that the US is
• 1:13:56
  slow playing in military intelligence even now now
• 1:14:03
  I don't know the truth of that but
• 1:14:05
  it is being talked about he describes Aristovitch
• 1:14:10
  describes a scenario where Zelensky is given a
• 1:14:14
  personal guarantee that he won't die if he
• 1:14:17
  steps down and that he gets to keep
• 1:14:19
  all his money and no one's gonna jail
• 1:14:21
  him yeah I listen to another thing yesterday
• 1:14:23
  that part of the things in Brussels they're
• 1:14:27
  saying this is the EU is saying oh
• 1:14:30
  geez America we we can't agree to anything
• 1:14:33
  unless unless we still get a prosecute Vladimir
• 1:14:38
  Putin for war crimes but we don't want
• 1:14:44
  I mean nobody else everybody else is off
• 1:14:46
  the hook there's no corruption scandal there's nobody
• 1:14:49
  chase for all the money that's disappeared none
• 1:14:52
  of that but Putin boy that guy's guilty
• 1:14:54
  of war crimes and we got to get
• 1:14:56
  him there aren't any war crimes committed by
• 1:14:58
  the by Ukraine inside Kursk inside what is
• 1:15:04
  it darn it I can't remember the name
• 1:15:07
  of the city it's right next to Kursk
• 1:15:09
  and just north of Subi region but I
• 1:15:13
  forget the name of it and all of
• 1:15:15
  the stuff that's been going on there the
• 1:15:17
  bombings in that in those places and the
• 1:15:19
  destruction of civilians in those places what what
• 1:15:23
  took place between 2014 and 2022 inside the
• 1:15:27
  Donbass when Ukraine was killing Russians because they
• 1:15:31
  speak Russian or killing people that they disagreed
• 1:15:34
  with and all of that the only one
• 1:15:36
  that matters is is to the EU is
• 1:15:39
  going after Putin right and so Zelensky gets
• 1:15:44
  personal guarantee to step down those guarantees will
• 1:15:47
  unlikely hold they won't hold any long term
• 1:15:50
  and he says that Zelensky is no longer
• 1:15:55
  gonna be little Churchill they were trying to
• 1:15:59
  claim at the beginning of this that Zelensky
• 1:16:02
  was out wandering around looking like Churchill I
• 1:16:05
  never thought that I thought he looked like
• 1:16:06
  a beggar the whole time and it was
• 1:16:11
  nonsensical but on the system side Erastovich made
• 1:16:14
  a point that lines up with what we
• 1:16:16
  heard from what the Russians said and this
• 1:16:20
  is important he says Russia doesn't actually care
• 1:16:24
  whether Ukraine remains corrupt and internally rotten and
• 1:16:30
  he then unfortunately that's gonna continue if they
• 1:16:33
  put Zelensky in there what Russia cares about
• 1:16:36
  is its own security on the southwestern access
• 1:16:40
  so according to Erastovich Moscow's priority is to
• 1:16:46
  limit Ukraine's capacity to be used as an
• 1:16:49
  anti-russian battering ram not to reform Ukraine's
• 1:16:54
  internal politics now they want that but it's
• 1:16:57
  more important to get the security and so
• 1:17:00
  he says the West and this is Erastovich
• 1:17:03
  this is a Ukrainian commentator he says the
• 1:17:06
  West especially Europe does not care about Ukraine
• 1:17:10
  or its corruption they're tired of seeing the
• 1:17:14
  billions stolen by somebody else they're tired of
• 1:17:18
  seeing the bill they want to steal it
• 1:17:19
  themselves they want their own corrupt the chunks
• 1:17:22
  you know my percent my my part for
• 1:17:25
  bringing the deal together whether you call it
• 1:17:27
  a broker fee or bribery or you know
• 1:17:32
  a mafia it's the same old people doing
• 1:17:34
  the same thing EU's own prosecutors office is
• 1:17:38
  now looking to massive fraud involving European aid
