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Game of Thrones, State Department Edition: High Sparrow in Kyiv, High Inquisitor in Sarajevo, and the only real vote is in Washington. · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  A lot of news going on, a lot
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  of interesting stuff and how I kind of
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  pick topics, especially for the deep dive.
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  It's a deep dive little sort of thing.
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  But anyway, the fact is, is that I
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  usually listen to my deep dive topics, I
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  try to pick them up from Russian topics,
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  you know, everybody knows that I listen to
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  quite a bit of Russian TV news, Russian,
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  I don't know, VKontakte, I watch some Smotrim
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  and I watch Vladimir Solovyov fairly regularly.
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  I haven't seen him in a little bit,
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  but I usually, I like to watch the
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  live or even recorded, but they're long play.
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  They're like long and they are like two
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  hour long briefings of Maria Zakharova, who works
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  for Sergey Lavrov.
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  And I like to watch, if there are
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  important events going on, there are things I
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  like to watch.
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  Well, last, I think it was Thursday night
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  around the time of my show, I might
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  even have reported on it a tiny little
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  bit, but I think the news was just
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  coming out.
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  There was a allegation by the Polish that
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  the Russians were sending drones into
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  Poland.
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  And it's been the talk of the weekend.
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  And that is, well, it's quite interesting to
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  me.
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  I like that.
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  And, but that's only, I only watched the
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  appearance of the ambassador to the UN and
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  we'll get into that in just a minute.
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  And then I watched another one and this
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  one got me on a roll and I
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  did some research and I'm going to present
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  some pretty long play stuff.
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  And some, a pretty good analysis of what
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  we have for something that is another Ukraine.
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  Okay.
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  Kosovo was the first Ukraine.
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  Well, in Europe, not really, but there's more
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  than that.
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  But I chose to analyze three, starting with
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  Kosovo and then Ukraine.
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  And we're going to go into a little
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  bit about the Maidan and how that occurred.
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  And then we're going to go into the
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  one that Sergei Lavrov talked about, which is
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  Bosnia.
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  And, oh my God, I, you know, I
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  knew, but I didn't know, you know, I
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  spent some time researching it because if you
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  don't know, you need to know.
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  We Americans are being lied to is not
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  it.
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  We're being, we're not being told anything.
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  And so when I listened to this thing
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  from Sergei Lavrov and this meeting with the
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  president of, we'll get into that too.
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  That's an interesting tale.
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  But did you know there's a king?
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  There's literally a king, a king in Bosnia
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  and he's an appointed king.
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  He ain't even a resident of Bosnia.
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  This is nonsense, but we'll get to it.
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  And I knew, but I didn't know, you
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  know, so I did some digging and I'm
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  going to tell you some of this and
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  get into it.
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  And what brought it up was me listening
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  to another foreign leader speaking with a third
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  foreign leader.
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  And I was like, well, what in the
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  hell, what are they talking about?
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  That's not what I understand it to be.
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  And I went and found out.
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  But before I get to that, I want
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  to talk to you about these drones because
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  there's been a bit of escalation on top
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  of that.
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  So these drones that were allegedly fired in
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  to Poland by the Russians, don't believe everything
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  you hear because there's something else to this.
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  And so I'm going to give to you
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  and it's only a, by the time I
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  summarized his entire statement, it's only a one
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  page deal.
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  So it's really not that long.
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  And I'll go through it and I'll read
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  it to you.
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  But if you don't understand or you don't
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  recall what happened on, I believe it was
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  Thursday, right around the time of my show
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  is when I first found out about it
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  or a little earlier in the day.
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  And I talked about it and, you know,
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  because I was surprised and Russia didn't deny,
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  but they didn't come out and say that
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  was ours.
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  There were some comments is like, wait a
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  minute.
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  You can't say you can't say we're bombing
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  Poland.
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  There was some of that, you know, and
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  some mixed reactions between people, but not a
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  flat out denial.
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  And there wasn't a flat out accusation, but
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  except by, of course, the geniuses of the
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  EU like Kaja Kalas is one of them.
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  And then the president of Poland jumped in
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  a little bit later.
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  And now they're trying to they've already invoked
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  Article 4.
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  And then over the weekend, there was an
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  alleged bombing in Romania that Russia allegedly shooting
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  into Romania now, you know, they're headed west.
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  And so we're going to discuss that a
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  little bit, but not too far, because the
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  vast majority of the show is going to
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  be talking about the king that's been appointed
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  in Bosnia.
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  But what I thought I would do would
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  be to tell you about one of one
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  of the guys.
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  He's funny.
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  Well, he's not funny, but when he's he's
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  extremely blunt and direct.
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  And I think he's a professional.
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  He's definitely a professional diplomat.
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  His name is Vassily Akseyevich Nibinzyan.
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  And Vassily Akseyevich has been he was he's
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  the current Russian ambassador to the UN.
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  He has been serving as a permanent representative
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  of Russia since July of 2017.
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  And diplomatically, he's an ambassador, extraordinary and plenipotentiary,
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  which I have no idea what that means,
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  but that is his title.
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  And he's received awards in court, including the
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  Medal for the Order of Merit to the
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  Fatherland.
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  So he's a he's a decorated person.
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  And, you know, he's representative at the United
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  Nations Security Council, which is going to be
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  discussed tonight in a little bit of detail
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  on part number two.
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  But not with Nibinzyan, the thing we're all
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  we're going to do is read his statement.
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  And what I or part of his statement
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  or what he was saying in front of
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  the the UN over the weekend.
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  And it gives you a little more information
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  that we don't hear any of over here.
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  And so sometimes you just got to listen
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  to the to the horse's mouth.
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  And here's the horse.
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  He says his response to the UN when
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  he was, you know, accused of, you know,
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  a drone attack on Poland, he says, once
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  again, we are dragged into discussing a so
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  -called Russian drone attack on Poland.
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  Let me state clearly, Polish authorities rushed to
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  blame Russia without presenting a shred of evidence,
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  even while they themselves admit that some drones
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  may have come from Ukrainian territory.
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  What actually happened, according to Warsaw's own operations
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  command, debris fell in the Lublin region.
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  A roof was damaged.
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  No one was killed.
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  No warheads were found.
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  Now.
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  So if you're bombing without warheads, that's a
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  problem.
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  And that's true, too, because I went and
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  I checked it out.
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  There's no evidence of anything like that.
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  Any military expert will tell you if a
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  warhead weighing tens of kilograms had exploded, the
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  devastation would have been massive.
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  What we saw instead was localized wreckage consistent
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  with a drone falling from the sky, not
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  an intentional strike.
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  Now, I saw a couple of videos on
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  this and there's a bunch of Ukrainian arguments
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  with people in Belarus and stuff like that
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  that are saying that the same photos that
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  they're showing of this little house where the
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  drone had landed basically on top of it
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  has duct tape on the drone like it
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  was taped together.
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  It was sent over with no warheads.
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  And it was on a home that had
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  allegedly been damaged in a severe windstorm several
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  months ago.
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  And the same photos were used then.
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  And so I don't know the you know,
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  there's all kinds of crap on the Internet.
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  And who knows?
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  But but I did.
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  You know, stories are coming from different places.
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  And the same thing is going on with
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  Romania right now.
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  The fact is, just don't believe you better
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  watch what you believe, you know, is all
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  I'm saying.
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  But here's the words from Russia that are
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  never reported over here.
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  And I'm not saying I'm the only one,
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  but I think I'm the only one that's
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  going to give you the whole statement.
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  He proceeds to Russian armed forces that night
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  carried out precision strikes on military industrial sites
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  inside Ukraine, factories for armored vehicles, aviation engines
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  and electronics.
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  None of these targets were on Polish soil.
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  And the drones we use had a maximum
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  range of 700 kilometers.
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  It is physically impossible for them to reach
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  Polish airspace.
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  Despite this, our Ministry of Defense offered to
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  share information directly with Poland.
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  We remain ready for professional dialogue, not megaphone
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  diplomacy.
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  Belarus, I remind you, acted responsibly, warned Poland
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  of risks, cooperating transparently.
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  This is how serious states behave.
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  You know, many times I hear this instead
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  of this from Russia that they talk about,
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  you know, you guys are never serious.
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  You never approach us through formal channels.
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  You instantly start just slinging mud on social
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  media and stuff.
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  And they say that all the time.
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  And I sort of agree with them because
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  it's true.
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  You know, what about what about diplomatic channels?
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  Do they even exist?
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  He continues.
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  What did we see instead?
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  Hysterical outbursts from Brussels and European capitals.
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  This is where he talks about Kaja Kallis.
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  EU diplomat Kallis raced to accuse us, calling
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  for more EU militarization.
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  It all looks exactly like 2022 Przewod, when
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  a Ukrainian missile killed two Polish citizens at
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  that time.
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  And this happened, too, by the way, just
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  so you know, I went back, you know,
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  I remember it.
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  And then I went back and looked at
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  it, too.
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  At that time, Kiev tried to pressure Warsaw
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  to blame Russia.
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  A year later, even President Duda admitted this
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  openly.
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  Kiev deliberately sought to drag Poland and by
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  extension NATO into the war.
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  Who benefits from this theater?
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  Not Poland, not Europe.
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  Only the Kiev regime, desperate to expand the
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  conflict.
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  I definitely agree.
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  And the so-called European Party of War,
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  eager for new arms contracts and larger budgets.
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  Colleagues, look at the reality.
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  Ukraine is collapsing.
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  True.
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  Official data shows more than one hundred and
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  forty thousand military desertion cases in this year
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  alone.
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  And that's reported by the Verkhovna Rada in
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  Ukraine.
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  Since 2022, two hundred and sixty six thousand
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  men have deserted the army of Ukraine.
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  Entire units are at half strength and called
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  successful.
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  Losses of fifteen to twenty thousand men per
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  month outstrip any mobilization.
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  Even Commander Searsky, the general controlling Ukraine's army
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  or military, admits Russia holds a three to
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  one advantage and even greater in key areas.
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  In key areas, they're saying it is six
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  to one.
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  He didn't say that.
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  I say that.
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  Faced with this, Zelensky invents provocation.
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  He rejects direct talks proposed by President Putin,
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  claiming he cannot travel.
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  So Putin says, if you want to come
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  to Moscow, come on.
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  And then he said two things.
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  First, I can't travel.
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  You know, I can't get there.
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  But he still has plenty of time to
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  go places looking for more money and more
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  weapons.
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  And his the guy I recorded another guy
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  listened to another audio of Arestovich Alexei Arestovich,
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  one of his former partners.
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  And he said, oh, he won't go there.
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  He's telling everybody he would likely get arrested.
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  And even Arestovich said that is nonsense.
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  What is Putin going to?
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  Putin would never do that.
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  And he what's he going to do, invite
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  him and arrest him?
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  He's saying openly and nobody inside of Russia
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  or outside would trust anything he said ever
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  again.
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  So even his own people or his own
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  sort of allies are saying he's full of
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  crap.
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  That's not what Nobenzia said, though.
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  But he continues claiming he could not travel.
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  Yet Zelensky crisscrosses Western capitals begging for weapons.
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  His aim is not peace, but personal survival
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  in office.
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  And he finishes.
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  So let us be clear.
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  What Poland and the EU call Russian aggression
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  is nothing but lies and hysteria recycled to
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  cover Kiev's failures.
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  The real danger to peace is Kiev's manipulation
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  and the West's indulgence of it.
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  Russia does not seek escalation.
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  We are ready for dialogue with anyone genuinely
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  interested in peace, but we will not accept
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  fabricated accusations designed to prolong this tragic conflict.
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  Thank you, Mr. President.
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  And that was Vasily Nobenzia.
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  And he's the permanent ambassador for Russia to
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  the UN.
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  And, you know, he's well spoken.
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  I like listen to him.
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  He always sounds like he's and I would,
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  too.
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  I mean, he's always getting beat up in
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  that room and he's always sound like he's
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  pissed off.
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  And he and he's but he's he's very
• 18:03
  well spoken.
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  And I like listening to him as well.
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  He puts his his thoughts cross.
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  Well, and I thought I would share them
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  because nobody ever does in America.
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  So then that's all I wanted to say
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  about the drones.
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  And I was going to hold that for
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  another night, but I thought it was important
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  to put in.
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  And I've got a little bit kind of
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  rushed to get through my thought process tonight.
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  So what happened on late last night, I
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  was just, you know, reading some Russian news,
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  watching a few Russian videos on YouTube, and
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  the Ministry of Defense one popped up in
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  my feed.
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  And this was a an event.
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  Where is it?
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  This was a joint press conference between Russian
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  Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Sergei Viktorovich, and Republika
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  Srpska President Milorad Dodik, which was held in
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  Moscow also on September 9.
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  So the same day as these, as these,
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  what do you call it drones allegedly hit
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  hit Poland.
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  And basically, it was almost it was a
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  long press conference.
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  It was a good long press conference, like
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  an hour and a half or something.
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  And it went on for a while.
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  And they talked for a bit, but it
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  turned out to be a really big deal.
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  And I'm glad that I watched it.
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  And the basically, they started out with things
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  like they were talking about their bilateral relations.
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  And you know, this pisses off the West
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  to no end, that this Bosnian, or well,
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  Republic.
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  I'll explain how how Republic Srpska fits into
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  Bosnia.
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  You know, it's, it's difficult to follow the
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  playing card.
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  Okay, so if you want to understand, but
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  they talked about their relationship, they have cooperation
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  in energy, culture, education, blah, blah, blah, 12
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  ,000 students from Republic Srpska study in Russia.
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  They have major cultural projects, including the Russian
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  Serbian Church and Spiritual Center, stuff like that.
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  And so then he got to talking about
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  something called the Dayton Agreement.
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  Remember that name, we'll get back to it
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  in part, but it's the 30th anniversary of
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  NATO's deliberate force bombing in 1995.
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  And the Dayton Agreement, where NATO just unilaterally,
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  unilaterally bombed, bombed Bosnia.
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  Right.
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  And we were helping, right, of course, we're
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  helping, but we bombed the crap out of
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  them.
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  And Russia, and you know, got this settlement
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  is one of the guarantors, this sent this
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  settlement, which was signed in Dayton, Ohio.
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  And it's a guarantor of the Dayton Agreements.
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  And Russia has reaffirmed its stance.
