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First Morning Show: From Russia’s 2021 Ultimatum to Witkoff in Moscow, Zelensky’s Freefall, and NATO’s Escalation Today Unmasked Live · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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Incredibly awesome music to bring you some incredibly
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awesome political talk on damn radio Hello, good
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morning and welcome.
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I am Samuel Trapp.
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This is International flavor you are listening to
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damn radio Now I just wanted to let
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you know this is my first show in
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the morning and things have not gone as
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planned I am starting a half an hour
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late.
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Normally the show time will be 730 a
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.m. In the morning.
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So I Had a little bit of unforeseen
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weather unforeseen Circumstances and things did not go
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as planned at any rate here we are
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and there's plenty to do and plenty to
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talk about and I've had a an interesting
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Thanksgiving week just back basically took a week
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off basically from the show I Did some
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running around got some things done haven't been
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feeling well all kinds of stuff So I
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want to jump right into it.
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There's plenty of Discussion going on.
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There's I want to cover today some of
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the our Whitcoff is in Moscow and is
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supposed to meet with Putin has been meeting
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with Them there are plenty plenty of timeline
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updates in there to go through but what
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I wanted to start with today is going
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through the Ultimatum there was a Russian plan
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that was an eight-point plan that was
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put out in the first part of December
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of 2021 this was before You know the
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increase hostilities have been going on since 2014
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now in America nobody knew that you know
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Are they I shouldn't say nobody but a
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few of us knew that or had been
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following that beforehand About what was really going
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on in the massive expansion of NATO eastward
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since 91 when I was a Nuclear testing
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guy or arms control guy interpreter, and so
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I wanted to Talk about a little bit
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about this ultimatum and share with you an
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article from Well there were several articles, but
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I chose this one that I would like
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to share with you that was From the
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Guardian that was put out on December 17th
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of 2021 and It's it's not horribly long,
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so I'm gonna share it with you if
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the Whole thing is here Let's see Yeah,
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it appears that the The whole article sometimes
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you start reading them And then they want
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you to pay for something to get the
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older articles And so this was written by
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a guy named Andrew Roth who was in
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Moscow wrote this from Moscow back way back
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when and then the Basically there was a
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highly Oh Discussed peace formula or
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Formula for more of an ultimatum a lot
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of people framed it as an ultimatum from
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the Russian side back in December of 2021
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you know Russia had talked about red lines
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forever and talked about what was what was
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what was going on by the way if
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you feel like calling in is five seven
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three seven four six eighty twenty and I'd
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be happy to chat with you about this
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or anything else, but basically this was a
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security plan put forward by By Russia that
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says look you know we've been watching this
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go on for 30 years now and and
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you guys haven't done a damn thing you
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said you were gonna do and On the
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on the western side you've treated us like
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enemies we're not and so but if you
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want to treat us that way perhaps we
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should go back to the way it was
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under the Soviet Union non confrontation non Non
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pressure points you know all this stuff so
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anyway There's and I'm a little under the
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weather still so if I'm sniffling I apologize
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for that but Russia I'll share this article
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with you Russia has put forward a Highly
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contentious is what he calls it list of
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security guarantees that it wants the West to
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agree to in order to lower tensions in
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Europe and defuse the crisis over Ukraine Including
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many elements that have already been ruled out
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the demands include a ban on Ukraine entering
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NATO and a limit to the Deployment of
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troops and weapons to NATO's eastern flank in
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effect returning NATO forces to where they were
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stationed in 1997 before an eastward expanse in
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the eight-point draft treaty was released by
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Russia's foreign ministry as Its forces masked within
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striking distance of Ukraine's borders Moscow said ignoring
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its interests Let's see here would lead to
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a military response similar to the Cuban Missile
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Crisis of 1962 Vladimir Putin demanded that the
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West provide Russia legal guarantees of its security
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But the Kremlin's aggressive proposals are likely to
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be rejected in Western capitals as an attempt
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to formalize a new Russian sphere of influence
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over Eastern Europe The demands spelled out by
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Moscow in full for the first time were
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handed over to the US this week They
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include a demand Darn it.