• 1:17:43
  on the European side so this corruption isn't
• 1:17:49
  just Ukraine Ukraine is the worst of it
• 1:17:52
  for sure but there's corruption everywhere in the
• 1:17:56
  EU is looking into it as well so
• 1:17:59
  he kind of ends up in a rather
• 1:18:01
  strange place you know Russia wants security guarantees
• 1:18:05
  to its southwest America wants a deal signed
• 1:18:09
  to end this war and they don't care
• 1:18:11
  what it costs anymore you Pete Europe wants
• 1:18:14
  some kind of clean money laundering scheme through
• 1:18:20
  Ukraine they want you know they would rather
• 1:18:22
  be a more clean about the openly corrupt
• 1:18:28
  activities inside of Ukraine they want to be
• 1:18:32
  able to hide it like they always have
• 1:18:34
  been through places like US Agency for International
• 1:18:38
  Development National Endowment for Democracy and others they
• 1:18:43
  that you know the money laundering used to
• 1:18:45
  be pretty clean you could send it through
• 1:18:48
  and take your 10 20 percent off the
• 1:18:51
  top of this aid that you organized and
• 1:18:55
  nobody would notice you know you could give
• 1:18:57
  yourself a position running this what do you
• 1:19:04
  they call them the NGO and you could
• 1:19:09
  give yourself a big position you know pay
• 1:19:13
  yourself several million dollars a year and that
• 1:19:15
  isn't considered the theft or thievery that is
• 1:19:20
  considered you know have a good job managing
• 1:19:24
  a good process but they pay themselves millions
• 1:19:28
  so they this is how the grift in
• 1:19:32
  the scam continues and if we can keep
• 1:19:35
  Ukraine in that we don't care if Ukraine
• 1:19:38
  milk soft the top 10 to 20 percent
• 1:19:40
  or whatever we said there longest before we
• 1:19:43
  said it there we get a milk off
• 1:19:45
  our own 10 to 20 percent or give
• 1:19:47
  ourselves jobs that pay off in the same
• 1:19:50
  amount and make it look cleaner so aristovitz
• 1:19:53
  is saying that you Europe wants a clean
• 1:19:57
  less openly corrupt Ukraine so Ukrainian politicians all
• 1:20:06
  they want to do is save themselves the
• 1:20:10
  share of the money that they've been able
• 1:20:12
  to pull off and their own political futures
• 1:20:16
  and somewhere in that mess according to aristovitz
• 1:20:20
  the war will grind on until somebody probably
• 1:20:26
  not Zelensky takes the risk of signing something
• 1:20:30
  that his own voters is that Ukraine will
• 1:20:37
  consider somewhat of a betrayal that you the
• 1:20:41
  Ukrainians will see that you know you've been
• 1:20:45
  lying to us from the start you've been
• 1:20:48
  saying we know we've got the backing even
• 1:20:52
  yesterday in Ireland the I don't know if
• 1:20:55
  he's prime minister what I forget I did
• 1:20:57
  watch it but I didn't remember what it
• 1:20:59
  was what his title was the guy that
• 1:21:01
  gave him 150 million though did the old
• 1:21:04
  Z monster yesterday he said that we're going
• 1:21:08
  we're with you until the end but then
• 1:21:11
  he said even if it means you know
• 1:21:13
  rebuilding so after you collapse basically here's 150
• 1:21:17
  million enjoy your 10 percent 20 percent first
• 1:21:21
  and then but here's 150 million from the
• 1:21:24
  people of Ireland and you know good luck
• 1:21:26
  and we're with you till the end well
• 1:21:28
  what is the end nobody knows so but
• 1:21:31
  that's aristovitz and he always has a reasonably
• 1:21:35
  interesting show is a little hard to listen
• 1:21:38
  to because he's like so many Russian men
• 1:21:41
  mumbles when he speaks but he doesn't open
• 1:21:44
