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Ukraine, Russia, Drones & the G7: The War Nobody Wants · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  And every once in a while we get
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  a little bit, uh, I don't know, a
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  little bit pushy with the powers that be.
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  And we get on Civic Outlaws every Friday.
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  And we, uh, I don't know, we throw
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  out some good words about some, uh, people
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  that I think might not necessarily be good
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  people.
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  That's probably a bad thing to say, but,
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  uh, power grabbing, you got to grab that
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  power when you need your power by God,
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  you better take it because you're not going
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  to get a chance twice.
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  Need that power.
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  So big in the news.
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  And, uh, I haven't been able to get
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  the, uh, the full meeting, uh, transcript for
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  you, which I would, uh, like to do,
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  but, uh, Mr. Putin, he met with a
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  bunch of soldiers.
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  So there is a bunch of things going
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  on about the, uh, the war in Ukraine.
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  Uh, it is, it is, people don't, uh,
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  people are getting frustrated by it.
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  So there's been a change over the last
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  couple of months.
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  If you haven't been paying attention, we're back
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  in the world to, uh, to, well, the
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  proper stuff, the, the YouTube friendly variety in
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  the, uh, the Western media love, uh, variety
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  would say that Russia is losing now based
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  on the stuff that they've been, you know,
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  Russia has been winning for a long time.
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  If you, you know, it's a, it's a
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  long and slow slog.
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  And some people disagree with that, with how
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  the war is being, uh, prosecuted, I suppose
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  would be a good word to say it
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  by the, uh, the Putin side.
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  Uh, but you have Zelensky cruising the planet,
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  sending out, uh, threat letters and, uh, surrender
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  now letters.
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  And you have Macron and, uh, Mertz and
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  Starmer getting together in with, with the green
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  goblin and talking about, um, we're with you
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  till the end.
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  We have, uh, the Trumpster over the weekend
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  on his, his birthday, I suppose.
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  Um, um, um, um, um, um, he got
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  a call while I know he got a
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  call from Vladimir Vladimirovich to wish him happy
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  birthday.
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  And he took 40, uh, 55 minutes out
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  of his, uh, out of his busy birthday
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  to meet with, um, to meet with, well,
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  that's not right.
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  That that is no way.
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  Correct.
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  You bunch of a-holes.
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  Okay.
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  Um, sorry, I got something being done and
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  I was checking on it and I'm interrupted,
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  but 55 minutes out of your day by
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  the old, uh, uh, Trumpster is a good
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  deal.
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  So 55 minutes, they talked in, uh, allegedly
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  the content had a lot to do with,
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  uh, Iran and Ukraine and, uh, Ukraine, uh,
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  you know, that's just empty talk.
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  You know, there's, and at the end of
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  it, allegedly the geniuses that are going over
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  to settle this conflict, who are they?
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  Kushner and Witkoff.
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  Okay.
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  They haven't done crap so far.
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  And, uh, I don't, I think they'd be
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  much better off in a, uh, a deal
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  for the United States.
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  Why don't they work on this?
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  How about this?
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  This, this is where they would shine interstellar
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  variety shining for these two.
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  If you put them to work, getting rid
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  of excess government lease property or government property
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  subject to lease that they can't get rid
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  of because the idiotic rules in the government
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  for buildings that you are paying for anyway.
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  And so, you know, if you were in
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  your personal life, you'd just declare bankruptcy and
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  move on.
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  Um, the United States can't declare bankruptcy.
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  Well, they can, they probably should.
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  You don't think it wouldn't surprise me from
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  the drumster go, sorry, America's bankrupt.
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  Put this in front of a judge and
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  have a judge decide what gets paid and
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  what doesn't, uh, because that's what had happened
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  in the bankruptcy code.
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  And I wonder which state the United States
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  would pick.
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  So if you know anything about bankruptcy law
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  at all in, in any basically federal type
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  of law, like IRS law, bankruptcy law, pick
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  stuff that would, would now bankruptcy might not
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  necessarily fit the clean variety of everybody else's,
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  but, uh, I mean of being national, but
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  it's a national rule.
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  Okay.
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  The U S allows bankruptcy.
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  A certain state can't go.
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  Nope.
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  You don't get to go bankrupt because bankruptcy
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  exists, but what a state can do and
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  does is it has its own bankruptcy limits.
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  So the inside of a federal law, when
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  you create a federal law, you have a
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  little carve out section where they don't finish
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  or they leave it vague.
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  And then the states can come in and
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  interpret that portion of the law for themselves.
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  And one of it has to do with
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  exemptions and whatnot, where you can, uh, how,
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  what you get to keep like, and I
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  don't know the rules today, but years ago
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  when I was practicing law, you could have,
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  for example, in Missouri, $15,000 in equity
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  in a home, uh, $3,000 equity in
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  a car.
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  If you file bankruptcy, you want to do
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  it in Texas or a state like that.
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  You basically get to keep everything and you
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  walk away from all your debt.
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  Right.
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  And, uh, I went to law school in
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  Texas and it was pretty funny because there's
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  a chunk on the bar exam having to
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  do specifically with bankruptcy because everybody runs the
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  Texas to do their bankruptcies.
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  And, uh, so anyway, on a bigger picture,
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  maybe the United States, Donald Trump could run
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  to Dallas, uh, get a, you know, I
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  could point him to a friend of mine
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  does bankruptcy down there and, uh, uh, he
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  could, you know, do bankruptcy for the United
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  States of America and wipe out that 39
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  pushing 40 trillion in debt that, uh, you
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  know, we only have one trillionaire on the
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  planet.
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  And we have one debtor on the planet
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  with 40 times as much debt as Elon
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  Musk has income in a year.
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  Now that is depressing.
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  What a country we live in.
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  Isn't that great?
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  Anyway, uh, on the other side of the
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  planet is a country called Russia, mother of
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  Russia, and it's led by Vladimir Vladimirovich and
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  Vladimir Vladimirovich gave a speech, uh, they had
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  a meeting with soldiers.
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  And, uh, the reason I bring it up
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  to you is because we, we started my,
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  my, uh, sort of rolling conversation with the
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  fact that, that the impression that people are
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  trying to give over here in the West
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  is that somehow Russia is losing this war,
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  uh, admittedly on my part and starting to
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  be on the part of the pundits on
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  the Russian side of the planet is the
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  fact that the continual and, uh, aerial bombardment
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  of Russia isn't all that popular in Russia.
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  Now you're far more likely, you know, yesterday,
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  the old green goblin posted a, uh, he
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  had new poll data from Russia that said
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  that Putin's, uh, popularity rating has dipped.
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  It's gone from like 84, 85% down
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  to 65 to 70%, you know, and he's
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  parading this, uh, this around like, you know,
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  it's his victory that it's working.
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  We got him, you know, he's, it's working.
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  Well, I haven't been there recently, still waiting
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  on my passport, Russian consulate, please send it.
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  I need to go to Russia and, and,
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  uh, get a temperature gauge and gauge the
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  people's, uh, gauge the people's, uh, Putin love
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  level, which I, I, I tend to do
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  when I go over there.
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  And, uh, I'd really like to go to
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  some of the places that are getting attacked
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  by these, uh, by these, uh, drones.
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  So drone warfare has become, uh, what, what
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  we do.
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  I mean, the U S Navy, uh, the
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  U S army, we are really disadvantaged today.
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  The playing field is leveling for Iran to
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  strategically defeat the United States or hold them
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  at bay for as long as they have
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  is a couple of testaments to two things.
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  And the first one is people are tired
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  of war and people don't like it.
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  Americans don't like it.
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  I don't think Trump is as popular as
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  he was.
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  He's certainly not with me, with some of
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  the things that he is doing, which I
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  disagree with.
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  Uh, I have a big old something just
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  crashed outside.
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  Maybe, you know how you hear that screech
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  and then you don't get that satisfying crunch
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  at the end when you hear all these
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  breaks and then you don't hear the boom
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  at the end, you get all depressed.
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  Uh, well, we heard the boom and today
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  we got the boom.
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  So we have it.
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  Anyway, the, the, the fact is, is that,
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  um, drone warfare is a fact these days.
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  And point number two, cause I said, point
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  number one was the fact that people hate
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  war.
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  And point number two is everybody can play
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  a video game and war has turned into
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  a video game and they're regularizing it.
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  Next thing you know, somebody is going to
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  get one of those robot style, great, big,
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  uh, instead of a tank, you got a
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  big robot that runs around and shreds thing
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  like, uh, a transformer, you know, one of
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  them kid toys, he gets to turn into
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  a, uh, a robot, a war robot to,
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  to, that you can lead around, you know,
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  Elon Musk could build one.
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  I'm sure they got ideas to build one
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  and just go in and, uh, and destroy
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  and tear things down and, uh, uh, ripped
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  them up.
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  And so war has become far more abstract.
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  And, uh, you know, the people losing their
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  lives on the front line, the old green
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  goblin absolutely does not want to, uh, broadcast
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  that fact, you know, that he can't fill
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  the front lines.
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  I watched, uh, uh, 60 minutes Russia, uh,
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  well, listen to it whilst driving, uh, a
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  long distance this past weekend.
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  And, uh, uh, I listened to 60 minutes
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  and they were, uh, interviewing some, some people
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  on the front lines and talking to them
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  about it.
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  And there were horrible stories about this boosification
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  and they showed repeatedly, uh, video after video,
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  after video of these guys, there was a
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  guy they picked up and, and his, and
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  they were interviewing him in the backseat of
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  his wife's of the, of the car that
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  took him.
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  They broke the window and open the door
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  on the car that he was in and
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  hauled him out and put him in.
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  He was laying in the backseat of his
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  car and they took him out, beat the
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  snot out of him.
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  He had just come out of the hospital
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  for God's sake.
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  And his, I mean, he was out of
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  the hospital, whatever he was doing in there,
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  he was half naked, right?
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  When he came out of the hospital, he's,
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  he's, he's clearly groggy and they're dragging him
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  out of the car and put him in
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  the back of another car.
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  And, and they, the four, four boosification officers
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  beat the snot out of him.
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  I don't mean to laugh about this is
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  freaking sad and threw him in the back
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  of this car.
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  And then his wife is videoing in the
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  car when they're, they're pushing her away and
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  they get it.
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  But there's the car broken window.
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  You know, these guys are beating the snot
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  and there are four healthy young men throwing
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  this middle-aged dude who just got out
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  of the hospital in the back of a
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  car and taking him to the boosification center.
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  This is what's going on.
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  And these are not AI generated videos.
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  Okay.
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  And there's these videos, they're frightening.
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  They are the only way you can travel
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  anymore.
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  And people are starting to take, uh, to
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  take action against them.
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  Like bands of people, you can't go anywhere
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  without taking a band of people.
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  If you're a solitary man walking down the
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  street, you better watch out.
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  You're going to get some boosification right now.
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  And a time of day doesn't matter.
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  They are very, very short.
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  And, um, but nobody's focusing on these things.
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  They're all focusing on the fact that, uh,
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  because Zelensky is not talking about this.
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  No way.
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  What Zelensky is talking about is the defeat
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  that he has put upon Russia.
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  Now these, that is a complete lie, but
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  the fact that everything is done without people
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  anymore and he doesn't need people, all he
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  needs is more money and he can kill
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  the people on the front lines.
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  Russia took over, uh, what's the name of
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  the city?
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  There's a couple there like Kramatorsk is right
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  there.
