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Europe’s Tantrums, Trump’s Tightrope, and the War No One Wants to End · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Welcome, I am Samuel Trapp.
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  This is International Flavor and
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  you are listening to DAM Radio with me.
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  You can follow me at www.internationalflavor.com.
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  You can also listen on www.damradio.com forward slash live from 9pm to 10.30pm
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  on Sunday through Thursday nights, Chicago time that is.
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  This is going to be a pre-recorded show that I am doing tonight.
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  This is going to be a two-hour deep dive in fact into the show that we are
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  trying to discuss today.
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  A lot interesting is going on in the world and I wanted to talk a little bit
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  today at the very beginning about the fact that it was pretty much a nothing
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  burger, wasn't it?
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  So the meeting with Vladimir Putin and Trump in Alaska a whole week ago on
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  Friday the 15th.
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  Not much has happened since then, has it?
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  We've had some discussions.
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  There's supposed to be some meetings, some possible discussions between
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  important people.
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  Maybe Trump will meet with Zelensky and with Putin to try to get to the bottom
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  of the matter and perhaps resolve some of it.
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  Nothing has happened.
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  We had some meetings with European, I don't know, European beggars
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  basically, begging of the United States to do something about big bad bear
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  Vladimir.
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  And nothing has happened since.
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  We have the same old thing.
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  We have more bombings going on, we have people being arrested for blowing up
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  the Nord Stream pipelines.
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  We've got otherwise not a whole lot going on.
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  When will something happen?
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  That's what I want to know.
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  When will the news come out that says this war is ending and that we can stop
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  the killing of people?
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  What about this 1.7 million number that is being tossed about that the Russian
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  hackers claim to have taken information straight from the Ukrainian numbers,
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  from the Ukrainian war department basically, saying that these are accurate
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  numbers, saying that these are the number of people who have been killed in the
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  conflict on the Ukrainian side?
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  That's a terrible number.
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  That's an unbelievable number.
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  It's something that we all should be somewhat ashamed of.
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  From the Western point of view, they all still want to come around and blame
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  all of this on big bad Vlad.
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  Big bad Vlad did all of this.
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  He was completely unprovoked, completely one-sided, lopsided.
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  He overreacted.
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  He has intentions upon all of Europe.
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  He's not just here to do the things that he says he wants to do.
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  He's lying about all of that.
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  You have to believe a whole lot of things are nothing but lies from the
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  Vladimir Putin side.
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  I'm not sure that I'm willing to do that.
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  I don't think many of us should be, because the lies historically have come
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  from our side anyway.
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  That is absolutely true.
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  I feel sorry for what's going on in Ukraine.
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  I feel sorry for the Ukrainian people that have died.
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  I feel sorry for all of the damage and destruction that has been done to that
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  country.
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  I hope that it can be finished.
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  I hope that we can end it.
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  I hope that it can be gone.
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  But so far, it's not.
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  Today, I am in Belorussia still.
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  Tomorrow morning, I'm taking a train and headed to Moscow.
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  That should be entertaining.
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  I have an interview on Monday that is going to be midnight
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  on Sundays for most people.
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  We want to make sure that people are aware of that, so you can keep posted.
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  I want to make sure to put that on my channel so that people can see and read
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  and hear all about my interview with them.
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  That should be pretty interesting.
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  But there's so much news to talk about, so many
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  things to discuss.
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  I would love it if there were people to discuss it with.
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  If somebody would log into the program, you can call in.
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  Call-ins are accepted.
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  I would be happy to speak with you about these issues.
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  But there's some news about Lukashenko, who has plenty
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  to talk about from our perspective, from our point of view, from the point of
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  view of what his conversation was with Donald Trump, because they had spoken
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  last week sometime.
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  I am moving about the room.
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  I have some things to go get, so if the echo gets to you a little bit, I hope
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  that isn't too horrifying for you to understand and go through.
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  But I do need to get some paperwork that I am wishing to reference while we are
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  going through this show today, because I really want to dig
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  deep.
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  But you know what?
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  I think I'm going to start this show over.
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  I wasn't quite prepared when I sat down for this, and I shouldn't have waited
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  until I was, but I wasn't.
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  It's a very having to go somewhere where it's not so dang hot
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  and sit with you some more.
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  The beautiful part of technology is you can do just about anything you want
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  these days and always have a technological ability to get it done.
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  I mean, here I am, think about this, talking to my, most of my listeners are
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  from the United States, and I am in Belarus discussing things with you from
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  Belarus.
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  And I think that is technology is just unbelievable what there is.
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  Yesterday I went to Brest, and what I saw in Brest and what the history
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  of what we got to know about that was just incredible.
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  If there's ever an opportunity for an American to get somewhere and see
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  true history, one of the things I had a discussion with a Yandex driver this
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  morning when he was taking me somewhere to chat about all of the things that he
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  had seen.
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  He, of course, hears my accent speaking Russian and wants to know where I'm
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  from and all of that stuff.
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  And so we got to speaking about it, and he asked me my impressions and asked me
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  about what the major differences were between America and Belarus, Russia,
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  these places.
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  What is so different?
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  Why are people so different?
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  And do we, you know, he asked me an interesting question about why we elected a
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  person like Donald Trump.
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  He said, why would Americans pick somebody like Donald Trump?
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  And you may disagree with what I said to him, but I told him what I thought.
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  And I really, I think that Americans, and again, who am I?
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  Just a a lowly, a lowly radio program guy
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  that gets to tell you his thoughts.
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  And I'm very glad you listened to my thoughts, but my opinion is no more
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  important than anyone else's.
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  You know what I mean?
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  But what I told him was, he said, why would you elect a guy like Donald Trump?
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  I said, well, why wouldn't you elect a guy like Donald Trump when your
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  government, like the American government, our government is so, see corrupt, I
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  hate using that word corrupt, but is so bought, I suppose would be the best
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  word, by the power that is, that voting for Trump
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  is basically a stick in the eye to everybody that is controlling the system.
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  And Americans got together and put a collective stick in the eye into the
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  Democratic Party in the deep state.
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  Although at the same time, we put a stick in the eye of the rhinos.
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  We put a stick in the eye of the unit party, you know, this globalist BS,
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  although people could disagree with it.
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  That's what I was doing.
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  Okay.
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  That's when I say I'm for Donald Trump, for the most part, it's because I still
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  believe that there wasn't any other choice to make.
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  What are you going to do?
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  Pick more of the same?
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  Just going to pick the same old people that we always pick?
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  Are we just going to keep this same horror story going where America's been
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  bought and paid for by the same families forever?
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  He asked, it was a very interesting question, this cab driver.
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  He said, well, but don't you think, he said, do you think Trump will run for a
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  third term?
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  And you are going to be looking at a kingdom as well, or one of his children,
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  or something like that.
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  I said, well, it happened with the Bush family.
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  I said, heck, we almost got Jim Bush after George Bush, you know, Bush II, you
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  know, whatever president number he was, 43, I think he was, I don't remember.
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  But you know, it's apparently we have pretty short memories.
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  You know, my rule has always been, my rule has been for a long time, I do not
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  vote for the same person more than two terms.
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  Okay.
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  So just because the president is limited in being president more than two
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  terms, I don't have to vote against a third term for a president.
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  But even if there was no such rule, I would still vote against a third term for
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  any particular president.
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  I just would.
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  And I do not agree, and I will never vote for somebody that's just a
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  Republican, because I lean Republican.
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  I still vote the person.
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  And if the person has been in office more than, or is at the end of his second
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  term, or having been elected twice, then I will not put my vote out for a
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  third.
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  That's my small form of democratic protest.
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  Because I think that the stagnation that has occurred, particularly in our
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  country, particularly over the last 30 years, that brought us Joe Biden, that
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  brought us Nancy Pelosi, that brought us the Lindsey Graham's of the world,
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  that brought us these people that get into office and stay there forever.
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  That is the problem with American alleged democracy.
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  The only way you can get to the table is to kiss the rear end of the
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  power that is.
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  And once you're in the power, the game is to keep it, and to keep that power
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  rolling in.
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  And how do you keep that power?
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  You keep paying for the same old programs that always have been.
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  You keep paying for Ukraine.
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  You create an enemy in Russia that doesn't exist.
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  You create the unipolar world, the unilateral party, the unipolar
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  world.
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  There is no sovereignty anywhere.
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  If you aren't for this globalist theme, then you're not part of the
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  in crowd, at least if you're in the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S.
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  Senate, and arguably in the judiciary.
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  And what's pretty funny is nobody ever pays any attention to the judiciary.
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  Nobody really worries too much about it.
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  They are not somebody that the other two branches of government pay much
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  attention to.
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  And they probably should, and should regulate them far more than they do, and
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  see what happens.
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  Because I think that the creation of the uniparty, the creation of the unipolar
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  world, has in large part been made possible by the same old, same old in the
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  judicial branch as well.
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  So anyway, I had an interesting discussion with this cab driver about Donald
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  Trump.
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  And he said to me, he goes, listen, I'm not against Donald Trump.
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  I'm not, I don't think he's bad.
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  He's probably good for your country.
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  But I don't understand, you know, why you would take somebody that's all about
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  the money.
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  And I said, well, I said, if you, here are a couple of positives from my point
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  of view.
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  Let's take the positives of Donald Trump is, he's not them.
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  You know, the more they hate him, the more I like him.
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  You know, the friends of, friends of my enemy, the friends are my enemy or my
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  enemy, how does that work?
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  Or the enemy of my enemy is my friend, however you want to put it.
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  But if Donald Trump is changing about what he is
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  planning on doing, then he, then it, yeah, I'm sorry, I got
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  a call coming in at the same time here.
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  And I don't like it because I can't push pause.
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  Trying to fix that right now and see what I can do about it.
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  But I bet that won't happen.
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  So let's, let's see what we need and figure out how we can do it.
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  So sorry to be interrupted there in my train of thought, I may have to stop,
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  may have to stop and regroup in a few minutes, but I'm not so positive it's
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  going to, it's going to work.
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  At any rate, I lost my train of thought and I very much apologize for that, but
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  let's try to get back to it.
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  Okay.
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  Like I said, there's plenty of news going on in the world that we can talk
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  about.
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  And I wanted to get to, if at all possible today, the, the, because I'm, I'm
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  pretty much, I don't, I don't want to be an, I told you so type of guy, but we
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  have all this discussion from last Friday, all the discussion over the week,
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  all of the drama of, you know, bringing in the cheerleading squad and the band
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  pep rally people from the European community, along with Zelensky.
