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Russia says Ukraine plans to detonate a ‘dirty bomb’ while Jo Biden says, World is Closer to "Armageddon". · The Slippery Slope

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  Hi, I'm Jay Fallon and thank you for listening to the slippery
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  slope. So two headlines that I want to
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  go through today, which I think definitely in Australia have not
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  received enough publicity, but really show how the war in
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  Ukraine with Russia is really escalating and how close we
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  probably are to to World War three.
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  The realities of that this one comes from the Washington
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  Examiner. It says that U.S. military
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  forces fully prepared to cross into Ukraine.
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  So it says that the Army's 101st Airborne Division, who boast the
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  Screaming Eagles Monica, have been deployed to Europe for the
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  first time since World War Two, practicing with live tank and
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  artillery rounds not far from the Black Sea across which
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  Russia. Has taken territory from
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  Ukraine, including Crimea at a forward operating site on NATO's
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  eastern flank. This is, according to CBS News,
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  so Brigadier General John Lubis, the division's deputy commander.
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  It's stressed this is not a training deployment, but rather
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  a combat deployment from which his forces need to be ready to
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  fight tonight. That's a quote and saying.
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  Depending on how the situation escalates across the border, so
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  Colonel Edwin Methodus, commander of the second
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  Brigadier Ohh Brigade Combat team, told the news outlet these
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  troops are the closest US unit to the fighting in Ukraine,
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  still raging more than seven months into Russia's full scale
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  invasion began. It keeps us on our toes, he
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  said. The roughly 4700 soldiers from
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  Fort Campbell, KY, are about 3 miles away from Romania's.
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  Order with Ukraine, conducting joint ground and air assault
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  exercises with Romanian forces meant to simulate battles that
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  Ukrainian forces are waging against Russian invaders.
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  So it's not just about defending NATO's territory, says Charlie
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  Diaguita, who's a senior foreign correspondent correspondent for
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  CBS News. He said in one report from an
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  air base in Romania if the fight escalates in NATO.
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  Partners are under threat. They're fully prepared to cross
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  over into Ukrainian territory if ordered to do so.
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  And then we have this article that came through.
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  This was pretty big news, but yet again in Australia we didn't
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  hear much about it at all. This headline here from Al
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  Jazeera says false flag question mark.
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  Russia says Ukraine plans to detonate a dirty bomb.
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  So Ukraine has responded by calling the allegation absurd
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  and dangerous. As as concerns over an
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  escalation in the war rise, so Russia has accused Ukraine of
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  planning to detonate a radioactive dirty bomb and blame
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  it on Moscow's Defence minister, Sergei Shoigu.
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  I'm hoping they'll say pronounce it.
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  Shoigu discussed the rapidly deteriorating situation in the
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  Ukraine war in calls with NATO nations on Sunday, so without
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  providing any evidence whatsoever.
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  I mean, why should you? It's only war.
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  Just put the outlandish comments out there.
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  Shoigu said Ukraine could escalate the conflict with a
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  dirty bomb, a device that uses explosives to scatter
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  radioactive waste. It does not have the devastating
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  effect of a nuclear explosion, but it could expose broad areas
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  to radioactive contamination. I mean, like I said, there's no
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  evidence, offers no evidence. At all but just saying this
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  outlandish, pretty outrageous accusation.
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  So the purpose of the proactive provocation is to accuse Russia
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  of using weapons of mass destruction in the Ukrainian
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  theatre of operations and thereby launch a profit, a
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  powerful anti Russian campaign in the world aimed at
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  undermining confidence in Moscow, the RIA Novosti news
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  agency said on telegram. So the calculation of the
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  organisers, of the organisers of the provocation, is that if it
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  is successfully implemented, most countries will react
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  extremely harshly to be nuclear to the nuclear incident in
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  Ukraine, the post said. As a result, Moscow will lose
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  the support of many of its key partners.
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  Russia provided no evidence to substantiate its allegations.