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  They're getting ready to take over Kramatorsk, which
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  is a big, uh, I think metallurgy and
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  stuff like that in Kramatorsk.
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  And they've got these big factories over there
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  and, uh, they are putting, and Ukraine meanwhile
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  is pulling people out of these areas in
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  the, in the Western Donbass, which there's nothing
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  left.
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  And Russia's almost done to the end.
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  It's like down to 10% or something
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  of what is left of, uh, on the
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  Ukrainian side that they're fighting for.
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  And some of these big cities, uh, that
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  are being fought for, um, are really the
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  final frontline as it were for these people
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  and for Ukraine, I mean, in order to
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  keep it.
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  And they're gonna lose.
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  They are losing.
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  It's, um, it's truly sad, uh, what is
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  going on in Ukraine and worse still is
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  the advertising that goes on, on this side
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  of the planet about how, you know, how
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  wonderful things are going in Ukraine.
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  Cause they are not wonderful.
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  And it's the people are sick of war,
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  but they're sick of war in Iran.
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  They're sick of war in Ukraine.
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  And, uh, the G7 meeting is supposed to
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  be going on here.
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  Is it today?
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  I'm pretty sure it's today.
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  It's probably already been going on because we're
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  seven, eight hours behind them.
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  And, uh, so Geneva ahead of the summit,
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  the police were, uh, you know, they're demonstrators
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  in Switzerland, big time riot police in Geneva
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  were with, uh, clashing with protesters, uh, yesterday.
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  Uh, there's a group of seven summit that's
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  going to happen in France.
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  And, uh, the violence disrupted a no G
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  seven demonstration that drew thousands of people.
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  Uh, Geneva is about 30 kilometers from a
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  French resort town on Lake Geneva, where the,
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  uh, G seven summit is scheduled to take
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  place Monday through Wednesday.
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  And Trump is supposed to attend the Swiss
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  authorities closed 25 of 35 border crossings, citing
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  security.
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  They don't want people go over there, protest,
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  say, close a border around 60 organizations, representing
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  causes, including feminist groups, trade unions, supporters of
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  Palestine, Kurdish statehood, uh, took part in the
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  Geneva march organizer said 20,000 people attended
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  and a crowd of 7,000 was at
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  the start and violence, you know, did come
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  up.
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  The police were there with the big hoses.
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  You know, there was windows of a bank
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  that were knocked out.
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  A Tesla car was burned out.
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  Um, but it wasn't clear if it was
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  deliberate or not, but it caught fire.
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  Um, Elon Musk, the co-owner and CEO
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  of Tesla is the world's first trillionaire after
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  SpaceX raised 75 billion.
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  And I love you that close.
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  I guess it really doesn't matter.
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  What's another 75 billion.
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  I mean, come on.
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  It's among friends.
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  How about throwing us a billion, you know,
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  a toss me a billion and you'll be
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  happy.
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  You did it.
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  You know, that's, that's what I'm saying.
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  You know, give, give a little bit of
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  your money to me.
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  You give a little bit of your fame.
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  I don't want any fame.
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  I just want the money.
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  Okay.
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  Just give me the money.
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  Um, apart from these clashes, there was a
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  five kilometer March that took along the shores
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  of Lake Geneva, which passed near the UN
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  headquarters and, uh, uh, or quarters.
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  I mean, where people, all they live, it's
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  a whole region.
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  And it was, they were loud and colorful,
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  but contained is what they say.
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  They chanted slogans against fascism, against imperialism and
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  capitalism.
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  One picture, a banner described president Trump as
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  a dinosaur and he's devouring the earth.
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  Okay.
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  Donald Trump, the dinosaur is devouring the earth.
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  So the G seven get this is a
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  funny part for me.
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  And the reason I'm telling this, the G
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  seven was formed in 73 as a club
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  of the world's largest economies, but his influence
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  has declined because none of them are the
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  largest economies.
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  So especially China has gained greater weight in
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  global economy.
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  Credits argue that the format is very outdated
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  and far less relevant than, uh, even the
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  G 20, but they're pushing toward the bricks
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  and stuff like that.
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  Uh, Zelensky isn't on the G seven meeting
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  list, but guess who's going to be there
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  anyway, the green goblin.
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  Um, they're trying to, uh, he's expected to
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  attend, uh, to seek what?
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  More money, more money to fund kids drone
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  war.
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  Cause that's all they got left is a
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  drone war and political reports that Ukraine hopes
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  to raise up to $20 billion on his
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  visit.
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  Well, if, uh, the old, uh, you know,
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  we can't have, um, Elon Musk giving him
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  too much money because then he might dip
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  below the 1 trillion Mark.
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  You know, if he got below there, that
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  would be, he's no longer a trillionaire.
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  What it's going to be flexible.
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  So green goblin don't expect anything from the
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  old Elon Musk, but it's a pretty cool
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  photo.
• 21:04
  Maybe I should post it on my website,
• 21:06
  the dinosaur, uh, Trump.
• 21:08
  I love his hairdo.
• 21:09
  It's very nice.
• 21:10
  And he's devouring the earth.
• 21:12
  So it could be worth, I'll save the,
• 21:14
  I'll save the, uh, image.
• 21:17
  We'll save the image in my Sam folder
• 21:21
  because that's what we do here at damn
• 21:24
  radio.
• 21:24
  We save things in the proper place.
• 21:27
  Isn't that right?
• 21:29
  Of course I can't find it, but you
• 21:31
  know, Oh, well can't have everything.
• 21:34
  Uh, garage isn't big enough.
• 21:36
  You know, if I had a bigger garage,
• 21:38
  maybe I could have everything.
• 21:40
  Um, let's see.
• 21:44
  We are going to save this dinosaur.
• 21:46
  We're going to save him.
• 21:47
  And then we had, uh, here's an opinion
• 21:51
  piece for you.
• 21:53
  Uh, but I'm not going to share it
• 21:55
  with you till after I tell you what
• 21:56
  happened with the old, uh, Putin over the
• 22:00
  weekend.
• 22:01
  Uh, so last week they were, um, Russia
• 22:05
  day came and went and, uh, he invited
• 22:09
  to the Kremlin.
• 22:11
  They came to the Kremlin.
• 22:12
  There's a, uh, a huge, uh, set of
• 22:17
  tables, probably 30, 40, uh, soldiers all in
• 22:22
  a big round sort of format, but it
• 22:25
  wasn't around a square.
• 22:26
  Sorry.
• 22:26
  Uh, but it was all the tables put
• 22:28
  together so they could each look across and
• 22:31
  see Vladimir Vladimirovich.
• 22:32
  And he had a senior, a very senior
• 22:35
  department of defense guy in the room.
• 22:37
  And basically they televised a, uh, I don't
• 22:41
  know, 45 minute, um, speech of, uh, uh,
• 22:48
  a meeting of Putin to take their questions.
• 22:50
  And these guys were not generals.
• 22:56
  These guys were, you know, were, they were
• 23:00
  frightened to be there and speaking with Putin.
• 23:05
  One guy was stuttering all over himself.
• 23:08
  And, and, and he's just like, he kept
• 23:10
  going, listen, excuse me.
• 23:11
  I'm very, uh, you know, overwhelmed here trying
• 23:14
  to speak to you and a young man,
• 23:17
  you know, maybe, uh, 30, if, if that,
• 23:20
  and, uh, the average age in the room
• 23:22
  was, was, was pretty young, these young soldiers
• 23:25
  and, uh, captains, um, uh, sergeants, uh, they
• 23:30
  had a couple of proper cheeky, uh, uh,
• 23:35
  warrant officers, what that would, would translate to
• 23:38
  those types.
• 23:39
  And then, uh, so it's basically your frontline
• 23:42
  supervisory forces, like what I was in the,
• 23:46
  in the army is, is, uh, as most
• 23:48
  I ever was, was a platoon sergeant, right?
• 23:50
  Running 60, 80 guys, right?
• 23:53
  And, uh, so this, this is those type
• 23:56
  of people, the commanders of, of, uh, frontline
• 23:59
  units.
• 24:00
  All these guys were, uh, on the front
• 24:02
  lines and they were talking about the, the,
• 24:05
  their needs during the war.
• 24:07
  And, uh, um, they, they got the, the
• 24:10
  chance to ask questions.
• 24:11
  And I don't believe these questions were, uh,
• 24:15
  propaganda, were, were, were put together as questions
• 24:19
  that, that were there.
• 24:20
  And I was trying to, and I thought
• 24:22
  I had already done it, gotten the full
• 24:25
  translation of it, but I haven't, I might
• 24:28
  get it for you for tomorrow.
• 24:29
  But the important point was they were all
• 24:31
  talking about, uh, technology.
• 24:34
  They were all talking about we're winning and
• 24:36
  they were also talking about, but our hands
• 24:41
  are somewhat tied and, uh, uh, you know,
• 24:45
  we want to, we want to go forward,
• 24:49
  you know, we want to do more.
• 24:52
  And, uh, they're very, all these guys were,
• 24:55
  um, he, he said, he told the minister
• 24:59
  of defense, he said, Hey, I want you
• 25:01
  to give all these guys a couple of
• 25:02
  days of rest.
• 25:04
  Now for me, I thought that was a,
• 25:06
  a weak point of the, uh, of the,
• 25:10
  uh, session.
• 25:13
  I don't think I'd have offered that where
• 25:16
  I, him, those guys were clearly not there
• 25:18
  for vacation and they didn't come to get
• 25:22
  a rest in Moscow, but he, as he
• 25:24
  was going around the room, he, he interviewed
• 25:25
  one guy.
• 25:26
  He said, um, he said that he was
• 25:30
  from whatever region and I didn't catch the
• 25:33
  region.
• 25:33
  And I, you know, and I wasn't taking
• 25:35
  notes cause I was driving and, uh, but
• 25:38
  he said to the kid and the kid,
• 25:40
  you know, I, I, I, the kid couldn't
• 25:43
  have been, I don't know, 30.
• 25:45
  He was a young man and he stood
• 25:46
  up and he said, listen, I'm from, and
• 25:49
  they introduced themselves.
• 25:50
  I'm from this area.
• 25:51
  I do this.
• 25:52
  Uh, I'm, uh, I'm a, uh, frontline, uh,
• 25:57
  I don't know, uh, artillery commander, you know,
• 26:02
  and, and this is what I do.
• 26:03
  I have a team of, of 20 guys.
• 26:05
  I do this.
• 26:06
  And then this is, this is my part
• 26:08
  in this, uh, war that's going on.
• 26:10
  And, uh, uh, Putin interrupted him and he
• 26:14
  said, uh, are you're from that region?
• 26:17
  He said, yeah.
• 26:18
  He said, that's a, that's our, our largest
• 26:20
  coal region.
• 26:21
  And he said, yes.
• 26:22
  He said, uh, he goes, uh, have you
• 26:25
  worked in the coal mines?
• 26:26
  And the guy goes, yeah.
• 26:28
  Uh, my, my family is where he goes.
• 26:30
  He said for generations, people have worked in
• 26:32
  those coal mines in our, uh, you know,
• 26:34
  or, you know, how are things there.
• 26:35
  And they talked for a few minutes about,
• 26:37
  uh, about coal production or a few seconds.
• 26:40
  I mean, a few minutes.
• 26:42
  No, they didn't.
• 26:42
  Um, the, the whole conversation with the guy
• 26:44
  was about four or five minutes.
