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SCO, Multipolarity, and the West’s Blind Spot · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Better talk damn radio Damn straight I am samuel trap.
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  This is international flavor.
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  You are listening to damn radio And i'm damn glad to have you uh, i've got the sco shanghai cooperation
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  Organization meeting Ended a couple of days ago and then uh, vladimir or vladimirovich putin stayed on a couple extra
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  days to do some separate meetings and to join xi jingping at the uh military uh Celebration or commemorative Commemorative
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  event this was actually yesterday of uh The end of world war ii from the chinese side the surrender of
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  the japanese which occurred 80 years ago yesterday So those are the events of the day, but there's some bigger
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  events going on as I kind of outlined in my ric review last sunday and That Is going to be
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  the focus of where we go tonight and give you a little bit of history that a little bit of
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  current events a little bit of looking because uh There was a rather lengthy 45 minute or so uh interview
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  of vladimir vladimirovich and You know what that's It was a question and answer period i'm sorry not an interview
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  He gave a brief statement and then took a bunch of questions and I kind of wanted to go into
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  that um as well and But before I do that, I thought it could be useful uh If people don't
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  know the state of the world affairs today To give a bit of an idea as to what?
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  The shanghai cooperation organization is so um When the soviet union collapsed uh it's not like china and russia were
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  the greatest of Partners let's say Because i'm not so sure that they were They worked together in some respects
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  and uh, you know, they've never been At each other's throats so to speak but it's not as if the
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  russians don't feel as well that uh, the next superpower is china the next If there's going to be hegemony,
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  where's it going to come from?
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  You know that kind of thing that uh the next likely Whatever you want to call it.
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  Um heir to the throne globally dominant person is China now i'm trying to foster a little bit Not that
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  I have anything to do with anything, but i'm trying to foster a Somewhat different approach what I would like
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  Is a different approach and so when I get from our point of view perspective western, uh united states perspective
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  because I don't really care about the others and that but before I got to that I wanted to I
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  had an Two rather interesting experiences today.
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  So I had a an issue with my with my truck I had to go take it into the tire
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  place and get him to to look at a couple of things on the uh, I don't know technical crap
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  and and all I know is it cost me money But I had to go first and drop it off
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  and I took an uber uh Back to my destination and then later in the day I took an uber
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  to there and it was I don't know what's going on with my transportation lately, but there's been just weird
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  crap, I told you about the stuff with the the uh urban the the uber drivers in uh, lithuania I
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  told you about the drunk, uh russian on the train that got sat next to me I mean, where do
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  I get these?
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  You know i'm sitting around going I told this story to somebody about the drunk russian and they go man.
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  You got some great stories.
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  Well I got some weird stories this crap.
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  It's it's Why does it happen to me all the time?
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  I don't understand.
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  Why do I get all the weirdos?
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  How come they're coming to my?
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  neck of the woods and and And it's not that it caused me problems and and I find it Maybe
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  maybe they come to me because I can handle that sort of thing.
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  I don't know but I get weird stories but I find them to be rather I don't know call it
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  educational call it.
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  Uh character building.
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  I don't know but but uh, uh it Also, I seem to take things in a little bit of different.
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  I don't know You know people generally get mad if they maybe it's a it's a good thing that I
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  find things funny most of the time And i'm not a very not that i'm not serious.
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  I can be serious as much the next guy but that I don't take things too seriously, you know and
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  uh, don't create Of you know world events out of crap that doesn't need to be created, but I have
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  some very strong political views.
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  So when I got picked up from the the the first time this morning to be taken to um, you
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  know my location and and uh get my day's events going I had about a 10 minute ride with a
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  guy in a nice Sort of an suv uber thing and he was from india.
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  Okay and Uh, not not too extremely talkative, you know, I I got in complimented him on his car and
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  said something about You know, um Um the weather I don't remember what and he he said a couple of
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  things about uh, uh being from India that he you know, he liked the weather here and he was he's
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  from india and had a very strong Accent turned out he was from.
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  Uh Punjabi he was he was uh, yeah, he was from punjab and he says Uh, I said well, how
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  do you like it here?
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  How long you been here but I asked him a little bit about himself And I said, uh, how do
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  you like your your uber stuff?
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  He goes.
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  Well, I like it and I I like what's going on and He and I said, uh something about uh
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  Liking Uh, jai shankar, you know to see if he knew anything about Politics over there and about modi and
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  jai shankar and that you know, their country's doing some uh, some some wonderful things over there And the guy
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  really opened up When I said something about his country, I mean at first it was just going to be
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  a polite little, you know Two second conversation, you know And i'll go back to you know, checking out emails
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  on my phone or something and he Comes back and he says he goes.
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  Yeah jai shankar.
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  He says and and he goes into i'm telling you that people are people are getting on board And and
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  there are people think differently and it's not just me So it's turning out i'm not as big a nut
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  as I thought I was And he goes Uh that jai shankar and modi are doing things that uh look
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  out for and his analysis was I think that jai shankar and especially modi they are looking out for Ow,
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  he got a tiny bit defensive like it seemed like I knew something was going on because I do but
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  I actually support exactly what jai shankar and modi are doing and what they are doing is Their country's interests
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  come first And then they work together with the rest of the world to the extent possible But they're not
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  going to do things that are not in their countries uh or in the best interest of their country and
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  what he meant by that when he was talking about it was These sanctions, you know, they he thought I
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  I don't know.
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  I didn't say anything I just told him that I like to listen and did jai shankar and modi when
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  he brought something up, you know And then was talk and I said that they were doing some good things
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  in his country And and it really got him talking and he you know, he told me He spoke for
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  the next six seven minutes to get me to where I was going and and told me about how uh,
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  you know he thought that uh uh That they were doing the right thing as well, which is what I
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  think and uh, you know I don't know how to quite Um address that but it's interesting for me to
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  just get opinions of regular people.
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  This is an uber driver Obviously came here at some point in his life from india from punjab And obviously
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  as a family here, he talked about his wife.
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  He's doing reasonably well in the car.
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  He's driving, you know, he's he's you know he's got Uh, it's a nice car and you know uber driving
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  is a a decent job those guys, you know, he had Um, I don't know five thousand.
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  Uh, uh What do you call it?
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  Uh five star Reviews it said on his little profile when I was adding my thing and and uh, And
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  he was you know, he's an interesting guy.
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  I mean hell of a job.
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  Seriously.
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  I mean, why not?
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  you know talk about working for yourself and Uh, you know you drive work as much as you want or
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  as you work as little as you want whatever And uh, but he gave me a very good um I
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  don't know what Impression and and and he knew a little bit about his own country now He's he said
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  that you know, he's been here for a little while, but I didn't get any, you know an opportunity to
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  that because he was telling me about all the good things that modi and uh, Jai shankar's doing and uh,
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  and I always try to get a good jai shankar one in because he's just funny to listen to because
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  Everybody in the west and whenever we talk we always get, you know, scott besantid or something where he uh
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  will uh Belittle anything that anyone else is doing anywhere in the world And I don't understand that approach.
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  I do not understand our western approach where if you disagree with a country politically They have to they can't
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  do anything, right?
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  You know what?
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  I mean?
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  It's it's uh like over here and i've said this before that that if you I don't know if you're
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  if you don't like gay people and a gay person They will hate you because you don't like gay people
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  And there's nothing you can do to change that you are a bad person no matter what You know giving
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  money to charity being a church person Um, I don't know what maybe even being a democrat if you're a
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  democrat and you still don't like them You know that you still are a piece of dog Doo-doo on
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  the ground, right?
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  And there are certain people who think that way a disagreement means You're written off there is nothing good for
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  you because you're written off.
