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Simeon Boikov Interview: Ukraine: What the Media Isn’t Telling You · Man in America Podcast

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Welcome to Man in America. I'm your host, Seth Holehouse. So the politicians, mainstream media, big tech, all the usual characters are trumpeting the exact same narrative. Zelensky is a hero and Putin is a war criminal. But what if there's more to the story?
• 0:21
  What if a massive Nazi movement has formed in Ukraine? According to my guest today, Simeon Boykov, critical information is being covered up and censored. And we're going to show it to you today, folks. Few quick notes for you. If you haven't followed me yet on social media, make sure you follow me on Telegram Man in America and Truth Social also as Maninamerica.
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  That's goldwithseth.com. Or you want to speak to an actual human being in America, call (877) 646-5347. Again, that's (877) 646-5347. Alright, folks, now to the juicy part. And I'm gonna preface this show a little bit and tell you, there's a lot of people that are slinging all kinds of mud and propaganda all over the place.
• 2:55
  You're seeing it in the mainstream media. And Simeon obviously has a more pro Putin stance. And I don't agree with necessarily everything he's saying. But I think it's really important that you're exposed to the perspective that he brings to the table. Look, if you turn on the mainstream media, even Fox News, you're getting one side of the story.
• 3:13
  And it's a blanketed one side. In fact, for those of you that are watching on YouTube or Facebook, if the video gets cut off halfway through, that's a lesson come watch on Rumble or Rise TV because even Google's announcing they're going to start censoring this stuff. So this should worry you. So I'm going to be asking Simeon some hard questions to really understand from his perspective, what is happening. I hope that you can take what he tells you, blend it with everything else you're saying and come to a more realistic picture of what's happening over in Ukraine and Russia.
• 3:43
  Because there's a lot that's happening. There's not a lot that's making it to mainstream media. So let's go ahead and welcome my guest today, Mr. Simeon Boykov, who's coming in live from Australia where he's on the ground as a freedom fighter. So there's a lot that's going on right there.
• 3:59
  You know, I want to say there's a lot going on. And know you've been following what's been happening in Ukraine and also in Russia. But let's me just start because I discovered you as the Aussie Kazakh, this incredibly brave man on the front lines of these protests over in Australia, citizen So the question that I have actually wait, sorry, there's no sound coming through. Let's wait one second.
• 4:27
  Speaker 2: Alright. We're in business. Lou's thought they can hear me.
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: Okay. Yep. We're good now. Alright. I gotta remind people sometimes that we're not funded by BlackRock and Vanguard.
• 4:36
  So we have the occasional technical difficulty. But that's you know what, that's what makes it so beautiful. Because this is authentic, real journalism. This isn't some produced propaganda MK Ultra Mockingbird stuff. So, alright.
• 4:51
  So we are good now. Alright. Thank you. So, Simeon, let's go ahead and start. As I was saying, I discovered you as the Aussie Kazakh exposing the police state of Australia.
• 5:03
  And it actually through talking to you though, and as I was following your telegram feed, I noticed that you were really on top of what was unfolding in Ukraine. So can you give us a little bit of background into just a little bit of your history so we can understand, Okay, so this is why you're a person that we should listen to in terms of what's going on over there.
• 5:23
  Speaker 2: Okay. Well, obviously, like the conflict, Russia and Ukraine started making headlines twenty six days ago on the February 24. But the conflict has been going for much longer. It's been going for eight years. It's been going since February.
• 5:40
  And before someone claims to be an expert on the conflict, you know, there's a there's a few key questions you can ask them. And they can't answer these questions. They're obviously they're not an expert on the conflict. They're just someone who's going with the latest trend. So I'm observing many people now, social media people, even mainstream media journalists, all of a sudden, you're scrambling to give the perception that they know what they're talking about.
• 6:06
  You know, some of these journalists couldn't show you show Ukraine on a map, let alone certain cities and certain regions. You know, there's a it's a very complicated conflict, and it certainly, I would say it hasn't been instigated by Russia at all. Russia has been very, very patient. You know, for eight years, Putin's been very, very patient. And, you know, you could say Russia was forced forced into taking this action and and doing this operation.
• 6:31
  So there's a there's a there's a few things out there, you know, I'm happy to take questions about it as well. Few things out there, which the mainstream media is peddling in order to, you know, confuse the general population. A lot of people are waking up and they're realizing, like you said, that there are two sides to every story. You know, in 02/2015, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Donetsk People's Republic, we signed an agreement, and we opened a represent we basically opened, you know, an embassy for them in Australia. Although it's unrecognized anywhere, the only country that recognizes the breakaway republics is Russia.
• 7:05
  Nevertheless, there are millions of people in the Eastern regions of Ukraine who did not want to be with Kyiv, did not wanna be with the pro American, pro NATO regime. And, you know, they've they've been fighting for their right to for independence, and that's where the story starts eight years ago.
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: So that was basically we had the and I had followed this before, but it wasn't until the I saw this conflict unfolding, I really started digging into the history of Ukraine where it became apparent that back in 2014, '20 '13, '20 '14, there was a color revolution. Not that dissimilar to what we saw happen here in The US in 2020, where the same globalists we had, the Soros and all the people that were funding and offering this to put their puppet in charge of Ukraine. And that's when it seems like that's when the trouble really started. One question I have is that when people are watching the news right now, cause I have friends and family that are saying, even people that follow what I'm doing are saying, Seth, you don't understand. You don't understand.
• 8:10
  You know, there's these videos of these bombings and such. And look, it is a war. I don't want to discredit that. But something that they're not talking about is all of the people in Ukraine, Ukrainians, especially those that are living in the Donbas region, that have been killed by their own military. And so I've heard a lot about that.
• 8:30
  But can you explain, can you explain what the what that region is in Ukraine? What how it's a lot more Russian ethnic Russians are there and what kind of treatment those people have been receiving from the Ukrainian military?
• 8:48
  Speaker 2: Right. So the Russian government has been, as I said, very patient. Now as you mentioned, since 02/2014, the Ukrainian regime came to power, thanks to funding and support, from, you know, the CIA, from NATO, from the Bidens, from the Obamas. There's a whole paper trail linking them, back to that situation. Now, you know, they sponsored, you know, protesting, pro freedom, pro European values, pro, you know, Western protesting, and they took power.
• 9:25
  Basically, they overthrew the legitimate president of Ukraine in 02/2014 in February. Now the Western Ukrainian regions were pleased with that. You know? Because the Western U West the West Of Ukraine, it's a little bit different to the East. The West Of Ukraine is closer to Europe rather than being, you know, sort of orthodox.
• 9:43
  There's a lot more Catholic influence there. Whereas the Eastern regions, Crimea, Donbas, so that's Donetsk, Lugansk, Kharkiv, Mariupol. So these are the cities now where there's fierce fighting. And they said, no. They said, no.
• 9:56
  We don't wanna be with European Union. We don't wanna be with the West. We wanna be with Russia. Now these cities, these regions were always with Russia. And in 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed, the only reason that these, areas were sort of given over to Ukraine, it was because there were strict guarantees in place.
• 10:16
  And one of those guarantees, when the Soviet Union was collapsing, is that there would be no more, there would be no NATO bases allowed, no NATO expansion allowed. And, of course, you know, in 1991, the Russians knew that this was gonna happen in Ukraine. They would never have given independence. Know? They would they would have in fact, they would never have withdrawn their troops from East Germany.
• 10:38
  Now don't forget, we withdrew millions of troops. We gave everyone independence. The Russia Russian landmass went from being, you know, basically, you know, all of Eastern Europe was part of the Soviet Union to, you know, a very humble Russia that it is now. We literally gave independence back to Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, you know, Georgia. You know, we we removed our troops out of East Berlin, out of East Germany.
• 11:03
  So at the end of the day, the Russians, they did what they they did. They fulfilled their part of the deal. Now in 02/2014, NATO, the Americans, they decided to push the push the line, push the boundaries, test Russian patients, and they moved in on Ukraine. Basically, now what we have is a Ukraine, which is a proxy state, which is a which is a country, which is like a pariah state. It's being used by the Americans by the and when I say Americans, I don't mean the good Americans out there.
• 11:34
  I mean the cabal, the establishment. I mean, you know, The Bahamas, the Clintons. You know? The, you know, average American person is is a friend of mine, friend of Russia, is a friend of Australia's, and we're all we're all, you know, patriots in our own regard. When I say the Americans, I mean the, you know, the deep state.
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah. The CIA, the military industrial complex, the, you know, the leaders that have been using America for a very, very long time to carry out these globalist activities, you know, the deep sea activities. So the with regards to these regions more in the Eastern, you know, parts of Ukraine that are more pro Russian. I mean, are there are there rumors that I've heard true that the military or parts of the Ukrainian military have been killing their own citizens? Or is that, you know, is that just propaganda coming out of Russia?
• 12:25
  What's what's really happening and what's been happening in in Ukraine?
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: Look. When we think of an invasion, when we think of a war, a traditional style invasion or a traditional style war, what do we think of? We think of a big army rolling in. We think of airstrikes. We think of objectives.
• 12:45
  You know, objectives, take down this city or kill these people or commit this you know, commit genocide or steal something or so forth and so forth. Now when the Russians claimed that they're only doing an operation, you know, I urge everybody to, for a second, let's just let's just believe the Russians. Right? And I'll tell you why we should believe them. If it was a war, it would be over by now.
• 13:07
  The Russians are advancing slowly. The Russians are not storming cities, not carpet bombing cities. They're actually trying to preserve civilian life. So Russian troops are dying. Russian tanks are being destroyed with NATO weapons and so forth, NATO missiles, particularly Stingers and NLAWS and Javelins.
