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Planned Chaos, Frozen Cities, and Phantom Ministers: How Bangladesh Fell, Lavrov “Vanished,” and Ukraine Goes Dark Before Winter · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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samuel t at international flavor um I was
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looking at a story here to start off
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the night and it's got a little minute
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35 second thing the title of the story
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and there's some there's some Some videos that
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go along with it, but I think there's
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only one that I can listen to and
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it's a rather long story Well, actually, you
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know what?
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No, it's that's two stories where it's just
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gonna it's this is about the planned chaos
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in bangladesh and Interestingly the story starts with
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them claim these riots that are the 2024
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Bangladeshi riots they're talking about this now And
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so they're talking about a certain u.s
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agency for international development stuff that they are
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talking about and so I I want to
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listen to this and I I I It'd
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be nice to put out who they are
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But a lot of people including me, by
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the way don't know all kinds of stuff
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about bangladesh um I know that it's uh
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That they're they've had an overthrow and uh,
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here's a story that came out today and
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it is entitled u.s. Agency for international
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development and the clintons Are behind bangladesh government
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overthrow according to the ex-minister.
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His name is sheik hasina And he you
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know, uh I'm, sorry.
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He was the I got that backward.
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He's the guy who left the country forced
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him out.
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It is according to uh mohibul hassan chowdhury
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and he he had an interview this past
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week and it's uh, It's only a minute
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and 35 seconds.
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So and he was being interviews, but let's
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Share the story with you so in 2024
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there were riots in bangladesh and they led
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to the to the overthrow and the getting
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rid of prime minister sheik hasina and they
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were backed by According to the allegations this
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guy by u.s. Agency for international development
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and hillary clinton's family This according to this
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former cabinet minister and chief negotiator Chowdhury, and
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he said in an exclusive interview that the
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entire interview will be broadcast tomorrow But they're
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giving you little little bits and pieces of
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to talk about today And his quote was
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he said certain actions of ngos, especially from
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the united states To name a few the
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u.s. Agency for international development the international
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republican institute They were running campaigns against our
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government for a while since 2018 he said
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And the accusations come more than a year
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after You know his his dramatic fall from
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power And they're in august of 2024.
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There were weeks of student-led protests And
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you know national violence.
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I don't know if you followed I followed
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it a little bit But it took some
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700 lives Hasina who had led bangladesh for
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15 years and was the head of the
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family as a whammy league party Fled the
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country as as she was overthrown Um And
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nobel prize laureate mahamad Yanus became chief advisor
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of the inner in government So according to
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chowdhury The unrest was not a spontaneous youth
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revolt, but a carefully planned operation bankrolled by
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western interests There's a nexus between The clinton
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family in the interim yanis regime from a
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very long past And these activities have been
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going on for a very long time They
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aren't open but funding of clandestine NGOs was
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was going on they were hell-bent on
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changing the government of bangladesh This is what
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the u.s. Does we go places we
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change their government and steal all their resources
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now turn them over to Friends of the
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u.s. Government we we do that Um,
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so he zeroed in on the flow of
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us aid questioning where millions In u.s.
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Agency for international development dollars had vanished.
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Gee, there's a surprise Lots of rich people
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lots of people get rich and governments get
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overthrown Um iri was active independent republican institute
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u.s. Agency independent or international development funding
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We're going nowhere.
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Where had that money gone to it was
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destined for regime change activities.
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That's a quote Chaos was carefully planned with
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this money and then the chaos was turned
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into a big riot Since yanis took over
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as interim leader Dhaka has been shifting focus
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away from new delhi And toward islamabad in
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an effort to rebuild relations that have been
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strained since 71 when east pakistan gained dependence
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as bangladesh millions of bengalis were killed in
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the 1971 war and bangladesh has sought a
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formal apology from pakistan from war crimes of
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its military during that conflict and then defense
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Minister aziz ahmed stated in his country that
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his country condemned and regretted any transgression that
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may have been committed Now I would like
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to listen to this little video before we
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go on to a separate topic Let's see
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if I can get it correct here We
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saw this um Ouster of the sheikh haseen
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our government was that because she refused to
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take dictations certain actions of some ngos, especially
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from the united states Naming a few I
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mean us aid for example or international republican
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institute they were running campaign against our government
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for a while Since 2018 and there is
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a nexus between the hillary clinton family the
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clinton family and the interim yunus regime from
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a very long past these Activities were going
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on for a long time.
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They weren't very open but funding of clandestine
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NGOs were going on they were hell-bent
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on Changing the government in bangladesh.
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Iri was active us aids fundings were going
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to Nowhere, where had that money gone to?
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It was destined for regime change activities Rappers
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were being paid for cultural activists were being
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paid for the hijra community the transgender the
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third gender community were being paid for whilst
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the extremists the jihadi Militants were also being
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paid for to fight those liberal elements So
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a chaos was carefully planned with this money
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And then the chaos Was turned into a
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big riot Well, I wonder if there will
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be any stories about this in the u
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.s So that's just a little preview of
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what we're going to look at.
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So try to follow that this week i'm
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going to Make sure to uh Save this
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story and then follow it and see if
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anything else comes if it's very short blurb
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I just came across it about an hour
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ago um I had a couple of other
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major topics that I wanted to talk about
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tonight because uh, there's been All weekend it
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started like on friday and all weekend.
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Uh, it's been talked about that.
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Uh, Sergei lavrov is missing sergei's gone.
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What happened to sergei?
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There's a rift between sergei lavrov and vladimir
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putin sergei is the longest serving Uh, sergei
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lavrov is the longest serving um foreign minister,
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excuse me foreign minister serving, uh In the
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in the world.
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He's been there for 20 25 26 years
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I think he had his 25th anniversary and
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he's in his 26th year right now and
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uh, uh, very interesting um The the take
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on this and I was seeing them pop
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up But nothing from any real source and
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it looked to me like classic, um attempts
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to to uh, I don't know create a
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news story to try to get something viral
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which apparently on multiple levels was uh, Six,
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how do I want to say that?
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That's not the way I want to put
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it But but on with as many stories
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as went out about it.
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It was some kind of a concerted effort
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To perhaps create some story of a conflict
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between Uh putin and lavrov, uh, that would
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be very interesting indeed if that were the
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case Um, but peskov came out Zakharova came
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out said, you know, it's nonsense Yawning, sorry
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about that and say that that is absolutely
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not the truth, um so There were a
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couple of things he missed like he didn't
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go to the un security council the last
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minute as the president now that's a surprise
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for me too that he didn't that he
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was not the one that was acting as
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the uh, the uh top during russia's presidency
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of the un security council, uh presidency because
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um, he he was not there at the
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summing up of it, but maria zakharova did
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a uh, In her briefing on friday she
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talked about what happened in russia's presidency And
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basically, uh her she has she gives a
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three hour And two and a half to
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three hour summary Every friday You know it
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comes out and and you can watch it
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and so she talked about the she she
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gave a summing up of it They had
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22 formal meetings Uh talking about crises in
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lots of reasons plus two flagship debate debates
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october 23 about the middle east october 24
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on un day about the un's future and
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and restoring the organization's central organizational role She
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was stressing that rebuilding trust hinges on adherence
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to the charter and talked talked a little
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bit about um uh the fact that certain
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countries namely america Uh doesn't have to follow
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the rules and and this hegemony is always
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Always present and she talked about multipolarity and
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where they were trying to to go And
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talked about in rebuilding this trust in adapting
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the un to the world's Multipolar reality in
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which member states And not secretariats lead and
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you know, they each are are equal and
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she highlighted open debate um talked about the
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women peace and security movement and uh things
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along those lines then she got into the
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ukraine war the attacks, uh on civilian harms,
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uh, which this is one of her Oh
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a common theme for her that is continually
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put out and i'm not against it I
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mean, I think it's I think it's accurate,
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you know, they talk about the the Civilian
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harm she you know always talks about kiev
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continuing to strike on civilians In russia, and
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she listed in the past week 70 russian
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civilian casualties eight dead 63 wounded including children
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incidents in belgrade, um Where a drone chased
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the district chief's car in bryansk a drone
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strike attacked a car injuring two In donetsk
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and her son there and lethal drone hits
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in volga grad.
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She references videos Of the the same one
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I told you about last week.
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That was just disgusting Uh, two unarmed civilians
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one and one carrying it on his knees
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praying and carrying a white flag Killed near
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kupyansk by ukrainian drone operators um And then
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she talked about the extensive criminal prosecution of
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ukrainian personnel um And she did name a
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bunch of individuals in turn, you know saying
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how much they were, uh, they were put
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into uh prison, there's a 1151 defendants including
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uh 20 to 23 of them that went
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to jail so far.