• 26:46
  And, uh, and he spoke with this kid
• 26:48
  and this kid was like, yeah, uh, you
• 26:50
  know, our, our region is, uh, is growing.
• 26:53
  I'm glad to be representing my region and,
• 26:55
  uh, and the coal of whatever.
• 26:57
  And, uh, you know, and, uh, you know,
• 27:00
  he worked in the, in the mines.
• 27:02
  So did his family, all his brothers and
• 27:03
  mothers and stuff like that.
• 27:05
  And now he's a, uh, how long have
• 27:07
  you been in the military?
• 27:08
  He's in the military for four or five
• 27:09
  years.
• 27:10
  And he went to the command school in
• 27:12
  St. Petersburg or wherever.
• 27:13
  And, and he did this with quite a
• 27:15
  few of them, which command school, which this,
• 27:17
  and they have, you know, tons of command
• 27:18
  schools that he went over and Putin's pretty
• 27:19
  well informed on where they go, what they
• 27:21
  do.
• 27:22
  And he was talking about it.
• 27:23
  And, uh, uh, so, uh, this guy, this
• 27:27
  guy, yeah.
• 27:28
  And he tries to make them feel a
• 27:30
  little more comfortable is what I was, what
• 27:32
  I'm thinking.
• 27:32
  That's what I would do if it was
• 27:34
  me.
• 27:34
  And that's what it seemed like he was
• 27:36
  trying to do.
• 27:36
  Public speaking is a, uh, uh, kind of
• 27:39
  a tough skill, uh, you know, years ago,
• 27:42
  as in Toastmasters and, uh, surprises me how
• 27:45
  people can't get up and state their point
• 27:47
  of view.
• 27:48
  Uh, you know, that's one of the scariest
• 27:50
  things on the planet.
• 27:51
  And this guy, one of the first ones
• 27:54
  to stand up, not the coal miner guy,
• 27:56
  but he had a similar question to one
• 27:58
  of the first guys that stood up.
• 27:59
  And the first guy that stood up said,
• 28:01
  listen, uh, I'm, I'm freaked out here.
• 28:05
  He's stuttering all over trying to talk.
• 28:08
  And he's like, excuse me, excuse me, Vladimir
• 28:12
  Vladimirovich.
• 28:13
  And he calls him a, they call him
• 28:15
  the Supreme, um, Glavnik commander.
• 28:18
  You, she, which is, uh, the Supreme, well,
• 28:21
  basically Supreme commander in, in, uh, uh, and
• 28:24
  he's very, very, and they, they give the
• 28:26
  title.
• 28:27
  And the reason I always say Vladimir Vladimirovich
• 28:30
  is because when you speak to someone in
• 28:33
  Russia that you are unfamiliar with, you have
• 28:37
  to use the email or just the name
• 28:41
  or just was the middle name.
• 28:42
  That's your father's basically.
• 28:44
  It'd be like saying Sam son of Clifford,
• 28:47
  you know, um, you know, whoever, uh, uh,
• 28:51
  Vladimir son of Vladimir basically is what they're
• 28:54
  saying.
• 28:55
  And, and it's a respectful way to talk.
• 28:58
  And so, uh, you know, Vladimir Vladimirovich is
• 29:01
  how they refer to him, but for him,
• 29:03
  he gets sometimes some other stuff, uh, honored
• 29:09
  or would be honored.
• 29:11
  And you've got all these other words that
• 29:13
  you could throw in there to make it
• 29:15
  nice and flowery when you're going to speak
• 29:17
  to someone who you respect, but a respectful
• 29:20
  way to deal with them is find out
• 29:22
  what their father's name was.
• 29:23
  And usually that'll be there, you know, for
• 29:26
  you to find out in a, and you
• 29:28
  don't just get to go, Hey Vlad, what's
• 29:30
  going on?
• 29:31
  You know, that's, that's rude.
• 29:32
  Okay.
• 29:33
  And so, uh, his guy was, was up
• 29:36
  there and he's like, listen, I'm, I'm totally
• 29:38
  freaked out.
• 29:39
  But many of the questions that the first
• 29:42
  guy, the second guy, they were talking about,
• 29:45
  um, drones and they were talking about, you
• 29:49
  know, we make all this progress and we
• 29:51
  get all, and we're, we're kicking the snot
• 29:54
  out of them, uh, up and down the
• 29:56
  thousand mile, a thousand kilometers of, um, front
• 30:00
  line, which is true.
• 30:02
  Then they are advancing slowly, churning leverage.
• 30:05
  Even Putin said it, he said that it
• 30:07
  was going slow.
• 30:08
  And I'm only telling you this as a
• 30:10
  backdrop for, uh, for the article I'm going
• 30:12
  to share with you.
• 30:13
  And, uh, it's, um, you know, the geniuses
• 30:17
  that are running Europe don't get it.
• 30:19
  And, uh, Zelensky's, uh, that don't get these
• 30:22
  guys are not somebody you just roll over
• 30:26
  with a few drones.
• 30:27
  And the fact that, uh, Putin may have
• 30:30
  dropped some in the polls because, uh, Zelensky
• 30:33
  has nothing left to throw at him except
• 30:37
  drones is a Testament to propaganda arms and
• 30:43
  financing arms that are giving him the money
• 30:46
  to do it for their own reasons.
• 30:49
  That's the point of all of this.
• 30:52
  And when, when Putin started his speech and
• 30:56
  he, and before he spoke with these guys
• 30:58
  and he talked quite a bit about the
• 31:00
  drones, because many, many questions about the drones
• 31:03
  from a bunch of guys out there and
• 31:05
  what we can do.
• 31:06
  And some, and some suggestions, he suggested that
• 31:09
  one guy meet specifically with the head of
• 31:12
  the, uh, department of defense that what, one
• 31:15
  of the, you know, whoever the glove and
• 31:16
  the commander, the guy that was sitting right
• 31:18
  next to him, uh, from the department of
• 31:20
  defense, that guy, he was, uh, uh, saying,
• 31:23
  look, you need to get with this guy
• 31:25
  because it looks like your ideas.
• 31:27
  And he says, untie the hands of the
• 31:30
  people on the front lines.
• 31:31
  And one of the conversations was let us
• 31:34
  buy.
• 31:35
  We know how to fix some of these
• 31:37
  things and can do it ourselves.
• 31:39
  But just like in the regular army, you
• 31:42
  got to go up and, you know, in
• 31:43
  the United States, I mean, where, where, where
• 31:45
  our ideas were accepted and desired, but the
• 31:51
  wheels of implementation go forever and you never
• 31:55
  get to put them in.
• 31:56
  You may have an idea, you know, that,
• 31:58
  uh, could save, I don't know, a hundred
• 32:01
  bucks, you know, on every part you put
• 32:03
  out in the waste that I saw in
• 32:07
  the military was ungodly waste.
• 32:12
  And I'm sure they have something similar in
• 32:14
  the beer, any bureaucratic systems, just a wasteful
• 32:17
  system.
• 32:18
  And, uh, you're, you're overburdened with idiots that
• 32:21
  don't have jobs and they, they just got
• 32:23
  to punch a button and they hold the,
• 32:25
  the key to this, this rubber stamp that
• 32:28
  you need to, you know, that's stuck in
• 32:30
  a box behind their desk.
• 32:32
  And the only way you can get that
• 32:34
  rubber stamp to get something stamped on your,
• 32:36
  on your paper to give you the approval
• 32:39
  to go and buy this item or pick
• 32:42
  it up at the supply shop in, uh,
• 32:45
  uh, the, um, in the rear, you know,
• 32:49
  where people have, where the supply Sergeant is,
• 32:52
  is you got to have this, this particular
• 32:54
  stamp from this particular Sergeant who approves all
• 32:57
  these.
• 32:58
  So you got to go lick his rear
• 33:00
  end for a while.
• 33:01
  And then they give you the stamp and
• 33:04
  hold it out and know they have power
• 33:05
  over and Lord it over you.
• 33:07
  And then you get to go to the
• 33:09
  guy in the back.
• 33:11
  If there's only one step, you just need
• 33:13
  the one stamp.
• 33:14
  If you need six stamps, Jesus, you're, you
• 33:17
  know, the welcome to the United States army.
• 33:19
  And then you finally get to go to
• 33:21
  the place where you get your stuff.
• 33:23
  And that guy makes you wait for an
• 33:26
  hour and a half and has a sign
• 33:27
  on it that says your failure to plan
• 33:30
  doesn't create my emergency.
• 33:33
  And, uh, basically I'll get to you when
• 33:36
  I get to you.
• 33:37
  And how come you didn't think about this
• 33:40
  emergency two years ago when you should have,
• 33:43
  and, uh, you know, that's, that's what these
• 33:46
  soldiers were bitching about was bureaucracy.
• 33:49
  It's like, man, I had to go to
• 33:51
  Russia and open an arm of civic outlaws
• 33:54
  over there, because what do we bitch about
• 33:56
  the most bureaucracy?
• 33:58
  So I can tell you a ton of
• 34:02
  stories about bureaucracy, but I'll give you a
• 34:04
  quick one, uh, for four months, let's see.
• 34:07
  I bought a truck, uh, I don't know,
• 34:11
  four or six months ago, long time ago.
• 34:13
  And, uh, I mailed the paperwork to get
• 34:16
  my license plates, sent them off, shipped them
• 34:21
  away.
• 34:22
  They got sent back, said, well, we don't
• 34:25
  accept the Missouri form.
• 34:27
  You need a Florida form.
• 34:28
  And here is a Florida form.
• 34:29
  You can download it here.
• 34:31
  It's like, Jesus, what the hell you, why
• 34:34
  don't you say that in your initial, you
• 34:36
  know, it's nobody ever puts all the rules
• 34:38
  out there.
• 34:39
  Jesus.
• 34:39
  Yeah.
• 34:39
  How are you going to get anything done?
• 34:41
  So how are you going to, how are
• 34:43
  you going to have bureaucracy with a job?
• 34:47
  You know, you don't have a job if
• 34:48
  you have something simple and by God, you
• 34:50
  can't do anything.
• 34:51
  And so long in the short of it
• 34:53
  is, uh, two mailings and a trip to
• 34:56
  Florida.
• 34:56
  And I finally got a license plate truck,
• 35:00
  which has been sitting in the gathering dust
• 35:02
  because I can't drive it because it's got
• 35:05
  no plates.
• 35:06
  And, uh, uh, so, but now I finally
• 35:08
  got the freaking plates and, uh, it was,
• 35:11
  it was a nightmare and, uh, only because,
• 35:17
  uh, well, not only because I, I assume
• 35:19
  because it was going back and forth.
• 35:20
  And I, when I went down there, the
• 35:22
  funny part is I got there, they're open
• 35:24
  on Saturdays and I went there at, and
• 35:26
  I got there at nine 20 in the
• 35:28
  morning and I was number 68 that had
• 35:32
  come up, uh, you know, six, 68 people
• 35:34
  in front, 67 in front of me, in
• 35:36
  other words.
• 35:37
  And, uh, so your place is packed.
• 35:42
  It's like, Holy crap.
• 35:43
  What do they sleep in here?
• 35:44
  Like it's a concert or something, but apparently,
• 35:47
  you know, there's not a lot open.
• 35:48
  And so, uh, uh, at any rate in
• 35:51
  there, I get, I get up there finally
• 35:54
  at 1115 in the morning.