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  And what has happened since, seriously, has anything happened since, or is it
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  all just one big fat, nothing burger, nothing accomplished, nothing done.
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  And it's depressing to me because I thought there was some momentum going
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  there.
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  And apparently there is not any momentum.
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  And that's unfortunate because there, the possibilities were endless.
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  So now what's going to happen?
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  Does this mean that Trump is going to cut off Zelensky, cut off
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  Ukraine, or are we still going to be having the, the money paid
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  through NATO to buy US weapons to deliver to
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  Ukraine?
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  Is that what's going to happen?
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  And more people are just going to continue to die?
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  Is that the plan?
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  That appears to be the plan from my point of view.
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  I don't see anything different.
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  Does anyone else?
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  I'd be happy to discuss that.
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  If you wish to send your commentary, you can do it to Samuel T.
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  at internationalflavor.com.
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  And I would be happy to listen to you and read your commentary on the, on the
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  air.
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  And I'm, I'm, I, is there any
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  news at all?
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  Anything about what happened?
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  Anything that we can talk about and say, something has happened in the week
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  since?
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  Has anything happened since the meeting that we had last Friday between Putin
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  and Trump in Alaska?
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  Has anything happened to, to, I don't know, to
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  stop this war, really?
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  Let's talk about neutrality, right?
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  Has, has the West, you know, what's, what are all these talks on neutrality,
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  right?
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  Think about this.
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  Here's, here's a guy named Alexander Bobrov, you know, PhD in history, he's
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  head of diplomatic studies.
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  And he has written an article, an opinion piece.
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  And I'd like to share a lot of that with you.
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  I, wanted to say, because I feel the same way.
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  I feel the same way about this, that he does.
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  And he's put it in a pretty good way.
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  If you haven't had a chance to read it, haven't heard of it even, perhaps you
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  need to.
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  And here's, I mean, what do we have?
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  Before we do that, let's get to the, to the, to any news.
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  Remember, I'm trying to find if there's any real news that occurred in an
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  effort to end this war, right?
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  The US is in talks about what the Ukrainian security role for the United States
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  is going to be, right?
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  Ukrainian locals are fighting off conscription officers, that hasn't changed.
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  A top CIA analyst, the one behind Russiagate, somebody lost a job finally,
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  right?
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  Let's see.
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  German opposition parties are slamming EU hypocrisy, right?
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  You know, about Ukraine specifically.
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  Ukraine, for its part, if you want to argue that, and this, this I think is
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  mostly because of Trump, you know, and what he has forced upon them.
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  But there's a, there's an article about Ukraine being ready to accept a
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  frontline freeze by, and this was a top Zelensky aide, we'll get to some of
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  that article.
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  But other than that, where is the news about the, the war, you know, coming
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  to an end?
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  Huh?
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  I mean, what is there?
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  The Ukrainians are still bombing the hell out of former Ukrainian, now Russian
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  territories.
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  A Ukrainian terrorist cell was dismantled in the Donbass regions.
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  There are, what else?
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  I don't know.
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  I just don't know what else there is.
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  Let's see, the family of an American killed fighting for Russia received a
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  medal from Putin.
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  We'll talk about that.
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  Because that, that was an interesting article.
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  But I'm not so sure that's not the right thing to do.
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  Lavrov has outlined, outlined the terms for a Putin and Zelensky meeting.
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  Zelensky says he'll meet with Putin, but not in Moscow.
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  Ukraine isn't interested in peace.
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  I mean, these are headlines, right?
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  What are we getting from these headlines that is saying that Trump's efforts
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  have been successful in any way?
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  Seriously?
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  What are, what are we getting to here?
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  There's, there's nothing there.
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  One big fat nothing burger for us all.
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  So let's read about if you were, if you would like to, or even if you wouldn't
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  like to, because I'm going to tell you about it anyway.
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  The usual thugs all showed up in, showed up in
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  Washington, right?
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  The European cheerleading squad trying to get something, more freebies for, for
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  Zelensky and trying to somehow keep Donald Trump in line on their own.
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  They haven't been very successful at that, by the way.
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  But at the Washington, here's, here's this guy's article.
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  Again, his name is Alexander Bobrov.
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  And at the Washington summit on Monday, one guest stood out.
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  The extended session of Euro-Atlantic leaders hastily convened at the White
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  House right after Donald Trump's meeting with Vladimir Zelensky brought
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  together the usual heavyweights, the US, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, as
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  well as the heads of the NATO and the EU.
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  Yet at the same table was someone who, at first glance, excuse me, didn't seem
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  to belong in that club.
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  Finland's president, Alexander Stoop.
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  Now he was there.
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  And I heard, you know, when I watched that half hour discussion where Trump let
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  everyone say a few words, he even gave Mr. Stoop some you know, an opportunity
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  to speak as well.
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  And he did.
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  He gave, he gave his opinion.
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  He, he talked a little bit, nothing dramatic, nothing even memorable.
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  And everybody got their chance to say something.
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  But there he was sitting here.
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  And this guy's going to say why.
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  Okay.
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  To an outsider, it may have looked odd.
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  Why is the Finnish leader invited when leaders of Poland, Hungary, and the
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  Baltic states were not?
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  The answer lies not in protocol, but in role, in the role Stub now plays.
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  His presence was a nod to a man whose career embodies the whole project of Euro
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  -Atlantic solidarity.
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  A project now under strain since Trump's return to the White House.
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  Stoop is a cosmopolitan in every sense.
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  A Swedish Finn, oops, I went too far.
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  Technology catching up to me.
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  Married to a Briton, educated in South Carolina.
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  A golfer who bonded to Trump on the green, but also a foreign minister of the
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  late 2000s.
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  Stub has become a rare kind of advisor.
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  Someone Trump listens to on European security, an administration where career
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  diplomats are absent.
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  Ain't that true?
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  It, it is telling that the Washington summit did not produce a U.S. ultimatum
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  forcing Ukraine into a peace deal with Moscow.
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  This is what I've been suggesting all along needed to happen, by the way, is
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  that, that somebody needs to force Ukraine into a peace deal.
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  And that somebody is unfortunately Donald Trump.
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  There's no avoiding that.
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  And it's, he's not going to force Putin to do anything.
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  And I mean Trump.
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  Trump is not going to force Putin into doing anything.
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  They're not going force Lavrov.
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  Everybody knows what it takes to end this conflict and nobody has taken a, a
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  serious stab at getting it done.
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  So maybe this stub guy is for this reason.
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  That's why this article is interesting to me.
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  And you know, I don't know true or not true, but I do like the perspective
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  that, that comes from it.
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  Okay.
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  So instead of an ultimatum, the focus was on designing a security guarantee for
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  Kiev, an alternative of some sort to NATO's article five, right?
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  Since membership in the Alliance is no longer on the table for Ukraine and
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  behind that shift, many suspect is Stubb.
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  He is becoming the architect of a new Western security system built on an
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  openly anti-Russian foundation.
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  Stubb's Finlandization 2.0. Okay.
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  In Washington, Stubb, and I hope I'm saying that right.
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  I've heard it said both ways, Stubb and Stubb, but in Washington, Stubb framed
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  his vision in a phrase that quickly went viral.
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  We found a solution in 1944, and I believe we can find one in 2025.
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  How do you like that?
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  It's actually, you know, sounds pretty good.
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  He is alluding to Finland's peace treaty with the USSR after World War II.
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  And he is suggesting that Ukraine could follow a similar path.
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  But here's the catch.
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  Stubb's vision of Finlandization bears little resemblance to the original
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  concept.
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  And, you know, that concept has hurt Finland recently.
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  You know, what happened on the Finland border after the Ukrainian war and after
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  Finland became a focus after the Ukraine, the increase in hostilities, if you
• 32:15
  want to call it that, after 2022 is sad for both sides, truthfully.
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  But anyway, Stubb's version of Finlandization bears little resemblance to the
• 32:25
  original concept from the 1944 version.
• 32:28
  In his model, Ukraine would follow Finland's supposed example, joining the EU
• 32:34
  and NATO, becoming part of the Western economic and military infrastructure,
• 32:39
  and then in practice, turn itself into a forward operating base against Moscow.
• 32:44
  That vision assumes a militarized society, stripped of industrial potential,
• 32:50
  and defined by an ethno-national identity designed to fence out Russian
• 32:57
  influence through the Russian-speaking population.
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  This is not Finlandization.
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  It is the opposite.
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  The original model, coined in the Cold War, describes something quite
• 33:12
  different.
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  A small country leveraging its geography to live in peace with a powerful
• 33:19
  neighbor.
• 33:20
  After 1944, Finland accepted tough compromise, ceding 10% of its territory,
• 33:29
  declaring neutrality, abandoning the dream of ethnic exclusivity.
• 33:34
  The payoff was stability, prosperity, and the chance to serve as a bridge
• 33:39
  between the East and the West.
• 33:42
  Helsinki became a symbol of détente in 75, when it hosted the CSEE Final Act, a
• 33:49
  milestone in Cold War diplomacy.
• 33:52
  Finland's economic boom, from Nokia to Valeo, from Stockman to Tikkarelia, I
• 33:59
  don't know which that one is, was meted in precisely that balancing act,
• 34:04
  trading and cooperating with both blocs, and especially with nearby Leningrad,
• 34:12
  St. Petersburg.
• 34:13
  Neutrality allowed Finland to spend less on guns and more on butter, and the
• 34:17
  choice paid off.
• 34:20
  Could such a model have worked if, back in 1944, Finnish leadership had doubled
• 34:26
  down on nationalism?
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  Certainly not.
• 34:30
  It took Marshall Mannerheim's pragmatism and readiness to compromise to give
• 34:36
  Finland a viable future.
• 34:39
  Real Finlandization as Ukraine's only way out.
• 34:43
  This is an interesting perspective and a very formidable idea, let's call it
• 34:51
  that.
• 34:54
  This is why Stubbe's rhetoric is leading.
• 34:58
  The real Finlandization, not his rebranded version, might be the only path for
• 35:03
  Ukraine's survival and recovery.
• 35:06
  That means a recognition of facts on the ground.
• 35:09
  It means a neutral, non-nuclear status.
• 35:12
  It means rejecting neo-Nazi ideology and building a multi-ethnic society where
• 35:18
  the rights of Russian speakers are protected.
• 35:21
  All the things that Russia's been asking for since 2014.
• 35:25
  It means diversifying trade, not just westward but eastward.