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Um, so then Uh, she's talking about financing
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the war religion and memory Um on the
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ukrainian orthodox church.
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She said kiev is pushing liquidation and asset
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seizure in uh In favor of the orthodox
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church of ukraine in the ukrainian orthodox church,
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which was basically, uh subject Not subject to
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but used to be called the russian orthodox
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church but then they wanted to change it
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and now they want to seize their uh,
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their uh Assets, they're trying to seize the
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russian orthodox church assets and she noted that
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their own supreme court rejected the appeal By
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the new for newly formed church in ukraine.
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So there's all kinds of big things she
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said there were 1300 petitions by parishioners as
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third parties and uh that she also uh
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talked about all of the Monuments that have
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been torn down and stuff like that.
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It was uh, it was a pretty good.
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Uh, briefing this time not that it isn't
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usually but I always like to listen to
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her and There there was also things the
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international court of justice she was talking about
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um, uh, how uh israel is You know
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not being um Not being treated as harshly
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as they ought to be uh, she had
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questions, uh afterward and there were several themes
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of the questions they were talking about Venezuela
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u.s plans for ancient action in venezuela
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and she basically, uh How would you put
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it Polly, she played politician and didn't answer
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that question.
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She she pushed it off Well that depends
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on our american colleagues and blah blah blah
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some kind of like a sergey lavrov would
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Um when he put that if he would
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put something out there, so all in all
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a pretty good press briefing it's always worthy
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of Following and I you know I I
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like her commentary on the war in general
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and and I like how it um, how
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it how it shows up.
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Um, All of the the facts and figures
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that she puts out I I like to
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listen to it It's kind of like you
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get it from the the horse's mouth.
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Um, there's been a lot of talk all
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weekend long That there were some very large
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Uh attacks and i'm kind of doing a
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a mini dive I suppose you would call
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it into the lavrov bit which i'm going
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to get into in a little while and
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get into some specifics on that and then
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Come up with there's a whole bunch of
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news stories that have come up since last
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we spoke on thursday And there's uh, ukraine
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Light water and heat and because winter Is
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upon them.
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I mean it was cold here in in
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lake ozark today.
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I froze my my uh, left butt cheek
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off, uh, it was pretty damn cold in
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in uh, I'm, i'm a somewhat of a
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baby in that regard and I like it
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pretty warm And uh speaking of which I
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come in this studio today.
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It's like 12 degrees In here and i'm
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freezing And I found this cool little uh,
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uh Heater down below that initially was blowing
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warm and now it's blowing cold.
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It's like I can't figure it out.
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So I guess I got to sit here
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and chatter my teeth To you all but
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we will figure it out.
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Um At some point because i'm not gonna
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freeze my butt off in here all winter.
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That's for sure Uh, we shall see what
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happens.
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I'll have to figure out how to work
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this stuff Anyway, that little sideline aside.
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We're gonna get into uh, ukraine lights water
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and heat what's gonna happen, right?
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so basically I listened to several quite a
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few different videos on this and if you
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strip away all the I don't know what
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the bluster and the noise about it all
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and you count what you can count and
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measure what you can measure the weekend barrage
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that uh, ukraine Was subjected to and their
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infrastructure in the Utilities area was subjected to
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was one of the heaviest combined drone and
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missile strikes on ukraine's power grid this year
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Um, it produced what you'd expect right as
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they're heading into winter.
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There were low deficits rolling blackouts and Cascading
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hits to water and heat especially in the
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big urban centers.
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So ukrainian officials reported that there were roughly
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458 Shahid type drones and 45 missiles launched
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friday night And and into overnight friday and
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into saturday with multiple waves they targeted um
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generation and Transmission of electricity and uh, uh
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infrastructure gas water The initial fatality counts varied.
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They said that three to four were killed
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and ten wounded But it's the scope.
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It's not this it's not the the deaths
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of people It's how big this was.
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This is not a pinprick at all.
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But this is a system wide um System
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-wide infrastructure attack in across several regions now
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both reuters and ap Uh converge this on
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a broad scale and guardian has has put
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pitted up too.
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So in the west they're actually Uh telling
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maybe the truth about this, right?
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um, there were strikes on uh kiev, uh
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in kiev, they say the strikes were on
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critical civil infrastructure and it triggered citywide transit
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and service disruptions that you know Now you
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see the buses trying to go during blackouts
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and they can't because the voltage is collapsed.
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A lot of them are are uh trolley
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sorts of cars and then paltova and kremenchuk
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Uh local systems where they had some generators
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for water After power loss and those are
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only going to work so long um, and
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so these mid river industrial nodes are soft
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spots anyway, if they take out a few
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of the substations or the thermal stations And
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you have a choke of both municipal pumping
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and industrial Draw on the facilities and so
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it's going to really uh damage their ability
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to to get anywhere And in hark of
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it was also a really big story Um
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mayor eager, uh teryehov said that the shortages
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first forced even power cuts to emergency systems
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and that water and heat have both been
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Unavailable and the metro has been shut down
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and the uh electric surface transport has been
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replaced by Gas buses because all of those
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are usually by trolley So once again if
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they've got to run buses and not trolleys
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that's going to be a big deal all
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winter long And so the grid Is really
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being hit hard pre-winter and in dnipro
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and dnipro petrovsk regions residential casualties from drone
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strikes that happened in their region-wide power
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restrictions and outages Um and in zaporizhia tens
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of thousands lost power in earlier waves and
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it's been in it It's been out of
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rotation.
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Um with brief periods of being on ever
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since and This compounds what's going on over
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the weekend because russia is systematically Taking it
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all out.
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So the state generator, uh, Centroenergo Central energy
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is what that means called it the worst
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grid hit uh Of the war and said
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that production at an affected plants has dropped
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to zero if a thermal units yard and
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step-up transformers are shredded which they are
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Or coal logistics are interrupted.
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You're not going to turn that back on
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anytime soon They're already cannibalizing spares according to
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him Restringing lines and trucking in you know,
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the big guns and try to get it
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back on board That's why outages continue to
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ripple for you know days and weeks So,
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uh ukraine ergo moved from emergency cuts to
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planned hourly rolling blackouts in multiple regions So
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every hour you're you know, you're off for
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an hour on for an hour, right?
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so the typical schedules published last week show
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that from 8 to 11 and from 1600
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to 2200 the houses are without uh power
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And industrial caps are layered on top of
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that Subject to change as crews stabilize and
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rolling cuts are routine and not the exception
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According this is according to kiev newspapers and
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russia says it's even worse um, I don't
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know but it's uh, uh, according to i'll
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play a brief video for you from Uh
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Uh military summary channel that it will get
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to here in just a minute um, let's
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see So Why is the water and heat
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collapsing so fast?
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well because water utilities and I didn't know
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this I I learned this today reading this
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the the the articles about it and And
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and watching the stories about it water utilities
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are power hogs now, I didn't know that
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I thought that water Could kind of power
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itself, but maybe that is a misconception Apparently
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it is but they have a loss of
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stable voltage.
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It isn't just a total loss.
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It can knock on the pumps and treatments
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Will knock them out as off of specs
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and they don't work at all So district
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heating is even worse if your combined heat
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and power plant trips or a gas compressor
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station loses power Radiators go cold and it
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takes a while to get them back up.
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Remember everything is central boilers over there and
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uh, uh, Especially in the big cities and
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so it's hard to get to get them
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back up and get them warm And so
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if you're rolling if you're rolling them off
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and on it takes It takes you three
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hours to power them up for the whole
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building to get the To get the effect
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and then when the power goes out they
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cool off It takes a little while for
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it to cool off, but they cool off
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a hell of a lot quicker when the
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weather's freaking cold I mean, you know that
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about your own house.
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You don't want to walk in and and
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and be freezing but uh, I tell you
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what Um, and then it's it's also worse.
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Uh compressor stations are gone Uh harkiv is
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a case study The whole grid is down,
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which means metro's down trolleybus are down water
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and heater down.
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So it's it's it's really not Not good
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now of these 400 and whatever it was
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drones that they were talking about How many
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did they say?
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of these drones It was like 450 something
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plus 45 a total of about 500 And
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I was wondering about How accurate or how
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well their Air defense has been Working which
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isn't very well, by the way, but the
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ukraine's air force Uh often reports very high
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shoot down ratios where they say.
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Oh, we got 95% of them, right?