  his mouth or enunciate fully at least in
• 1:21:47
  my opinion so he's hard to listen to
• 1:21:49
  my usually gotta have subtitles on with him
• 1:21:53
  to try to catch a quick view because
• 1:21:57
  he talks so fast and mumbles a lot
• 1:21:59
  or not clearly you may not like aristovitz
• 1:22:03
  you may not even trust him and he
• 1:22:05
  used to be a lot more relevant than
• 1:22:07
  he is now but he isn't talking like
• 1:22:10
  a YouTube cheerleader for Ukraine you know there's
• 1:22:13
  too many of those he's talking like a
• 1:22:15
  man who sees a wall coming you know
• 1:22:19
  you're gonna hit this wall and he's trying
• 1:22:21
  to describe it and what it is and
• 1:22:24
  I think it was a pretty interesting show
• 1:22:27
  you know no matter how you talk it
• 1:22:29
  and some good commentary so I've given you
• 1:22:32
  some real news from Vladimir Putin in the
• 1:22:36
  beginning a real look at these shadow fleet
• 1:22:40
  attacks and what they mean and a little
• 1:22:45
  bit about what inside Ukraine people in the
• 1:22:48
  know are saying this corruption where isn't gonna
• 1:22:52
  just end friends and neighbors it's not gonna
• 1:22:55
  just go away and before we wrap up
• 1:23:00
  and I've got one of my favorite Christmas
• 1:23:02
  songs lined up to get out and I
• 1:23:05
  was always a yeah I when I was
• 1:23:08
  a kid I grew up in went to
• 1:23:10
  high school in Minnesota and don't you know
• 1:23:14
  they talk like don't you know and they
• 1:23:17
  don't they would say things like you want
• 1:23:20
  to come with what does that mean and
• 1:23:24
  I remember even in high school said somebody
• 1:23:27
  go hey we're going to the movies this
• 1:23:29
  Friday you want to come with and I'd
• 1:23:31
  say wait a minute what are you talking
• 1:23:34
  about want to come with you can't end
• 1:23:37
  a question or end a sentence with with
• 1:23:40
  you know it's you want to come with
• 1:23:42
  you want to come with me to somewhere
• 1:23:45
  you want to you know you want to
• 1:23:46
  speak English but they would say things that
• 1:23:50
  don't you know you throw it and one
• 1:23:52
  of the things was a you know a
• 1:23:55
  at the end of everything I remember when
• 1:23:57
  I was a kid in high school you
• 1:23:58
  talk about a a and don't you know
• 1:24:01
  and and so one of my favorites was
• 1:24:07
  Bob and Doug McKenzie do you remember that
• 1:24:09
  from I think it was called SC TV
• 1:24:12
  and the movie was called Strange Brew they
• 1:24:16
  did a movie and then they had their
• 1:24:19
  famous was with Geddy Lee from Rush and
• 1:24:22
  it's a cool remember that and they would
• 1:24:27
  do that that song is coming up here
• 1:24:30
  pretty soon before we finish up the show
• 1:24:33
  and that'll be entertaining for us and I've
• 1:24:36
  only got a little bit of time before
• 1:24:39
  I got to kick that on so you've
• 1:24:42
  been listening to damn radio and international flavor
• 1:24:46
  and I'm damn glad that you have been
• 1:24:49
  here every day now from 730 to 9
• 1:24:52
  instead of the 9 p.m. to 1030
• 1:24:56
  slot I'm now the morning guy there's a
• 1:25:00
  lot of news going on but we're not
• 1:25:02
  going to get to it because I got
• 1:25:03
  to get this song out of the way
• 1:25:05
  and I'm still learning how to make sure
• 1:25:07
  that it works correctly to get her done
• 1:25:10
  but I think I will get her done
• 1:25:12
  just correctly so listen to my shows all
• 1:25:15
  of them will be downloaded and taken care
• 1:25:17
  of at internationalflavor.com and you can listen
• 1:25:20
  to the damn radio forward slash podcasts thank