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I'm scrolling bad They Include a demand that
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NATO remove any troops or weapons deployed to
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countries that entered the alliance after 1997 which
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would include much of Eastern Europe including Poland
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the former Soviet countries of Estonia, Lithuania Latvia
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and the Balkan countries Russia has demanded that
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NATO rule out further expansion including the accession
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of Ukraine into the alliance and That it
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does not hold drills without previous agreement from
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Russia in Ukraine Eastern Europe or in Caucasus
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countries such as Georgia or Central Asia now
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Russia complained about that ever since they Stopped
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there was immediate Attempts to go to all
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these countries and get them to allow NATO
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to start putting weapons in there we started
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all of the all of the discussions with
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that and so these Proposals are likely to
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be viewed extremely negatively by NATO countries in
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particular Poland and the Baltic States now, I've
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been report I reported to you from one
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of the Baltic states back in September and
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They're extremely and they weren't they didn't used
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to be but they're very anti right you
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can't even speak Russian over there They have
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a cow, you know, it's nonsense But but
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they're very very anti Russia and it doesn't
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make a whole lot of sense that they
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are Well, they have warned that Russia is
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attempting to reassess these proposals They have warned
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that Russia is attempting to reestablish its sphere
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of influence in the region and View this
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document as proof that Moscow is seeking to
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limit their sovereignty Hard not to agree with
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that but the the big boys on the
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block or the u.s I mean do
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they have any sovereignty as far as the
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u.s. Is concerned?
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You could probably take the opposite view of
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that that they're those small countries, especially the
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pre Baltic II Latvia Lithuania Estonia are certainly
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not Independent let's call it that they are
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not independent.
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They are subject to Everything, you know and
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they are goading and they're goading Russia with
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the backing of the u.s. Nowadays So
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at the time though It said a senior
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u.s. Official said on Friday that the
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Kremlin knows that some parts of its proposal
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were unacceptable The NATO had it at the
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time.
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Anyway, Jen Stoltenberg has already ruled out any
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Agreement denying Ukraine the right to enter the
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military alliance Alliance saying it is up to
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Ukraine and the 30 NATO countries Which at
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the time geez there were only I can't
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remember the exact amount I want to say
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19 NATO countries in 97 and Everybody made
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a real strong effort in all geez George
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Bush one Now we won't go one inch
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to the to the east, you know We
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will and then many other promises from from
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the West.
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There are already major obstacles to Ukraine entering
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the alliance including its territorial dispute with Russia
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over Crimea the Russian document also calls for
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the two countries to pull back any short
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or Intermediate or medium-range missile systems out
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of reach of each other replacing the previous
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INF treaty that the u.s. Left in
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2018 White House press secretary Jen Psaki said
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that the u.s. Had seen proposals from
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Russia to start talks and was speaking with
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its European allies and partners and She said
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there will be no talks on European security
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without our European allies and partners the Russian
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Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Rybakov said on Friday
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that there was no deadline for talks But
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that Russia wants to begin negotiation without delay
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and without Stalling we can go any place
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and any time Even tomorrow he said in
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animated remarks Asked whether he thought the requests
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were unreasonable.
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He said no, this is not about us
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giving some kind of ultimatum There is none.
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The thing is that the seriousness of our
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warning should not be underestimated He said no
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The reason I'm sharing this with you is
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because I want you to fast forward to
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everything that has gone on Today and we're
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not quite done.
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We have a few more paragraphs to go
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here But I want you to be paying
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attention to this because of current events Dimitri
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Trenin the head of the Carnegie Moscow Center
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Wrote that Russia's public release of its proposed
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agreement may suggest that Moscow rightly considers their
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acceptance by the West Unlikely this logically means
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that Russia will have to assure its security
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single-handedly most probably by military technical means
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he wrote Western countries have warned that Russia
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may be preparing an invasion of Ukraine in
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January as Russian tanks artillery and missiles have
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mass near the borders Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky
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has called on the West for additional aid
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in case Russia decides to launch a broader
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offensive on Friday Ukraine said that this old
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what one of its soldiers was killed during
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fighting with Russian-backed separatists in the east
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of the country He was reportedly killed in
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an attack using grenade launchers and mortars The
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latest death brings Ukraine's toll in the simmering
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conflict to 65 since the start of the
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year according to a tally based on official
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Figner figures compared with 50 in 2020 the
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conflict in Ukraine has so far left more
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than 13,000 people dead And that this
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was in 2021 Beforehand Russia has massed about
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100,000 troops on its side of the
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border Joe Biden has worn port Putin of
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sanctions like he's never seen Should his troops
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attack Ukraine on Thursday?
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European leaders urged Moscow to halt its military
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build-up and return to talks led by
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France and Germany so that article was in
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December of 2021 beforehand, okay, and the release
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of the Documents, where is it?