• 13:27
  And, you know, Russian compliant helicopters are being shot down. There's a you know? But the Russians are fighting with one hand tied behind their back with a handicap. You know, they've been ordered by the Russian president not to inflict civilian casualties, you know, to preserve life, not to attack unnecessarily, not to attack, civilian targets. Now the Ukrainians obviously are taking advantage of this, stationing artillery systems next to houses, firing positions, inside schools, inside hospitals.
• 13:58
  You know? And then, you know, the Russian tank columns drives past. The Ukrainians open fire from within a hospital. The Russians fire back, and then they go on the news and say, look. Look.
• 14:08
  The Russians, you know, shot a hospital. Well, if you look at the the the best way to prove what I'm saying is true is to have a look at the hundreds and hundreds of cities that the Russians have liberated. Obviously, the Ukrainians will say invaded or captured, but the Russians claim they've liberated. Now let's have a look at those cities. Those cities where Russian troops are now, you know, you know, stationed.
• 14:32
  Right? You know, in those cities, the Russian troops actually allow the Ukrainian local government to continue functioning. So the mayor, the council, they they yep. Go about your business, continue functioning in city. The Russians are bringing in humanitarian aid, supplies, petrol, food, medicine, handing it out to the people.
• 14:52
  The Russians aren't rounding anyone up. They're not arresting anybody. They're not you know, even there were videos coming out where there's, you know, some cities, and they've got Ukrainian protesters protesting against the Russian troops. And the Russian troops are just standing there politely and copying it on the chin. Now I've seen protests in Melbourne and Sydney and Australia, you know, where police open fire on protests with rubber bullets and tear gas and so forth.
• 15:16
  And you got a war zone over there supposedly, and Russian troops are just they're happy to allow locals to protest. You know? Now the thing is Russia doesn't need these territories. Russia doesn't need these cities. When Putin said that he's conducting a campaign of demilitarization and denazification, let's just let's just believe him for a second.
• 15:36
  Right? I'm not saying believe him on everything. But let's say, why would he do this? He just wants to demilitarize his borders. You know, Putin is very concerned just as any world leader will be that there's a huge troop buildup.
• 15:48
  You know, look how long it's taken the Russian army to, you know, neutralize the Ukrainian forces. It's because there's so there's so much there's been a massive campaign for the last eight years, the weaponization of Ukraine, the militarization of Ukraine. You know, NATO's poured billions and billions of dollars in there, and Vladimir Putin has every right to be concerned. This is very comparable to if, you know, let's say, if Vladimir Putin, you know, was to sponsor some Mexican cartels on the border with United States and arm arm these cartels with missiles, with, you know, with heavy equipment, with artillery, and give them billions of dollars in funding and send Russian military instructors. How do you how do we think the Americans would react if Putin was doing this in the backyard of The United States?
• 16:36
  Not very well. Look at
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: the Cuban missile crisis. You know, that that's how America reacts if there's missiles pointed at us close to us.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Yep. Absolutely. Absolutely. So and that's a that's a very good example. So, you know, Russia was very concerned.
• 16:54
  You know, at the end of the day, you know, before people go off and say I'm a, you know, Russian propaganda agent, let me just say that it's this is a very tragic situation for the Russian people, for the Ukrainian people. You know? I can look at you in the camera and say confidently that at the end of the day, nobody will help the Ukrainians besides the Russians. It'll be the Russians that'll be rebuilding these cities. It'll be the Russians who right now are sending in humanitarian aid, feeding the Ukrainian people.
• 17:19
  In fact, Putin just announced that they're handing out 10,000 rubles to, each person now. I know that, you know, in in conversion rates, there's not a lot of money, but in local in terms of local currency, that's a good amount of money. And put people are receiving help. So the Russian government is financing Ukrainian civilians. The Russian government is feeding Ukrainian civilians.
• 17:36
  Does that sound like an invasion force? Is that imagine if the Germans did that in 1941. It would and people would say, well, that's not an invasion. You know? So the Russians, obviously, they're not, you know, conducting massacres.
• 17:49
  They're not killing civilians. You know, there's not one instance where it's been proven that Russians Russian troops have opened fire on purpose, you know, conducted, you know, some kind of atrocity. You know, I have to say that the scale of the operation has never been seen in Europe since World War two. The amount of tanks involved, the amount of territory that's been taken, the huge clashes on both sides. We've never seen a conflict this big on a you know, in a in modern history.
• 18:20
  And those people that think that say the mainstream media that fed all this misinformation that Russia's losing, wouldn't say Russia's losing at all. I mean, to take that territory that they've taken in the in the space of twenty six, twenty seven days, is absolutely unprecedented unprecedented. So the Russians have secured the Black Sea coast. The Russians control the air. The Russians are basically almost almost encircled Kyiv from the north.
• 18:47
  The major cities, Kharkiv encircled, Mariupol encircled. But then again, the Russians aren't there to destroy the city. The Russians aren't there to kill the population. Right? We all know how NATO goes to war.
• 18:59
  You know? They go to Iraq. They spend the first three days carpet bombing Fallujah or Mosul or whatever city it is, and they just come in and mop up. You know? Russians can do that.
• 19:10
  They have the capacity. They have the capacity. They have the technology. They have, you know, planes and missiles and so forth, but they're being very selective. They're using only precision strikes.
• 19:22
  They're targeting only military infrastructure. Of course, you know, there are scenes being replayed where, you know, a missile might have hit a a civilian building, and it's a tragedy, and I'm sure the Russians regret it. To to suggest that Russians are purposely targeting civilians, I think is false, absolutely false. And today, a lot of people have been evacuated, refugees are crossing into the Russian border. You know?
• 19:44
  There's so many videos coming out, which for the mainstream media won't show you, of Russian military columns coming into towns and villages and cities, and people actually coming out and greeting them and crying and saying thank you. And what we hear often people saying, we waited eight years for this. Eight years people have been waiting. Because the eastern, southern, and northern regions of Ukraine are predominantly Russian. That's why some people will say it's like Russia invading Russia.
• 20:12
  You know? These if if it was up to these people, they would join Russia. I mean, the Western regions, and I've said this before, the Western regions, I don't think Russia will even invade them. Russia will even liberate them or conduct military drills there because the Western regions of Ukraine, they're not Russian. Now these Western regions were part of Poland.
• 20:32
  They were part of the Austria Hungarian empire. They at times, they were part of Romania. You know? And through different the results of diplomacy and different wars, they were added on to the Russian empire and the Soviet Union. So if Ukraine wanna exist, they can go there and exist.
• 20:47
  And they can join NATO, and they can join the European Union, and they can stand in line for World Economic Forum and World Bank handouts, and they can, you know, they can be like the Greeks, you know, or just sitting on the sitting on the bandwagon of the EU. But I'm I can definitely guarantee you that the Eastern regions, the southern regions, they're more than happy to be with Russia.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: So one question that I have for you to explain a little more. When I interviewed you last, you started talking about the Azov Battalion. And that was the first time I had looked at it. And since then, I've done a lot more research on that. And it's almost hard to ignore the fact that there are a lot of Nazi elements that you're seeing in Ukraine, especially within the military.
• 21:33
  And these aren't, these aren't, you know, more modern kind of neo Nazis. This looks like it's like the Fourth Reich emerging over there. So can you tell us a little bit about what's happening with the denazification? And like, what are these Nazi elements that we're seeing in Ukraine with the black sun emblems and the swastika flags? What what is this?
• 21:58
  What's going on?
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Well, let me tell you. To understand, you know, what to understand why we're seeing these, you know, groups, these Nazi groups with Ukraine, it actually dates back to, let's say, you know, the nineteen forties. In 1941, when Germany, on the June 22 at 4AM when Germany attacked the Soviet Union, and the and the and the Western Ukraine was bordering obviously with Poland. And, obviously, the Soviets had already taken half of Poland by that stage. The Western Ukrainian regions, which were, you know, some of the first regions that saw German troops, they welcomed the Germans.
• 22:37
  They came out with bread and salt, and and they were happy. They're saying, oh, look, finally. The Germans are here to rescue us from the Soviets. They saw the Germans as liberators. Now these Western Ukrainian regions, especially these cities like Lvov, L V O V.
• 22:51
  And L V O V Lvov, or the Ukrainians like to call it Lviv, it's now become a sort of center for them. Now during the course of the war, the Germans actually actively recruited volunteers from these Ukrainians to serve in the SS. And notably, there was a Ukrainian volunteer division called the SS Galicia division named after the region they're from, so the Western Western Ukrainian region of Galicia. Now these Ukrainian volunteers, because that was deemed as unreliable to go to the front, you know, than than what, you know, be friendly with the Russians. They were sent into the rear to conduct anti partisan activities, to conduct the auxiliary activities.
• 23:35
  And what what did they do? They they took part in massacres against Poles, against Russians, against Jews, against anyone that didn't fit their sort of Nazi way of thinking. And even the Germans, the SS German, it's documented, they were shocked at the level of atrocities, you know, that the Ukrainians were committing. And this is well known. You know, there's Ukrainian figures such as Stefan Bandera, who was a Nazi collaborator, and he's celebrated in Ukraine as a hero.
• 24:07
  Right? There are, you know, streets named after him and statues of him. So this this link to the sort of the the Nazi is actually it's it's a historical link. Right? Now, obviously, when the Soviet when the Red Army came in in 1944, '19 '40 '5, they slipped through.