• 35:30
  And they don't want that.
• 35:31
  They want to only go west.
• 35:33
  They've taught their children for the last 30 years that Russia is horrible,
• 35:37
  that Russia is the bad guy, that there was no great patriotic war from your
• 35:42
  side.
• 35:43
  Nonsense, all of it, but this is what's going on.
• 35:47
  So this is not a list of Russian demands, as western commentators like to say,
• 35:55
  you know, when I say things like that.
• 35:57
  It's a recipe for economic revival.
• 36:00
  Drawn from Ukraine's own founding documents in 1990, Kiev's declaration of
• 36:05
  sovereignty defined the country as non-nuclear and neutral.
• 36:13
  As Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov reminded, if Ukraine abandons those
• 36:19
  principles that it keeps pursuing in NATO-style guarantees, including nuclear
• 36:25
  deployments, the very basis on which its independence was recognized will
• 36:31
  collapse.
• 36:32
  That would create an entirely new strategic reality.
• 36:37
  I don't understand how this is difficult for people to understand.
• 36:40
  Yeah, this makes complete sense to me, which is why it's, and he's saying it in
• 36:46
  a far better way than I could if I didn't sit down.
• 36:49
  I mean, I suppose I could put this together if I sat down and put my thoughts
• 36:52
  together, but I don't think that way.
• 36:54
  I think more in a round-robin kind of way, which is why I think it's important
• 36:59
  for me to share ideas that I come across that I think are poignant and
• 37:06
  pertinent, and this one definitely is.
• 37:09
  So if you want to figure out why Ukraine is failing, it's because 30 years ago
• 37:15
  they said, we want to be non-nuclear, we want to be neutral, because we know
• 37:21
  we're in between Europe and Russia.
• 37:23
  And then they've had several leaders in between there that have tried to be on
• 37:27
  both sides of the fence, as much as Lukashenko is in Belarus, because they
• 37:33
  still have a lot of eastward-looking ties, eastward friendships, but they
• 37:38
  haven't dug a hole for themselves in being only NATO.
• 37:42
  They haven't demonized Russia.
• 37:45
  And I'm in Belarus right now, it's doing just fine.
• 37:50
  You may agree or disagree, Lukashenko, I don't care.
• 37:53
  But the fact is, he's in charge.
• 37:56
  And so you deal with that.
• 37:59
  Who do we have in charge in America?
• 38:00
  You act like we don't have that kind of an issue.
• 38:03
  If you disagree with the power that is, well, that's too bad.
• 38:07
  You still got to deal with it.
• 38:09
  And that is not something that Ukraine has been willing to do.
• 38:13
  And it's a huge mistake that they made by assisting and by encouraging every
• 38:19
  step of the way, creating an enemy in Russia that does not exist.
• 38:25
  And then looking west, and training their children in schools, changing all of
• 38:30
  their textbooks to honor Nazi guidelines, to honor the SS symbols and the Nazi
• 38:37
  symbols and all of that, and demonize Russia's part in their history, and take
• 38:43
  a valuable part of that culture away from their children.
• 38:47
  And so this is what the when Vladimir Putin talks of root causes, this is a
• 38:55
  root cause.
• 38:56
  And this is why it's important that people need to think about this.
• 39:01
  And I deviated from the article I was reading.
• 39:05
  But I also wanted to make sure that you understand my point of view and why
• 39:09
  this is correct.
• 39:11
  Why what this person is saying is correct.
• 39:13
  You know, it came from, where'd this one come from?
• 39:16
  This one came from RT, Russia Today, that the US doesn't want you to hear.
• 39:22
  You know, when I talked to Scott Ritter, he says, Oh, you mean the truth?
• 39:26
  Basically, is that how he said it?
• 39:28
  Yeah, they put out more or less the truth.
• 39:31
  And by the way, they do.
• 39:33
  Or at least they give people the ability to say some things.
• 39:35
  And on their side, they're right this time.
• 39:37
  Not that they haven't been before, but they're absolutely right.
• 39:42
  And so everything that we are talking about are things that and I think Trump
• 39:47
  is realizing and now in you know, I was hopeful that there might be a meeting
• 39:52
  as quick as a week away.
• 39:55
  You know what I mean?
• 39:56
  As quickly as a week from the 15th until the present, wouldn't that have been
• 40:02
  nice that we could meet or have had a meeting between Putin and Zelensky and
• 40:10
  maybe even Trump to try to finalize this war?
• 40:14
  I think he's slow playing it.
• 40:16
  And as this article pointed out, somebody needs to force the Z man to just make
• 40:23
  a deal to accept what the US has created or what Donald Trump has created with
• 40:29
  or has discussed, you know, no ceasefire, a deal, an end this thing, end it
• 40:36
  now.
• 40:36
  And here's how we end it.
• 40:38
  Right.
• 40:38
  And I think that would have been far more would have been better had he said
• 40:46
  that on Monday to all the European leaders.
• 40:49
  Anyway, let's get back to the part where, put simply, Ukraine faces a choice.
• 40:57
  Either it embraces real Finlandization, not the current kind, but the kind that
• 41:05
  existed after World War Two, that consisted of neutrality, balance and
• 41:09
  prosperity, or it accepts Stubbs distorted version, becoming a permanent
• 41:16
  frontline state in a Western war against Russia.
• 41:21
  That seems to be the way that everybody has been looking and hoping that to go.
• 41:28
  And so that is why this Stubb guy was present because he is a border country.
• 41:36
  He is.
• 41:38
  And by the way, I read some articles to you several months ago about what has
• 41:42
  happened in Finland since the 2022 increase in hostilities in Ukraine.
• 41:51
  It has become, you know, they're both upping on each side of the border,
• 41:56
  putting the things in place that never existed before, putting military bases
• 42:02
  in place, increasing the number of people that soldiers that are present, that
• 42:10
  are there on location.
• 42:14
  Nonsense, because they didn't need that before.
• 42:17
  Russia has never treated them, I mean, even after the collapse of the Soviet
• 42:21
  Union, it's been, you know, pretty much free transport back and forth, easy to
• 42:30
  get back and forth.
• 42:33
  Not anymore.
• 42:34
  Now we got problems.
• 42:38
  And that is truly unfortunate.
• 42:42
  But I do hope you enjoyed that article.
• 42:44
  I think it is well worth putting together.
• 42:50
  Let's talk about this terrorist cell that was dismantled.
• 42:53
  The video of it all is pretty graphic.
• 43:00
  You know, these guys were hauled out naked.
• 43:03
  They were hauled out with no clothes on.
• 43:06
  And it's a hell of a deal.
• 43:08
  I mean, you couldn't put some clothes on these guys before you hauled them out.
• 43:12
  So Russian law enforcement broke up a Ukrainian intelligence cell in the
• 43:18
  Donbass responsible for attempted assassination of Russian officials and was
• 43:22
  planning further attacks, the Federal Security Service said.
• 43:26
  In a statement Friday, that's today, FSB said it uncovered an agent group of
• 43:31
  Ukraine's main intelligence directorate operating in Donetsk People's Republic.
• 43:37
  The group included two Russian nationals who were aged 38, 28, who were
• 43:41
  allegedly involved in car bombings in March and December of 2024, targeting her
• 43:47
  own region government employee and a former senior official of Russia's Federal
• 43:53
  Penitentiary Service in Donetsk.
• 43:55
  The FSB said the men had also prepared attacks against the head of the
• 44:00
  municipal administration in Donetsk and an unnamed commander of a volunteer
• 44:06
  battalion.
• 44:07
  And so they have quite some video of this.
• 44:11
  The 38-year-old suspect, a resident of Donetsk, was recruited by Ukrainian
• 44:16
  intelligence in 2022 and tasked with organizing terrorist attacks, recruiting
• 44:23
  accomplices and distributing explosive devices, said the FSB.
• 44:28
  The 28-year-old was said to have twice traveled to Moscow in 2023 to gather
• 44:34
  intelligence on the whereabouts of an unnamed Russian journalist because they
• 44:38
  want to kill journalists too.
• 44:41
  The suspects faced charges of treason, terrorism, illegal circulation of
• 44:47
  explosives.
• 44:48
  They will face life in prison if convicted.
• 44:52
  The agency released a video, which I saw, showed a large group of heavily armed
• 44:56
  operatives entering a building in Donetsk and escorting, they weren't escorting
• 45:02
  a suspect from the apartment, they dragged him out naked, if you wanted to see
• 45:07
  that.
• 45:07
  But when asked if he knew why he was being detained, the man replied that he
• 45:11
  assumed it was blowing up somebody in Donetsk.
• 45:15
  The video showed what appeared to be one of the suspects planting an explosive
• 45:20
  device under a car.
• 45:21
  Then a man that some reports claim was a Russian official approached the
• 45:25
  vehicle, which exploded as he tried to get in.
• 45:29
  Multiple occasions have seen Moscow accuse Kiev of attempting to stage
• 45:36
  terrorist plots against senior military personnel, civilian officials, and
• 45:41
  those with opinions, as well as to sabotage critical infrastructure.
• 45:48
  Isn't that loopy?
• 45:51
  It is what's happening though, just so you know.
• 45:55
  Let's see.
• 45:57
  Oops.
• 45:58
  There's also some videos, and if you get a chance to watch these, you really
• 46:01
  should go watch them.
• 46:03
  These are horrifying, in my opinion.
• 46:07
  I don't know what Ukraine can do about this kind of thing, but it just, it
• 46:12
  sucks that, you know, they're losing, how do I want to put this?
• 46:20
  I don't mean to say it sucks that they're losing the war.
• 46:23
  We want the war over.
• 46:25
  The war needs to be over.
• 46:28
  And there are people who are abandoning their positions on the front lines,
• 46:32
  that's going on quite a bit.
• 46:34
  There are people who are, what do you call it?
• 46:42
  Surrendering.
• 46:43
  And there are people who are fighting off conscription.
• 46:48
  They do not, there are people who are paying to get out of the country.
• 46:52
  So first thing you do is you bribe your conscription officer.
• 46:55
  You got to pay your local conscription officer so his wife can have great big
• 47:00
  puffy lips that she gets injected in so that they can have nice furniture, good
• 47:04
  dacha, you know, nice places to live.
• 47:07
  So you got to pay them off.
• 47:09
  They have to get rich.
• 47:10
  I mean, that's what they're supposed to do.
• 47:12
  You pay them off.
• 47:14
  And that's how the system works.
• 47:18
  Then you, since you might have to pay another person or even the same guy
• 47:23
  again, you got to somehow get out of the country.