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  Well, I don't think that way and I don't think A lot of the world works that way, but it
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  seems pretty much prevalent all over lithuania like I outlined for you last night and And in quite a few
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  places in america And certainly in the ukrainian world, there's nothing good that any russian can do Period and they
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  can't even have a history or cultural culture where you get to use their language So that was instance number
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  one the second one on the on the uh Uber trip to go pick up my truck and give them
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  a pile of money that I don't have and don't like to give away but uh Truck's running better.
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  How about that?
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  And uh, uh That's a positive.
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  There's a you know, I don't know if it's a net positive maybe it's an eq well, it's not even
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  equal because i'd probably Would I prefer to have the money or not?
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  I don't know but i'm babbling so i'll get back to my point this um, uh Dude that drove me
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  the second time back to the entire place he Was from haiti And he was talking about you know, there's
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  been all kinds of upheaval in haiti and I didn't bring it up He brought it up.
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  I was just sitting there mind.
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  I'm on beeswax and he uh said a few things and and uh Said he was from haiti and said,
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  uh, you know that he he some of these people I guess they get graded on talking, you know or
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  get graded on conversation and some people don't want conversation So but how the hell do you know?
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  I mean in all seriousness if if they start talking to you, I suppose it's your job to tell them
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  you don't want to talk I don't know But or the reverse if you say something to them, maybe they're
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  not supposed to talk to you I don't know.
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  However, that works is how it goes, but he said something uh seems like Far more people are into world
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  events, you know, because he was talking about it, too and he was talking about all of the issues going
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  on in the world and how the the u.s might not be as Positive in the uh, uh In
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  in the world view scene, you know and that has been more and more the conversations that i'm having both
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  in the united states and out but It's really weird.
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  Anyway, those are there are certainly interesting things that occurred to me today Especially the dude from india that I
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  talked to you about first But it was funny to get in cars and get people that are talking to
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  me It wasn't like the you know, the drunk russian the other the other day on the train that was
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  pretty freaking hilarious and uh, but and and very informative and uh, gave a a good uh a good story
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  to have um, but one of the guys the the Both of them mentioned The meetings going on both of
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  these guys mentioned the meetings going on over the past weekend in china and the world leaders that were meeting
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  over there including uh, narendra modi and including xi jingping in in according kim jong-un and Vladimir putin as
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  well as many others.
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  Lukashenko was there for a bit um The head of the leader of pakistan Uh, no, no Well, no, he
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  may have been there too, but there's like 20 whole world leaders at this thing called the s Co Which
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  is the shanghai cooperation organization, okay now I'm going to tell you a little bit about what that Actually is
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  okay the origins of it the seo shanghai cooperation Organization actually started out in 1996 as the shanghai five And
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  it was russia china kazakhstan kyrgyzstan And tajikistan and by the way, if you're ever interested in this the if
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  you are a Person who's not From kyrgyzstan a lot of them call it kirghizia and I know this because
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  i've made this mistake Having been to kirghizia a year or two ago and two years ago went to a
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  sanatorium there And it was pretty cool.
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  And so if you say kirghizia That is offensive to a person actually from kirghizstan You're supposed to call it
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  kirghizstan and I have made that a mistake in a few times But I guess the russians for a long
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  time called it kirghizi in kirghizi is that they consider it Rude, and so you got to make sure to
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  call it kirghizstan Because i've made that mistake myself, but I didn't know any better, but it's been explained to
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  me that that's the way it is So the purpose of the shanghai-5 starting in 1996 now remember soviet
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  union collapsed We got nothing quite replacing it, but we have the bush one And uh clinton saying no.
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  No, there's gonna be no nato expansion There's not you know, we're we're Russia's our friends now, you know, blah
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  blah blah And I was still in the military at this point as uh out of the active duty and
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  in the reserves And I remember this when the shanghai-5 came up and some of the things we talked
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  about in briefings And whatnot when we were getting ready to go on Uh duty at the skiff or something
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  like that And so that's when the shanghai, uh, five came up in 2001 They changed the name to And
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  and founded the actual sco shanghai cooperation organization, so five years later and uzbekistan joined in And the organization was
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  created formally in shanghai and their charter stressed security counter-terrorism Now there's a lot of muslim In that region
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  of the world on on the russian border on the uh, uzbekistan kirghizstan Uh Well kazakhstan any of the stands
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  over there azerbaijan and uh, uh the it was so there's a lot of that and there was some terrorism
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  and they're right near afghanistan and Right near iran and pakistan and they have had some uh Some issues in
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  that area of the world and so russia's got a pretty strong counter-terrorism as does china and they've expanded
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  it into this sco foundation or the sco organization And but they do stress Counterterrorism, but one of the other
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  things they stress in their charter is non-interference with other countries and respect for the sovereignty of other countries
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  So that are associated in here because remember the soviet union collapsed these people didn't know where the hell they
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  were going to go All the ones on the inside and there was a good amount of turmoil just because
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  of that And quite a bit of independence and then the us and the west all coming in and trying
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  to stir it all up and and get those people all stirred up because it uh, you know, there's been
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  a pretty strong anti-russia ever since And it's gotten stronger over the years, but so has the sco so
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  in 2004 They organized as part of their meeting and they've had a meeting every single year And uh, this
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  one is called the regional anti-terrorist structure rats for the acronym regional anti-terrorist structure with a headquarters in
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  tashkent Uh, which is beautiful and the focus on terrorism separatism and extremism and the early work of this Organization
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  called for and they all share intelligence sharing and joint exercises 2017 india and pakistan both join and the shanghai
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  cooperation organization becomes a true Continental forum because now they cover almost the entire tree entirety of southeast asia Because
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  when you add it in pakistan and india, that's a you know, that's freaking huge, right?
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  Then in 2023 six years later iran joined in So that covers almost all of them.
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  There's a there's a few other ones that are not in um, belarus joined in 2024 And the sco reached
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  its 10 full members that are on right now They also have several observer and dialogue partners and those are
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  mongolia afghanistan Uh that happened before the taliban, but they're still They're still uh members today turkey um, and then
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  they have the uh, The asian nation the states like vietnam laos maldives malaysia and indonesia that are also Observer
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  and dialogue partners they they participate but they're not formal members now the core principles are multipolarity No hegemony and
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  equal sovereignty Fco does not seek a block confrontation any of that Uh the practical work they counter they have
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  counterterrorism brills energy rail and finance integration And then culture exchange programs so There is no defense pact like nato
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  So this is structured a little bit more like an eu economic thing and they're not as universal as the
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  united nations And they're mostly for eurasia and the global south They're a venue where india china and russia can
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  all sit at the same Table just like bricks and one of the reasons i'm bringing this up Is coming
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  up here in just a second and the 2025 Parts that they talked about this because what they did this
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  year is also Extremely telling on the world stage, right?
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  So in 2025 in tianjin the summit this year Xi jingping's proposals.
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  These are his proposals that he put out for the entire group Uh, it was the development bank.
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  They want to start a development bank Just like they have in bricks And they want to have an sco
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  energy platform.
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  Remember me telling you about all the uh, heavy Industry projects and energy projects and the for example russia helping
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  build the nuclear power plant with six reactors in in india and So they're they're talking about all of this
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  and and xi jingping's proposals included 1.4 billion in loans that china is ready to put up for this
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  and something Thing Called bay and I believe i'm pronouncing it correctly.
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  I've heard it said in a couple of ways, but I believe it's called beidou and beidou is it's access
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  to the beidou platform and the beidou platform is uh kind of like our gps Or um You know russia's
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  Um, what else would it be?
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  Uh I forget what what the russian version of it is, but it's However you slice it it is a
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  gps and With varying levels the same thing that ours uses global positioning satellites Not your google earth not elon
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  musk The starlink or whatever it is.