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But this weekend even with intercepts there's videos
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of them all over and all you got
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to do is get on telegram and watch
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them There are telegrams where they're showing at
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night time where The whole city of kiev
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is dark And the videos go on for
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a very long time And how long that
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is and that's not alone.
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They showed the same thing with neper petrovsk
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and other places and that is Unbelievable to
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me actually because they That means this has
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been going on for a while and the
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power is off and so but they say
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they had robust dozens of drones and missiles
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got through to more than 25 locations, so
27:10
Interceptions aren't the headline here.
27:13
The destruction is the headline the interceptions We
27:16
know they're not intercept at least I do.
27:19
I know they're not intercepting I've been paying
27:21
this paying attention this for a very long
27:23
time And they always claim that they go.
27:26
Oh, geez, we get at least 90 of
27:27
those.
27:27
No, you don't That's that's why they're sending
27:30
out russia isn't sending out 500 to have
27:33
50 get through That ain't true at all
27:36
far more than 50 you're getting through.
27:38
So um, but ukraine has been has been
27:42
hitting and ukraine keeps hitting belgrade voronezh and
27:45
kursk regions and the refinery infrastructure in other
27:49
areas um, so This and so russia is
27:53
continuing to Up the attacks against all of
27:59
these so I I don't know what is
28:00
normal in this The fact is it's it's
28:03
not normal.
28:04
This is uh, attritional warfare And russia can
28:10
withstand it longer than ukraine can for sure
28:13
and it's um Watch for uh Transformer swaps
28:20
and how fast they get them turned back
28:22
up.
28:22
I mean if people are still going to
28:24
post it There's a couple of people out
28:26
on telegram posting videos every night of the
28:29
lights off in kiev And if kiev has
28:32
the lights out, what do you think it
28:34
is in the rest of the country?
28:36
And so if kiev is subject to rolling
28:38
blackout You know, what do you what about
28:41
the rest of the the place and kiev
28:44
was completely dark on friday night completely And
28:49
you'd see a couple of generator routes, you
28:51
know people have private generators or something They're
28:54
burning gas, but nobody's running trolleys anymore.
28:57
The power's down.
28:58
I mean the power goes out Your trolley
29:01
shuts down.
29:01
You're not going anywhere Um, and they don't
29:05
even they've been a lot of a lot
29:07
of efforts to try to get spares for
29:09
them Or donations of equipment from eu partners
29:13
and everywhere russia still has You know are
29:17
still producing an additional a couple hundred of
29:22
shaheed drones daily And they're firing Plenty of
29:26
them over here.
29:27
They're they're seriously producing these shaheeds and they
29:32
still have 10 times more missiles and weaponry
29:36
than Ukraine does this is not something that
29:40
that ukraine is going to win um In
29:44
air defense, of course, you know, you can
29:46
talk about the the wave tactics and how
29:49
the wave tactics have been so Uh, what
29:54
do you want to call it successful for
29:56
the russians?
29:58
in the attacks that they're making because They
30:01
have cheap drones and i've told you about
30:04
this before cheap drones that saturate the area
30:07
And then the missiles come in and finish
30:09
things off once all the patriot, you know
30:12
million dollar patriot Missiles have been used to
30:15
hit a shaheed drone.
30:17
It's empty.
30:17
That's just a decoy and so it's a
30:22
seriously attritional warfare here and Everybody notes the
30:29
stepped up russian tempo over the last few
30:31
months It's been getting higher and higher and
30:35
russia is pushing and pushing and the battlefield
30:38
dynamics Continue to reflect this.
30:41
They are gaining their stories about um, um
30:45
How far they've come pokrovsk is done and
30:48
and they were talking about another 2000 Ukrainian
30:52
soldiers surrounded and it's been you know, you
30:56
talk about as a human angle.
30:58
Where's everybody going?
31:00
You know you have lighting There's no prediction,
31:03
you know, they they want to call it
31:05
a predictable window of darkness, right?
31:08
So, um and at night, you know, they're
31:11
gonna Curtail your power at night citywide and
31:16
the city is completely dark and uh, uh
31:20
you you wonder when they when they shut
31:22
it off or if they have a curfew
31:24
for that or what you do In your
31:26
house, so they're going to have a lot
31:27
more danger because people are going to be
31:30
using Uh candles and fire and you know,
31:34
whatever and uh, or um, Maybe battery powered
31:39
Um would be a better way.
31:41
Maybe they're gonna have to put it out
31:42
water intermittent pressure Boiling water is and you
31:47
can't boil electrically.
31:49
Everything is gas powered, but you can't have
31:51
the gas Because if you do you're not
31:54
going to have anybody that can come and
31:56
pump water if you have any accidents So
31:59
your radiators are they get up to lukewarm
32:01
and then they're cold Until boiler plants get
32:05
back online and that's not going to happen
32:08
And they can't go anywhere because the subways
32:11
are idle and trolleybuses and trams are replaced
32:14
by diesel and so what it's uh Zakharova
32:18
said some things on this she said, uh,
32:21
um The now standard western aid is faltering
32:24
ukraine is terrorizing russian civilians and energy infrastructure
32:29
And russia is responding to these ukrainian attacks.
32:32
And so it's their You know like their
32:35
own I suppose you'd call it a permission
32:38
slip for russia destroying uh ukraine's energy grid
32:43
water grid everything and so Uh, you have
32:47
to look at it in both sides this
32:49
war sucks and it needs to be done
32:52
because uh millions of people are are Suffering
32:58
here.
32:59
That is for sure.
33:00
So if you keep track about this or
33:02
the rolling blackouts in the week ahead um
33:06
there there's i'm i'm gonna keep an eye
33:08
on this for you, but it's Man to
33:11
repair a substation isn't something you do overnight
33:14
or in one day even takes a while
33:17
So these are these are tough times for
33:20
them.
33:21
That is a faux show I'm gonna see
33:24
if I can play that first video for
33:27
you um We had the crushing defeat in
33:32
pokrovsk That came up a little while ago
33:37
um That is over And I don't know
33:40
if you heard this yet, but I want
33:42
to get into a story about Angelina joe
33:45
lee if I found a video on it,
33:48
um Recently in this pretty recent stuff, but
33:52
I gotta get to my history first here
33:55
and play you the um The story that
34:01
I wanted to get to Where is it?
34:06
Well, I thought it was at the top
34:07
of my my history, but apparently It isn't
34:12
I'm grumpy about it.
34:13
Now.
34:13
Let's get there.
34:16
There's maria's a hot of up and here
34:20
is Where to go, let's see This
34:29
one right here, I believe it is i'll
34:33
explain to you so let's get to where
34:35
the Power stations have collapsed And This is
34:42
military summary channel, which I listen to fairly
34:45
often on youtube and uh try to once
34:48
a week, so here goes Infrastructure and the
34:53
source are saying that as a result of
34:55
yesterday's attacks the russians managed to deal significant
34:57
damage to ukraine And according to information we
35:00
have today.
35:01
We have power outages across the entire territory
35:04
of the state So once again yesterday we
35:07
didn't have almost we didn't get almost anything
35:09
about those strikes just some statistics numbers and
35:13
maps And so on but during the previous
35:15
24 48 hours We received additional interesting videos
35:19
and additional very interesting updates.
35:21
So let's discuss this once again The russians
35:24
as we discussed attacked ukrainian energy infrastructure and
35:28
energy facilities, for example yesterday We received this
35:31
video and here according to information We have
35:33
the video captured an impact near the pridniprovskaya
35:37
thermal power plant As a result of the
35:39
attack the right bank part of dnepropetrovsk was
35:42
completely without power according to local media In
35:45
addition water supply outages begun in several areas
35:48
of the city So this is the only
35:50
video that confirms that russians indeed attacked yesterday
35:54
the power plant in the area of the
35:56
city of dnipro Furthermore we received this video
35:59
from the territory of the settlement by the
36:01
name of slobozhansk Once again, probably two or
36:04
three hours or one hour after russians attacked
36:06
these territory And here according to the author
36:09
this video we can see another attack carried
36:11
out by russians on the energy infrastructural object
36:15
of ukraine So and that's it So two
36:17
power plants were damaged by russia as a
36:20
result of the previous day attack and nothing
36:23
more And today during the previous 24 hours
36:26
more precisely we received additional videos For example,
36:29
this video is coming from the area of
36:30
the settlement by the name of tripoli So
36:33
here we can see the consequences of attack
36:35
on the tripoli power station So here we
36:39
can see another smoke Smoke screen above the
36:44
territory of the power plant.