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  Basically, what it did was take Bosnia Herzegovina
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  and divide it into three equal peoples, they're
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  supposed to be three equal constituent.
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  What do you call it?
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  Not populations, but ethnicities, really, Serbs, Croats and
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  Bosniaks.
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  And two equal entities, right?
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  So there are the peoples and then the
• 21:45
  entities, there are two republics inside of, inside
• 21:51
  of Bosnia.
• 21:52
  There's the Republika Srpska, which the guy Dodik
• 21:58
  was there speaking to him.
• 22:01
  And the other one is the other half
• 22:03
  of the country's called the Federation of Bosnia
• 22:05
  Herzegovina.
• 22:07
  And there's broad constitutional autonomy for each of
• 22:10
  these entities, but they're one country.
• 22:14
  And Lavrov and Dodik accused the West of
• 22:18
  undermining the Dayton Accords by pushing Bosnia toward
• 22:22
  a unitary, centralized state.
• 22:26
  And it's been going on now for 30
• 22:28
  years.
• 22:29
  And it's caused the worst political crisis in
• 22:32
  30 years.
• 22:32
  Now pay attention, because in all truth, this
• 22:35
  really could be bigger than Ukraine, less people,
• 22:40
  well, less people, people probably, but this is
• 22:44
  a big deal.
• 22:46
  So the criticism of the high representative, so
• 22:49
  get this, you ever watch Game of Thrones,
• 22:52
  and they have the high sparrow, and they
• 22:55
  have all these fake things that you get
• 22:58
  when you, when you get to watch TV,
• 23:01
  but I can't find my glasses, because I
• 23:03
  wrote a few of them down, because I
• 23:05
  remember, I was like, Jesus, sounds like we're
• 23:07
  playing Game of Thrones here.
• 23:09
  And so this guy is called, this is
• 23:13
  a real title.
• 23:14
  This guy is called the high representative, and
• 23:20
  he's Bosnia's current king, basically.
• 23:23
  And he's a king in all but name.
• 23:25
  Wait till I tell you what his power
• 23:27
  is.
• 23:28
  There's the UN, always appoints people as things
• 23:31
  called the high commissioner, the, you know, like
• 23:35
  of refugees, of human rights, all these lofty
• 23:38
  bureaucratic stuff.
• 23:39
  The high commissioner for Palestine in the 20s
• 23:43
  and 40s, it was British mandate, you know,
• 23:45
  he was a colonial governor, basically appointed to
• 23:49
  trample all over the Indians.
• 23:52
  And I'm sorry, that one was Palestine, but
• 23:58
  they did the same thing in India.
• 23:59
  And he's called the high commissioner of India.
• 24:02
  High sheriff, an English ceremonial title.
• 24:05
  Lord High Admiral, British Navy.
• 24:07
  Lord High Chancellor, Senior Legal Officer of England,
• 24:11
  a very pompous title, you know, it almost
• 24:15
  sounds satirically.
• 24:17
  But look at all these, this is what
• 24:19
  I got to think of, as soon as
• 24:20
  I heard the word high representative, I thought
• 24:23
  of Harry Potter.
• 24:24
  And if you pay attention to it, there's
• 24:25
  a lady, you know, she's appointed as the
• 24:28
  high inquisitor.
• 24:30
  She's appointed to bring order to the Hogwarts
• 24:33
  School in Harry Potter.
• 24:37
  And she's really just an unelected tyrant, right?
• 24:41
  And there's in Game of Thrones, this guy
• 24:43
  named the High Sparrow.
• 24:45
  Also Game of Thrones, the High Septon.
• 24:48
  Star Wars, we have the High Council, you
• 24:50
  know, the Jedi Council, all these figures, they
• 24:53
  get a handout, decrees, nobody gets to challenge.
• 24:56
  You know, there's a video game, Dishonored, you
• 24:58
  know, got other people.
• 24:59
  High Priest, Supreme Leader from Star Wars.
• 25:04
  You know, this title just sounds so crap.
• 25:10
  So maybe we could call Schmidt, this guy
• 25:14
  Schmidt, Christian Schmidt, could be the High Inquisitor
• 25:18
  of Sarajevo.
• 25:19
  And he can punish anyone who questions him.
• 25:22
  Or maybe we'll call him the High Sparrow
• 25:24
  of the Balkans.
• 25:25
  He's unelected, definitely.
• 25:29
  Uneconomic and unelected again.
• 25:33
  This is unbelievable what they're doing.
• 25:35
  And so, I don't know.
• 25:38
  He isn't really a high representative, but he's
• 25:40
  high commissioner-like, like the Brits had in
• 25:43
  Palestine, like they had in India.
• 25:45
  They can do whatever they want.
• 25:46
  The only difference is the outfit.
• 25:48
  And he's, this guy's, this guy is a
• 25:51
  king.
• 25:52
  I mean, no doubt.
• 25:54
  And he has the power of a king.
• 25:56
  He can do whatever he wants.
• 25:58
  He can remove Dodik.
• 25:59
  He's already tried to.
• 26:01
  And we'll get into that.
• 26:03
  Both speakers can, you know, both Lavrov and
• 26:06
  Dodik say that Schmidt is an illegitimate appointee
• 26:10
  because he wasn't approved by the UN Security
• 26:14
  Council.
• 26:15
  So, this Dayton Agreement gets enacted in 1995.
• 26:20
  And, well, we'll get to the history in
• 26:21
  just a second.
• 26:23
  So, basically, he's accused of usurping authority and
• 26:28
  destabilizing Bosnia.
• 26:30
  He's a German proxy, and he was just
• 26:32
  appointed by people from Germany.
• 26:35
  They liken him to, the word, I had
• 26:39
  to look it up, because they said he
• 26:43
  was a goleiter, a goleiter, which is a
• 26:47
  German term from Nazi times.
• 26:50
  And he was like, the goleiters were third
• 26:54
  in line to the Reichsleiter, where Reichs was
• 26:57
  the whole, was regional.
• 26:59
  And the, then there's the Fuhrer, which was
• 27:02
  Hitler himself.
• 27:03
  So, Hitler, these Reichsleiters, and then these goleiters,
• 27:07
  which are basically regional governors.
• 27:09
  Absolute power to do whatever they wanted.
• 27:12
  And so, they liken him to that.
• 27:14
  The guy earns, Dodik says in his speech,
• 27:19
  that this guy earns 41,000 euro per
• 27:24
  month, tax-free, tax-free.
• 27:29
  And he has imposed over 280 foreign-driven
• 27:34
  decisions, which is crazy.
• 27:38
  And they don't get it.
• 27:39
  They have zero self-determination.
• 27:41
  This is a bad story for the West.
• 27:43
  That's why we don't hear about what's really
• 27:46
  going on in there.
• 27:48
  And I think it's worthy of paying attention.
• 27:53
  Which is why, when I listened, and I
• 27:57
  was a little bit, not shocked, but when
• 28:01
  I listened to the discussion between Lavrov and
• 28:04
  Dodik, I'm like, what are they talking about?
• 28:07
  Dodik's been around for a while.
• 28:08
  He's legitimate.
• 28:09
  What are they trying to say here?
• 28:11
  What is happening that I don't know the
• 28:15
  answer to?
• 28:16
  How can this be?
• 28:18
  And that I don't know anything about this.
• 28:19
  So, I spent several hours digging into this
• 28:23
  and making sure that I understood it.
• 28:27
  And I'm still no expert on it.
• 28:29
  And somebody might call me on a small
• 28:31
  mistake or two, but nothing dramatic, because I
• 28:35
  went pretty far into it to make sure
• 28:39
  that I understood it.
• 28:40
  I'm having some technical ear difficulties.
• 28:45
  But everything is just great.
• 28:46
  Okay.
• 28:46
  So, let's talk about the Western role in
• 28:48
  these historic grievances.
• 28:51
  Because this person is supposed to be appointed
• 28:56
  and agreed upon by the UN Security Council.
• 29:02
  Well, the UN Security Council has a couple
• 29:06
  of important things.
• 29:08
  Very important.
• 29:10
  They're called Russia and China.
• 29:13
  And guess what they have?
• 29:16
  Veto power.
• 29:18
  And you won't believe how we got around
• 29:22
  that.
• 29:23
  We just get around and appoint whoever we
• 29:26
  want.
• 29:27
  And do whatever we want.
• 29:29
  And then...
• 29:31
  I need to stay in order so that
• 29:34
  people understand this.
• 29:36
  And I hate to get ahead of myself.
• 29:38
  So, let's see.
• 29:40
  Germany is accused of Yugoslavia's breakup in the
• 29:44
  90s.
• 29:45
  NATO bombings are blamed for long-term health
• 29:48
  crises in that area.
• 29:49
  5,000 children with cancer.
• 29:51
  Lavrov linked Bosnia's crisis to a broader pattern
• 29:55
  of Western-backed coups.
• 29:57
  Kosovo in 2008.
• 30:00
  Ukraine in 2014.
• 30:03
  And now, Bosnia.
• 30:05
  The Russian position, Lavrov said, they take...
• 30:09
  They are the presidency of the UN Security
• 30:12
  Council in October when it comes up.
• 30:16
  And what he said was that they are
• 30:19
  going to use the presidency of the UN
• 30:21
  Security Council.
• 30:22
  And I'll bet you anything Lavrov will be
• 30:25
  the president of the UN Security Council.
• 30:27
  It'll be him and Nabinzi will be sitting
• 30:29
  in the back seat.
• 30:30
  That'd be my bet.
• 30:31
  Because this is a big deal.
• 30:34
  And he wants to press for the principles
• 30:38
  of this Dayton Agreement to be upheld.
• 30:41
  And remember, the Dayton Principles, in order to
• 30:44
  be upheld, required that anybody appointed to this
• 30:48
  position, which has been expanded dramatically, again, only
• 30:52
  by the West, that the person appointed had
• 30:56
  to be agreed upon by the Security Council.
• 30:59
  And they weren't.
• 31:00
  They have not been.
• 31:02
  Russia rejects accusations of their own bad influence
• 31:07
  in the Balkans.
• 31:08
  And they point to Western manipulations.
• 31:11
  Lavrov emphasized...
• 31:12
  Well, we know they've manipulated Ukraine.
• 31:14
  That's no secret anymore.
• 31:16
  We know they cocked up Kosovo back in
• 31:19
  2008.
• 31:20
  And that was a scam.
• 31:21
  And wait till I tell you...
• 31:22
  I mean, you'd already know this, but remind
• 31:24
  you of these things, what we did there.
• 31:28
  But guess what he did?
• 31:30
  Lavrov emphasized Russia's vision of what?
• 31:36
  A multipolar world.
• 31:38
  And he contrasts Western failed dictatorial leadership with
• 31:45
  the rise of BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation
• 31:49
  Organization, both of which I have talked about.
• 31:52
  And it's a recurring theme.
• 31:55
  We dictate.
• 31:58
  And the rest of the world doesn't like
• 32:00
  it.
• 32:00
  And it's not just Russia and Dodik.
• 32:02
  It's China.
• 32:03
  It's India.
• 32:04
  There are stories on that, too.
• 32:06
  I probably won't get to them today, because
• 32:08
  this is a pretty long topic.
• 32:10
  So the stance of Republic Serbska.
• 32:14
  Dodik stressed his own loyalty to Dayton, to
• 32:18
  the agreement.
• 32:19
  Opposition to territorial concessions, because guess what happened?
• 32:24
  They took their territory, which is the same
• 32:27
  thing they're saying Russia can't do in the
• 32:29
  Donbass region.
• 32:31
  And, oh, no, you can't take Crimea like
• 32:33
  that.
• 32:33
  But only the West can do that.
• 32:35
  Again, rules for thee, but not for me.
• 32:39
  It seems to be a common theme.
• 32:42
  He announced...
• 32:44
  Oh, I'm sorry.
• 32:45
  He warned Bosnia is under occupation by foreign
• 32:50
  judges and Schmitt's office, this high inquisitor type.
• 32:56
  And they dictate what's going to happen.
• 32:59
  They counterman laws.
• 33:01
  Dodik announced his own referendum in Republic Serbska,
• 33:06
  which is set for October 25, 2025.
• 33:10
  And they want to assert their self-determination.
• 33:14
  Now, how do you like that?
• 33:15
  They want to have a representation, because remember,
• 33:18
  this Bosnia has two legs to it.
• 33:21
  They have the Republic Serbska, and then they
• 33:24
  have Bosnia-Herzegovina.
• 33:25
  And he's going, we don't want to be
• 33:27
  part of this.
• 33:27
  We want to be a Republic Serbska, period.
• 33:31
  And we shouldn't be part of this thing
• 33:33
  that the West forced upon us and installed
• 33:35
  their own king, just like they did in
• 33:37
  Kosovo, just like they did in Ukraine.
• 33:40
  So they're talking about it again.
• 33:42
  He underlined Republic Serbska, refusal to impose their
• 33:47
  own sanctions on Russia, despite the other side,
• 33:51
  this Bosniak Muslim pressure, which comes from Bosnia
• 33:55
  -Herzegovina, the other side.
• 34:00
  So US politics and the expectations.
• 34:03
  Dodik contrasted Biden's hostile policies of sanctions and
• 34:08
  financial threats with Trump's non-interventionist statements.
• 34:13
  Trump's, he's saying he's, you know, that Trump's
• 34:15
  pretty much stayed out of it so far.
• 34:18
  And he expressed hope that Trump's return would
• 34:20
  end Washington's failed state building in Bosnia.
• 34:25
  Lavrov and Dodik both accused Biden era officials
• 34:29
  of weaponizing sanctions to cripple the Republic Serbska
• 34:33
  financially.
• 34:35
  Both criticized the EU, lack of leadership, migrant
• 34:41
  crisis everywhere, energy dependence on the US and
• 34:45
  their own internal stability.
• 34:49
  Dodik positions Russia as a resurgent great power.
• 34:54
  He endorsed Russia's special military operation in Ukraine.
• 34:59
  That's going to piss off some people in
• 35:00
  NATO and the EU.
• 35:02
  He called it a legitimate self-defense and
• 35:05
  directly linked it to earlier Western policies like
• 35:09
  those against his own country in the Balkans.
• 35:14
  And when they closed, and this was a
• 35:15
  long thing, I was pretty glued to this,
• 35:18
  Lavrov's message, all actors in Bosnia have to
• 35:23
  honor security council obligations.