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  If anyone can use nuclear weapons in this part of Europe,
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  it can be only one source, and that source is the one that has
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  ordered Comrade Shoigu to telephone here or there,
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  Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said in his nightly
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  video message. So foreign minister, ohh man,
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  all these names just get me tongue tied, but I think it's a
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  demitro. Kalaba OK, I'll go with that
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  said. Russian lies about a dirty bomb
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  are as absurd as they are dangerous.
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  Firstly, he goes on to say, Ukraine is a committed nuclear
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  non proliferation treaty member. We neither have any dirty bombs
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  nor plan to acquire any, he said.
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  Secondly, Russians often accuse others of what they plan
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  themselves. Oh my goodness.
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  And he's probably right. The truth is usually just under
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  the surface. Russia, you know, nothing would
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  surprise you, gotta say that Russia, Russia accusing the
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  enemy, their enemy of doing what they actually plan on doing.
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  Who would have thought that? While everyone anyway.
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  So the article goes on and says whatever the likelihood of a
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  dirty bomb attack. The back and forth accusations
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  hold their own dangers. It appears that there is a
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  shared feeling that the tensions have approached the level that
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  could raise the real threat for all.
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  So previous Russian assertions that Ukraine might resort to
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  using banned weapons such as biological arms have stirred
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  concerns in the West that Moscow might be preparing to stage
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  false flags attacks which they would blame on Kiev.
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  So Shoigu spoke with United States Defence Chief Lloyd
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  Austin. Ohh my goodness, Lloyd Austin,
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  isn't he? Just a brilliant yeah, not
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  anyway. So spoke with Lloyd Austin on
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  Sunday for the second time in three days and held a flurry of
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  calls with Lloyd's counterparts in three other NATO countries.
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  Moscow provided no details on the conversation with Austin,
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  which came after the two men spoke on Friday, which is for
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  the first time since May. Shoigu said the situation in
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  Ukraine was substantially worsening.
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  In the other courts, they discussed the situation in
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  Ukraine, which is rapidly. Deteriorating, the Russian
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  Defence minister said. I'm sure you call with French
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  Defence Minister Sebastian Lecornu.
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  It is trending towards further uncontrolled escalation.
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  So sure. You spoke separately to Turkish
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  Defense Minister Hulusi Akar and the United Kings Ben Wallace,
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  the UK Defence Ministry said Wallace refuted claims that
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  Western countries sought to help Ukraine escalate the conflict.
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  And cautioned that such allegations should not be used
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  as a pretext of greater escalation.
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  There was no indication from the Russian side that the
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  conversations had produced any positive result.
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  They showed, however, that Russia and members of the NATO
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  alliance are maintaining channels of communication at a
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  time of rising international concern about a possible nuclear
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  escalation. So with Russia reeling from
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  successive. Defeats in Ukraine, President
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  Vladimir Putin has said Moscow would use any means necessary to
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  defend its territorial integrity.
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  Meanwhile, U.S. President Smokey Joe Biden has
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  warned that the world is closer to Armageddon than at any time
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  since the 1962 Cuban missile Crisis.
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  Listen, whatever you think about the war and who's in the right
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  and the wrong. Putin is just a very dangerous,
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  dangerous man responsible for the unlawful deaths of thousands
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  and thousands of people conducting an an an invasion
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  that was completely, completely unnecessary, just absolutely
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  obliterating a thriving nation. And I've got to agree with what
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  the Ukrainian leadership, no matter what you think of
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  zelenski, what he and the other leaders are saying Russian lies.
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  And if anyone can use nuclear weapons in Europe, it's more
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  than likely going to be Russia. And as he says, Russia often
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  accuses others of what they plan themselves.
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  We are way closer than World War Three then, or definitely here
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  in Australia, then our media, our acknowledging things are
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  escalating. I would remind you, keep your
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  eyes on God. Keep reading the word.
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  Do not lose your faith in God. He is in control.
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  We might be heading for World War Three, who knows?
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  However, in my opinion, this is just another false allegation
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  from Russia trying to tip the narrative into their favour.
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  But that's just my opinion. Thank you for listening to the
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  slippery slope.