36:46
Most likely the power plant was damaged critically
36:49
So this is the situation so this is
36:51
a third the third power plant that was
36:53
damaged by russia And today we got additional
36:56
video and additional details about attack on the
36:59
territory of the slobozhansk power station So the
37:02
previous video was made during the night period
37:04
of time and now we can see the
37:06
consequences of russian attack during the daylight So
37:09
as you can see the power plant was
37:11
damaged critically Another smoke screen about the city
37:14
and most likely this is the reason why
37:16
the ukraine authority is today announced that every
37:19
single Power plant would be turned off a
37:22
state-owned thermal power plant In ukraine have
37:25
been shut down with no electricity generation currently
37:29
taking place according to the state company centrenergo
37:32
As of now nobody knows for sure most
37:35
likely when exactly this situation will be probably
37:38
resolved when all these issues in energy sectors
37:40
Will be resolved.
37:42
Obviously, it will take several days, but the
37:44
russian sources are saying that the minister of
37:47
defense and the General staff of the armored
37:49
force of the russian federation are waiting when
37:52
the situation will be fixed And then most
37:54
likely the russians will repeat their attack on
37:57
energy infrastructure causing and dealing significant damage So
38:00
it's just the 9th of november of 2025
38:03
It's almost the months before the beginning of
38:06
winter and now we see that the situation
38:09
is already critical So most likely somewhere around
38:12
10th or 20th of december the situation will
38:15
be a disaster Now, let's discuss the situation
38:19
on the ground Hang on one second.
38:21
Maybe we won't discuss the situation on the
38:24
ground Because the interesting part of that is
38:27
when he when he put well, it's all
38:29
interesting to me but the interesting part is
38:32
that he says that What they're doing is
38:36
waiting until they refinish repair it and then
38:40
blow it up again And so they they
38:42
wait and see And they're making them spend
38:45
the money and we're not even to winter
38:47
yet And there's already rolling blackouts and when
38:50
winter fully hits It's going to be even
38:53
worse for them and i'm going to see
38:57
If this is the video, I think this
38:59
is one where they talk about pokrovsk and
39:01
where we are On pokrovsk, hold on i'm
39:06
not going to push play on it just
39:08
yet But we want to get to where
39:10
it is on uh pokrovsk Because russians have
39:16
been gaining ground everywhere, uh pretty quickly and
39:22
Um, no, this isn't the right video so
39:24
we won't get to it and i'm not
39:26
going to go search for it some more
39:27
I got some other things I wanted to
39:29
get into um as well as that and
39:34
uh, there's Uh so much news, there's uh
39:38
plenty of it and it's Uh a lot
39:43
going on over the weekend and we're gonna
39:45
have a pretty full week this week.
39:46
I got I have the uh, uh I
39:50
only got to watch about an hour of
39:52
it, but i'll finish it up in time
39:54
for tomorrow's show.
39:55
They have uh, Uh, my my sunday night
39:59
show of vladimir soloviev that I like to
40:02
watch And I only got to see an
40:04
hour of it, but it's It's they're doing
40:07
something and getting it out quicker than it
40:09
was before because I didn't usually get to
40:11
watch it till monday night But now it's
40:13
coming out Uh, because literally the show just
40:17
was published Um, it goes from like 6
40:21
or 8 p.m. Something like that on
40:23
sunday nights and it goes for for uh,
40:26
three hours, basically and uh But usually I
40:30
never got it till 24 hours later now
40:32
it's coming out Much quicker.
40:35
Um, I don't sleep very well.
40:37
So, um, I I tend to watch a
40:39
lot of this stuff Let's see where we
40:43
are though I wanted to get to uh,
40:46
The lavrov thing once again because I did
40:49
find that rather comical on the lavrov story
40:53
And what was really funny?
40:54
You didn't hear a whole lot of this
40:56
nonsense coming to you from uh, from uh
41:03
From real news sources you found it from
41:06
your typical Uh, I don't know what bloggers
41:09
and stuff like that that uh, but you
41:12
didn't get it from other sources And and
41:14
I like to listen and listen to the
41:16
other sources and so it's like hmm I
41:19
wonder if that has any real truth to
41:22
it, but there's nothing about it except uh
41:24
denials and other places But um, you know
41:26
what i've just decided to change and go
41:29
in another direction real quick And i'll come
41:30
back to lavrov here in just a minute
41:32
because I have two stories that I had
41:34
pulled up as well about orban victor orban
41:38
and he uh Stated recently Um, he accuses
41:47
former u.s. President biden of driving the
41:51
ukraine conflict You know, he basically blaming uh,
41:56
joe biden and his administration for pushing this
42:00
And for pushing eu member states to be
42:03
confrontational against russia now Unlike most other countries
42:09
in the bloc hungary consistently opposes brussels, you
42:12
know in their anti-russian policies and has
42:15
called for a diplomatic approach to put an
42:18
end to hostilities And he also refuses to
42:22
provide weapons to kiev And here's what he
42:25
said Without the pressure coming from the u
42:29
.s. Government and i'm speaking about 2022 The
42:33
europeans would not take that hard line that
42:36
they have today on the war He told
42:40
reporters this after his meeting with u.s.
42:42
President, uh trump on his uh, white house
42:46
visit last friday So he emphasized that some
42:50
major eu economies have rejected Uh, they don't
42:55
want to be involved more than just sending,
42:58
you know Humanitarian efforts and he said that's
43:02
the facts of history And so Trump said
43:07
the same thing trump's uh responded and said
43:10
that the conflict stemmed from mistakes by this
43:13
predecessor Of course, he's always eager to jump
43:15
On board and and say he said biden
43:19
actually pushed for that war to happen and
43:21
that um That trump that he goes I
43:25
inherited that mess Yeah, but it's your mess
43:28
now, buddy.
43:29
Stop it.
43:30
You know, if you could stop it cut
43:32
him off So in august trump said the
43:34
ukraine conflict could have escalated into world war
43:37
three under the biden administration You know what
43:40
that's a very good point because uh had
43:43
there been a a biden or a harris
43:46
still in office uh I I think we'd
43:51
be extremely close to it so, you know,
43:55
I I can complain and piss and moan
43:58
about How things are bad, you know that
44:01
trump isn't doing what I think he should
44:03
do but a couple of things number one
44:06
who the hell am I and number two
44:09
At least it's not biden because under biden
44:12
we brought or harris we probably would be
44:16
in world war three Well, you know bangladesh,
44:19
you know as we started in this show
44:20
was be regime change I don't like the
44:23
regime change efforts going on in venezuela I
44:27
don't like what's happening, uh in in a
44:30
lot of respects, but He ain't wrong biden
44:34
pushed for that war to happen and trump
44:37
inherited the mess and I think trump is
44:41
absolutely right that the ukraine conflict would could
44:47
Maybe would have escalated into world war three
44:50
under the biden administration Uh, because well biden
44:54
wasn't running the show, you know, that's pretty
44:56
clear and it was being run by people
44:58
who have you know, nothing but um um
45:02
more arms to push Anyway, the president has
45:05
frequently argued the global tensions.
45:08
Uh peaked when uh you know between moscow
45:13
and and washington uh when biden was in
45:17
charge and uh He has at least re
45:21
-established high-level communication.
45:23
I think it's it's been crap, you know
45:25
with the back and forth But at least
45:28
there's communication, you know, and there wasn't any
45:32
for three years with the other a-holes.
45:34
So Earlier this year president putin's economic, uh
45:38
envoy kirill dimitriev Urged the white house to
45:43
reverse the policies of the previous administration And
45:47
achieve global peace dimitriev said that biden's mistakes
45:51
need to be corrected And I believe he's
45:54
right Um, I think that uh all of
45:57
this economic turmoil between uh Of america and
46:03
russia is a mistake.
46:05
I've said that repeatedly Moscow has repeatedly also
46:08
stated that it's ready for peace talks If
46:11
conditions on the ground are respected and root
46:14
causes are addressed.
46:15
I hate to pump that out one more
46:18
time But there you go um Let's see.
46:23
There was one more orban commentary.
46:26
Where'd he go?
46:28
Where did he go Orban orban orban Um
46:38
Oh, he also he said something, uh, um
46:43
That hungary is a christian government in a
46:46
liberal ocean in europe And then guess what
46:51
else he got He got a full exemption
46:55
from u.s. Sanctions on russian oil so
46:59
There was actually a success story, right?
47:04
So this is a pretty short um a
47:08
blurb, so we'll um We'll we'll probably cover
47:13
the whole thing.
