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Nebenzya vs Kallas, EU Power Grab & Trump’s ‘God Emperor’ Moment · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Hello, good morning. Welcome. I am
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  Samuel Trap. This is International
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  Flavor. You're listening to DAM Radio
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  today.
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  Coming to you live from the Lakeos Art
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  Real Estate of the Art Studio. Uh happy
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  to, you know, offend everyone equally, I
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  suppose, whilst I sit here and opine on
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  events of the day.
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  Uh I think one of the first things I
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  wanted to share with you and uh I'm I'm
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  hoping Why is it always echoing? I'm I
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  feel like I'm echoing. Uh one of the
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  things I'd like to share with you is um
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  there was a pretty good uh speech by
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  Nenzia
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  Vasilei. I forget his middle name, but
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  um usually say you know like uh you
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  would call him um
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  uh you know Sergeovich Mikail whatever
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  his middle name is and but I don't have
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  his middle name. Vasilei Nebenzia is all
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  I know. And so Vasilei I like listening
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  to him and every time I see something
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  pop up with him that's um a direct
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  quote. This one was an attack on
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  Kaiakalis
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  and deservedly so. I mean, the lady's
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  really not too bright, you know, and how
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  these people get the positions that they
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  get. It just drives me. It's like how
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  show your your your uh idiocy, your
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  stupidity, and you know, you get
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  promoted. That's what we always used to
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  say in the army. Um, you know, I I may
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  have said it before, Jack be nimble.
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  Jack be quick. Jack got stupid and
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  stepped or tripped on his Oh, we won't
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  say that word on the radio. And then he
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  got promoted. That's the end of the uh
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  limmerick, as you will. Uh but anyway,
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  if you feel like calling in, I I might
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  even answer today. I got I got plenty um
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  uh of of information. And I tell you
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  what, um I I I watched and and I want to
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  save for you and provide it the um
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  indictment basically that Nenzia gave to
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  the EU. Um and I tell you what, I don't
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  mean to criticize. I mean it's it it I
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  well I do but I mean the
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  it's harsh that it has to be so punch
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  yourself punch people in the faced
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  because of the stupidity of what is
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  going on in the world and this
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  indictment by Nenzia of the EU is you
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  know as a hypocritical centralized
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  increasingly detached from both reality
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  and history
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  you know because while Russia is
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  attacking the European model or the
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  western hegemony because when when he is
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  he's attacking the US system as well cuz
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  we've all been part of the same uh unit
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  polarity forever. China's offering an
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  alternative and uh they're oper offering
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  something different. Um, you know, I've
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  talked about this before being um, uh,
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  you know, they're not offering bombs or
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  blockades and, you know, ultimatums.
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  They're offering a framework, a system.
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  Uh, more importantly, infrastructure
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  worldwide. I mean, that that's what
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  they've been doing. That's what they
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  were doing in Venezuela that Trump just
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  couldn't handle and that the the West
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  can't handle. And uh we've created China
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  as the as the boogeyman even more so
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  than Russia. And
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  the realities are you know China has
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  billions. They have the strongest uh
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  economy in the world. If you go on
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  purchase power par uh US is second to
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  them. if you go on what the the yuan
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  will buy and they're forcing the yuan
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  not them but everybody else you know
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  China China is dealing with um other
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  people as well and so but they're
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  offering a system and a framework there
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  was a uh meeting uh Xi Jinping met
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  whether it was over the weekend or
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  Monday I don't remember but uh they met
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  um
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  with uh Saudi Arabia um and and then
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  another another EU um not EU, another
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  Middle Eastern country and another crown
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  prince, you know, a couple of them.
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  They've been talking about him. They've
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  been working with Saudi Arabia. They've
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  been working with um uh you know, a
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  couple other countries trying to get
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  this, including Iran, trying to get
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  these things figured out and offering
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  suggestions. and uh you know they I I
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  want to share that with you. But I
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  thought that first I would bring to you
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  the um
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  the
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  translation of what Vasilei Nubenzia
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  said and I hate to laugh about it and
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  it's actually it's much better in
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  Russian of course because uh there it's
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  a it's a beautiful targeted language and
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  they can say things in one word that we
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  can't say in a paragraph. You know what
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  I mean? And they have some of these are
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  are just uh
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  uh very interesting to me. Mr. And this
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  is Nibendenzia t take about I don't know
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  how many minutes it'll take me to get
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  through this. His whole speech was about
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  10 minutes. So it'll take me about 10
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  minutes to get through his speech I
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  assume in English. Assuming if there are
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  any um uh improper um
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  uh translations I got to clarify or
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  anything. But it's important and uh
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  listen to what the ambassador to the UN
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  is telling to her face Kayakalis and the
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  hypocrisy of it all. Ready? Uh Mr.
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  chairman of the European Union Union
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  including at the UN many years uh the
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  chairman uh managed to position herself
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  as the main peacekeeper and mediator,
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  defender of international law at the UN.
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  This is the UN is supposed to be the
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  defender of international law, the guide
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  of universal
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  uh human and democratic values and human
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  rights as well as a selfless benefactor
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  for developing countries.
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  Most of which, however, have been robbed
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  by the Europeans for centuries. However,
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  now all of these double standards and
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  hypocrisy are rapidly emerging. this is
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  straight to the faces of all the
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  Europeans sitting at the UN and I mean
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  he's he's straight up instead of going
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  into a conscious dialogue on the
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  construction of a common security
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  architecture
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  as it was proposed by Russia on more
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  than one occasion. European countries
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  have grown a rousophobic mood for
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  Ukraine, narrowed it into war with
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  Russia, not taking into account the
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  fates and lives of ordinary people. They
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  have planned and torpedoed the
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  negotiation process and continue to do
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  so actively. Mrs. Kaya Kalis, a former
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  prime minister of Estonia, said that the
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  defeat of Russia would not be so bad.
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  She claimed that again. It would not be
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  so bad if a large power became smaller.
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  Perhaps by promoting mediation efforts
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  around the world. Brussels also has its
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  own idea that someone should become
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  smaller or bigger. As for international
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  law, we pay attention to the call to
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  comply with the right of nations for
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  self-determinations.
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  Self-determination
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  uh because they complain about this all
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  the time. that you can only
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  self-determine if you agree with uh the
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  EU and the United States. It's
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  absolutely true. The EU members once
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  again show their dual nature about the
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  principles of the UN charter and they
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  recall their communication only when it
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  came to Greenland
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  that Greenland can self-determined. The
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  topic is absolutely taboo for them as it
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  is applicable to the population
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  population of Crimea and other new
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  Russian regions that you know
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  self-determined. The irony here is that
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  the EU which invented and promoted for a
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  long time the concept of peace and order
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  based on rules became the counterweight
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  to international law. Now it is an
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  object,
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  not a subject of its own false concepts.
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  As for freedom of security and trade,
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  the EU demanded its support for the
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  Armenian strait, but at the same time
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  tries to limit the movement of ships
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  transporting goods in the interests of
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  the Russian country by force by imposing
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  democratic when he quoted that de you
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  know the little u uh
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  parenthesis you know like uh Austin
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  Powers would use by imposing democratic
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  standards on the UN member states. The
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  EU elections have become a training
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  ground for the development of political
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  and information technologies. The EU is
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  betting on preventing the strengthening
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  of the position of alternative political
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  forces which is absolutely true. any
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  means of censorship, control over the
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  digital spaces, pressure, persecution,
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  and the requirement to re-examine
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  incorrect
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  election results are always in motion.
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  We have seen this recently in Romania
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  and Georgia. We have seen it more than
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  once. The thirdparty countries have one
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  task in mind to maintain or bring to
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  power the most loyal political forces to
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  Brussels. The corruption that the
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  Europeans and the countries of the
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  global south
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  uh are are looking to um
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  uh that's not the right word there are
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  looking to uh involve in the EU are
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  blooming in the European Union itself.
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  the corruption, the scandals that have
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  emerged in Europe over the past year,
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  including the participation of the
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  former high representative of the EU on
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  foreign affairs and security policy,
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  Federica Mugarini,
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  and the head of the European Commission,
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  Ursula Fonderline, are the tip of the
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  iceberg. As for the last one, I would
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  like to remind you that the European
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  court ruling speaks in plain language
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  about her attempts to conceal evidence
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  of the corruption of the head of the
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  European Commission. The Real Vicious
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  Circle operates with the transfer of
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  tens of billions of euros as part of its
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  assistance to Kiev, most of which
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  eventually end up in the pockets of the
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  Euro bureaucrats themselves.
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  Is the assistance of the European Union
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  selfless? Most of our friends tell us
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  that the new trend that is fueled by the
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  re refusal to cooperate with Russia. The
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  European Union has also demonstrated
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  complete irresponsibility in the matter
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  of food security when due to its
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  anti-Russian sanctions, the countries of
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  the global south faced unprecedented
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  difficulties in acquiring Russian and
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  Bellarussian fertilizers and food.
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  All of this is true. By the way, we are
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  talking about the breakdown of
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  logistical chains, payment problems,
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  insurance, and delivery of agricultural
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  goods and fertilizer. The EU officials
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  clearly state that they have provided
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  for the approp appropriate removal of
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  restrictions on the trade of
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  agricultural products but they keep
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  silent that they exist o and they exist
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  only on paper and in fact they do not
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  work and they are unnecessary for the
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  performance of EU member states.
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  It is not uncommon to hear how EU
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  representatives in their states show off
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  that Europe is among the main donors of
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  development programs which are
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  implemented under the opaces of the
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  world organization. In 2024 the EU
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  system allocated about 16.6 billion
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  euros
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  12.7 billion e for EU member states and
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  3.4 4 billion euros from the total EU
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  budget. At the same time, more careful
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  consideration and observation shows that
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  this so-called aid to development goals
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  included within the framework of the EU
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  global access initiative is intended to
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  guarantee Brussels privileged access to
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  the global south's natural resources.
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  All the investment, infrastructure and
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  projects implemented by the EU under the
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  opaces of the world organization are
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  primarily intended to serve only Europe.
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  Mr. President, the Europeans clearly do
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  not have enough time for what Frederick
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  Mertz at the Munich conference called
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  the normative legal excesses. That is in
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  fact the creation of moralizing cover.
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  They're creating moral cover for their
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  policies. All the force of the EU are
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  now focused on striking Russia with a
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  strategic defeat. The EU continues to do
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  everything to further escalate the
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  conflict in Ukraine, including
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  strengthening the Kiev regime with arms
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  and military equipment in violation of
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  its own criteria of export control and
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  of international obligations.