• 47:25
  So how do you do that?
• 47:27
  You run to the and upon information and belief, let's call it that.
• 47:33
  There are people who pay $8,000 to $10,000 to get out of the country.
• 47:38
  They pay the $8,000 to $10,000 and out they get.
• 47:42
  I know several who claim that that's what they've done themselves.
• 47:45
  Then they escape to some Western European or Canada or United States where they
• 47:54
  can start getting freebies in the You For You program in America.
• 47:59
  You can get free stuff from most of the European community if you're a refugee.
• 48:05
  And so hopefully you can get over there and not have to work and try to earn
• 48:09
  your money back that you spent, you know, $4,000 or $5,000 paying your
• 48:13
  conscription officer.
• 48:14
  You spent $8,000 to $10,000 to get out of the country.
• 48:17
  I spoke to a couple of people who got into the United States.
• 48:22
  There's a guy who came to the border every day.
• 48:25
  And this was during the Biden administration, admittedly, but he came to the
• 48:28
  border every day.
• 48:29
  And finally, after they canceled him every single day and told him he couldn't
• 48:35
  come in, one of the people at the border told him, you need to buy a car.
• 48:40
  If you buy a car, you can get in.
• 48:43
  Then you just, you know, go through Tijuana, go through Nogales, go through, I
• 48:47
  don't know what, El Paso, go to one of those places and keep coming in.
• 48:52
  You might have to do it every day.
• 48:54
  And sure enough, that's what he did.
• 48:56
  He said that he went back.
• 48:58
  He and his family bought a car.
• 48:59
  It was him, his wife, his wife's dad, I think, and then a kid or two.
• 49:04
  I don't remember if he had one kid or two.
• 49:06
  But he said that they then daily would make three or four attempts to cross the
• 49:12
  border, get in line, wait.
• 49:14
  And until finally, they were given, after however many attempts, I don't
• 49:18
  remember the exact amount.
• 49:19
  I want to say he told me it took him less than two weeks of every day going
• 49:24
  through, and he'd get a different guard.
• 49:27
  Remember, if you're into travel, and if you travel a lot on your passport,
• 49:35
  especially with American passport, you might know how this works.
• 49:39
  Okay.
• 49:40
  But we are treated differently.
• 49:44
  We sometimes don't need visas.
• 49:46
  We just, you know, sometimes you pay some money and you get in, but it's the
• 49:50
  cost of getting in.
• 49:51
  It's like a tourist visa cost you 75 bucks in some places.
• 49:55
  But most times, you just show your ID and they stamp you.
• 49:59
  Now, if I'm coming to Belarus, I have to have a visa.
• 50:03
  And I have a Russian visa that has probably, I don't remember, eight, 10 months
• 50:09
  left on it before it expires, and then I have to get another one.
• 50:13
  And that visa allows me into Belarus to Belarus, I can get into Belarus.
• 50:21
  And so I have to show that at the border.
• 50:24
  And over the last few years, since 2022, the questioning at the border has
• 50:30
  been, well, interesting, to put it mildly.
• 50:35
  This last time coming in, I flew into Vilnius, Lithuania, right, took a bus
• 50:43
  across the border from from Vilnius, across the border and to Minsk in Belarus.
• 50:51
  And at the border, I crossed, they don't see American passports up there.
• 50:54
  And I have a visa, Russian visa, so I'm eligible, you know, I'm not doing
• 50:58
  anything wrong.
• 50:59
  You know, you come in that way, but most people come in through the airport or
• 51:02
  do something else.
• 51:03
  Well, we, you know, when the lady, the border guard checking me out, I
• 51:13
  gave her my passport, which has my visa right in it.
• 51:16
  And she saw it.
• 51:17
  She says, what are you coming for?
• 51:18
  I said, tourism.
• 51:19
  She says, well, how long are you going to be here?
• 51:21
  I told her, she said, what are you going to be doing?
• 51:22
  I told her tourism, you know, I want to see some history and want to go through
• 51:26
  stuff like that.
• 51:27
  She has the discretion to allow me in.
• 51:33
  She also has the right to ask me questions.
• 51:38
  But she didn't.
• 51:39
  She had, well, she asked me a couple of questions, you know, where are you
• 51:41
  going?
• 51:41
  What are you doing?
• 51:42
  And then she just stared at my passport for a while, several minutes, in fact.
• 51:49
  And then she just stamped it, handed it back to me.
• 51:52
  Well, the same thing goes with our border patrol.
• 51:57
  If you're coming through the airport for any country and you doing your
• 52:02
  entrance to get into whatever country you're coming into, that guard there has
• 52:09
  the authority to detain you, to pull you aside, to have you interviewed.
• 52:13
  Last year, when I was coming through to get to Kazan at the airport, they held
• 52:19
  me at the airport and had another person, the next level up, some security
• 52:23
  officer come and talk to me for a little while.
• 52:26
  And, you know, he wanted to look in my phone, wanted to do stuff like that,
• 52:29
  which is all fine.
• 52:30
  Also last year, I came in by highway from Georgia through Otsetia, Abkhazia, I
• 52:39
  don't remember, through, there's a little disputed territory between Georgia
• 52:43
  and Russia.
• 52:45
  And I drove through there.
• 52:46
  And there it took me an hour, you know, sitting in there, I had to wait for
• 52:49
  somebody to come.
• 52:51
  And there were cars backed up forever.
• 52:55
  The car that was given a ride almost left and didn't want to wait anymore.
• 53:00
  And it was like, the other people that were in the car were going, why are we
• 53:03
  waiting for this guy?
• 53:04
  You know, it's not our fault that they wanted to leave.
• 53:07
  The guy didn't leave.
• 53:08
  And I appreciate that.
• 53:09
  But it was, it was interesting because I was being quizzed because of politics
• 53:17
  going on between two countries.
• 53:19
  So if this people, these people can go and have the discretion to get in to the
• 53:24
  United States, then they're here legally, right?
• 53:28
  So this guy that I was telling you about, gets into America, finally, and that
• 53:34
  gives him a date on a card to come in and be seen.
• 53:41
  But it also means he's here legally.
• 53:45
  And if you're here legally, and so there's a lot that you can do.
• 53:49
  And so if you've been inspected by a border agent, that means you are here
• 53:56
  legally.
• 53:57
  Okay?
• 53:58
  If you overstay, then you are illegal.
• 54:02
  But you're not an illegal alien just because you crossed the border.
• 54:08
  And so Republicans, and in part, I agree with this anyway, you know, we just
• 54:13
  opened the borders.
• 54:15
  And the person in charge, the head in the person in charge is the executive
• 54:21
  branch official, Donald Trump.
• 54:24
  And if he says nobody's allowed in, then nobody's allowed in.
• 54:28
  And he can say nobody's illegals aren't crossing the border.
• 54:33
  But they're not illegal if you've allowed them in, right?
• 54:37
  And if they overstay, then they become illegal.
• 54:40
  Anyway, if you can get there legally, that's what you do.
• 54:43
  So the game with these Ukrainian officials who avoid the conscription by paying
• 54:48
  money, selling their apartment, paying money, selling their car, paying the
• 54:52
  money, giving it all to the to the conscription officer, and then after that,
• 54:59
  going to the border, escaping somehow paying the border guard to get yourself
• 55:03
  and your family out, then somehow making your way to Mexico and coming up
• 55:07
  through the border buying a car, hit and miss every single day until they let
• 55:12
  you in.
• 55:12
  Suddenly, you're in the United States legally, whereupon you can apply for the
• 55:18
  you for you program, because now you can claim that you are a refugee.
• 55:25
  And you can do your refugee official and get out of there.
• 55:30
  So all of that backdrop to tell you that Ukrainian locals who are being
• 55:38
  conscripted to fill the holes in the gaps in the front line are, you know,
• 55:47
  still fighting them off, it is still a regular occurrence that they are
• 55:53
  fighting people off.
• 55:56
  And so let's see here, where did my my computer screen just went black.
• 56:04
  So we shall start again.
• 56:07
  And see if we can't join back into our regularly scheduled programming, which
• 56:13
  is me.
• 56:15
  So let's get to where I was, which would be pretty simple.
• 56:22
  There it is.
• 56:25
  Okay.
• 56:25
  So now we're going to talk about Poltava, which is where these Ukrainian locals
• 56:30
  where this process first starts first, they have to avoid conscription
• 56:34
  officers.
• 56:35
  So at the very first step, if you don't have money, and you can't pay to not be
• 56:39
  conscripted and sent to the front line to die, then you're going to be taken
• 56:46
  there plenty of videos, if you have a chance to get on and look at them, you
• 56:49
  can find them on YouTube, they're fun, but YouTube blocks a hell of a lot of
• 56:53
  them, they're far more prevalent on telegram, if you can get to telegram and
• 57:00
  just go look for Ukrainians fighting off recruitment or conscription officers,
• 57:08
  and look for the women Poltava, right.
• 57:12
  And civilians managed to stop like they now they're passers by women and men,
• 57:18
  jumping these conscription officers to make sure that the local guy doesn't get
• 57:23
  dragged off to the front lines.
• 57:25
  So here it is in another video.
• 57:28
  Ukrainian civilians managed to fight off conscription officers and stop the man
• 57:33
  from being forcibly taken away on Wednesday, according to a video that emerged
• 57:39
  online.
• 57:40
  I've seen it.
• 57:42
  Kiv's mobilization drive, supervised by the Territorial Center of Recruitment
• 57:48
  and Social Support, it's a great name, has grown increasingly brutal as
• 57:54
  Ukrainian forces have faced setbacks and troop shortages on the battlefield.
• 58:00
  Campaign is marred by hundreds of incidents, instances of TCR officers beating,
• 58:09
  and I mean beating, these are not, these are not, you know, you're getting
• 58:13
  slapped around, you're getting beaten, kicked, dragged.
• 58:17
  These are, these are bad, has grown increasingly brutal as Ukrainian forces
• 58:23
  have faced setbacks.
• 58:25
  Campaign is hundreds of instances where they're beating the draftees, chasing
• 58:30
  them in the streets, and getting into altercations and threatening bystanders
• 58:35
  who try to interfere.
• 58:37
  Many of these encounters are caught on video because everybody is a TikTok
• 58:41
  star, or a Telegram star.
• 58:43
  A local Telegram channel shared a video Wednesday that shows an attempted
• 58:49
  forced conscription in the city of Gorishny Plavny in Ukraine's Poltava region
• 58:56
  at 7.27 in the park.