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  We're talking gps And what xi jinping said was that now they're going to spread this knowledge to everyone in
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  the area for for commercial and uh governmental purposes, which means They can use it for they're going to have
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  common Geopositioning targeting systems that all of them have access to in the entire southeast Okay, so no, it's not
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  a security organization But xi jinping has has said that china is going to allow all of them access to
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  their to their gps data because right now there are several major ones in the world and china has one
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  us as one which Uh, most people subscribe to the us one and this is more of the hegemony thing
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  But people are there we're we're going separate directions.
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  You know what I mean?
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  That's what's happening um, so Let's keep up on this thread here before we get to the next part.
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  Um, the Attendance there were 20 leaders modi putin and xi jinping together ministers from a lot of the acn
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  ministers But indonesia was absence this year due to all the protests going on I don't know if you've heard
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  about that, but I tell you what it's a scary period of time for indonesia right now There have been
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  some serious confrontations brought about by giving um A lot of benefit to elected and appointed governmental officials giving them
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  these huge sort of benefit packages like luxury Luxury stuff here.
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  They do it but here they hide it a lot better there.
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  They kind of said.
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  Yeah, this is what we're doing We run the government rest of you screw you looks like we get everything
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  and you get nothing and The leader was in bad shape and they've been having some serious protests over there
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  and pretty serious So bad that he canceled his trips and they reversed all these packages Is what I understand
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  that they reversed them all now and reversed all travel for them including his own So he didn't go to
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  the summit is is what uh what I found out Um Let's see for the optics.
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  This is the first seo shanghai cooperation organization that included Uh belarus as a full member And the india and
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  china That's a big deal, you know because it continues on from last year And xi jinping is working hard
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  on this and vladimir.
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  Putin is working hard on this and so is modi To signal that you can work together with people Even
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  if you have areas where you disagree, why can't america learn to do that?
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  I don't understand why we can't do that.
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  We have to uh, I don't know call them, you know They're evil.
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  Everybody's evil like besson.
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  We'll get to him in a minute um, but there's some notable quotes vladimir putin he says Uh, we aren't
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  thinking Of how to outplay others We're thinking of how to organize our own work I thought that was a
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  great quote.
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  We'll get to the question that brought that up a little bit Uh later now maria zakharova when she was
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  analyzing this seo meeting that came up She said we're strengthening fair multilateralism and restoring the un's coordinating role without
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  selective interpretation because one of their big complaints is that the un is always interpreted against People that aren't Uh,
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  I don't know what favored In the club as it were don't kiss the rear ring or the rear end
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  of the west that kind of thing so when this when I saw this shanghai cooperation organization, I immediately And
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  the big meeting and how big it really was this year.
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  It got me to thinking about Uh quite a bit about the bricks and quite a bit about what why
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  this um keeps getting More and more People are getting much more open about talking about the multilateralism and honoring
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  your own country like the indian guy that I rode with today And saying, you know, you need to ask
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  for what's best for your own These are things that to normal people like most of us are Are self
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  -evident, but why is it so difficult?
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  For our leaders and especially in the west on the government side to what has happened to us where we
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  must be dominating Everywhere, and we can't honor and respect other countries and their Notions of Fair play of what
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  they wish to do.
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  Why are we condemning india because they're buying gas from russia What gives us that right is my point?
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  What I mean, I suppose we have the right to do anything.
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  So right's not the the correct word, but what gives Who made us?
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  the Arbiters, this is why I like listening to jai shankar so much because he just punches people right in
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  the face with it Somebody asked him this the other day and he says look you this some commentator from
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  whatever Channel he was being interviewed on and uh, jai shankar says to him.
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  He says to jai shankar.
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  He goes Why are you uh?
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  You know, why are you buying oil from russia?
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  Geez, you know russia's the bad guy and basically went off on china and you are bad people Basically is
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  what he says to him and then at the end he outlines this question as if it's some kind of
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  a global attack here that he's going to attack jai shankar as As you know, because jai shankar is uh,
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  geez, uh in jai shankar is just the foreign minister He's not allowing his country to do anything, but he
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  isn't condemning it either And so he defends his own country and and uh, so the guy asks the question
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  and says why are you buying this stuff from?
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  from russia and he goes He goes Who are you to ask me that question?
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  Why are you asking me this he says basically it's like I mean jesus who cares Oh, you know where
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  you get your oil from and what makes us including donald trump, by the way all the way up the
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  line, who are we to condemn another country for Looking out for its best interests Should india be buying gas
• 31:39
  and oil from us at a 10 to 20 percent increase and what they're buying it from from their next
• 31:47
  door neighbor Uh, it's it's it's that what's supposed to be happening Is china not supposed this is why donald
• 31:57
  trump wants to tariff and uh sanction them as well Is because they're doing business with their neighbor This is
• 32:05
  what we're supposed to do.
• 32:07
  Um Let's get to a little bit of history here because the reason part of the reason for the expansion
• 32:14
  is the exact same reason and remember that china is right in on this too because this has affected Russia
• 32:22
  china india as well as well as all the stands that we talked about in there That the us is
• 32:28
  forever after that because we have to be able to control the world, right?
• 32:31
  We have to control it and so let's talk about because nato expansion has been You know, they're even trying
• 32:39
  to expand nato into like georgia, which is also southeast asia They want to expand it into azerbaijan and into
• 32:46
  places like that They want to impact all of these places and nato has made their efforts So let's go
• 32:52
  through in segment two just to remind everybody what has happened since the collapse of the soviet union, right?
• 32:59
  On every side of russia this has taken place 1999 After there was not going to be any expansion not
• 33:08
  one inch to the east poland hungary and czech republic all east all eastern europe And that's 1999 2004 five
• 33:20
  years later what they refer to is the big bang We have estonia latvia lithuania all three of the baltic
• 33:27
  states Slovakia slovenia bulgaria and romania all at the same time seven countries joining Former soviet republics, by the way
• 33:39
  in one way or another although, you know Some of them were part of a different country when that happened
• 33:45
  And then in 2009 five years later albania albania and croatia 2017 montenegro 2020 north macedonia 2023 we had finland
• 34:04
  With a 1300 kilometer border with russia, by the way And then 2024 we had sweden and the baltic sea
• 34:12
  kind of turned into apart from kaliningrad and Leningrad turned into a nato lake, you know, kind of like the
• 34:22
  azov sea down in the southeast Russia it touches near the black sea it comes out near the black sea
• 34:28
  But the azov sea is now with the crimea is now surrounded completely by russia turned it into it's not
• 34:35
  International waters maybe in the middle.
• 34:37
  I forget what the rule is something to have to do with 200 kilometers out.
• 34:41
  Um I could be wrong on the distance if it's 200 kilometers out Because that's all you can control of
• 34:50
  any body of water or something according to international I don't remember what the law actually says about that But
• 34:55
  but it's rather interesting because apparently if you could pick up a an aircraft carrier and place it in the
• 35:02
  middle of that lake You could control that lake if you could or not Patrol that lake or if you
• 35:09
  could get a submarine in there Or do something if you're completely surrounded You don't have to uh have permission
• 35:18
  if you can get there without being noticed But in order to get there you'd be noticed I think anyway
• 35:24
  the infrastructure and posture of nato during that same time period There's something they call efp enhanced forward presence so
• 35:34
  from 2017, there are four multinational battalions But in 2022, there are now eight whole battle groups, okay Mostly funded
• 35:46
  by the u.s In estonia latvia lithuania poland bulgaria hungary rome and romania and slovakia And permanent u.s.
• 35:56
  President presence.
• 35:58
  We have a u.s. Army garrison poland Which didn't exist when I was in the military in the 90s
• 36:04
  at posnan.
• 36:05
  We have camp kusi Kusisku, I forget how they say it and supporting the fifth core headquarters all in poland
• 36:14
  I mean Pretty damn close to russia well on the border with belarus And we have now these missile defense
• 36:21
  systems that nato has put up aegis anti aegis ashore ballistic missile defense systems in devicelu romania in 2016 And
• 36:32
  now since 2024 In poland people are condemning what we're doing or what?