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Has several key points right and most of
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those key points were Go back to where
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it was in 1997 so then on December
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1st It said that during a ceremony for
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the presentation of credentials by foreign ambassadors Putin
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defined obtaining security guarantees from the West as
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the top priority for Russian military, I'm sorry
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs He emphasized that legal
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Guarantees are needed because our Western colleagues failed
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to fulfill Verbal commitments they have made over
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time December the 2nd in Stockholm Russian Foreign
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Minister Sergei Lavrov issued the ultimatum To the
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West stating that Ukraine is being pumped with
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weapons way back then and the nightmare scenario
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of military confrontation is returning Lavrov Threatened they
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say here ignoring Russia's legitimate concerns drawing Ukraine
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into the u.s. geopolitical games against the
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backdrop of NATO forces Being deployed in close
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proximity to our borders will have the most
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serious Consequences and will force us to take
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countermeasures to restore the military strategic Balance the
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alternative to this could be long-term security
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guarantees on our western border Which should be
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viewed as an imperative requirement?
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I think it's very well put quit expanding
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eastward and Everything will be fine, but you
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don't do it and so on December 17
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of 2021 remember The Russian Ministry of Foreign
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Affairs published on its website draft agreements entitled
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the treaty between the Russian Federation and the
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United States of America on security guarantees and
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agreement on measures to ensure the security of
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the Russian Federation and member states of the
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization now that Agreement, let's
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see.
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I was trying to find the the full
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text of that agreement and Running a little
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slow this morning here But I still want
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to try to find it if I can
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and while I'm looking for it.
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I'll tell you this this was the has
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been the same old same old from the
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point of view of the Russians, you know
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here here's how we have put that together
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this they have been saying quit expanding quit
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going and what they're saying now with Whitkoff
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being in In Russia Is that some of
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these same things are being discussed now?
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And they're saying we don't need the agreement
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in NATO all we really need is the
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agreement of Donald Trump and so there was
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and and again I like to follow these
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timelines and what I may do is go
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through some of these timelines for you and
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Go from the very beginning of all of
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that because It has been Quite a Quite
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a a change in what they and you
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know, here's like for example we have There's
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no more there's there's no more I think
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I think it's fair to say that nobody
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is claiming that OG Ukraine is gonna is
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gonna win in fact a guy that I
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Tell you about all the time Alexei Rastovich
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is now in in the In the news
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he has said Ukraine has lost as as
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Early as February of this year You remember
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when I was talking to you Ukraine has
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lost the armed conflict with Russia due to
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the inability of the Ukrainian people to take
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personal Responsibility for their failures says Alexei Rastovich
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a former aide to Zelensky He expects the
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u.s. Russia and China to decide on
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a resolution without consulting Kiev Rastovich resigned from
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his government post in 2023 after contradicting the
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ridge the critical official narrative around a missile
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incident Now he's a critic of the Zelensky
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administration and Back in February.
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He argued That the Changing tone of Western
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discourse about Ukraine has signaled a significant policy
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change US President Trump will sort things out
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with Putin and Xi Jinping without consulting us
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Because engaging with those who deny reality is
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futile He wrote we have lost the war
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due to our own stupidity pride and stubbornness
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In truth, we have defeated ourselves Erastovich added
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we have created a society of mutual hatred
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and intolerance in which every Individual is right
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and everyone collectively is to blame At that
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time he cited several recent news stories calling
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them a wake-up call For Ukrainians to
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acknowledge defeat and their role in it Keith
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Kellogg Trump's special envoy this back in February
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has called on Kiev to resume presidential and
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parliamentary elections that was back in February conservative
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US political commentator Tucker Carlson branded Ukrainian leader
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a Dictator remember that during a debate with
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British television Host Piers Morgan Additionally Washington's decision
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in January to suspend foreign aid programs Forced
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many Ukrainian NGOs and media outlets to solicit
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Private donations to avoid their own shutdowns And
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so they have experienced some of that public
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statements and media report suggests Trump seeks a
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freeze the Ukraine conflict blah blah blah and
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But even back in February and this has
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been going on for a while the Ukrainian
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military is plagued by large-scale desertion poor
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morale while Russia continues to advance meanwhile Zelensky
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has called on Kiev backers to deploy 200
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,000 troops as peacekeepers.
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He urged Trump to adopt peace through strength
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and Nonsense and Whitkoff Well, he's never been
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a huge.
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Well.
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I have never been a huge fan of
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the old of the old Whitkoff but Now
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fast forward till November you know just last
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week Zelensky wanted his European backers at MIT
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meetings, you know, he can't can't talk anymore
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Now Whitkoff is in Moscow When We'll see
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what happens now, but it's a completely different
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Statement than it was before and so if
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you go back through I wanted to go
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through the timeline Where are we this is?