• 24:25
  You know, they neutralized all of these little groups, and a lot of these Nazi collaborators were hung publicly. There's a famous hangings in Kyiv in 1946. You can have a look on YouTube. Now they continued hunting down these, remnants, these Nazi collaborators up until the, you know, '19 early '19 fifties because they were hiding out in the forests and so forth. Now a lot of the descendants of these people, they preserved this sort of preserved this memory, you could say, and they continued their ideology.
• 24:55
  But in 02/2014, in February, as a result of the illegal coup d'etat that was staged in Kyiv backed by, you know, NATO, backed by the deep state, they came to power. This minority of, you know, Ukrainian Nazis who glorify this SS and, you know, ideology, they came to power. And for the last eight years, they've basically brought up a generation, generation of people believing in this. You know? Obviously, you know, it's a very dangerous situation where you've got this ideology in Ukraine, and there are battalions there, most notably as Azov battalion, Eidar battalion, the Dnieper battalion.
• 25:38
  In fact, these battalions are known to fight against the Ukrainian army because even, you know, elements in the Ukrainian army consider these battalions too extreme. And they proudly wear the swastikas, and they show, you know, their symbols and so forth. And they proudly, you know, you know, do the Nazi salutes to each other, and that's that's their ideology. Now the Russians have a very strict policy. The Russian military are not interested in regular Ukrainian troops.
• 26:01
  You know, if if Ukrainian soldiers are surrendering, they're taken prisoner, they're treated well, they're fed, they're, they're asked to sign a document promising that they won't rejoin the war, and they're allowed to go home. Right? If the Russian military, if they capture, these Nazi, guys, well, the first thing that happens is they ask to take off their shirts. They check, you know, if they have got any tattoos, because these guys love putting tattoos, Third Reich SS, Hitler, and so forth, the skull, the SS skull. And if it's discovered that there there are Nazi groups, well, unfortunately, there is no, negotiating.
• 26:37
  We don't you know, they don't take, Nazis prisoners. In fact, the Chechen leader, Ramzan Khedrif, he's announced a $500,000 bounty for each commander of these Nazi units. So the Russians are taking it very seriously. And, you know, since 02/2014, what's been happening in Ukraine? Veterans are being bashed up.
• 26:58
  You know, veterans who wear the Saint George ribbon, you know, the symbol of the victory in World War two. It's called the Saint George ribbon. I'm wearing it here today. You know, the memorials to soldiers, the to the to the Russian army who fought against the Germans are being destroyed, defaced, vandalized. This is this was all supported by the Ukrainian government.
• 27:17
  So when Vladimir Putin says to the world he's conducting an operation of denazification, we should consider that with merit. You know? And we might be very surprised. Putin might pull all of his troops out once he's done what he wants to do. And that's demilitarize and denazify.
• 27:34
  You know?
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: So basically, there are these elements from World War two. They basically grew up and you had these these pockets of them even within the Ukrainian army. And I've seen these videos coming out too. I'm following a lot of sources on, you know, Telegram and different areas online. And yeah, they're showing pictures of the or they're filming a, know, it's a it's a Ukrainian soldier, they're forcing them to strip down to take off their shirt, and they've got giant swastikas on their chest.
• 28:05
  Swastikas, they've got the the eagle crest, they have all the, you know, the very obvious Nazi symbols. And it's interesting because as much as the, it's like in the, in the West, really all over the world, the Hollywood and the mainstream media, they have demonized the Nazis probably more than any other bad guy in history, which I agree with that. Right? I think I think that the what happened in Nazi Germany was atrocious. But it's crazy that as much as there's been so much hate for the Nazis and Hollywood's constantly putting out these World War Two movies about the Nazis and about Hitler, Yet you don't see anybody talking about or asking, wait, are there any of these Nazis over in Ukraine?
• 28:51
  Or are these these Nazi elements? It's like people in America, and this is where you can see that these cracks in the narrative, where they're saying one thing, which applies to this group, but then you might have the Nazis or that they're not even talking about. So you can see that there is a lot of just doublethink that's happening here. Now, are these, you see, you mentioned that these, you know, these these Nazi groups were attacking veterans, etc. You know, I'd also as I mentioned earlier, and I want to hear your thoughts on that.
• 29:20
  Are they also going in, especially in like the Donbas regions, the more eastern regions, and killing citizens? Like, have there been deaths at the hands of these these battalions?
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Definitely. Definitely. Look, these battalions are known to commit committing atrocities as we speak, and have been committing atrocities for the last eight years, targeting Russian speaking people. And if we're wearing the Saint George's ribbon, they're they're bashing people, they're killing them, the torturing. Really, really, really, really bad, and it's and it's a disgrace that the the West is closing their eyes on this.
• 29:57
  You know? The Russian military are not accused of this. There are no instances or proof that the Russian military has tortured civilians or killed civilians on purpose. You know? That's why a lot of these areas where the Russian troops have liberated cities and towns, people are saying, don't leave.
• 30:13
  People local Ukrainians are saying to the Russian troops, please don't pull out. You know? Because the Russians are feeding them. The Russians are protecting them. And the locals know if the Russians leave, then, you know, the the Nazis will come back.
• 30:24
  And the Nazis will come back, and they'll hunt down anyone who's accepted Russian humanitarian aid or who was friendly with the Russian troops. So they're in fear. And so it's I mean, even if Putin wants to pull out of the areas that they've taken, you know, the locals are saying don't go, stay, You know, because they've they've got peace now. Don't forget the the places where the Russian troops are stationed. There are no bombings.
• 30:46
  There are no there is no violence. There's life is going back to normal. Russia's supplying some, you know, humanitarian aid, petrol. The as I said, the the local administrations are in a are allowed to work and continue functioning, administering the cities. But although we did hear yesterday, the Russian military head headquarters announced that they're going to be forming military administrations in a lot of the cities.
• 31:12
  So, look, it's a it's a very complicated situation. And for example, the the conversations we're having today are very open conversations. You know? And I'm not here to completely say that, you know, I'm not I'm not, as they say, shilling for Putin, for example. You know?
• 31:26
  I think it's a I think it's a terrible tragedy that this has happened. It's a tragedy for both sides. And in our churches where we pray, you know, we've been praying for Ukraine for the last eight years. Every single church service, you know, as Russian Orthodox Christians. We've been praying for Ukraine.
• 31:41
  So when I see these, you know, social media TikTokers who have been talking about lipstick all their life, all of a sudden, you know, saying, oh, pray for Ukraine. Talk about Ukraine. It's hilarious. You know, I just I just like to ask them, can you show me Ukraine on a map? Probably not.
• 31:55
  You know?
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Exactly. That's how you also know that there's something that much much larger global SIOP at play here when all of a sudden even companies I I do business with, you know, tech companies that all of a sudden their logo is now the Ukraine, you know, flag colors. All these TikTokers, everyone on, you know, on Facebook, they've all got the Ukraine. It's wild.
• 32:15
  It went from, you know, I support BLM to I got my jab to now, you know, I support Ukraine, you can see that it's, know, they're just pointing and saying, hey, you all run here, everyone runs there. It's incredible to watch unfold. One thing I want to get your opinion on this one that is very concerning to me. And is that obviously by now, the bio labs are becoming much more of a mainstream topic. They're no longer really denying it.
• 32:44
  They're probably trying to but especially with some of the recent hearings we've had in The United States, it's become very apparent, and I've covered this a lot that there have been a lot of these bio labs that were on the border. And a lot of the, you know, the strikes from Putin were targeting his bio labs. But what we're seeing now, and I want to get your take on this, is two things coming from the US government. One is that they're warning us about cyber attacks from Russia. They're saying, no, you know, you know, Putin's gonna be doing cyber attacks on America, etc.
• 33:13
  And two is they're also warning about a biological chemical attack by Russia, which to me, makes me think that they're prepping for some sort of false flag event, which they can then point at and blame on Russia. But I want to see what do you think about that? What do you think that Putin would release a biological weapon, or do you think it's just the you know, what are your thoughts?
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: I can give you a 100% guarantee that's the last thing Putin would ever do. The last thing the Russians would do is release a chemical weapon, know, or release a biological weapon. I mean, the whole one of the pretext for going in there was to neutralize the bio labs that were operating, on Russia's borders. And the Russian minister of defense has published evidence and documents and information, you know, proving that there were 30 bilabs NATO funded. In fact, even Hunter Biden's personal, you know, fund is involved in there.
• 34:07
  And, you know, the the paper trail leads to the CIA to Washington. In fact, I, on my Telegram channel, revealed recently that the Doherty Institute in Melbourne, an Australian, you know, viral research center was busted actually importing blood serum samples. 350 blood serum samples were imported by a lady called Sue Ellen in Melbourne who works for this Doherty Institute. And these these this was done just right in the beginning of the of the COVID nineteen situation. And, you know, there's a lot of questions being asked.
• 34:40
  Now why why are western countries importing, you know, bioweapons material from Ukrainian bio labs? And the thing is as soon as I just sort of brought this out and published these documents that the Russian military had captured, The the media and the strategist unleashed them to me, unleashed. You know, they've been pumping me every day in the news and going after my personal life and business and so forth. I don't really care. You know, it's just extra publicity at the end of the day, but it just goes to show that we hit a nerve.
• 35:09
  We hit a nerve. We we basically reported on something which they're very worried about. And they've got they've got plenty to hide. You know? The reason why the bio labs were operating in Ukraine is because the the the types of experiments that they were doing there would be actually illegal in The United States or in European countries or in the West.
