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Trump’s Greenland Grab, Venezuela Raid Fallout & Oreshnik Strikes — Escalation Everywhere · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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Hello, good morning and welcome. This is
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International Flavor. You are listening
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to DAM Radio and I'm coming to you live
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from the Lake Ozark real estate of the
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art studio
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and uh the studio is a little bit in a
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turmoil this morning. Don't know what
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happened in here, but uh the there's
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some equipment unhooked and uh I'm not
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going to play with it because uh I don't
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want to dick it up any further than it
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already is. But there you have it. Um,
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good morning. Hope you had a good
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weekend. I have been in recovery and
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research mode all faring weekend long
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and I had a uh good time doing it. I
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must say actually I was uh recovering
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been sick but I have been in research
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and uh strategy mode and uh was able to
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get a bunch of computer work done. Life
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is uh generally good. Still under the
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weather. I don't know what's going on.
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Must be the constant changes. Uh having
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been mostly in Florida the last several
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years, the temperatur basically always
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the same down there. Uh sometimes it
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gets a little warmer, but it's always
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warm here. You can't figure out if it's
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going to be a 65 degree day or a 12°ree
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day and you freeze your left one off
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every time you go outside. Then the next
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day it's hot and or very very uh warm.
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Anyway,
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anyway, it gets a little frustrating and
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maybe that's part of the uh thing with
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my uh my getting colds so often lately
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following a couple of home remedies from
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my sister. God lover giving me some good
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information on uh how to uh get and stay
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relatively healthy. Although I've never
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been really a huge unhealthy person. I
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drink my share of coffee and uh
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unfortunately have a few vices like uh
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juju bees and stuff like that every now
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and again. But uh you know other than
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that I'm fairly uh healthy. And then you
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know but coffee got to have your coffee
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every morning. Sip along now
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that's good coffee. So uh that is good
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stuff Maynard. Um [snorts]
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over the weekend I've been paying
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attention a little bit to the escalation
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of various things going on and
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I don't like this occupation discussion
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they are talking about with Greenland.
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There's many of the international things
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I just don't like. And uh
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the ultimatums from um
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Trump going on and now he's making no um
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no bones about it. He's he's he's
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definitely become the wartime president
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and he going to create his own wars.
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I'll just Well, I'm doing it. Basically,
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I heard him over the weekend, and I
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don't mean to laugh about it cuz this
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isn't funny, people. He's like, "Ah, we
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need Greenland." So, either you're going
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to get, but either way, we're taking it
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basically. It's like,
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uh, you don't know whe I mean, you never
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know whether obviously he's not joking
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and and that's the horror story of it
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all. Um, and, uh, you know, his his
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latest uh, get this. He says he wants to
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save Greenland from Russia and China. He
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doesn't want Russia and China as
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neighbors. Uh you know he kind of forgot
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that Russia is already our neighbor. You
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know we were talking not even a couple
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of months ago after well I suppose it
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was about five six months ago now uh
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after the uh the summit in Alaska. We're
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talking about uh and there was not just
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me but there were other people talking
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about building a uh tunnel/bridgeidge
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system on the bearing straight between
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uh Kamchatka and uh uh
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uh Alaska, you know, the the Juno part,
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the Tarmaggan arm there that comes down
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and uh uh that's what they were gonna um
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they were actually discussing. There's
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been plans along al along those lines
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for for not plans but uh drawings and
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ideas of that kind for quite a few years
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and uh you know obviously uh not going
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to happen but um
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uh rather entertaining you know to say
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the least and um what what this guy is
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[laughter] what this guy is doing and
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now he says well we're going to take
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Greenland over the
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Yeah, we're going to take Greenland. Uh
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he said on Sunday that Denmark's
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defenses are two dog sleds. He goes
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Greenland, what are they going to do?
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Fight me with their two dog sleds? You
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know, I I don't have the quote pulled
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up, but but he uh uh is renewing his
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push for uh NATO to uh give up. Well,
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what about Greenland? Nobody's talking
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about Greenland, you know, and what they
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want. and Greenland has been pretty
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clear they don't want, you know, to be,
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you know, 51st state or whatever for the
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United States. And Venezuela has been
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fairly clear, you know, a a a decent
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majority of them have been fairly clear
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that they're not interested in US uh
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colonization either. So, Greenland
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doesn't want to be a colony. Venezuela
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doesn't want to be a colony. Uh where
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else was he planning on going? Uh Cuba
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doesn't want to be a colony, you know,
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and and Trump, he don't care. He's Well,
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forget it. I'm taking him. That's that.
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And uh now he wants to take Iran, too.
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Um you know, he's going to have he he's
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going to have all kinds of fun. Um so
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Greenland, basically their defense is to
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dog sleds. He said, "In the meantime,
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you have Russian destroyers and
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submarines and China destroyers and
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submarines all over the place. We're not
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going to let that happen."
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I don't know what he means by all over
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the place. What do we have all over the
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place? We have destroyers and submarines
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all over the place.
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uh you know why why why would China
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which is I don't know how many times our
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size uh 1.4 for four three billion
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people makes them about what five times
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our size or six
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um populationwise
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and uh uh you know we're not going to
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let that happen and since the 19th
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century a number of officials US have
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argued that the Arctic Island which
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hosts a military base already for the
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United states should become American
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territory. And after Trump reiterated
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his interest in acquiring Greenland
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early in his second term, he calls it on
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national security. It's always it's
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always for everything. National
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security. Copenagen said it would
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bolster its defenses by adding dog sled
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patrols and purchasing two more Arctic
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inspection vessels to supplement
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Greenland's aging fleet of four. Hm.
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Media reports at the time noted that
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there were 12 dog sled units in the
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autonomous Danish territory is ice
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covered with settlements and
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infrastructure mostly confined to the
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coast and the Nordic nations have
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dismissed Trump's claim about Russian
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and Chinese threats to Greenland. Well,
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I do too. I do. That's completely false.
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It's nonsense. saying that no military
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activity has been detected in the area
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in years, said the Financial Times on
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Sunday. It's simply not true that the
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Chinese and the Russians are anywhere
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near there. Now, I added the anywhere
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near, but the report is there. I have
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seen the intelligence. No ships, no
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submarines, a senior European diplomat
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told the newspaper. And earlier this
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month, the US military raided Venezuela
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to kidnap President Maduro. And
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according to Trump, you're not supposed
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to use the word kidnap, by the way.
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We're supposed to use the word captured.
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According to Trump, the operation was
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partly intended to reinforce
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Washington's hegemony
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in the Western Hemisphere and to counter
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Russian and Chinese influence in South
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America. So now all of this everything
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he does now is to uh now he's remember
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I've been talking for a long time that
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the US I don't want to say decline but
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parity is is coming
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equal nations are you know are some are
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more equal than others uh you know like
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just like in George Orwell's 1984
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some people are more equal some pigs are
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more equal than other pigs uh But you
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can say that America is more equal uh
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than Russia or China when it comes to
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being a country and uh you know
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certainly in enforcing rules or creating
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their own rules. China and Russia aren't
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allowed to create their own rules. India
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god forbid create its own rules but the
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US will create its own rules and there's
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nobody
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going to stop them. Uh [snorts] because
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why the rules do not apply to us? Our
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government doesn't follow the rules and
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why should they? We are special. We have
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predetermined that we are special and so
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therefore we are right. [snorts]
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Silence. I don't know if I can take
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phone calls. Like I said there the the
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the headphones aren't hooked up. I don't
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know what's going on in here this
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morning, but nothing is hooked up and I
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don't want to mess anything up. So, I
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ain't going to dink with it and put them
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back on. So, if you're going to call,
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don't cuz uh I can't answer anyway. Or
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if I do, maybe it'll just be loud in the
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studio. I have no idea. But uh uh at any
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rate, um we're experiencing all kind of
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problems this morning.
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Um,
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however,
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Trump's
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war chants, his his war dances, uh, you
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know, are causing waves in quite a few
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places.
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Um,
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including in Iran. Okay. Uh, I don't
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know what his plans are for for starting
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war all over the country. We know
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Lindsey Graham's out beating the war
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drums. He ought to be um you know
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throwing on a headdress and dancing
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around a fire and having people beating
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the drum like normal. Um but Iran
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yesterday or was it over the weekend?
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Could have been Saturday. They will
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conduct preemptive strikes on the US and
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Israel if they detect an attack. Uh this
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was from an Iranian parliamentary
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speaker named Muhammad Bagger Galibbaf.
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Galibbah.