• 35:26
  The UN Security Council, they're trying to make
• 35:29
  the UN enforced, but who ignores the UN?
• 35:33
  We do.
• 35:34
  We twist it and we create rules for
• 35:37
  others, but we never follow them ourselves.
• 35:39
  And we undermine ourselves.
• 35:42
  The Dayton risks, and that could be a
• 35:45
  renewed war in the Balkans.
• 35:47
  We could be going at this all over
• 35:49
  again, more pressure toward World War III.
• 35:52
  Dodik's message in the final, he said, Republic
• 35:56
  Srpska will resist Western occupation, and they're already
• 36:00
  occupied, through political struggle and his own referendum.
• 36:04
  And they are relying on Russia's backing.
• 36:07
  And they had, both of them share a
• 36:10
  vision of a multipolar order where Western dominance
• 36:14
  is replaced by balance cooperation.
• 36:18
  In short, what this press conference was, was
• 36:23
  a coordinated attack on Western involvement in Bosnia.
• 36:28
  They want to enforce the original agreement, this
• 36:32
  thing called the Dayton Agreement, and they want
• 36:35
  to signal deepening Moscow-Banjaluka alignment.
• 36:43
  It also tied Bosnia's internal crisis into these
• 36:49
  other broader struggles, because that's where they belong.
• 36:53
  We're doing the exact same thing.
• 36:55
  It's the exact same playbook.
• 36:59
  And it really is irritating to me.
• 37:04
  I don't like it.
• 37:06
  And so what we're going to do is
• 37:09
  we're going to go further into this, because
• 37:12
  I wonder why none of this, I went
• 37:18
  and looked hard to find people talking about
• 37:22
  this on the West.
• 37:24
  I wanted to find out if Rubio was
• 37:26
  saying things about it, nothing serious or recent.
• 37:30
  But they are being discussed in diplomatic and
• 37:34
  policy circles, but not very urgently.
• 37:38
  They're talking about the U.S. Embassy is
• 37:42
  in Brazil.
• 37:44
  Marco Rubio said something.
• 37:47
  The threats to Bosnia's territorial integrity, Marco Rubio
• 37:53
  is worried about, which means ceding from the
• 37:58
  country.
• 37:59
  Western governments and institutions warn that actions by
• 38:03
  Milorad Dodic undermine Bosnia-Herzegovina's central authority, the
• 38:10
  constitutional court, and the high representative.
• 38:14
  And Marco Rubio is concerned over separatist law
• 38:19
  that is adopted by Republika Srpska, which went
• 38:22
  to block or expel Bosnian state judicial authority
• 38:26
  from Republika Srpska.
• 38:29
  Those laws are being challenged in the court,
• 38:33
  which the constitutional court suspends him, as does
• 38:37
  this high sparrow dude.
• 38:40
  He goes, he can't do it.
• 38:41
  This is, it gets worse.
• 38:45
  The West holds that decisions of Bosnia's court,
• 38:49
  the Central Election Commission, and rulings by the
• 38:52
  high representative, rulings, this guy's making rulings of
• 38:57
  his own, with his own input, are valid
• 39:00
  under the Dayton framework.
• 39:02
  Now, that's not what Russia and China say,
• 39:04
  because they didn't, they had not approved it.
• 39:08
  And I'll show you how they did that
• 39:10
  here in a bit.
• 39:13
  Rubio, he's been fairly consistent, though.
• 39:16
  He wants to, they're considering various options in
• 39:20
  response to the crisis.
• 39:22
  What are we going to do?
• 39:24
  He's condemning Dodic, of course, as trying to
• 39:27
  undermine the appointed people.
• 39:32
  Now, Trump, on the other hand, has been
• 39:34
  pretty quiet.
• 39:35
  He hasn't said much.
• 39:38
  And so people think that he probably has
• 39:42
  a little bit different approach.
• 39:43
  I hope he does.
• 39:45
  And so Lavrov and Dodic both said, you
• 39:47
  know, Trump's more of a hands-off guy.
• 39:49
  Bottom line is Trump's official stance isn't well
• 39:53
  defined.
• 39:54
  But they expect he'll be pretty wary about
• 39:57
  being drawn in too deeply unless he's pushed
• 40:01
  or dragged by these neocon types, right?
• 40:06
  That's what I'm afraid of.
• 40:08
  So what is the Dayton agreement?
• 40:11
  Okay, here's the core elements of it.
• 40:14
  It ended the Bosnian war, which took place
• 40:18
  between 1992 and 1995, with a peace treaty
• 40:23
  negotiated in Dayton, Ohio.
• 40:25
  The formal document was signed in Paris in
• 40:29
  December of 95.
• 40:31
  There was a complex constitutional order created to
• 40:36
  preserve peace among the three main ethnic groups,
• 40:40
  which I told you before, Bosniaks, Serbs, Croats.
• 40:43
  The features include the country has two separate
• 40:48
  entities, two separate republics, autonomous, right?
• 40:52
  And there's Republic of Srpska, which are Serbians,
• 40:58
  basically, and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
• 41:02
  which they have Bosnian and Croat areas, you
• 41:06
  know.
• 41:07
  It has a weak central government, joint institutions,
• 41:11
  but many powers go to the entities themselves.
• 41:14
  So they already act on their own behalf
• 41:16
  in a light or in a lot of
• 41:19
  respects.
• 41:21
  The office of this office of the high
• 41:24
  representative and the Peace Implementation Council were international
• 41:30
  oversight bodies with powers to oversee civilian implementation
• 41:35
  of the agreement signed, called the Dayton agreement.
• 41:41
  The high representative, listen to these powers he
• 41:44
  has.
• 41:45
  He has the authority to, by himself, annul
• 41:50
  laws, dismiss officials, etc.
• 41:55
  And he was granted extra ones with zero,
• 41:57
  they in bond, they met separately in bond,
• 42:00
  several Western things, added a separate addendum to
• 42:03
  him, gave him all kinds of extra powers,
• 42:05
  didn't consult China, didn't consult Russia.
• 42:08
  And so this constitutional court of Bosnia-Herzegovina,
• 42:12
  the Central Election Commission, and other state-level
• 42:15
  judiciary institutions are part of the framework, and
• 42:18
  they're supposed to respect the rulings of these
• 42:21
  bodies.
• 42:22
  And there were supposed to be mechanisms of
• 42:24
  protecting ethnic groups.
• 42:26
  Over time, the Dayton architecture has crumbled, and
• 42:30
  it's criticized both inside and outside of Bosnia
• 42:32
  for being inefficient, enabling corruption, it has nationalistic
• 42:38
  obstruction, and fails many of the goals it
• 42:41
  set.
• 42:42
  But many see it as the only formal
• 42:44
  framework that holds Bosnia together.
• 42:46
  Many in the West say that.
• 42:50
  So what about this referendum coming up October
• 42:54
  the 25th that Dodik says he's going to
• 42:56
  do?
• 42:57
  What is it about?
• 42:58
  It's proposed by the Serbska National Assembly, and
• 43:04
  they want to ask whether their citizens want,
• 43:08
  one, the decisions of this high representative, you
• 43:14
  know, do they accept them or not?
• 43:18
  And everybody knows that they don't, you know,
• 43:20
  he's no part of it, he's an outside
• 43:22
  unelected foreigner.
• 43:24
  B, do they accept rulings of the court
• 43:28
  of Bosnia-Herzegovina against Milorad Dodik?
• 43:32
  They've said throw him out, he's got to
• 43:34
  go, because they don't like him and these
• 43:36
  nationalist tendencies.
• 43:37
  U.S. wants him gone, or the U
• 43:40
  .N., not U.N., E.C. wants him
• 43:42
  gone.
• 43:43
  And whether they accept the decision of the
• 43:46
  Central Election Commission to strip Dodik of his
• 43:50
  presidential mandate.
• 43:52
  Essentially a popular no vote on these rulings
• 43:56
  and the removal of Dodik.
• 43:58
  That's what they're asked for.
• 43:59
  The date is October 25, 2025, and the
• 44:03
  R.S. Parliament already said it.
• 44:07
  The build-up to this, as in February
• 44:10
  2025, Bosnia-Herzegovina sentenced Dodik to one year
• 44:15
  in prison, banned him from politics for six
• 44:18
  years because he ignored the authority of the
• 44:22
  high Sparrow.
• 44:24
  He ignored the authority of the high, he
• 44:26
  goes, you don't have this authority, you can't
• 44:30
  do it because you weren't properly appointed.
• 44:33
  In early August, an appeals court upheld that
• 44:37
  verdict, an appeals court on the other side
• 44:39
  in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
• 44:42
  And on April, I'm sorry, August 6, 2025,
• 44:47
  the Central Election Commission revoked Dodik's mandate.
• 44:51
  But Dodik and the Republic Srpska Assembly reject
• 44:54
  those decisions as unconstitutional and passed their own
• 44:58
  resolution rejecting the court's verdict and the CEC
• 45:02
  decision, and forbade early presidential elections and scheduled
• 45:07
  the referendum.
• 45:09
  So this is a serious fight.
• 45:11
  And the legal and institutional obstacles, many domestic
• 45:15
  and international actors consider this illegal.
• 45:19
  The Bosniak caucus is using a vital national
• 45:23
  interest procedure to try to block it.
• 45:26
  The Bosnian state central government in the other
• 45:29
  republic, and the high representative, and many in
• 45:33
  the EU and UK have condemned the referendum.
• 45:36
  They've already decided, no referendum, you can't, you
• 45:39
  can't, you can't do it.
• 45:42
  You're not allowed to self-determine, right?
• 45:44
  Certainly because they already know the outcome is
• 45:47
  going to be against them.
• 45:48
  They argue that judicial electoral decisions cannot be
• 45:51
  subject to popular vote as it undermines the
• 45:55
  rule of law and the high sparrow, right?
• 46:01
  So this is nuts.
• 46:03
  The consequences, what is really at stake?
• 46:05
  If this referendum passes, which it will, Republic
• 46:09
  Serbska leadership will claim a popular mandate to
• 46:12
  reject the high representative, ignore central judicial ruins,
• 46:18
  rulings I mean, and refuse to recognize Dodik's
• 46:22
  own removal.
• 46:23
  This could escalate another constitutional crisis, but whether
• 46:27
  such an outcome legally forces change could be
• 46:33
  problematic and likely that increases tension too, because
• 46:36
  well, of course, you know, you could have,
• 46:38
  you could go right back into war.
• 46:40
  You could be just like, which is why
• 46:42
  I was interested in finding out more about
• 46:44
  this anyway, because we aren't hearing anything about
• 46:46
  this.
• 46:47
  We're going to be involved in another one.
• 46:50
  You know, I think when I was listening
• 46:51
  to Matt show earlier, I think he said
• 46:53
  something about this as well, or maybe the
• 46:55
  Kosovo that he was talking about.
• 46:59
  Let's see here.
• 47:01
  So I wanted to give you a little
• 47:03
  bit more about this high sparrow dude, the
• 47:06
  high representative role in Bosnia is the strongest
• 47:10
  hybrid of international law and outright political intervention,
• 47:15
  theft of a country, basically that's left over
• 47:19
  from the nineties.
• 47:20
  Here's how it works.
• 47:22
  The office was created by annex 10 of
• 47:25
  the Dayton peace agreement in 1995.
• 47:29
  The purpose of this high representative was to
• 47:32
  oversee implementation of Dayton while NATO forces oversaw
• 47:37
  the military side.
• 47:39
  He's supposed to act as a kind of
• 47:41
  final authority for interpreting civilian parts of Dayton,
• 47:46
  the appointment process.
• 47:48
  Here's how it goes.
• 47:49
  There's something called the peace implementation council.
• 47:52
  It's a group of 55 countries plus international
• 47:56
  organizations that back Dayton.
• 47:58
  They nominate the high representative, the UN security
• 48:04
  council has to endorse this nomination formally, but
• 48:11
  in practice it's proposed by EU countries, the
• 48:16
  so-called, you know, quint, which is us,
• 48:18
  UK, France, Germany, and Italy.
• 48:21
  And then this peace implementation steering board confirms.
• 48:28
  And finally the UN security council resolution is,
• 48:31
  you know, rubber stamps it, but here's the
• 48:34
  rub.
• 48:35
  Christian Smit from Germany, who's the current HR,
• 48:39
  was never endorsed by the security council.
• 48:43
  Russia and China objective.
• 48:45
  West objected.
• 48:46
  Western powers went ahead and appointed him anyway.
• 48:50
  That's why in Moscow and Banja Luka, they
• 48:55
  all, everybody calls him an imposter.
• 48:57
  He was, they didn't follow the rules and
• 49:00
  they appointed him anyway.
• 49:01
  And how much power does he really have?
• 49:04
  Originally, all he was supposed to do when
• 49:07
  1995 was to coordinate, monitor, and report what
• 49:13
  was going on.
• 49:14
  But in 1997, we screwed him again.
• 49:18
  At the conference in Bonn, Germany, the international
• 49:22
  powers gave the high representatives the so-called
• 49:26
  Bonn powers.
• 49:28
  Guess what he gets?
• 49:30
  The authority to impose law and constitutional amendments.
• 49:34
  Not propose, impose.
• 49:36
  He can write his own laws and constitutional
• 49:39
  amendments.
• 49:40
  He also got the power, outside of the
• 49:43
  Dayton agreement, to dismiss elected officials, judges, and
• 49:47
  ministers, including this Dodik.
• 49:49
  And he got the ability to veto or
• 49:53
  annul decisions of local parliaments.
• 49:57
  So yes, the high representative or the high
• 50:00
  sparrow is an unafflicted foreign pro-consul with
• 50:04
  the power to override Bosnia's own sovereignty.
• 50:09
  In practice, he is just like the colonial
• 50:13
  governor that were appointed long, long ago.
• 50:17
  India, everywhere that, you know, the British ruled.
• 50:21
  And so there they go.
• 50:22
  The term and the length of appointment, there's
• 50:24
  none that lists everybody who has been.
• 50:26
  The average, they stay for three to five
• 50:29
  years.
• 50:30
  And this Christian Smith's been in place since
• 50:32
  2021.
• 50:33
  So why is this so controversial?
• 50:35
  And why did it get me all jazzed
• 50:37
  up, right?
• 50:39
  From Serb and Croats, the high representative is
• 50:44
  an outsider that imposes not their will, not
• 50:48
  the will of the country, but the West's
• 50:51
  will.