• 35:28
  You know, they're against the law. They they were researching, things into the transfer of from, you know, from viruses from bats to humans. And, of course, the Americans deny this, and, of course, the United Nations, first denied it, and they admitted it. And they said, oh, can you make sure that the biological matter is not seized by anybody? So this is their next step.
• 35:48
  I wouldn't be surprised, actually, Seth, if the Ukrainians backed by, the NATO did a false flag attack and actually would bomb their own people with chemical weapons. And we we've seen it we've seen it happen in Syria. You know, they they set up, camera crews, and they they blame, you know, a supposed chemical attack. And it's about it's the it's the it's the information award. It's about public opinion, public perception.
• 36:12
  And 95% of the people out there watching mainstream media, they think Russia's losing. Right? Which is absolutely not true from a strategic perspective. And I can I can explain the strategic you know, the current military situation on the ground if you like? Yeah.
• 36:28
  Bring a map up on the screen.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: How about we go and do that? Because you sent me that map beforehand. And that would be very helpful for me. So I'll pull this map up. You won't be able to see it because you're just seeing the feed of me.
• 36:37
  But you've got a copy of it there. So you can explain this to us because this is helpful because you mentioned earlier, a lot of people couldn't even look at a map and point out where Ukraine is, let alone look at what's happening. So I'm gonna go ahead and pull this up. So folks, Simeon, I've got that map up now. This is a map.
• 36:54
  Obviously, it's not in English. But can you explain what this means to us?
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Well, look. You can you can see them up on screen, folks. You can see that the the Russian areas that they've taken are in red. And the first thing that stands out here is the fact that the whole Western part of Ukraine, that western piece, right, that juts out, no Russian troops, which is which confirms, you know, what I'm saying. The Russians aren't interested in taking that area.
• 37:23
  You know? That area, those cities in the West Of Ukraine, that borders with the European Union, that borders with Poland, Romania, it would be untenable for the Russians to even send troops in there because the locals there, they hate Russia. They're not Russian. You know, lot of some of them are Russian, but most of them, they're very, you know, very strongly pro Ukrainian. So the Russian operation is focused in the eastern areas.
• 37:47
  And you can see the eastern area on on the screen there, the shoreline with the Black Sea, the cities of Kherson, Berodiansk, Mariupol, Donetsk, Gulganz. These are all very pro Russian cities, Russian speaking cities. Then we can see from the north, the situation in Kyiv, the Russians advancing to complete the encirclement of the capital, but they're not advancing west.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Which city which city is Kyiv on there?
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: So Kyiv, you can see, is right in the middle. It's it's that yellow and it's got a white ring around it, and it's got Oh,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: I see. So towards the north, center towards the north. Okay.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. North middle. So that's where they and the Russians actually to to take a shortcut to the Ukrainian capital, they went through Belarussia, the Belarussian border. And, you know, no one expected that, and the Ukrainians are very upset that the Belarussians would allow the Russian military to use their, you know, to use their territory to access to access the the North Of Ukraine. But the Belarusians, they've been they've been forced into Putin's hands recently.
• 38:47
  You know, the the Americans, the the CIA, they've been trying to do a coup d'etat in Belarusia in the last few years and overthrow president Lukashenko, who's been there, you know, for the last twenty, thirty years. And, obviously, that failed, and that actually pushed the Belarusian president into the open arms of Putin, and now they're very close and to the to the point where Belarusia and Russia are on the verge of, you know, forming a union. And just like it was before, there was the Soviet Union. Before that, there was the Russian Empire. Obviously, you know, that's something for Belarus, which would be great.
• 39:19
  They'll have the defense. You know, they'll be bolstered that the Russians will be protecting them. And there's even been talk of Belarusia acquiring acquiring nuclear weapons. And this is this is the result of trying to force regime change. You know, if the if NATO, if the CIA, if the if deep state, if they just left these countries alone, this wouldn't have happened.
• 39:39
  You know, Russians, Ukrainians, but the Russians, everybody would live in peace. But it's when they start coming in and trying to force regime change, you know, handing out millions and hundreds of millions of dollars, you know, through nongovernment organizations. You know, they come in and they form organizations that are called the Institute for Democracy or the establishment for, you know, democracy. Elections or whatever. Yeah.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, it's like the establishment for fair election is always grand sounding things. You trace them back up and it's Soros, which a quick question. Did Putin put out an arrest warrant for Soros today? Because I saw that did you hear that? I saw that going through the news cycle that Putin had put on an arrest warrant for George Soros.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: Well, I know that Putin has been calling Soros out for many years now, and he's been calling him out for his, you know, interference into other countries all over the world. But the the at the end of the day, it's very clear that Putin is one of the last remaining leaders who cannot be influenced by, you know, the big banks, by the establishment, by Soros, and he's fighting back. And that's why we see, you know, the banking system turned on him. They turned him off swift, and, you know, the whole international community is turning on him. And then you've got people like Scott Morrison in Australia, our Australian prime minister, also, you know, throwing his hat in the ring, trying to, you know, act tough.
• 41:04
  First, he sent missiles, and Scott Morrison's latest stunt was to send coal to Ukraine.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Question with that, actually, this is this is really important. Because when you look at what's happening globally, and you look at the global financial system, you look at the fact that the US dollar is I think the US dollar is on the verge of collapse. Especially when you look at the it's very close to losing its petrodollar status. You've got Saudi Arabia now in talks with China in a very serious talks in China. You have a lot of other things that are moving along that are threatening the stability of The US as a world reserve currency.
• 41:47
  Now, I believe that's by design. I believe that the globalists and the Federal Reserve, bankers, they came in and they have used America as a way to lend out this fiat currency to all these other countries, to get these countries backing their currency against the US dollar, so that they could eventually collapse the US dollar, collapse all the fiat currencies around the world, and then force everybody into their central bank, you know, the CBDC, central bank digital currency. And so but if you look at Putin, if you say, okay, what does what does Putin have in common with Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein? Well, for one thing, all three of those countries are were not in Putin, you know, Russia still is not part of the central banking system. And so if you look at what they're doing with the great reset right now, which is now it's no longer a conspiracy.
• 42:41
  They are actively trying to push us. We have the food shortages starting, we've got COVID two point zero coming with more lockdowns. They are trying to push us into this great reset because they want to as quickly as possible move us into their central banking system. So that way, if you look at what's happening in Ukraine, they're now passing out these universal basic income. They're saying, Yeah, we'll give you money, but you got to have your passport.
• 43:05
  You got to have your jab. So that's what they want to do on a global global scale. Now we know that The US Politicians have mostly been sold off to the China, the globalist, etc. But the problem with this, and this is why I think a lot of this is happening now. And I think that in a lot of ways, they they the globalist did certain things to force Putin to take military action.
• 43:27
  They wanted him to take military action, because now it gives them a chance to go, you know, kind of go to war to try to squash one of the last remaining strongholds that has resisted the central bank's currency that to become a debt slave. So if you look at their plan to bring the whole world in the great reset, it's actually Russia. In a lot of ways, Russia is standing in their way. Because if they collapse the world's economy, it would be based upon the US dollar and Russia's like, we sold our US dollars. We've got gold, you know, and they have their own economy.
• 43:59
  It's not gonna go very well, but I wanna wanna hear what your thoughts are on that.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: Well, absolutely. And it's fact it's actually it's funny what you've said is true, and it's having the opposite effect. The world banking system is ganging up on Russia, blocking Russia from the swift system, blocking Russia from trading in certain currencies, seizing Russian assets, overseas Russian currency reserves. But what the effect, really, the unintended effect, is Russia is just being pushed into the open arms of China. Now they're discussing how to create their own systems, how to create their own banks.
• 44:31
  The Saudi Arabians have come out and said they're gonna be, you know, selling their oil to China, in Chinese currency. Now, the Russians obviously have ordered now, European countries. If you wanna buy energy from us, gas and oil, and Europe is heavily reliant on Russia, you're gonna have to pay for it in rubles. So the the drop in the ruble and devaluation of the ruble, again, is now only gonna benefit Russia. So this is called counter sanction, measures.
• 44:56
  And these sanctions in general that have been going for years now, they've been going for the last eight years, actually have a very positive effect on the Russian economy. When Russia is shunned and blocked out from doing business in the West, well, guess what? Russian businesses actually profit. You know, when the when Poland says, well, we're not gonna sell you any more apples. Russia says, no problems.
• 45:15
  We'll make our own. You know what? We've got plenty of place to you know, when the Baltic states say, we're gonna punish Russia by not selling them dairy products. Russia says, no worries. And it revives its own dairy industry, and it becomes self reliant.
• 45:29
  And, imports decrease, and it generates jobs for local, Russians and local Russian business. So a lot of people in Russia aren't they're not upset about the sanctions. You know, the sanctions that are targeting the oligarchs and seizing the oligarchs assets overseas. Well, the average Russian will say good because the oligarch shouldn't be overseas, and their money should be in Russia investing locally. So it's not all that bad.
• 45:51
  In fact, I don't know, Putin famously commented. He goes, well, I don't feel sorry for the Russian oligarchs who have got their assets seized overseas. We warned them. Keep your money in Russia. So it has the opposite effect, and you're exactly right.
• 46:03
  They went after Gaddafi. And in my opinion, that was a travesty. That was a terrible travesty. Just remember, Glenn, let's think back to Libya when that was happening to Gaddafi. Remember the news.
• 46:12
  Remember the mainstream media trying to tell us how bad Gaddafi was. And most of us out there believed it. You know? And when I had arguments even with, you know, friends and everything. You know?