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Uh the warning comes after President
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Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin
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Netanyahu expressed support for the
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protest in Iranian cities triggered by
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inflation and economics. Let those who
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threaten Iran be warned. Any attack on
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Iran will make both occupied
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territories, all military centers and
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bases, and American ships in the region
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legitimate targets. Galibbuff said on
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Saturday, "We do not limit ourselves to
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responding only after an attack and will
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act based on objective signs of a threat
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so that no one makes miscalculations
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that will lead them to disaster," he
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said.
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Trump has said the US would help
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protesters if the government continues
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to crack down on riots that are sweeping
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the country. You better not start
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shooting cuz we will start shooting too.
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He said Netanyahu is also supporting the
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protesters
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and according to the New York Times,
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Trump has been briefed on the military
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options. Of course. And Trump, you know,
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he's a wartime president. This peace
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peace. I want peace. I want peace. Don't
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believe it cuz uh he is talking war. And
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uh that is where he is pushing. He he
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again was talking about we're going to
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be in charge of Venezuela for a while
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and we're stealing their oil and we
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aren't even paying for it. He just
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they're giving it to us. [laughter]
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We're taking it. That's that. We're
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we're taking the oil. They're giving us
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whatever it was 50 bill 30 to 50 million
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barrels or something that they're just
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handing over. Oh, gee, thanks. Um,
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[snorts] and he was briefed on military
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options, including strikes on
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non-military targets in Thran.
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But no final decision has been made. The
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US and Israel struck last in June of
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2025 and targeted military sites and
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nuclear facilities. And the worst uh
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unrest in recent recent years erupted
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across Iran in late December.
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And there have been pretty high
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increases in food prices and protests
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and attacks on government buildings.
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More than 200 people have been killed.
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Uh Iran's news agency reported that
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rioters killed 25 civilians and six
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security personnel. And so, who knows
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what we're going to uh
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uh
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figure out.
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So
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the British government, they agreed
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recently to pay out a substantial sum to
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settle a lawsuit over its intelligence
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services role in the torture of a terror
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suspect who is indefinitely detained by
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the United States. So, this is one of
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those guys that we just detain
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and uh a guy named Abu Zaba who George
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Bush once claimed was a senior al-Qaeda
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figure. He has been held, get this, this
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is nonsense, people, he has been held
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without a trial in US custody, including
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at a military base in Guantanamo, Cuba
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since he was captured in 2002.
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and the UK has agreed to settle a civil
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case that accused British intelligence
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of supplying questions to American
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interrogators despite knowing that
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Zabida was being mistreated, his legal
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team said Monday. born Zane al-Aid
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Muhammad Hussein Zabayida
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54. He was a Saudibborn Palestinian
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citizen who fought in the USbacked
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antis-siet insurgency in Afghanistan in
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the 80s. He was captured in Pakistan in
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March 20 or 2002
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and he spent four years in CIA black
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sites, secret detention facilities in
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foreign countries used for what the Bush
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administration called enhanced
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interrogation.
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US officials described him as a guinea
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pig for the widely criticized program,
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though later retracted claims about his
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highle role in al-Qaeda. He was
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transferred to Guantanamo in 2006.
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So allegedly suffered more abuse there
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and is now one of its forever prisoners
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whom the US justice system refuses to
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either charge or release. He previously
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sued Poland and Lithuania for hosting
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American black sites. The US has
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declined to comment on the settlement
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due to its sensitive nature. And
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international lawyer Helen Duffy has
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represented Zabida since 2008
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said that she is hopeful that the
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payment of the sum will enable him to do
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that and support himself when he's on
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the outside world. However, that his
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proposed release depends on the US and
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it's goodwill. They're just holding the
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guy forever. Now, I'm very much against
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that as well. either charge him with
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something or get rid of him. And uh you
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know uh oh wait a minute, hold on.
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Uh total of 26 piece you know they shut
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down in ' 09. When Well, is that a old
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article that I was reading? I don't
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think so.
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I I don't think so. Let's see. Hold on.
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No, that was uh the payment was that one
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was was brand new and it says he's still
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being held, but I'm I'm not positive of
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that. Maybe he was released. Um that
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could be in incorrect uh part on there
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cuz there's another article that says a
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number of them were released, but that's
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an old article, so I don't know. Um,
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other important news, an F-16 was shot
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down
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in Ukraine according to a Russian
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commander. [snorts] Um, I saw an
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interesting YouTube video yesterday. I
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don't know if it was um you know it
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wasn't a I didn't appear to be I
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generated but I suppose it could have
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been that showed a uh new sue 57
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uh within gez almost touching distance
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of a US uh US warship flew in between a
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couple of them and uh wow that was uh
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unbelievable but now a Russian commander
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has said his S300 air defense battery
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shot down a US-made F-16 fighter
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operated in Ukraine. In an interview
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aired on Russia one TV Sunday. The
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commander who was identified by the call
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sign uh told journalist Vladimir Soliv
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that the US aircraft was an interesting
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target. He said the battery fired two
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missiles at the F-16. The first one
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damaged it, the second one delivered the
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final blow. And it took a lot of time to
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prepare the operation. They were
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tracking it and anticipating it. Enemy
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said that these planes are
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indestructible. And as it turns out,
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they fall out of the sky just like the
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rest. Um, so they didn't say exactly the
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day on that, but
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Kiev has allegedly received 44 of 87
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jets of the F-16 variety promised by the
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uh Europe Europeans.
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So there you have it. Um there's been a
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lot of bombing
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of Ukraine. Uh and over the weekend,
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excuse me, there was an interesting
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article that I [snorts] watched that I
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really should share a little bit of it
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with you. And I uh uh if I can pull it
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up, I I I think I will because it was uh
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talking about the Orchnic missile. And
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if you remember uh some time ago I gave
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a um a bit of a detail on ornik which
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which means hazelnut. Um and it's a
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missile that hypersonic
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non-trackable basically. Well they can
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track it but they can't can't keep up
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with it. Goes between Mach 9 and Mach
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11. The Ukrainians said they tracked it
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at at at Mach 10.2. two or something
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like that from last year and a new one
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uh hit inside Nepro and Nepro Petros
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where the Neper River is and another one
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went you know um
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they had several strikes and the
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Arashnik if you recall is a hypersonic
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nuclearcapable
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um non-balistic but attractable missile
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But it's a missile that uh can hug the
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ground and it also is it has an an arc
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that comes in uh if you if you could
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shoot I mean if you do shoot it it's
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hypersonic so it can go up and it can be
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a ballistic as well and so it goes up
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really high in the ballistic and then it
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comes down and it has more of a a direct
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trajectory toward the ground and uh it
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has inside it it has six separate
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inside the major canister which is about
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a meter and a half wide. It has another
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set of stacked three sets each and uh so
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six canisters of
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smaller warheads and each warhead
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canister has another six inside of
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there. So you basically have 36
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uh missile warheads, I suppose you would
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call them, that can come down at the
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same that come down at the same time and
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virtually
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un unstoppable. Uh there's no defensive,
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you know, uh air defense mechanisms
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cannot catch them. And uh they used it
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some more in the Nepro over the weekend.
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Um all the talk is starting to uh
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I don't know what have its consequences
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I think and uh is what I think and the
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escalation is and by the way the front
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is still moving steadily to the west uh
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and Russia is pushing and the the line
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is still progressing faster and faster
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toward the west and Russia used this
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archnic and I watched a uh a pretty good
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um well to me it's interesting though um
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I watched a pretty good uh YouTube video
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about the oresnik
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and there's
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uh let's see if I can find it for you
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because I did want to share a little bit
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of it with you because this guy was an
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interesting dude. if I can get there to
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him.
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Um,
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let's see.
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Rashnik number two. And there's plenty
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of uh
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Yeah, this is him. The guy's name is uh
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he's an MIT professor and his name is is
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uh Ted
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Pastel or Postl if I'm pronouncing it
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correctly. and he uh he gives a very
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interesting and he's talking on the show
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of Daniel Davis and I don't know if
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you've watched Daniel Davis in his deep
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dives but he's he's pretty interesting
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and you can follow the oresnik
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with him [snorts] and uh Daniel Davis is
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uh his his show advertises him
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as a fourtime combat deployed he's a
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bronze Star Medal of Valor in Iraq and a
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Bronstar service in Afghanistan [snorts]
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and uh he has his own podcast and uh uh
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or YouTube channel and [snorts] he's
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he's he's
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got a very interesting guy and uh this
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this Ted Postel P O S T O L uh he gives
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a bit of a class on it and I wanted to
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share a little bit of it with you. And
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uh it um they talked about the new
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archnik. He I mean he does he does a lot
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of shows um
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does Daniel Davis and so I don't watch
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enough of them but he also had Alexander
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Morulis on the guy from England who uh
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uh I interviewed with when I was over in
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Kazan and that's a very interesting one
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too that they both talk about it and uh
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they they live this stuff
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and they uh this is what they they do
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and They're they're very good at it and
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quite interesting. I think I will share
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with you a little bit of at least the
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beginning of of what he said. I don't
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have any headphones so I can't hear it
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unless I play it. Um so I will uh I will
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listen along with you and uh see where
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we're going to go. Um here we go.