• 35:57
  Uh, no, no, I'm sorry.
• 35:58
  It was 1135 in the morning.
• 36:00
  Uh, they, uh, uh, at 1115, they said
• 36:03
  no more people can come in the door.
• 36:06
  And, um, so 1135, I get up there,
• 36:11
  give them all my paperwork.
• 36:12
  I've already been through this twice by mail.
• 36:14
  Right.
• 36:15
  And I give them all my paperwork, pass
• 36:17
  it over.
• 36:17
  Lady does it.
• 36:18
  And she looks at, she goes, I need
• 36:20
  this.
• 36:21
  I was like, it's right there.
• 36:23
  She goes, yeah, but it doesn't say this
• 36:25
  on it.
• 36:26
  It doesn't say zero.
• 36:27
  And basically, basically I needed something from the
• 36:30
  car dealer to, uh, show that I, that,
• 36:34
  you know, that I paid them what was
• 36:37
  needed.
• 36:37
  There was a down payment number, a pile
• 36:39
  of money.
• 36:40
  And then there was another part that was
• 36:42
  going to be financed.
• 36:43
  And I said, no, it's gotta lean.
• 36:45
  You know, you just stamp lean and off
• 36:47
  you go, you know, of course I paid
• 36:49
  that or I wouldn't be here with all
• 36:51
  that.
• 36:51
  You know, it's got to say, got to
• 36:54
  say paid or got to say zero.
• 36:55
  I said, but they don't do them that
• 36:57
  way.
• 36:57
  She goes, Florida ones do like, all right.
• 37:01
  I get up.
• 37:02
  It's like, Oh shit.
• 37:04
  I got 20 minutes to figure this out.
• 37:06
  And sorry to swear like that.
• 37:08
  And I said, I had 20 minutes to
• 37:09
  figure this out.
• 37:10
  I get out and start harassing the BMW
• 37:12
  dealer up in Columbia.
• 37:14
  And sorry to give the name.
• 37:17
  I probably shouldn't, but I called him.
• 37:19
  I was like, Jesus, can you give me
• 37:20
  this?
• 37:20
  Here's the contract.
• 37:21
  Here's this.
• 37:22
  He goes, well, this is old.
• 37:23
  No kidding.
• 37:24
  I've been doing this from afar.
• 37:27
  And now I finally came down to get
• 37:28
  this done.
• 37:29
  This is why I'm here.
• 37:31
  And, uh, uh, it's, I don't want to
• 37:34
  drive and go to jail.
• 37:35
  Jesus.
• 37:36
  I'd love that, you know, to, to, to,
• 37:38
  to get you for no plates and throw
• 37:40
  you in prison for six years.
• 37:42
  That'd be great.
• 37:43
  And, uh, so I, I, uh, coerced this
• 37:48
  guy to send me the paper.
• 37:49
  I go back up to the line.
• 37:50
  There's still, uh, I go up to the
• 37:52
  same lady and, uh, she's got another customer
• 37:55
  of course.
• 37:56
  And I was like, and she goes, email
• 37:58
  it to this address.
• 37:58
  I emailed to that address and I'm interrupting
• 38:00
  the other people because Jesus, I only got
• 38:03
  the one day I flew down there for
• 38:04
  this.
• 38:05
  And, uh, so she, she, she says, um,
• 38:09
  nope, that won't work.
• 38:11
  You have to have this.
• 38:12
  And I was like, it says it right
• 38:14
  there.
• 38:14
  Nope.
• 38:14
  It's got to say here.
• 38:15
  I said, all right.
• 38:16
  So I called the guy back up.
• 38:18
  I said, Hey, how's it going?
• 38:20
  That's not gonna work.
• 38:22
  He goes, why not?
• 38:23
  It's, I don't know.
• 38:24
  It's bureaucracy.
• 38:25
  Just put this on it.
• 38:26
  And he did.
• 38:27
  And he sent it back and I stood
• 38:29
  there and by the time, so now they're,
• 38:31
  the line is there.
• 38:32
  The people in front of me were registering
• 38:34
  like four cars to this lady, right?
• 38:36
  She told me to wait till after them.
• 38:38
  And, uh, so I'm waiting for them and
• 38:40
  they're having fun in the line and you
• 38:42
  know, there's things going on and, and, uh,
• 38:44
  it's a, uh, the place is starting to
• 38:46
  empty out.
• 38:48
  I was the very last person.
• 38:51
  I got out of there at two 15.
• 38:53
  They closed at noon.
• 38:55
  I got there at nine 20 something.
• 38:59
  And, uh, that was it.
• 39:00
  Anyway, that was my bureaucracy.
• 39:02
  Well, these soldiers that are talking to Putin
• 39:05
  are bitching about what bureaucracy.
• 39:08
  I have an idea.
• 39:09
  He said, we all know one of these
• 39:11
  guys stands up.
• 39:12
  He says, I have an idea.
• 39:13
  We all know that these things transmit at
• 39:16
  the, uh, between the ranges of, uh, uh,
• 39:20
  I don't know, whatever gigahertz, 50 gigahertz and
• 39:23
  250 gigahertz.
• 39:25
  And this band is where they are.
• 39:27
  And these guys, we, and the ones that
• 39:28
  we have don't go that low.
• 39:30
  They need to go a couple bands lower.
• 39:33
  I can go to a local shop and
• 39:34
  buy this sort of, um, uh, a bandwidth
• 39:38
  enhancer and, uh, I can, um, uh, we
• 39:44
  could probably fix it on the front line.
• 39:46
  We, you know, we, we, we, we, you
• 39:48
  know, I need these, I need these things.
• 39:50
  I need to be able to do it,
• 39:51
  but I can't really do it.
• 39:53
  And then I also need the ability to
• 39:55
  get this idea to somebody and tell them
• 39:57
  what we need.
• 39:58
  And, uh, uh, Putin says, you've spoken to
• 40:00
  your commander.
• 40:01
  He says, yes, I've spoken to my commander
• 40:02
  and I've gone forward.
• 40:04
  And, uh, the reason I tell you this
• 40:06
  story is, is it's because this is what,
• 40:09
  if Putin is losing the propaganda war, it's
• 40:15
  because this, uh, drone warfare is beating up
• 40:21
  things.
• 40:22
  It's blowing up, uh, girls, uh, pedagogue, pedagogical
• 40:26
  school and killing 25, uh, young students.
• 40:30
  You know, the Ukrainians are brutal and, uh,
• 40:33
  they are just brutal.
• 40:34
  They attack these things on purpose.
• 40:36
  There ain't no way they made that mistake,
• 40:39
  you know, three times and you go and
• 40:40
  they, they've done it before the beaches at
• 40:43
  a boot at a, I'm sorry, the beaches
• 40:45
  that, um, on the Crimean shoreline where they
• 40:49
  took, uh, uh, what do they call those,
• 40:52
  uh, fragmentation grenades that, uh, uh, that shoot
• 40:57
  out little balls of, uh, of, uh, BBs
• 41:00
  and stuff and did it on a beach
• 41:02
  on a Sunday afternoon in Crimea.
• 41:04
  I mean, people don't even talk about this
• 41:06
  shit, but this is what they're doing.
• 41:08
  And they're doing it to bring the war
• 41:12
  home to the Russian people.
• 41:15
  And they're attacking non-military targets because there
• 41:20
  are people that have suffered in Ukraine as
• 41:22
  well.
• 41:23
  Okay.
• 41:24
  And, uh, now, but Russia, very, very, very
• 41:28
  few have of their, they don't intentionally target
• 41:32
  and nobody can point to the intentional target
• 41:35
  they've tried to, you know, with the butcher
• 41:37
  thing that was a fake.
• 41:38
  And then they talk about Russian disinformation and
• 41:41
  all that happy crappy.
• 41:42
  But when Putin is listening to these soldiers,
• 41:46
  I, I think something like that, a meeting
• 41:49
  like that, the reason I wanted to listen
• 41:51
  to it and watch it is because that
• 41:56
  is reality.
• 41:58
  Those guys, I, you know, you think about
• 42:01
  it and I'm sitting there thinking about it
• 42:03
  from the military point of view of Sam,
• 42:05
  the young Sergeant who was in charge of
• 42:08
  a lot of stuff and, uh, uh, you
• 42:10
  know, had heads, uh, at one point the
• 42:13
  students in the student realm, I had a
• 42:16
  hundred students that reported to me.
• 42:18
  And, but in the combat, um, prep in
• 42:22
  Fort hood, Texas, you know, the most I
• 42:25
  ever had was I was in a regiment
• 42:26
  flight regiment and we had small teams.
• 42:29
  I had like 12 guys.
• 42:31
  That's it.
• 42:31
  And, um, but you know, in combat, I
• 42:34
  had, I had three helicopters and, uh, uh,
• 42:37
  cause I was signed for them.
• 42:38
  Damn things.
• 42:39
  I don't fly helicopter.
• 42:40
  I've never saw it qualified, but I can't
• 42:43
  fly the damn thing.
• 42:44
  I just jump out of them or, or,
• 42:46
  or, uh, anyway, it's, uh, uh, the bureaucracy
• 42:51
  and the frontline stuff.
• 42:53
  These are frontline.
• 42:53
  You can imagine what the commanders of these
• 42:57
  guys are all watching.
• 42:59
  I guarantee it.
• 43:00
  They, the guys in charge of the guys
• 43:03
  at the table talking to Putin, they are
• 43:06
  definitely watching.
• 43:07
  And these guys have got to be careful
• 43:10
  what they say.
• 43:11
  And they say, you know, we, we, we,
• 43:13
  uh, greet you from the unit of whatever,
• 43:17
  150th guards.
• 43:18
  And, uh, and we're frontline unit in the,
• 43:21
  uh, the saver group of forces or the
• 43:24
  usually group of forces, whatever.
• 43:26
  And we, you know, we, we greet you
• 43:30
  and honor you from this unit.
• 43:32
  And now here's my question, you know, I,
• 43:35
  and, and trust me, the commanders are watching
• 43:38
  their company.
• 43:39
  I hope this kid don't screw it up.
• 43:40
  I hope he doesn't put a point out.
• 43:41
  I'll go, you know, anything bad about the
• 43:43
  unit.
• 43:44
  And, but you get a guarantee that the
• 43:46
  boss is sitting in the back list or
• 43:48
  another office miles away, you know, obviously back
• 43:51
  set back on the frontline is still gone.
• 43:54
  Hope this guy doesn't screw it up for
• 43:55
  me.
• 43:57
  And the guy says, uh, well, with these
• 43:59
  drone things, we can't work them.
• 44:01
  Cause you know, Jesus, the stuff you give
• 44:02
  us is, uh, 200, 200 Hertz out of
• 44:06
  range.
• 44:06
  And we can't, uh, we can't get there.
• 44:08
  And Putin here's, here's Putin's answer to him.
• 44:11
  He says, have you spoken to, uh, your
• 44:16
  commanders?
• 44:16
  Yes, I have.
• 44:17
  Have you passed this up?
• 44:18
  He said, yes.
• 44:18
  He said, well, the wheels of, uh, uh,
• 44:22
  progress, you know, sometimes turn slowly.
• 44:24
  He said, what I want you to do
• 44:26
  is meet with this guy right here.
• 44:27
  He's he's the, you know, afterward you come
• 44:30
  meet with him.