• 46:21
  I was sticking up for Gaddafi. I was saying, okay. Maybe he's bad. Maybe he's not perfect, but he's he's the best thing out there for the Libyan people. And the only reason they're targeting him is because, you know, he's he he keeps he keeps Libya in line.
• 46:34
  He keeps it functioning. And now since Gaddafi was, assassinated by NATO, Libya has been a pariah state. It's been a state of chaos. So when the Americans, you know, the NATO, the deep state, when they come in and do this regime change, you know, they tried to do it in Syria, but the Russians stopped them. You know, they did it in Iraq on false pretext.
• 46:53
  They hung Saddam Hussein. What what were they doing in Afghanistan? They were there for eleven years. And the same people now that are saying, yes. Fight Russia.
• 47:00
  We're saying, yes. Fight Afghanistan. But ten years later, the American government themselves admits it was a mistake, and they withdraw troops. And how many American, you know, soldiers were killed? It's a tragedy.
• 47:11
  How many coffins were sent back? You know, draped with the, you know, American flag. For what? For us to for, you know, for the Americans to just withdraw out of there in the end. So, guys, keep an open mind.
• 47:20
  You know, when the mainstream media tells you something, the first thing you should do, go to other sources. And it's I know it's very hard to look at alternative sources because the censorship is so intense. You know, anyone who speaks out or anyone who even questions the narrative is instantly slapped with the, you know, disinformation, you know, card and say, oh, that's not true. You can't say that. But I believe that Australians just as Americans, they deserve to see both sides of the story.
• 47:46
  You know, people, unless they're sheep, and they're just willing to listen to one side. You know, I'm not here to tell you listen to me or listen to Vladimir Putin or listen to the pro Russian position. I'm saying to people, listen to both sides, do your own research, and that's where, Telegram's been excellent. Telegram is an excellent platform. You know?
• 48:03
  And, obviously, your Telegram channel, Seth, my Telegram channel, Aussie, because, like, we're we're able to publish information that would be, you know, illegal oh, sorry. Not illegal. But against the terms and conditions there. Because the governments are actually pushing big tech. And big tech, just as big pharma, they're all working together.
• 48:19
  They're working together to, you know, to to to control the narrative, to control what we see, to control what we hear. End of the day, it's, that's why it's very important, and thank you to your supporters and subscribers who support your channel. It's very important that, you know, the work you do, Seth, and and bring this out. And this is the future. This is the future.
• 48:38
  People are moving away from the mainstream media. More and more people get their news from independent journalists because the mainstream media is just garbage these days. It's absolute garbage.
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree completely. I mean, you made a lot of good points there. I think it's it's it's garbage is not just garbage. It's actually it's propaganda, but it's evil propaganda. I mean, now we're on YouTube, so we I can't say too much.
• 49:00
  But look at the push the mainstream media had towards driving people into getting their jab, with not talking about any of the potential issues that could pop up, which we're now seeing. They're now showing that there's that massive increases in death and all kinds of things. The mainstream media, they knew that. They didn't care. They pushed it anyway.
• 49:21
  So the mainstream media is the enemy of the people. It is absolutely corrupt. It's been weaponized against us. But something that actually really made me laugh this week that I wanted to you kind of touched on this about how the globalists, they pull their companies out of Russia, then Russia's like, okay, great, we'll do it then instead. So as we know, McDonald's recently pulled out of Russia, what I think would be, that would be one of the best things to happen in America.
• 49:44
  If McDonald's pulled out of America, it'd be great. But what happened though, is that McDonald's pulled out of Russia, then a new, a new business emerged where they took McDonald's M logo, turned it sideways, and made it a B. Literally the same exact Lowe's logo just sideways as a B, same colors and everything. And then they made the Russian version McDonald's to replace all of the McDonald's that came out. And so and now they're doing the same exact menu, but they're using Russian local Russian ingredients, it's gonna be way healthier.
• 50:13
  So I think that what you're seeing and this is the interesting point, overall, what with with this is that you're really seeing I think for the first time ever in history, as clear as you've ever seen the globalist mechanism, the globalist machine turning on a country. And I think that you mentioned, you know, talking about Libya, good point, Right? What was the media telling you about, you know, Gaddafi? What they're about Saddam Hussein, these other people that spoke up against the globalists? At that time, most people just, you know, they didn't have Ozzy Kazakh on YouTube at that time.
• 50:50
  Right? You turn on TV, NBC Nightly News or Fox News, and that's how you learn. But now, especially with after coming off of the two year COVID spree, where people are really seeing through a lot more of this information, they're seeing through the propaganda, You're now seeing this even more so. So I think it's a, it's a very unique time in history. But also, I want to thank you as well for what you're doing.
• 51:12
  Because especially over in Australia, you know, as I mentioned before, that's how I came across you just fighting and standing up for the freedoms over there, which is, it's really important because I think that if you weren't awake a year ago or two years ago, a lot of people are now seeing that there is a that we are in the jaws of the dragon. And the the great reset, the globalist trap, we are in the jaws of that dragon. And it's people like Putin that are and I believe fighting against that system. Because I think that he knows just as Trump knew, what would happen if the whole world gets put under their control. Because they they tell us it's a frightening future.
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, my friend. Absolutely. It's a it's a frightening future. We live in a very hard time. So those people who are religious, they know what these times are.
• 52:06
  And, you know, the the Russia's role Russia's role in the fact that it's one of the last sort of bastions where, you know, Christianity is openly supported by the leader and other religions also. And we can see the decline of the West, decline of morality in the West, the decline of, you know, the old traditional values, which were the pillars of society in the West. And, you know, I know those states in America, which fight which fight for freedom, you know, they they feel they feel very close to what the Russians are going through now. You know, they it's like an automatic conversion from those people who fought against, you know, the mandates and the lockdowns. Other those people amazingly, you know, in my opinion, they're just they're just coming over and sort of converting into, taking a pro Russian view on things because they're awake, because they're not susceptible, because they've developed a resistance to mainstream media propaganda.
• 53:01
  And, you know, then again, don't listen to what I'm saying, guys. Do your own research. You know, if the if the Aussie Cosmic has said something today, is unusual or new for you, have a look, you know, in background research there. You know? Don't believe me.
• 53:13
  I'm definitely not a paid shield. I don't work for the Russians. I was born in Australia. Born in Australia, raised in Australia. Obviously, have Russian heritage coming from, you know, East Of Russia, Far East, Siberian, you know, region of Zubay Kull, where the the Zubay Kull Cossack Tsar.
• 53:28
  And we were anti communist. We were, you know, for the Tsar, for the Russian empire. That's why, you know, we we left with a white white Russian immigration. White meaning fighting the reds, fighting the communists. Now let me just say also, I wanna address one topic here.
• 53:44
  It's it's actually a, you know, news story that's just come out, and it's absolutely outrageous. So the Australian prime minister has announced that he's sending coal to Ukraine. Now he's publicly pledged to send 70,000 tons of coal. Now, you know you know, where's Australia and where's Ukraine? Right?
• 54:03
  This is what you call a virtue signaling publicity stunt. It makes no sense to send a massive ship full of coal all the way to Ukraine. Firstly, the Black Sea is completely captured by Russians, and those sections of Black Sea, where you could probably enter are actually rigged with mines. The Ukrainians released mines even World War two era mines that are washing up on beaches. So I don't know how a ship with coal is gonna get in.
• 54:29
  Now if he goes all the way to, you know, the North through the Baltics where this ship docks in Poland, what are they gonna do? Unload it and put it on railroad, again, carts, wagons, or trucks and send it into Ukraine? Well, by the time it gets to Ukraine, a Russian airstrike will take it out anyway. You know, Russians completely control the air. It's absurd that the Australians would sign up for this.
• 54:49
  You know? There is coal everywhere over there. You got Czechoslovakian coal. You got Polish coal. At the end of the day, you could just buy coal from Russia.
• 54:56
  You know, if the Australians really wanted to, the Australian government, should I say, really wanted to, you know, help Ukraine with its energy crisis. But this is just another publicity stunt. You see, our prime minister Scott Morrison, we call him Scotty from marketing. You know, his background is PR and marketing. So he doesn't actually think of things with a logical consequence.
• 55:15
  You know, he thinks of things, from a marketing point of view. So this is a hilarious situation. And I'm sure we will all be monitoring this Australian ship full of coal, and I'm sure the the Russians will be monitoring it too. And, the best case scenario is that this ship will be captured by the Russians, and this coal will be given to the Russian side. That's the best case scenario.
• 55:33
  The worst case scenario is, you know, a much more, unfortunate situation, but I can guarantee you that this call won't reach Ukraine. You know, end of the day, you know which call will? The Russian call. You know? Even through the whole conflict for the last eight years, the Russians were still selling still selling gas, still selling oil, still selling coal to Ukraine.
• 55:52
  And may I add, selling gas at dirt cheap prices at cost. The Ukrainians were passing it on and on selling it to Europe and not even paying the Russians for that. So there's another reason why, you know, it's it's it's it's time to drain the swamp in Ukraine. End of the day, you know, we love Ukrainian people. Russians are very close to them.
• 56:10
  You know, it makes me sick seeing all these people pretending to love Ukraine. You don't love Ukraine. You know? I know the Ukrainian national anthem up by heart. I know a hundred Ukrainian folks on look by heart.
• 56:19
  I know the geography of Ukraine, the history of Ukraine. It's I I've been there many times. You know, before the war, we used to go there all the time. Kyiv is a beautiful city. You know, there are beautiful cities there, very holy places, monasteries, beautiful churches, beautiful people, very hospitable, a beautiful culture because it's so close to Russian culture.