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authorized the launching of a new type
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of weapon system, an intermediate range
26:19
ballistic missile called the Orreshnik,
26:21
which has now been dominating a lot of
26:23
the the news out there. A lot of people
26:25
uh both inside Russia and outside and in
26:27
the West and in the United States are
26:29
all trying to figure out exactly what
26:31
this weapon is and what it can do. We we
26:33
had uh Professor Ted Puler from MIT on
26:36
uh shortly after the I think like right
26:38
after the the day after to give us an
26:40
initial assessment of what these
26:42
missiles might be like and what their
26:44
capabilities are etc. Uh, and now then
26:46
in your intervening time, we've had a
26:48
little bit more time to analyze this.
26:50
And so, we have some new ideas about
26:52
what this thing may be. And we have Ted
26:55
back on with us today very graciously uh
26:57
to give us an update on what some of
26:59
this and uh we're going to look at this
27:00
in light of some of the claims that have
27:02
been made since you were actually on.
27:04
And we'll uh examine those in some
27:06
detail. But first of all, uh, Professor,
27:08
welcome back to the show as always.
27:09
>> Well, it's a great pleasure to be here
27:11
as always.
27:12
Well, listen, we we are we are always uh
27:14
eager to have you on anyway because you
27:16
can provide some clarity and at least
27:18
some some knowledge as opposed to just
27:20
some uh opinions that a lot of people
27:22
are passing without much knowledge uh
27:24
which is a a welcome change to to the
27:27
mainstream narrative. Uh but uh before
27:29
we get into your presentation, I want to
27:31
kind of get a running start by showing
27:33
you what some people some key people are
27:35
actually saying about this. First of
27:37
all, one of the claims that Putin is
27:39
making is that this is a missile that
27:41
cannot be intercepted by current
27:43
technology.
28:10
Well, I don't know why this part is on
28:11
there. Sorry about that. I meant to
28:13
speed that up. I can't hear it in
28:15
advance. So, I'm going to skip past him
28:17
a little bit
28:19
>> and get back to where the guy is.
28:24
>> And it's not really as bad as what he
28:26
said. According to Forbes in there,
28:27
they're saying that um it's basically
28:29
the equivalent destructive power of a
28:32
2,000lb bomb, which is, you know, it's
28:34
not small, but it's not that big a deal.
28:36
It's not all that accurate. So, really,
28:37
we don't need to worry about it. So, we
28:39
want to know, what is the truth? Is
28:41
Putin right? Is Forbes right? Or is the
28:43
truth somewhere in between as far as you
28:45
can tell?
28:47
>> Well, uh it's uh
28:52
uh there's been a lot of uh claims made
28:54
on all sides. Um,
28:56
but I would say that the uh uh I have
29:00
some guesses at the payload capability
29:03
of the missile, which could be between
29:06
uh 6,000 and 9,000 lbs of total throw
29:10
weight. What throw weight is what the
29:12
the missile can lift and throw onto a
29:15
trajectory. It it is definitely not a
29:20
boost glide vehicle. By that I mean it
29:24
is not a the rocket motor that launches
29:28
it toward the target places the
29:32
trajectory on a classical ballistic
29:34
trajectory. I'll show you what those
29:35
trajectories look like. It's what's
29:38
called a very lofted trajectory because
29:40
it has a very steep re-entry uh angle at
29:44
the target area. And um the the kinetic
29:49
energy of the incoming munitions
29:53
because they come in so fast uh gets
29:56
converted to heat when they hit the
29:59
ground. And uh and and that heat uh
30:03
causes the um the munition to literally
30:06
turn into a molten metal and vaporize.
30:10
And the vaporiz the vapors of course
30:12
expand violently much like the vapors in
30:16
a in a high explosive and they create uh
30:20
an explosion effect. The explosion
30:23
effect though is comparable to the
30:26
weight of the munition in TNT given the
30:29
speed. It might be one and a half times
30:32
the weight of the munition or it might
30:35
be around one times the weight of the
30:37
munition depending on the actual speed
30:39
of impact. But the speed of impact is um
30:42
uh is is between three and three and a
30:46
half kilometers per second. that is to
30:48
say, between Mach 9 and Mach 11, close
30:53
to there. And um uh and the munition
30:58
weighs itself between 100 and 150
31:00
pounds. So it's like being hit with an
31:05
explosive uh that's equivalent to about
31:07
100 150 lbs. Uh the munition probably
31:12
buries itself
31:14
into the surface a bit. By a bit I mean
31:17
a meter or two. Not this is not
31:20
penetrating through a big you know deep
31:23
into the ground and in the process in
31:26
the process of penetrating into the
31:28
ground a meter or two and of course
31:31
becoming vaporized
31:34
uh it produces a crater and the crater
31:37
is a little bit larger than what the
31:40
equivalent uh TNT [clears throat] on the
31:42
surface would produce but the shock wave
31:45
in the air is a little bit diminished.
31:48
But still significant.
31:50
So um so so you have the equivalent of
31:55
um uh 66 we know there were 66
31:58
munitions. We know that for sure. I
32:00
could show you data for that.
32:02
>> Okay.
32:02
>> And um and we um and each of the
32:06
munitions delivers 150 pounds of um of
32:12
explosive yield comparable to TNT.
32:15
So the the explosive yield of the total
32:20
payload was between 6,000 and uh 7,000
32:25
and 10,000 pounds of TNT spread over a
32:29
significant area though because the
32:31
munitions fell
32:33
uh in in clusters about roughly 800
32:36
meters to a kilometers long to a
32:39
kilometer long. So the the munitions
32:42
fell in a spread which is not a surprise
32:44
since they were uh um they were released
32:47
from six separate canisters. So we have
32:51
a very rough picture.
32:55
The exact details we don't know but I
32:59
believe at this point I could be wrong
33:01
and I I'll be happy to tell your
33:03
audience I'm wrong as we get to know
33:06
more. Uh but I could be wrong. But I
33:09
believe now that uh we have a good basic
33:14
uh design picture, conceptual design
33:17
picture of this weapon and um and the uh
33:23
the conceptual design is u uh the
33:29
details of the conceptual design given a
33:32
concept of the design of it and showing
33:35
showing some slides of it and
33:38
>> [gasps]
33:39
>> I you know what I think I'm going to do
33:41
since there were some new archnik
33:43
strikes over the over the weekend that I
33:46
wanted to talk about and a couple of
33:48
other things. This um archnic strikes
33:52
shows the inside and he has one says
33:54
it's a uh six tubes of six different
33:59
uh gas supply modes or whatever the the
34:03
fuel is the ignition fuel that goes in
34:06
that push them out. and he wasn't he he
34:08
does doesn't know what that is. They
34:10
showed some uh some remains of what uh
34:13
they had collected from the crash site
34:16
or from the impact site of these weapons
34:19
and where they uh and where they hit and
34:22
what they did. And it's uh it's now of
34:25
course that's quite interesting to me to
34:28
check these things out because I'm
34:29
interested in the archnic and the
34:31
ballistic capabilities of it and the
34:33
non-ballistic capabilities because the
34:35
Russians claim to have that loitering
34:38
munition as well. the one that they
34:40
shoot from their uh uh I forget what
34:43
that one was called uh that they shoot
34:45
from the u from the ships that has the
34:48
nuclear
34:50
uh power portion that that part can
34:53
linger and can hover for a good long
34:56
time uh with virtually unlimited amount
35:00
of uh of
35:04
tracking like an unlimited missile. They
35:07
said it was tracking for more than 15
35:10
hours when I did that uh last week. So,
35:13
or last month, I mean, and there are
35:15
plenty of uh you know, plenty of people
35:18
talking about those two missiles. And
35:20
over the weekend, there was a uh more
35:24
strikes. Where is the ornik
35:29
uh that they have been talking about
35:31
too? [snorts] and
35:34
said that it hit a place where
35:39
uh
35:41
in 3 days ago they said that the struck
35:45
back uh after you know the the Putin
35:49
residence and this had they say they hit
35:53
in u
35:55
an an airplane facility where they were
35:58
storing uh F-16s and um airplane parts
36:03
and manufacturing
36:05
apparatus and all of this for for air
36:09
air airpl air airplanes, military
36:11
aircraft. And so that uh has been pretty
36:17
um
36:19
pretty big news over the weekend is the
36:22
Arashnik
36:23
and I think that uh Russia is here
36:29
here's the the story is actually came
36:31
out let's see here
36:35
disabled a Ukrainian war plane plant is
36:40
what they say and it was in a viv
36:42
and uh services F-16s and MIG 29s and
36:47
produces drones is what they say. So the
36:51
Russian strike that used the Archnik
36:54
last week disabled a Ukrainian aviation
36:57
plant repairing and servicing war
36:59
plananes and producing long range
37:02
drones. In a statement on Monday, the
37:06
ministry said,
37:08
citing several independent sources, that
37:10
the attack hit a facility which
37:12
supported the operations of Ukrainian
37:15
Soviet air war planes as well as western
37:18
supplied F-16s and and uh they these
37:22
drones were used for strikes against
37:24
Russian civilian targets deep inside the
37:26
territory of the Russian Federation.