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As of December the This is pretty much
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current as it is Going on, but we're
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gonna go back all the way through yesterday
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and see some of these Where they start
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because there's a lot of video and there's
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a lot of things that were going on
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And so Putin welcomes US envoy to Moscow
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for Ukraine Steve Whitkoff is expected to present
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an updated American back peace plan so After
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weeks of talks the focus of the u
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.s. Led peace initiative is moving to Moscow
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So Putin is set to welcome Steve Whitkoff
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the u.s. Special presidential envoy to discuss
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a plan for resolving the Ukraine conflict The
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discussion is expected to focus on the key
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parts of the American back peace framework Which
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initially was a 28-point draft that was
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leaked to the media last month leaving Zelensky's
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Western European backers blindsided and sidelined since then
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Zelensky's inner circle is Exposed as corrupt and
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his forces have suffered significant territorial losses on
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the front line and the alleged initial peace
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document has been the subject of several rounds
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of talks and What they call in Russia
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megaphone diplomacy Meaning only in the media or
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social media and not through official channels Whitkoff
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met a Ukrainian delegation Minus Andrei Yermak who
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has been fired in Florida for four hours
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Which officials describe as productive but media sources
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said we're not easy Although Zelensky has officially
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ruled out any concessions to Moscow The talks
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are expected to focus on territorial questions that
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have been exacerbated by Kiev's multiple frontline setbacks
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Maximus to maximalistic demands from the EU and
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diplomacy of the US now If anybody is
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finally beginning to engage in a little bit
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of diplomacy with Russia It is the United
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States.
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Finally, they're starting to Talk a little bit.
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No, you know, I've complained about this forever
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that it's just not not happened So Whitkoff
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and Dmitry of this is the start of
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it Came along and I'm gonna go through
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a bunch of these Whitkoff and Dmitry have
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had lunch at a restaurant in downtown Moscow
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Footage shows the two men in their age
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walking to the Central Universal Department store soon
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not far from Kremlin and Then the talks
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between Ukraine and US officials revolve larger year
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around personal security issues No, what did I
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just share with you about the personal security
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or?
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issues rather than the country's broader national incidents
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said Alexei Aristovich a former top aide of
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Zelensky.
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I think the conversation is about security guarantees
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for Zelensky he said that any pledges from
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the West in this regard are supposed to
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be short-lived Aristovich argued that Washington is
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genuinely seeking to end the conflict soon Even
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though hostilities may continue for several more months
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he added that Ukraine should not view the
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reported 28 US peace plan 20th point as
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Capitulation and he says now and remember what
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I shared with you what he said in
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February this he says now This is the
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price for incompetent policies and thieving over all
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34 years of Ukrainian independence a Price is
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not that high compared to all the crimes
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committed against our country says Aristovich now I
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Frankly, I agree with him.
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It's a Ukraine is corrupt corrupt corrupt That's
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why they couldn't be in NATO in the
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first place They shouldn't be an EU in
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the first place till they fix that and
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that's what they were talking back in 2020
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2021 and then when Russia finally said look
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we've had enough of this crap quit doing
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NATO Exercises and increasing NATO influence in Ukraine
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or we're gonna do something about it Then
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we pushed and pushed and pushed and pushed
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and here's where we are Okay, that was
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years 30 years of incompetent practices by the
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United States frankly From the time that I
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was involved in that stuff arms control and
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all we did Everything that we talked about
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in the 90s when I was involved has
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been Completely for lack of a better word
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shit can it's not it's not we didn't
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do any of it any of the promises
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We made not all the cut all the
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treaties We signed don't exist and and we
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withdrew from a lot of them or we
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forced to withdraw from other people and and
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it's like We treated Russia very poorly No
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diplomacy at all from any president It's just
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been and what have we done we've support
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we've done what we always do we support
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the you know some kind of regime change
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based only Never never never based upon what
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is best for the country that we're forcing
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the regime change in but based upon what
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we Believe is a person who will focus
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only on us and not upon Our Stalking
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enemies that we created China Russia who Iran
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whoever we decide Iraq you know at that
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Libya Pick them go back 30 years and
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just pick them because that's what we do
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we create these These puppet enemies these fake
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enemies that don't really exist but we make
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them exist and then Change Regimes Based only
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upon that if we get somebody who's going
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to be favorable to our current Leadership, then
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it's worthwhile right that's that's our practice Governmentally
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for the last at least 30 years probably
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closer Probably ever since World War two But
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it's been much more prevalent with the creation
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of wars that didn't exist for the last
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40 years so Let's see Washington and Kiev
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Finalized the proposals for ending the conflict during
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Florida talks said Vladimir Zelensky He added that
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officials in Kiev will be in constant contact
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with America to determine the schedule of further
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meetings meanwhile Rubio said that while Washington in
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Kiev have made progress More work will be
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required and he stressed that Russia must be
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part of the equation for any agreement to
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occur now Zelensky's been trying to create a
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While his own victory plan His peace plan
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member those have been going on for so
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long The US side has been saying these
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Negotiations if you want to call them that
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from the Ukraine side are not easy a
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little bit after that On US officials have
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been markedly less focused on European security lieutenant
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general Christian fruiting inspector of the German army
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and former overseer of Berlin's aid to Kiev
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has complained he told the Atlantic that While
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he had previously been able to text his
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American counterparts day and night that that line
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of communication Has been cut off according to
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this general this shift in attitude also means
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Washington offers Berlin no warning before suspending certain
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weapon shipments to Ukraine so Many EU nations
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have continued to peddle the narrative of fighting
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to the last Ukrainian and are scrambling to
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find financial assistance to prop up Kiev even
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as Trump is is making Substantial efforts to
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find a solution to the conflict that was
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claimed by Dmitry Peskov a little bit earlier
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Flurry of diplomatic activity and renewed peace talks
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in recent weeks and just They were spotted.