• 50:52
  He is not accountable to one Bosnian voter,
• 50:56
  not one.
• 50:58
  And his power directly contradicts any idea of
• 51:02
  sovereignty.
• 51:03
  You want to say that they are, what
• 51:07
  do you call it?
• 51:09
  Democratic?
• 51:10
  Is that what we're going to say?
• 51:11
  This is a democracy, a European democracy.
• 51:15
  Many Western legal experts admit that the bond
• 51:18
  powers have no basis in the Dayton agreement.
• 51:22
  They were an invention of the international community
• 51:27
  to attempt to enforce order.
• 51:30
  Russia, China, and many Balkan voices argue the
• 51:33
  role is colonial and outdated.
• 51:36
  And after 30 years, it's time to abolish
• 51:39
  it.
• 51:39
  That's why Lavrov said he's going to talk
• 51:42
  about it when it comes up.
• 51:46
  So, I mean, geez, we know what Dayton
• 51:51
  says, we know what the bond powers added,
• 51:54
  and now basically it's a king, right?
• 51:58
  This is completely political, okay?
• 52:03
  So the bottom line is Dayton created a
• 52:06
  mediator.
• 52:08
  Dayton didn't create a ruler, a king, but
• 52:12
  bond gave him all these extra powers and
• 52:14
  turned him into a king.
• 52:16
  So today, the high representative really is like
• 52:21
  Game of Thrones.
• 52:23
  He's an unelected foreigner.
• 52:26
  He's not even from there.
• 52:28
  With powers no Bosnian citizen can check, and
• 52:31
  his legitimacy depends entirely upon Western political will.
• 52:37
  No law, nothing.
• 52:39
  He wasn't even appointed by law.
• 52:43
  So, I mean, why isn't the Western media
• 52:46
  discussing this?
• 52:47
  Well, I'll tell you.
• 52:48
  Sam, why aren't they talking about this?
• 52:51
  Well, here's your answer.
• 52:53
  Friends and neighbors, Western ownership of this institution,
• 52:57
  I mean, you'll never see this on CNN,
• 52:59
  BBC, any major European paper.
• 53:02
  Nobody will question this.
• 53:04
  Why?
• 53:04
  Because we own this.
• 53:07
  This is us.
• 53:08
  And it's so obvious too, the crap that
• 53:11
  we've done in there, nobody can deny it.
• 53:15
  This high representative is a creation of the
• 53:18
  West, and it is completely undemocratic, and it
• 53:22
  undermines the entire peace process that was established
• 53:27
  in Dayton.
• 53:29
  And it would look like their own confession,
• 53:33
  Marco Rubio can't confess that Bosnia is a
• 53:37
  protectorate and not a sovereign state.
• 53:39
  Maybe Donald Trump can, and I'm very curious
• 53:42
  to see if that's the case.
• 53:44
  The narrative control, how are you going to
• 53:47
  control the narrative if we say this?
• 53:49
  If the Western media frames Bosnia as at
• 53:53
  risk of Serbian separatism, you know, this is
• 53:58
  what we're saying right now.
• 53:59
  Serbia might want to get out.
• 54:01
  Yep, they really do.
• 54:02
  But the high representative is always, under this
• 54:06
  narrative, he's presented as a guardian of peace
• 54:10
  and order, making $48,000 a month, by
• 54:14
  the way.
• 54:15
  But he's never, ever, ever presented as an
• 54:19
  unelected foreign overlord, which is exactly what he
• 54:23
  is.
• 54:24
  And what do they paint Dodik as?
• 54:26
  A nationalist.
• 54:27
  What's wrong with being a nationalist?
• 54:30
  He's a nationalist strongman.
• 54:33
  So if they have a referendum, it'll be
• 54:35
  the exact same as they claim in Crimea,
• 54:40
  in any of the Donbass, in Zaporizhia, everywhere.
• 54:45
  The same old, this is the Western playbook.
• 54:49
  This is what we're watching, okay?
• 54:52
  So let's parallel this to Ukraine.
• 54:56
  If you admit, if the West admits that
• 55:00
  Bosnia is under external rule from somewhere else,
• 55:06
  it strengthens my argument and everybody else's who
• 55:11
  says this, that the West does the exact
• 55:14
  same thing everywhere else, in the Balkans, in
• 55:19
  Kosovo, which we'll get to in a minute.
• 55:22
  It interferes with their narrative and it overrides
• 55:27
  any sovereignty.
• 55:28
  The West, once again, is picking winners and
• 55:32
  nullifying elections or the voice of any people.
• 55:36
  This is not democracy.
• 55:39
  Western governments want to avoid Bosnia being discussed
• 55:43
  at all.
• 55:45
  And they sure as hell don't want it
• 55:47
  discussed in the same sentence or same Sam's
• 55:51
  show as Maidan in 2014 or Kosovo 2008,
• 55:56
  because it proves those two once again.
• 56:00
  And this one's happening right now.
• 56:03
  And there's also a fear of setting a
• 56:06
  precedent.
• 56:07
  If somehow people of right thinking mind delegitimize
• 56:13
  the high sparrow, the high representative, every other
• 56:18
  Western intervention model, let's talk about just a
• 56:24
  few of them.
• 56:25
  Kosovo's protectorate, which still exists, Iraq's CPA, Afghanistan's
• 56:31
  Board of Governors, even today's Ukraine oversight groups
• 56:35
  like that anti-corruption league start to look
• 56:40
  like colonialism, which is exactly what they are.
• 56:44
  So I said this could be bigger than
• 56:46
  Ukraine.
• 56:47
  Why did I say that?
• 56:49
  Well, in Ukraine, the West used NGOs, color
• 56:54
  revolution pressure, and international monetary fund loans.
• 56:58
  They kind of encourage people to go.
• 57:01
  But in Bosnia, they wrote the system.
• 57:05
  We're a foreign appointee.
• 57:07
  He ain't even elected by them.
• 57:11
  These are foreign appointee.
• 57:12
  And he gets to dictate law, fire elected
• 57:16
  leaders, and anything else he wants to.
• 57:19
  It is open colonialism dressed up like peacekeeping.
• 57:24
  You will do what we say, period.
• 57:28
  And the real kicker, Bosnia is an EU
• 57:31
  accession candidate.
• 57:33
  They want to get into the EU.
• 57:35
  But imagine being told, imagine a country being
• 57:45
  told that they have to join Europe while
• 57:49
  they're still under the thumb of a king
• 57:52
  who doesn't answer to its voters.
• 57:55
  So the king tells them they have to
• 57:57
  join Europe.
• 57:58
  They don't decide that themselves.
• 58:01
  Isn't that nuts?
• 58:03
  It's crazy.
• 58:04
  I mean, seriously, forget about Ukraine.
• 58:07
  In Bosnia, the West didn't just meddle.
• 58:09
  I mean, it rules.
• 58:11
  Christian Smith is the king.
• 58:13
  We need to put a crown on him.
• 58:15
  That's how it goes.
• 58:17
  So I thought it would be useful to
• 58:20
  go back into Kosovo, because Kosovo, this is
• 58:25
  still in place.
• 58:29
  This too is crap, right?
• 58:32
  And you want to know why Russians, Chinese,
• 58:36
  Indians, the rest of the world don't trust
• 58:39
  us?
• 58:40
  Listen up.
• 58:42
  Follow along here.
• 58:44
  And I admit this stuff is not easy.
• 58:48
  There's not going to be a test later
• 58:49
  or anything like that.
• 58:51
  But it's good to at least have an
• 58:56
  understanding of some of these things or a
• 59:01
  minimal, a basic understanding.
• 59:03
  And I mean, it took me four or
• 59:06
  five hours to get the understanding that I
• 59:09
  do have, and lots of cross-referencing and
• 59:13
  going back to find other stuff.
• 59:16
  So let's go back to Kosovo.
• 59:19
  We're going to look at the three.
• 59:21
  We already looked at the Bosnia deal that's
• 59:24
  coming up now, which I think we should
• 59:26
  pay attention to.
• 59:28
  We know quite a bit about Ukraine, because
• 59:31
  I talk about it all the time.
• 59:32
  But we'll go over Maidan in a little
• 59:34
  bit here as well.
• 59:36
  Nothing too detailed.
• 59:37
  But Kosovo, I want to tell you about.
• 59:42
  Here's how, and this is the prototype, the
• 59:45
  American prototype for a coup, for regime change.
• 59:50
  This is what we do.
• 59:52
  This is our international interference, which frankly, most
• 59:58
  of us, including me, by the way, and
• 1:00:01
  I like this stuff.
• 1:00:04
  And I still, who has time for it?
• 1:00:06
  Seriously.
• 1:00:07
  And so we let yahoos run the place.
• 1:00:11
  And what do you call it?
• 1:00:13
  Globalists take another country down, whatever path they
• 1:00:18
  wish to.
• 1:00:19
  And they just take it all, install their
• 1:00:24
  own NGOs, install Hunter Biden to run companies
• 1:00:28
  in these countries.
• 1:00:31
  All of their buddies get to dictate, the
• 1:00:34
  military goes over there, but they don't have
• 1:00:35
  any authority.
• 1:00:36
  They just have to do what they're told.
• 1:00:38
  They have authority, but only authority to do
• 1:00:40
  what they're told at the direction of somebody
• 1:00:42
  else.
• 1:00:43
  And NATO, same way.
• 1:00:45
  And I came across several of these.
• 1:00:46
  I wanted to do, in fact, until I
• 1:00:50
  started reading this yesterday, I had another one
• 1:00:53
  prepped to do a deep dive into, and
• 1:00:56
  I'm going to try to squeeze it into
• 1:00:57
  tomorrow night's hour and a half show.
• 1:01:00
  Or maybe I'll wait till Wednesday because the
• 1:01:02
  best day in radio land to do that
• 1:01:07
  day.
• 1:01:08
  And plus, these are things really, people need
• 1:01:15
  to know how wrong we have been.
• 1:01:19
  When are we going to change our approach
• 1:01:21
  and quit trying to take over the world
• 1:01:24
  and work with the world?
• 1:01:28
  You know, I've said this quite a few
• 1:01:31
  times.
• 1:01:31
  I would just love Donald Trump.
• 1:01:33
  I think he could do it.
• 1:01:35
  I think he could say, you know what?
• 1:01:36
  We're not playing this anymore.
• 1:01:38
  You run your country.
• 1:01:39
  I'll run mine.
• 1:01:41
  And he can say what Jaishankar says in
• 1:01:43
  India, what Modi says in India.
• 1:01:45
  Look, you run your country as you see
• 1:01:48
  fit and what works for your people, for
• 1:01:50
  your culture, for the type of people you
• 1:01:52
  have.
• 1:01:53
  Quit trying to dictate what we will do
• 1:01:56
  in our country.
• 1:01:58
  We know what's best for our country.
• 1:02:00
  What is wrong with that approach?
• 1:02:02
  Seriously, what's wrong with that approach?
• 1:02:07
  If, for example, Russia, India, China, and the
• 1:02:12
  US all got together and didn't try to
• 1:02:16
  tell each other what to do, but instead
• 1:02:19
  say, why don't we tell our own countries
• 1:02:22
  what we're going to do?
• 1:02:24
  Focus on growth economically, spiritually, family, creating better
• 1:02:30
  places for other people, assisting other countries.
• 1:02:36
  But let those other countries be sovereign.
• 1:02:39
  Why do you think everybody's—again, I'm right back
• 1:02:41
  to multipolarity.
• 1:02:43
  They're tired of dominant and being told what
• 1:02:46
  to do by kings appointed by Europe and
• 1:02:50
  America.
• 1:02:52
  They're sick to death of it.
• 1:02:53
  Frankly, I wish I was paying better attention
• 1:02:56
  during Kosovo.
• 1:02:57
  You know, I'm not one of those guys
• 1:02:58
  to march.
• 1:02:59
  Here's my voice.
• 1:03:00
  I'll give you my voice.
• 1:03:01
  And I'm happy to learn if you disagree
• 1:03:04
  with me.
• 1:03:05
  You can call and tell me how wrong
• 1:03:07
  I am.
• 1:03:08
  And perhaps I'll listen, especially if you know
• 1:03:11
  more than me.
• 1:03:11
  I like to listen to people that know
• 1:03:13
  more than me.
• 1:03:14
  I like that.
• 1:03:15
  I want them to teach me things, but
• 1:03:17
  most time I can't believe all the crap.
• 1:03:20
  That's what I expect from the news.
• 1:03:22
  I expect them to tell me things that
• 1:03:25
  aren't twisted to make me think a certain
• 1:03:29
  way.
• 1:03:29
  And if you still believe you're not being
• 1:03:31
  twisted, I'm not trying to twist you, but
• 1:03:34
  I don't have anybody twisting me to twist
• 1:03:37
  you.
• 1:03:38
  But everybody, you know, all the major ones
• 1:03:40
  do.
• 1:03:41
  I know you know all that crap.
• 1:03:42
  I'm gonna, I'm gonna get back to this
• 1:03:44
  or I'll never get through.
• 1:03:45
  We got one more hour.
• 1:03:46
  We're halfway through.
• 1:03:48
  In fact, this deep dive.
• 1:03:50
  And I want to remind you that I
• 1:03:53
  am here in the Lake Ozark real estate
• 1:03:55
  of the art studio.
• 1:03:58
  If you are interested, you can email me
• 1:04:02
  while I'm on the air here and I'm
• 1:04:04
  trying to get used to looking at it
• 1:04:06
  live at damradio.com.
• 1:04:09
  You can phone in at 573-746-8020.
• 1:04:12
  I might take it if it's a brief
• 1:04:14
  call.
• 1:04:16
  And you can also send me personal emails
• 1:04:20
  at samuelt at internationalflavor.com.
• 1:04:26
  All of my former prior programs are also
• 1:04:30
  at internationalflavor.com.
• 1:04:34
  And I would love you to listen to
• 1:04:38
  them.
• 1:04:38
  It's good stuff.
• 1:04:44
  And some of the topics, you know, especially
• 1:04:46
  the deep dives, if you go into the
• 1:04:47
  Sunday deep dives, I try to come up
• 1:04:50
  with some pretty good stuff.
• 1:04:51
  So let's talk about Kosovo.
• 1:04:53
  And everybody's heard the name, everybody knows, you
• 1:04:56
  know, a little bit about it.