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  This makes it and its member states
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  accompllices in the crimes and terror
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  attacks carried out by Ukrainian
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  militants using these weapons. At the
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  same time, fearing discontent from
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  President Trump, the European
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  bureaucrats and their Ukrainian puppets
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  support the intermediary initiatives of
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  the United States. But in practice, they
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  sabotage the implementation of any
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  realistic agreement. fountaining with
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  inevitable impassibility and sometimes
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  absurd conditions, none of which take is
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  taken into account by the principle or
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  the point of view of Russia and cannot
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  in the long term achieve stable peace.
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  The last example is the so-called
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  ultimatum,
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  the ultimatum of Miss Kalis. And she was
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  sitting in the room and he was looking
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  straight at her and she wouldn't look
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  up. She's staring down at her paper. The
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  ultimatum of Mitch Kales, uh, which is a
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  list of absurd requirements of Russia,
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  without which the EU does not intend to
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  allow Kiev to go into a peaceful
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  settlement with Moscow. In fact, the
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  European bureaucrats reject the very
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  idea of diplomatic discussion and carry
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  out an outright propaganda war. at the
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  same time increasing sanctions pressure
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  on our country which not only proved its
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  ineffectiveness but also caused colossal
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  damage to the countries of the European
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  Union and has already led to inflation
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  and a serious drop in the real incomes
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  of ordinary Europeans. The damage is
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  also inflicted on other countries. The
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  weapons on paper supplied by the Kiev
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  regime later spread to Africa, Asia, and
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  Latin America. With their EU efforts,
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  Ukraine is the largest center of illegal
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  arms circulation in the world. According
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  to the calculation of the American
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  Institute for the Study of War, every
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  third assault rifle that fell into the
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  hands of extremist and terrorist groups
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  around the world is of Ukrainian origin
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  was supplied by Ukraine. So all the
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  corruption, they're taking all the
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  weapons that we provide and they're
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  mailing them all over the world. They're
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  found all over the place. And this is
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  true also.
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  Mr. Chairman, Russia is fully aware that
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  we are with uh European countries on the
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  same continent. The geography cannot be
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  rewritten and history should not be
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  rewritten. Although the outstanding,
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  this is great. Although the outstanding
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  historical knowledge of Miss Kalis was
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  attributed to Russia by as many as 19
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  wars initiated by Russia, not counting
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  the African wars and only in the last
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  hundred years. That's absolutely not
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  true. She has no idea what she's talking
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  about. But she claimed that Russia
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  started 19 wars in the last century. I
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  can't name any. You know, I got you
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  could argue on the Ukraine side who
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  started it. But, uh, uh, you know,
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  Russia's been involved in two, maybe
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  three, uh, but not that many. Uh let's
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  see if you
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  uh let's see cuz there was a a little ex
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  uh skirmish down in Georgia in between
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  Georgia and uh Russia and I forget the
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  name of the uh the the oblast the region
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  there. Uh anyway, not counting African
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  wars that Russia's been involved in. I
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  guess I don't know anything about those
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  and uh I I even looked can't find any.
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  Uh we have been in favor of an equal
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  hell US has been in 19 in the last week
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  probably
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  we have been in favor of an equal
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  mutually beneficial cooperative nature
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  and consideration of security concerns.
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  This is necessary not only for Russia
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  but also for Europe. As German
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  Chancellor Helmet Cole said in 200
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  the date didn't come out I think it was
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  2006 though H helmet Cole the future of
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  Europe if it wants to remain as an
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  independent civilization uh center must
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  necessarily work together with Russia.
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  We naturally complement each other and
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  if this does not happen Europe will
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  gradually disappear. This is what we are
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  seeing today. However, there is
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  significant def deficit of largecale
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  politicians in Europe now. And he meant
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  intelligent ones is what he really meant
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  is is is uh uh you know there's plenty
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  of politicians but none of them are the
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  the current generation are European
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  bureaucrats
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  convincing the population of the
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  countries of the inevitability of a
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  direct military clash with Russia. and
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  they are feverishly preparing for war
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  with Russia. Moreover, we are well aware
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  that the rousophobes from the Baltic
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  countries um
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  exist. The transfer of their national
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  rousophobic complexes to the general
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  Jesuit level became possible after they
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  appropriated the development and
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  implementation of the eastern course of
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  the European Union. There is a wide myth
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  that the existential threat to Europe
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  will soon disappear. The militaristic
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  anti-Russian rhetoric is reinforced by
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  specific practical actions. From
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  February 2022 to 2025,
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  EU member states have increased defense
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  spending by almost 60%.
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  As a result of last year, the amount of
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  donations reached 381
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  billion euro. This is the second place
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  in the world after the United States. At
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  the same time, the task of increasing
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  Europe's defense capabilities by 2030
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  has also been set. The increase in
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  military assignments will only be
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  possible as a result of a reduction of
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  spending on other budgetary items,
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  primarily social in nature. These
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  large-scale military preparations will
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  only be possible if we are forced to
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  react mirroredly.
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  And none of the conquerors who come with
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  a come to us with a sword left Russia in
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  good health.
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  He's pointing back all the way across
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  many many hundreds of years. Such an an
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  open military course will cause much
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  less surprise if you look at those who
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  are responsible for its development. I'm
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  talking about the total professional
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  inadequacy
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  of the European Union authors of this
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  plan in particular the head of Euro
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  diplomacy. This is her. This is this is
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  Kaya Kalis again in particular the head
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  of Euro diplomacy. He's about to insult
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  her. Speaking at a conference of the
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  Institute of Security Studies of the EU
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  last year, commenting on Vladimir
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  Putin's speech at the at the events in
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  China celebrating world the end of World
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  War II wherein Russia lost 26 million
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  and China lost 28 million people. Uh the
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  solemn events in China said the
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  following. This is Kaakalis last year.
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  Uh well, Russia uh Russia addressed
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  China and said Russia and China fought
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  in World War II. We
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  won World War II. We defeated Nazism.
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  That's what Trump I mean Trump. That's
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  what Putin said to Xi Jinping. And I
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  thought this is something new. She said,
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  "If you know history, then it raises
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  many questions. This is what the high
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  representative of the EU on foreign
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  affairs said which obviously knows
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  nothing about that is the people of the
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  Soviet Union and of uh China who took
• 22:36
  the main blow for the world and we would
• 22:39
  like her to get acquainted with her
• 22:42
  history teacher and he's looking at Miss
• 22:45
  Collus we would like to get acquainted
• 22:47
  with your history teacher and so he said
• 22:50
  to finish up he says to sum up I want to
• 22:52
  say that apparent Apparently from the
• 22:53
  beautiful post-war idea of united
• 22:56
  Europe, the EU is moving to the
• 22:59
  construction of the next Reich. We hope
• 23:02
  that the European countries and the
• 23:05
  international community as a whole that
• 23:07
  there are still sober heads there who
• 23:09
  will oppose such developments. Thank
• 23:12
  you. Now, that was uh Vasilei Nebenzia,
• 23:16
  who really is critical, and I don't know
• 23:19
  who his speech writer is, but uh I like
• 23:22
  them generally, and uh they're they're
• 23:25
  pretty blunt and uh and on point when
• 23:28
  when you get to speak to them, but you
• 23:29
  never hear about that stuff over here.
• 23:31
  You might get a you might get a small um
• 23:34
  what do you call it? Um blurb out of
• 23:37
  something, and I apologize for for
• 23:39
  sharing the parts that might not have
• 23:41
  been that entertaining. But uh it uh I
• 23:45
  think you you need to understand what
• 23:47
  other people are thinking and uh and I
• 23:49
  provide that here for you um in my own
• 23:54
  little world. So,
• 23:58
  Xi Jinping also gave a pretty tight uh
• 24:03
  statement because there was no I got to
• 24:07
  go all the way back here to my notes
• 24:10
  which I've lost my notes. Here they be.
• 24:15
  Uh we'll get to him in just a second.
• 24:17
  But but listen, Europe,
• 24:21
  did I point out that today is Wednesday?
• 24:24
  I don't think I did. Do you know that
• 24:26
  today is Wednesday? It's the biggest day
• 24:27
  in radio and I get to start it all up.
• 24:30
  It's also tax day. Let's all cry about
• 24:33
  that. See what we can do. Um
• 24:37
  to get working on that. That doesn't
• 24:39
  make me happy at all. But that's the,
• 24:42
  you know, par for the course in these
• 24:44
  days of trouble and gloom where passing
• 24:47
  rufians can say n at will to old women.
• 24:50
  Uh the cleanest way to talk about uh you
• 24:54
  know the speech of Mr. Nubenzia is it is
• 24:58
  freaking accurate. He he he was
• 25:00
  accurate. He's truthful. He you know
• 25:03
  these European nuts are all pro war pro
• 25:07
  war pro war pro uh pro uh you know
• 25:11
  destruction of Ukraine. Proh killing. Uh
• 25:14
  did you know Friedri Mertz yesterday
• 25:17
  uh day before maybe he uh had a a
• 25:21
  meeting with the Zmon
• 25:23
  and we're talking about by the end of
• 25:26
  the year sending all of the Ukrainian
• 25:30
  men home and they're they're getting
• 25:33
  ready to deport them all cuz Ukraine
• 25:35
  doesn't have anybody left. So now
• 25:38
  they're scrging all the people that left
• 25:41
  and they're gonna they're going to
• 25:43
  deport them. Poland's been doing it or
• 25:45
  trying to find them for a little while
• 25:47
  and many of the countries have have said
• 25:50
  this is what we're going to start doing
• 25:51
  because uh the Z monster is asking them
• 25:55
  in addition to the 90 billion which the
• 25:57
  funny part is of the 90 billion they
• 25:59
  estimate that 60 billion of it will go
• 26:02
  to the EU
• 26:05
  30 billion will go to Ukraine the amount
• 26:08
  that actually gets to the front line and
• 26:10
  equipment and you know uh supplies is
• 26:14
  about a tenth of it. You know, it's it's
• 26:17
  really nothing that what they get. The
• 26:19
  corruption is so massive that they don't
• 26:22
  get any of it. Now, I don't know that
• 26:23
  the accuracy of those numbers even that
• 26:25
  that sounds a little high to me that
• 26:28
  they even get that much cuz uh they're
• 26:30
  all just splitting it up and getting
• 26:32
  their share, you know, pay paying people
• 26:34
  to look the other way. And everybody's
• 26:37
  looking the other way as long as it
• 26:38
  ain't them having to die. And then their
• 26:40
  booification is is uh taking people down
• 26:43
  and you know beating the crap out of
• 26:45
  them and those videos are everywhere and
• 26:48
  throwing them in onto the front line. Uh
• 26:51
  Russia meanwhile is making uh they
• 26:54
  allegedly have started their uh summer
• 26:57
  offensive or their spring offensive I
• 27:00
  suppose you would call it and they're
• 27:02
  hitting hard. lots of drones last night
• 27:06
  um that were headed toward uh Harkov um
• 27:11
  up in the near the Sunumi region up
• 27:13
  there when they crossed the border from
• 27:15
  Belgraed down down south that they've
• 27:18
  been talking about building a buffer
• 27:19
  zone along there. Told you yesterday
• 27:21
  that they've gotten quite a bit of the
• 27:23
  uh of the territory of the whole
• 27:26
  Dawnbass already. Um, but you know,
• 27:31
  something needs to happen with all these
• 27:33
  wars. And frankly, even though I didn't
• 27:35
  think he'd be able to resolve it in a
• 27:37
  day, I thought the efforts would be to
• 27:40
  resolve war. And you know, you haven't
• 27:43
  heard them say anything about the war in
• 27:45
  Ukraine in a while. been too busy with
• 27:48
  their own uh their own
• 27:51
  um
• 27:54
  I don't know their own projects you know
• 27:56
  project Ukraine is taking a back seat
• 27:58
  because we have project Iran project
• 28:00
  Israel and uh that's um you know not
• 28:05
  good so
• 28:08
  the fact that Europe is becoming less
• 28:10
  democratic and more centralized
• 28:12
  government and seizing the power I of
• 28:15
  course you know um noticed it for for
• 28:18
  years and you know I but I pay attention
• 28:21
  to it and but Europe is less democratic,
• 28:24
  more centralized. Now Hungary is the new
• 28:27
  test case. So I saw an a uh video last
• 28:33
  night news channel in um I can't
• 28:37
  remember where it was. I want to say
• 28:38
  India uh Times of India or something
• 28:41
  like that that uh they were saying and
• 28:45
  and and I've been searching for it but I
• 28:48
  can't find it that there's a 27point
• 28:53
  plan that the new guy Maguier is going
• 28:57
  to have to comply with to get the money
• 29:02
  from
• 29:04
  Ursula Fanderline and from Brussels.