• 56:35
  Because, you know, most of the people there are Russian and speak Russian. You know, this is where this, you know, this cynical attitude of the West. All of a sudden, we care about Ukraine. Peace in Ukraine. Oh, by the way, we're sending 15,000 missiles there tomorrow.
• 56:48
  Peace in Ukraine. Oh, we're gonna send another 500, you know, anti aircraft systems. You know, the only country that'll bring peace to Ukraine is the Russian Federation. That's the only country that should be trusted there. You know, this is Russia's backyard.
• 57:01
  This is Putin's backyard. He knows exactly what he's doing. He's acting in the interest of Ukrainian people and Russian people. I I repeat again, Russians are not targeting civilians. Russian troops are dying, heroically, spilling their blood for the freedom of Ukrainians.
• 57:17
  The Russian troops will pull out. Life will go back to normal. You know? And and, you know, the history in the end will remember the Russian troops rather than, you know, do cowardly tactics and, you know, flatten cities and kill civilians from a distance and then pop up. The Russian troops are advancing.
• 57:32
  You know, imagine advancing into every single village, and it's like a it's an ambush situation. So they got their tank columns. They're driving along, and who knows what's around the corner. And now that the climate is changing, we're coming into spring, The trees are gonna start foliage is gonna start to appear. So there's gonna be branches and leaves everywhere, and it's gonna be even harder.
• 57:53
  There's gonna be partisan warfare. There's gonna be guerrilla warfare because the the West is is promoting this. You know, rather than, sit down and say to Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine, rather than say to him, oh, look. Let's find an agreement. You know, what does Putin want?
• 58:05
  You know what Putin said he wants? He wants them to leave Donbas alone and recognize Crimea. He's had a lot to ask. He said, I want full denazification. You know, no more Nazis.
• 58:16
  No more of these battalions. You know, the the Ukrainians then said, well, we don't believe there are Nazis. You know, the whole world can see. You know, the whole world can see. The mainstream media prior to this conflict prior to February themselves were talking about Ukraine's, you know, problem with Nazis and its affiliation with Nazis.
• 58:31
  All of a sudden, they've dropped that story because it's not part of the narrative anymore, and they've, you know, gone on to a a complete, you know, anti Russian stance. But at the end of the day, I'll say it I I said it before. I'll say it again. Only the Russians will help Ukraine. And if if the West just stop getting involved, stop giving Ukrainians false hope.
• 58:49
  Now I saw a nice meme where Joe Biden says, we will fight Russia until the very last Ukrainian. You know? That's the attitude. The Ukrainians are being tricked and used as cannon fodder. You know?
• 59:00
  They're being armed. They're saying to civilians, go out there and shoot and kill. You know? The Russian army doesn't wanna kill anybody. You know, the Russian troops wanna go and go home.
• 59:09
  They just wanna demilitarize the area. And I think at the end of the day, that's a very normal, reasonable request. You know, this wasn't part of the deal. Don't forget. Every single, you know, meter, every single kilometer of Ukrainian territory through the last, you know, one thousand years is being fought for by Russians and Ukrainians together.
• 59:29
  It's drenched with blood, drenched with the veterans of World War two, of World War one, of all the wars before that, the Napoleonic Wars. You know? For the Russians to give back this territory, it it is amazing. It's it's unbelievable in 1991 that that happened. You know?
• 59:42
  And a lot of Russians are upset that we gave away so much territory. But we did. But we were promised that NATO would not expand. Now when we see NATO putting up bases and missiles everywhere, surrounding Russia surrounding Russia, antagonizing the bear, you know, poking the bear, Putin had no choice. And you can see now, we can see that Putin was right because, you know, in fact, yesterday, the Russian military captured a Ukrainian base, and they unbelievably, they captured metals, Ukrainian metals that were preprepared.
• 1:00:15
  And guess what guess what it said on the metals? Metals for the capture of Crimea. So the Ukrainians are already preparing. They're preparing to invade Crimea. They're preparing to invade Donbas.
• 1:00:25
  Putin said, you know, it was revealed by the Russian Ministry of Defense that the Ukrainian plan was to attack on the February 28. Putin preempted the strike. He went on the twenty fourth, and he, neutralized, you know, the Ukrainian army, which was which has been built up for the last eight years. Again, billions and billions and billions, as Trump says, of dollars have been pumped into Ukraine, pumped into Australian sorry, Ukrainian army. You know, no one should be involved here.
• 1:00:52
  Australia shouldn't be involved. I mean, I love Australia. I'm a patron of Australia. I I was born here, grew up here, and I just can't figure out why ScoMo, we call him, Scott Morrison, is getting his nose, you know, into this business. It's unbelievable.
• 1:01:02
  It's it's ridiculous. It's silly. Russia is not an enemy. You know? I'll tell you one thing.
• 1:01:07
  If Trump was around, this wouldn't have happened. I agree. Putin would have figured it out as a gentleman.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: I agree. Yeah. I agree completely. So we are now gonna hop over onto Rise TV for a little bit of q and a. And it's really more than q and a.
• 1:01:23
  It's it's an engagement. It's a really amazing community over there. We get into some deeper discussions. You can ask anything. We have some I remember, you know, last time we had some really fun questions come up.
• 1:01:32
  So if you want to join us on Rise TV, there is a link in the description below for a free trial. You can come over, no charge, you check it out if you want to stay. Like I said at the beginning of video, Rise TV is literally what allows me to do this full time. I am a full time investigative journalist, you know, to kind of tip my hat to you what you're talking about, Simeon. And this is important.
• 1:01:54
  Know, right now there is an information war coming out. So you if you want to support us and support the work that I do, Rise TV is the best way. But look, I know that with gas prices at Biden levels now and all the depression, post COVID, etc. A lot of you are struggling, I understand. So that's why I will continue to do a ton of content outside the paywall.
• 1:02:17
  So I'll continue to be on Facebook and YouTube and Rumble because I want to make sure I'm still reaching you. So I'm not going to disappear. But if you want to support Lexa, come over to Rise TV. So we're gonna go ahead and cut the streams to everything but Rise TV. And over there, we're going to be doing some fun q and a.
• 1:02:33
  So Simeon, one last thing is that I will be if you follow me on telegram, most of you are, I will share Simeon's information on there again. Make sure you're following him because you're you're extremely active on posting what's happening over there. I'm I'm getting I'm learning a lot from you in terms of just what the true situation over there. So thank you for that, Simeon.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: Pleasure. Pleasure, Seth. And thanks for, you know, your your your work and providing a platform for us in Australia. You've been you've been with us in Australia here since the lockdown, since, you know, we've come a long way, and now we're onto this major topic over there, this, know, European conflict. So what's next?
• 1:03:14
  Hopefully, nothing. Hopefully, peace. Hopefully, peace is next. And we generally want peace. You know?
• 1:03:18
  We want peace. You want peace. And it's just and just for those people out there who pretend to want peace, but really they just, you know, being hysterical and fighting for the supporting the deep state. I urge you, I urge you all just reconsider your position.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. Okay. So now we are over on Rise TV. Let me pull my questions up. And we can dig in.
• 1:03:44
  Folks, if you are, we already got a lot of great questions. Okay. Folks, if you have a question, just write all caps question in your comment, and we will get to it. So you know, we've got about at least another twenty minutes. So we'll try to get through a lot of these questions.
• 1:04:01
  Alright, so actually, here's actually, here's a good question from Rob Van, which I've had this question to. There's a telegram that I've been following, which is Intel Slava. Are you familiar with that telegram channel?
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes. Yes. Yes.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: Is that because it's a big channel. It's like 300,000 plus people. Is that a trustworthy channel? Is that a good place to get information?
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: Well, Intel Slava is a channel where it's basically raw raw material, raw video footage from the ground. You know? So that's a and that's an excellent channel. Any channel that can give you firsthand footage, firsthand, you know, intel is excellent. So I definitely recommend to subscribe to Intelslava.
• 1:04:46
  It's sometimes quite graphic, but, you know, that's the real reality of war. People are dying, people are wounded. But, you know, you can get some real, you know, on the ground on the ground in content and intel from this. I definitely recommend. Yes.
• 1:04:59
  Okay. It's
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: good. Here's a question from Scott Monson who says, can you explain your ribbon in the flag in the black in the background?
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  Speaker 2: Okay. So I'll start with the ribbon. Now this is the Saint George ribbon. You know, the Saint George ribbon. The orange represents the fire.
• 1:05:15
  The black represents the smoke. Now this ribbon is a, you know, a a ribbon in memory, in honor of, you know, World War two, World War one. It's, you know, similar to also, I'm sure there's an American equivalent in a you know, in the West. It's the Saint George's ribbon in the Saint George, you know, who slayed the dragon. Very very popular in in a Russian and Russian Orthodox culture.
• 1:05:39
  Now this ribbon is actually banned, you know, in Ukraine. Even though you you know, the millions of Ukrainians died fighting the Nazis, and it's a symbol of it's a symbol of legacy of the war, and and it's a reminder. It's a reminder that we need to remember. Because those who don't remember what happened in World War two, you know, as Putin said, maybe they need to be reminded. Now the fact that the Germans, the German government is sending billions of dollars in weapons.
• 1:06:05
  When how dare they? Seventy seven years ago, you know, the Russian troops are marching through Berlin with these ribbons. You know, did you guys forget? You know, the we the so the Russians gave Germany back. They left East Germany.
• 1:06:19
  And look at that. Now East Germany's sending weapons and arming Ukraine as a proxy army to fight. So memory is very good. Now this flag behind me, the Australian Eureka flag, you know, and may may be a surprise to some people who have seen me for the first time, but I'm actually a great patriot of Australia. I was born in this country.