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Let's see German minister Johan, wait a pool
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has suggested Kiev may have to agree to
32:36
painful concessions finally people are Starting to admit
32:40
it US told the EU in no uncertain
32:44
terms earlier this year they plan to return
32:49
Frozen Russian assets to Moscow once a peace
32:53
plan is signed said politico The u.s.
32:57
Reportedly has been against the EU plan.
33:00
Well, I know that well They haven't agreed
33:02
to it except for Trump getting half of
33:04
it to use the ashes assets for issuing
33:07
loans to Ukraine with the initial leaked version
33:11
of the peace roadmap Including a provision to
33:14
use a hundred billion of the funds in
33:16
an American-led effort to rebuild and invest
33:20
in Ukraine and to create a separate US
33:24
Russian vehicle so The prospect caused, you know
33:30
Obviously problems between the EU and the US
33:33
because the EU doesn't want to return that
33:36
money they want to figure out how to
33:37
justify it somehow and and get to keep
33:41
those 300 billion of Russian money and but
33:47
in Belgium the bank is is saying, you
33:50
know, this is a bad plan.
33:51
You can't do this and then let's see
33:56
Where are we gonna go I wanted to
33:58
get to the A Bottom of this page
34:05
because there are so many talks former Ukrainian
34:09
minister Dmitry Kuliba says that Kiev has to
34:12
accept an agreement that no one will like
34:16
if it wants to avoid many more years
34:19
of conflict with Russia and a potential complete
34:23
Collapse, this is Kuliba We are in a
34:27
situation where Russia has the ability to destroy
34:31
us and we are not strong enough to
34:34
protect ourselves Kulibra Kuliba said in a conference
34:40
in Kiev on Monday only a deal that
34:43
no one will like which looks which locks
34:47
in a tactical defeat and The strategic victory
34:52
he says could prevent many more years of
34:55
war or even worse Territorial issues will be
35:03
at the center of any peace deal and
35:05
Whitkoff's visit to Moscow comes as Russian forces
35:10
Continue to make frontline gains I mean, it's
35:15
there Russia is advancing and the more they
35:19
advance the worse it gets for for Ukraine,
35:23
it's They are taking over large swaths of
35:29
land and it seems any efforts any discussion
35:35
even of Counteroffensives are short-lived and way
35:43
substandard and Very isolated, you know, they'll take
35:48
over several blocks Several several the Ukrainians I
35:53
mean will take back several blocks several acres,
35:59
you know, whatever and then they get pushed
36:01
back over the next day or two and
36:03
so they they they are wasting people to
36:10
Attempt to show a media flurry of some
36:13
sort that this is what's gonna happen at
36:15
a briefing on Sunday General staff Chief Valery
36:22
Gerasimov told Putin that the military has taken
36:25
control over several key frontline city cities including
36:31
Krasnodar Masek, which is Pukrovsk in Russia's Donbass
36:36
and Volchansk in Kharkov These are big cities
36:39
These are not small little towns the reality
36:42
of the frontline situation coupled with manpower shortages
36:45
and mobilization Problems are piling even more pressure
36:50
on Zelensky to finally make some sort of
36:53
a deal US officials told the EU That
36:59
you know something has to be done here
37:01
because the war is you know, finally the
37:04
u.s. Is acknowledging it and it's It's
37:09
not it's not going well at all Let's
37:14
see.
37:14
I wanted to get to the Where is
37:20
the most recent Blah-blah-blah.
37:28
Nope.