37:29
Uh they said it was a production
37:31
workshop storage facility that held
37:34
finished drones and infrastructure at
37:37
the plant's airfield. Uh they note that
37:40
the same attack involved Iscander and
37:42
Calibra missiles uh as well. Uh some of
37:47
the projectiles also hit energy
37:49
infrastructure. Uh Kiev does has not
37:52
commented on the scope of the damage,
37:54
but the mayor of Olviv, Andre Sadovoy,
37:59
uh confirmed that a piece of critical
38:01
infrastructure had been hit. And last
38:04
week, Moscow said the bombardment was in
38:06
response to an attempted terrorist
38:09
attack on the residents of the Russian
38:12
prime minister uh uh Russian president,
38:16
I mean, Putin in Nokurat.
38:19
and um Ukraine launched 91 drones toward
38:23
his house.
38:25
So, I don't know. There's been a lot of
38:27
discussion on this, but uh the right now
38:30
the whole world in my opinion is a bit
38:33
of a mess on uh uh because of what we're
38:37
doing and uh there's been so much um bad
38:42
commentary everywhere in the world over
38:45
what uh Trump is doing,
38:48
including amongst uh [gasps and sighs]
38:52
European
38:54
uh so-called allies. eyes as well. And
38:58
uh you know, he's I I think he's um you
39:02
know, I I would say something like gone
39:04
off the deep end, but I think this is
39:06
truly planned. And uh he now is telling
39:10
Cuba to act before it's too late was
39:15
what he said uh most recently. Um he
39:18
said that Cuba is no longer going to
39:21
receive Venezuelan oil or money. and he
39:25
warned the island to make a deal with
39:27
Washington before it's too late.
39:30
And uh Cuba is a close ally of Venezuela
39:35
and a beneficiary of its oil has seen
39:38
supplies dry up since January. Shipping
39:42
data show no crude cargos have left
39:45
Venezuela for the island since Nicholas
39:47
Maduro was kidnapped by American forces.
39:53
um because the US oil blockade has uh
39:56
halted those deliveries. And so Trump
39:59
says to puts on True Social where he
40:01
puts everything. Uh there will be no
40:04
more oil or money going to Cuba. Zero.
40:08
Trump wrote on Truth Social Sunday that
40:12
Cuba lived for many years on large
40:14
amounts of all caps oil and all caps
40:18
money from Venezuela. I strongly suggest
40:21
they make a deal all caps again before
40:24
it's too late. He added, "People say
40:27
you're not supposed to use u caps when
40:30
you're use typing on social media
40:32
because that means you're yelling at
40:34
people." Uh, dozens of Venezuelan and
40:37
Cuban security personnel were killed in
40:39
the US raid this month after Trump said
40:42
Cuba was ready to fall and cited the
40:45
island's deep economic crisis and warned
40:48
that Havana would struggle to endure
40:51
without subsidized Venezuelan oil. And
40:55
Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canal
40:57
rejected Trump's threat, saying
40:59
Washington has no moral authority to
41:02
impose deals on Havana. Cuba is free,
41:05
independent, and sovereign. Nobody
41:07
dictates what we do. He wrote on X on
41:10
Sunday. I guess everybody's using social
41:13
media for their for their uh diplomacy,
41:18
huh? And he added that the island had
41:20
been under US attack for decades and
41:22
will defend itself if necessary. Caracus
41:26
and Washington are reportedly moving
41:28
toward a $2 billion deal under which
41:31
Venezuela will supply 50 million barrels
41:34
of crude to the US with proceeds to be
41:38
held in Treasury supervised accounts.
41:42
I tell you what, we're [laughter] we're
41:44
pretty open about our thievery. We're
41:47
just taking it. That's it. And uh and
41:50
and I just doesn't anyone question this?
41:54
Does anyone It's It's pretty weird
41:57
because if if Trump is doing this, this
41:59
is this is all right. Well, why can't he
42:01
supervise everything? I mean, why aren't
42:03
we all basically just his his minions,
42:07
you know, and and he he, you know, Papa
42:09
Trump can do everything for the rest of
42:11
the world? And I'm not, you know, I just
42:15
am offended by this uh presumption all
42:19
the way around that that we just get to
42:22
tell people what to do. I just I it's
42:25
it's unamerican. I mean, it really is
42:27
and and I don't like it. [snorts] Senior
42:29
Trump officials, including Marco Rubio,
42:33
made clear they believe the US in
42:35
intervention in Venezuela could push
42:38
Cuba to the brink. American rhetoric
42:40
toward Havana has sharpened in in recent
42:43
weeks for sure, and the US has kept a
42:46
comprehensive trade embargo on the
42:48
Caribbean nation since the 60s. While
42:51
Obama and Biden took steps to normalize
42:53
relations, Trump reinstated Cuba on the
42:57
US list of sponsors of terrorism.
43:00
And uh you know that's how you justify
43:04
uh being able to uh to uh
43:10
attack them. And uh you know, you just
43:13
justify Greenland by saying their
43:15
defense is just two dog sleds. So why
43:18
wouldn't we? You know, they only have
43:20
70,000 people. Why wouldn't we just
43:23
assimilate them? We're like the Borg
43:25
Collective. You will be assimilated.
43:28
[laughter] That's it. We're just You
43:31
will be whether you want to or not, you
43:33
will be assimilated
43:36
and that's that. Um
43:39
we we're
43:41
[cough]
43:42
[clears throat]
43:43
we're definitely talking tough, aren't
43:46
we?
43:48
So, Ethiopia Ethiopia is building
43:51
Africa's largest airport. If you didn't
43:54
hear about that, this is a pretty big
43:57
deal. They've [snorts] begun an
43:59
international airport to open in 2030
44:02
and it will be Africa's largest airport.
44:07
Uh it'll be the largest aviation
44:10
infrastructure project in African
44:12
history. The first phase of the airport
44:15
will handle 60 million passengers a year
44:20
with an ultimate master plan capacity of
44:23
110
44:25
million passengers annually. Ultimately
44:30
uh four runways, 270 aircraft which
44:34
exceeds the capacity of the current main
44:37
international airport at Adi Sababa
44:40
Balle International with around 25
44:43
million passengers a year and uh wow
44:47
this is pretty cool. But the funding is
44:49
coming from a mix of sources including
44:52
Ethiopian Airlines, international
44:55
financeers, the African Development
44:58
Bank. According to the airlines
45:00
infrastructure development and planning,
45:01
Abraham
45:03
uh Tesaya, the national character
45:06
carrier
45:08
will contribute 30% of the project cost.
45:12
So these are uh several other large
45:14
infrastructure and industrial
45:16
initiatives launched in Ethiopia in
45:18
recent months. It's pretty cool stuff uh
45:21
that they are growing. Um
45:26
I read a uh an article that um
45:34
was published
45:37
almost a week ago actually. That was uh
45:43
an an opinion piece
45:46
that was a pretty good a pretty good
45:49
article, but it's pretty long.
45:52
and they interviewed a bunch of people
45:56
about
45:57
um
45:59
about
46:02
the
46:03
theater
46:05
of the American
46:08
uh kidnapping of Maduro
46:12
and
46:14
uh you know they go we go in in
46:15
kidnapping and the and the title of the
46:18
article is called it's the show was for
46:22
everyone one, not just Latin America.
46:26
And it's a a whole slew of Russian
46:29
experts that assessed the Trump
46:32
Venezuela
46:34
uh you know, freak show and and what we
46:38
did down there as a as a country. I
46:41
mean, um,
46:44
it's basically aimed at Latin America
46:49
and trying to maintain, you know, like
46:52
everyone knows, US hijgemony,
46:55
uh, for another period of time, whether
46:58
it's, you know, just another four years,
47:01
maybe just a Trump administration, maybe
47:04
for good. Um I do believe that Trump
47:07
realized that uh or realizes as does his
47:10
entire team that if uh we don't
47:15
act now the
47:20
the speed with which America
47:24
becomes less influential
47:26
will be quicker. So if you want America
47:31
to still be
47:33
top dog and and still have no rules that
47:36
uh you know apply to us, we just apply
47:39
them to everybody else. You have to
47:42
continue to act in this way. So we have
47:44
to be somewhat tyrannical in order to
47:48
force the world to recognize that we're
47:50
still in charge. And and that's what's
47:53
happening is is the basics of all of
47:56
this that uh you know we have to put
48:00
people in their proper places. You know
48:02
who's in charge and it's not you. And so
48:05
we have to dictate that to people by
48:07
picking on little guys. And uh we pick
48:10
on the little guys, steal their stuff.