• 29:06
  They are going to put a knife in the
• 29:08
  veto that's for sure. Um so Europe is
• 29:13
  not democratic at all. It's totally
• 29:15
  centralized especially on the foreign
• 29:17
  policy level like we told you yesterday
• 29:19
  about the u the events trying to
• 29:21
  terminate it. But China is moving into
• 29:24
  the diplomatic vacuum in the Middle
• 29:26
  East. There's no diplomacy going over
• 29:28
  there. Um that that is if you want to
• 29:31
  call what they're doing diplomacy. It's
• 29:33
  nonsense. And uh they are counterposing
• 29:36
  multilateralism to American force. Naked
• 29:39
  force is what they what they are calling
• 29:42
  it. Uh Trump is looking according to
• 29:45
  some. Now I'm not sure if I agree with
• 29:47
  this but but they do have a point. Okay.
• 29:50
  Um they they have a point. Um I I've
• 29:53
  brought up some of it here myself
• 29:55
  because
• 30:00
  something's happening. you know, the the
• 30:02
  the things that he has has said lately
• 30:07
  on his true social are extreme even for
• 30:09
  him. And he's looking erratic. He's
• 30:13
  taken personal attacks to a new level.
• 30:16
  And I don't know that he's
• 30:18
  restrained in anything he does. And uh
• 30:22
  there's nothing we can do to stop it. I
• 30:24
  mean, they get to do whatever the hell
• 30:25
  they want. And uh but people are saying
• 30:28
  that there is no government apparatus
• 30:33
  that all there is is Trump making these
• 30:36
  decisions. So that whether it's a good
• 30:38
  or a bad thing, these decisions are made
• 30:41
  in the Trump vacuum.
• 30:44
  allegedly when Vance was at the uh
• 30:48
  Iranian uh talks in Islamabad
• 30:52
  um last week, Trump called 21 times in
• 30:58
  22 hours of negotiation
• 31:01
  uh to speak with him and direct him and
• 31:03
  talk about it. I mean, if that's true,
• 31:05
  it's ludicrous. Okay. Netanyahu spoke
• 31:09
  and Netanyahu said this himself.
• 31:12
  Netanyahu says that he got a call from
• 31:15
  uh uh JD Vance while he was in there and
• 31:18
  outlined it and it was right after that
• 31:19
  that it was done and that uh the US
• 31:21
  always calls him um immediately, you
• 31:24
  know, with everything that's going on.
• 31:27
  That's frightening. Who in the hell is
• 31:28
  he
• 31:31
  nonsense? So, I'm not sure. But if you
• 31:34
  take all of these together, Europe is
• 31:37
  way out there. Um, Trump is looking a
• 31:41
  bit erratic and China is trying to be
• 31:44
  stable adult in the room. Xi Jinping
• 31:47
  with what some of this says today
• 31:50
  because who is operating,
• 31:53
  you know, according to any institution,
• 31:56
  any rule of law, any real strategy, what
• 31:59
  is it? Europe doesn't act according to
• 32:02
  any rule of law. You know, Europe,
• 32:04
  they're a bunch of nuts and they don't
• 32:07
  believe in it. they just they they won't
• 32:09
  even talk to somebody that they don't
• 32:12
  like. And this is unfortunately how I
• 32:15
  believe our children uh and and I mean
• 32:18
  world children, not just America, but
• 32:21
  confrontation, you can't have it. You
• 32:23
  just write those people off and you
• 32:25
  don't even deal with them. There's
• 32:27
  there's no such thing as conflict
• 32:29
  resolution. No, no, no. We just
• 32:32
  separate. There's us and them. That's
• 32:36
  it. And unfortunately, that's the world
• 32:39
  we live in. Nobody can get rid of
• 32:41
  disputes. You know, they have to up the
• 32:45
  fight. Everybody's a narcissist.
• 32:48
  Everybody Everybody must hate the
• 32:51
  opposing party. You have to hate the
• 32:53
  other side. I don't get it. And uh I I I
• 32:56
  I truly don't. And so that means that I
• 32:59
  withdraw. You know, I'll tell you my
• 33:01
  opinion on the air, but I don't like
• 33:03
  fighting with people. If you can't
• 33:05
  resolve it amicably, I'm not interested.
• 33:08
  You know, legally, fine. You know,
• 33:10
  that's that's a different animal. But
• 33:13
  it's not like I'm going to get in a
• 33:14
  fight or a war with you or prop or be a
• 33:16
  proponent of war. I think war is an
• 33:19
  extreme last um resort. And I don't
• 33:23
  believe we've used it as one. We've used
• 33:25
  it as a war of choice, first resort. We
• 33:28
  use it to show our power to force our
• 33:33
  way of thinking on other people. That's
• 33:34
  what I believe. And and I don't single
• 33:37
  out Trump for that. I mean, that's what
• 33:39
  we've done forever. And uh uh you know,
• 33:43
  these things that you know and and think
• 33:45
  about here here's the one move. So the
• 33:48
  key point about you know that I brought
• 33:51
  up yesterday about Victor Orbin losing
• 33:54
  his seat and Peter Maguier taking over.
• 33:57
  Okay. The key point is that Brussels
• 34:00
  moved instantly
• 34:02
  to convert Orbin's defeat into further
• 34:06
  institutional power. Okay, this Maguar,
• 34:09
  they're saying that he's pretty
• 34:10
  conservative, right?
• 34:13
  Ursula Fandline didn't wait around at
• 34:15
  all to test Maguar's independence. She's
• 34:18
  going to move in for the kill, right?
• 34:20
  She moved immediately toward ending or
• 34:22
  weakening the veto that had allowed
• 34:25
  Orbin to block EU foreign policy,
• 34:28
  especially on Ukraine. That's the real
• 34:31
  story. It's not just Hungary changes the
• 34:33
  government because Hungary is now a
• 34:36
  slave. Hungary is now a vassel state
• 34:40
  because there are allegedly 27 points
• 34:43
  and I haven't been able to find them.
• 34:45
  You know, it is the center is taking
• 34:47
  advantage of this opening to, you know,
• 34:51
  pin Maguar to the mat now and then, you
• 34:54
  know, slam him in a cell and lock the
• 34:56
  door behind it and Hungary is no longer
• 34:59
  an issue at all. And uh they they will
• 35:02
  not be. So from the the the
• 35:07
  Financial Times reports that Brussels is
• 35:09
  linking the release of 35 billion in
• 35:13
  frozen funds for Hungary to now. So
• 35:17
  first it was Ursula says listen if you
• 35:22
  vote we need to vote for the best guy.
• 35:25
  So the the Soroses of the world jump in
• 35:27
  there and say vote vote for Maguar. Vote
• 35:29
  for Maguar and get rid of Orbin. Orbin's
• 35:32
  the problem. Morbid's the problem just
• 35:33
  like Trump's the problem in America
• 35:35
  according to the rest of the world and
• 35:36
  and and you you know get rid of this guy
• 35:39
  and you will be rewarded Hungary we will
• 35:43
  release this money that because they've
• 35:45
  been holding money that is due to
• 35:48
  Hungary in projects funds loans um
• 35:52
  benefits all kinds of stuff that come
• 35:54
  come to them but they won't give it up
• 35:57
  because they've been trying to force
• 35:58
  Orbin to uh not veto the money that they
• 36:02
  give to Ukraine. But uh uh Orbin says,
• 36:05
  "Look, I still need Russian oil." Magar
• 36:08
  says the same thing, by the way, but
• 36:10
  he's going to run into some serious
• 36:11
  problems. They're going to give him the
• 36:13
  35 billion, but he's still not going to
• 36:15
  be able to get Russian oil. He claims
• 36:18
  he's going to be independent and that
• 36:20
  he's going to try to work that out
• 36:22
  himself. But immediately,
• 36:24
  uh Ursula Fander, pirate, as as uh
• 36:28
  what's his name? Um, Alex Christophoro
• 36:31
  calls her her Savander pirate. And I
• 36:34
  really don't remember why. I heard him
• 36:35
  first call her that, you know, year and
• 36:37
  a half, two years ago. And, uh, but I
• 36:39
  don't remember why he calls her that.