• 36:38
  What well what on the other side they're condemning what we're doing and now it has forced russia to put
• 36:46
  Uh, they say they have air air defenses all over belarus And that they're putting nuclear weapons in belarus, too.
• 36:56
  Just like america does by sharing our nuclear umbrella with places in europe And that's not what non-proliferation was
• 37:05
  supposed to be doing Uh, and and there's air policing, you know, uh continuous baltic air policing and awacs patrols
• 37:16
  uh all funded by the us nuclear sharing b61-12 modernization F-35a is certified as dual capable, which means
• 37:26
  it can carry nuclear weapons and the uk rejoins nato's nuclear sharing posture because every That is bringing it up,
• 37:39
  uh quite a bit of new, um structure and uh, What do you call it?
• 37:48
  capabilities for NATO during that time period and what has russia done to call it to counter this So kaliningrad,
• 37:57
  which is part of the russian Satellite and they kept it as part of russia proper and uh, but And
• 38:08
  it's on the baltic sea But it used to be connected quite a bit more.
• 38:12
  So kaliningrad has iskander-m missiles.
• 38:15
  They have the s400 defense systems and bastion coastal defenses along that that area They which they didn't have before
• 38:24
  but they upped it because of what we're doing All over poland and in the crimea after 2014 turned it
• 38:31
  into a uh, a fortress for air defense and uh capabilities for russia Because that you know, and it used
• 38:41
  to be part of ukraine, but now it's solid russia belarus now hosts russian tactical nuclear weapons since 2023 And
• 38:52
  the military districts have modernized their their nuclear triads with yar sarmat and avant-garde hypersonics They have their kaliber
• 39:00
  cruise missiles and bastion defenses.
• 39:02
  This this is some serious escalation That's gone on mostly in the last 10 years And what has china done
• 39:10
  during this time period just so you know because that's where the sco comes in but but The strong, you
• 39:16
  know, the the military might of all of this is china and russia, but india is no slouch either and
• 39:23
  uh, chinese counters are joint bomber patrols that they're patrolling the pacific With russia and in the sea of japan
• 39:32
  They have naval drills with russia anti-submarine exercise with russia and now This and russia's had it for some
• 39:40
  time.
• 39:41
  I believe as well as their own they they work together the baidu that Uh gps system i was telling
• 39:48
  you on the chinese government side, which is it's enabled their targeting and their logistics all are common so this
• 39:55
  is being set up as a uh, you know, I don't like to call it access versus allies because that's
• 40:02
  ancient history, but You kind of see where we're going with this And india is trying to play All sides
• 40:11
  or play its own side, you know, and and that was one of the comments that jai shankar made too
• 40:17
  He goes look Why do we have to pick sides?
• 40:21
  Our side is india.
• 40:23
  We act what is best for india Us acts for what's best for it.
• 40:28
  In fact, it dictates what's best for everyone else, but we do not accept that we Defend what's best or
• 40:39
  we pick what's best for india period and How can you fault the guy?
• 40:47
  I mean you really can't you know, you hear donald trump say things similar by the way And I don't
• 40:54
  know maybe donald trump is a better diplomat than we've had in a very long time and I wonder how
• 41:04
  hey Well, I would wonder his thoughts on this but I don't want to get too far aside because I
• 41:09
  still got a good amount of information to sling your way on this thursday evening my last show of the
• 41:17
  week until my sunday evening deep dive in uh, uh This one let's talk about the china's state gps real
• 41:26
  quick.
• 41:27
  It's uh completed in 2020 state-owned run by china's satellite navigation office Equivalents would be your us gps systems
• 41:39
  your russians glonass And the eu's galileo system so that we each have our own the commercial uses you'd use
• 41:47
  it for trucking maritime shipping precision for agriculture telecom and synchronization in the uh in the sco shanghai cooperation organization,
• 41:58
  they're using it for All of their and I found this extremely interesting for their uh, wide logistics, you know
• 42:08
  the sco Everywhere all over the sco which is everybody in the all 10 countries and the uh, Partner countries
• 42:18
  which were another 10 12, right?
• 42:20
  2020 showed up to the organization this time and uh, so they all use the same logistics system and that
• 42:30
  logistics is this um System that were by do And they use it for rail corridors oil pipelines gas pipelines
• 42:41
  trade routes shipping cords Stuff like that military uses they use it for encrypted service targeting missile guidance jamming resistance
• 42:52
  integrated into drones Excuse me drone swarms and naval navigation I got the hiccups.
• 43:00
  Sorry about that and then uh But it's not like new google earth.
• 43:05
  It's not starlink You know a direct parallel would would be your gps sort of thing And why does it
• 43:11
  matter because it's a shared infrastructure and sovereignty kind of Taken away from your gps structure, right?
• 43:23
  um It's open service guides taxis.
• 43:28
  It's encrypted channels guide missiles that's what's You know, it's it's it's a big deal for xi jinping to offer
• 43:37
  this to everybody in the group I don't know if there was any talk about money.
• 43:41
  I didn't hear that part.
• 43:43
  But uh, But this is this is a pretty big deal As part of this, uh shanghai cooperation organization.
• 43:50
  It was very beautifully done um press conference and question answer period for vladimir vladimirovich like I told you about
• 44:01
  before and it was A good question and answer period and um It was 45 minutes, obviously i'm not going
• 44:13
  to go into it, but there were a number of good questions in there he he was asked about uh,
• 44:19
  what he would consider some of the results of his china visit And he responded that it was very very
• 44:28
  positive And that it had a long agenda Of the two-day agenda, but the two extra days that he
• 44:37
  was spending Allowed for substantive talks with many global leaders including uh, xi's global governance initiative um is very important
• 44:50
  because this global governance is kind of in contrast to what these they see as the western dominated un important
• 45:00
  for bricks and the shanghai cooperation organization He was asked about the power of siberia 2 pipeline that I talked
• 45:08
  to you about several days ago Uh that power of siberia pipeline pipeline uh one was finished and the pipeline
• 45:18
  2 That's supposed to go through mongolia They were talking about as well.
• 45:24
  And so he was asked and there was talks that this might be they were going to finalize it And
• 45:29
  come to a deal for the because they were still having some some structural concerns about how they get through
• 45:37
  mongolia and whether it's gonna uh be all uh I don't know what Whatever agreements they need to come to
• 45:47
  whether they were going to be able to do them and he said that they were finalized And so now
• 45:52
  another and the reason I bring this up is joint intergovernmental and Uh Continent wide let's call it asia-wide
• 46:09
  Concern because It's infrastructure and we have none, you know, I talked about this the other day What what is
• 46:18
  the what is the u.s counter to this?
• 46:21
  the keystone pipeline remember that We were going to have a pipeline to get stuff from north america and from
• 46:29
  canada all the way down uh south to mexico and and further and connect it to other pipelines or do
• 46:37
  something like that because we have Natural gas that we could supply and what happened?
• 46:42
  First day biden took office.
• 46:44
  He canceled their permits and canceled the whole thing billions of dollars lost why?
• 46:49
  politics You know you can disagree with russia and china all you want you can disagree with Anybody over there,
• 46:56
  you know for having a different structure of government or for being bad people as besson called them They're bad
• 47:03
  countries is basically what he said.
• 47:05
  These are bad guys.
• 47:06
  Oh, okay why Because you disagree with their politics.
• 47:11
  It's it's freaking nonsensical to listen to these idiots talk about Bad people.
• 47:19
  Oh, yeah, america's full of great people in government, isn't it?
• 47:23
  There isn't any bad people over here.