48:13
And hopefully that gives the bigger guys
48:15
the idea that you know we really don't
48:17
want a world war right now.
48:20
and uh you know we can't take them right
48:23
now. So basically this is a buying time
48:28
um effort by the Trump administration
48:33
and uh it it was it was interesting.
48:36
They interviewed a guy uh from the New
48:39
York bureau um
48:44
of of a international newspaper guy
48:46
named Valentine Bdanov.
48:49
Uh we interviewed him for a while.
48:52
Anastasia Anastasia Gafarova who's a
48:55
political analyst and a deputy director
48:58
for the center of political information
49:01
was interviewed. Maxim Suhov, the
49:03
director of international and
49:04
international studies at the uh Moscow
49:08
State University was in there. Uh they
49:11
interviewed Dimmitri Rosenthal, the
49:14
director of the Institute of Latin
49:15
America at the Russian Academy of
49:17
Sciences. Fodder Lucanov, editor-inchief
49:20
of Russian and global affairs. Timafi
49:24
Bordachov, professor of the higher
49:26
school of economics. Ivan Timv, program
49:29
director at Valdai. Constantine
49:32
Kasichov, deputy speaker of the
49:34
Federation Council. And uh it's a very
49:37
interesting article and um I I uh
49:42
tend to agree with a a lot of the things
49:45
in there. It was uh who's the guy that
49:48
ended up written it writing it? Um it
49:52
could have been written by a team of
49:54
people because it doesn't have a major
49:57
by line on there. Um
50:00
and they just had no it doesn't have
50:02
doesn't have a by line of who it was.
50:05
[clears throat] And then uh but but you
50:08
know I may share part of that with you
50:10
on a few of the you know later today. We
50:13
shall see um in today's show, but I
50:16
wanted to get to uh the Ukraine
50:21
war. Go back there just a little bit
50:23
because uh Trump is now saying uh that
50:26
Zalinski had no cards from day one.
50:29
Yesterday I heard that we're coming up
50:31
with that that you know since Trump is
50:34
now a wartime president uh that he has
50:36
come up with get this $800
50:41
billion that they are supposed to meet
50:44
and give $800 billion dollar of American
50:49
money to [snorts] Ukraine. Uh and so
50:54
Trump is, you know, I I think if this
50:57
happens, he is fully behind the uh
51:02
Lindsey Graham types of the world and uh
51:06
fully with them if he gives this money,
51:09
you know, for a losing effort. Um,
51:12
Ukraine Zalinski, according to the this
51:15
article, um, which was over the weekend,
51:18
in fact, it was today, uh, Ukraine's
51:20
Zalinski has no cards to negotiate peace
51:24
with Russia, said Trump. He made the
51:27
remarks at a New York Times interview
51:29
released Sunday and discussed US
51:32
mediation efforts. These include a
51:34
leaked 28-point peace plan that we
51:37
talked about extensively here
51:40
envisioning Kiev seeding the remainder
51:42
of the Dawnbass to Russia, renouncing
51:44
its NATO ambition and capping its
51:47
military. Now
51:50
nobody is wants to force that anymore
51:53
and all the talk has been you know
51:56
crazy. The plan has been criticized by
51:58
Kiev and Western backers and it was
52:01
later cut to 20 points, but key issues
52:03
remain unresolved with Zilinski
52:06
reluctant uh to concede the territory.
52:10
Um
52:12
the interviewer said, "You famously sat
52:15
in this room and told Zalinski, you
52:18
don't have the cards," said the
52:20
interviewer of Trump, referring to his
52:22
White House spat with Ukrainian leader
52:24
last year.
52:26
He didn't have them then. Does he have
52:29
them now? Was the question. He said,
52:32
'Well, he doesn't have the cards, Trump
52:34
replied. He didn't have them from day
52:37
one. He's only got one thing. Donald
52:40
Trump, [laughter]
52:44
I you know, you can't make this stuff
52:47
up. Donald Trump is, you know,
52:50
everything
52:52
res revolves around him. I created that.
52:55
You know, remember Obama? I built that
52:57
business. You know, I built it.
52:59
Everything is Donald Trump. Well, this
53:01
never I mean, how many times do we have
53:03
to hear that this war never would have
53:05
happened if I'd have been in office?
53:06
Well, if it wasn't for Joe Biden, this
53:08
wouldn't have happened if it wasn't that
53:10
for that idiot that was running the
53:12
country before. But now it's me, so
53:14
everything is grand. I'm so tired of
53:16
hearing that. Can we just talk about
53:19
present issues without
53:22
glorifying yourself and demonizing
53:24
someone else? Please, I just want to
53:28
talk about the issue. Leave the
53:30
extraneous off. Please. And he
53:34
cannot do it. He just cannot. And uh
53:37
Trump insisted his mediation is crucial
53:40
for the peace process. hasn't worked so
53:43
far and claimed that it had helped
53:45
prevent a far wider crisis. Really, what
53:48
wider crisis has he prevented? The thing
53:52
that would have been a total disaster,
53:54
and Zilinski knows it, and the European
53:57
leaders know it, if I wasn't involved,
54:00
really, I think it would have evolved
54:02
into a third world war. That won't
54:04
happen anymore. Is that true? I'm not so
54:07
positive of that either. He's he's
54:09
pushing escalation everywhere.
54:12
And uh I'm thinking that that there's
54:15
more chance right now of their
54:18
escalation in this in both on both sides
54:22
pressed on the timelines for peace.
54:24
Trump was of of course non-committal.
54:27
Now before it was I could have that done
54:29
in a day and uh he said we're doing the
54:32
best we can now. I don't have a
54:34
timeline.
54:36
I just would like to see the war end,"
54:39
he stated, adding that both President
54:42
Vladimir Putin and Zalinski appear
54:44
willing to settle, but we'll find out.
54:48
Last month, Trump met Zalinsky in Miami
54:50
and said a peace deal was 95% ready.
54:55
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Pescov later
54:58
uh echoed that assessment.
55:01
Um,
55:02
however, KI and its backers from the
55:04
so-called coalition of the willing,
55:08
a group of western states pushing
55:10
continued support for Ukraine have since
55:12
agreed to deploy troops to the country
55:15
as a post deal security guarantee, which
55:18
Russia will never go for. Despite
55:21
Russia's repeated rejection of foreign
55:23
forces near its borders, US Envoy Steve
55:26
Whit did not confirm any American role
55:30
and Trump previously ruled out US troops
55:32
in Ukraine. Moscow has condemned this
55:35
plan with ministry spokesman Maria
55:38
Zaharava warning last week that any
55:42
western troop deployment in Ukraine will
55:45
be treated as a foreign invasion.
55:49
Um, so there you go.
55:53
Uh, meanwhile,
55:56
there's been a call in the EU
55:59
for a permanent European army. Have you
56:02
heard about this? This now they want
56:05
instead of NATO, they want a permanent
56:07
European army. And you know, when I read
56:11
this, I thought this was a uh an
56:14
interesting idea because right now the
56:18
army in Europe is the US army. It's us.
56:22
You know, the largest force is us and
56:24
Poland's closer. Poland might be
56:26
slightly larger, but uh you know, we
56:29
supply the military force for NATO. And
56:34
uh you know I think Trump rightly so is
56:37
attempting to reduce
56:39
um
56:41
the need
56:43
for us to supply everything. you know,
56:45
this 5% push uh for NATO members to of
56:49
their budget to supply the military
56:52
[snorts]
56:53
and for us to
56:55
somewhat back off the role of supplying
56:58
100% of the of the military might inside
57:03
of Europe is um kind of a big deal. And
57:07
so this article um guy named Andreas
57:11
Kubilius
57:13
the E said the EU must create a 100,000
57:16
strong standing army to make military
57:20
decisions independently
57:22
of the US and NATO. This was defense
57:27
commissioner Andreas. He's the defense
57:29
commissioner of NATO. Uh Washington
57:31
still maintains around the same number
57:34
of troops in Europe. We have about
57:36
100,000 in Europe. Speaking at a
57:39
security conference in Sweden on Sunday,
57:41
he argued that the EU must pivot from
57:44
fragmented national armies to an
57:47
integrated force. This is actually a in
57:50
my opinion a good idea.