• 36:41
  Maybe because she's always robbing stuff
• 36:43
  from other countries. And, uh, but she's
• 36:46
  she's the Vander pirate. And Ursula,
• 36:50
  she says now, immediately afterward,
• 36:52
  first it was get rid of Orbin. Now that
• 36:55
  Orbin is gone, she says, "No, no, no,
• 36:57
  no. we have 27 conditions that you're
• 37:00
  going to have to agree to to get the 35
• 37:03
  billion. So it says Magar's whole
• 37:08
  platform rested on restoring alignment
• 37:11
  with Brussels and unlocking those funds,
• 37:15
  which means her leverage is re I mean
• 37:17
  that's his that was his primary
• 37:21
  uh campaign promise. I'm going to get
• 37:23
  you the money that the EU promised us
• 37:26
  and we're going to fix inside of
• 37:29
  Hungary, including gas shortages, uh,
• 37:33
  oil, the prices of oil. They're not
• 37:35
  going to fix that. They're still going
• 37:37
  to have three times the price,
• 37:39
  unfortunately. So, the instability is
• 37:42
  going to continue. And if you think and
• 37:44
  now they're trying to turn uh Ukraine
• 37:47
  they're they want because they've been
• 37:49
  blocking Ukraine from being a kind of a
• 37:52
  junior member if you will of the EU
• 37:57
  and uh uh you know they want to they
• 37:59
  want to allow him in. That's what Ursula
• 38:01
  Fonder pirate is going to do. And so,
• 38:04
  uh, you know, it doesn't list all the 27
• 38:09
  conditions that, uh, alleged conditions
• 38:12
  that were linked by the Financial Times.
• 38:14
  And I looked in the Financial Times, and
• 38:16
  although they stated there were 27
• 38:18
  conditions, they didn't count what they
• 38:20
  were. So, I can't find them. Hopefully,
• 38:22
  I'll be able to find those for you
• 38:23
  tomorrow, but, uh, so far I haven't. So,
• 38:27
  I don't know. Um, there's no line by
• 38:30
  line list of the 27, but Brussels is is
• 38:33
  reported in several sources, not just
• 38:36
  the Financial Times, to having these 27
• 38:39
  conditions. Um, but either way, Maguire
• 38:42
  is in for a probably rude awakening and
• 38:47
  he's going to realize he's nowhere near
• 38:49
  as powerful as was uh Orbin. And now he
• 38:54
  has said, "I'm not going to just take
• 38:56
  this money willy-nilly." That's not what
• 38:58
  you promised in your elections, you
• 39:01
  know, in your campaign speeches. That is
• 39:03
  not what you promised. So, I don't know.
• 39:07
  Orbin lost on Sunday and by Monday,
• 39:10
  Brussels was already trying to make sure
• 39:12
  that no future Orbin could ever slow
• 39:15
  them down again. And that's true. and
• 39:19
  they are punching hard to take him down
• 39:23
  now as he's brand new. He doesn't know
• 39:25
  what the hell he's doing. And there's a
• 39:27
  16-year
• 39:30
  uh bureaucratic, you know, I'm I'm I
• 39:33
  don't how do I want to say this? The I
• 39:36
  don't claim to be an expert on the
• 39:39
  bureaucracy of Hungary. I imagine it's
• 39:41
  large. I also imagine there's uh their
• 39:44
  own share of corruption in Hungary of
• 39:47
  what's going on. But uh it's
• 39:51
  um oh here's a truth social. Here's
• 39:54
  another Trump. China is very happy that
• 39:57
  I am permanently opening the trade to
• 39:59
  form. I'm doing it for them and the
• 40:03
  world. This situation will never happen
• 40:05
  again. They have agreed not to send
• 40:07
  weapons to Iran. President Xi will give
• 40:09
  me big fat hug when I get there. in a
• 40:12
  few weeks. We're working together
• 40:13
  smartly and very well. Doesn't that beat
• 40:16
  fighting? But remember, we're very good
• 40:18
  at fighting if we have to. Far better
• 40:20
  than anyone else. Donald Trump,
• 40:27
  you know, this is really sad, but I long
• 40:29
  for the days of normal. This is just not
• 40:32
  normal. And and uh I don't know. At
• 40:35
  least there wasn't anything horror story
• 40:37
  in there that except the constant we're
• 40:40
  better than everybody. you know, tune
• 40:42
  that he's got to put. And not that I
• 40:44
  don't think we are. I think we are. You
• 40:46
  just just don't need to brag about it
• 40:48
  all the time. And I'm I'm so tired of
• 40:51
  it. I truly am. But that's the way it
• 40:53
  goes. Xi Jinping for his part. Okay. So,
• 40:56
  cuz Trump's thing on the screen TV up in
• 40:58
  front of me just now folded in perfectly
• 41:01
  into my next part, which is about Xi
• 41:03
  Jinping and his four he has a four-point
• 41:06
  plan.
• 41:08
  He is going to the Gulf States and he is
• 41:12
  meeting with people in the Gulf States
• 41:16
  that he is talking to and I want to find
• 41:19
  this quote specifically because
• 41:23
  I think it's important. Where are we?
• 41:26
  America.
• 41:28
  China is stepping more visibly into the
• 41:31
  Middle East crisis and Xi Jinping is
• 41:34
  outlining four-point proposal for peace
• 41:37
  just as the US Iran talks stall and
• 41:40
  tensions escalate across the region. The
• 41:43
  framework which was proposed during
• 41:45
  President Xi Jinping's meeting with the
• 41:49
  crown prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Khaled
• 41:52
  bin Muhammad bin Zed al- Nayan was
• 41:55
  shared with Chinese Foreign Ministry
• 41:58
  spokesperson Maing presenting Beijing's
• 42:01
  vision for stabilizing the Middle East
• 42:04
  and signals that China is intent on
• 42:07
  positioning itself as a diplomatic
• 42:10
  alternative at a time when the US is
• 42:13
  struggling to produce results. Xi
• 42:15
  Jinping's four-point formula is as
• 42:19
  follows. And at the core of it is
• 42:21
  peaceful coexistence.
• 42:24
  China argues that Middle Eastern
• 42:26
  countries, particularly the Gulf States,
• 42:28
  are geographically bound and must find
• 42:31
  ways to coexist through cooperation
• 42:35
  rather than confrontation. That's pillar
• 42:38
  one. The second pillar focuses on state
• 42:42
  sovereignty. She stressed that the
• 42:45
  sovereignty and territorial integrity of
• 42:47
  countries must be respected.
• 42:51
  The message appears directed at ongoing
• 42:53
  military actions in the region that
• 42:56
  reinforce Beijing stance against
• 42:58
  unilateral force. The third element
• 43:02
  centers on international law. China
• 43:05
  called for adherence to a rulesbased
• 43:08
  global order anchored in the United
• 43:10
  Nations, warning against selective
• 43:13
  application of international law. Now, I
• 43:16
  want to spend a little time on this one
• 43:18
  because both China and Russia for years
• 43:23
  have been
• 43:27
  I don't know what I would say to that.
• 43:29
  They have been broadcasting both in the
• 43:32
  UN and elsewhere that look
• 43:36
  we already have a platform. It's called
• 43:39
  the UN.
• 43:41
  If you ever paid attention to the rules,
• 43:45
  all of these
• 43:48
  endeavors
• 43:49
  by people who ignore the rules
• 43:54
  wouldn't be would not have been uh
• 43:59
  wouldn't have happened. Israel
• 44:01
  especially US also Europe listed in
• 44:06
  there you know that that these actions
• 44:08
  are there. We already both of those
• 44:10
  countries and several others by the way
• 44:12
  India says the same thing. They say we
• 44:15
  have it but since they are controlled
• 44:20
  I mean more than controlled they are
• 44:23
  dictated by the appointments of western
• 44:28
  people. It's always somebody from the
• 44:30
  west or from very specific backgrounds
• 44:33
  that runs the UN that uh um you know
• 44:38
  engages you know that'll that
• 44:42
  controls the the discussions that go on
• 44:44
  there and stuff like that. You'll always
• 44:46
  have Nibzia and uh the Chinese foreign
• 44:49
  minister and a couple others, you know,
• 44:51
  sniping from the sidelines like like
• 44:54
  happened the one I read to you today.
• 44:56
  But nobody cares. Nobody listens. They
• 44:59
  sit and they listen and and uh uh Kaakis
• 45:02
  just sits there, puts her head down,
• 45:03
  listen to, okay, here's the here's the
• 45:05
  attack I need to take, but we don't care
• 45:08
  because we control the the the
• 45:12
  um process. We control the system. And
• 45:16
  China and Russia have been saying things
• 45:18
  about that that why do you think the
• 45:20
  rest of the world is looking for
• 45:21
  alternatives? Because we never follow
• 45:23
  the rules. The the rules do not apply.
• 45:26
  If you are the United States, Europe,
• 45:32
  whoever they decide at the at a
• 45:34
  particular time, you know, whoever they
• 45:36
  decide, but if you're somebody that
• 45:38
  pisses off those two things, the the the
• 45:40
  deep state, you're screwed. You get
• 45:42
  nothing. That's it. So, uh, the final
• 45:46
  pillar, which I want to talk about
• 45:47
  because that one's the most serious and
• 45:49
  and and it's constant that they talk
• 45:51
  about that. And the final pillar links
• 45:54
  with development. Xi Jinping emphasized
• 45:57
  that long-term stability cannot be
• 46:00
  achieved without economic growth and
• 46:03
  offered China's model as a potential
• 46:07
  pathway for regional countries. He's
• 46:09
  talking about belts and roads. He's
• 46:11
  talking about the the the the building
• 46:15
  of infrastructure between countries. The
• 46:19
  proposal comes immediately after the
• 46:21
  collapse of the US and Iranian talks in
• 46:24
  Islamabad. And you know with Washington
• 46:27
  shifting toward only military uh
• 46:30
  including naval deployment, China is
• 46:32
  presenting a contrasting approach rooted
• 46:35
  in dialogue and economic integration.
• 46:38
  Notably, Beijing has been expanding its
• 46:41
  own role in the Middle East from
• 46:43
  brokering the Iran Saudia
• 46:46
  uh reproachments to deepening economic
• 46:49
  ties of its own across the Gulf by
• 46:52
  putting forward a structured peace
• 46:54
  framework. Now, China is signaling that
• 46:57
  it wants a more central role in shaping
• 46:59
  the region. China once again slammed
• 47:03
  Donald Trump over the president's
• 47:06
  Iranian naval blockade. This is in
• 47:08
  contrast to what Trump said. Oh yeah,
• 47:10
  they love it.
• 47:13
  I don't know where he's living, but
• 47:14
  that's not what was said. Uh the the
• 47:17
  blockade calls the move dangerous and
• 47:20
  irresponsible. The Chinese foreign
• 47:22
  ministry attacked Trump came a day after
• 47:25
  Russian Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived
• 47:28
  in Beijing for an official visit. I'm
• 47:30
  going to tell you a little bit about
• 47:31
  that here in a minute, too. The US
• 47:33
  side's escalation of military deployment
• 47:36
  and its targeted blockade will only
• 47:38
  intensify conflict, exacerbate tension
• 47:42
  in the region, and undermine the already
• 47:45
  fragile ceasefire and further jeopardize
• 47:49
  safety of passage through the strait.