• 47:25
  That isn't did I just it was bad grammar and I apologize for that I generally am better behaved uh,
• 47:32
  however, let's let's talk about this because question another question to uh, to uh vladimir vladimirovich Was on nato and
• 47:44
  eu expansion and on ukrainian membership And he said The following his and it's nato, of course That's a red
• 47:57
  line for russia and always has been And but as far as being associated with the eu the economic union,
• 48:04
  that's up to ukraine, you know, why?
• 48:06
  Fine, we don't care You want to be a member of an economic union great.
• 48:10
  You want to be a uh, Member of nato with more bases on our border after you've done what you've
• 48:17
  done all over the the other countries of the world You know, you're not doing it in ukraine And they've
• 48:24
  been saying that for 20 freaking years 30 freaking years Then he was asked a rather interesting question about meeting
• 48:32
  zelensky And direct to him and he said, you know what i'm not ruling it out but Zelensky's legitimacy is
• 48:43
  in question, but if he's ready meaning if you've organized something if there's something to agree upon or you intend
• 48:52
  to come and You know capitulate basically Uh, let him come to moscow So he he basically said You want
• 49:04
  to come?
• 49:05
  Come to moscow so There's not a I doubt there's a red carpet waiting for the old z man but
• 49:14
  Putin said come on down You want to come come on over I hope we have something to talk about
• 49:23
  and we shall see What we shall see when that happens.
• 49:27
  Uh, he said and then he was asked and here this was a good question Is multi-polarity?
• 49:34
  real yet Is is is there such a thing as multi-polarity does it really exist?
• 49:42
  And that was asked by a russian reporter and it was uh, I mean it was But interesting and not
• 49:51
  hugely deep but Well put you know to ask him specifically about this and he said yes contours Do exist
• 50:02
  But no new hegemon He's mean in china should Endeavor to dominate And he says that he believes the term
• 50:12
  multi-polarity equals equality of countries under the law so basically legal equality For whatever your country Membership
• 50:34
  is I mean Yeah The argument is between him xi jinping and modi to modi especially in fact Is that?
• 50:45
  if the un treated people equally None of these other world authorities would matter But the un you can always
• 50:57
  count on the fact that nobody will ever condemn israel for Whatever anything israel wants to do Israel could I
• 51:07
  don't know go and bomb qatar and nobody would care And nobody would condemn them for it and uh, qatar
• 51:15
  is a good actor on the global stage Uh, you know they could help if israel decided that greece was
• 51:22
  a bunch of bad people They didn't want to run around and israel went and did something bad nobody'd condemn
• 51:27
  them u.s had veto any anybody trying to Uh sanction them or to say they've done anything bad.
• 51:34
  I think it's a very bad structure myself and uh, but they're all too eager to uh, uh, you know
• 51:42
  all too eager to condemn, you know, russia or Uh china for anything or even india and india has been
• 51:51
  saying for decades Look, we're the biggest country.
• 51:55
  We're modern.
• 51:56
  We're my we got this we got that we should be We should have much more of a stay in
• 52:02
  the organization, but we don't even get equal representation Really and they've been talking about that for a while and
• 52:10
  they said if uh, uh un started to be a little more So all these organizations that are coming up
• 52:16
  bricks, which is Going to be dominant.
• 52:19
  I you know, i'm i'm i'm I believe that next year's china Um, but even if it's india, I really
• 52:26
  would like to try and make it to the uh I didn't make it to the brazil one this year.
• 52:32
  It kind of pisses me off that I didn't um, but Uh, and I should have but I didn't But
• 52:39
  they also made these crazy little uh Difficult.
• 52:43
  Anyway, I don't need to talk about that.
• 52:44
  I still got some more stuff then they asked him about his uh frozen the frozen money And I haven't
• 52:51
  found anything that says they've taken any of the money there's been some new talks About this, uh, 300 billion.
• 52:58
  That's a russian money sitting in uh, um western banking And they've been using You know, they keep squeezing the
• 53:07
  interest out of it and giving it to ukraine but they have in ukraine and a bunch of other states
• 53:13
  in the the eu have been trying to Get to the uh corpus the uh assets themselves like Not taking
• 53:27
  the earnings from it, but they want to take the assets themselves and wanted some genius on the uh, uh
• 53:35
  Of the ursula von der leyen type said we need to take all 300 billion and just give it to
• 53:41
  ukraine for rebuilding and Trust me if their lawyers could figure out a way to uh, Even say that they
• 53:49
  would they could justify this somehow that money'd be gone in a heartbeat But they so they asked putin about
• 53:56
  this and he said if they did Seize the money that would destroy global finance and frankly any western Uh
• 54:07
  any views any positive view that anybody has of the western banking or finance systems?
• 54:14
  That remains he said the profits only approach that they're using right now Is still harmful, but less catastrophic And
• 54:23
  he warns of world economic fragmentation But that's exactly what's going on is global economic fragmentation because even in this
• 54:36
  uh, uh seo They had a huge portion of it that uh where they talked about.
• 54:42
  Um, Uh What do you call it using, uh their own inter Inter-country funds like using um rubles to
• 54:59
  buy goods from kazakhstan and and using uh Whatever money they use in I don't know azerbaijan to buy well
• 55:11
  that they're not a member but in in uh, Uzbekistan to buy stuff from uh, and I don't remember I
• 55:17
  have some but I don't remember what they're called To buy to buy things from russia, right?
• 55:23
  They are using your own currency is also a big deal now in the shanghai cooperation organization They're all that
• 55:31
  was they've listed it.
• 55:33
  They are intentionally De-dollarizing they're telling people to prep for it pay in your own currencies Then they talked
• 55:42
  about the battlefield situation and that's been bad news for ukraine and nobody's even talking about it but you know,
• 55:49
  I tell you watch, uh, my my uh, Favorite one is uh watch military summary channel on youtube and they
• 55:59
  provides every day the uh content of How many kilometers the russians have advanced what cities they've taken and all
• 56:07
  that Russia's advancing ukraine is shifting brigades and kiev cannot amount large-scale offensive Is what vladimir putin said straight
• 56:17
  up today and he's right?
• 56:20
  um, he asked about a trump meeting and he said uh We had and they asked him seriously.
• 56:26
  He said what happened in the limo and he wouldn't he didn't tell him He says, you know, we had
• 56:30
  a we had a brief chat in english and uh was very cordial and he referred him back to alaska
• 56:37
  He also said that uh, uh Trump's invited to moscow that there's an invitation out there that he can have
• 56:45
  it and then they were asked about the uh, What's the sco's global rose saying high cooperation organization?
• 56:52
  Is it against?
• 56:54
  uh, the west is it against uh, the the uh us And this is where he said that reference that
• 57:00
  I said earlier in the show and he said The sco is not designed to be against anyone It is
• 57:08
  a cooperative platform Where we are doing our own work where we conducting and taking care of our own work
• 57:16
  and our own Issues that you know, we're not against anybody.
• 57:19
  We're just trying to best run the area Of that concerns us right here And uh, you know what's wrong
• 57:28
  with that with any of these explanations?
• 57:30
  well at the same time this was going on, um, and I I I know you A lot of people
• 57:36
  probably think i'm a nut for doing this but I watch and I try to keep track of marty as
• 57:42
  a hot of us, uh, Briefings and there's something else going on That I that I left russia too early.
• 57:51
  It appears and I kind of had sort of a mini invite But I don't I don't have time for
• 57:56
  that stuff.
• 57:56
  And unfortunately, I have to fund it all myself and uh, this was in vladivostok there they're uh, Having an
• 58:05
  economic council Uh there and it's a it's a pretty big deal, right?
• 58:13
  And uh, maria zakharova gave her briefing from there where she is present At the vladivostok briefing and they were
• 58:21
  talking about the 80th, uh general assembly of the un Coming up and the you know, they want to Uh,
• 58:30
  the west keeps pushing what they refer to rules based order but whose rules uh Are we talking about and
• 58:40
  they're using this to override the un charter?