57:52
So, we need to go but but I don't know
57:54
how they would handle the language part,
57:56
you know. Uh I assume they'd have to
57:59
figure something out like that. But we
58:02
need to go for a big bang in defense. He
58:04
said, "We need to invest our money so
58:07
that we could fight as Europe, not just
58:10
as 27 national bonsai armies." Citing
58:14
French President Mcronone and former
58:16
German chancellor Angela Merkel,
58:19
Kubilius noted they were speaking very
58:22
similar words 10 years ago that Europe
58:24
must be more independent and autonomous
58:27
and even that we need to have a European
58:30
army, a powerful standing European
58:32
military force of a 100,000 troops. Um
58:37
he called for an overhaul of Europe's
58:40
military governance and proposed a 10 to
58:43
12 member European security council to
58:46
make EUwide defense decisions with the
58:49
UK participating even though it's not
58:52
part of the block any longer. Kubilia
58:54
suggested that the changes are necessary
58:57
in light of the threat allegedly posed
59:00
by Russia which he claims will continue
59:03
with a war economy even after Ukraine
59:05
conflict is uh no more. Moscow dismiss
59:09
these claims as nonsense and uh are
59:12
distracting Europeans from domestic
59:14
problems of their own and justify uh you
59:18
know they use these threats to justify
59:21
military budgets in Europe and warned
59:24
that EU's militarization drive risks
59:27
escalating tension. Uh Kubilia said the
59:30
changes are urgent given the US shift in
59:34
foreign policy under Trump. Well, that's
59:37
temporary because you know that as soon
59:39
as he's gone from office, uh the
59:42
Republican or the Democrat are all going
59:45
to go right back to the way it was
59:47
pre-Trump. Uh that's what's going to
59:49
happen. And uh you don't have to believe
59:51
that. And you might think that's uh you
59:54
know something,
59:57
uh horrible to say, but that's
1:00:00
unfortunately what's going to happen.
1:00:02
you know, whether Europe goes to 5% or
1:00:06
not, we're going to go right back to the
1:00:09
way things used to be, everybody's going
1:00:12
to breathe a big sigh of relief in the
1:00:14
military-industrial complex. Al although
1:00:17
Lindsey Graham wins this round anyway.
1:00:20
Um, you know, on he he he'll win under
1:00:23
any under any administration because
1:00:26
this is where the money comes from for
1:00:28
all these people and it's always about
1:00:30
the money. Don't you remember your uh
1:00:33
Oh, brother, where art thou?
1:00:36
It's always about the money. Remember
1:00:38
the guy uh beating him up over lunch?
1:00:41
[laughter]
1:00:42
Thank you for throwing in that fricy.
1:00:45
[snorts] I'm a man of large appetite.
1:00:47
Remember that? Um but anyway, he said
1:00:50
the Kubilia said, "Now it's even more
1:00:53
clear that we need to build Europe's
1:00:55
independence. uncertainty of the future
1:00:58
of the transatlantic partnership demands
1:01:02
our resolve and as the key NATO power
1:01:06
the US has 100,000 troops in Europe and
1:01:09
Trump said deployments could be reduced
1:01:12
but he denied a full withdrawal but he
1:01:15
stressed that uh continued US commitment
1:01:17
depends on the 5% GDP
1:01:21
uh promise you know and this is what
1:01:23
they got to pay and uh he has you know
1:01:27
moved that in and Germany's um Mertz
1:01:31
said something pretty similar if you
1:01:33
remember that um this was um last month
1:01:38
remember this he said that the decades
1:01:41
of the Pax Americana are largely over in
1:01:44
Europe and for Germany as well it no
1:01:48
longer exists in the way we knew it
1:01:51
Americans are now very very firmly
1:01:53
pursuing their own interests s and he
1:01:57
said that shifting US priorities mean
1:02:00
that the EU has to focus more on its own
1:02:04
competitiveness and defense. And he also
1:02:08
claims this Russian threat. Everybody
1:02:10
talks about the Russian threat. And uh I
1:02:14
think they're better neighbors than you
1:02:15
guys are. You guys are [snorts] uh
1:02:19
frankly not very good neighbors.
1:02:22
Um, let's see what else can we share
1:02:25
with you today. Excuse [snorts] me.
1:02:28
Running a bit here.
1:02:32
Uh, let's see.
1:02:35
I wanted to It was the the 8th that that
1:02:38
archnic strike came out. Um,
1:02:43
and
1:02:45
there was uh some interesting video
1:02:48
about it on the 8th that that came out.
1:02:51
So, what was the 8th? Uh, Thursday,
1:02:55
I think. Or what is today? Today's
1:02:58
Today's the 12th, isn't it? And so, uh,
1:03:01
I think the 8th was, uh, was Friday. And
1:03:06
so [cough]
1:03:08
they had some good video of it that
1:03:10
showed it looked like a part of it
1:03:13
looked like a gas storage facility when
1:03:15
I was watching it because it looked like
1:03:17
it was uh underground footage and CCTV
1:03:21
footage that was shared on Friday showed
1:03:24
bright projectiles landing in uh Olv,
1:03:27
which it's a border of Poland, so it's
1:03:30
pretty far west. And uh it was
1:03:33
unconfirmed at the time, but it's
1:03:35
confirmed now. And Voyme uh Andrea
1:03:39
Sadovoy said a piece of critical
1:03:41
infrastructure was hit, but on Russian
1:03:44
telegram, they said it was an
1:03:46
underground gas facility
1:03:49
in the city of Strei, which is about 60
1:03:52
kilometers from Olv, and it would if it
1:03:55
was confirmed, it would be the second
1:03:58
one. Now they say it was a an air
1:04:02
uh air defense um
1:04:04
air aircraft parts facility and uh
1:04:09
[snorts] that there's been a lot of news
1:04:11
about how
1:04:13
Russia hasn't used any of these except
1:04:17
and this is only the second strike and
1:04:20
so they were wondering if the first was
1:04:23
only a test or if the expense of these
1:04:27
these missiles is so uh great that
1:04:34
they haven't produced all that many.
1:04:36
Now, what I shared with you a couple of
1:04:39
months ago or weeks ago, h I don't
1:04:42
remember when we we were talking about
1:04:45
um
1:04:47
how many they're, you know, them be how
1:04:49
many they're going to produce and how
1:04:51
fast they can produce them and that uh
1:04:54
we expected them to start putting them
1:04:58
out as a regular part of the arsenal and
1:05:02
releasing them uh for full production.
1:05:06
in early 2026. Well, this is real early
1:05:10
2026. The first one went out on uh
1:05:14
December or I'm sorry, January the 8th,
1:05:17
so 4 days ago. And um
1:05:22
that is pretty early and and Russia has
1:05:24
indicated that they're going to have
1:05:26
these in full production mode uh for
1:05:29
early um 2026.
1:05:33
So
1:05:35
right now they are probably uh every
1:05:39
night, you know, last night I watched a
1:05:41
report that said there were 140 plus or
1:05:44
minus uh strikes
1:05:47
um across Ukraine by missiles, drones
1:05:54
uh and other you know aircraft shots
1:05:58
during the night. night before similar
1:06:01
number. Night before similar number.
1:06:03
It's like almost every single night and
1:06:06
they pick different regions. Uh last
1:06:08
night it was Odessa in Kiev and then uh
1:06:11
the you know this night
1:06:15
when this Arashnik hit on the 8th it was
1:06:20
the Ovolve in the western Ukraine. Um,
1:06:25
so Odessa has been hit repeatedly and
1:06:28
and and Russia is continuing to strike
1:06:31
Odessa and take out uh they they hit a
1:06:34
ship in the in the port uh yesterday as
1:06:37
well. there was a ship that they hit and
1:06:40
so there's a pretty good story about
1:06:41
that that uh showed what they had hit in
1:06:44
the port and how they're attacking uh
1:06:47
all of the things that are supplying the
1:06:50
Ukrainian army or the arms you know the
1:06:54
military-industrial complex with parts.
1:06:58
Uh meanwhile, England is uh you know,
1:07:01
Britain is allegedly uh making plans to
1:07:05
start building its missiles inside of
1:07:08
Ukraine that will go 500 kilometers
1:07:12
which will hit will be able to hit
1:07:15
Moscow. So,
1:07:18
all of the things that I see, everything
1:07:21
that I've been watching, and I've been
1:07:23
hoping that this war would end and will
1:07:26
go away.
1:07:28
Unfortunately, I believe that's a pipe
1:07:30
dream. I I I don't think it's going
1:07:33
away. If anything, I say that it is
1:07:36
probably in the way of escalation.