• 1:04:57
  But I don't think you understand.
• 1:05:01
  I know I didn't.
• 1:05:02
  And so that I did, but I didn't,
• 1:05:05
  you know, we've forgotten about this.
• 1:05:07
  We aren't paying attention.
• 1:05:09
  The new, you know, I'm like that.
• 1:05:12
  I'm like those dogs in that movie Up,
• 1:05:15
  the cartoon movie Up, where they talk and
• 1:05:17
  they're, well, no, we need to do this.
• 1:05:20
  We need to squirrel.
• 1:05:22
  They turn their heads and look for a
• 1:05:24
  squirrel.
• 1:05:25
  I'm like that guy.
• 1:05:26
  Sometimes I get distracted a little bit.
• 1:05:29
  So let's go.
• 1:05:31
  And you know what?
• 1:05:32
  We need to pay better attention to this
• 1:05:34
  because our country has taken us down a
• 1:05:36
  path that could lead to freaking war.
• 1:05:40
  And so it's important to at least consider
• 1:05:43
  these things.
• 1:05:45
  Let's talk about how this started in Kosovo.
• 1:05:48
  In the 1990s, NATO started bombing Serbia.
• 1:05:54
  Humanitarian intervention was their slogan.
• 1:05:58
  But the reality was that air war was
• 1:06:01
  started and it bypassed the UN Security Council
• 1:06:07
  completely.
• 1:06:09
  They just, the West, the US started bombing
• 1:06:12
  the crap out of Serbia.
• 1:06:14
  They didn't like what was going on in
• 1:06:16
  Serbia.
• 1:06:17
  So what we all jump in and start
• 1:06:19
  bombing, but who said they could not the
• 1:06:22
  UN Security Council.
• 1:06:23
  And so they had this agreement after they
• 1:06:26
  watched this go on for three years, this,
• 1:06:29
  this Dayton agreement in 1995, Bosnia was turned
• 1:06:34
  into what they call a Western protectorate.
• 1:06:38
  So basically what that means the next test
• 1:06:41
  tube for us to do whatever we want.
• 1:06:45
  After NATO's 1999 bombing campaign, Kosovo was placed
• 1:06:52
  under UNMIC, United Nations mission in Kosovo.
• 1:06:59
  But in practice, and this is still true
• 1:07:02
  today, NATO and Western diplomats call the shots.
• 1:07:07
  How about that?
• 1:07:09
  You don't have a free country.
• 1:07:11
  We're in charge.
• 1:07:12
  That's still going on today.
• 1:07:16
  Local Serb structures were completely hollowed out.
• 1:07:19
  Western trained Albanian political elites were empowered.
• 1:07:24
  They were put in charge of them.
• 1:07:26
  And then they played a trick.
• 1:07:28
  And this trick is and follow this because
• 1:07:32
  we keep on doing it.
• 1:07:34
  And I hope you understand how and why,
• 1:07:37
  and just watch for it.
• 1:07:38
  You'll see it again.
• 1:07:40
  So it's called the independence trick in 2008.
• 1:07:46
  Kosovo's Albanian leaders unilaterally.
• 1:07:51
  Remember, they were appointed by, by us and
• 1:07:55
  they unilaterally declared their own independence, even though
• 1:08:01
  there was a UN resolution that explicitly recognized
• 1:08:07
  Serbia's sovereignty, right?
• 1:08:11
  No referendum.
• 1:08:13
  They don't even have to have a referendum.
• 1:08:15
  There's nothing.
• 1:08:17
  You don't have to have a vote.
• 1:08:19
  You don't have to do anything.
• 1:08:20
  Just these Albanian leaders that were appointed by
• 1:08:23
  the West to go, guess what?
• 1:08:25
  We are independent.
• 1:08:28
  No referendum, no agreement with Belgrade, no consensus
• 1:08:32
  in the UN.
• 1:08:34
  But guess what happened?
• 1:08:37
  Immediately, Washington and Brussels recognized them as independent.
• 1:08:44
  They did it and we recognized.
• 1:08:46
  Okay.
• 1:08:47
  Something we'll never do in the Donbass regions,
• 1:08:52
  but how do you gain legitimacy?
• 1:08:55
  You know, is Crimea ever, I saw a
• 1:08:57
  map today of Ukraine for sale somewhere and
• 1:08:59
  it still shows Crimea as Ukrainian.
• 1:09:02
  Why?
• 1:09:03
  Because the U.S. won't recognize it.
• 1:09:06
  Nobody will recognize it.
• 1:09:07
  And they won't recognize any of these other
• 1:09:09
  countries that are any of the others regions
• 1:09:11
  that have declared their own independence by referendum.
• 1:09:16
  Oh, geez.
• 1:09:17
  That's the way we don't recognize that.
• 1:09:19
  It's illegitimate.
• 1:09:20
  Why?
• 1:09:22
  Because you disagree with it.
• 1:09:24
  And that's really the only reason you disagree
• 1:09:26
  with it.
• 1:09:27
  You're influenced by those Russians.
• 1:09:30
  You know, those Russians influence you.
• 1:09:32
  Yeah.
• 1:09:32
  But yeah.
• 1:09:33
  But what about Kosovo?
• 1:09:35
  What about Bosnia?
• 1:09:36
  What about Maidan?
• 1:09:38
  You know, what about Afghanistan?
• 1:09:40
  Iraq?
• 1:09:41
  Let's keep on going.
• 1:09:42
  You know, what's going on in Syria?
• 1:09:44
  You know, nonsense.
• 1:09:47
  So in 2008, these guys just declare their
• 1:09:49
  independence.
• 1:09:50
  And then the U.S. says, yep, it
• 1:09:52
  manages.
• 1:09:53
  But why does this matter?
• 1:09:54
  Because once again, it breaks all principles of
• 1:09:59
  international law.
• 1:10:01
  What is Ukraine always complaining about?
• 1:10:04
  Borders are sacred.
• 1:10:07
  Our territorial integrity.
• 1:10:10
  What do you hear all the time?
• 1:10:12
  Territorial integrity, unless all parties agree.
• 1:10:16
  But no, not if you're in the West.
• 1:10:19
  It says if the West likes you, they
• 1:10:23
  let you secede.
• 1:10:25
  If Russia backs you, secession is illegal.
• 1:10:28
  Crimea 2014.
• 1:10:31
  Donbass and the other republics that are not
• 1:10:36
  republics, other regions in Ukraine that want to
• 1:10:39
  get out.
• 1:10:40
  Republic Serbs got today.
• 1:10:42
  They say they want out.
• 1:10:43
  They want to have a referendum.
• 1:10:44
  We've already rejected it.
• 1:10:47
  So back in Kosovo, a permanent NATO outpost
• 1:10:54
  was installed in the Balkans, a black hole
• 1:10:57
  of corruption, drug trafficking, mafia politics.
• 1:11:03
  But it's very strategically useful because guess what
• 1:11:06
  it did?
• 1:11:07
  Got rid of all Serbian and Russian influence.
• 1:11:13
  And it stays that way today.
• 1:11:17
  It's got a Western group of people, kings.
• 1:11:22
  We appointed our own.
• 1:11:24
  The only one that's really a king is
• 1:11:26
  the guy that they have in Republic Serbska.
• 1:11:33
  Well, Bosnia-Herzegovina, but he's over this Republic
• 1:11:38
  Serbska too.
• 1:11:41
  You can't call the king wrong.
• 1:11:44
  Sam, what are you doing?
• 1:11:46
  How can you do this?
• 1:11:47
  So let's throw some parallels.
• 1:11:50
  If you don't understand my Dan and how
• 1:11:53
  we did the exact same thing in Ukraine,
• 1:11:58
  following the exact same playbook, get this.
• 1:12:04
  Here's the setup, right?
• 1:12:05
  Victor Yanukovych, he's the elected president of Ukraine.
• 1:12:09
  He's elected and he was not a Moscow
• 1:12:13
  puppet.
• 1:12:14
  But what he wanted and talked about was
• 1:12:18
  neutrality.
• 1:12:20
  He wanted trade with both Europe and with
• 1:12:24
  Russia.
• 1:12:24
  He didn't want that.
• 1:12:27
  He wanted to balance EU trade with Russian
• 1:12:30
  ties, Russian free gas, Russian low cost everything
• 1:12:36
  and not be, he wasn't necessarily going to
• 1:12:40
  the European Union.
• 1:12:42
  They weren't there yet.
• 1:12:44
  He hadn't decided that yet.
• 1:12:46
  And so he wanted more of a balance.
• 1:12:48
  The West can't have that.
• 1:12:50
  So Brussels and Washington cannot accept neutrality.
• 1:12:55
  A buffer zone is not enough.
• 1:12:58
  We have to drag Ukraine Western.
• 1:13:00
  So what did they do?
• 1:13:03
  Tons of NGOs, tons of US Agency for
• 1:13:06
  International Development, Western media and American diplomats.
• 1:13:11
  Victoria Nuland had a famous phone calls talking
• 1:13:17
  about what she was going to do.
• 1:13:19
  She was going to help appoint the next
• 1:13:21
  leader.
• 1:13:22
  She had them, right?
• 1:13:24
  And they just basically poured gasoline into already
• 1:13:32
  bubbling street protests in 2013.
• 1:13:38
  And this protest turned into a coup.
• 1:13:42
  So the Maidan Square, and again, if you
• 1:13:44
  haven't watched a video by Oliver Stone, which
• 1:13:47
  everybody says, don't watch that, you need to
• 1:13:51
  watch it.
• 1:13:52
  That's the one you need to watch.
• 1:13:54
  The ones that say don't watch, definitely watch
• 1:13:57
  them, even just to get a different point
• 1:14:00
  of view.
• 1:14:00
  I don't care if you end up believing
• 1:14:01
  it or not.
• 1:14:03
  Very well done.
• 1:14:04
  And again, I don't think it's crap.
• 1:14:08
  Watch it.
• 1:14:09
  It's called Ukraine on fire or something like
• 1:14:13
  that.
• 1:14:13
  If I can recall, you can find it
• 1:14:15
  on YouTube.
• 1:14:17
  And so there were protesters that, guess what?
• 1:14:20
  We armed violent groups that were allowed to,
• 1:14:24
  you know, far right people like Ukraine's right
• 1:14:27
  sector, these Nazi and the SS symbol wearing
• 1:14:32
  people that are killing ethnic Russians and just
• 1:14:35
  offing people, you know, because they disagree with
• 1:14:39
  them.
• 1:14:40
  In February of 2014, there was a negotiated
• 1:14:43
  deal before Maidan, February 2014.
• 1:14:49
  A negotiated deal was signed between Yanukovych and
• 1:14:54
  the opposition.
• 1:14:55
  Guess who else signed it?
• 1:14:58
  Germany, France and Poland.
• 1:15:01
  But within 24 hours, the West tore it
• 1:15:06
  up, said, Nope, that's not effective.
• 1:15:08
  And armed groups armed by the West stormed
• 1:15:12
  government buildings and Yanukovych fled.
• 1:15:14
  He ran to Russia.
• 1:15:17
  Crazy.
• 1:15:18
  And what happened?
• 1:15:19
  We, Victoria Nuland, installed a new, openly pro
• 1:15:25
  -Western government with zero regard for any constitutional
• 1:15:31
  process.
• 1:15:32
  And immediately, Ukraine's new leadership started talking NATO,
• 1:15:37
  severing any trade with Russia, writing language laws
• 1:15:42
  against Russian speakers.
• 1:15:45
  It's Kosovo all over again, only much larger.
• 1:15:49
  And it was scaled upward to remove the
• 1:15:53
  anything neutral or pro-Russian.
• 1:15:56
  Any leader, any party member, any Verkhovna Rada
• 1:16:02
  member were gotten rid of.
• 1:16:04
  And they installed a compliant regime.
• 1:16:07
  And then they can call it democracy.
• 1:16:09
  Why does this matter?
• 1:16:11
  Why?
• 1:16:12
  Because Russia saw it as a violation of
• 1:16:17
  their red line.
• 1:16:20
  No NATO on its border.
• 1:16:22
  The Slavic Orthodox Church was being dragged into
• 1:16:27
  an anti-Russian project.
• 1:16:30
  The Crimea voted overwhelmingly, you know, that Russia
• 1:16:35
  stole from Ukraine.
• 1:16:37
  They voted overwhelmingly, something like 88 percent or
• 1:16:42
  something, to rejoin Russia.
• 1:16:46
  And the West started yelling, Illegal.
• 1:16:49
  But in Kosovo, there was never a referendum
• 1:16:53
  at all.
• 1:16:55
  And they had just added Maidan, an uprising,
• 1:16:59
  no referendum, nothing to get rid.
• 1:17:02
  No, no, no elections, no democracy, no nothing.
• 1:17:06
  Just the West going.
• 1:17:07
  So we recognize this new leader, period.
• 1:17:10
  We recognize the new leader.
• 1:17:12
  Why?
• 1:17:12
  Because we installed him.
• 1:17:14
  Of course, we recognize him.
• 1:17:16
  This is this is our playbook everywhere we
• 1:17:20
  go.
• 1:17:21
  And it's always anti-Russia, always anti-China,
• 1:17:25
  you know, throw in India probably now.
• 1:17:28
  And and with any luck at all, Donald
• 1:17:31
  Trump is not this way.
• 1:17:35
  I'm not so positive about that.
• 1:17:37
  Listen to what Rubio said, because I don't
• 1:17:40
  know that Rubio would say that without the
• 1:17:43
  old Trumpsters say so.
• 1:17:46
  You know, I don't think so.
• 1:17:48
  But we'll see what happens come the 25th,
• 1:17:52
  because I think Trumpster unfortunately is finding out
• 1:17:56
  that he can't just.
• 1:17:59
  I think he can, but I'm thinking he
• 1:18:01
  that he can't do just what he wants.
• 1:18:06
  I don't know.
• 1:18:08
  The Don Bass war got ignited right after
• 1:18:11
  this because locals refused to recognize the coup,
• 1:18:17
  the takeover government.
• 1:18:19
  They didn't do a referendum to get out
• 1:18:21
  like like Crimea.
• 1:18:25
  But they said, we don't recognize you.
• 1:18:28
  Remember, they had agreements Minsk one and Minsk
• 1:18:31
  two that said your governors, like these governors
• 1:18:37
  that we were talking about earlier, your governors
• 1:18:39
  don't have to be appointed by Kiev.