37:29
We already covered that and Here we go
37:34
this came out yesterday CNN reported yesterday that
37:40
NATO could bar Ukraine from joining the bloc
37:46
without Requiring Kiev to formally renounce its Ambitions
37:52
to join under a scenario discussed by US
37:56
peace negotiators over the weekend This comes after
38:00
months of Ukraine refusing to meet the conditions
38:04
outlined by Russia and Rejecting this neutrality demand
38:09
Which they have been trying to get for
38:12
a while last month The u.s. Put
38:15
forward a 28-point plan aimed at ending
38:18
the fighting and You know cap the army
38:23
But according to CNN an updated proposal was
38:27
discussed You know in Florida on Sunday and
38:34
basically CNN says that the delegations Examined an
38:40
arrangement under which Ukraine would be allowed to
38:43
keep its NATO ambitions in its constitution But
38:49
Russia and members of NATO would reach an
38:52
agreement that prevent Kiev from actually joining So
38:56
Ukraine is not pushed to officially in the
38:59
legal sense reject that they Aspire to be
39:04
NATO members, but that the u.s. And
39:07
NATO Could make an agreement with Russia through
39:10
bilateral or multilateral Understandings do not involve Kiev
39:14
the CNN source said negotiators had also made
39:18
progress on the issue of Ukraine withdrawing troops
39:21
from the territories in the Donbass which is
39:26
Donetsk and Lugansk, but declined to provide further
39:29
D care details saying the matter is too
39:32
sensitive and Following Sunday's meeting Rubio said progress
39:36
is made, but then you know much more
39:38
work So I Don't know Washington is not
39:45
including you know Ukraine in the meetings in
39:49
Moscow so this Washington has decided to stop
39:55
negotiating with this supporting cast according to this
39:59
Russian article and To go straight to the
40:02
main stage So you got to quit dealing
40:06
with the people that don't matter and go
40:08
straight to u.s. Slash Russia, which should
40:11
have been done a long time ago Donald
40:13
Trump's designated deal maker Steve Whitcoff and you
40:18
know And Jared Kushner by the way who
40:23
has been informally involved in in back channel
40:26
discussions They are contributing to this debate, but
40:30
that the trip by Whitcoff is capping a
40:34
week of shuttle diplomacy Where political turmoil is
40:38
growing?
40:40
the corruption is Becoming ever more By relevant
40:49
to the discussion you know and I don't
40:52
know that Zelensky you know lives through this
40:55
let alone Survives the political turmoil, I think
40:59
I think he's in some some some real
41:02
trouble and This could be a very bad
41:09
Resolution personally for him Zelensky's government is insisting
41:15
that it will not accept territorial Concessions or
41:21
changes to Ukraine, but the political upheaval going
41:26
on Particularly in the negotiating team combined with
41:32
erosion of his support for parts of the
41:36
EU discussions leave Kim with Kiev with zero
41:41
flexibility they got nothing so More and more
41:47
American officials are trying to sell Settlement as
41:51
a strategic necessity.
41:53
That's because they know they have lost So
41:57
what are we what are we supposed to
41:59
be watching for you know by the by
42:01
the time JR show starts today?
42:04
I think we should be watching for Senior
42:10
You know will Moscow's senior official officials publicly
42:15
outline a Counterdraft to whatever Whitkoff is proposing
42:20
or will they continue to call the talks?
42:23
preliminary and You know will the u.s.
42:31
Negotiate or will they continue to push out
42:33
stuff on on truth social Or will they
42:37
have a real discussion today, I'm hopeful that
42:40
that is the case that they you know
42:44
Will there actually be pressure on Kiv to
42:48
accept these concessions?
42:50
Or will it continue to be this month
42:52
-long?
42:53
How long has it been that we have
42:55
been?
42:56
listening to to US officials finally say that
43:00
look you're gonna have to do something when
43:03
did this 28-point plan?
43:04
Come out it was at least two weeks
43:07
ago.
43:08
It's not two and a half But the
43:11
visit is you know what it means is
43:14
for the first time since the u.s.
43:16
Floated the updated peace plan That 28-point
43:20
plan the two actors capable of forcing a
43:24
settlement Washington and Moscow are speaking face to
43:28
face There is no EU there is no
43:31
Brussels Kiev is imploding under the pressure of
43:35
its own corruption and the front line is
43:39
continuing to move in Russia's favor And it
43:44
is it really is moving that that that
43:47
front line is moving so I think today's
43:51
talks are gonna are going to Be highly
43:57
revealing You know what they are saying behind
44:01
closed doors, but I think you know with
44:04
Erastovich with Yermak being gone with Mindic being
44:10
you know having run away to Israel with
44:15
Zelensky being on his heels and all of
44:20
this we might finally see this nightmare ending
44:24
not for The a-holes involved in all
44:28
of this from the very beginning, but for
44:30
the people that matter the ordinary Ukrainian who
44:35
is being forced into a fight that They
44:39
do not wish In in large part they
44:44
do not you know they Are good people
44:49
they are people that are victims of all
44:53
of this BS put on by our foolish
44:57
policies by the 30 years 35 now in
45:02
that 35 years of corruption in Ukraine and
45:06
that hasn't Changed an iota all that all
45:11
it has changed is The play card who
45:14
the guys are who gets to collect the
45:17
money and become fabulously wealthy because they're connected
45:22
and That's the same.