• 44:31
  He said, there may be things that you
• 44:32
  can do.
• 44:33
  And he said, he said, how long are
• 44:34
  you guys here?
• 44:35
  You know, he said something to the whole
• 44:37
  crew while they sent them up.
• 44:38
  Has venue, have you been to Moscow before?
• 44:41
  You know, and some of them, yes, some
• 44:42
  of them know.
• 44:43
  And he goes, well, I, you know, we're
• 44:45
  going to keep you here a couple of
• 44:46
  days.
• 44:48
  You know, how'd you like that?
• 44:49
  You know, we're going to keep you here
• 44:50
  a couple of days.
• 44:51
  You relax, you find out the city, you
• 44:53
  meet with this guy.
• 44:54
  I want all of your ideas.
• 44:56
  And, uh, and the, the commander, the, the,
• 45:00
  the department of defense guys.
• 45:02
  Uh, yeah.
• 45:05
  He takes it and it was such a
• 45:07
  real meeting.
• 45:08
  You know what I mean?
• 45:09
  It was, it was a real, uh, a
• 45:12
  real event.
• 45:13
  And, um, and for these soldiers, obviously something
• 45:18
  huge.
• 45:21
  And, um, it's, I don't know, it was
• 45:27
  worth the hour that it took me to
• 45:29
  watch it, you know, or to listen to
• 45:31
  it.
• 45:32
  And, uh, uh, he, he, Putin is an
• 45:37
  interesting fellow, no matter how you slice it.
• 45:39
  And, uh, I believe he's got his country's,
• 45:42
  uh, uh, you know, just like Trump, he's
• 45:44
  got his country's, uh, best interests at heart
• 45:49
  as he sees them.
• 45:51
  Is he always right?
• 45:52
  Not remotely.
• 45:53
  Is he doing a good job?
• 45:55
  And is he liked by the people generally?
• 45:57
  Yeah.
• 45:58
  And I feel similar about, uh, Trump with
• 46:03
  plenty of reservations, you know, and I got
• 46:05
  reservations about Putin too, but Putin's not my
• 46:07
  glove in the commander.
• 46:08
  He's not my, uh, my, uh, Supreme leader,
• 46:13
  you know, my Supreme commander.
• 46:14
  It's not, it's not him.
• 46:16
  Mine is, uh, uh, and I'm supposed to
• 46:19
  bitch about Trump and watch in that meeting
• 46:22
  with these guys.
• 46:24
  These are guys who were allowed to bitch.
• 46:29
  Uh, so you bring them in and, and
• 46:32
  I'm telling you it, uh, and you know
• 46:33
  how you start a trend, like, uh, nobody
• 46:36
  wants to be the first one to bitch
• 46:38
  and the first one gets up and he
• 46:40
  says, you know, my, my name is Simeon
• 46:42
  Simeonovich or whatever it is.
• 46:44
  And I, uh, um, I'm in the front
• 46:46
  lines and whatever.
• 46:47
  My God, I'm really, I'm really scared to
• 46:49
  be here.
• 46:50
  I can't talk.
• 46:51
  And he's stuttering and he's, and Putin's like,
• 46:55
  listen, just, just calm down.
• 46:56
  It's okay.
• 46:57
  We're, we're very glad we're here.
• 46:58
  You, we honor you.
• 47:00
  We think you're, and he put the guy
• 47:03
  at ease, just like any normal, uh, person
• 47:06
  trying to solve a problem would he put
• 47:09
  the guys at ease and talk to them.
• 47:11
  And the whole point of this meeting was
• 47:13
  that they could come and bring their issues
• 47:15
  and concerns from the frontline and that, uh,
• 47:18
  uh, Putin could do exactly what he's doing,
• 47:21
  which has appeared to be, um, uh, listening,
• 47:26
  paying attention.
• 47:27
  And he was, and, uh, and he listened
• 47:30
  and he talked to these guys and sure
• 47:33
  it's propaganda, you know, them posting that and
• 47:35
  it being available on YouTube, which it was
• 47:38
  taken down.
• 47:39
  You know, I can't find it now.
• 47:41
  You know, you can, you can, you have
• 47:42
  to go search for these things and it's
• 47:44
  crazy.
• 47:45
  And, uh, this is, it's the, the lack
• 47:52
  of freedom of speech in the West or
• 47:54
  the lack or the, the fact that they
• 47:56
  just get rid of stuff.
• 47:58
  You know, I still bitch about panchenka not
• 48:01
  being available anymore on YouTube that she got,
• 48:04
  she got, uh, too confrontational.
• 48:07
  I listened to Alex Christopher, who is, you
• 48:09
  know, and he put up something and he
• 48:11
  said he was, uh, he was blocked, uh,
• 48:13
  and, um, what do they call it?
• 48:15
  Throttling.
• 48:15
  He was throttled, uh, by YouTube for unpopular,
• 48:22
  uh, you know, he, he, he said some
• 48:24
  things about Ukraine, about Iran.
• 48:27
  You can't do it or YouTube will throttle
• 48:30
  you.
• 48:30
  YouTube's Google.
• 48:31
  And, uh, you know, if you're not arguing
• 48:33
  with your AI that comes from Google or
• 48:37
  your AI that comes from China or your,
• 48:40
  uh, you know, whether you're using deep seek,
• 48:42
  whether you're using Claude, whether you're using grok,
• 48:46
  whether you're using chat, GPT, all of their
• 48:50
  data.
• 48:50
  And here's the problem.
• 48:52
  If there's a problem with the AI, this
• 48:54
  is why everybody and why Putin talked about
• 48:56
  in his economic forum last week, which I
• 48:59
  brought to you, why he talked about, we
• 49:00
  need our own AI platform because otherwise you're
• 49:05
  getting LGBTQ crap thrown in it, thrown at
• 49:09
  you from the West.
• 49:10
  You're getting, uh, you can't be rude to,
• 49:13
  uh, Donald Trump or you'll get throttled on
• 49:16
  certain channels.
• 49:17
  You can't, uh, spout anything that appears to
• 49:21
  be anti-Israel or you will get throttled.
• 49:26
  And, and that's, that's what they, we are
• 49:29
  live.
• 49:30
  Our freedom of speech is limited.
• 49:32
  Can I sit here at the, and come
• 49:34
  to you live from the Lake Ozark real
• 49:36
  estate of the art studio?
• 49:37
  I sure can.
• 49:39
  And I can say whatever Jr will allow
• 49:41
  me to say.
• 49:42
  And so far he hasn't limited me.
• 49:44
  He hasn't said, well, you can't do that.
• 49:46
  And, uh, and if he did, I'd be
• 49:48
  pissy about it, you know, because my words
• 49:51
  are my words.
• 49:51
  My opinion or my opinion, I don't need
• 49:54
  Fox news, CNN, anybody else giving me my
• 49:59
  opinion and telling me what to think.
• 50:01
  I'm not telling you what to think.
• 50:02
  I don't care what you think.
• 50:04
  I'm telling you what I think.
• 50:06
  I mean, I shouldn't say it that way.
• 50:07
  That sounds rude.
• 50:08
  I do care what you think, but what
• 50:10
  you think I might be able to influence,
• 50:13
  but I would never demand, you know, that
• 50:16
  you bow down and go, Oh gee, that's
• 50:17
  Sam's genius.
• 50:18
  He's right.
• 50:19
  No, Sam has his own opinion and you
• 50:21
  should have yours.
• 50:22
  And as long as it's developed and based
• 50:25
  upon, uh, a healthy review of the data
• 50:30
  at hand about a particular thing.
• 50:33
  Great.
• 50:34
  Uh, you know, and, and you can disagree,
• 50:37
  you can come to a different conclusion.
• 50:39
  You could watch the same video that I
• 50:41
  watched with the old, uh, Vladimir Vladimirovich and
• 50:44
  all those soldiers coming to him from the
• 50:46
  front lines and interrogating him and come to
• 50:49
  a different conclusion.
• 50:52
  I get that, you know, that's, that's freedom
• 50:55
  of speech.
• 50:56
  That's what I mean.
• 50:57
  But these guys were able to go and
• 50:59
  talk to him.
• 50:59
  And you know, it's not like any of
• 51:01
  them are going to the Gulag because they
• 51:03
  brought up that you don't have this 200
• 51:05
  Hertz range.
• 51:07
  And they were, he, he, he was truly
• 51:09
  interested in what they had to say.
• 51:12
  And that was the important part.
• 51:15
  He wanted to know what they had to
• 51:16
  say.
• 51:17
  And everybody demonizes Putin.
• 51:19
  You know, I'm supposed to be a Putin
• 51:21
  lover.
• 51:21
  Well, you to do the demonizing him, demonize
• 51:25
  him.
• 51:25
  Haven't listened.
• 51:26
  All you're getting are the tiny little chunks
• 51:30
  that they propagandize over here.
• 51:34
  Okay.
• 51:35
  And, uh, I'm going to play, I'm going
• 51:38
  to take a tiny song break and hopefully
• 51:40
  be able to get a coffee during that.
• 51:42
  But there's a song that I've been meaning
• 51:45
  to play over here.
• 51:46
  It's a Russian song, but it's about, uh,
• 51:50
  uh, Pikachu.
• 51:51
  Uh, you remember the little, uh, what are
• 51:55
  they called?
• 51:56
  Uh, the little, I don't know what they're
• 51:58
  called.
• 51:59
  The little, uh, stuffed animals that the kids
• 52:02
  play with.
• 52:03
  Uh, it's not a Gremlin.
• 52:05
  What do they call those guys?
• 52:06
  Shit.
• 52:07
  I don't remember, but, uh, he's, he's a
• 52:10
  little Chinese dude, Pikachu.
• 52:13
  And they used to have these cards that
• 52:15
  they would, everybody had these trading cards with
• 52:17
  all these little warriors and Pikachu was one
• 52:20
  of them and Pikachu, whatever his skills are,
• 52:23
  God knows.
• 52:23
  I don't know, but, um, maybe he had
• 52:26
  bow hunting skills and, uh, nunchuck skills, kind
• 52:31
  of like Napoleon Dynamite.
• 52:32
  Right.
• 52:33
  And, uh, so, you know, he had skills.
• 52:36
  And so anyway, there's a song about Pikachu
• 52:39
  and it's a pretty funny song now.
• 52:41
  Oh, it's not that long though.
• 52:43
  It's not going to give me time to
• 52:44
  get any coffee.
• 52:45
  So we'll make sure that, uh, Tanya, uh,
• 52:47
  Tanya Kortukova is afterward.
• 52:51
  Matushka Zemlya is after Belyaya Biryozynka.
• 52:54
  She's going to be second, but first we'll
• 52:56
  get the Pikachu song and I'll go grab
• 52:58
  a bottle of water or a coffee, just
• 52:59
  a bottle of water is what I'm going
• 53:01
  to do.
• 53:02
  And then we'll take a break and we
• 53:03
  will come back and have some more entertainment.
• 53:09
  Here she comes.
• 53:12
  Well, that is a pretty popular, um, Russian
• 53:18
  song last couple of years.
• 53:20
  And, uh, let's see.
• 53:23
  I wanted to share with you, you know,
• 53:26
  Russia is answering these drone attacks they're answering.
• 53:31
  And so when you watch, uh, what is
• 53:35
  going on financially, diplomatically, politically, everybody is trying,
• 53:42
  still trying the same.