• 1:18:42
  You can elect them and have some sort
• 1:18:45
  of autonomy on your own, that they aren't
• 1:18:47
  necessarily under us.
• 1:18:51
  You know, Minsk one and two were both
• 1:18:52
  supposed to do that.
• 1:18:53
  But those were just B.S. agreements signed
• 1:18:55
  for B.S. reasons.
• 1:18:59
  So Maidan became a textbook for how the
• 1:19:03
  West runs regime change, use protests to cover,
• 1:19:09
  you know, you get you pay people to
• 1:19:10
  prose.
• 1:19:11
  George Soros was very involved in this.
• 1:19:14
  You empower radicals.
• 1:19:16
  You bless the overthrow, recognize the new government,
• 1:19:20
  recognize the new territory, if you agree, and
• 1:19:23
  sanction anybody who objects.
• 1:19:26
  You're sanctioned.
• 1:19:28
  That's it.
• 1:19:28
  And that was actually my topic.
• 1:19:30
  I wanted to go into the history of
• 1:19:32
  sanctions.
• 1:19:33
  It's a it's an eye opener.
• 1:19:34
  Seriously, I think I can get that done
• 1:19:36
  in an hour and a half.
• 1:19:39
  I I.
• 1:19:41
  This is nonsense.
• 1:19:44
  This is the constant narrative from.
• 1:19:49
  Any realistic person's perspective, any anybody in honesty,
• 1:19:54
  if you look at this honesty, the pattern
• 1:19:56
  is clear.
• 1:19:59
  Any leader who tries to stay neutral and
• 1:20:03
  certainly if he's pro Russia, he's got to
• 1:20:07
  be removed.
• 1:20:09
  Serbia had Milosevic in the 90s when the
• 1:20:13
  Soviet Union was collapsing.
• 1:20:14
  They were very pro staying with Russia, trade
• 1:20:19
  with Russia, everything with Russia.
• 1:20:20
  He had to go.
• 1:20:22
  Yanukovych in Ukraine, Dodik in Republic Srpska today.
• 1:20:27
  Any leader that was in the Donbass, you
• 1:20:29
  know, any any anybody they what are they
• 1:20:34
  doing against people that are that are saying
• 1:20:38
  anything pro Russia today?
• 1:20:40
  You're going on a kill list.
• 1:20:42
  There was a story in the paper today
• 1:20:45
  that said there were their kids, their children
• 1:20:49
  now on this.
• 1:20:51
  What's the name of the list?
• 1:20:53
  Miratowicz list.
• 1:20:55
  And Miratowicz, I told you about that.
• 1:20:57
  And when Scott Ritter was when I did
• 1:20:59
  my interview with him that month ago or
• 1:21:02
  so, maybe a little longer, he said that
• 1:21:05
  he was on the Miratowicz list and was
• 1:21:07
  talking about it.
• 1:21:08
  It's basically a kill list.
• 1:21:10
  You know, people like Tucker Carlson, Charlie Kirk
• 1:21:12
  was on the I played that piece for
• 1:21:15
  you the other day that he was on
• 1:21:18
  kill list.
• 1:21:19
  And it's now they're they're putting kids on
• 1:21:24
  the kill list.
• 1:21:24
  Why?
• 1:21:25
  Because their parents are saying things and, you
• 1:21:30
  know, they're people who object and their kids
• 1:21:34
  go on putting generations on this list.
• 1:21:38
  And this is nonsense.
• 1:21:41
  It's crazy.
• 1:21:43
  No neutrality is allowed.
• 1:21:44
  No different approach is allowed.
• 1:21:47
  It's all got to be Western dominance, Western
• 1:21:52
  globalist rhetoric, all dollar, all NATO, nothing Russia.
• 1:22:01
  And there's you know, what what good has
• 1:22:04
  anyone said about Russia?
• 1:22:07
  They are they are trying to there was
• 1:22:10
  another article I read today that in a
• 1:22:12
  several Western, let's call them European places, they're
• 1:22:20
  banning Russian as well.
• 1:22:22
  Cab drivers, stuff like that can't speak Russian.
• 1:22:25
  They're trying to make it a law that
• 1:22:27
  you can't speak it.
• 1:22:29
  What are you going to do in America?
• 1:22:31
  I mean, I remember it, you know, but
• 1:22:34
  it was it was more facetious than anything,
• 1:22:36
  because, you know, I'm not sure we could
• 1:22:38
  put anything out there.
• 1:22:39
  But I remember when people go, don't speak
• 1:22:43
  Mexican, speak English, you know, and they're yelling
• 1:22:47
  at him and stuff like that.
• 1:22:49
  Nonsense.
• 1:22:49
  And you can't dictate what other people say,
• 1:22:54
  you know, what language they use.
• 1:22:56
  You can't you might be able to say
• 1:22:58
  our national language is X and we wish
• 1:23:02
  you to assimilate.
• 1:23:03
  I'm all for that.
• 1:23:04
  But don't tell me that in my own
• 1:23:06
  home, I can't speak Russian if I choose
• 1:23:08
  to, or if I'm in a cab and
• 1:23:11
  I'm a cab driver and I'm more comfortable
• 1:23:13
  in Russian than in English that I let's
• 1:23:17
  say the phone rings, you know, you ever
• 1:23:18
  been in a cab or an Uber and
• 1:23:20
  the phone rings for the guy driving the
• 1:23:22
  car and he starts speaking to somebody in
• 1:23:23
  a foreign language happens all the time.
• 1:23:26
  And, you know, whether it's Indian, whether, you
• 1:23:29
  know, they're speaking Punjab or whether they're speaking
• 1:23:31
  Chinese or whatever, Eastern European, they speak in
• 1:23:37
  another language where they're trying to make it
• 1:23:38
  a law that says you can't do that.
• 1:23:42
  I offended all those people in my tales
• 1:23:45
  that I was telling you about my Uber
• 1:23:48
  rides in Lithuania.
• 1:23:50
  They're nuts about it over there.
• 1:23:52
  They're crazy.
• 1:23:54
  And I mean, it's just nuts.
• 1:23:56
  Where are we going in this world?
• 1:23:58
  This complete inability to accept the differences in
• 1:24:04
  other people.
• 1:24:07
  I don't know.
• 1:24:08
  Crazy stuff.
• 1:24:09
  But the toolkit in our, in our takeovers,
• 1:24:14
  it's always media demonization.
• 1:24:18
  Media comes out and says, everybody's authoritarian, Dodick's
• 1:24:22
  an authoritarian, he's a national strong man.
• 1:24:25
  And they say the opposite of anybody the
• 1:24:28
  West throws over this king, for example, the
• 1:24:31
  king.
• 1:24:32
  Oh, no, no, no.
• 1:24:33
  He's a mediator.
• 1:24:34
  He's the good guy.
• 1:24:35
  He's the good guy.
• 1:24:37
  Everybody.
• 1:24:37
  Oh, Jesus.
• 1:24:38
  Russians.
• 1:24:38
  They're bad guys.
• 1:24:40
  You know, you ever see him on TV?
• 1:24:42
  There's never anybody.
• 1:24:43
  It's just a bay.
• 1:24:44
  They're bandits.
• 1:24:45
  Every one of them's abandoned, right?
• 1:24:48
  Has to be.
• 1:24:48
  That's what's on TV.
• 1:24:50
  That's what's in every movie from Hollywood.
• 1:24:52
  You ever see a Russian as the good
• 1:24:54
  guy ever?
• 1:24:56
  It just don't exist.
• 1:24:59
  Then what else do we do?
• 1:25:00
  What else is in our toolkit?
• 1:25:02
  Media demonization, sanctions on family and inner circle
• 1:25:06
  of anybody that objects.
• 1:25:09
  You empower and give huge money to NGOs
• 1:25:12
  to fund private, let's say podcasters all over
• 1:25:19
  Ukraine.
• 1:25:20
  We're getting tons of money from where the
• 1:25:25
  United States to broadcast this stuff all over.
• 1:25:28
  They wouldn't give me a nickel.
• 1:25:29
  I'll tell you that because I won't be
• 1:25:32
  bought, you know, and just say, whatever.
• 1:25:35
  That's probably not true.
• 1:25:37
  Somebody want to buy me, call, give me
• 1:25:38
  some money and we'll talk.
• 1:25:40
  We'll see.
• 1:25:42
  If protests don't topple the leader you're trying
• 1:25:46
  to get rid of after you've paid for
• 1:25:48
  them and media got them into a frenzy
• 1:25:51
  and had George Soros send over millions, you
• 1:25:54
  then create a legal crisis through courts that
• 1:25:57
  you control and international overseers that you appoint,
• 1:26:04
  then bomb them until they accept your international
• 1:26:08
  overseers, make them create an agreement that you
• 1:26:11
  never intend to honor Dayton Minsk one Minsk
• 1:26:17
  to any of them, just pick them, send
• 1:26:21
  50 lawyers afterward to argue about particular terms
• 1:26:24
  and say, we don't recognize the spirit of
• 1:26:27
  the treaty.
• 1:26:28
  You got to have the words of every
• 1:26:30
  single thing, even though we said in other
• 1:26:32
  memorandums of understanding, we would do this.
• 1:26:36
  That don't count.
• 1:26:37
  We didn't put it in the treaty, tricked
• 1:26:39
  you.
• 1:26:40
  We tricked you.
• 1:26:41
  That was only in the memorandum.
• 1:26:43
  It didn't end up in the final language.
• 1:26:45
  It's on you, not us.
• 1:26:46
  So nobody trusts us because you can't deal
• 1:26:50
  with them.
• 1:26:51
  If that still fails, you threaten financial collapse.
• 1:26:56
  We're going to sanction you boy.
• 1:26:58
  You better use, you better use our stuff.
• 1:27:00
  Those aren't working by the way.
• 1:27:03
  And the justification is always, always these high
• 1:27:07
  -minded slogans like European values.
• 1:27:12
  What are European values?
• 1:27:15
  What is it?
• 1:27:16
  Transgender, you know, rainbow coalition.
• 1:27:21
  We tell you what to do so you
• 1:27:23
  don't have to think that kind of thing.
• 1:27:26
  They say we're protecting minorities and guaranteeing human
• 1:27:30
  rights, but they don't have any protections in
• 1:27:33
  their own countries and no human rights.
• 1:27:39
  But the underlying rule is even more simple.
• 1:27:42
  No country on Russia's border is allowed to
• 1:27:47
  be neutral.
• 1:27:48
  You got to be anti-Russia.
• 1:27:50
  How come the West can't admit this?
• 1:27:53
  Why?
• 1:27:53
  Why is it that they can't admit it?
• 1:27:56
  If the Western media ever called the high
• 1:28:01
  representative, this Christian whatever, Schmidt guy, if they
• 1:28:05
  ever called him a king, or if they
• 1:28:08
  ever admitted that Maidan was a coup, or
• 1:28:12
  if they ever said that Kosovo broke international
• 1:28:15
  law, everything we have done as a U
• 1:28:20
  .S. post-cold world order looks like one
• 1:28:27
  long colonial project.
• 1:28:31
  Doesn't it?
• 1:28:33
  Bosnia, a protectorate with a foreign king.
• 1:28:38
  Kosovo, a NATO colony.
• 1:28:41
  That's what it is.
• 1:28:42
  And Ukraine, our beloved Ukraine project.
• 1:28:46
  Project Ukraine is a regime change experiment.
• 1:28:51
  Instead, we repeat the same line over and
• 1:28:57
  over and over.
• 1:28:59
  Russia interferes.
• 1:29:01
  Russia destabilizes.
• 1:29:04
  Russia provides disinformation.
• 1:29:07
  Russia threatens democracy.
• 1:29:10
  That's what we say.
• 1:29:12
  The reality is the West has been interfering
• 1:29:15
  so aggressively that even being neutral toward Russia
• 1:29:21
  is regarded as treason.
• 1:29:23
  You're not allowed to do it.
• 1:29:25
  You have to be removed.
• 1:29:26
  You're getting thrown in prison.
• 1:29:28
  Dodik, he's going to go, and he can't
• 1:29:31
  be elected for six years.
• 1:29:33
  They're doing the same thing all over Europe.
• 1:29:37
  It's pretty sad when you've got to go
• 1:29:39
  for your bastion of hope to Xi Jinping,
• 1:29:42
  Modi, and Vladimir Putin.
• 1:29:44
  We're supposed to be the good guys.
• 1:29:48
  We are not.
• 1:29:50
  And we just aren't.
• 1:29:53
  So Bosnia today looks like Maidan before it
• 1:29:57
  exploded.
• 1:29:58
  But they already have a king sitting on
• 1:30:01
  the throne.
• 1:30:01
  They don't have to wait for Victoria Nuland
• 1:30:04
  to appoint one.
• 1:30:06
  I mean, they don't, because they're already there.
• 1:30:10
  We've done it, right?
• 1:30:14
  Oh, crazy stuff.
• 1:30:18
  So these regulations from Kosovo, the International Civil
• 1:30:26
  Administration and the security presence, the so-called
• 1:30:30
  KFOR, which came up after NATO bombing, it
• 1:30:34
  reaffirms the sovereignty of the country and its
• 1:30:37
  own territorial integrity and says substantial autonomy for
• 1:30:43
  Kosovo.
• 1:30:45
  What does this translate to?
• 1:30:47
  Autonomy inside of Serbia, but no independence.
• 1:30:53
  Nothing.
• 1:30:54
  Who runs Kosovo, really?
• 1:30:57
  The UN Secretary General Special Representative, SRSG, Special
• 1:31:03
  Representative Secretary General, heads this United Nations mission
• 1:31:09
  in Kosovo.
• 1:31:11
  And he too is kind of a prototype
• 1:31:14
  king.
• 1:31:15
  And he can issue his own regulations, run
• 1:31:17
  the courts and the police, and he's been
• 1:31:19
  doing it ever since.
• 1:31:21
  That's what's happening.
• 1:31:22
  So, isn't that crazy?
• 1:31:26
  The unilateral declaration of independence that happened in
• 1:31:30
  2008.
• 1:31:31
  Kosovo's assembly declared independence unilaterally, zero referendum, zero
• 1:31:37
  United Nations Security Council.
• 1:31:41
  It contradicted their own sovereignty language, which was
• 1:31:45
  appointed in the UN.