45:25
It's let's not make any bones about the
45:28
fact that it's no different in the United
45:30
States You know we're we have similar.
45:34
You know get rich plans You know you
45:37
want to be be rich, and you don't
45:39
want to work for it just become a
45:41
politician you know on the on the national
45:43
stage and You know that's that's a very
45:47
good way to get to get rich right
45:51
and What let's let's share with you What
46:00
Maria Zakharova said yesterday she responded to the
46:08
preemptive strike threat is Maria Zakharova, and I
46:14
like listening to her Remember the top commander
46:18
said what was the date he said this
46:21
to was was also yesterday He said that
46:27
NATO members should find ways to be more
46:30
aggressive towards Russia Said its top military chief
46:35
Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone chair of NATO's military
46:40
committee Told the Financial Times in an interview
46:43
published Sunday that member states have been weighing
46:48
options to respond to what he describes as
46:52
a hybrid war We're studying everything being more
46:57
aggressive or proactive Instead of reactive is something
47:01
we are thinking about He added that a
47:05
preemptive strike get this is a NATO guy
47:09
talking about a preemptive strike and would be
47:12
considered a Defensive action though it would be
47:17
further away from our normal way of thinking
47:19
and behavior According to Financial Times Diplomats from
47:24
Eastern Europe have been especially vocal in demanding
47:28
tougher actions against Russia including retaliatory cyber attack
47:35
Dragone noted however that NATO's decision-making is
47:39
constrained by legal and ethical concerns with God
47:44
God Thank God for that.
47:47
You know in September NATO receipt increased air
47:51
patrols in Eastern Europe's and Baltic states Moscow
47:54
denies claims that its aircraft and drones approach
47:57
blah blah blah all these crazy things Russian
48:01
ambassador to Belgium Dennis Gonchar said last week
48:05
that NATO members are pursuing rampant militarization under
48:10
the guise of deterring Russia's Non-existent plans
48:14
to attack them I Happen to agree with
48:19
that and so the Mario's a heart of
48:22
a listen to this and what she said
48:25
The heart of a said where'd she go
48:31
a Recent statement by a NATO admiral that
48:36
the block could consider preemptive strikes against Russia
48:40
shows that it is seeking Escalation and a
48:45
desire to derail the Ukrainian peace process She
48:49
said she was talking about this Discussions in
48:54
a statement published by the Foreign Ministry on
48:58
Monday the heart of a described your Gona's
49:01
words as Absolutely irresponsible move Indicating the blocks
49:08
readiness to further move towards Escalation anti-russian
49:14
hysteria whipped up By NATO members is only
49:19
stirring up the on going Confrontation even further
49:24
she warned Dragona statement debunks a myth about
49:28
purely defensive nature of the military block She
49:33
said and she also said that NATO has
49:36
not been hiding its goals or intentions for
49:38
a long time I say 30 years she
49:42
accused the block of deliberately Seeking to disrupt
49:46
efforts aimed at finding a way out of
49:50
the Ukrainian crisis People making these statements.
49:55
She said said should understand the corresponding risks
49:59
and potential consequences including for its block members
50:05
The EU has increasingly used anti-russian rhetoric
50:09
to justify Massive and I mean massive military
50:15
expenditures rearm Europe package, which was presented in
50:19
March Aims to more to increase funding 933
50:27
billion dollars, that's nearly a trillion.
50:30
Is it not to expand the EU nations?
50:34
militaries under the pretexts of countering this alleged
50:40
Russian threat NATO pushed its members to commit
50:45
to spending five percent of their GDP on
50:48
military this summer and Frankly there's no no
50:55
No proof that this is what is What
51:00
is going on?
51:00
You know, I watched last night a number
51:04
of videos Where these fab 1500s and fab
51:11
3000s there was one that destroyed I believe
51:14
it was in NEPRO the city of NEPRO
51:17
destroyed a drone factory in Ukrainian NEPRO Meanwhile
51:24
there was a turkey Have you heard about
51:28
this?