• 58:44
  So she she pretty much um made a pretty blatant double standards uh attack Against the us and the people
• 58:57
  in the un she said for example, the u.s is denying visas to palestinians To palestinian representatives at the
• 59:06
  request of of israel, by the way Which I think is nonsense and she said this is a breach of
• 59:12
  the unhq agreement She's right, by the way and then uh, she argues that the un Must not be selectively
• 59:22
  interpreted but it always is And this is why other people in the world have a problem with it because
• 59:28
  the u.s And the west will twist it to whatever suits their purposes at the time and then twist
• 59:36
  it back when it doesn't go their way that's Welcome to the un, you know, it's and it's been that
• 59:42
  way for a long time.
• 59:44
  She gave a ukrainian Update, uh ukraine update not ukrainian.
• 59:50
  She gave ukraine update saying well, she gave the weekly casualty and attack ledgers She condemns the western arms continuing
• 59:58
  to go to uh Kiev Under the trumpster, by the way more patriots more f-16s starlink She criticizes the
• 1:00:09
  eu for talking about troop deployments and saying they're still doing it Although i've heard quite a bit That it's
• 1:00:16
  now called the coalition of the unwilling Because most of those who are willing to throw their own troops in
• 1:00:24
  For either peacekeeping or anything else, especially in france, but anybody else has been involved as well the they their
• 1:00:33
  people aren't supporting Their people are very much against it.
• 1:00:38
  There's been some some heavy-duty protests going on So she's criticizing them again saying well their own people don't
• 1:00:45
  even want it and she Talked again And this is this is accurate people They've talked about us bio labs
• 1:00:54
  in ukraine These have been found they exist And there's there's a good amount of evidence about them and you
• 1:01:03
  know, we'd be all pissed off if russia put bio labs in uh, uh, Belarus when we found it found
• 1:01:11
  out about it, but we'll we'll happily throw some into ukraine for you Right, or I suppose I shouldn't say
• 1:01:17
  we should I should I say the deep state?
• 1:01:19
  Uh those people, uh You know She brought up one more thing that I found, uh, and I don't think
• 1:01:28
  i've mentioned it enough and I probably should um so if you don't know The and it's getting worse and
• 1:01:38
  there was another another attempt at it by the old z monster last week the old green goblin said that
• 1:01:46
  uh, and and The uh mps are doing the same thing.
• 1:01:51
  What do they what do they call it the rada verhovna rada the uh, uh, their um legislative body um
• 1:01:59
  in ukraine Is allegedly putting something out there to make the ukrainian orthodox church illegal Kind of a terrorist organization
• 1:02:09
  for working with russians So the and they were going to jail the head of the ukrainian orthodox church so
• 1:02:17
  about However, many years ago.
• 1:02:20
  I don't remember the exact date but uh, they they declared these same geniuses Declared that the russian orthodox church,
• 1:02:28
  which has been around for a very long time in ukraine That it was going it couldn't be based on
• 1:02:35
  you know You can't be partners with russia for church, by the way It's nonsense that you couldn't do it
• 1:02:40
  and americans would have you know a fit if you said, you know, geez You're a catholic.
• 1:02:46
  Well, you can't be catholic.
• 1:02:48
  Uh You know You can't be catholic in america.
• 1:02:52
  Sorry.
• 1:02:53
  We don't allow that You know or any church whatever it happened to be whether you moved here or not
• 1:02:58
  You should be able to worship how you feel but not in ukraine friends and neighbors.
• 1:03:03
  Oh, no um, they had they made the russian orthodox church actually change its name To the ukrainian orthodox church
• 1:03:13
  and now they're accusing the head of the ukrainian orthodox church who is russian that you cannot have services in
• 1:03:21
  anything related to russian and He has been jailed repeatedly because he works with The russian orthodox church and he
• 1:03:35
  won't comply and so now they've jailed him This is and it keeps getting worse ukraine is not your good
• 1:03:41
  friend and neighbor they just are not um, she also talked a little bit about vietnam and azerbaijan detentions and
• 1:03:50
  the 80th anniversary libya 70 years of ties with them, you know, just commemorating some stuff and then the russia
• 1:03:58
  china integrations She reminded everyone that now 90 percent of trade Between russia and china more than 90 percent is
• 1:04:10
  done in the yuan and the ruble no dollar and uh crazy stuff um I I don't know there there
• 1:04:23
  was you know, this this economic council going on at the same time as the shanghai cooperation organization called for
• 1:04:33
  a lot Of information, you know to be spread out among different places There was also a couple of good
• 1:04:41
  lavrov speeches today, but there was a guy that I like listening to Um, and I wish I could remember
• 1:04:47
  his first name.
• 1:04:48
  I think it's yakov I'm, pretty sure it is yakov and and I watch him fairly regularly, he appears on
• 1:04:56
  the program of uh, Uh vladimir solovyov that I tell you about that come I try to watch the sunday
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  night once they You know, you know, I you know what I I saw recently that they he doesn't do
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  them every night anymore For for whatever reason or at least maybe they're not saved on the platform.
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  I don't know if maybe they've limited Access outside of the country, but it appears that I only get the
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  sunday night ones now And so they're not seven or five nights a week they're only uh, They're only one
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  and generally I tried to watch the sunday night ones.
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  Anyway, um, But they've been pared down a little bit.
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  It looks like but this guy named, uh, I believe it's yakov.
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  Kid me he did an analysis of Uh the events afterward like the military uh parades and the military functions
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  And if you haven't watched any of those you can see quite a bit of it on uh on youtube
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  as well, and I watched some of that and it was Quite impressive.
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  It was an impressive, uh display of um military might from uh from china And a good amount of world
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  leaders.
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  They're checking it out so if you get a chance you might uh, Just for interest's sake Uh, go and
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  have a look at it and uh, he wanted to talk about the military Symbolism Of it all and he
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  had there was a good interview of him that was conducted And in china's victory parade They have developed their
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  own the same as russia hypersonic missiles their own laser Systems if you heard about the russian, uh laser systems,
• 1:06:47
  they tested again And uh, russia is now uh mass produced several of these um from the lasers That can
• 1:06:55
  take out uh drones Get on youtube and check that out too because uh, uh, that is impressive and uh
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  Watching them take care of it.
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  They also Introduced and yakov kademy was talking about it saying that they have ai In their weapon systems and
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  networked warfare Now this is scary stuff um you know We have all these movies that we watched at you
• 1:07:29
  know terminator and you know, you pick it irobot that uh technology comes and in defending america actually Ends up
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  Discovering what's best for us.
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  Is anybody else worried about that?
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  Just a tiny bit with ai Especially with ai and a weapon system You know, how long is this going
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  to go on?
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  And did everybody see the picture he commented on this too, but when I first saw the picture I was
• 1:08:03
  like wow that picture is going to be all over the place um, it was Xi jinping putin and kim
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  jong-un together on the podium Watching the victory parades together and remember north korea has got a pretty powerful
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  Army as well.
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  Don't go thinking they're any slouches because they are not and uh, it's Those those three together on the podium
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  You can't help but think militarily With the three of them there because tell you what that's that's uh And
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  remember they're talking about what whoever suggested this did you hear about kellogg's meeting that got cut short to nothing
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  meeting with this, uh coalition of the unwilling and and the speculation is That he went in there and was
• 1:08:58
  telling them what they were going to do instead of whatever But either way this meeting was supposed to take
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  place all day long Turned into less than by some accounts 25 minutes and other accounts, maybe 40 But either
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  way it didn't last long at all and off he went and so there's been talk about that um The
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  parade was uh, you know, they somebody asked this cadme guy if he thought um That it was a huge
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  display or a warning to the west and he said he goes listen That was an extremely professional parade And
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  it was a demonstration of a large superpower now xi jinping sat with uh, vladimir putin on the stage in
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  moscow And now vladimir putin returned the favor and I said something about it way back then I want to
• 1:09:56
  see what xi jinping puts puts out with their parade that parade was pretty damn impressive And uh, you know,
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  they're trying to one-up each other and who knows?