• 1:31:46
  Serbia told the council it was illegal and
• 1:31:50
  asked them to nullify it.
• 1:31:52
  But what did they do?
• 1:31:53
  They got the International Court of Justice to
• 1:31:56
  say, no, no, it's okay.
• 1:31:59
  And then the West goes, well, we got
• 1:32:01
  a ruling.
• 1:32:03
  But Russia and China have been screaming about
• 1:32:05
  it forever.
• 1:32:07
  And India has too, for that matter, but
• 1:32:09
  less vocally, because they didn't guarantee it.
• 1:32:12
  They aren't on the Security Council, which is
• 1:32:14
  a big complaint that they have as the
• 1:32:17
  largest population on the planet.
• 1:32:22
  And instead, who's on there?
• 1:32:24
  Tiny little countries in Europe.
• 1:32:27
  But Russia immediately condemned this as a flagrant
• 1:32:31
  violation in Kosovo, and a precedent that shreds
• 1:32:36
  the Security Council's authority, but nobody pays any
• 1:32:39
  attention.
• 1:32:41
  But nothing, they just completely ignore it.
• 1:32:44
  You only ignore it if it's coming from
• 1:32:48
  China or Russia, which is why, where are
• 1:32:51
  they going, friends and neighbors?
• 1:32:54
  Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which I talked about last
• 1:32:57
  Sunday, the RIC, Russia, India, China group that
• 1:33:02
  leads that, just like the same group leads
• 1:33:04
  BRICS.
• 1:33:05
  And Jaishankar says things like, look, it's multipolarity.
• 1:33:09
  That's what the world's about right now.
• 1:33:10
  Run your own country, work well with others,
• 1:33:13
  get along with others, just like your mom
• 1:33:15
  told you.
• 1:33:16
  But not on a world level.
• 1:33:19
  The U.S. just can't do it.
• 1:33:20
  We can't do it.
• 1:33:24
  This resolution that ended Kosovo, or started it,
• 1:33:30
  it promised autonomy in Serbia, and the West
• 1:33:33
  delivered independence without the Council.
• 1:33:37
  The Council didn't get a vote.
• 1:33:39
  That's why Russia, just like the other times,
• 1:33:42
  just like in Ukraine, just like when, well,
• 1:33:48
  hell, just like now, that when they're talking
• 1:33:50
  about Republic Srpska, and then they kept the
• 1:33:54
  power inside, you know, the West kept the
• 1:33:57
  power inside of Kosovo.
• 1:34:02
  Isn't that crazy?
• 1:34:06
  1244 reaffirms integrity, but we twist it.
• 1:34:14
  Russia says flagrant violation, recognize it, and you
• 1:34:19
  normalize imposed solutions to ethnic conflict.
• 1:34:25
  China says unilateral action compromises the Security Council.
• 1:34:30
  But in the West, we always bypass the
• 1:34:34
  UN Security Council if Russia and China object,
• 1:34:38
  always install a crown, whether that's United Nations
• 1:34:42
  mission in Kosovo, whether it's this High Sparrow
• 1:34:46
  guy, Schmidt, and then you get the locals
• 1:34:51
  to legislate until you agree to what you're
• 1:34:55
  asking for, until their new law matches what
• 1:34:59
  you are seeking.
• 1:35:00
  Then you declare facts, seek legal cover letter
• 1:35:03
  through the ICJ, which you also control, and
• 1:35:08
  then you control the narrative the rest of
• 1:35:09
  the time.
• 1:35:10
  Independence is always about your, what you want,
• 1:35:14
  human rights, nationalism.
• 1:35:16
  Jeez, you can't have that nationalism.
• 1:35:18
  We want nationalism in United States.
• 1:35:20
  Why can't they have nationalism where they are?
• 1:35:25
  Nonsense, dictatorial, colonialist, and there's plenty of people
• 1:35:32
  still talking about it inside of Kosovo, okay?
• 1:35:37
  Plenty of them.
• 1:35:39
  KOSSEV, for example, it's an independent Kosovo-Serbian
• 1:35:44
  portal in English.
• 1:35:47
  Recent items show community talking about pushback and
• 1:35:51
  daily friction, police action, UN beating up on
• 1:35:55
  people, these peacekeepers, corruption everywhere.
• 1:35:59
  It was hard not to get stuck in
• 1:36:03
  there and keep on reading and trucking.
• 1:36:07
  It's very interesting.
• 1:36:09
  There's a thing called Radio Contact Plus.
• 1:36:13
  They do field reporting.
• 1:36:16
  There's a bunch of stuff, and nothing has
• 1:36:20
  changed since 1999.
• 1:36:22
  Nothing.
• 1:36:23
  Nothing.
• 1:36:24
  It's still basically controlled by us.
• 1:36:29
  Kosovo has a crown.
• 1:36:34
  In Kosovo, the West doesn't call the shots.
• 1:36:37
  They even kept the whistle.
• 1:36:40
  They run everything in there.
• 1:36:43
  It's just beyond belief to me that we're
• 1:36:51
  still here with the U.S. running absolutely
• 1:36:55
  everything.
• 1:36:56
  Now, you've got to keep your acronyms.
• 1:36:58
  There's so many acronyms that come out, it's
• 1:37:00
  kind of hard to keep track.
• 1:37:02
  Take your time when you get there.
• 1:37:06
  I want to bring this back to the
• 1:37:09
  king who's right now on the throne again,
• 1:37:12
  and Lavrov and Donik, and why this is
• 1:37:16
  important.
• 1:37:17
  Remember, their meeting, or Russia's takeover, if you
• 1:37:22
  will, presidency of the UN Security Council is
• 1:37:24
  coming up in October.
• 1:37:26
  They're having that UN Security Council meeting they
• 1:37:29
  like to do every year.
• 1:37:31
  I'm 90% certain that Lavrov will be
• 1:37:35
  the one doing it.
• 1:37:37
  He's announcing now, a month in advance, before
• 1:37:44
  these referendums take place.
• 1:37:47
  People will ignore him.
• 1:37:48
  They always do.
• 1:37:49
  They did last year.
• 1:37:51
  They ignore him.
• 1:37:52
  In Bosnia, there's already a king on the
• 1:37:54
  throne.
• 1:37:56
  This Dayton thing is going to be a
• 1:37:59
  big deal.
• 1:38:00
  With this agreement that came out in 2005,
• 1:38:02
  the bond that the crown was forged, because
• 1:38:08
  it wasn't supposed to be.
• 1:38:10
  The bargain was just for a mediator, for
• 1:38:13
  a negotiator.
• 1:38:15
  Two years later, unilaterally, the crown was created.
• 1:38:21
  Remember, imposing laws, dismissing officials.
• 1:38:24
  Then the reign of the king, this current
• 1:38:28
  king, Christian Schmitt, he was appointed, but not
• 1:38:32
  endorsed, not properly appointed.
• 1:38:37
  If you're the US and EU, you can
• 1:38:40
  declare him to be in office and pay
• 1:38:41
  him 50,000 a month anyway.
• 1:38:46
  What has Schmitt done himself?
• 1:38:49
  He struck down Republic Serbska laws enacted.
• 1:38:53
  He declared himself, all by himself, no court.
• 1:38:59
  He declared Dodik was guilty of criminal offenses
• 1:39:03
  because he refused the orders of the king.
• 1:39:08
  Then he threatened prison for any other official
• 1:39:11
  who disobeyed him.
• 1:39:14
  In Bosnia, one unelected German has the authority
• 1:39:22
  to crown and decrown the president.
• 1:39:25
  What did Russia and China?
• 1:39:27
  Russia refuses to recognize Schmitt.
• 1:39:30
  They call him an imposter.
• 1:39:32
  They insist this office of the high representative
• 1:39:37
  must be closed.
• 1:39:39
  They assert totally, and they're right, that the
• 1:39:43
  United Nations Security Council has the sole authority
• 1:39:47
  to approve the high representative under this Dayton
• 1:39:53
  Agreement.
• 1:39:54
  China echoes Russia absolutely.
• 1:39:59
  No legitimacy without the UN approval, UN Security
• 1:40:04
  Council approval.
• 1:40:06
  And both of them argue that Bosnia is
• 1:40:09
  a sovereign country under the Dayton Agreement, and
• 1:40:15
  that the high representative is a Western cudgel
• 1:40:19
  to strip the Serbs of any rights.
• 1:40:25
  And so this Dodik, I suppose you could
• 1:40:29
  call him a, I mean, that's a patriot.
• 1:40:34
  Here's another guy getting ready to go to
• 1:40:36
  prison.
• 1:40:38
  He's been ordered a year in prison.
• 1:40:42
  In six years, he can't run for office,
• 1:40:45
  stripped of any title.
• 1:40:47
  Anything he's done, the high sparrow is basically
• 1:40:49
  turned over, and he refuses to recognize these
• 1:40:53
  decrees.
• 1:40:55
  That's Donald Trumpian, in my view.
• 1:40:58
  He was convicted for ignoring Schmitt.
• 1:41:01
  His crime is disobeying the king.
• 1:41:04
  That's it.
• 1:41:05
  That is it.
• 1:41:07
  The Central Election Committee annulled his election.
• 1:41:12
  No, I'm sorry.
• 1:41:15
  Schmitt says you broke the law, and Schmitt's
• 1:41:19
  the king, so there you go.
• 1:41:21
  The RS Assembly is backing him, though.
• 1:41:24
  RS, Republik Srpska.
• 1:41:25
  Their assembly is, they're backing him.
• 1:41:30
  They have this referendum for October 25th.
• 1:41:33
  Remember that date.
• 1:41:35
  Voters will say whether they recognize Schmitt, the
• 1:41:39
  court, or Dodik.
• 1:41:42
  It's likely that no is, Dodik's removal, I
• 1:41:46
  mean.
• 1:41:46
  All three of those are likely no, that
• 1:41:50
  the Republic Srpska, the leadership, this Dodik, and
• 1:41:54
  the assembly will claim a popular mandate against
• 1:41:58
  the king, against King Schmitt.
• 1:42:03
  And West amendments, Western diplomats, I mean, are
• 1:42:06
  already calling the illegal.
• 1:42:10
  But according to the Republic Srpska, they see
• 1:42:13
  it as their only democratic answer to remove
• 1:42:16
  the king.
• 1:42:17
  So, once again, no neutrality is allowed.
• 1:42:22
  You certainly can't lean toward Russia.
• 1:42:25
  And obviously, Dodik leans Russia because he was
• 1:42:28
  meeting with Lavrov, right?
• 1:42:30
  And they refused to sanction Russia.
• 1:42:33
  They haven't done that.
• 1:42:35
  So, they have to be punished.
• 1:42:38
  And how do you punish them?
• 1:42:40
  Schmitt.
• 1:42:41
  He's unelected, foreign.
• 1:42:43
  What's the legal fig leaf, though?
• 1:42:46
  West says, well, wait.
• 1:42:47
  We gave him powers in Bonn.
• 1:42:49
  That makes it legal.
• 1:42:51
  But Russia says Dayton didn't allow that in
• 1:42:53
  the agreement.
• 1:42:54
  So does China.
• 1:42:55
  So do I.
• 1:42:58
  And so, instead of storming the squares in
• 1:43:01
  Maidan or bombing campaign headquarters in Kosovo, like
• 1:43:05
  we did last time, Bosnia coup comes just
• 1:43:08
  straight up royal decree.
• 1:43:10
  The royal decree, the king said, you can't
• 1:43:12
  do that.
• 1:43:14
  And so, why is it that Bosnia today
• 1:43:18
  equals Ukraine 2014?
• 1:43:21
  Like I say, this is what I say.
• 1:43:24
  In Ukraine, the West used a street coup
• 1:43:27
  to get rid of a neutral leader.
• 1:43:30
  You had to get rid of him.
• 1:43:31
  Yanukovych, we can't have him.
• 1:43:34
  He's not trying to drag Ukraine into the
• 1:43:37
  EU.
• 1:43:38
  And he's not trying to drag him into
• 1:43:39
  NATO.
• 1:43:40
  And we've already started buying all the land.
• 1:43:44
  We've given it.
• 1:43:45
  We've already given that land to BlackRock.
• 1:43:48
  And we've already told them they could have
• 1:43:50
  it.
• 1:43:50
  And they're waiting to come in and buy
• 1:43:52
  that land.
• 1:43:54
  And we have Joe Biden and his son
• 1:43:57
  ready to get rich.
• 1:43:59
  We can't have that.
• 1:44:02
  He can't have a neutral leader.
• 1:44:04
  So you sign an agreement one day, tear
• 1:44:05
  it up the next, have a coup, replace
• 1:44:08
  him and go, that's a good person.
• 1:44:11
  That's Ukraine.
• 1:44:12
  And here it is.
• 1:44:13
  And we're going to do the exact same
• 1:44:14
  thing in Bosnia.
• 1:44:16
  Exact same thing.
• 1:44:17
  The West is going to use a court
• 1:44:19
  coup.
• 1:44:20
  We already said he's guilty of not following
• 1:44:22
  the high sparrow.
• 1:44:24
  And then we've already said he's got to
• 1:44:27
  go to prison for a year because he
• 1:44:28
  won't obey our orders.
• 1:44:30
  And in both cases, the enemy is not
• 1:44:33
  the dictatorship.
• 1:44:34
  It's not these people.
• 1:44:36
  It's not the fact that Ukraine or Bosnia
• 1:44:42
  wants to have elections or doesn't.
• 1:44:44
  It's that these particular leaders, Yanukovych and Dodik,
• 1:44:49
  are neutral toward Russia.
• 1:44:53
  You cannot be neutral toward Russia.
• 1:44:57
  You have to hate them.
• 1:44:59
  You have to want to destroy them.
• 1:45:03
  You can't call them the good guys.
• 1:45:06
  They're all mafia drug dealers, just like in
• 1:45:09
  American movies.
• 1:45:11
  They're all killers.
• 1:45:16
  According to Hollywood and according to the US
• 1:45:21
  government and all of NATO and security council.
• 1:45:28
  You ever hear anything good said about them
• 1:45:30
  ever?
• 1:45:33
  Lots of acronyms in that one too, but
• 1:45:35
  I won't go through them.
• 1:45:39
  I mean, it was kind of interesting to
• 1:45:42
  go through this.
• 1:45:45
  I would say this.