1:07:42
And it is unfortunate to me and I I'm I
1:07:49
just don't like it. Uh and and I don't
1:07:52
think
1:07:54
I I don't think the war will settle this
1:07:58
year either. I think we need to settle
1:08:01
in for a long-term war and keep on
1:08:06
going. Uh not that I want to. I don't.
1:08:09
But we aren't making any efforts to stop
1:08:12
it. And with everything go that we are
1:08:15
doing in the west, there ain't no way
1:08:18
that Russia is just gonna um
1:08:22
u
1:08:24
stop, you know, inside of Ukraine based
1:08:27
upon the things that the that the West
1:08:29
is doing, especially with the talk about
1:08:32
this uh 800 billion allegedly going to
1:08:37
uh Ukraine from the US in 2026.
1:08:42
It's actually like a 10-year plan of 80
1:08:44
billion a year is what they were talking
1:08:47
about yesterday.
1:08:49
And uh that is unfortunate if if that is
1:08:53
the way we go. Um I'm going to try to
1:08:56
share two more stories with you.
1:09:01
One from January 9th and one from the
1:09:04
10th.
1:09:06
And uh they're what I'm they're both
1:09:08
fairly long.
1:09:11
um articles and this one is written by a
1:09:15
Canadian
1:09:18
independent journalist
1:09:20
and her name is Ava Bartlett
1:09:24
and
1:09:26
her the the title of her article is
1:09:28
called Here's Who Really Weaponizes
1:09:31
Children in the Russia Ukraine Conflict.
1:09:36
As the accusations of abductions
1:09:39
resurface, it's clear the West doesn't
1:09:42
care about the facts on the ground if
1:09:45
they contradict the narrative. And this
1:09:48
is a Canadian lady and I I believe
1:09:52
similarly. And uh so I thought I'd share
1:09:55
this with you one more time because uh
1:09:58
it's it's part of the rhetoric of
1:10:01
nonsense that has been cast across the
1:10:04
the West all the time that they you know
1:10:08
that Russia has stolen 20,000 children
1:10:11
and it's just nonsense. It's crazy.
1:10:15
And uh for the last three years uh this
1:10:18
is this is her article. For the last 3
1:10:21
years, Ukraine and concerted legacy
1:10:25
media campaigns have been screaming that
1:10:28
Russia has abducted or forcibly
1:10:30
displaced thousands of Ukrainian
1:10:33
children, even up to 1.5
1:10:37
million. The accusations researched in
1:10:41
December with a UN General Assembly vote
1:10:44
on a draft resolution on the return of
1:10:47
Ukrainian children.
1:10:50
During the meeting, Ukraine's deputy
1:10:53
foreign minister, Mariana Betsza, once
1:10:56
again pushed claims that at least 20,000
1:11:01
Ukrainian children have been deported to
1:11:04
Russia, in spite of the fact that months
1:11:08
prior during the June Istanbul talks,
1:11:11
the Ukrainian side finally provided a
1:11:14
list of the children it accused Russia
1:11:16
of abducting.
1:11:18
339 children in total, surprisingly far
1:11:23
fewer than the number they have alleged
1:11:26
for years. The absence of over 19,500
1:11:30
on the list indeed leads to many
1:11:33
questions. Mainly, is Ukraine lying
1:11:37
again? Recall that in 2022, the
1:11:40
accusations by now former Ukrainian
1:11:43
ombbudsswoman Ludmila Denisova about
1:11:46
sexual atrocities allegedly committed by
1:11:50
Russian soldiers were revealed to be
1:11:52
lies and propaganda. So much so that
1:11:56
Denise was sacked. But before her
1:11:59
dismissal, Legacy Media and the UN all
1:12:03
backed those lies.
1:12:05
Some recent accusations are that
1:12:08
children are being sent to labor camps
1:12:10
in Russia,
1:12:12
165 re-education camps where Ukrainian
1:12:16
children are militarized and rousified
1:12:20
or even of being sent to North Korea. As
1:12:24
Katarina Rashevskaya
1:12:27
of the Ukrainian Regional Center for
1:12:29
Human Rights told the US Committee on
1:12:32
State for Foreign Operations and RE
1:12:35
related programs on December 3rd, the
1:12:38
footnotes of the claims made by RashVaya
1:12:42
instead of the source of for the
1:12:44
information say the regional human
1:12:47
rights center can provide information
1:12:49
upon request. In other words, her
1:12:52
sources are, "Trust me, bro." Regarding
1:12:56
the North Korean camp in question,
1:13:00
if two Russian teens were sent there,
1:13:02
they'd potentially be made to enjoy
1:13:04
water slides, basketball and volleyball
1:13:07
courts, an arcade room, a rock climbing
1:13:10
wall, art and performance halls, an
1:13:13
archery range, a private beach, and
1:13:15
hikes in the mountains. Regarding the
1:13:18
list of 339 children Ukraine says were
1:13:22
abducted by Russia, Russian Foreign
1:13:25
Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakarva
1:13:28
remarked 30% of the names on the list
1:13:32
could not be verified as most of those
1:13:35
children were never in Russia, are now
1:13:38
adults or have already returned to their
1:13:41
families. As for the Ukrainian children
1:13:44
who are actually in our country, they
1:13:46
are under state care and appropriate
1:13:48
institutions. They are safe for now. In
1:13:52
many cases, their evacuation from combat
1:13:55
zones saved their lives. Local children
1:13:58
rights commissioners are now working to
1:14:01
reunite them with their relatives.
1:14:05
Just as legacy media has whitewashed the
1:14:08
eight years of Ukraine's war against
1:14:11
Donbass civilians prior to Russia
1:14:13
commencing its military operation in
1:14:15
2022,
1:14:17
including the Ukrainian shelling that
1:14:20
killed 250 children starting in 2014.
1:14:25
Media likewise ignore the children
1:14:28
Russia says are missing. During talks in
1:14:30
Istanbul, Zahadava noted the Russia side
1:14:34
presented Ukraine with a list of 20
1:14:37
Russian children who are either
1:14:38
currently in Ukraine or relocated from
1:14:41
Ukraine to Western Europe, including the
1:14:44
countries that endorse this very
1:14:46
statement. Now the burden falls on these
1:14:49
states to provide Russia with a
1:14:51
substantive response regarding our list
1:14:55
of 20 children.
1:14:58
Over uh recently, Donbassbased
1:15:02
journalist Crystal Neant wrote about a
1:15:04
report published in a pro- Ukrainian
1:15:07
website
1:15:08
that broke the story of 510
1:15:12
Ukrainian children who had been
1:15:14
evacuated by Ukrainian oligarch in 2022
1:15:18
from Nepa Petrosk to Turkey where the
1:15:21
benevolent foundation which brought them
1:15:24
there allegedly allowed its staff to
1:15:26
beat the children sexually. assault them
1:15:29
and deny them food if they refuse to
1:15:31
perform on camera to raise funds for
1:15:34
their lodging. These are some of the
1:15:37
reported violations of these orphans
1:15:39
rights. The details of the report show
1:15:42
that the children suffered physically
1:15:44
and psychologically. Additionally, two
1:15:46
underage teens were impregnated by staff
1:15:49
at the hotel they stayed in with
1:15:52
educators allegedly aware of the
1:15:54
interactions. According to Neon to the
1:15:57
orphanage director's response to the
1:15:59
fact that one of the teens in her care
1:16:01
became pregnant was to blame the girl.
1:16:04
This young girl comes from an asocial
1:16:07
family. Well, this way of life is
1:16:09
already inscribed in every cell in the
1:16:12
blood of these children. [snorts]
1:16:15
In almost 10 years of work in
1:16:17
Donbassnant wrote, I've conducted or
1:16:20
filmed many humanitarian missions to
1:16:22
orphanages in the region and never ever
1:16:26
have I heard a director make such vile
1:16:29
remarks about one of the children in her
1:16:32
care. Even the most difficult and
1:16:34
recalcitrant were cared for with
1:16:37
pedagoguy, love, and patience.
1:16:41
uh Ukraine hunting down children. In
1:16:44
April 2023, Crystal Neantani interviewed
1:16:47
Artosk civilians who had been recently
1:16:50
rescued by Russian soldiers. In addition
1:16:53
to being deliberately shelled by
1:16:55
Ukrainian forces who knew they were
1:16:57
sheltering in the basement of a
1:16:59
residential building. The civilians we
1:17:02
spoke to told us about Ukrainian
1:17:04
military police hunting for children.
1:17:07
The evacuees told us some of these
1:17:10
police went by the name of White Angels
1:17:13
and were taking children away without
1:17:16
the consent or that of their parents.