47:14
I thought there was some Video I could
47:17
play on it, but but I can't it's
47:19
in russian um U.s. President trump agreed
47:23
to provide budapest with an exemption From washington
47:28
sanctions on russian oil Um, this is what
47:31
victor orban told reporters after their meeting at
47:33
the white house The leader said the agreement
47:35
guaranteed uninterrupted And affordable energy supplies for his
47:40
country protecting its long-standing policy of utility
47:44
cost reductions his quote was The first and
47:47
most important thing is that we manage to
47:50
protect the utility cost reduction So hungary will
47:53
continue to have the lowest energy prices in
47:57
europe according to orban hungary received complete exemption
48:02
from sanctions affecting russian oil delivered through Turk
48:06
stream and drushba pipelines There are no sanctions
48:10
that would immediately limit hungarian supply or make
48:14
it more expensive This is a general and
48:17
unlimited exemption President trump said earlier That uh
48:22
that hungary's geography and limited access to alternative
48:26
energy justifies his exception We are looking at
48:29
it because it's very difficult for him to
48:32
get oil and gas from other areas It's
48:34
a big country and they have no seaport
48:37
but they And so they have a difficult
48:40
problem trump added that other eu countries are
48:43
in a different position and reiterated His long
48:47
-standing criticism of european allies for continuing to
48:51
rely on russian energy while benefiting from us
48:55
security support Many of those countries don't have
48:59
these problems and they buy a lot of
49:00
oil and gas from russia And as they
49:03
know i'm disturbed by that So last month
49:07
washington imposed sanctions on russian energy oil rosneft
49:10
and luke oil Both of which continue to
49:13
export oil to hungary and slovakia So budapest
49:16
requested a waiver.
49:18
They argued that they lacked viable alternatives and
49:21
the restriction disproportionately harms their economy Orban makes
49:26
the trip to washington.
49:27
He and trump are the best of friends
49:30
according to both of them And orban previously
49:33
described sanctions as a mistake, which is what
49:36
I say And warned they will cripple hungary's
49:39
energy supply And hungary is among well as
49:43
the most vocal eu member state opposing sanctions
49:46
against russia And orban repeatedly argues that energy
49:50
should remain outside the scope of political dispute
49:53
and energy security Europe's energy security cannot come
49:57
at the expense of economic stability So the
50:00
eu has seen a surge in energy prices
50:02
since it began phasing out or trying to
50:05
phase out russian fuel Um the resulting supply
50:10
disruptions lead to increased industrial costs and moscow
50:13
accuses The west of shooting themselves in the
50:16
foot and I believe russia is correct orban
50:19
does too by the way Think that they're
50:22
they're uh, correct um Where did the eu
50:26
had?
50:27
Oh, oh, yeah, this was an interesting story
50:28
get this I always laugh when I see
50:32
this lady ursula von der leyen.
50:35
You just can't help but say it like
50:36
Uh sergeant schultz in uh, what was the
50:40
name of that show?
50:41
Can't remember.
50:42
Um But uh sergeant schultz you just she
50:46
looks like sergeant schultz.
50:47
She is unattractive and uh, let's see European
50:51
union is planning to launch You can't this
50:56
is great a centralized hub for monitoring and
51:00
countering What it calls?
51:04
Wait for it Disinformation according to leaked documents
51:09
seen by the guardian Critics have long warned
51:12
that brussel brussels initiatives amount to institutionalization of
51:19
a censorship regime According to the european commission
51:24
proposal Set to be published on november the
51:27
12th Or wait for that, aren't we the
51:31
so-called center for democratic resilience Will function
51:37
as part of a broader democracy shield strategy
51:42
Which was pitched by commission president ursula von
51:45
der leyen ahead of the 2024 european elections
51:51
Participation in the center will be voluntary And
51:55
the commission welcomes like-minded partners Outside of
52:00
the bloc including the uk and countries seeking
52:03
to be allowed into the union the draft
52:07
accuses russia of escalating hybrid attacks and disseminating
52:14
false narratives while Pinpointing china as another threat
52:19
and they she alleges that beijing uses Pr
52:22
firms and social media influencers to advance its
52:26
interests across europe.
52:27
Doesn't they do that, too?
52:29
I mean don't they don't we have the
52:31
gay folk running around all over europe and
52:34
and pumping the the The multi-colored flag
52:37
and whatnot.
52:37
Well, so why isn't the other side allowed
52:40
to do the same?
52:41
But wait, we're still waiting for the for
52:44
the real kicker in this story It's a
52:46
lot of fun by spreading what she calls
52:48
deceitful narratives Sometimes including the manipulation and falsification
52:53
of historical facts They tried to erode trust
52:58
in democratic systems.
52:59
The guardian cited the document as saying Though
53:03
it provided No evidence.
53:06
Well, they didn't provide the document.
53:07
They just say that's what this is The
53:11
commission frames the move as a defensive response
53:14
to foreign meddling Citing as one example the
53:19
controversial cancellation of Romania's 2024 presidential election They're
53:27
the ones that canceled it.
53:28
However telegram founder pavel durav noted.
53:31
That was the eu namely the french intelligence,
53:35
uh Division that pressured him to censor conservative
53:39
content during the elections in romania and moldova
53:43
Condemning the bloc for waging a crusade against
53:46
free speech himself So the new center will
53:51
add to eu's growing network of monitoring and
53:55
moderating information And is expected to work alongside
54:00
supposedly Independent facts fact checkers and coordinate with
54:07
online influencers to promote Content that aligns with
54:12
brussels policies So see you can't use social
54:16
media influencers to align with views that are
54:19
Not in line with brussels policies But you
54:23
can use those same Influencers to promote the
54:26
content and pay the millions of dollars to
54:28
do it to make it sound like it's
54:30
a way to do it So the proposal
54:32
fits neatly into the wider enforcement framework of
54:35
the eu's digital services act Which mandates the
54:39
removal of harmful content washington wants a partner
54:44
in the joint disinformation monitoring through the now
54:49
defunct global engagement center Has since distanced itself
54:54
from the eu's regulatory push the eu s
54:58
state department recently described the bloc's initiatives as
55:02
Orwellian and says that censorship is not freedom
55:07
And warns that such measures only serve to
55:11
shield european leaders from their own people so
55:16
Here's what jd vance said about that if
55:19
you are running in fear of your own
55:22
voters There is nothing america can do for
55:26
you I like that And that's what jd
55:29
vance told the munich security conference in february
55:32
referring to the romanian election If your democracy
55:36
can be destroyed with a few hundred thousand
55:39
dollars of digital advertising from a foreign country
55:44
Then it wasn't very strong to begin with
55:47
Now, I remember listening to him way back
55:50
then when he was at the munich security
55:53
conference and he gave a very good speech
55:56
And listening to him, uh, that was that
55:58
was a hell of a speech on on
56:01
what he said I remember feeling very very
56:06
positive about uh, hopefully and hopeful that our
56:11
government wouldn't uh continue to demonize opposition and
56:18
demonize free speech and demonize A few words
56:23
by somebody, you know, because it's true if
56:27
a few words can destroy you You got
56:30
bigger problems than can be fixed with democracy
56:34
You know what I mean?
56:36
Um, let's see Uh, there were also there's
56:39
a couple other stories, but I I still
56:42
intend to get back to my lavrov fiasco
56:45
Of what we heard there so I think
56:47
we're gonna Leave off or i'll tell you
56:50
the headline and I might get to it
56:52
if I finish off with the lavrov thing
56:54
through the show but the swedish prime minister
56:57
calling for long-term isolation of russia and
57:03
the eu failed to convince belgium to seize
57:07
the uh, frozen russian assets, they're they're still
57:12
So far still on the side of the
57:15
law and saying you can't just take people's
57:17
money You're not allowed to just steal it
57:20
just because you're the government um, and then
57:24
uh, what else the The The ex-cia
57:29
chief brennan was subpoenaed in russiagate that came
57:34
out over over the weekend and uh Where
57:39
there was another or or bond or bond
57:42
call Um, he oh he did say that
57:47
he welcomes there's another orban quote he welcomes
57:51
defunding of uh, Radio free europe and radio
57:55
liberty That's a funny story.
57:58
I might get to it.
57:59
That was pretty good well, maybe not funny,
58:01
but um Funny in the fact that uh,
58:05
people are still allowed to speak the truth,
58:08
you know Let's see.
58:10
Where are we in our lavrov story?
58:13
Here we go So I wanted to separate
58:16
things into reality So I went and checked
58:19
a whole bunch of different sources to find
58:21
out what everybody was saying about lavrov disappearing
58:25
because I suppose one of the things about
58:30
Oh youtube or facebook or wherever you go
58:35
It seems like you'll see the a topic
58:37
and everybody piles on board and beats that
58:40
topic to death for all its worth And
58:42
then they move on to another topic So
58:45
somebody out there um Started the thing about
58:51
lavrov.