• 58:59
  On the way to church, a TCR officer and police officer tried to put a man in a
• 59:04
  blue van.
• 59:05
  A second officer was in the car, said Telegram channel wrote.
• 59:10
  The man was on his way to work, and it shows all these women and men jumping
• 59:16
  him.
• 59:18
  Let's see, and it's in Ukrainian, so I can't read it, I had to read the report.
• 59:23
  One of the officers used pepper spray on the man, and bystanders got involved
• 59:28
  and managed to fight the officers off.
• 59:30
  Ukraine's forced conscription campaign has led to widespread discontent in the
• 59:36
  country, and the TCR's practice of grabbing people off the street is called
• 59:42
  bucification.
• 59:45
  At least 650,000 fighting aged Ukrainian men have fled the country in three and
• 59:53
  a half years of the conflict, said The Telegraph last week.
• 59:57
  Think about that number of people, 650,000.
• 1:00:00
  They're claiming that 1.7 million are dead.
• 1:00:06
  650,000 have left, and all of their money has been given to border guards and
• 1:00:13
  to these conscription guys.
• 1:00:16
  These people are getting rich, but they're not the ones fighting.
• 1:00:19
  They don't rotate out.
• 1:00:21
  They just go beat people up and throw them into the meat grinder on the front
• 1:00:25
  line.
• 1:00:26
  I'm going to share that article with you again on the 1.7 million troops from
• 1:00:31
  the leaked documents.
• 1:00:32
  We're going to talk about that again, because it's Sunday, and as part of this
• 1:00:36
  deep dive, we're going to go all the way.
• 1:00:37
  I'm pre-recording this, actually, on Friday afternoon, but this is for Sunday
• 1:00:42
  night's show that I want to share with you.
• 1:00:45
  If anything has happened to change anything between Friday and Sunday, I
• 1:00:49
  apologize, but so far, there's nothing changed, but I want to make sure that
• 1:00:53
  this is pre-recorded and put out.
• 1:00:55
  Again, I wanted to let you know at about one hour in, which is where we are
• 1:00:59
  right now, that you can always listen to my program on damradio.com forward
• 1:01:08
  slash live on Sunday through Thursday nights from 9pm to 10.30pm. That's
• 1:01:17
  Chicago time for those of you who are interested.
• 1:01:21
  You can also go to international flavor.com and listen to all the
• 1:01:30
  old shows in order.
• 1:01:33
  I suppose you could mix them all up.
• 1:01:35
  You don't have to do it all in order, but all of my old shows are out there,
• 1:01:38
  and you can listen to them as well.
• 1:01:42
  We will go into the 1.7 million troops again, because I think it needs to be
• 1:01:48
  shared.
• 1:01:49
  According to Ukrainian MP Anna Skorokhod, desertions are rising sharply as the
• 1:01:57
  situation at the front deteriorates.
• 1:02:00
  There are reports, I heard 600,000, but she says nearly 400,000 Ukrainian
• 1:02:06
  soldiers have left their units without official leave.
• 1:02:10
  She said earlier this month.
• 1:02:12
  I wonder if they're talking about the people who had abandoned before that,
• 1:02:19
  because they're saying that now it's 400,000.
• 1:02:23
  Maybe she's adding since the whole time it was 600,000.
• 1:02:26
  There are different numbers at the beginning of the week of what those numbers
• 1:02:31
  really were.
• 1:02:33
  We're going to share again these leaked documents on Ukraine and their
• 1:02:42
  1.7 million troop loss as well.
• 1:02:50
  Ukraine has allegedly lost more than 1.7 million troops that are killed and
• 1:02:57
  missing.
• 1:02:58
  This includes missing also multiple media outlets that is citing a digital card
• 1:03:05
  index from the armed forces itself.
• 1:03:09
  This came from Russian hacker groups that claim to have obtained the
• 1:03:13
  information by gaining access to the personal computers and local network of
• 1:03:19
  the Ukrainian general staff.
• 1:03:21
  The database is said to include the full names of deceased soldiers, the
• 1:03:25
  description of the circumstances and places of their death or disappearance,
• 1:03:29
  the personal data, and photos of them.
• 1:03:34
  The entries suggest that since the escalation in 2022, Kyiv has lost a total of
• 1:03:41
  1,721,000 servicemen with 120,000
• 1:03:50
  plus or minus killed in 2022, 405,000 in 2023, 595,000
• 1:04:00
  in 2024, and so far this year, 621,000
• 1:04:08
  in 2025.
• 1:04:11
  It's not getting better.
• 1:04:13
  It is getting worse.
• 1:04:16
  Hackers from the group Killnet, Pollack Pro, UserSec, and Beregini are said to
• 1:04:23
  have obtained terabytes of info about the Ukrainian military.
• 1:04:27
  I wonder if they're going to release it somewhere, if they're going to put it
• 1:04:31
  out on a website somewhere that you can pay to access.
• 1:04:35
  I don't know.
• 1:04:36
  Aside from personnel losses, the group also possesses the personnel data of the
• 1:04:40
  command of the special operation forces and the main intelligent directorate,
• 1:04:46
  listing all countries that supplied weapons to Kyiv and all weapons transferred
• 1:04:51
  from 2022 to 2025.
• 1:04:54
  This casualty estimate far exceeds losses reported by Kyiv.
• 1:05:01
  Zelensky himself is living in a dream world.
• 1:05:04
  In February, he said that the number, he told CBS that since 2022, and he said,
• 1:05:14
  that was just this year he said this, and it was three years then.
• 1:05:18
  He's saying in three years that only 46,000 soldiers had been killed and 380
• 1:05:24
  ,000 wounded.
• 1:05:26
  These are complete lies that he was pumping sunshine up the butt of CBS News.
• 1:05:34
  The estimate was questioned then.
• 1:05:36
  I certainly questioned it.
• 1:05:38
  I didn't question it.
• 1:05:39
  I downright called him a liar.
• 1:05:41
  That's not accurate, not remotely.
• 1:05:45
  Francis LeMond reported last month that the real death toll is much higher and
• 1:05:51
  citing Ukraine's increased efforts just to build military cemeteries.
• 1:05:55
  I read that article to you a couple of weeks ago.
• 1:05:58
  Russian military has consistently reported a much higher casualties among
• 1:06:02
  Ukrainian servicemen and claimed that their losses surged following the
• 1:06:08
  unsuccessful counter operation in 2023.
• 1:06:12
  Hell, they said that after the Kursk operation began, there were nearly 70,000
• 1:06:18
  dead Ukrainian men, soldiers just in Kursk, just in Kursk from August of last
• 1:06:28
  year until December.
• 1:06:30
  Crazy.
• 1:06:32
  This war needs to end.
• 1:06:35
  So far, we have no real news on that end.
• 1:06:40
  I mean, what has happened this week?
• 1:06:41
  Seriously, we had the meeting.
• 1:06:42
  We had the meeting.
• 1:06:43
  The meeting occurred in the White House.
• 1:06:47
  Then what?
• 1:06:49
  What happened after that?
• 1:06:52
  Nothing exciting has happened after that.
• 1:06:55
  So let's talk about Russiagate.
• 1:07:01
  Why don't we get to Russiagate?
• 1:07:04
  So the economist is saying that this officer that lost her job played a key
• 1:07:11
  role in the claims that Moscow meddled in the 2016 election against the old
• 1:07:17
  Hillary monster and Trump won in 2016.
• 1:07:22
  But why?
• 1:07:23
  Because of Russian disinformation, because Russia stole the election from
• 1:07:27
  Hillary Clinton.
• 1:07:28
  Hillary was in election denial forever.
• 1:07:32
  After 2020, I mean, when everybody was saying, wait a minute, that ain't right
• 1:07:39
  with what happened when Biden won and shouldn't have and nobody believes he
• 1:07:44
  did.
• 1:07:45
  Well, now people are much more willing to believe that some shenanigans were
• 1:07:52
  going on the other side.
• 1:07:53
  And now finally, somebody lost a job.
• 1:07:56
  Holy crap.
• 1:07:57
  Is somebody going to be held accountable?
• 1:08:00
  Unbelievable.
• 1:08:01
  Unheard of.
• 1:08:03
  Unprecedented that people are going to be held accountable.
• 1:08:06
  Oh, my goodness.
• 1:08:08
  One of the CIA's senior Russia analysts lost her job during President Trump's
• 1:08:17
  damn campaign to depoliticize intelligence, the economist reported on Thursday.
• 1:08:24
  The officer's identity was not disclosed.
• 1:08:28
  But she oversaw the drafting of a report that accused Russia of interfering in
• 1:08:33
  the 2016 US presidential elections.
• 1:08:37
  Oh, my God, did this really happen?
• 1:08:40
  Who'd have thunk it?
• 1:08:41
  Who could believe it?
• 1:08:43
  The economist described her as the country's top intelligence officer for
• 1:08:50
  Russia and Eurasia, who coordinated operations related to the former Soviet
• 1:08:55
  Union.
• 1:08:56
  According to the outlet, her security clearance was revoked in August 19, along
• 1:09:02
  with 36 other current and former officials.
• 1:09:07
  Well, you know, that's one way to fight these a-holes is to revoke their
• 1:09:11
  clearances, because that is greatly in control of the president to grant or
• 1:09:18
  deny, right?
• 1:09:20
  The Kremlin denied the allegations of election meddling, of course, while Trump
• 1:09:26
  and the Republicans denounced these things as a hoax put together by Barack
• 1:09:33
  Obama and Democrats to delegitimize Trump's first election victory and to
• 1:09:38
  undermine his presidency.
• 1:09:41
  Can you believe that sort of thing happens in America?
• 1:09:44
  I can't imagine that such things occur in America.
• 1:09:48
  We have a thriving democracy where these sorts of things just cannot occur.
• 1:09:53
  Can they?
• 1:09:54
  You know why they occur?
• 1:09:56
  They occur because you're always voting in the same assholes.
• 1:10:01
  Quit voting in the same a-holes and move on to somebody else.
• 1:10:07
  Put together, use my example if you must, or create your own.
• 1:10:11
  Never vote for the incumbent.
• 1:10:14
  Give him one shot.
• 1:10:16
  Let him be reelected to a second term.
• 1:10:19
  But after that, don't vote him in.
• 1:10:22
  Now, I've had arguments about this with people whose opinions I respect.
• 1:10:26
  And they say, well, but don't you want some kind of a professional that turns
• 1:10:30
  out to be a professional politician?