• 47:53
  Court, China says this. The the minister
• 47:56
  of of defense says this is a dangerous
• 47:59
  and irresponsible act. China believes
• 48:02
  that only a comprehensive ceasefire and
• 48:04
  assessation of hostilities can
• 48:07
  fundamentally create the conditions for
• 48:10
  easing the strait.
• 48:13
  China urges all parties to abide by
• 48:15
  ceasefire arrangements, focus on
• 48:18
  dialogue and negotiation,
• 48:21
  and take concrete actions to deescalate
• 48:24
  the regional situation and restore
• 48:27
  normal passage in the straits as soon as
• 48:30
  possible.
• 48:31
  So
• 48:34
  let's see what is the US says that the
• 48:37
  US uh will not allow uh let's see where
• 48:41
  is this gas prices ultimately have to
• 48:44
  come down we produce more Saudi Arabia
• 48:47
  and add Russia to it substantially more
• 48:50
  by next year we'll have this is Trump
• 48:53
  we'll have double that amount so we
• 48:54
  don't need it but the world needs it
• 48:57
  this is his his quote where is that I
• 49:00
  wish I could find the exact quote, but
• 49:02
  many ships are heading to our country
• 49:03
  now as we speak to load up with the best
• 49:07
  uh sweet what did he call it? Sweet
• 49:09
  crude. And that's that's what it is
• 49:10
  called. But uh uh really I guess you
• 49:13
  could say somebody wants the best and
• 49:14
  sweetest. I don't know exactly what
• 49:16
  sweet is but when it relates to oil it's
• 49:18
  a good thing, said Trump. But they're
• 49:20
  coming to our country right now. There
• 49:22
  are many boats coming to our country
• 49:24
  right now. It would be well it could
• 49:26
  very well be this is going to be settled
• 49:29
  before that. We've been called this
• 49:31
  morning by the right people, the
• 49:33
  appropriate people and they want a deal.
• 49:35
  They would like to work a deal and uh
• 49:40
  I don't
• 49:42
  frankly I don't believe that. I I I
• 49:44
  don't believe that uh at least not the
• 49:47
  right people. Maybe you got somebody
• 49:50
  else. you have uh Modi or somebody
• 49:53
  bitching about it and saying look you
• 49:55
  got to end this
• 49:59
  but I don't know I I haven't seen
• 50:02
  anything else that says it except Trump
• 50:04
  but it's never reported anywhere else
• 50:06
  and uh uh let's see
• 50:12
  earlier Xi Jinping said during a meeting
• 50:15
  with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro
• 50:17
  Sanchez they call for close cooperation
• 50:20
  ation to oppose. Now remember Spanish
• 50:22
  Prime Minister Sanchez is a guy that
• 50:24
  said you're not flying over our country
• 50:26
  for that. They call for close
• 50:28
  cooperation to oppose what he called the
• 50:30
  world's retro retrograde
• 50:33
  well retrogression
• 50:36
  into the law of the jungle. Both China
• 50:39
  and Spain stand on the correct side of
• 50:42
  history according to Xi Jinping. We must
• 50:45
  strengthen our dialogue in
• 50:47
  communication, solidify our mutual
• 50:49
  trust, and engage in close cooperation.
• 50:53
  We must firmly oppose regression of the
• 50:57
  world back to the law of the jungle and
• 51:01
  collectively champion and defend
• 51:03
  multilateralism,
• 51:05
  thereby safeguarding the peace and
• 51:07
  development of the global community.
• 51:11
  How about that? Isn't that crazy?
• 51:16
  And then, you know, there's a a couple
• 51:18
  other parts, but
• 51:21
  I think, let's see, I'm going to go to
• 51:23
  Where's the Lavro deal? Lavro in Kai in
• 51:28
  uh China,
• 51:30
  which is Kai in Russian. Let's see. I do
• 51:35
  not only have it in Russian. I thought I
• 51:37
  had it in English. I'm sorry. But uh
• 51:43
  China is trying to become the adult in
• 51:45
  the room and Washington is just banging
• 51:47
  on the table as usual. I haven't had to
• 51:49
  beat up on Heg Seth too much lately
• 51:51
  though. You know the put me in coach,
• 51:54
  put me in that guy.
• 51:57
  But Jeffrey Sachs uh went off last and I
• 52:00
  watched something with him last night
• 52:02
  and uh this is this is tough. But uh it
• 52:07
  was um it was tough to watch. It really
• 52:10
  was. Um
• 52:12
  but for me it was tough to watch because
• 52:18
  it's
• 52:21
  you can't necessarily say
• 52:24
  um
• 52:27
  that he's wrong. That's the horror story
• 52:29
  of it all. Okay. I don't I'm not saying
• 52:32
  I believe it. I'm saying this is one
• 52:35
  man's opinion and I have trouble with
• 52:38
  the same things that he is saying. I
• 52:40
  come to a slightly different conclusion,
• 52:42
  but uh I I have trouble with them. I
• 52:45
  already told you some of them. You know,
• 52:47
  Jeffrey Sachs uh says I mean he isn't
• 52:50
  merely criticizing Trump's policies,
• 52:53
  although he always does that
• 52:55
  internationally. You know, as do I. You
• 52:57
  know, I I
• 52:59
  Trump's policies internationally are not
• 53:01
  good for America in my humble opinion.
• 53:04
  But uh hey, I've been wrong before once
• 53:06
  that I remember. Uh could could be this
• 53:09
  is the second time. Who knows? And uh we
• 53:11
  shall see. But the Sachs, he's
• 53:14
  questioning whether the current process
• 53:16
  there's any institutional process at
• 53:18
  all. Now, I never thought there was. I
• 53:20
  always thought that Trump
• 53:22
  um is the God Emperor. You know, he he's
• 53:25
  in charge. you know, I've said that
• 53:26
  before that he is the guy in charge. So,
• 53:29
  it was interesting to hear um Saxs say
• 53:32
  something like this. He said that he was
• 53:34
  uh questioning the institution. He
• 53:36
  brought together he said something about
• 53:39
  uh watching the Cuban missile crisis
• 53:43
  that people study it. Now, remember he's
• 53:45
  a professor and he says that people
• 53:49
  study the Cuban missile crisis.
• 53:54
  uh
• 53:57
  how it how it occurred as it occurred.
• 54:00
  And what he said was that when Kennedy
• 54:05
  made a decision, he he'd call the
• 54:07
  cabinet together, all of them, and all
• 54:10
  of the heads of every major agency were
• 54:13
  there and they would talk about them. He
• 54:15
  would assign each of them, he assigned
• 54:17
  each of them to do something, to check
• 54:19
  on this, check on that, check on these
• 54:22
  things. and uh he said that if you go
• 54:24
  back into history now I've never taken
• 54:26
  obviously as as indepth a level as what
• 54:29
  he has said but uh you know I haven't I
• 54:32
  I have no reason to disbelieve what he's
• 54:35
  saying either and he said that that he
• 54:37
  went all that you go back and people
• 54:40
  study all of the tapes that they taped
• 54:43
  it all they recorded it all they were
• 54:45
  just coming into the world of being able
• 54:47
  to record it that there's paperwork
• 54:49
  regarding it all that uh you could write
• 54:51
  entire books on the Cuban missile crisis
• 54:54
  which many people have done based on the
• 54:56
  content that is out there. Okay. And he
• 55:00
  he he said that that was normal state
• 55:05
  craft. Now
• 55:08
  I don't think that that uh presidents
• 55:10
  have acted maybe in that regard for a
• 55:13
  long time. you know, I think they're all
• 55:15
  nuts and uh uh that they, you know,
• 55:18
  Biden was scenile. Um Trump is just
• 55:23
  Trump and and he runs things how he sees
• 55:26
  fit. And I see that is similar to the
• 55:28
  ways that the Obama ran things, too. He
• 55:31
  was just in charge. But there's no doubt
• 55:34
  in my mind that the decisions made were
• 55:37
  made by him.
• 55:39
  And the decisions made in Trump's are
• 55:43
  only made by him. Other people aren't
• 55:45
  making them. There's no autonomy to uh
• 55:50
  act on your own, you know, to act in the
• 55:52
  best interests and uh report later to
• 55:55
  run your department. Um if I'm the if
• 55:58
  I'm a plant manager, I'm hiring an
• 56:01
  operations manager to handle the
• 56:03
  operations and I'm generally going to
• 56:05
  let him uh run it as he see fit sees
• 56:08
  fit.
• 56:09
  If I'm uh uh you know hiring an
• 56:12
  administrative, you know, an accounting
• 56:15
  guy, I'm going to let him run the
• 56:16
  accountants the the accounts the way he
• 56:19
  you know, I hire a professional. I hire
• 56:21
  somebody that can tell me what's going
• 56:22
  on and won't rob me. That's what I'm
• 56:24
  hiring. And if I'm hiring a uh somebody
• 56:28
  to handle the administrative side of the
• 56:30
  house as a human resources person, those
• 56:32
  people are doing it. I don't believe
• 56:34
  that exists. I don't think it existed
• 56:37
  with Obama. I sure as hell don't think
• 56:39
  it exists with Trump. And you know the
• 56:42
  Trump is a micromanager. Trump
• 56:45
  uh keeps only the loyal people around
• 56:49
  him and you only get one shot. If you're
• 56:53
  if you say something negative Trump,
• 56:55
  you're suddenly disloyal and you're out
• 56:57
  the window. That's it. And that's the
• 57:00
  end of the game. And and that's how he
• 57:02
  plays. And so that means that you have a
• 57:05
  whole he's surrounded by nothing but
• 57:08
  yesmen. This I believe that Trump is
• 57:10
  surrounded by yesmen. And uh the people
• 57:13
  who want to continue after him are just
• 57:18
  marking time and saying yes sir, yes
• 57:20
  sir, three bags full sir until the time
• 57:24
  is done and then they'll distance
• 57:27
  themselves from Trump. That's the way
• 57:29
  our system works. And uh I'm eager to
• 57:33
  see what happens in the um
• 57:37
  coming elections.
• 57:39
  And uh I'm not so sure uh that that uh
• 57:42
  they've got it under control, but we'll
• 57:44
  see. Um I'm not sure there's pl so much
• 57:48
  drama happening at the uh national and
• 57:51
  international level anyway that it's
• 57:53
  hard to focus on the drama going on in
• 57:56
  Missouri and we got plenty of that as
• 57:59
  well. So, but uh Sax's core argument is
• 58:02
  that what's happening is not normal. He
• 58:05
  has uh there's no file, memo,
• 58:07
  deliberation, inter agency review,
• 58:09
  congressional involvement, unless it's
• 58:11
  Lindsey Graham. And instead, he
• 58:13
  describes it as a one-man show. And he
• 58:16
  says the words he used are delusional
• 58:19
  and incompetent are the words he used.