• 1:06:36
  Now, you know, my, you know, great grandparents came here in the fifties and the sixties. We've been here for four generations. Now this flag symbolizes the Eureka Stockade. It's the flag of the Eureka Stockade. They're called the Eureka flag, and it's it's from an event that occurred in 1864.
• 1:06:54
  They call it the birthplace of Australian democracy. More commonly, these days, the flag is known as seen as a symbol of rebellion to the government, and the flag became very popular during the lockdowns, during the mandates, the freedom movement. You know? And I you know, I like this flag, and it's symbol. It's a very patriotic Australian flag.
• 1:07:12
  It's a little bit you could probably compare it to the American confederate flag, I suppose.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: That's what I was thinking.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: Be the closest sort of comparison.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Which I'm sure in America, the mainstream media takes that flag, and they they demonize it and say it's for you know, racist and all this stuff, which I'm sure that your flag there has also been demonized by the media over there.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: Here's a this is a good question from chicken coop lady, who says, what do you think about the fact that The United States has not yet stepped in to Ukraine? What does that mean?
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: Well, we've seen some interesting announcements on behalf of The United States. I can bring up most notably the example of president Zelensky's request to enforce a no fly zone. You know? And the you know, I'm I'm very impressed with the American position here. The Americans said, well, we can't enforce a no fly zone.
• 1:08:05
  That would mean we'd have to open fire on Russian planes. They would open fire on our planes, and that would be basically one step towards World War three. A a full out a total war between Russia and America. It's untenable. It's it would mean the destruction of the planet, you know, because the Russians aren't bluffing.
• 1:08:23
  In fact, Russia has something called a military doctrine. Now military doctrine in Russia, it basically, it's like an instruction manual. If this happens, you must do this. It doesn't matter if your emotions say, oh, well, you know, maybe not, or let's give peace a chance. No.
• 1:08:41
  There's no such thing. The doctrine says, in the event of this, you have to press this button. If this happens, then you flick this switch. And when I say flicking buttons and switches, I'm talking about the strategic, you know, intercontinental ballistic missiles that Russia has. And it's out of Putin's hands.
• 1:08:57
  It's out of the general's hands because Russia has a military doctrine, very strict doctrine. But that doctrine is in place to prevent war, to discourage the enemy. You know, Putin said, you know, why would we want a why would we want a world without Russia? Now that's a very serious statement. He's basically saying, we want we'll never lose.
• 1:09:18
  And he said, you know, if something like that happens, everybody else will die and the Russians will go to heaven. That's his exact words. That's his, you know, that's his quote. That's the ideology. So I think the Americans understand that Russia in that regard is not to be messed with.
• 1:09:33
  And, you know, I don't think Biden is capable. I mean, the guy is is is is impaired mentally. He's got dementia. I mean, the worst thing would be for him to start a war. And, of course, this is a very, very you know, this isn't this isn't an Iraq.
• 1:09:48
  This isn't an Afghanistan. This isn't, you know, fighting people in the desert. This is a serious war against a serious opponent. And if the Americans deploy troops on the ground, you can expect the Russians will as a matter of principle, as a matter of doctrine, they may resort to using nuclear weapons. They may resort to using you know?
• 1:10:07
  In fact, they they even have weapons that are non nuclear. They have other weapons, you know, hydrogen bombs and so forth. But they have they have a very serious arsenal. You know, what we're seeing we haven't seen the Russian military deployed its full capacity. You know, the Russians are deploying units here and there, trying to keep a local, trying to keep a low key.
• 1:10:23
  And if they go all out and they actually you know, Putin said it's not a war. In fact, Russia has not declared war on Ukraine till this day, and Ukraine hasn't declared war on Russia. Now Ukraine doesn't wanna declare war on Russia because then Russia will just take off the gloves and say, that's it. We're coming in. And the Russians don't wanna declare war because they don't think they're fighting a war.
• 1:10:43
  They they're fighting an operation. They did the same thing to Kazakhstan about two months ago. They came in surgical strike, know, did what they had to do, and then they left at the at the invitation of the Kazakhstan government, may I add. So definitely, I don't think that American troops on the ground is a good idea, I don't think the Americans will do that. But the Americans are very cheeky, and they they they don't they don't mind how many Ukrainians die.
• 1:11:11
  You know? They're supplying them with weapons, an endless amount of weapons. And all of these weapons, of course, have been captured by the Russians anyway and ending up in Russian hands. So keep sending them.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: Here's actually, here's a question, and this is from truth warrior. And this is something that I've been researching a lot, and I wanna be I'm gonna do a show on this soon. He says, can you speak to the Khazarian mafia originating from Ukraine? So that's something that the Kazarian mafia is something that I've been researching and I wanted to go I wanna really dig into. But what can you say about the Kazarian mafia and its relationship with Ukraine?
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm not quite sure. I have to Google that. What that is in in fact and I'm not somebody who is easily, you know, easily led to these kind of things.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So the Kazarian like a quick overview, the Khazarian Mafia was originally the Khazarians, which is a very kind of old race that there's a it's very hidden. But basically, as I understand it, they were in Ukraine. And this is hundreds and hundreds of years ago. And they were a specific group of people that were practicing, they were worshiping ball, they were involved in child sacrifice, A lot of the things that we see the globalist elites doing now were rooted from the Khazarian mafia.
• 1:12:33
  And the basically, as I understand, they infiltrated into the Jewish religion to hide within the Jewish religion and still carry out these practices. And it appears that they that same lineage, they are the ones that are basically in control of a lot of what we see the globalists doing. So it's a pretty I'll send you some articles to read on it because it's kind of crazy and especially if you look at the relationship relationship between that because our Mafia, those bloodlines and Ukraine, it's it's like it gives a lot more context to the fact that Ukraine is this this hotbed of this corrupt activity.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: Very enlightening. Thank you.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So we'll talk more about that. Let's see. Okay. So Smoke Shadow says, how do Australians feel about the Union Jack on their flag?
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, well, I I don't think there's any negative attitude towards that. I mean, Australia was a colony of Great Britain. In many respects, it still is a colony of Great Britain. We still can't exercise our independent foreign policy, which is something I'm a grand advocate for. I'm a grand advocate for Australia to act in its sovereign interests.
• 1:13:44
  And and our sovereign interests don't include getting involved in overseas wars, which has nothing to do with us. Australia should focus on its own needs and its own interests. But the Union Jack, obviously, it appears on the red hand side. It appears on the Australian flag. You know, it's part of our, you know, identity.
• 1:14:04
  You know? I don't I don't have any problems with it personally. You know, I proudly fly the Australian flag, the red hand side, and the Eureka flag. But the Eureka flag is that, you know, basically people see that, they know, are these guys doing business? These guys are patriots.
• 1:14:16
  You know, it's the sign of rebellion to the government. Very popular very popular in the last two years, the Eureka flag. But there's also the the Australian flag is also called the corporate flag, you know, flag of the the sort of the corporate, the government structures. That's why the red end sign the red end sign has become very popular. And the red end sign, of course, is the same as the Australian flag almost except for the red background.
• 1:14:37
  And that was the flag which was used by the Australian ANZACs, the Australian troops in Gallipoli in World War one, also making it very popular and very patriotic. So that's my response.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: So here's some questions more about Australia. And this is from there's a handful of questions I'll merge together because they're all very similar. From little Tai Chi mermaid, blue sky, and chicken coop lady. How's it going in Australia with the lockdowns? Are people still being detained in camps for rejecting the lockdowns and mandates?
• 1:15:06
  Is COVID miraculously over in Australia like it is here in US? Are Aussies allowed to travel yet? If so, would you ever leave or move away? If you came here, I'd buy you a frothy. You deserve it.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: Thank you. I I imagine frothy is a as a beer, is it? Is it a Yeah.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yep.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: Nice. Okay. Thank you to those people who for their very generous offer of a frothy. One day, we'll have to take it up. Now it is COVID has disappeared really in Australia.
• 1:15:38
  You know? And there's been, you know, joking jokes saying people are saying that Vladimir Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for curing the pandemic by, you know, invading his neighbor. He basically took the, you know, took the mania because that's what that's what it was. You know? Look.
• 1:15:54
  I I had the flu. Appeared to be the flu in December. No problem. You know? Two days, three days at home.
• 1:16:01
  You know? Missus looked after me, and then my missus got it. I looked after her. And now we're happy as Larry. What's the problem?
• 1:16:07
  You know? I thought to myself, well, that's all it was, and we the whole world the world stops spinning because of this. You know? Businesses got destroyed. How many, you know, industry sectors and tourism and construction and hospitality?
• 1:16:20
  And, know, end of the day, it wasn't worth it. You know? The government should be held held to account that they did that they did all of these things to us, that they did lock us down. You know, I'm still I've still got court cases relating to that period, you know, because I was caught five kilometers out of my area, you know, on the way to a building site. It's it's absurd that I'm still facing this stuff, but that's still in the courts.
• 1:16:41
  And there's a YouTube video about it on my YouTube channel. You know, I've got CCTV showing my car out of the area, and this is like real 1984 stuff. And at end of the end of the day, the freedom movement is well you know, it was it was alive and strong that sort of sprouted out of the lockdowns, and the freedom movement is continuing continuing to fight. The reason why they've relaxed lockdowns relax the mandates and so forth is because there's an election around the corner. And I think, less as many other Australians believe, that once they win the election, the major parties because it's almost impossible for the minor parties to get up.