• 1:10:32
  If that is what we got, sure.
• 1:10:35
  But that's not what you get.
• 1:10:37
  You get complete a-holes who all they're doing is looking for, they're
• 1:10:41
  jockeying for the next position.
• 1:10:42
  I mean, let's pick Josh Hawley, Missouri fair golden child, right?
• 1:10:50
  All he's doing right now, everything he does is to get recognition so that next
• 1:10:55
  time, he can throw his hat in the ring to be the president.
• 1:10:59
  That's it.
• 1:11:00
  He ain't doing it for you.
• 1:11:02
  There ain't a damn thing he's doing for you.
• 1:11:04
  He's doing it because it will look good for the next level he wants to look in.
• 1:11:09
  And I don't mean to pick on him.
• 1:11:11
  A lot of people are doing that.
• 1:11:12
  He's just pretty good at it.
• 1:11:14
  You'll always see him with his glad handing somebody.
• 1:11:19
  You'll always see that.
• 1:11:21
  That's just what he does.
• 1:11:22
  And more power to him.
• 1:11:23
  Good luck to him.
• 1:11:24
  Good for him.
• 1:11:26
  But don't act like he's doing this for you people, because he's not.
• 1:11:30
  Nothing that he does is done for you.
• 1:11:33
  Everything that he does is looking for the next level.
• 1:11:37
  And so these people need to be stopped.
• 1:11:40
  Because if it ever becomes about you, then you have a real person.
• 1:11:46
  Like the cab driver said to me today, and why would I pick somebody?
• 1:11:51
  Why would I support?
• 1:11:52
  Why would Americans support somebody like Donald Trump?
• 1:11:55
  Part of it is because we romantically, we want nostalgically to believe that
• 1:12:03
  our country isn't the shit show it has become with a corrupt judiciary, a
• 1:12:10
  corrupt executive branch, and a very corrupt legislative branch.
• 1:12:16
  All of them are in a shambles.
• 1:12:19
  All of them are run by people who either are the rings of power or kiss the
• 1:12:26
  rings of power, neither of which are who you need to run a country.
• 1:12:29
  You need people to run the country who are people of principle and of value.
• 1:12:33
  And those values only are good, in my opinion, for a limited period of time.
• 1:12:40
  And they don't exist after a certain period of time.
• 1:12:42
  Now, remember, I've said that I think that everybody who gets into government
• 1:12:48
  service ought to be limited to 20 years no matter what, that you can't work for
• 1:12:53
  the government for more than 20 years.
• 1:12:54
  Give them a full retirement afterward.
• 1:12:56
  You can't do it.
• 1:12:57
  You can't be associated with it.
• 1:12:58
  You can't do anything.
• 1:13:00
  And in any sort of positions, you can't do it for longer than 20 years.
• 1:13:04
  Now, let's say you get elected into your last position at 19.
• 1:13:08
  And I'm not creating this plan.
• 1:13:10
  I'm just saying that I think it ought to be something similar.
• 1:13:13
  So if you get elected in your 19th year to a position that takes four years or
• 1:13:19
  six years, fine, finish out your term.
• 1:13:21
  But that's the end.
• 1:13:22
  You can't run again.
• 1:13:24
  You got to get out.
• 1:13:25
  We don't want Nancy Pelosi sitting there for 50 years.
• 1:13:28
  We don't want frigging Mitch McConnell in there forever.
• 1:13:32
  Are you kidding me?
• 1:13:33
  These people are worthless as tits on a bull.
• 1:13:36
  You don't want them in there forever.
• 1:13:38
  They don't do anything except more of the same.
• 1:13:42
  They create your globalism.
• 1:13:44
  They're destroying the world, and arguably the US right along with it.
• 1:13:48
  But it used to be they could get away with it, but we could go into a lecture
• 1:13:52
  on that topic another day.
• 1:13:54
  And we will when we get into BRICS one more time this week.
• 1:13:57
  But no BRICS today.
• 1:13:58
  We're still on the topic of Ukraine and how zero has happened since all of my
• 1:14:04
  prep and all of my excitement about what was going on in Alaska.
• 1:14:11
  Nothing burger ever since.
• 1:14:15
  Instead, we're still here.
• 1:14:18
  Wow.
• 1:14:21
  Anyway, since mid-July, the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard,
• 1:14:27
  has released multiple documents, sheet claims exposed a coordinated effort by
• 1:14:32
  senior Obama officials to accuse Trump of colluding with Russia.
• 1:14:38
  Earlier this week, she announced the Office of Director of National
• 1:14:43
  Intelligence, which oversees 18 agencies, is going to be reduced by 50%.
• 1:14:47
  The US intelligence community has become plagued with unauthorized intelligence
• 1:14:52
  leaks, politicization and weaponization of intelligence.
• 1:14:59
  I would argue that it certainly lacks intelligence.
• 1:15:03
  That'd be me.
• 1:15:05
  Gabbard said the Foreign Malign Influence Center, FMIC, created by Congress in
• 1:15:10
  the wake of Russiagate, will be significantly scaled back and stripped of some
• 1:15:15
  of its core functions.
• 1:15:17
  And it needs to be.
• 1:15:19
  You know, it says, remember, Trump has said, and there's this cool, what would
• 1:15:25
  you call it?
• 1:15:27
  A, what do they call those things where you draw boxes and arrows, and it's a
• 1:15:33
  flow, like a flowchart, I suppose it would be that you have this flowchart of
• 1:15:38
  the, that's available online.
• 1:15:42
  And you can read it.
• 1:15:44
  It's a Tulsi Gabbard put out that you can, I'm going to save the image.
• 1:15:48
  Maybe I'll use it as the cover for tonight's show.
• 1:15:50
  That would be fun, wouldn't it?
• 1:15:53
  And I think I will save it as one of the logos, and maybe see if I can put that
• 1:16:01
  in as one of the, we're going to call it Russiagate, and see if I can put it on
• 1:16:09
  as the logo.
• 1:16:11
  Damn it, it only saved as gate.
• 1:16:13
  Remember, but well, I'm a poor typist.
• 1:16:20
  Boy, I just remembered something from the army.
• 1:16:23
  But I won't share it with you because it involves the use of some bad words.
• 1:16:29
  And so I'm not going to include it.
• 1:16:30
  But let's say about President Donald Trump has said his 2016 election rival,
• 1:16:36
  Hillary Clinton, and former President Barack Obama and others involved in the
• 1:16:42
  Russiagate affair should pay a big price for orchestrating what he has called a
• 1:16:50
  deliberate attempt to sabotage his presidency.
• 1:16:56
  Hard to believe, isn't it?
• 1:16:57
  That something like this could happen in America?
• 1:17:00
  Oh, no.
• 1:17:01
  In an interview Friday with Newsmax host Rob Finnerty, Trump commented on newly
• 1:17:08
  declassified material from the annex to special counsel John Durham's 2023
• 1:17:14
  report on the Russiagate hoax that ties Clinton's 2016 campaign and senior
• 1:17:23
  Obama era officials to a coordinated effort to link Trump to Russia.
• 1:17:30
  Well, I don't know that that's a bad thing, even if they do link him to Russia.
• 1:17:35
  But who really gives a rip?
• 1:17:36
  You know, Russia we have turned into an enemy that wasn't anyway.
• 1:17:41
  So Trump has resisted that, you know, that that has happened.
• 1:17:44
  But here's some of his quotes.
• 1:17:46
  Ready?
• 1:17:46
  I think they should pay a price.
• 1:17:48
  By the way, it's a very big price.
• 1:17:51
  So maybe he's going to make them pay a price for that to have gone on.
• 1:17:56
  It's one of the great scandals, I think, in the history of our country.
• 1:18:01
  I know it is, he said.
• 1:18:04
  Trump accused Obama of personally approving and encouraging Clinton's plan to
• 1:18:10
  fabricate claims of Russian collusion, citing declassified documents released
• 1:18:17
  this week by Senator Chuck Grassley.
• 1:18:21
  Obama knew about it.
• 1:18:24
  We have him cold.
• 1:18:25
  Durham has it in writing.
• 1:18:27
  You could almost say that Obama was more of the mastermind.
• 1:18:31
  He heard what she was doing, and then he approved it.
• 1:18:34
  Not only approved it, he pushed it, according to Trump.
• 1:18:39
  Trump described the campaign as totally fake conspiracy.
• 1:18:44
  Oh, I like how Trump talks.
• 1:18:49
  This totally fake conspiracy that inflicted immense damage on innocent people
• 1:18:55
  and on the country itself.
• 1:18:58
  When asked whether Clinton should face consequences, what do you think he said?
• 1:19:03
  He recalled choosing not to pursue criminal charges after his 2016 victory,
• 1:19:09
  despite pressure from his supporters to lock her up.
• 1:19:15
  I had her right under the sights, and I told people, look, you can't do this to
• 1:19:22
  an ex-president's wife.
• 1:19:24
  And I let Hillary off the hook, he said.
• 1:19:27
  And then I came in, and they did the same thing to me.
• 1:19:32
  The difference is they meant it.
• 1:19:35
  They came after him, right?
• 1:19:38
  Isn't that terrible?
• 1:19:40
  And I really do think that's terrible.
• 1:19:41
  That's why I think we shouldn't do it even now.
• 1:19:46
  And I hate, you know, people accuse me of playing nice guy or trying to get,
• 1:19:50
  but at what point does it end?
• 1:19:52
  At what point do you stop upping the ante?
• 1:19:56
  And everybody says this, and people like me get beat up for it, and lately so.
• 1:20:04
  You know, but I don't know the right answer, but man, I think it's just dirty
• 1:20:10
  and nasty to do the same thing to others just because they did it to you.
• 1:20:18
  And I don't know, I've never been the biggest of turn the other cheek sorts of
• 1:20:22
  people, but assholes are out there.
• 1:20:29
  Bad people are out there.
• 1:20:31
  Perhaps part of the game is trying not to become one yourself.
• 1:20:37
  Maybe we do need an a-hole nowadays?
• 1:20:41
  I don't know.
• 1:20:43
  Despite his calls for accountability, Trump emphasized that he will not
• 1:20:48
  interfere with the process.
• 1:20:50
  He said the decision on indictment would rest with Attorney General Bondi, whom
• 1:20:56
  he said is doing a terrific job.