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  What'll come of it, but they're high hypersonics in uh china They are unmatched except by russia's which are slightly
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  better according to all accounts.
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  But uh, But china's got some pretty serious hypersonics, too And their lasers for missile defenses are pretty unique Excuse
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  me.
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  I got a bit of a cough here.
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  Excuse me.
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  Um I think and he made a comment that I kind of mirror and I said something similar when I
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  was commenting on The lack of western Um Leaders showing up at the 80th anniversary of the end of the
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  Of world war ii in russia There's no reason that there shouldn't that they shouldn't work together to celebrate something
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  of that nature and usually in a five, you know on the I forget what they call it when it's
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  on the the five-year anniversary or the 10 or the 15 on on years like that that are Something
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  better.
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  They usually can get people to show up but Nope And and nobody showed up in russia except a couple
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  of western uh presidents from like Serbia and hungary or whatever and then they got beat the hell up for
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  it politically It's nonsense and uh, I feel the same way about this 80th, you know obviously we can't do
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  it at this period in time, but it would be extremely brave And show an incredible amount of Stones and
• 1:12:04
  a huge impact on the world if Donald trump showed up himself or sent marco rubio To go to something
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  of this Huge Significance not to participate in the in the shanghai cooperation organization.
• 1:12:26
  I mean specifically to go and commemorate the loss of some 20 million Chinese people because of the attacks by
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  japan um during world war ii But nope, we cannot What do you call it, um Compartmentalize We do not
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  compartmentalize Again, if you're evil in one thing you're evil in all And and I think that is a huge
• 1:13:00
  mistake in life and in politics and I wish we had more politicians who Subscribe to the You know small
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  steps theories that uh, you know you're not gonna uh change, uh, you know conquer rome in a day, whatever
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  that saying goes you're not gonna You're not gonna take care of it and we we can't get anything Accomplished
• 1:13:32
  because We can't get anything accomplished Start small, you know, I mean jesus be a friend, you know, how do
• 1:13:41
  you uh eat an elephant?
• 1:13:44
  Well take a bite Then take another one, you know this it's us Does that mean it's not?
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  It's not worth it.
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  It isn't worth it.
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  Talk to that guy.
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  You'll never get anything done.
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  Well Okay.
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  Well, I guess you'll never get anything done then because that's how it works and it's that same in everything
• 1:14:04
  I wish we could apply it to our politics as well because we really suck in global politics in my
• 1:14:11
  Humble opinion and have for a while So, I don't know let's let's keep going I still got a couple
• 1:14:20
  of little uh segments here that I wish to do And on this one, uh, uh, here's where I get
• 1:14:30
  to my scott besson and and I don't like him I have for whatever reason this guy doesn't say anything
• 1:14:38
  positive ever and It's like geez What is wrong with you?
• 1:14:44
  And and so he had a he was asked.
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  Um Where's my reference because I had the whole article was there somewhere and it's uh, He was asked Like
• 1:15:00
  damn it who was it was a politico.
• 1:15:02
  I can't remember and he it was He he was asked about the shanghai cooperation organization and he was asked
• 1:15:12
  about it and he said listen Those guys this is where he called them all Uh, he said the seo
• 1:15:21
  is just a performative Basis, it's like a circus basically.
• 1:15:26
  Well What They're it's a performance.
• 1:15:30
  Jesus.
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  They don't have anything going on.
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  It's a performance And uh, so yeah, all these people get together and and have a performance they're they're doing
• 1:15:40
  performative measures For you To fake, you know to do what for what purpose are they here to scare you?
• 1:15:48
  And then he said that the members of the seo all 20 of them, you know These are just these
• 1:15:54
  these members are what he called bad actors, right?
• 1:16:00
  So he says no definition he didn't didn't give any definition for what a bad actor really is we just
• 1:16:07
  get to say well He's a bad guy.
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  Therefore.
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  You don't deal with him.
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  That's my point.
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  You know, we don't have to do anything because Oh, they're bad actors Tell enough people that guess what they
• 1:16:21
  are Bad actors, right and then the the by the way performative basically means ah, that's just you know, Optical
• 1:16:31
  show the word the word in russian is called a uh, pachazuka and I always like that word because it's
• 1:16:38
  basically a uh, A a flea circus, let's call it, you know, that's a pachas and a pachazuka doesn't mean
• 1:16:48
  flea circus but it's basically the equivalent a pachazuka is a uh, A fake display of something, you know, geez
• 1:16:56
  they're gonna go um You know put on a display for a day, you know, your boss is coming in
• 1:17:02
  you clean the place up But on a regular day the places of his shit show You know what?
• 1:17:08
  I mean if you're if the corporate office isn't coming in, you know from afar Uh, the place is a
• 1:17:14
  dump but the day they show up boy.
• 1:17:16
  It's spotless uh, remember the the u.s air force colonel who got relieved of command for uh, Actually, was
• 1:17:24
  it air force?
• 1:17:26
  I don't you know what?
• 1:17:28
  It might have been it might have been an army guy I I can't recall but he actually got relieved
• 1:17:35
  to command by a general and this is the right thing to do By the way, I might have to
• 1:17:39
  look this up in uh, uh on google and see if I can find it But uh way back when
• 1:17:45
  when I was still serving in the army a guy really did get in trouble For having his troopies paint
• 1:17:51
  the grass For because there was somebody important coming in and they painted the grass I mean, how foolish is
• 1:18:03
  that?
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  How stupid do you gotta be?
• 1:18:06
  to paint the grass, um, and uh, and and uh, i'm i'm Well, my percentages keep going down.
• 1:18:14
  I was just gonna say i'm 95 Certain that occurred but maybe it's only 90 But uh, but I remember
• 1:18:20
  it being you know Something that we actually looked into back when to see if it was there and I
• 1:18:26
  can't remember if it was in stars and stripes or uh, Whatever military army times something like that But uh,
• 1:18:33
  there was a story out there and we all debated it for a good number of days.
• 1:18:37
  Uh, that is performative right Yeah, this is great stuff we're putting on a show for you Uh, so i'd
• 1:18:46
  like to give a couple of rebuttals for that because we just went over a bunch of them and and
• 1:18:51
  what What about the seo?
• 1:18:54
  meetings Was performative was a show There's some pretty big deals.
• 1:19:00
  They talked about mr.
• 1:19:01
  Besant And one of them is the banking that they have talked about that they're putting a new development bank
• 1:19:10
  in the Shanghai cooperation organization just like they did in bricks To mean that people that are a member of
• 1:19:18
  this seo just like members of bricks can get money from china Mostly through the development bank now, I think
• 1:19:25
  that's a pretty big deal Because they don't have to go and kiss the ring or to lick the rear
• 1:19:32
  end of Western dominated world bank or international monetary fund.
• 1:19:38
  That's why they're doing it it's exactly why they're doing it because Otherwise, they're going to be required to sanction
• 1:19:45
  somebody at some point in history without any uh ability to uh Not do it because their money is all
• 1:19:53
  dependent on being given to them only from the international monetary fund through through the world bank and And Who
• 1:20:02
  needs that if you're a developing country and and have any idea that you would like to be?
• 1:20:08
  Independent and don't want to be controlled like a colony From uh, you know, I don't know from 150 years
• 1:20:17
  ago So I think that's a big deal the energy ties that they talked about.