• 58:23
  And very, very personalized. Now, this
• 58:26
  is a if you want to talk personalized,
• 58:28
  I've always had a difficulty with Trump
• 58:30
  being
• 58:33
  so touchy. I you know, he he's he's a a
• 58:37
  big figure. You know, people aren't
• 58:39
  going to like him, but he he busts out
• 58:43
  and, you know,
• 58:45
  insult. He's like the insult comic. you
• 58:48
  know, if you if you say something
• 58:51
  anti-Trump or something even not
• 58:53
  proTrump, if you you know, just say
• 58:56
  remember him at the uh at the uh
• 59:00
  whatever they call that uh press dinner
• 59:03
  or whatever at the White House several
• 59:04
  years ago when people were saying bad
• 59:06
  things about him, it was the end of the
• 59:07
  world, you know, and he about came
• 59:09
  unglued after that. What he did this
• 59:12
  past weekend was uh was not good. And
• 59:15
  Sax says these three things may may you
• 59:18
  know say his quote not mine. Okay.
• 59:24
  Is what he said is that Trump may have
• 59:27
  lost his mind and he notes the same
• 59:30
  things that I note. The bizarre
• 59:33
  overnight social media posts that he's
• 59:36
  talked about that one page one where he
• 59:38
  ripped into Tucker Carlson. Uh a couple
• 59:42
  other people. Um, now I didn't say that,
• 59:45
  but it was certainly bizarre in my mind
• 59:47
  and it was very difficult to read. And
• 59:50
  uh, you know, Jeffrey Sachs is openly
• 59:53
  saying that many people are muttering
• 59:57
  around Washington right now that Trump's
• 1:00:00
  conduct looks unfiltered, personalized,
• 1:00:02
  irrational, and potentially
• 1:00:05
  mentally unstable, and that he's going
• 1:00:08
  the same route as Biden. that was the
• 1:00:11
  nature of his uh of his discussion. I
• 1:00:14
  don't agree with that. You know, if you
• 1:00:16
  watch if you watch um I saw Trump uh I I
• 1:00:20
  guess it depends on the on the time, you
• 1:00:22
  know, on the timing of it all because
• 1:00:24
  most time he's he's uh he's rational.
• 1:00:28
  He's uh detailed. He can tell you a full
• 1:00:30
  um a full comment and a uh a full
• 1:00:35
  discussion of what he's saying. It's
• 1:00:37
  logical. It makes sense. Uh, you don't
• 1:00:39
  have to agree with it and most time I
• 1:00:41
  don't, but I don't like these middle of
• 1:00:44
  the night postings and I think, you
• 1:00:47
  know, somebody ought to be uh handling
• 1:00:50
  that for him. And he he says, you know,
• 1:00:53
  the the press gave him an out yesterday.
• 1:00:55
  Was it you that posted that? You know,
• 1:00:56
  when the he Oh, yeah. That was me. when
• 1:01:00
  they asking him about the the Jesus
• 1:01:02
  Christ reference when he when he was
• 1:01:04
  supposed to be a doctor, you know, that
• 1:01:06
  that doesn't look like any Red Cross
• 1:01:08
  outfit I ever saw put on. But okay, you
• 1:01:11
  know, at least he admits it, you know.
• 1:01:14
  But I I I think a better thing to do
• 1:01:16
  would have been to Gee, I'm sorry for
• 1:01:18
  the uh you know, maybe I should have
• 1:01:21
  reviewed it a little more before I
• 1:01:23
  published it. maybe that, you know, cuz
• 1:01:25
  to me that was, you know, a spiritual
• 1:01:30
  figure, you know, blessing a dying, you
• 1:01:33
  know, whoever he was. I don't believe it
• 1:01:36
  l looked sufficiently like um the what's
• 1:01:40
  his name? But uh who knows, you know,
• 1:01:42
  that's what people have been talking
• 1:01:43
  about.
• 1:01:46
  He
• 1:01:48
  what what Sachs said though that makes
• 1:01:51
  you think about it is that it's not
• 1:01:54
  necessarily a Trump problem. The problem
• 1:01:57
  is the deinstitutionalization
• 1:02:01
  of US decisionmaking.
• 1:02:04
  And he and he talked about this for a
• 1:02:06
  little bit. the use of amateurs,
• 1:02:09
  corrupt political systems, and above all
• 1:02:12
  the refusal to accept the fact that
• 1:02:14
  other countries exist. You know that
• 1:02:16
  it's a multipolar world. And so the fact
• 1:02:20
  is that when Trump brings people in, all
• 1:02:23
  he cared about was loyalty. Was loyalty
• 1:02:26
  and somebody that's going to back him
• 1:02:29
  completely. Now, he got screwed in his
• 1:02:31
  first term. And um some argue that he he
• 1:02:35
  he and I don't know enough to to take a
• 1:02:38
  position on it one one or the other. But
• 1:02:41
  uh whether or not uh he the election was
• 1:02:45
  stolen, I tend to think it was, but I
• 1:02:48
  don't have any proof to that that I can
• 1:02:50
  bank upon and I haven't researched it
• 1:02:53
  directly myself. But uh um I believe
• 1:02:57
  that he was screwed by his own people in
• 1:02:59
  the first term. And so protecting
• 1:03:04
  yourself in the second term by bringing
• 1:03:06
  only people that are loyal to you and
• 1:03:08
  getting rid of them immediately
• 1:03:11
  immediately as soon as they take a
• 1:03:15
  position contrary to something you want
• 1:03:17
  to do.
• 1:03:19
  I I get that. What I don't get is
• 1:03:22
  turning them into pieces of dog meat
• 1:03:24
  once you do and taking somebody who you
• 1:03:27
  used to like and used to say high high,
• 1:03:30
  you know, have high regard for and say
• 1:03:32
  good things to and turning them into the
• 1:03:34
  antichrist. Turning them into morons and
• 1:03:37
  idiots. I don't like that. And and I
• 1:03:41
  don't think it's fair to them, to the to
• 1:03:44
  the country, to anybody. If they were
• 1:03:46
  such idiots, why'd you hire them in the
• 1:03:48
  first place? Why'd you put them in
• 1:03:49
  there? Why'd you go on Carlson's show,
• 1:03:53
  Tucker Carlson? Why'd you go on his
• 1:03:55
  show? Why'd you talk with uh other
• 1:03:57
  people, MAGA? You know, why'd you do
• 1:04:00
  that? And now he has other sickopantic
• 1:04:04
  people that are that are with him like
• 1:04:07
  Lindsey Graham. Lindsey Graham has
• 1:04:09
  figured has has learned Trump's number
• 1:04:12
  and so he's loved now by Donald Trump.
• 1:04:14
  Wonder how long that'll last. Not so
• 1:04:17
  sure.
• 1:04:20
  He says sachs that the day-to-day events
• 1:04:23
  make no sense. There's chaos rather than
• 1:04:27
  cleverness. And Trump appear appears to
• 1:04:30
  believe he can bluff or bomb his way to
• 1:04:34
  success.
• 1:04:38
  That's scary. And that this is a
• 1:04:40
  personalized, deinstitutionalized
• 1:04:42
  process rather than a normal government
• 1:04:44
  apparatus. He says Trump's recent
• 1:04:47
  conduct is outside of normal
• 1:04:49
  presidential behavior. Um, by several,
• 1:04:52
  and he's an economist, so he used the
• 1:04:55
  term by several standard deviations. I
• 1:04:57
  made sure to note that he's several
• 1:04:59
  standard deviations away from uh from
• 1:05:02
  normal. Several. Now, that's funny. And
• 1:05:06
  uh that there's a real possibility that
• 1:05:08
  he has serious mental problems. Now, I
• 1:05:10
  don't know about that. Um, you know, I
• 1:05:13
  worry about that when people get older,
• 1:05:15
  but uh I don't know that I'm where he is
• 1:05:17
  yet. But the the three things that that
• 1:05:20
  uh happened that really
• 1:05:24
  that
• 1:05:25
  give me pause, let's say, is that diet
• 1:05:29
  tribe long thing about Tucker Carlson
• 1:05:32
  and whoever else, uh, Alex Jones and,
• 1:05:35
  uh, whatever the girl's name is that I
• 1:05:37
  can't remember off top of my head.
• 1:05:39
  There's that one. There's uh open the
• 1:05:42
  effing straight.
• 1:05:45
  That was nuts. That was crazy. Why are
• 1:05:49
  we putting that out there? You're the
• 1:05:51
  freaking president. You know, I could
• 1:05:53
  talk like that. You're That's not But
• 1:05:55
  but that's just unpreent. Let me say
• 1:05:58
  that. And then the and and most of them
• 1:06:01
  have to do with this uh uh rule ruling
• 1:06:05
  by
• 1:06:06
  uh by Truth Social. Um, and to me that's
• 1:06:11
  a problem and that is bizarre. I don't
• 1:06:14
  and and nobody
• 1:06:17
  no I don't want anybody controlling the
• 1:06:19
  president. I don't want that. So don't
• 1:06:20
  take it the wrong way. I want him and
• 1:06:23
  not Joe Biden, you know. Hell, even if
• 1:06:26
  he is even if he is scenile, I'll still
• 1:06:29
  take him over Joe Biden any day.
• 1:06:32
  But does this reflect a bigger problem?
• 1:06:35
  Are we going to have to put age limits
• 1:06:37
  on these people? I mean, I remember when
• 1:06:39
  uh Reagan was uh was in office and they
• 1:06:42
  were worried about him and some of the
• 1:06:44
  things that he was doing and you know
• 1:06:46
  there I remember all the way back then
• 1:06:49
  thinking geez you know why would he say
• 1:06:51
  something like that that just doesn't
• 1:06:52
  make sense and maybe I like more of a
• 1:06:58
  diplomatic approach when it comes to
• 1:07:02
  international things like this. You
• 1:07:05
  know, like everything that I [ __ ] about
• 1:07:07
  Trump about the really I don't I don't
• 1:07:09
  [ __ ] about him in the country. I might
• 1:07:11
  disagree, but all right, that I can I
• 1:07:14
  can understand a little bit. This
• 1:07:16
  international stuff blowing up the
• 1:07:18
  world, I I do not like it. And uh I
• 1:07:22
  don't like it at all. um you know the
• 1:07:26
  Trump's explanation of this Jesus Christ
• 1:07:29
  image and and the world reaction to it.
• 1:07:32
  Nobody believes him that he pretended he
• 1:07:35
  was a doctor in the Red Cross. I don't
• 1:07:38
  believe that. And uh I don't believe it
• 1:07:40
  looks remotely like that. And if that's
• 1:07:42
  what he sees when he looks at it, well
• 1:07:45
  that's um that's
• 1:07:48
  indication that he he isn't seeing
• 1:07:51
  properly. It's all I'm saying. And I
• 1:07:53
  really don't mean to beat up on the guy.