• 1:17:20
  Once the major parties win the election, they'll bring the mandates back in. They'll bring lockdowns back in.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah. That's my concern about the states as well. Is we we've got the midterm elections coming up, and everyone's on their best behavior. Once these elections are over, it's gonna be locked down again because they're gonna have to start taking harsh measures to try to try to keep Trump out of office in 2024. So of course, we're gonna see another round of all kinds of things to change laws and all that.
• 1:17:51
  Here's actually here's a great question from Lumpty Wonderful. And this is a question that I had as well. Who's so they say, is it true that Ukraine never officially registered as a new country after the twenty fourteen overthrow, or is it just an old Russian territory?
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: Well, the twenty fourteen overthrow, it was an illegal coup d'etat. But I think to to deconstruct that question, it would be correct to say that Ukraine registered as new country in 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed. And Ukraine existed from 1991 up until 02/2014 as a friendly Russian neighbor. And Russia helped Ukraine a lot. You know?
• 1:18:36
  Ukraine surrendered its nuclear weapons. Russia, as part of the agreement, inherited all of the nuclear weapons of the Soviet Union as part of that agreement, and it also inherited the Soviet Union's debt, which Putin paid. You know, I think it was about 02/2007 or 02/2017, if I'm memory. So the Ukraine existed until 02/2014, and the illegitimate president Yanukovych, who was, you know, friendly with Russia, you could call him pro Russian, and everybody was happy until he was overthrown. Because he was a pro Russian president and because he was friendly with Russia, you know, the, the deep state, the CIA, they they came in.
• 1:19:16
  They funded it, and they do it all over the world. You know? What are we surprised here? They do it everywhere.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: They do it here.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: They can. It's the same scenario that they follow. They do it in South America, Central America, they're in Africa. They do it in The Middle East.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Exactly.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So in regards to the the legitimacy, you know, there are I've heard people say that Russia may bring back a legitimate 02/2014 president, you know, and deliver him to Kyiv and say, well, here you go. Here's your office back. Let's just continue as normal. And, you know, technically, that would be very interesting, but I I don't know.
• 1:19:55
  You know, one part of me suspects that Putin might not even hold on to Ukraine. What does he need it for? It's just a headache. You know? Having Ukraine is like having Greece.
• 1:20:06
  Greece and the European Union doesn't contribute anything. It just takes. You know? It's a it's a it's a liability. It's not an asset.
• 1:20:14
  You know? So, you know, there's to suggest that Russia need this territory for land or for something like that, that's incorrect. The only reason Russia would have troops there again is to for its own security with the demilitarization of that area. And, again, when we consider that Ukraine was always a part of Russia, it was a part of the Soviet Union, it was a part of the Russian empire, you know, You can you can understand the Russians. I got an analogy about Mexico.
• 1:20:40
  Imagine if Putin armed the cartels in Mexico all of a sudden on on the American border, they've got missiles, and they've got, you know, weapons and tanks. You know, of course, the American army wouldn't be very happy about that.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: Well, the good thing is that Putin wouldn't need to arm the cartels because our own CIA is doing it.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: So here's a question from Randy b who says, what exactly does the z on the Russian tanks mean?
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 2: So when the operation started, there were different Russian army groups coming in from different directions. There was one army group moving from the Crimea north. There was another army group going from the Belarusian border across the border into Ukraine. There was another army group that built Belgorod region, Kharkov region, Donbas area. It's just to identify friend from foe.
• 1:21:37
  But don't forget the Soviet tanks, which the Ukrainians are based on and the Russians are based on, they look very similar, especially for air from the air and from afar. Now you see a t 72. How can you how can you see the difference between a t 72 or a t 72 b or t 72 and a t 80? So it's very similar, and the Russians put big markings on their tanks to avoid friendly fire. And may I add, there's a lot of friendly fire, in fact.
• 1:22:03
  You know, some of these videos you see of Russian columns, you know, decimated, destroyed. Unfortunately, in a lot of the instances, there's actually Russians themselves because the Russians are advancing from all directions. And it's like it's it's very unclear who's who, and it's it's it's it's a terrible situation, and there's a lot of friendly fire on the Ukrainian side as well. So these these markings, these big z's or there's also o's, there's b's, depending on which army group is moving, are there to identify a friend and from foe. And, of course, you know, social media and, you know, the Russian civilian population embrace these z's as a mark of, you know, the sign of support.
• 1:22:45
  So, you know, it's now generally accepted that this z stands for, which means for victory or for the boys. You know?
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: That's that's a helpful answer. Okay. So we've got it's ten twenty nine. We'll do one more question. And this is this is actually this is a very good question.
• 1:23:04
  Think you have the answer for this is from cartoon maker who says, how do we convince others that Putin isn't evil just because he used to be KGB? Do you think he had a come to Jesus moment? Because most people I talked to here, I can say that, you know, I say, look, Putin may not necessarily be the bad guy you think he is. And they're like, oh, he's KGB. He's a communist.
• 1:23:27
  So how would you respond to that?
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, this he's definitely not a communist. Yeah. And neither am I or neither am any, you know, any other people. You know, Putin once said, those who, you know, want the Soviet Union back, you know, have no brains. Those who, you know, don't want it back, they have no heart.
• 1:23:51
  You know? It's it's more of a nostalgia thing, you know. Putin wasn't a bad country. It was actually a very successful country. It was a very successful superpower.
• 1:24:00
  You know? And, obviously, Putin grew up in that country. You know? I grew up in Australia. Our families were all anti communist.
• 1:24:08
  But, you know, we we look back on the Soviet Union with a lot of sense of nostalgia and nostalgia, should I say. And it's a it's a beautiful you know, it's a memory. And there's a lot of good things that came out of that country, And there's a lot of accomplishments and, you know, Soviet guaranteed peace for all of the peep all of those people, the countries that were part of it. And there are many people in Russia who dream of a Soviet reunion, you know, or a or a Russian empire scenario. You know, the the right the Russian right, the Russian left, they agree on this.
• 1:24:41
  You know, the left won the Soviet Union, the right won the Russian empire, you know, the double headed eagles and the hammer and the sickle. You know, for me, at the end of the day, doesn't matter. You got a red flag or you got a Russian imperial flag. The most important thing is that for me personally, in my opinion, is that Russia is is is operating in its sovereign interests. You know, it's not infiltrated or coerced or controlled by foreign powers, specifically, lobby groups and, you know, deep state agents and so forth.
• 1:25:10
  And that's something that happened in 1991. Tragically, 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed, the Soviet Union, leadership was basically coerced and taken over by advisers from the Pentagon. And they wrote the constitution, and they encouraged Russia to allow Western companies to come in and buy, you know, oil reserves and the oil fields and the gas fields, and they have give this person to give this country independence, give that country independence. And it was just a you know, all the wealth that the Soviet Union had built up at the expense of the hard work of the people. Ninety years of hard work, you know.
• 1:25:43
  You know, the Soviet Union wasn't formed easily, but this is back breaking labor. You know, people had to stand in line to to to buy washing machines and TVs and wait fifteen years to buy a car because Russia and The Soviet Union were, you know, supporting countries like, you know, Somalia and, you know, Libya and, you know, bloody Eastern Europe. You know, we we helped rebuild Eastern Germany. We helped rebuild Poland. We helped Yugoslavia.
• 1:26:09
  Russia helped countries all over the world. You know? I'm I'm sure if Stalin had known that Ukraine is going to, you know, behave like this in 02/2022, they wouldn't have built any nuclear power plants there. They wouldn't have built any factories or any roads. At the end of the day, you know, this this sense of Russian hospitality, generosity has has put Russia at a disadvantage, but it's part of our people's, you you could say psyche.
• 1:26:34
  They're they're our ethnicity. You know, in fact, there's a there's a there's a there's a joke that goes online. The Russians are very hospitable. You know? Yeah.
• 1:26:42
  Even when uninvited guests come and visit, like Napoleon and Hitler, we, you know, we we take them in, we show them the capital, and then we escort them all the way back to where they came from and have a look at their capital. Yeah?
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: Well, great Great answer.
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 2: And that a very pro Russian movement, wasn't it?
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: That's okay. We will allow we're on Rise TV. So thank you again, Simeon, for not just coming in and sharing your thoughts and your wisdom with us tonight, but also just for what you're doing as an independent journalist. I know you've been under attack a lot by the mainstream media, which tells me you're over the target. Where so aside from Telegram, which I will share with, you know, my followers on Telegram, where can people find you?
• 1:27:25
  How can people support what you're doing?
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Jump on Telegram is the best place. YouTube, you know, join, subscribe, whatever, and, you know, keep in touch. But thank you very much again, Seth, for having this conversation, and it's good. I I like the chat with you, and maybe we'll do it more often.
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: Of course. Absolutely.
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 2: There's a lot there's a lot of things happening in the world, and it's good to get an opinion. It's good to it's good to show that the independent journalists have international connections. So and I thank you very much, and thanks to all your supporters and followers and listeners for the excellent questions. I thoroughly enjoyed that. Thank you.
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: Alright. Great. Thank you, Simeon. And for those of on Rise TV, if you're new and you just joined, thank you so much. I hope you stick around.
• 1:28:12
  And there's a lot of great stuff on here. We'll be going live tomorrow night at 07:30 for Friday Night Live at 07:30 Eastern. So make sure you join us there. It's a lot of fun. Last week, I think we had half of you spitting food out of your nose from laughing so much.
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  So we have a lot of fun in there. So I'll see you then. Thank you everyone who joined. Thank you, Simeon, for tuning in with us today.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Jim. Thank you.