1:17:19
Around that time, more reports came out
1:17:22
about these abductions or attempted
1:17:25
abductions, including an 11year-old girl
1:17:28
who spoke of how the White Angels, who
1:17:31
introduced themselves as military
1:17:33
police, came to the basement she was
1:17:35
sheltering in with a photo of her,
1:17:38
looking for her, and saying they needed
1:17:41
to take her away because Russia killed
1:17:44
her mother. According to the girl, her
1:17:47
mother was alive and with her. Reports
1:17:51
of these abductions also emerged in
1:17:53
Avdka, Kupansk, Slavansk, Chasovar, and
1:17:57
Constantinovka as well as in Ukranskin
1:18:00
Jallesna.
1:18:02
Nant wrote of a July 2023 conference on
1:18:06
Ukraine's crimes against the Donbass
1:18:08
children in which Lilia and her daughter
1:18:11
Kira from Shastia in the Lugansk
1:18:15
people's republic spoke they gave
1:18:17
evidence of how here's the quote at the
1:18:21
state of the special military oper I'm
1:18:24
sorry the start of the special military
1:18:26
operation when Ukraine controlled
1:18:29
Shastia around 10 children were taken
1:18:31
from a school in Shasta to western
1:18:33
Ukraine by the head mistress of the
1:18:36
school on orders from Kiev without
1:18:38
informing their parents. The children
1:18:42
were even forbidden to call their
1:18:43
parents, she wrote. But Kira knew her
1:18:46
mother's telephone number by heart and
1:18:48
managed to call her to let her know they
1:18:50
were in Aviv and then Kust. Thanks to
1:18:53
Lilia's determination to find her
1:18:55
daughter, we discovered how Kiev exports
1:18:58
the children it abducts. Ukraine had
1:19:02
forged a new original birth certificate
1:19:05
for Kira. The girl said she and the
1:19:07
other children were to be sent to
1:19:09
Poland.
1:19:11
This is terrible. Uh former SBU officer
1:19:14
Vasilei Prozorov
1:19:17
spoke of at the same conference where he
1:19:20
explained according to Nant that one of
1:19:22
his investigations had revealed that
1:19:25
some of the children abducted by Ukraine
1:19:28
are sent to pedophile networks in Great
1:19:30
Britain via a whole network of Ukrainian
1:19:33
and British officials or former
1:19:35
officials who work together. On the
1:19:38
British side, members of M MI6 and the
1:19:42
foreign office are involved. Prozorov,
1:19:44
she wrote spoke of another of his
1:19:47
investigations on organizations
1:19:49
registered in EU countries involving in
1:19:53
exporting children from Ukraine under
1:19:56
the pretext of providing them with
1:19:58
shelter. These organizations take
1:20:01
unaccompanied Ukrainian children out of
1:20:03
Ukraine. What happens to them afterwards
1:20:06
is unknown.
1:20:10
In November 2022, in the southern
1:20:13
Russian seaside city of Anapa, I met
1:20:16
numerous people displaced from Kerson
1:20:19
who were being lodged in hotels and
1:20:22
apartments in the city. The first site I
1:20:25
visited was only a few minutes by taxi
1:20:27
outside of the city, one of many hotels
1:20:30
along the coast. The hotel director,
1:20:33
showing me around, said, "They don't
1:20:35
call them refugees. We call them guests
1:20:38
of the building, and spoke
1:20:40
affectionately of them how grateful they
1:20:43
were to be there, far from any shelling,
1:20:46
just under 500 refugees had been living
1:20:49
there since October. No guard monitored
1:20:52
the entrance or exit. The refugees
1:20:55
walked around tidy grounds, but in any
1:20:57
case, I asked about their freedom of
1:20:59
movement, or lack thereof. They move
1:21:02
freely, of course. We don't prohibit
1:21:03
them from going out. Many aren't here
1:21:06
now because they're in town looking for
1:21:08
jobs, getting documents. Children are at
1:21:12
school. With my hired
1:21:15
translator, I spoke with two Hers women,
1:21:18
a young mother and her a young mother
1:21:20
and her own mother to hear their
1:21:22
stories. "We were living with explosions
1:21:25
at night. It was scary, not only for
1:21:27
myself, but from my children and from my
1:21:29
grandchildren, said the older woman.
1:21:32
When you go to bed, you don't know if
1:21:35
you will get out of bed in the morning.
1:21:37
We were forced to leave. I asked him who
1:21:40
was shelling. She she said, "Word of
1:21:43
mouth transmits very clearly, and people
1:21:46
around us spoke about it. We were bombed
1:21:48
by the armed forces of Ukraine. Russian
1:21:52
soldiers were protecting us." The
1:21:55
younger woman said she used to speak
1:21:57
with the Russian soldiers there. They
1:21:59
are friendly. We wanted to hug them
1:22:01
because we felt protected. They helped
1:22:04
us, gave us humanitarian aid, brought it
1:22:07
to the house. Some minutes taxi ride
1:22:10
away. I visit an apartment complex that
1:22:12
could have served tourists in the
1:22:14
summer.
1:22:16
There 50 buildings housed around 1,500
1:22:19
refugees who also arrived in October,
1:22:22
mostly from Hersan. my translator and I
1:22:25
walked around passing playgrounds, a
1:22:28
pharmacy, a library, a swimming pool, a
1:22:30
gym, a small petting zoo, and a
1:22:32
kindergarten. Near a playground, I spoke
1:22:34
with a mother sitting on a bench with
1:22:37
two of her four children. In the early
1:22:39
days, there was bombing. We spent 2 and
1:22:42
1/2 weeks in the basement. It was
1:22:44
unbearable. The children were very
1:22:46
afraid. One of her daughters became ill.
1:22:50
She had acute inflammation of the lower
1:22:52
jaw. We think due to hypothermia. We
1:22:56
took her to Symphopel and she had
1:22:59
surgery in Anapa. She said her children
1:23:02
had full medical exams. We were helped
1:23:05
by the mayor of the city of Anapa and we
1:23:07
are grateful. His mother called three
1:23:10
days in a row saying where are the
1:23:12
children? We answered. They went to the
1:23:14
sim cinema. They're playing etc. She
1:23:17
said show me the children. They say they
1:23:20
took your children from you. uh but they
1:23:23
didn't. Um whereas legacy media
1:23:25
continued to push the evil Russia kidnap
1:23:29
children narrative, there is ample
1:23:32
evidence that Ukraine is guilty of doing
1:23:34
precisely what it accuses Russia of.
1:23:38
There is also a significant absence of
1:23:41
evidence regarding the 20,000 kidnapped
1:23:44
children claims that are still being
1:23:46
pushed in the Western media. Will media
1:23:50
investigate the reports of abuse of
1:23:52
Ukrainian children in Turkey? Surely
1:23:55
not. It wouldn't suit their scripted
1:23:58
anti-Russia
1:24:00
bias.
1:24:01
And once again, that article was written
1:24:04
by a Canadian independent journalist
1:24:08
named Ava Bartlett.
1:24:10
And uh she has also done stories in
1:24:16
Syria and Palestine always, you know,
1:24:19
well not always but a lot of times about
1:24:21
children
1:24:23
abuses, that kind of thing. And
1:24:27
I've been talking about this for a good
1:24:29
long time about this number of 20,000
1:24:32
that they could never ever come up with.
1:24:36
And there was when the war first
1:24:39
escalated in 2022 when Russia went into
1:24:43
uh the Dawnbass area, there was a huge
1:24:46
bunch of stories about this 20,000
1:24:49
children that were taken and it's been
1:24:53
debunked from day one except
1:24:58
in, [clears throat]
1:24:59
you know, Ukrainian narratives like by
1:25:01
Zalinski or by whoever wants to uh pump
1:25:05
the nonsense. ments out for people. Um,
1:25:09
but
1:25:11
legitimate sources that come out, uh,
1:25:15
real sources, people that have
1:25:17
investigated it, don't believe any of
1:25:19
it. Uh, nor do I. It, uh, it but it it
1:25:23
just doesn't fit the narrative. And
1:25:26
they've been asking for the list of
1:25:27
these people for a good long time. And
1:25:29
Lavough always says, "Look, you've given
1:25:32
us 300 names. You know, where where are
1:25:35
the rest?" you know, where's this 20,000
1:25:37
you were talking about? And um I don't
1:25:41
know, it just uh the the the stories
1:25:44
continue to uh
1:25:48
devolve. Um I I I was thinking I could
1:25:52
share that other story with you, but I
1:25:54
guess not. That one took a little longer
1:25:55
than I thought. And uh it's basically
1:25:58
how the US is is redoing uh world
1:26:02
politics after the Trump move. And uh
1:26:05
that was an interesting one too. I'll
1:26:07
share that with you tomorrow most likely
1:26:09
unless I come up with something else. Um
1:26:12
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