• 1:07:55
  I think he's been a good president
• 1:07:56
  overall. So, you know, they're talking
• 1:08:00
  about more uh pipeline
• 1:08:04
  um things being attacked in Iran, in uh
• 1:08:08
  uh the Middle East, and I believe that
• 1:08:11
  the, you know, the calm before the storm
• 1:08:14
  has come and especially if the uh
• 1:08:16
  blockade continues. So, I worry about
• 1:08:18
  policy with Trump, but the reason I
• 1:08:21
  worry about policy is because of all the
• 1:08:23
  lunacy surrounding the dramatization of
• 1:08:27
  it all. You know, the the the the
• 1:08:30
  commentary made and I've not been in
• 1:08:31
  favor of that since 2015 when he first
• 1:08:34
  came on the stage. I mean, I've been
• 1:08:36
  pretty pretty critical about that all
• 1:08:39
  the way back then. I was doing my
• 1:08:41
  podcast then from the country of Qatar
• 1:08:44
  and it was 2015. I lived in Qatar and uh
• 1:08:48
  it was uh I would uh two three times a
• 1:08:51
  week, you know, after after reviewing
• 1:08:54
  especially during this was the the the
• 1:08:57
  Hillary Trump ultimately or or who was
• 1:09:01
  running for office, but I was um
• 1:09:05
  uh analyzing all all whatever it was 16
• 1:09:09
  candidates or whatever the Republican
• 1:09:11
  nonsense that went on that year. and
• 1:09:14
  Trump was my favorite, but I was still
• 1:09:16
  critical. Trump I was like, man, look at
• 1:09:18
  these morons.
• 1:09:20
  You know, Trump's at least not them. And
• 1:09:23
  uh we we wanted something different. I
• 1:09:25
  want something different. I've been
• 1:09:27
  supportive, but never fully so. And if I
• 1:09:30
  would [ __ ] about him, I go, "Man, can
• 1:09:32
  we just please get rid of this constant
• 1:09:38
  antagonism, this constant me, great me
• 1:09:42
  stuff, and get past it and tell me what
• 1:09:45
  you're going to do and quit offending
• 1:09:49
  everybody you talk to."
• 1:09:52
  You can't talk, you can't say the, and
• 1:09:54
  trust me, he's he's done this for years,
• 1:09:57
  he can't say the word Biden even today
• 1:10:00
  without saying sleepy Joe Biden, you
• 1:10:02
  know, he just can't do it. And he can't
• 1:10:04
  call um uh Clinton anything but corrupt
• 1:10:07
  Hillary, you know, or what, you know, he
• 1:10:10
  had other names for it, too. And and and
• 1:10:13
  I I I just want to get past all of that.
• 1:10:16
  I want a dialogue. I want disagreement
• 1:10:23
  at a level where, you know, you don't
• 1:10:26
  have to be the insult comic. I've always
• 1:10:28
  thought that, you know, um
• 1:10:34
  I've been told before that if you have
• 1:10:36
  when when you're arguing with someone
• 1:10:38
  and you and and and I'm guilty of this.
• 1:10:40
  I've done it myself because uh uh you
• 1:10:43
  know, I've I've done it and I still
• 1:10:44
  sometimes do it. hopefully not as often,
• 1:10:47
  but when I'm angry, I tell you what, I'm
• 1:10:49
  going to throw some uh some uh swear
• 1:10:52
  words about and uh and and it does
• 1:10:55
  nothing but
• 1:10:57
  lessen your argument if you have to use
• 1:11:01
  that type of argument. you know, you'd
• 1:11:04
  be much better off sitting in a
• 1:11:06
  parliamentary style uh across the room
• 1:11:10
  from each other and yelling at each
• 1:11:12
  other without calling each other, you
• 1:11:14
  know, um horrible names and and uh
• 1:11:19
  slanderizing and and calling each other
• 1:11:21
  names like they do in England, couple
• 1:11:23
  other countries, and the parliamentary
• 1:11:24
  style. You get to get up and speak your
• 1:11:27
  peace, say your peace. Hopefully people
• 1:11:30
  pay attention to your peace. And if they
• 1:11:33
  do, hopefully they understand your point
• 1:11:35
  of view. But that doesn't mean you have
• 1:11:37
  to say they're losers. They're, "Oh,
• 1:11:40
  gee, they can't even get on Fox News."
• 1:11:43
  You know, I mean, it's constant. And it
• 1:11:46
  drives me crazy and always has. And this
• 1:11:50
  is from a guy that generally supports
• 1:11:52
  the man. Not internationally,
• 1:11:55
  and I never have, but certainly not now.
• 1:11:58
  There isn't there isn't much he can do
• 1:12:01
  internationally that'll gain favor with
• 1:12:03
  me except uh you know end the war in
• 1:12:05
  Ukraine. But even that you know what are
• 1:12:08
  we a year and a half almost in year and
• 1:12:12
  3 4 months in to his uh rule and um it's
• 1:12:18
  still going on. No no no end in sight.
• 1:12:21
  And so,
• 1:12:23
  you know,
• 1:12:26
  these pipeline sabotages that are going
• 1:12:28
  on that are happening are breaking links
• 1:12:31
  between Russia and Europe, breaking
• 1:12:33
  links between uh uh the Middle East,
• 1:12:37
  Straits of Hormuz, all this stuff is
• 1:12:40
  happening huge everywhere. And uh so
• 1:12:44
  when you when you bring into the um into
• 1:12:49
  the mix all the things that are going
• 1:12:51
  on,
• 1:12:53
  I really wish we had calm dialogue and
• 1:12:58
  calm discussion,
• 1:13:00
  especially from our own leader. I would
• 1:13:04
  like him to look far more presidential,
• 1:13:06
  but that's me, you know, and I don't
• 1:13:09
  think it's presidential to insult
• 1:13:11
  people, to belittle people, to say that
• 1:13:16
  ah we don't need you. We got we got it
• 1:13:18
  all covered. And arrogance, all of those
• 1:13:21
  things I don't like when you're trying
• 1:13:24
  to resolve a dispute. And by the way,
• 1:13:27
  they don't help you resolve disputes.
• 1:13:30
  Not remotely. that doesn't help you at
• 1:13:33
  all. And so it's,
• 1:13:38
  you know, crazy stuff going on in the
• 1:13:41
  world. I I wanted, you know, and and
• 1:13:43
  people like Nebenzia, what he said, the
• 1:13:46
  insults that he that he leveled at
• 1:13:49
  Kaakis,
• 1:13:51
  that's the way to insult people.
• 1:13:54
  It's like, look,
• 1:13:57
  I I'd really like to meet what, how did
• 1:13:59
  he put it? I'd like to meet your history
• 1:14:02
  teacher
• 1:14:04
  because obviously you don't know
• 1:14:06
  anything about history.
• 1:14:08
  You know, did you go to school? Did you
• 1:14:10
  go do something? Because I don't think
• 1:14:12
  you get it. Now, that is a fine way to
• 1:14:16
  argue. You know, you can put that in
• 1:14:18
  there. It's good stuff. And and it
• 1:14:20
  doesn't require you to go, geez, you you
• 1:14:23
  you
• 1:14:24
  bunky there
• 1:14:27
  like Mrs. Omar. Or you can put uh when
• 1:14:30
  the swear words goes beep or you put
• 1:14:32
  something like that. You don't have to
• 1:14:33
  do it. But but
• 1:14:37
  that's the way to insult somebody. You
• 1:14:40
  don't call them idiots, you know. You
• 1:14:42
  just say, "hm, looks like uh when God
• 1:14:45
  was giving out brains that day, you
• 1:14:47
  thought he said trains and you said, you
• 1:14:49
  know, I really want one that doesn't go
• 1:14:50
  real fast." Or something like that. you
• 1:14:52
  know, that's that's a little bit better
• 1:14:54
  way to to couch your insults rather than
• 1:14:57
  going, "Geez, you moron."
• 1:15:00
  So, anyway, but sometimes it's more fun
• 1:15:02
  to be, you know, to call people a [ __ ]
• 1:15:04
  And he's been attacked for much of his
• 1:15:07
  life. So, he's got a bit of victimhood
• 1:15:10
  going on anyway. Um,
• 1:15:14
  I sure wish I had translated all of the
• 1:15:17
  uh uh the Lavr thing because it didn't
• 1:15:21
  come out all that well because he talked
• 1:15:24
  about uh Ukraine. He talked about uh you
• 1:15:28
  know a summary of it would be you know
• 1:15:33
  Moscow and P King are still working
• 1:15:36
  together. They have ideas for the world.
• 1:15:40
  they uh are going to be resolute in how
• 1:15:44
  they come across. I like listening to
• 1:15:45
  Lavough, but uh he he had some asks that
• 1:15:49
  he didn't get that day. Um let's see.
• 1:15:54
  There is something else about NATO. Get
• 1:15:57
  this. Now, I've been to Slovenia,
• 1:16:00
  and Slovenia is a country you can get
• 1:16:02
  to. I think it's on the How did I get
• 1:16:04
  there? I I think it was through the tip
• 1:16:06
  of Italy when you're going up on the top
• 1:16:09
  part of Italy and you go across it and
• 1:16:12
  uh I went into Slovenia. I went to a uh
• 1:16:14
  to a casino there. Um not very far
• 1:16:18
  across the border, only like 10 12
• 1:16:20
  miles. I only spent, you know, an
• 1:16:21
  afternoon there. Had a had a nice
• 1:16:24
  dinner, you know, and went back uh cuz I
• 1:16:27
  was staying in Austria and uh Italy. So,
• 1:16:30
  I had a place in Italy and another and
• 1:16:32
  there was some cool lakes that uh one of
• 1:16:34
  the be the most beautiful lake I've ever
• 1:16:36
  seen and it was fall and I particularly
• 1:16:39
  liked fall anyway and I wish I
• 1:16:41
  remembered the name of that lake because
• 1:16:43
  by God I'd love to go there again. It
• 1:16:45
  was one of the one of the prettiest
• 1:16:47
  parks I have ever seen and it was just
• 1:16:51
  wow, you know, if if you uh
• 1:16:56
  man I I'm gonna have to look that up.
• 1:16:58
  And and that was the same the same few
• 1:17:01
  days that there's a a huge huge set of
• 1:17:05
  swimming pools and and beautiful inside
• 1:17:08
  that that they have in Germany that I
• 1:17:10
  could talk about forever.
• 1:17:13
  You know these public pools that are
• 1:17:15
  inside outside and they are fantastic.