58:51
Where's lavrov been lately, you know, we haven't
58:54
seen a lot of lavrov I don't maybe
58:57
the guy's got the flu who knows, you
58:58
know, but he's gone for a couple of
59:01
days He's not he's not on video for
59:03
a couple of days and so uh then
59:06
The rumors come out into the headlines that
59:09
are lavrov is sidelined.
59:12
Uh, there's rumors.
59:13
He's been reassigned And then uh, you know,
59:16
so I wanted to get out and look
59:18
at it, you know I don't want to
59:19
just believe that off the top and I
59:21
told you at the beginning of the show
59:22
that I don't think it's true Anyway, you
59:25
know that I don't think 20 years of
59:28
each of those two have been comfortable, uh
59:30
with each other in their uh role in
59:33
uh, russia And I don't think that's the
59:36
case you'd have to you'd have to cock
59:39
something up pretty damn bad to uh, Be
59:43
pitched out, you know, if your name is
59:45
sergey lavrov sergey viktorovich lavrov And uh, let's
59:50
see So we're going to separate it into
59:52
three uh Things that the headlines are, you
59:58
know all putting together one Lavrov was absent
1:00:03
from the november 5 security council session, right?
1:00:07
So he didn't come to the security council
1:00:09
meeting Two there was a delegation leadership for
1:00:14
an upcoming summit That he isn't going to
1:00:17
do and three the actual messaging And where
1:00:22
lavrov has been acting publicly?
1:00:25
So lavrov Was the only permanent security council
1:00:30
member that was missing from the november 5th
1:00:34
session Where putin tasked the bureaucracy to draft
1:00:39
options on possible nuclear testing So remember me
1:00:44
talking last week.
1:00:46
I did a whole show on nuclear testing
1:00:49
and putin was saying that in response to
1:00:53
Trump's statement that the u.s is going
1:00:57
to start Nuclear testing again, and the only
1:01:01
one that's available.
1:01:02
I told you last week Is how it's
1:01:05
available and uh how it how long it
1:01:09
would take to uh, bring it back into
1:01:12
practice and So Now that trump has said
1:01:17
while we're researching it it has come out
1:01:20
pretty clear on it uh, there were a
1:01:22
couple of comments by peskov lavrov other people
1:01:26
saying where the um Where it was, you
1:01:30
know, what are we going to do about
1:01:31
this nuclear testing?
1:01:33
And so at the security council, they were
1:01:34
talking about it, too and uh, let's see
1:01:39
the commercant a news uh newspaper reported that
1:01:43
the absence was agreed upon and uh That
1:01:49
meant he had an agreed agreed upon absence
1:01:51
and it was a scheduling fact um, but
1:01:56
this fact got everybody Talking, you know about
1:02:01
what would happen.
1:02:02
So what what were the delegations actually doing?
1:02:05
There was a guy named maxime oreshkin.
1:02:07
Who's the deputy chief of staff and he
1:02:10
was assigned to head the g20 delegation the
1:02:13
asian delegation last month was led led by
1:02:17
alexei overchuk and uh, it's a you know,
1:02:21
That is a shift from lavrov leading everything
1:02:26
You know and because he's always at at
1:02:29
all of these things and why everybody in
1:02:32
tabloids and you know, uh Random shows are
1:02:36
going he's been sidelined but uh, you know
1:02:43
Authoritative outlets and official notices, uh Don't really
1:02:50
Say that he's been that it's anything other
1:02:52
than scheduling, you know So on november 7th
1:02:57
Peskov came out and he said, you know
1:03:00
this, um talking about a rift and talking
1:03:04
about any sort of uh discontent on our
1:03:08
side russia's side with lavrov Does not correspond
1:03:12
to reality is how the translation comes out.
1:03:16
It just It's not realistic to say to
1:03:19
that.
1:03:20
It that isn't the fact, you know, you're
1:03:22
you're you're talking fiction here And on november
1:03:25
8 and 9 lavrov in in his own
1:03:29
Interviews, which he did several was saying that
1:03:32
work is underway on putin's november 5 test
1:03:35
related tasking And uh, he signaled how ready
1:03:39
he is to meet with marco rubio And
1:03:44
the the facts that we talked about last
1:03:47
week with respect to him so So Ministers
1:03:52
that are I don't know in my opinion
1:03:55
if you're claiming that they've been benched or
1:03:58
sidelined Uh, they don't spend the weekend on
1:04:02
on radio and tv talk shows teeing up
1:04:06
us talks and uh declaring that they're executing
1:04:10
presidential assignments regarding nuclear testing so who pushed
1:04:15
these stories that was was I wanted to
1:04:17
get the most of it because I was
1:04:19
I was looking at the headlines and then
1:04:21
where they were from So british tabloid tabloids
1:04:25
are always, you know, right right there and
1:04:29
then the repeater Aggregators, you know the repeater,
1:04:33
uh agencies that take the stories pick them
1:04:36
up and run with them again Are like
1:04:39
the sun yahoo?
1:04:41
et opinion rappers framed absence They say Absence
1:04:46
plus delegation changes equals a purge which isn't
1:04:50
true But reuters moscow times and kiev independent
1:04:54
even Said that there was a denial and
1:04:58
that he was just a scheduling deal so
1:05:02
reassignments Happened purge claims are ridiculous, but you
1:05:06
get onto youtube right now.
1:05:08
You'll see page after page of uh, Lavrov's
1:05:12
been sidelined sorts of things So and a
1:05:16
lot of them were talking about The fact
1:05:18
that uh the trump putin summit summit fizzled
1:05:23
After a lavrov and rubio call, um because
1:05:28
um They wanted to say that lavrov blew
1:05:32
it but lavrov says the same thing I
1:05:35
mean those those talks were constructive and everybody
1:05:38
reported that they were But both sides said
1:05:41
the other side Isn't ready to move any
1:05:43
further than we've already talked about in prior
1:05:46
meetings and so Kind of what's the point?
1:05:51
so in moscow uh, whoever fronts it, uh
1:05:55
summits can reflect a tactical optic, you know
1:05:59
sending it, uh, When the policy isn't going
1:06:02
anywhere And we're not changing anything We'll send
1:06:06
a technocrat instead of somebody who could really
1:06:08
get something done Rather than just saying it's
1:06:12
a you know, we're not going to show
1:06:14
up And give you a knife and we'll
1:06:17
give you a knife in the ribs this
1:06:18
way Well said the knife in the ribs
1:06:21
is going to come from the technocrat not
1:06:23
from sergey lavrov He has he has more
1:06:26
important things to do than dink around with
1:06:28
something like that So what does the evidence
1:06:31
actually support I mean, I mean I suppose
1:06:33
yes, he missed a high profile meeting, right?
1:06:37
and yes, um He missed uh, or someone
1:06:42
else is heading up the the uh, Summit,
1:06:46
uh asian summit stuff like that and he
1:06:48
only appeared by video for that But it's
1:06:52
also yes that the kremlin denies that the
1:06:55
rift lavrov is still visible all over the
1:06:58
place and he's Executing his presidential tasks and
1:07:01
I listened to two of his interviews over
1:07:03
the last two days.
1:07:04
So You know, he's both of them 45
1:07:07
minutes to an hour long Lavrov is still
1:07:10
out there doing his job.
1:07:12
So i'm not so sure There's no evidence
1:07:15
of any sort of formal demotion suspension investigation
1:07:19
Nothing announced by the kremlin So there's a
1:07:23
little bit of smoke because the travel roster
1:07:26
changed He skipped a key meeting but you
1:07:31
know What to watch for next is whether
1:07:35
or not rubio and lavrov actually Uh communicate
1:07:41
this weekend or this week, I mean upcoming
1:07:46
And whether they come up with something going
1:07:48
forward, I think it would be very nice
1:07:50
if they did and so who who's going
1:07:53
to front the united a security council, uh
1:07:56
this month if uh, ministry of foreign affairs
1:08:00
hands routine briefs to deputies that's just um
1:08:04
Management of stories that are already under control
1:08:08
And russian domestic press is saying, you know,
1:08:11
these are stupid stories and you don't need
1:08:13
to hear it.
1:08:14
So um There you go um, let's see,
1:08:20
I wanted to get to The stories uh,
1:08:27
there were a couple of of critical stories
1:08:30
about um, the bombing of uh, Thermal power
1:08:36
plants and uh I already spent a lot
1:08:41
of time on the uh on the Ukraine
1:08:44
gradually being Plunged into darkness in the grid
1:08:49
war on the home fronts there in ukraine
1:08:53
It's like uh is going to be the
1:08:55
same as last well worse than last winter
1:08:58
You know substations dark stairwells diesel generators.