• 1:45:47
  The crown always comes with recognition.
• 1:45:54
  You got to recognize this crown.
• 1:45:57
  And you have to recognize, the West has
• 1:46:01
  to recognize, this is how they win.
• 1:46:04
  Every time, this is how they do it.
• 1:46:08
  We recognize it, therefore it is.
• 1:46:13
  We don't recognize it, that means illegitimate.
• 1:46:17
  And somehow our voice is the most powerful.
• 1:46:21
  Why?
• 1:46:22
  Because historically, we have the deep state, we
• 1:46:25
  have globalism.
• 1:46:27
  So, if we install the king, like in
• 1:46:31
  Kosovo, the installed king was the UN mission
• 1:46:35
  in Kosovo.
• 1:46:36
  In Ukraine, we installed the Maidan Western Envoys
• 1:46:42
  and IMF overseers to make sure that the
• 1:46:46
  new leadership post Yanukovych did what we wanted
• 1:46:50
  them to do.
• 1:46:51
  We had Joe Biden over there giving money.
• 1:46:54
  We installed this new government and they had
• 1:46:57
  to be anti-Russia.
• 1:47:00
  They didn't necessarily have to be pro-US,
• 1:47:03
  but that was very helpful too, because that's
• 1:47:05
  how they shared in the money that they
• 1:47:07
  gave to Joe Biden and his son.
• 1:47:10
  I mean, in Bosnia, Schmidt, an unelected German,
• 1:47:14
  rules by force and rules by decree, just
• 1:47:16
  like a king.
• 1:47:18
  That's the first part.
• 1:47:19
  You install the king.
• 1:47:20
  The second part, part two of our playbook,
• 1:47:23
  break neutrality.
• 1:47:25
  Like I said, any leader that refuses to
• 1:47:28
  sever ties, if Yanukovych was anti-Russia, they'd
• 1:47:32
  let him stay.
• 1:47:34
  That wouldn't have happened, no doubt.
• 1:47:37
  If Kosovo was anti-Russia, wouldn't have happened,
• 1:47:41
  no doubt.
• 1:47:42
  Bosnia, if Dodik is anti-Russia, he's not,
• 1:47:46
  but if they could somehow buy him, this
• 1:47:49
  wouldn't happen.
• 1:47:49
  He'd be legitimate.
• 1:47:51
  No doubt.
• 1:47:53
  Then what do you do?
• 1:47:54
  You break their neutrality.
• 1:47:56
  You have to get rid of the ones
• 1:47:57
  who won't.
• 1:47:58
  You get rid of them.
• 1:47:59
  First the king, then the no, get rid
• 1:48:01
  of neutrality, make everybody live with it.
• 1:48:03
  The last one, you recognize.
• 1:48:05
  In Kosovo, unilaterally declared independence.
• 1:48:09
  West recognized it the next day, even though
• 1:48:12
  the UN resolution forbade that.
• 1:48:15
  They couldn't do it, but we did it
• 1:48:16
  anyway, because rules for thee, not for me.
• 1:48:20
  In Ukraine, Yanukovych was basically chased out, and
• 1:48:24
  the West recognized the coup, the new government,
• 1:48:27
  the next morning.
• 1:48:28
  Immediately, we recognize it.
• 1:48:30
  Victoria Nuland helped appoint them.
• 1:48:33
  Then Bosnia today.
• 1:48:35
  Schmidt has already called Dodik's referendum illegitimate, and
• 1:48:39
  he's the high sparrow, but if anybody defies
• 1:48:42
  him, West will simply recognize the institution and
• 1:48:46
  officials who obey the king, and they will
• 1:48:48
  refuse recognition to those who don't, no matter
• 1:48:51
  what Lavrov says.
• 1:48:52
  So let's get back to the Lavrov conference
• 1:48:55
  with Dodik on May 9.
• 1:48:58
  Both of them, as I told you earlier,
• 1:49:02
  laid it out completely.
• 1:49:04
  Bosnia is ruled by an imposter king, a
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  high sparrow who was imposed without the UN
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  Security Council as required under the Dayton agreement,
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  and it undermines the very agreement that the
• 1:49:20
  West signed.
• 1:49:21
  Once again, we sign agreements we have no
• 1:49:25
  intention of following, or somebody changes office, and
• 1:49:32
  they'll say, well, geez, that guy's not around
• 1:49:33
  anymore.
• 1:49:34
  You know, sorry.
• 1:49:36
  And Russia has promised to raise this issue
• 1:49:39
  at the UN in October.
• 1:49:41
  Doubt it'll do him any good, but it
• 1:49:42
  chairs the council, so it at least gets
• 1:49:44
  to bring up the topics, and it's going
• 1:49:47
  to defend the principle that Dayton, the agreement,
• 1:49:51
  and not the king, defines Bosnia's sovereignty.
• 1:49:55
  And Dodik himself has said the referendum is
• 1:49:57
  the people's shield, a democratic answer to the
• 1:50:02
  king's rulings and decrees.
• 1:50:06
  Before a single ballot has been cast, Schmitt
• 1:50:09
  has declared the referendum illegitimate, as has Marco
• 1:50:13
  Rubio, as I told you earlier.
• 1:50:16
  Same part of the script.
• 1:50:17
  You can't vote against the king.
• 1:50:19
  If the referendum goes forward and voters reject
• 1:50:23
  Schmitt, the West will do what it always
• 1:50:26
  does, ignore the result, call it anti-Dayton
• 1:50:30
  agreement, and only recognize those who kneel to
• 1:50:33
  the crown.
• 1:50:36
  Kosovo, Maidan, Bosnia, three crowns of different types,
• 1:50:44
  same kingdom.
• 1:50:46
  The throne is in Brussels and in Washington,
• 1:50:52
  not in Kosovo, Maidan, or Bosnia.
• 1:50:56
  Recognition is what they use, the scepter, to
• 1:51:00
  whoever the West anoints and blesses.
• 1:51:03
  They are legitimate.
• 1:51:05
  Anybody who defies them, Putin's a criminal.
• 1:51:09
  You're a criminal, right?
• 1:51:10
  You're a nationalist.
• 1:51:11
  You're a separatist.
• 1:51:14
  You're a name.
• 1:51:15
  We're going to call you a name, but
• 1:51:17
  if you're anointed, you are blessed.
• 1:51:20
  You are sacred.
• 1:51:22
  What Lavrov said last week on Thursday, I
• 1:51:25
  think it was Thursday, whatever the ninth was,
• 1:51:27
  with Dodik, was pretty blunt.
• 1:51:31
  Destroy Dayton, crown your king, you invite not
• 1:51:36
  peace, but another Balkan war.
• 1:51:41
  That's sad, sad, but true.
• 1:51:46
  That is very sad, but true.
• 1:51:50
  And that, my friends, is my thought on
• 1:51:57
  this.
• 1:52:03
  Bosnia doesn't really have a president anymore.
• 1:52:06
  It's got this high representative.
• 1:52:08
  Sounds nice, doesn't it?
• 1:52:10
  Sounds like Dungeons and Dragons character.
• 1:52:18
  He punishes people who he doesn't want.
• 1:52:23
  And that is a wrap of the story
• 1:52:26
  a few minutes early.
• 1:52:28
  There's a couple of things I wanted to
• 1:52:30
  to also tell you about, if I can
• 1:52:33
  pull them up real quick.
• 1:52:36
  Let me see, because there have been some
• 1:52:39
  other occurrences, and quite a few of them,
• 1:52:44
  in fact, that have occurred.
• 1:52:47
  And I wanted to tell you also about
• 1:52:53
  my show for, I can't decide, and I
• 1:52:57
  think I'm going to do it on Wednesday,
• 1:53:00
  on this sanctions history.
• 1:53:03
  I thought about doing it tonight, and I
• 1:53:06
  knew I wouldn't be able to get this
• 1:53:09
  one done in an hour and a half.
• 1:53:13
  I thought I could get it done in
• 1:53:14
  two hours.
• 1:53:15
  Looks like God's right.
• 1:53:16
  But I may be able to get my
• 1:53:18
  thoughts on these sanctions and the history of
• 1:53:23
  sanctions.
• 1:53:25
  Package number 19.
• 1:53:27
  Here's another package of sanctions.
• 1:53:29
  Package number 19 is coming up.
• 1:53:32
  And I want to talk about it again,
• 1:53:34
  and in detail.
• 1:53:36
  Admittedly, you've got to be interested in this
• 1:53:38
  stuff.
• 1:53:40
  But you should probably pay attention to it,
• 1:53:43
  because this is important.
• 1:53:44
  I found that article I was going to
• 1:53:47
  tell you about on the Ukrainians adding a
• 1:53:50
  three-year-old, a three-year-old, to
• 1:53:53
  their kill list.
• 1:53:55
  A group of Russian children, the youngest of
• 1:53:58
  whom is three years old, has been targeted
• 1:54:02
  by the very controversial Muratvorets website, which really
• 1:54:07
  means peacemaker, which publishes personal details of individuals
• 1:54:12
  it labels as the enemies of Ukraine.
• 1:54:16
  Some people call it the kill list.
• 1:54:18
  According to an entry added on September 13,
• 1:54:23
  a child born April of 2022 is accused
• 1:54:29
  of conscious violation of the state border and
• 1:54:34
  encroachment on sovereignty.
• 1:54:36
  On the same day, five other minors aged
• 1:54:40
  5, 9, 10, 12, and 16 were also
• 1:54:45
  blacklisted for similar offenses.
• 1:54:49
  Earlier this week, a five-year-old and
• 1:54:52
  several 11-year-olds were added.
• 1:54:55
  Russia's envoy for humanitarian issues, Rodion Miroshnik, he's
• 1:54:59
  interesting to listen to, he's always angry, condemned
• 1:55:02
  the targeting of these children, accusing Kyiv of
• 1:55:07
  sowing discord and hatred to incite hostility.
• 1:55:12
  And I liked what he said here, I
• 1:55:14
  want to make sure to read it.
• 1:55:15
  The Ukrainian Reich, the one instead of the
• 1:55:19
  Third Reich, is the Ukrainian Reich, is declaring
• 1:55:21
  toddlers enemies of the state, he said.
• 1:55:26
  The radicals and Nazis who rule the ball
• 1:55:29
  in Ukraine today harass not only politicians or
• 1:55:32
  military personnel, but their children, their close or
• 1:55:37
  distant relatives, seeking to sow the seeds of
• 1:55:41
  hatred as deeply as possible into the shattered
• 1:55:45
  consciousness of Ukrainians.
• 1:55:50
  Wow.
• 1:55:51
  Launched in 2014, then it tells you about
• 1:55:53
  the list, I'm not going to read that
• 1:55:54
  to you.
• 1:55:55
  I listened to something, I saw a debate,
• 1:56:02
  and it was pretty short, and it'd be
• 1:56:05
  fun to play it for you.
• 1:56:07
  And I may actually do that one time
• 1:56:09
  this week, it's certainly in my playlist, and
• 1:56:13
  I might play it.
• 1:56:16
  It's Henry Kissinger on a TV show, a
• 1:56:23
  60-minute sort of program, with a college
• 1:56:31
  professor talking about NATO, talking about NATO expansion
• 1:56:38
  with maps in the 90s.
• 1:56:44
  And I found it pretty enlightening, I talk
• 1:56:49
  about that on a regular basis.
• 1:56:52
  And I found it enlightening, especially because they
• 1:56:58
  somewhat agreed with some of the things that
• 1:57:01
  we were stating.
• 1:57:02
  Now, back in 2018 or so, there was
• 1:57:05
  several articles and several TV shows.
• 1:57:11
  I hope I don't have that year wrong,
• 1:57:13
  but I think he was still alive.
• 1:57:16
  And they were quoting him, and I think
• 1:57:21
  he was on another TV program.
• 1:57:23
  But I don't remember the dates of it.
• 1:57:25
  I'll have to pull that together, because they
• 1:57:28
  said that he, at that time, was for
• 1:57:33
  Ukraine joining NATO, said it was part of
• 1:57:38
  it.
• 1:57:38
  But he was, I don't want to say
• 1:57:40
  against, but he questioned the necessity of doing
• 1:57:46
  it back in the 90s when the Soviet
• 1:57:50
  Union collapsed.
• 1:57:51
  And he outlined some of the things that
• 1:57:54
  are occurring today.
• 1:57:56
  So there you have it.
• 1:57:57
  Well, that's the end of that, my dear
• 1:58:02
  friends and neighbors.
• 1:58:04
  And now I'm going to give you a
• 1:58:06
  what's up coming this week, if we go
• 1:58:12
  to our damn radio schedule, and discuss what
• 1:58:21
  is coming up.
• 1:58:23
  Where are we?
• 1:58:25
  Monday, September the 15th, Shield Maidens of Missouri,
• 1:58:31
  J.R.'s Really Big Shoe, and me again
• 1:58:35
  at 9pm.
• 1:58:37
  Tuesday, September 16, we have Really Big Shoe,
• 1:58:40
  Show Me History, and International Flavor.
• 1:58:43
  Wednesday, the biggest day in radio, we have
• 1:58:47
  Damn Swag, we have Jimmy Tebow, we have
• 1:58:52
  Gabby Hayes who was fun to listen to
• 1:58:55
  last week.
• 1:58:55
  I'm going to listen to him again this
• 1:58:57
  week.
• 1:58:57
  That'll be fun.
• 1:58:59
  We had the Really Big Shoe, we have
• 1:59:01
  Ike Skelton coming in, and then me again.
• 1:59:04
  And then Thursday, my last show of the
• 1:59:07
  week, and we have a Really Big Shoe,
• 1:59:10
  and then rounding out the old Friday, we
• 1:59:14
  have Nadine at 9, we have Really Big
• 1:59:16
  Shoe, and I'll The Beholder with DJ Polly.
• 1:59:19
  Very entertaining.
• 1:59:21
  Well, it has been International Flavor here on
• 1:59:26
  damnradio.com forward slash live.
• 1:59:29
  I encourage you to join me each night
• 1:59:34
  at 9pm, and we can discuss matters of
• 1:59:44
  this nature.
• 1:59:45
  If you would like to listen to them
• 1:59:47
  on my podcast, you can find that at
• 1:59:51
  www.internationalflavor.com.
• 1:59:55
  All my prior podcasts are there.
• 1:59:58
  I appreciate you.