• 53:43
  You know, I talked to you last week
• 53:45
  about the sanctions package, number 21, you know,
• 53:48
  today's going to be the G seven, the
• 53:51
  seven most worth except for the United States.
• 53:55
  Of course, the seven, the seven or the
• 53:57
  others, you know, you just wonder what are
• 54:00
  the changes?
• 54:01
  I mean, what do they really get out
• 54:03
  of meeting as a G seven?
• 54:05
  What do they get is they get my
• 54:07
  crown.
• 54:08
  France is a tiny relatively.
• 54:11
  I mean, when you go compare the rest
• 54:13
  of the world, what are they doing in
• 54:14
  G seven, G seven presumes the top seven.
• 54:17
  The reason they made it was the top
• 54:19
  seven economies.
• 54:20
  These countries inside the G seven aren't in
• 54:23
  the top seven.
• 54:25
  They're not England's not France isn't Germany's bear.
• 54:29
  If Germany's there, uh, they're barely there.
• 54:32
  And, uh, so it's the world has changed
• 54:35
  since the G seven people.
• 54:37
  In fact, some of the protesting I was
• 54:39
  telling you about earlier is because it's irrelevant.
• 54:42
  What's relevant is more along the lines of
• 54:44
  the G 20.
• 54:45
  And even that has some problems because only
• 54:48
  the chosen few get to chance to run
• 54:51
  the show.
• 54:53
  So people, that's what people are bitching about.
• 54:55
  That's why they're protesting.
• 54:56
  That's why they're starting crap on fire in
• 54:59
  places is because the world is changing and
• 55:04
  Trump and company.
• 55:06
  And I don't mean Trump specifically, but the
• 55:08
  dinosaur metaphor probably works and I'm an old
• 55:11
  dude.
• 55:12
  So there you have it.
• 55:14
  So Russia and answer has been doing, what
• 55:17
  do they call them?
• 55:18
  Mirror engagements, your mirror engagement and they're matching.
• 55:22
  And in fact, by far worse scenarios, they
• 55:27
  are escalating and bombing the snot out of
• 55:33
  Ukraine right now.
• 55:35
  And, uh, they confirmed strikes last night on
• 55:38
  more military facilities, a malfunction, Patriot interceptor, uh,
• 55:44
  struck a historic monastery in Kiev.
• 55:48
  So they blown up monasteries.
• 55:50
  Now, um, they destroyed a Sevastopol yesterday.
• 55:53
  The big story, the Ukrainians are attacking things
• 55:57
  that mean something to Russians.
• 55:59
  Okay.
• 56:00
  Now one of the unspoken agreements in war
• 56:04
  is you don't destroy historic artifacts and buildings.
• 56:10
  You don't do it.
• 56:11
  And if you do, you're the lowest of
• 56:15
  low.
• 56:15
  In my opinion, you, you, you are, uh,
• 56:18
  you have suddenly that's a line that you
• 56:22
  shouldn't be crossing.
• 56:24
  Do things accidentally occur?
• 56:25
  Sure.
• 56:26
  In the, but, but Ukraine intentionally attacked a
• 56:30
  panorama of the Russian Navy, uh, which, um,
• 56:36
  has been an icon in Sevastopol forever on
• 56:41
  the black sea.
• 56:43
  And so what do you do?
• 56:44
  You destroy stuff.
• 56:45
  That means things, uh, mean things to somebody
• 56:48
  that'd be like destroying the local mosque or
• 56:51
  the local, um, um, cathedrals, you know, in
• 56:56
  a lot of these European cities and destroying
• 56:59
  them.
• 56:59
  And what they're saying is, is the Ukrainians
• 57:02
  fired their own Patriot and hit, hit a
• 57:05
  historic monastery.
• 57:07
  Uh, now Ukraine's going to use that to
• 57:10
  twist.
• 57:10
  Oh, look, they blew up our monastery.
• 57:12
  Well, if they did, and this is, that's
• 57:15
  BS too, but if you're going to attack
• 57:17
  historic targets in, in Moscow and historic, uh,
• 57:22
  things that mean something to people, you should
• 57:24
  expect to hit.
• 57:25
  I don't know the facts about whether a
• 57:27
  Patriot malfunctioned and hit the, hit the monastery
• 57:31
  in hell if I know, but it wouldn't
• 57:33
  surprise me if the, if the Russians did
• 57:36
  a mirror, did a mirrored response and I'm
• 57:39
  not for it, you're destroying history.
• 57:41
  I hate it.
• 57:43
  I don't want you to do that.
• 57:45
  I'd love to go to Ukraine and see,
• 57:47
  see this historic site.
• 57:48
  I'd like to go to Russia.
• 57:50
  That's the fricking point to travel is to
• 57:53
  see these things that you never get to
• 57:54
  see in life.
• 57:55
  I want to go to India and do
• 57:57
  the same thing, you know, and I've been
• 58:00
  to 57 countries and what do I always
• 58:02
  go see historic places.
• 58:05
  I try to find the oldest crap in
• 58:07
  the area and go see it.
• 58:08
  And I go to tea plantations, coffee plantations,
• 58:12
  and, uh, alcohol distilleries.
• 58:14
  And those are my three kind of hobbies.
• 58:17
  You know, I want to go see these
• 58:18
  things.
• 58:19
  If I go to Mexico, I go to
• 58:21
  a tequila factory.
• 58:23
  You know, if I go to a Caribbean
• 58:26
  place, I want some rum and I want
• 58:28
  to figure out how they make it to
• 58:30
  go to Russia.
• 58:30
  I go to a vodka place.
• 58:32
  I go to Kentucky.
• 58:33
  I go to a whiskey place, get myself
• 58:36
  a bottle of whiskey, uh, you know, and
• 58:39
  shop around at five or six other places.
• 58:41
  But his history, you know, whiskey bottles, you
• 58:45
  can replace history.
• 58:46
  You can't replace that shit.
• 58:47
  You people are nuts.
• 58:49
  Um, but the Russians have carried out overnight
• 58:52
  long range tax on military industrial facilities in
• 58:55
  three Ukrainian cities.
• 58:57
  And they, they took out some airfields conscript
• 59:00
  offices.
• 59:02
  Uh, that's, that was announced this morning.
• 59:06
  The strikes last night involved drones and missiles
• 59:09
  from air, land, and sea platforms said the
• 59:13
  ministry.
• 59:14
  And, uh, in a follow-up, they said
• 59:17
  a total of 16 industrial targets were hit.
• 59:20
  There was a plant that produced drone warheads
• 59:22
  and boosters for the Flamingo cruise missiles that
• 59:25
  Ukraine has been trying to use.
• 59:28
  They're taking over.
• 59:29
  What they've done is they're calling them the
• 59:31
  Flamingo and they've take, they're starting to build
• 59:33
  plants based on a French and British designs,
• 59:37
  um, storm shadow or whatever.
• 59:40
  They take all the design and say, well,
• 59:42
  since, uh, the technology, you know, you don't
• 59:44
  want to share the, uh, technology, bring it
• 59:47
  over here.
• 59:47
  We'll build them here.
• 59:49
  Then there'll be Ukrainian missiles and not French
• 59:52
  or British or German.
• 59:54
  And we'll supply them with our own Elon
• 59:57
  Musk style because Elon's paying for all their,
• 1:00:01
  uh, uh, internet.
• 1:00:03
  We're going to get out.
• 1:00:05
  We'll, we'll boost a couple of our own
• 1:00:07
  satellites.
• 1:00:07
  I don't think Ukraine has done that yet,
• 1:00:09
  uh, because they still have to be targeted
• 1:00:12
  with Western data because they don't have their
• 1:00:14
  own.
• 1:00:15
  So targeting, they still got to get it
• 1:00:17
  from somewhere.
• 1:00:18
  And so that's, that's, that's where they're going
• 1:00:20
  to get it.
• 1:00:21
  So the 16 industrials, including the Flamingo place,
• 1:00:25
  the, uh, there was a strike on a
• 1:00:27
  postal terminal in Kiev and, uh, for logistics
• 1:00:31
  that delivered parts for drones and electronic warfare
• 1:00:34
  systems, this stuff that, uh, these guys were
• 1:00:37
  talking about because the new drones fly on
• 1:00:39
  a different set of megahertz and Russia has
• 1:00:42
  the, the drones that fly, uh, their wire
• 1:00:45
  guided.
• 1:00:46
  And so they, they can't be jammed.
• 1:00:48
  And so they can, and that's what this
• 1:00:50
  guy was asking Putin.
• 1:00:51
  He said, uh, you know, we can't jam
• 1:00:53
  at this hertz level.
• 1:00:54
  They've changed their Hertz level.
• 1:00:56
  We need a different one.
• 1:00:57
  I know where the parts are.
• 1:00:58
  I mean, he was pretty, pretty knowledgeable and
• 1:01:01
  I know how to get it.
• 1:01:01
  So all these things tie together.
• 1:01:04
  So Moscow said a cinema studio in Kiev
• 1:01:06
  was struck because Ukrainian forces use that facility
• 1:01:10
  to program Kama to Kazi drones, uh, for
• 1:01:14
  attacks on Russia.
• 1:01:15
  Ukrainian sources say that, uh, in Kiev, Kharkov
• 1:01:20
  and Nipper, the cities named in the Russian
• 1:01:23
  statement, they reported these attacks.
• 1:01:25
  The Ukrainian military said it had 70 incoming
• 1:01:29
  missiles and 600 drones and a partial power
• 1:01:33
  outage in Kiev and disruption of rail services.
• 1:01:36
  Ukrainian media said, uh, and they showed, and
• 1:01:39
  I got a video here.
• 1:01:40
  You could watch on X that showed a
• 1:01:42
  fire at one of the cathedrals at Kiev
• 1:01:45
  pitchers monastery.
• 1:01:47
  And they said the blaze was linked to
• 1:01:50
  the Russian operations and the Russians say that
• 1:01:52
  it was a, uh, uh, Patriot, uh, missile
• 1:01:57
  that did it.
• 1:01:58
  The Russian ministry said it does not target
• 1:02:01
  sites without military value and blames the damage
• 1:02:04
  on the U S Patriot interceptors.
• 1:02:07
  And, uh, they suggest a, uh, projectile malfunction
• 1:02:11
  due to old age.
• 1:02:13
  I malfunction due to old age.
• 1:02:15
  Uh, Kiev is complaining of a shortage of
• 1:02:19
  missiles and Patriots and they don't have them.
• 1:02:21
  And they, they, uh, they can't pay for
• 1:02:24
  them, which I don't understand.
• 1:02:25
  You got hundreds of billions of dollars coming
• 1:02:29
  to you.
• 1:02:29
  You buy it, sell one of your freaking,
• 1:02:32
  uh, uh, dachas sell, uh, um, sell your,
• 1:02:35
  uh, Villa in, uh, the Caribbean.
• 1:02:40
  Uh, the monastery has been the center of
• 1:02:43
  a prolonged dispute over control of its property
• 1:02:46
  for a long time.
• 1:02:47
  Ukrainians have been pushing for church assets to
• 1:02:50
  be transferred from the, uh, Orthodox church to
• 1:02:54
  the government Orthodox church of Ukraine or to
• 1:02:58
  the state itself.
• 1:02:59
  So Kiev is trying to steal to well,
• 1:03:01
  take, take over the monastery anyway.