1:09:03
It's going to be bad news um Let's
1:09:07
see Um Where are we I gotta get
1:09:15
past my lavrov script And then that is
1:09:19
in russian, so I don't want to read
1:09:20
that to you in russian So here we
1:09:25
are With the lavrov story ova um and
1:09:34
I want to get back to The Um
1:09:41
kill zone, so the defense of the zaparizhia
1:09:45
front is uh pretty much Crumbling in in
1:09:52
real time So kill zone, it's not really
1:09:56
a movie term.
1:09:57
It's it's arithmetic um If you can channel
1:10:03
your opponent into a predictable corridor um Narrow
1:10:08
tree lines rail embankments mining belts then layer
1:10:14
interlocking fire So you shoot where the enemy
1:10:18
must be?
1:10:19
so on the front southern front the russians
1:10:22
are are Really?
1:10:25
Advancing in the south pokrovsk area right and
1:10:29
all over that area of zaparizhia and uh
1:10:34
every every Mapper out there is showing some
1:10:41
very heavy progress on the side of the
1:10:44
russians.
1:10:45
There's plenty out there so This is where
1:10:51
the Drones spot a company entering a safe
1:10:57
lane and an fpv swarm waits for them
1:11:02
and Begins to uh fly over them and
1:11:05
attack them disperse them cause chaos and then
1:11:10
The self-propelled guns hold them at the
1:11:13
angles and the mortars cover any possible retreat
1:11:16
If that company tries to get out electronic
1:11:19
warfare Scrambles navigation and pushes them back into
1:11:23
the corridor again And they all get beat
1:11:26
up again.
1:11:26
This is what the russians are doing again
1:11:29
and again and uh, they are They are
1:11:32
controlling the battlefield.
1:11:35
They are controlling the areas of retreat They
1:11:38
are absolutely controlling any area of advance with
1:11:42
very few exceptions so maybe Once or twice
1:11:48
a week a week you will see Some
1:11:54
kind of a blurb from somewhere about a
1:11:58
small Small marginally successful ukrainian, uh counter-attack
1:12:05
so You'll lose a uh a small a
1:12:11
small city village, you know Two thousand five
1:12:16
thousand people live in there, right?
1:12:20
And you will watch how the russians Put
1:12:24
it in kind of a crucible They bomb
1:12:27
each parts of the and they leave one
1:12:29
corridor open for them to retreat and then
1:12:33
the the they they can retreat and so
1:12:35
the people go out in the retreat and
1:12:38
maybe a couple of days later you might
1:12:42
see somebody Uh from the ukrainian side organized
1:12:47
well enough to make some sort of a
1:12:49
small counter-offensive, but they're usually quite bloody
1:12:53
usually fail And you sometimes see a little
1:12:57
bit of gain um In the opposite direction
1:13:02
where or a loss on the russian side
1:13:05
as far as territory Very small gain and
1:13:09
then the next day you'll see it pushed
1:13:11
right back and and but over the last
1:13:16
Geez, it's got to be at least four
1:13:18
months Maybe longer hell it could be as
1:13:22
long as six I haven't seen any any
1:13:27
steady ukrainian response all you see is russia
1:13:33
continuing to advance And it is it huge?
1:13:38
No, is it large amounts of territory?
1:13:41
It's getting bigger over the last month or
1:13:43
two, but I think that what's going to
1:13:46
happen Well, I shouldn't say I think I
1:13:48
think it would be a safe bet to
1:13:51
say That what happens now is the same
1:13:54
thing that happened the last Three winters, right?
1:14:00
winter of 22 and 23 Winter of 23
1:14:07
and 24 winter of 24 and 25 and
1:14:10
so this will be the fourth winter And
1:14:15
uh, basically The russians made very small gains
1:14:19
during winter time because they uh, aren't Everybody
1:14:26
takes a break at that time, you know,
1:14:29
nobody Is continuing to operate?
1:14:33
it's uh It's basically Basically over during the
1:14:39
winter and so russia while they can is
1:14:43
still pushing them out now the ground is
1:14:45
frozen And so they could maybe move some
1:14:49
armor and some tanking and some stuff which
1:14:52
which can happen Because in the spring in
1:14:55
the in the early summer, it's just all
1:14:57
mud, you know from all of the uh,
1:15:00
all of the rain and the melted, uh
1:15:03
Snow and all of that.
1:15:04
It's nothing but mud.
1:15:05
So these kill zones Especially in zaparizia right
1:15:10
now um are really Uh, you know the
1:15:15
open ground and limited crossing turn maneuvers there's
1:15:20
leaves nothing but a set of bad options
1:15:23
plus russia's bombing all the bridges, uh for
1:15:27
retreating and so the bridges disappear and the
1:15:31
ukrainians don't have the engineering staff to uh
1:15:35
to create the the Uh The rolling bridges
1:15:39
that come along with the military Or to
1:15:43
rebuild any of the civilian sorts of bridges
1:15:47
Without them getting blown up immediately again and
1:15:51
so Over the bridge or into the mud
1:15:55
time is the weapon times the weapon Rotations
1:15:59
haven't occurred and any that they do try
1:16:02
to make they have to move through the
1:16:03
same choke points So the fresh units fresh
1:16:07
units that are coming to save the uh
1:16:09
exhausted units hit the same artillery grid That
1:16:12
the tired ones are leaving and so they
1:16:16
Both of them are getting hit two ways
1:16:18
on the way in and then on their
1:16:20
own retreat.
1:16:20
It's a it's it's really a sad deal
1:16:24
So the side with a tighter counter battery
1:16:27
and the deeper electronic warfare Wins not the
1:16:30
battle but the months and months of operational
1:16:34
breathing room, which russia has plenty of Depots
1:16:39
are resupplied.
1:16:40
They aren't on the ukrainian side Repairs take
1:16:43
longer for the ukrainian side than they do
1:16:45
with the russians So any small victory the
1:16:48
ukrainians get the russians can counteract in a
1:16:51
couple of days But the ukrainians on the
1:16:54
other hand it takes months for them to
1:16:56
get back to what they lost And they
1:16:58
can't do it and and the attritional warfare
1:17:01
is definitely on the side of the russians
1:17:05
so I mean, there's no romance in this
1:17:08
war is not romantic.
1:17:10
This is um you know kill zones are
1:17:14
like a factory Imagine you're in a factory
1:17:19
manufacturing whatever product it is It's the exact
1:17:24
same thing it's not emotional it's not anything
1:17:28
This is how it works and the russians
1:17:31
have developed a factory process that works It
1:17:36
is working the ukrainians Sorry, they cannot continue
1:17:42
this it will not change It's not gonna
1:17:46
change unless something very very drastic occurs And
1:17:51
what that would be I won't ponder a
1:17:54
guess right now, but this is This is
1:17:57
bad news.
1:17:58
So the front Is collapsing on its own
1:18:04
because russia has a process when I worked
1:18:07
in uh corporate america, um, especially on the
1:18:11
uh Hr side.
1:18:13
I remember getting sent to quality school And
1:18:17
uh basic the basics of quality management starts
1:18:21
out with It's a three-step process Say
1:18:27
what you do Do what you say Then
1:18:30
prove it right?
1:18:32
So that's that's the basics of all quality
1:18:34
management right there and so Uh do what
1:18:38
you say So I I win wars say
1:18:41
what you do win a war and then
1:18:43
prove it I prove it by having a
1:18:45
process And the processes are very important.
1:18:50
They talk about internal customers external customers, blah
1:18:53
blah blah So your external customer if you're
1:18:57
the russian army is the people of russia
1:18:59
That's an external customer right your internal customer
1:19:03
is the guy on the front line Waiting
1:19:06
for his ammunition So the guy producing the
1:19:10
ammunition uh Is the ultimate uh supplier of
1:19:17
the of the Ammunition, but the guy's supplier
1:19:21
you break everything down to its smallest detail
1:19:24
Let's say that the guy on the front
1:19:27
line needs a thousand rounds a day Those
1:19:32
thousand rounds a day have to come from
1:19:34
somewhere And usually they'll come from his supply
1:19:37
sergeant, right?
1:19:39
So the supply sergeant is his supplier and
1:19:43
the customer is the private on the front
1:19:46
lines with the With the need for the
1:19:50
thousand rounds, okay and uh to to show
1:19:53
you how huge it is and I know
1:19:55
this is elementary stuff, but think about this
1:19:58
the the sergeant the supply sergeant He is
1:20:04
the customer of the supply Depot which puts
1:20:09
out Which has to supply him?