• 1:21:01
  His interview follows declassification of documents by Director of Intelligence
• 1:21:08
  Tulsi Gabbard, which alleged that Clinton's operatives, with assistance from
• 1:21:15
  George Soros-linked organizations, orchestrated the Trump-Russia narrative and
• 1:21:23
  expected the FBI to play an active role in advancing it.
• 1:21:30
  Isn't that terrible?
• 1:21:33
  I can't imagine that we have to put up with these things in America, but we do.
• 1:21:39
  These things happen all of the time.
• 1:21:43
  And I don't think they're going to get rid of it.
• 1:21:55
  Where's Lindsey Graham these days?
• 1:21:57
  Have we heard anything from him lately?
• 1:22:04
  I shared with you a little bit about the EU leaders going to Washington to cry
• 1:22:11
  about security guarantees.
• 1:22:14
  And I think for them, something has to happen.
• 1:22:18
  What security guarantees mean, what they really mean by security guarantee, is
• 1:22:24
  Western Europe, through NATO, funding America's military industrial
• 1:22:34
  complex.
• 1:22:34
  Well, I was watching Trump's meeting the other day with all these EU leaders.
• 1:22:41
  And if you haven't watched it, there's a good half hour version that you can go
• 1:22:45
  and at least see the opening legs of it all, right?
• 1:22:49
  Where Trump goes around the table and lets everybody speak.
• 1:22:52
  If you haven't seen it, you probably should.
• 1:22:54
  I thought about playing it for you.
• 1:22:56
  And maybe I will at some point this week, just because it's comical.
• 1:23:01
  And if nothing happens, I probably will, because I was certainly expecting
• 1:23:05
  something to happen a little quicker.
• 1:23:08
  I was too optimistic for the wheels to spin, and they didn't spin.
• 1:23:15
  Nothing has happened.
• 1:23:17
  But security guarantees is really just Western Europe funding the military
• 1:23:25
  industrial complex of America.
• 1:23:28
  And call it a good deal on behalf of Trump, right?
• 1:23:31
  It doesn't end the war in Ukraine.
• 1:23:32
  In fact, it'll prolong it.
• 1:23:35
  But if Trump agrees to sell $100 million worth of more weapons to Ukraine, and
• 1:23:42
  his big point of it is saying, well, wait a minute, we're not paying for it.
• 1:23:49
  And so therefore, you know, we're not involved.
• 1:23:53
  I suppose that's true.
• 1:23:54
  But agreeing to sell it, the fact is the EU couldn't get it from anywhere else
• 1:24:00
  except us.
• 1:24:01
  And arguably, you know, if they do get it from us, it's going to...
• 1:24:05
  The spares are already gone.
• 1:24:07
  By all estimates, all of the spares that the US military had in Europe and here
• 1:24:14
  are gone.
• 1:24:16
  Patriots, what were they saying that patriots were going to take six years to
• 1:24:19
  get the amount of patriots that the Z-Man is after?
• 1:24:24
  Because Russia's already blown them all up.
• 1:24:26
  Think of all the patriot systems that Russia has taken out.
• 1:24:30
  And some of the other countries don't want to give up their patriots.
• 1:24:35
  They're going, no, we're not giving our patriots up.
• 1:24:37
  What are you nuts?
• 1:24:38
  What if Russia comes after us in 2030, like we claim?
• 1:24:41
  I don't believe that to be true.
• 1:24:42
  I think they're all nuts.
• 1:24:44
  But they're not giving them up.
• 1:24:46
  And so they want to buy them direct from us.
• 1:24:48
  They want to buy whatever spares the US has.
• 1:24:51
  But we don't have any spares either.
• 1:24:53
  All our spares were already in Europe.
• 1:24:55
  And so the only way to get them is to produce more, and they can't produce fast
• 1:24:59
  enough to get Ukraine what they want.
• 1:25:02
  So if we're given $100 million worth of weaponry out of our already short
• 1:25:10
  supply to Ukraine, funded by NATO, are we really not involved?
• 1:25:17
  Or are we actually involved?
• 1:25:20
  On the other hand, we are involved.
• 1:25:25
  Curious, isn't it?
• 1:25:27
  So anyway, this $100 million is one.
• 1:25:34
  But there's a second part to that.
• 1:25:36
  Part two to that is, first of all, number one, part one, remember, is security
• 1:25:41
  guarantee really means NATO funding US military industrial through the 5%
• 1:25:48
  increase in NATO funding.
• 1:25:50
  And all this is good financially, you know, it doesn't pay any attention to
• 1:25:54
  global economics at all.
• 1:25:55
  But for the US, it actually may stop part of the decline, right?
• 1:26:00
  Because we're selling another product to the rest of the West.
• 1:26:06
  Okay.
• 1:26:06
  But on part two of that same equation, is peace in Ukraine is going to destroy
• 1:26:13
  the EU.
• 1:26:15
  Anyway, okay, they can't have peace in in Ukraine, or the EU is hosed.
• 1:26:22
  Okay.
• 1:26:23
  And this idea is has been bashed around a little bit passed around.
• 1:26:30
  And there are people that are saying that, geez, they have to have the war, or
• 1:26:37
  that Europe itself cannot continue to develop, cannot continue to, I
• 1:26:47
  don't know what, spend some, you know, spend more money and whatnot.
• 1:26:51
  Can't, it's, it's totally less than helpful for the EU.
• 1:26:56
  And for NATO, if Ukraine, if the war ends in Ukraine, especially with them not
• 1:27:02
  getting back any of the resources that Russia has taken the territories for the
• 1:27:11
  uranium, the nuclear power plant, any other places, right, that they have lost.
• 1:27:17
  But if they keep on in this chain, they could also lose Odessa.
• 1:27:22
  And that, you know, that's a long shot, in my opinion, and always has been, but
• 1:27:27
  if they're going to continue on in this respect, it's a possibility.
• 1:27:31
  So but the prospects for an end to the Ukrainian war have never been so good.
• 1:27:37
  Although I wonder what the hell's happened in this past week.
• 1:27:43
  Despite, you know, the fact that European attempts to play spoiler through
• 1:27:51
  through, you know, they want to continue the war, you know, they want to
• 1:27:55
  continue it, but there's still a good chance that this war will be over, right?
• 1:28:02
  There's an almost peace, there's an almost peace movement, like, geez, we're
• 1:28:10
  close, we're close people like me, even.
• 1:28:13
  And initially, I was extremely cynical about the meeting in Alaska anyway.
• 1:28:17
  And then I and then I was like, wow, that may have actually something coming.
• 1:28:20
  Now I'm back to cynic.
• 1:28:22
  I don't want to be a cynic.
• 1:28:23
  I want to be the guy that goes, man, it's freaking great.
• 1:28:25
  Trump got something done.
• 1:28:26
  But so far, there's nothing there.
• 1:28:28
  However, they're still saying there's still a real chance that the presence of
• 1:28:32
  Russia and, you know, the US, Putin and Trump will persuade, if you want wish
• 1:28:42
  to say both the both of the Zelensky regime in Kiev and the remaining NATO EU
• 1:28:50
  Europe group to return to reality to accept defeat, except the fact that Russia
• 1:28:59
  is winning the war on the ground, and that peace will only bring losses for
• 1:29:08
  Ukraine to an end.
• 1:29:12
  Don't you think that would be a good thing?
• 1:29:14
  But it also brings an end to these, to the losses of these Western European
• 1:29:21
  losers, right?
• 1:29:23
  They will quit losing, right?
• 1:29:29
  Peace is still in the future, I hope.
• 1:29:34
  We can already think about the consequences of peace.
• 1:29:38
  Regarding the 32 European countries that are in NATO, the EU, or both.
• 1:29:45
  This is usually done with an eye toward military posture, foreign policy and
• 1:29:50
  the economy.
• 1:29:52
  How long will it take for the hysterical predictions of a Russian attack on
• 1:29:57
  Warsaw, Berlin and Luxembourg to wear off?
• 1:30:01
  These people have been lying about this since the beginning of this.
• 1:30:04
  This is what justified the war.
• 1:30:07
  Fight them now in Ukraine, says Lindsey Graham, or expect them in Europe.
• 1:30:13
  Russia had never had any intention of going to Europe.
• 1:30:16
  They didn't even want to go here, right?
• 1:30:20
  How long is it going to take for this to wear off?
• 1:30:24
  What will happen to the new debt-driven monster of militarism?
• 1:30:30
  Will NATO and the EU Europeans ever be sensible enough to discover diplomacy
• 1:30:35
  and cooperate with Russia?
• 1:30:38
  If so, when?
• 1:30:39
  Before or after they collapse under the weight of energy prices?
• 1:30:44
  Paid to the US, by the way.
• 1:30:47
  Deindustrialization and their own public debt.
• 1:30:49
  They're funding money through the EU to have advanced military on a stupid
• 1:30:56
  belief that Russia wants to come to Warsaw and come to Berlin and come to
• 1:31:02
  Luxembourg or Paris.
• 1:31:05
  Nonsense, every bit of it.
• 1:31:07
  And these are the assholes pushing this agenda.
• 1:31:10
  They're the people from the EU, the people that visited Trump in the office
• 1:31:16
  with Zelensky.
• 1:31:17
  Somebody, and I think it's going to have to be, and I said this last week,
• 1:31:21
  nothing has happened, maybe it's just not quick enough for me, that Putin and
• 1:31:26
  Trump need to just force it and say, here's what we have decided.
• 1:31:30
  The rest of you can kiss our hairy white behinds.
• 1:31:35
  This is it.
• 1:31:36
  We've decided and it's done.
• 1:31:38
  And if you don't like it, lump it because we're going to cut you off.
• 1:31:43
  We're not going to sell you another $100 million worth of weapons because we're
• 1:31:47
  low on ours in the US.
• 1:31:48
  And we think it's foolish to think that you need to plan for war in 2030.
• 1:31:53
  Anyway, you want to continue to buy our weapons outside of that, fine.
• 1:31:58
  But we're going to make sure that our supplies are stocked up first, because
• 1:32:02
  remember, Hegseth said not two months ago, said that there wasn't enough
• 1:32:05
  weaponry to spare in the US.
• 1:32:09
  Russia, meanwhile, is producing on all cylinders.
• 1:32:12
  They're doing pretty well.
• 1:32:14
  The answer to all the questions above will depend on how the domestic politics
• 1:32:19
  of key European states develop, right?
• 1:32:24
  In that respect, the single most important question about the future of
• 1:32:27
  Europe's currently rising, even the new right, which is an umbrella term for
• 1:32:32
  parties that are commonly labeled, right, populist, hard right, far right, you
• 1:32:37
  know, same as here in the United States, the Trumpster, right?