• 1:03:05
  And, um, Russian strikes are, uh, you know,
• 1:03:10
  the escalation in Russian strike or the drone
• 1:03:13
  strikes is huge over the last month or
• 1:03:15
  so.
• 1:03:16
  Um, we've been watching a very serious increase
• 1:03:20
  in the number.
• 1:03:21
  Kiev is wanting yet another 20 billion to
• 1:03:24
  pick up this week, uh, to, you know,
• 1:03:26
  while at the G seven meeting and he'll
• 1:03:28
  get it, you know, they'll give you more
• 1:03:30
  money.
• 1:03:30
  Oh yeah.
• 1:03:31
  Okay.
• 1:03:31
  Let me write you check, you know, here
• 1:03:34
  you go.
• 1:03:34
  Green Goblin have this and give us some
• 1:03:37
  more money.
• 1:03:38
  And it's another 20 billion from a Western
• 1:03:41
  backers.
• 1:03:41
  So last week the Ukrainian strike caused damage
• 1:03:44
  to a museum in Sevastopol dedicated to the
• 1:03:48
  defense of the Crimean Peninsula during the 19th
• 1:03:51
  century wars with Turkey, Britain, and France.
• 1:03:54
  And, uh, so an old facility and the
• 1:03:58
  Ukrainians blew it up.
• 1:04:00
  Um, so the tax on Ukrainian conscription centers
• 1:04:03
  came hours after the largest protest in Kiev
• 1:04:06
  that have, that was huge sparked by force
• 1:04:09
  mobilization and the mass demonstration was broken up
• 1:04:13
  by riot police.
• 1:04:14
  They use tear gas and, uh, they, I
• 1:04:18
  mean, it was a big deal.
• 1:04:19
  Um, the anti-mobilization protesters, basically a crowd
• 1:04:25
  attempted to stop a gang from snatching a
• 1:04:29
  man off a street.
• 1:04:30
  And like I was telling you, the police
• 1:04:33
  use tear gas against dozens of protesters on
• 1:04:36
  Sunday night, an angry crowd gathered to defend
• 1:04:40
  a man who was being grabbed off the
• 1:04:41
  street by draft officers.
• 1:04:43
  And they're yelling at him.
• 1:04:44
  You know, they're yelling at these draft officers,
• 1:04:47
  shame, shame on you for what you're doing.
• 1:04:50
  And, uh, they ambush military age men on
• 1:04:53
  the streets at their workplaces, outside homes and
• 1:04:56
  hospitals and use pretty, pretty massive force against
• 1:05:00
  these guys when they try to run.
• 1:05:02
  So this is a, we call it boosification,
• 1:05:06
  uh, because they're shoved in into buses, the
• 1:05:10
  busification, busification, autobuses, the word auto, uh, they
• 1:05:14
  call them off to Lucy, but, but a
• 1:05:17
  bus.
• 1:05:17
  So it's boosification that they shove them in
• 1:05:21
  a bus and get them off, but it's
• 1:05:22
  not even a bus anymore.
• 1:05:23
  It's car four guys, stuff them in a
• 1:05:27
  car.
• 1:05:27
  You see a bus coming, do you know,
• 1:05:29
  boosification stamped on the outside, but you don't
• 1:05:32
  see that on the cars.
• 1:05:33
  So now they just get out, beat the
• 1:05:35
  crap out of people in the streets and
• 1:05:37
  then, uh, uh, shove them in a car
• 1:05:39
  and get rid of them, send them off
• 1:05:41
  to die at the front line.
• 1:05:43
  I don't mean to laugh about that, but
• 1:05:45
  this is what it is.
• 1:05:46
  The do Deutsche well, a newspaper in Deutschland,
• 1:05:49
  uh, in Germany said, uh, Ukrainian military's hooked
• 1:05:53
  on drugs, big report, big report.
• 1:05:56
  Drug addiction is a growing problem among Ukrainian
• 1:05:59
  troops away, but yeah, but who wouldn't you're
• 1:06:01
  losing your asses here and your lives in
• 1:06:03
  many, uh, scenarios, uh, growing problem among Ukrainian
• 1:06:07
  troops.
• 1:06:07
  Um, uh, here we are five years in
• 1:06:10
  and, uh, Deutsche well, uh, reported this and
• 1:06:13
  the sites, the experience of former Ukrainian Marine
• 1:06:16
  Corps officer who, uh, was interviewed by them
• 1:06:20
  cities on drugs.
• 1:06:21
  And, uh, they attribute the problem to combat
• 1:06:24
  injuries, psychological exhaustion.
• 1:06:26
  Many servicemen spend months on the front line
• 1:06:29
  with no rest and prospects for demobilization.
• 1:06:32
  They'll get boosification and mobilization, but no demobilization
• 1:06:38
  narcotics are banned in the military, but heavy
• 1:06:42
  losses, lack of rotation, acute manpower shortages, force
• 1:06:46
  wounded troops back to the front before they're
• 1:06:48
  fully recovered.
• 1:06:51
  And according to report published last week, more
• 1:06:54
  than half of Ukrainian soldiers serving on the
• 1:06:57
  front line have great experience with drugs, alcohol,
• 1:07:02
  or a combination of both.
• 1:07:05
  Um, no army in modern history has fought
• 1:07:09
  four years without rotation says psychotherapist eager alpha
• 1:07:15
  Ralph.
• 1:07:16
  He said this to Deutsche well, he said
• 1:07:18
  that when commanders do not grant leave and
• 1:07:21
  there is nobody else to do the fighting,
• 1:07:25
  the troops feel a definite sense of injustice,
• 1:07:28
  justice, frustration.
• 1:07:30
  You know, you can't do it.
• 1:07:31
  Family problems.
• 1:07:33
  I'm sure exist that many soldiers have relatives
• 1:07:36
  that live abroad, you know, that live in
• 1:07:39
  the United States, live somewhere else, but they
• 1:07:41
  got to fight.
• 1:07:42
  And, uh, the spouses drift this lady, you
• 1:07:46
  know, one guy interviewed said my wife plans
• 1:07:48
  to stay in Europe because there are prospects
• 1:07:51
  there for the children, but I'm at war
• 1:07:54
  in Ukraine and every day, you know, I
• 1:07:56
  get closer to death.
• 1:07:57
  Basically a former Ukrainian servicemen and a patient
• 1:08:01
  at a rehabilitation clinic said, uh, that, uh,
• 1:08:05
  drug addiction cost him his career.
• 1:08:08
  I had more than 200 men under my
• 1:08:11
  command and took part in a number of
• 1:08:14
  successful operations.
• 1:08:15
  He said, and that, uh, after being, um,
• 1:08:20
  his condition deteriorated and that he lost control
• 1:08:24
  of everything because he got addicted to drugs
• 1:08:26
  after he got wounded.
• 1:08:27
  And, uh, earlier this year, a local resident
• 1:08:31
  rescued from Krasnoarmeysk in the Donetsk area was
• 1:08:36
  liberated by Russian forces in 2025.
• 1:08:39
  That part of the city Krasnoarmeysk, uh, told,
• 1:08:42
  uh, the newspaper that most Ukrainian troops in
• 1:08:45
  the city use drugs delivered by drone in
• 1:08:49
  the form of candies wrapped in camouflage packaging,
• 1:08:53
  and then in tax intoxicated soldiers clash with
• 1:08:57
  civilians.
• 1:08:58
  And, uh, sometimes the incidents end in gunfire.
• 1:09:02
  So the Guardian reports that Ukrainian servicemen, uh,
• 1:09:06
  in, you know, large numbers of them are
• 1:09:08
  developing drug addiction and the scale is kind
• 1:09:11
  of hard to assess because of no official
• 1:09:14
  data.
• 1:09:15
  And, uh, they link it in part to
• 1:09:17
  post-traumatic stress, stress, I mean, and, uh,
• 1:09:22
  anxiety from prolonged combat exposure.
• 1:09:25
  So I don't know.
• 1:09:27
  It's, uh, this war not ending has effects
• 1:09:31
  on everybody, but, uh, on the front lines,
• 1:09:35
  um, Konstantinovka was taken.
• 1:09:39
  That's a big city.
• 1:09:40
  The Russians are, uh, uh, claiming that they
• 1:09:43
  have taken that.
• 1:09:44
  And that really opens up the lines for
• 1:09:46
  the next two cities in Ukraine.
• 1:09:49
  My argument is that Ukraine is throwing all
• 1:09:54
  of these drones because that's all they have
• 1:09:56
  left are, you know, people sitting in, um,
• 1:10:02
  bunker style or basement style or, uh, Metro
• 1:10:07
  rail style bunkers and operating drones into Russia,
• 1:10:14
  uh, or even on the front line, but,
• 1:10:17
  uh, they don't get any, they're not stopping
• 1:10:20
  the front line.
• 1:10:21
  The front line isn't stopping.
• 1:10:23
  And what's odd to me is they're not
• 1:10:26
  defending that Ukraine.
• 1:10:29
  The reason I believe they have nothing is
• 1:10:31
  because Ukraine is not defending its own country.
• 1:10:37
  It is on the attack and destroying historic
• 1:10:40
  artifacts, destroying, uh, destroying civilian infrastructure, trying to
• 1:10:46
  kill regular non-military citizens.
• 1:10:51
  And, uh, that's all they have left.
• 1:10:55
  You know, they can't get any more people.
• 1:10:58
  Their problem is manpower and they don't have
• 1:11:03
  it.
• 1:11:03
  And all they're doing is making it worse.
• 1:11:06
  So you might get some limited pleasure out
• 1:11:10
  of bombing the snot out of Russia, you
• 1:11:14
  know, geez, we can get anywhere in Russia.
• 1:11:16
  Well, good for you.
• 1:11:17
  What's it going to do?
• 1:11:18
  What's, how's that going to end in the
• 1:11:20
  end?
• 1:11:21
  How will it be?
• 1:11:22
  It's not going to change a damn thing
• 1:11:24
  because Russia's still advancing on the front lines.
• 1:11:30
  Russia is pushing hard in the summer, uh,
• 1:11:35
  summer offensives and Ukraine's got nothing left.
• 1:11:39
  They sent Siersky, the general or the command
• 1:11:42
  general into Konstantinovka himself was in there.
• 1:11:49
  So he's managing this.
• 1:11:51
  And if he didn't, if he doesn't save
• 1:11:53
  that, I imagine his, his, uh, command time
• 1:12:00
  will be over.
• 1:12:02
  Meanwhile, you have the green goblin.
• 1:12:06
  Nobody talks at all anymore about the fact
• 1:12:08
  that he's a dictator, about the fact that
• 1:12:10
  there's no elections and never will be.
• 1:12:14
  You're not getting elections.
• 1:12:15
  You're done.
• 1:12:17
  Zelensky runs that place.
• 1:12:18
  Zelensky is the emperor, but you know, he's
• 1:12:21
  going to be the, the Stalin of the
• 1:12:23
  UK.
• 1:12:24
  Well, Ukraine, not the UK.
• 1:12:26
  He over there, they think he's a Churchill.
• 1:12:29
  He's Churchill.
• 1:12:30
  That guy is not Churchill.
• 1:12:33
  Churchill was better dressed.
• 1:12:35
  You know, it's a, maybe if he put
• 1:12:36
  a suit on once in a while, maybe,
• 1:12:39
  but I doubt it.
• 1:12:42
  Um, let's see here.