• 1:17:18
  It's not the it's not like a regular
• 1:17:20
  swimming pool. I mean, it's a it's a
• 1:17:22
  complex and uh high dollar complex and
• 1:17:26
  and put together extremely well and it
• 1:17:29
  was it was very very nice. Anyway, uh
• 1:17:32
  sorry to get off on a tangent there, but
• 1:17:34
  I always do and I want to talk about a
• 1:17:37
  NATO member planning an exit vote.
• 1:17:40
  Slovenia
• 1:17:42
  is preparing a referendum
• 1:17:45
  on withdrawal
• 1:17:47
  uh from the block as Trump threats
• 1:17:50
  deepen the internal divisions inside of
• 1:17:53
  NATO. Slovenia's newly elected
• 1:17:56
  parliamentary speaker is announcing
• 1:17:59
  plans to hold a referendum on
• 1:18:01
  withdrawing the country from NATO as the
• 1:18:04
  US-led military block reels from its
• 1:18:07
  worst internal crisis in decades with
• 1:18:10
  Washington threatening to pull out from
• 1:18:12
  the organization entirely.
• 1:18:16
  The leader of the truth party, person
• 1:18:18
  named Zoran Steanik, was elected as the
• 1:18:22
  head of the lower house last week.
• 1:18:24
  Speaking to public broadcasting service,
• 1:18:27
  he stated that the vote on leaving the
• 1:18:29
  block was a campaign promise he intends
• 1:18:32
  to keep. We promised the people a
• 1:18:35
  referendum on the issue of leaving NATO
• 1:18:39
  and we will hold this referendum. The
• 1:18:42
  speaker also signaled a possible visit
• 1:18:46
  to Moscow in the near future, stating
• 1:18:49
  that he would like to build bridges and
• 1:18:51
  cooperate with all countries regardless
• 1:18:54
  of the wall that has been built between
• 1:18:58
  the West and the East to push for a NATO
• 1:19:01
  exit. Actually, I'm I'm trying to uh um
• 1:19:05
  get a a Moscow visit in in the near
• 1:19:07
  future. Wonder if I should announce that
• 1:19:09
  and and put it in the newspaper.
• 1:19:12
  uh maybe I could I could create some
• 1:19:15
  sort of foreign relations uh uh
• 1:19:17
  positivity. Who knows? But uh uh had to
• 1:19:21
  send my passport off the other day to u
• 1:19:23
  to get my new visa. My visa expired and
• 1:19:26
  so uh it's currently in transit. We
• 1:19:29
  shall see uh what happens. Um this but
• 1:19:33
  uh the speaker of the house said he he
• 1:19:35
  does plan on going. The push for NATO
• 1:19:37
  exit comes as the 32 member block has
• 1:19:42
  started to crack over President Trump's
• 1:19:45
  threats to withdraw support after
• 1:19:48
  European members refused to join the
• 1:19:50
  USIsraeli war in Iran. Trump has
• 1:19:54
  repeatedly lashed out at European
• 1:19:56
  partners, calls them cowards, calls the
• 1:19:58
  block a paper tiger, stated that the US
• 1:20:01
  membership in NATO is beyond
• 1:20:03
  reconsideration.
• 1:20:05
  His continuing threats to annex
• 1:20:08
  Greenland
• 1:20:10
  from Denmark have further escalated
• 1:20:12
  tensions. NATO former NATO Secretary
• 1:20:16
  General Jen Stolenberg stressed that
• 1:20:18
  Trump's threats to withdraw from the
• 1:20:19
  block need to be taken seriously, saying
• 1:20:22
  that this is not the law of nature that
• 1:20:25
  we will have NATO forever and that it
• 1:20:28
  will or that it will survive the next 10
• 1:20:31
  years. Divisions inside have prompted
• 1:20:34
  the European nations to quietly
• 1:20:38
  accelerate work on a European NATO
• 1:20:41
  contingency plan. According to the Wall
• 1:20:44
  Street Journal, officials have been
• 1:20:47
  informally drawing up plans to continue
• 1:20:49
  operating on the continent using the
• 1:20:52
  block's existing military structure.
• 1:20:54
  Now, I heard this is going to be huge
• 1:20:58
  structure pro- Ukraine, meaning all arms
• 1:21:02
  are going to be built in Ukraine. They
• 1:21:04
  want to start building arms factories in
• 1:21:07
  Ukraine. And Ukraine's been pushing for
• 1:21:09
  that anyway. You know that they want to
• 1:21:11
  do it. They want to be the millionman
• 1:21:13
  army ready to go after Russia at any
• 1:21:16
  time. That's what Ukraine, that's what
• 1:21:18
  they thought they were back in 2022 and
• 1:21:22
  that Russia was just going to fall
• 1:21:24
  apart, you know, horrible idiots.
• 1:21:27
  Obvious See, now I'm calling people
• 1:21:29
  idiots. I'm just as bad as Trump.
• 1:21:32
  Um, but those are general idiots. I'm
• 1:21:34
  not calling people, you know, I'm not
• 1:21:35
  calling Zalinski an idiot or or Trump an
• 1:21:38
  idiot. I'm in general, they have idiots
• 1:21:41
  for experts. Let's put it that way.
• 1:21:43
  According to Wall Street Journal report,
• 1:21:44
  officials have been drawing up these
• 1:21:47
  plans
• 1:21:48
  uh to reduce the role of the US
• 1:21:52
  entirely. and Moscow. Russian Security
• 1:21:56
  Council Deputy Chair Dimmitri Midv has
• 1:21:59
  warned that the EU itself is morphing
• 1:22:02
  into a full-fledged military component
• 1:22:06
  and it would in some ways be way worse
• 1:22:08
  than NATO, arguing that Brussels has
• 1:22:11
  been inflating rousophobic hysteria to
• 1:22:14
  an extent to justify a largecale
• 1:22:18
  military buildup in preparation for war
• 1:22:21
  with Moscow.
• 1:22:23
  Sergey Lavrov, Russian foreign minister,
• 1:22:26
  speculates that the US threat to
• 1:22:27
  withdraw from NATO could be intended to
• 1:22:30
  shift the primary responsibility for
• 1:22:33
  quote containing Russia to Europe in
• 1:22:36
  order to free up Washington's hands in
• 1:22:39
  the Chinese direction. Moscow repeatedly
• 1:22:42
  denies any intention to attack NATO or
• 1:22:45
  the EU. argues that such claims are
• 1:22:48
  being used to justify massive investment
• 1:22:50
  in arms amid faltering economic growth.
• 1:22:57
  Whole thing is lunacy. Um
• 1:23:02
  you know they're talking about drafting
• 1:23:04
  people. Um, EU defense agency says
• 1:23:08
  they're trying to get all their people
• 1:23:09
  to uh um
• 1:23:13
  to draft their young men to go to war.
• 1:23:15
  Well, their men cuz now they take old
• 1:23:17
  ones too. It doesn't matter. Um, I want
• 1:23:20
  to tell you about the IMF and talking
• 1:23:22
  about Russia. Now I've told you many
• 1:23:25
  times that uh Russia is very developed,
• 1:23:30
  very modern and uh now the IMF,
• 1:23:33
  International Monetary Fund has raised
• 1:23:36
  the growth outlook for Russia. uh last
• 1:23:39
  year we had 04% in America that was
• 1:23:42
  adjusted down to okay that uh it was
• 1:23:46
  artificially high and uh they're not
• 1:23:50
  anticipating a whole lot of growth this
• 1:23:51
  year and uh people are feeling it
• 1:23:54
  especially because of the uh pocketbook
• 1:23:57
  pinch because of uh fuel prices but the
• 1:24:00
  IMF is is raising the growth outlook for
• 1:24:03
  Russia higher commodity prices
• 1:24:07
  while warning the Middle war is weighing
• 1:24:10
  on the global economy. The latest world
• 1:24:13
  economic outlook released Tuesday, the
• 1:24:16
  IMF said Russia's GDP will expand by
• 1:24:20
  1.1% in 2026,
• 1:24:23
  which was an upward revision point of
• 1:24:26
  uh.3%.
• 1:24:28
  The adjustment has been driven by higher
• 1:24:30
  commodity prices and the momentum is
• 1:24:34
  expected to continue into 2027.
• 1:24:38
  Inflation in Russia is protect projected
• 1:24:40
  at 5.6% this year down from 8.7% in
• 1:24:45
  2025.
• 1:24:47
  Uh Russia's economic development
• 1:24:50
  ministry is offering an optimistic look,
• 1:24:53
  estimating that GDP growth uh will
• 1:24:56
  really be at 1.3% in 2026 and 2.8 in
• 1:25:00
  2027. The revised IMF forecast comes as
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  global energy markets have come under uh
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  renewed pressure due to the US and
• 1:25:08
  Israel war on Iran. Um IMF warns that
• 1:25:14
  disruption to oil supply and damage to
• 1:25:16
  critical energy infrastructure raised
• 1:25:18
  the prospect of a major energy crisis if
• 1:25:22
  these hostilities persist in countries
• 1:25:25
  heavily dependent on energy import are
• 1:25:28
  super exposed.
• 1:25:30
  Against this backdrop, the fund
• 1:25:32
  downgraded global growth forecast, now
• 1:25:35
  expecting the world economy to expand by
• 1:25:38
  3% in 2026, down from 3.4% previously
• 1:25:44
  before rebounding to 3.2
• 1:25:47
  in 2027. Expects slower growth in the US
• 1:25:52
  and a weak dollar. The fund has also cut
• 1:25:56
  its outlook for the euro,
• 1:25:58
  saying the slowdown reflects negative
• 1:26:00
  impact of the Middle East conflict and
• 1:26:03
  the lingering effect of higher energy
• 1:26:06
  prices since the escalation of the
• 1:26:08
  Ukraine conflict and the drag on
• 1:26:11
  manufacturing
• 1:26:12
  resulting there from with the pressure
• 1:26:15
  from the euro's appreciation said the
• 1:26:17
  report. IMF managing director
• 1:26:19
  Cristallina Gorggiva warned last week
• 1:26:22
  that the conflict in the Middle East has
• 1:26:24
  delivered a major global energy shock
• 1:26:28
  saying that world oil output has fallen
• 1:26:31
  by 13%
• 1:26:33
  and ripple effects are going across
• 1:26:36
  industry, energy, commodities and
• 1:26:40
  fertilizers that are just taking a
• 1:26:43
  beating. The wars need to end. friends
• 1:26:46
  and neighbors. People need to start
• 1:26:47
  making money. China gets to sit back and
• 1:26:50
  watch while we
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  shoot the wad, you know, put it on black
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  17. That's what I say, you know. But you
• 1:26:58
  got a one in 36 chance of winning. Come
• 1:27:00
  on. Those are those are good odds, you
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  know. Let's take straight to [ __ ]
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  moves. Let's do it. One in 36 chance,
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  baby. Ah, it's worth it. Let's do it.
• 1:27:08
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