51:29
This just came out There was a Russian
51:32
flagged tanker that Was going to Georgia and
51:39
it was attacked in the Black Sea according
51:41
to Turkish officials So last week Russian authorities
51:45
accused Kiev of carrying out drone attacks on
51:48
commercial vessels in a statement on Tuesday the
51:52
Turkish Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Said the
51:57
mid Volga to tanker which was carrying Sunflower
52:01
oil was attacked 80 miles off of the
52:05
country's coast the ship which currently has no
52:10
Injuries among its 13 personnel the didn't request
52:15
any serious Assistance, but it was attacked the
52:18
ship is proceeding towards sign up on its
52:21
own engines Later Russia's Federal Agency for sea
52:27
and inland water transport said the vessel had
52:30
been attract Attacked by a drone and had
52:33
received some minor damage last week several explosive
52:40
sea drones struck two Gambian flagged tankers the
52:46
Kairos and the Verat off of Turkey's coast
52:49
and And Ukrainian media sources described the joint
52:55
operation as involving its own Security service in
52:59
addition the suspected Ukrainian drone attacks on crude
53:03
hubs in the Black Sea belonging to the
53:05
Caspian pipeline consortium Operated by Russia Kazakhstan the
53:10
US and several Western nations also occurred I
53:15
mean Moscow denounced these raids as terrorist attacks
53:19
Dmitry Peskov accuses Ukraine of encroaching in Turkey
53:23
while Ankara has refrained from assigning blame Turkish
53:28
Foreign Ministry spokesman on KU Caselli said the
53:32
incidents which took place in Turkey's economic zone
53:36
of the Black Sea pose serious risks to
53:39
navigation human life property and Environment so they're
53:46
watching these things happen um Let's see and
53:53
complaining about them these are these are not
53:57
good.
53:58
Let's see There was one further thing.
54:02
I wanted to to share with you There's
54:12
a fight clubs in Poland, but I I
54:16
Will get to that one if we have
54:18
a little bit of time, but this corruption
54:20
in Ukraine is It's just rampant there's a
54:27
former Ukrainian Prime Minister his name is Nikolai
54:32
Azarov and He said that Over 100 billion
54:40
in Western aid Could have ended up in
54:44
the pockets of corrupt Ukrainian officials according to
54:49
him the US and the EU have pumped
54:53
a total of 360 billion dollars into Ukraine
55:00
and corruption in Ukraine is 15 to 30
55:06
percent of the foreign aid being stolen and
55:11
He said this on Monday He says the
55:15
figure is closer to 30 percent in Ukraine
55:19
the former Prime Minister estimates that between 54
55:24
billion and 108 billion has been lost to
55:30
corruption Isn't that amazing that is unbelievable that
55:38
it is that Even an estimate that high
55:41
is Unreal it's crazy Germany's Kiel Institute for
55:49
the World Economy puts the total amount of
55:53
assistance provided to Kiev between January of 2022
55:58
and August of this year only at 291
56:03
billion dollars But Trump has consistently claimed that
56:08
the u.s. Alone has committed 350 billion
56:12
to Ukraine So I think the number is
56:18
closer to the 350 Because some of ours
56:21
has been delayed or not sent but while
56:25
Kiev Anti-corruption agencies have not disclosed how
56:30
much foreign Money has been stolen since the
56:34
start of the conflict while the escalation of
56:39
the conflict in 2022 Everybody knows the country
56:43
is has been mired in these high-profile
56:46
corruption scandals for years in 2023 an exposé
56:53
about inflated food procurement Contracts at the Defense
56:57
Ministry led to the resignation of then Defense
57:01
Minister Alexei Reznik off you remember that one
57:05
months later the Supreme Court chairman Siavoload Knyazev
57:11
was arrested for accepting a 2.7 million
57:14
dollar bribe and that was in 23 in
57:18
24 the State Audit Service reported large-scale
57:22
violations and Reconstruction projects financed by Western aid
57:27
Aid with billions of Krivna missing.
57:31
That's the Ukrainian currency in the same year
57:36
Ukrainian anti-corruption authorities reported a 1.4
57:40
million dollar racket involving the illegal sale of
57:45
the main maintenance facility at the Black Sea
57:49
port of Chernomorsk and last month the nation
57:54
You know have revealed this major graft scandal
57:59
involving You know Timur Mindy who I told
58:03
you all about a couple weeks ago Who
58:05
has been accused of running a 100 million
58:08
dollar?
58:09
Kickback scheme in the energy sector and there
58:12
were how many people have resigned over that
58:14
one culminating in last week Andre Yermak Resigning
58:20
in the face of corruption and connection with
58:22
Mindy and all of the things that went
58:25
on with there I say it's going to
58:27
be an interesting week.
58:29
These discussions are ongoing.
58:31
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