• 1:12:44
  I wanted to share with you the, uh,
• 1:12:48
  an article, an opinion piece by, um, Tariq
• 1:12:55
  Amar, a historian from Germany.
• 1:12:59
  Um, and he works on the issues of
• 1:13:02
  Russia, Ukraine, Western Europe, you know, stuff like
• 1:13:04
  that.
• 1:13:05
  And he, he has, uh, some pretty good
• 1:13:07
  articles come up.
• 1:13:09
  And, uh, I'm going to share that with
• 1:13:11
  you.
• 1:13:11
  I think probably at the end of the
• 1:13:13
  show here, because it's, it's not that long.
• 1:13:17
  Let's see.
• 1:13:21
  Um, you can't argue with a man observing
• 1:13:25
  the obvious.
• 1:13:28
  Welcome professor obvious.
• 1:13:30
  You say shit like that to people.
• 1:13:32
  Uh, we are living in unusually perilous times
• 1:13:36
  in the middle East.
• 1:13:37
  The Israeli American infernal duo have been on
• 1:13:40
  a rampage of state terror, all purpose devastation
• 1:13:45
  and genocide that with a bonus has also
• 1:13:48
  brought the world economy to the verge of
• 1:13:51
  cardiac arrest by clogging one of its vital
• 1:13:54
  fossil fuel arteries.
• 1:13:57
  Indeed that particular risk is so obvious that
• 1:14:01
  even Germany's less than brilliant Friedrich Merz has
• 1:14:06
  long spotted it in the far East.
• 1:14:10
  Taiwan is ruled by a government so hell
• 1:14:12
  bent on antagonizing their fellow Chinese mainland that
• 1:14:18
  type pays political reflexes seem almost as perverse
• 1:14:22
  as those in Berlin.
• 1:14:23
  In the West, you have Germany elite, which
• 1:14:26
  can't find enough billions to fork over to
• 1:14:29
  Ukraine.
• 1:14:30
  When Ukraine and friends blow up Germany's vital
• 1:14:33
  pipelines and lethally cripple it's already ailing economy
• 1:14:41
  in the East, there is type pay getting
• 1:14:46
  really, really angry when the Philippines and Japan
• 1:14:49
  start negotiating away Taiwan's maritime exclusive, exclusive economic
• 1:14:55
  zone.
• 1:14:57
  Angry that is at Beijing and in the
• 1:15:01
  you, the garden of values that is a
• 1:15:04
  really a swampy jungle of eternal confusion and
• 1:15:07
  corruption.
• 1:15:07
  The catastrophe that in its foreign policy is
• 1:15:13
  now obvious enough for several European bigwigs to
• 1:15:17
  gang up on the ragingly incompetent casual callus.
• 1:15:23
  Her tenure as the de facto EU foreign
• 1:15:27
  minister has been so breathtakingly blundering that her
• 1:15:31
  employers aren't merely itching to kick her out,
• 1:15:35
  but think about in essence abolishing her job,
• 1:15:39
  being so horrible at something that you won't
• 1:15:43
  just get fired yourself, but take the whole
• 1:15:45
  shop down with you.
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  Perhaps only the Baltic girl boss wonder could
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  pull that one off, but then maybe it's
• 1:15:53
  really all just another power grab by the
• 1:15:56
  EU's German queen, the absolute queen and U
• 1:16:00
  .S. Viceroy Ursula von der Leyen.
• 1:16:04
  Either way, frightful insanity abides.
• 1:16:09
  We could add more scary and grotesque evidence,
• 1:16:12
  but things are clear.
• 1:16:14
  It's a grim picture all around.
• 1:16:18
  I like how he writes.
• 1:16:19
  So fair enough.
• 1:16:21
  If you feel like being a big, sad
• 1:16:23
  downer and do monger where it gets weird
• 1:16:26
  is when you get your scare priorities upside
• 1:16:29
  down.
• 1:16:30
  Granted, from the hapless NATO EU European perspective,
• 1:16:35
  Russia may look a little unsettling.
• 1:16:37
  After all, once you have waged years of
• 1:16:40
  proxy war sanctions and propaganda war against Russia,
• 1:16:44
  who knows what the mood really is like
• 1:16:46
  in Moscow.
• 1:16:48
  As a good NATO EU apparatchik, you certainly
• 1:16:51
  would not know because you have displayed the
• 1:16:55
  foresight of a gnat by proudly not talking
• 1:16:58
  or listening to the Russians is what I've
• 1:17:02
  been saying for years.
• 1:17:04
  So when you feel a little insecure, that
• 1:17:06
  might really be your bad conscience calling in
• 1:17:10
  a merely professional, not moral sense, which you
• 1:17:13
  are likely to lack.
• 1:17:16
  But generally speaking, the worst the stupidity and
• 1:17:19
  mistakes have been, you have produced, but keep
• 1:17:23
  repressing the higher the price.
• 1:17:26
  Old Sigmund Freud called it effective debility.
• 1:17:30
  In essence, it means that lying to yourself
• 1:17:35
  makes you dim.
• 1:17:37
  And once you are BSing yourself for years
• 1:17:40
  as if there's no tomorrow, you turn positively
• 1:17:43
  imbecilic.
• 1:17:45
  That's the only way to explain the fresh
• 1:17:47
  wave of transparently hysterical scaremongering about Russia in
• 1:17:51
  the West, in particular this time in Britain.
• 1:17:55
  Thus, on the occasion of the recent St.
• 1:17:57
  Petersburg International Economic Forum, centrist mainstream flagship The
• 1:18:01
  Independent came out with a fascinating piece of
• 1:18:05
  fiction masquerading as analysis.
• 1:18:08
  Under the clickbait title, puffy looking Putin is
• 1:18:13
  acting weirder than ever.
• 1:18:14
  And that should chill us to the bone.
• 1:18:16
  Readers were treated to a highly imaginative horror
• 1:18:20
  tale about, in essence, a terrible loose cannon
• 1:18:23
  in the Kremlin pondering staged incidents and nuclear
• 1:18:27
  terrorism ready to blow up the world or
• 1:18:29
  at least Europe or maybe just Britain because
• 1:18:32
  Russia is losing the war.
• 1:18:35
  And also he looks puffy.
• 1:18:38
  All of this backed up, not really, by
• 1:18:41
  another statement from the high British military officer
• 1:18:44
  that things are as dire as never before.
• 1:18:48
  He and his comrades in arms, plus a
• 1:18:50
  few tweety spy gents and dames, produced these
• 1:18:55
  screams at least twice a month.
• 1:18:57
  It seems to be a standing order.
• 1:19:00
  Indeed, there is such an inflationary overproduction of
• 1:19:03
  men and women in khaki with stiff upper
• 1:19:06
  lips crying big bad Russian wolf that even
• 1:19:09
  Politico has already produced at least one best
• 1:19:12
  of collection, gathering the five dumiest Russian warnings
• 1:19:16
  from Britain's military.
• 1:19:19
  Perish the thought that any of this may
• 1:19:22
  have anything to do with fattening defense budgets
• 1:19:25
  or driving up the profit of his majesty's
• 1:19:27
  military industrial complex.
• 1:19:30
  Generally speaking, the West has a rich tradition
• 1:19:32
  of declaring Russia vanquished its President Putin at
• 1:19:37
  death's door or on the verge of being
• 1:19:39
  regime changed.
• 1:19:40
  And of course, Ukraine on the cusp of
• 1:19:43
  winning the war.
• 1:19:44
  All three of those things are completely lies.
• 1:19:48
  And it's funny how often they come up.
• 1:19:50
  At the same time, they predict that Russia
• 1:19:52
  will attack all of Europe tomorrow.
• 1:19:55
  If you're losing a war against Ukraine and
• 1:19:58
  you can't win, how in the hell are
• 1:20:00
  you going to take over Europe tomorrow?
• 1:20:03
  I don't understand why people don't get that
• 1:20:06
  point.
• 1:20:07
  Russia is going to kill us by 2030.
• 1:20:09
  We better arm up.
• 1:20:11
  Notwithstanding occasional and intriguing anomalies when a NATO
• 1:20:14
  commander from Trump, of course, let slip a
• 1:20:17
  fragment of the truth such that actually Moscow
• 1:20:21
  isn't really looking for conflict because they're not.
• 1:20:25
  In short, we're speaking about the severe and
• 1:20:28
  very sad.
• 1:20:31
  But also funny mental condition known as Russophrenia.
• 1:20:36
  The afflicted live with an imaginary Schrodinger Russia
• 1:20:41
  occupying their suffering mind.
• 1:20:43
  A Russia that is always simultaneously half dead,
• 1:20:47
  but very alive and kicking.
• 1:20:49
  So much so that it's about to roll
• 1:20:50
  into their living room on a tank.
• 1:20:52
  In that sense, the silly independent piece is
• 1:20:55
  merely an almost comically perfect specimen of an
• 1:20:58
  absurd genre.
• 1:21:00
  Its whole argument boils down to Russia's finish.
• 1:21:03
  That's why it's coming for us all.
• 1:21:06
  Yet there is something special about this particular
• 1:21:09
  emanation of Russophrenia.
• 1:21:11
  It's so easy to debunk.
• 1:21:13
  You must wonder if the author has any
• 1:21:15
  relationship to or respect for empirical reality at
• 1:21:20
  all.
• 1:21:20
  Don't believe it?
• 1:21:21
  Look for yourself.
• 1:21:22
  The address and panel Q&A featuring Putin
• 1:21:25
  at speed were available online because that's what
• 1:21:28
  the office of the Russian presidency does.
• 1:21:30
  Publishes the full video of major events in
• 1:21:34
  which Putin takes part with good English dubbing.
• 1:21:38
  It's respectable English dubbing.
• 1:21:40
  Once you do the tiny bit of elementary
• 1:21:44
  fact-checking, you see the puffy must be
• 1:21:47
  an elastic term of contemporary British English.
• 1:21:51
  Let's say Sir Keir Starmer is much more
• 1:21:53
  obviously lobster red on most days when he
• 1:21:56
  doesn't look pale and pasty with fear of
• 1:21:59
  the last scandal or defeat he's desperately trying
• 1:22:03
  to survive.
• 1:22:06
  More importantly, you'll also hear Putin give a
• 1:22:08
  speech like I gave it to you.
• 1:22:10
  If anything determinedly factual, even a touch dry,
• 1:22:14
  crammed with statistics, clearly worked out and balanced
• 1:22:17
  language.
• 1:22:18
  Whether you love or hate, like or dislike
• 1:22:20
  the man the cornered loose cannon the independent
• 1:22:23
  pretends to have spotted is pure shameless fiction.
• 1:22:27
  Likewise, Putin's Q&A response to a disingenuous
• 1:22:31
  public letter by Ukraine's leader was certainly not
• 1:22:34
  friendly that indeed he would be disturbingly inadequate
• 1:22:37
  and in part deservedly caustic, but it was
• 1:22:40
  also calm and serious, pointing out the Kiev
• 1:22:42
  regime's primitive behind-the-scenes maneuvering.
• 1:22:46
  I'm not going to have time to finish
• 1:22:47
  this.
• 1:22:47
  What we should really be afraid of is
• 1:22:49
  the West with respect to Russia and not
• 1:22:52
  one of its so-called elites.
• 1:22:55
  I enjoyed you being here today.
• 1:22:57
  Hope you had a very good day and
• 1:22:58
  you had continued to do so in wonderful
• 1:23:01
  central Missouri.