• 1:20:23
  That's a huge deal that uh, You know that they they talked about this pipeline thing coming through and they
• 1:20:30
  approved the mongolia and going through mongolia And so now most of them can all get very cheap russian gas
• 1:20:37
  the same way that india and china are And what have we done?
• 1:20:41
  Mr. Besant?
• 1:20:42
  We got nothing, you know this and how are you going to combat that sanctions?
• 1:20:46
  Good luck You know, it's not going to work and uh, I mean, you don't have to be a genius
• 1:20:52
  to figure that out And so talk about political grandstanding Mr. Besant all jizz are just bad actors and this
• 1:21:00
  is all just a clown show, you know, that's it.
• 1:21:03
  Oh, yeah That's the clown show and not you I I Probably shouldn't beat up on him so bad I
• 1:21:12
  mean, he's got to have some good redeeming qualities, but why in the world can't you just call it like
• 1:21:17
  it is?
• 1:21:18
  you know if people are always gonna uh, uh I don't it's once again this is what they call cancel
• 1:21:26
  culture and he is just as guilty of it as Anybody else talking about rainbow flags, right?
• 1:21:35
  It's it's just wow.
• 1:21:36
  Jeez.
• 1:21:37
  Where's your rainbow flag?
• 1:21:38
  I don't want one Oh, that means you hate gays.
• 1:21:41
  No, it means I don't want a rainbow flag that that's not a huge focus in my life You know,
• 1:21:48
  why do we have to come out and be told that these are all bad people and that they're behaving
• 1:21:52
  performatively When you could just say well, you know, they've got some good things going on over there We'll have
• 1:21:58
  to keep an eye on that or it's not what we would like and we disagree with some of the
• 1:22:02
  things They're doing but it could be positive for their area.
• 1:22:05
  I don't understand it makes no sense What what what you're trying to sell me and if you would be
• 1:22:12
  more reasonable about it Perhaps i'd buy more of your words or something else.
• 1:22:17
  They talked about the power of siberia, too That's hard infrastructure.
• 1:22:21
  That's a big deal.
• 1:22:23
  Where's our hard infrastructure?
• 1:22:24
  We can't even build a A rail system that was supposed to cost 36 Million or billion for a high
• 1:22:31
  -speed rail 36 million.
• 1:22:33
  I'm sorry now.
• 1:22:34
  It's a hundred million And no it is billion.
• 1:22:37
  I'm sorry and and it hasn't gone anywhere and they've curtailed it to just a baker's field You know, they've
• 1:22:42
  cut it by a third Or by well, they've cut it by two thirds.
• 1:22:46
  There's only a third of it left And they still won't get it done.
• 1:22:49
  There's no end in sight.
• 1:22:50
  Where's texas high-speed rail?
• 1:22:52
  That's been talked about for 30 years the high-speed rail.
• 1:22:55
  They got in the northeast of the united states That shit hasn't gone anywhere And uh their high-speed rail
• 1:23:00
  doesn't even go the speed that china had in high-speed rail in the 60s So where's our infrastructure what
• 1:23:08
  do we got what have we done?
• 1:23:11
  I don't know, but this is just performative.
• 1:23:13
  Sorry to beat up on him.
• 1:23:15
  Um What about rats the real counter-terrorist?
• 1:23:19
  Coordination that they they had some pretty big development on that Seo is not nato, right?
• 1:23:26
  They aren't there, but they had workshops where real projects got hammered out Multi-polarity is no longer just a
• 1:23:33
  slogan world.
• 1:23:35
  It's like Uh what vladimir putin said, you know, we're taking care of our own our own issues.
• 1:23:41
  We're just getting work done over here That's what we're doing Where where's us, you know, it's like they're they're
• 1:23:47
  working off engineering diagrams.
• 1:23:49
  And what are we working off of you know?
• 1:23:54
  What I mean seriously, what are we working off do we have any any sort of even regional Stuff Oh
• 1:24:04
  Anyway, i've been i've been on a roll tonight.
• 1:24:08
  Sorry about that so over the next 12 months the seo had a bit of a Guide, where are we
• 1:24:16
  going to go?
• 1:24:16
  What are we getting in the next?
• 1:24:18
  12 months till we meet again, basically What are we going to do?
• 1:24:23
  The seo is going to finance, you know have financing structures in place for a lot of different things through
• 1:24:29
  banking through bond issuance For other countries and through uh This development bank that they're creating to uh allow Um
• 1:24:40
  loans and notes for uh for countries.
• 1:24:43
  They're gonna roll out all of this beidou Uh g you know gps equivalent all over eurasia And Leg one
• 1:24:55
  of power of siberia two is already done and leg two Of power siberia was just agreed upon And they
• 1:25:04
  intend to have two of their milestones met by the time they meet next year These people come up with
• 1:25:10
  international projects and follow through on them What do we do?
• 1:25:18
  I mean seriously, what do we do?
• 1:25:20
  We can't even get regional Regional Infrastructure projects done in the us on any level because all the money's given
• 1:25:30
  to the state And i'm not against that but the structure of it means that you can't really do it
• 1:25:36
  And international cooperation, you know, I went through that it just We need to have a wake-up call Is
• 1:25:46
  what I think that the u.s. Needs a serious wake-up call um You know important quotes from this
• 1:25:54
  uh Contours like putin said the contours of multi-polarity do exist in our structures Where everyone is equal?
• 1:26:08
  I mean, that's Some powerful stuff Zakharova the problem isn't the un itself The un un is a good organization
• 1:26:18
  basically But the problem is the west always bends the charter to meet its own needs And these are this
• 1:26:26
  is accurate, okay, this is not this is this is not Uh sam's dream, this is this is the fact
• 1:26:36
  that we bend the charter to meet our own needs Willy-nilly whenever we feel like it with no real
• 1:26:44
  justification except politics So why doesn't anyone?
• 1:26:50
  uh trust us Because we bend the rules rules for me not for thee happens all the time I mean,
• 1:26:57
  that's one of the things I bitch about the most in life Is don't have a set of different rules
• 1:27:03
  for different people The same rules should apply to everyone equally by the way, but that's not the case A
• 1:27:10
  yakov kid me.
• 1:27:11
  What did he say?
• 1:27:12
  China showed its hypersonics lasers and new nukes Nobody has anything like this.
• 1:27:17
  He said By the way, I think he's right, too It'd be you know, what do we have any serious
• 1:27:23
  military parades in the united states?
• 1:27:25
  I mean we do for the army's birthday and for other stuff like that But do we have an equivalent
• 1:27:30
  where we go out and show our might?
• 1:27:33
  You know, I really got to look into that if I remember seeing a couple on fourth of july and
• 1:27:39
  things like that but most of those are not really for the purpose of glory or showing Our capabilities.
• 1:27:48
  I wonder you know, i'm gonna have to look into that.
• 1:27:50
  I don't think we do if we do Let me know samuel t at international flavor dot com And i'd
• 1:27:56
  be happy to do so or live at damn radio dot com And i'll jr i'll make sure I get
• 1:28:03
  it.
• 1:28:04
  Um Baidu guides taxis and missiles all at the same time Is that multi-polarity in orbit?
• 1:28:14
  And we wonder that could be kind of cool um, so Important terms that we've talked about today.
• 1:28:21
  I mean we've got Uh the baidu system we got zakharov under three hour briefing on the on the un
• 1:28:28
  rule bending ukrainian ledgers kedmi's analysis this performative nonsense that we've had to listen to from Besant who said that
• 1:28:38
  oh, geez, it's all empty over there.
• 1:28:40
  There's nothing nothing to see here folks.
• 1:28:42
  Just turn around Nonsense anyway, that's all I got today for the show I appreciate you being with me and
• 1:28:51
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• 1:28:58
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• 1:29:05
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• 1:29:18
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• 1:29:26
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• 1:29:32
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