1:20:14
He has 50 customers this little supply sergeant.
1:20:17
So he needs 50 000 rounds Every day
1:20:21
And where is he going to get them
1:20:23
to he has to get them from the
1:20:25
supply depot?
1:20:26
Wherein the supply depot is the customer and
1:20:29
so each one of these is a separate
1:20:31
process if you can destroy the processes you
1:20:35
can destroy The guy at the front attempting
1:20:39
to uh Fight a war on behalf of
1:20:43
his country and ukraine has no processes It's
1:20:48
all chaos They have nothing russia.
1:20:52
Meanwhile has a very well-developed Supply routes
1:20:57
has very well developed advancement and very well
1:21:01
developed, uh Manufacturing in the home front and
1:21:06
it's gone up in fact And the I
1:21:09
don't want to say it's running like clockwork
1:21:11
and it's smooth But it's running a hell
1:21:13
of a lot better than it's running on
1:21:15
the ukraine side Ukraine's got nothing they got
1:21:18
blackouts They can't produce anything because their factories
1:21:21
are shut down And if they're not shut
1:21:23
down they get shut down pretty quickly And
1:21:25
then when they by the time they get
1:21:27
them back up russia bombs them again, and
1:21:29
then they're they're not there So they're dependent
1:21:32
completely on the suppliers from external Areas, not
1:21:39
ukraine and those suppliers have lost interest in
1:21:43
the supply Because the money's coming from other
1:21:46
places.
1:21:47
So so all the way down the line
1:21:48
if you look at this from some kind
1:21:50
of a process model long-term This is
1:21:57
not sustainable for ukraine and and one of
1:22:01
the biggest supplies That they are missing Is
1:22:04
manpower they have none?
1:22:07
so The the the front on the ukrainian
1:22:12
side Collapses on its own um You know,
1:22:16
like I said kill zone is a factory
1:22:18
it converts the opponent's fatigue Into a 200
1:22:23
meters a week advance from on the russian
1:22:26
side So ukrainian fatigue equals 200 meters a
1:22:30
week All up and down this 1200 kilometer
1:22:35
front So when somebody asks why is everything
1:22:37
so slow well because the machine, you know
1:22:41
The machine keeps cutting it's cutting constantly, you
1:22:45
know an example from my nuclear testing days
1:22:48
You know how long it takes to dig
1:22:50
a 10 foot wide 2,000 foot deep
1:22:53
hole through limestone granite and lava and everything
1:22:58
else that is down there And you never
1:22:59
know what it is and they have a
1:23:00
10 foot wide diamond tipped bits That you
1:23:06
gotta replace once every couple of days Those
1:23:10
things cost you so much money and you'd
1:23:12
say they were surely fabulous.
1:23:14
That is true But they churn very slowly
1:23:18
this is the same thing that's going on
1:23:21
in attritional warfare this is what's happening and
1:23:25
so I I I I want to get
1:23:29
rid of any illusions that that people think
1:23:32
are going to happen.
1:23:33
I wanted to get to One more nutty
1:23:36
story that came out on a on a
1:23:39
topic that has to do with Angelina joe
1:23:43
lee, okay So here's the straight scoop Angelina
1:23:48
joe lee has a driver and bodyguard that
1:23:51
got mobilized in ukraine And I saw it
1:23:56
and so I tried to get some uh
1:23:58
Some searches on this about what she was
1:24:00
doing in ukraine How her driver got picked
1:24:03
up and whether it was you know This
1:24:06
should be some sort of a laughing matter
1:24:08
or not.
1:24:08
I only got a few minutes to go
1:24:10
over it So here's the trip joe lee
1:24:12
made a second her second wartime visit To
1:24:16
ukraine and she traveled to her son and
1:24:19
michael.
1:24:20
I have to meet with medical staff families
1:24:22
and volunteers the legacy of war foundation Organized
1:24:26
the trip and they issued a press release
1:24:29
and photos of the thing reuters put this
1:24:32
ukrainian pravda key of independent ukraine form And
1:24:36
they you know all talk about this So
1:24:40
the purpose of it she highlights civilians living
1:24:43
under constant drone and missile threat and the
1:24:45
relocation of hospitals and schools Um, she made
1:24:50
some remarks, which i'm not going to get
1:24:52
into.
1:24:52
I don't really care She stepped down as
1:24:55
u n's Special envoy in december of 22,
1:25:00
but she does do some independent humanitarian work
1:25:04
and she entered a site that several unnamed
1:25:08
ukrainian officials say that they did that joe
1:25:10
lee didn't even notify kiev in advance that
1:25:13
she was coming And she crossed the border
1:25:15
on foot But this hasn't been confirmed by
1:25:18
the ukrainian government but vanity fair and multiple
1:25:21
regional roundups repeat what politico said the politico
1:25:25
said this but I I don't know.
1:25:28
I wasn't there So what happened on november
1:25:31
4th and 5th?
1:25:33
uh near Uh, piv de nor no piv
1:25:37
de novo ukrainsk and Vozhenevsk Mykolaev oblast, uh,
1:25:41
one of her drivers got flagged and the
1:25:44
driver in a commie for military registration issues
1:25:48
So the ukrainian land forces told unian that
1:25:53
the man was a ukrainian citizen Born in
1:25:56
1992 and he was a reserve officer that
1:26:00
didn't have proper deferment documents.
1:26:02
So they took him and they took him
1:26:04
to a uh recruitment center And that came
1:26:09
from zahid.net That there was no conflict
1:26:13
and joe lee briefly entered the center And
1:26:18
then continued on her visit so multiple ukrainian
1:26:21
outlets identify him as dimitro pishchenkov And he's
1:26:27
33 he's a combat coach, uh from kropiv
1:26:35
kropiv nitsky And uh his brother yevin and
1:26:39
his girlfriend yulia lotzkaya uh Talked a little
1:26:44
bit about him, but he's taken into custody
1:26:46
Um, his family says he has never served
1:26:49
in the army.
1:26:50
He completed military training At a flight academy
1:26:54
10 years ago and that he had back
1:26:56
issues like spondyl spondylitis and he held a
1:26:59
2025 medical commission deferral that uh, but that
1:27:05
he was deemed fit for support in the
1:27:08
rear unit, but not frontline combat and so
1:27:13
uh Why was he mobilized is what I
1:27:17
wanted to find out?
1:27:18
So multiple outlets say that it was a
1:27:20
document check and detention But not immediate deployment,
1:27:25
but later it was said and they he
1:27:26
put some video out that said he was
1:27:29
going to stay Medusa the independents based in
1:27:33
outside of russia reported that he was arrested
1:27:36
and drafted under mobilization rules Um, it's stronger
1:27:41
than most of the ukrainian coverage, but it
1:27:43
is consistent the independent in the uk Says
1:27:47
that army confirmed and then deleted a brief
1:27:50
statement and now isn't confirming or denying the
1:27:54
investigation so russian state media Uh says that
1:27:59
he remains at the enlistment office, um, and
1:28:02
he's going to start training um we have
1:28:06
no idea what their clay what he says
1:28:08
he did but uh, We do know that
1:28:13
ukrainian reporting culture, uh regional outlets and agencies
1:28:17
say this is a routine action and that
1:28:22
you know, he's going to be Taken out
1:28:25
was he really joe lee's bodyguard the best
1:28:28
evidence is really no He was just a
1:28:31
driver.
1:28:32
There's no credible reporting that says that he
1:28:34
lived or came to the u.s. Nothing
1:28:36
like that um Let's see Where did he
1:28:42
go after that joe lee's visit was verified
1:28:46
the fact that he's a driver in her
1:28:47
convoy that was verified Whether he's mobilized.
1:28:51
We don't really know and uh Who knows
1:28:54
but there's plenty?
1:28:56
plenty here Anjali angelina joe lee's frontline visit,
1:29:02
you know, I have my own questions about
1:29:03
that and why she thinks it's uh, Important
1:29:06
or necessary for her to do if she
1:29:08
was really reporting from there You know i'd
1:29:11
like to hear about it, you know, but
1:29:13
I haven't seen much on it There's very
1:29:15
little so maybe i'll see if I can
1:29:17
round some of that information up for you
1:29:19
tomorrow night and we will regroup Then Huh,
1:29:24
what do you think?
1:29:25
How would that be?
1:29:26
I shall start with that tomorrow night.
1:29:28
I think I will see I'll see if
1:29:30
I even remember that far.
1:29:32
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