• 1:32:40
  But this logic also works the other way around.
• 1:32:43
  If the Ukraine war ends, mostly on Moscow's terms, as now supported even by
• 1:32:49
  Washington, this piece will inevitably influence politics inside NATO, EU,
• 1:32:55
  Europe, and in particular, the chances of the new right.
• 1:33:00
  Now they're no longer mutually exclusive.
• 1:33:03
  They're one movement, don't you think?
• 1:33:06
  The new right advance is especially significant in France, Germany, and Great
• 1:33:12
  Britain.
• 1:33:12
  They have in common their respective new right parties, called Rassemblement
• 1:33:18
  Nationale, Reform UK, and Alternative für Deutschland.
• 1:33:22
  They are all leading in national polls.
• 1:33:25
  While this is similar to several other European groups, such as Spain and
• 1:33:32
  Austria, the British, French, and German cases are special because their
• 1:33:35
  economic and political weight.
• 1:33:38
  The new right surge is not new.
• 1:33:41
  It's been building for 20 years.
• 1:33:43
  And some observers have already said that it is accomplished.
• 1:33:49
  It was last spring, in the run-up to the EU parliamentary election, that
• 1:33:55
  Politico even acknowledged that the long-standing effort to keep the new right
• 1:34:02
  out of government is officially over.
• 1:34:06
  That turned out to be a little premature.
• 1:34:09
  In Austria, Germany, and France, current government setups are still based on
• 1:34:13
  excluding the new right.
• 1:34:15
  Yet sometimes another word for premature is prophetic.
• 1:34:19
  The pressure from the new right parties has not slackened, but has gone up.
• 1:34:25
  Current measures to ignore their popular backing at all costs have a whiff of
• 1:34:29
  despair about them.
• 1:34:32
  Take, for instance, the case of Germany and Romania.
• 1:34:37
  For Ian Bremmer, a popular American geopolitical consultant, commentator, and
• 1:34:42
  reliable organ of the centrist mainstream party line, they stand for success in
• 1:34:51
  fending off the new right.
• 1:34:54
  Yet ironically, in both cases, not for the reasons Bremmer imagines, in Germany
• 1:35:00
  and Romania, elections this year produce centrist governments despite a rise in
• 1:35:08
  support of the far right.
• 1:35:10
  What he forgets to mention is that in both cases, these victories were the
• 1:35:15
  outcome of foul play.
• 1:35:17
  This is what happened.
• 1:35:18
  Like in America, they have to attack Trump in order to beat the far right, but
• 1:35:24
  it's happening all over the world.
• 1:35:27
  In Romania, on the fringes of the EU, the methods used were particularly brutal
• 1:35:33
  and shameless.
• 1:35:35
  A massive challenge from the new right under Gorgiascu could only be stopped by
• 1:35:41
  flagrant lawfare.
• 1:35:43
  Without it, Bucharest would already have a new right president, just like
• 1:35:48
  Warsaw.
• 1:35:51
  In Germany, the land of order and rules, things are only a little more subtle.
• 1:36:00
  To keep Berlin centrist, despite the electoral breakthrough of the AFD, two
• 1:36:06
  things were done.
• 1:36:09
  One, merely against the spirit of the constitution.
• 1:36:13
  The other, in all likelihood, amounting to either literally unbelievable
• 1:36:18
  incompetence or deliberate electoral falsification.
• 1:36:23
  The so-called firewall, an establishment policy to treat AFD unlike all other
• 1:36:32
  parties and exclude it from coalition building, is an offense to basic
• 1:36:39
  fairness, as well as German constitutional substance, since it treats the votes
• 1:36:45
  of AFD voters as having lesser weight.
• 1:36:50
  This makes a real and decisive difference.
• 1:36:53
  Without this firewall, the new right centrist coalition would already be in
• 1:36:59
  charge in Berlin.
• 1:37:01
  Isn't this nuts, people?
• 1:37:03
  They're actually doing it in other countries.
• 1:37:05
  People are starting to think of their own countries first, and the globalists
• 1:37:09
  don't like it, and the centrists do not like it.
• 1:37:12
  The Clintons and Obamas of the world do not like it.
• 1:37:16
  The other dirty trick, without which the current German government could not
• 1:37:21
  have been made, was to misplace a large number of votes.
• 1:37:27
  No one knows exactly how many, because the urgently needed nationwide recount
• 1:37:33
  was stalled.
• 1:37:35
  For its insurgent challenger from the left, Sarah Wagenknecht's BSW.
• 1:37:40
  Otherwise, the BSW would almost certainly have taken enough seats in the new
• 1:37:44
  parliament to make the current ruling coalition arithmetically impossible.
• 1:37:50
  German democracy has the dubious, yet not unique, distinction of having
• 1:37:55
  systematically disadvantaged both the new right and new left parties to save
• 1:38:04
  itself from, in effect, its own citizens.
• 1:38:09
  Isn't this nuts?
• 1:38:12
  Add the case of France, another country where an electoral outcome was
• 1:38:16
  manipulated shamelessly, in effect, to disenfranchise both the new right and
• 1:38:22
  new left voters, and the question becomes even more obvious.
• 1:38:27
  How much more of this kind of chicanery before the word democracy loses any
• 1:38:34
  meaning it may still have?
• 1:38:37
  Crucially, the methods that Europe's centrists use to hold back the new right's
• 1:38:42
  advance undermine the centrist credibility and increase that of the new right,
• 1:38:48
  not to even speak of the obvious boost that the European new right is getting
• 1:38:55
  from the success of the U.S. counterpart.
• 1:38:59
  So here we are, driven by voters' concerns over immigration.
• 1:39:04
  This is Europe 2, people.
• 1:39:06
  Let's see if any of this rings a bell in America, okay?
• 1:39:10
  Driven by voter concerns over immigration, the economy, social and cultural
• 1:39:14
  norms, and the general failure of cynical elites to care, Europe's new right is
• 1:39:20
  on the offensive.
• 1:39:21
  Centrist defenses are desperate and counterproductive, and help from daddy
• 1:39:25
  across the Atlantic won't come for the centrists but for the new right.
• 1:39:31
  While its lead is not overwhelming, and the timelines of national elections as
• 1:39:37
  well as the complications of coalition buildings mean it's too early for firm
• 1:39:43
  predictions, one thing is clear.
• 1:39:45
  There's a real possibility that one or several domestic politics earthquakes
• 1:39:52
  with far-reaching consequences are on the horizon for international politics.
• 1:40:00
  Isn't that the truth?
• 1:40:02
  It's no wonder that Russian leadership makes no secret out of watching
• 1:40:10
  attentively, as is its right.
• 1:40:13
  In fact, duty as a matter of due diligence to its own foreign policy.
• 1:40:18
  Because the obvious question is, what would new right participation in or
• 1:40:26
  domination of government mean in France?
• 1:40:32
  In Germany?
• 1:40:33
  Or in Britain?
• 1:40:35
  The three problem-ridden but comparatively powerful NATO countries that are
• 1:40:41
  home to Europe's biggest economies and have traditionally set much of the
• 1:40:47
  political tone.
• 1:40:49
  What would the effect be of an end to the war in Ukraine?
• 1:40:54
  In effect, a Russian victory on the new right's chances to make these
• 1:41:00
  earthquakes actually happen.
• 1:41:02
  I think they go up hugely.
• 1:41:05
  In France, Germany, and Great Britain, centrist politicians and their
• 1:41:09
  mainstream media have long charged the new right was serving Russia.
• 1:41:13
  The same thing they did in America.
• 1:41:16
  Trump is Russia.
• 1:41:17
  Trump is Putin.
• 1:41:19
  You are a Putin lover if you say anything about it.
• 1:41:23
  But Russia is nationalist.
• 1:41:25
  Russia is patriotic.
• 1:41:28
  America is patriotic.
• 1:41:30
  Most of the right people are not necessarily bashing other places.
• 1:41:36
  They just say it shouldn't be a sin or against the law or a crime to support
• 1:41:43
  your own nationality and not destroy it on purpose.
• 1:41:47
  What's wrong with that?
• 1:41:48
  They're seeing it all over the place.
• 1:41:51
  France, Germany, Great Britain, Romania.
• 1:41:56
  Think about it.
• 1:41:57
  Moldova.
• 1:41:59
  Pick them.
• 1:42:00
  They're all seeing it.
• 1:42:01
  But the only people they want to support it for is Ukraine.
• 1:42:05
  We're supposed to be ultra-Ukrainian nationalists.
• 1:42:11
  We're supposed to be flying the swastika if we're in Ukraine.
• 1:42:15
  We're supposed to be having SS symbols in our military units if we're in
• 1:42:19
  Ukraine.
• 1:42:20
  But everywhere else, if you speak nationalism, you're a bad guy.
• 1:42:26
  But not so in Ukraine.
• 1:42:27
  But this whole story is about defeating that sort of of
• 1:42:35
  coalition building.
• 1:42:39
  But the right is the right and the right is growing.
• 1:42:44
  The pendulum is going to the right right now.
• 1:42:47
  And of course, it will always go back to the left.
• 1:42:49
  That's what it does.
• 1:42:50
  You know it'll go there and we will talk about it.
• 1:42:53
  In France, Germany, and Great Britain, centrist politicians and the mainstream
• 1:42:57
  media, same in America, friends and neighbors, have long charged the new right
• 1:43:03
  of serving Russia.
• 1:43:06
  Genuine affinities and ideological and political aims, whether you like or
• 1:43:11
  dislike those aims is a different matter, have been maliciously misread as in
• 1:43:17
  effect nothing but an outcome of Russian subterfuge and bribery.
• 1:43:24
  Right?
• 1:43:25
  Russia, Russia, Russia.
• 1:43:26
  Russia has done all of this.
• 1:43:29
  Russia gate.
• 1:43:30
  Russia controlling American elections.
• 1:43:33
  Right?
• 1:43:34
  This same logic never applies to the massive, almost indecent overlip of
• 1:43:41
  centrist positions that has produced, for instance, Atlanticism.
• 1:43:48
  If Europeans align with Washington positions, as the rule implies, that must be
• 1:43:54
  their free choice.
• 1:43:56
  Right?
• 1:43:57
  They weren't influenced.
• 1:43:58
  It wasn't America, America, America.
• 1:44:01
  It wasn't US, US, US.
• 1:44:03
  Russia, Russia, Russia.
• 1:44:05
  But in Europe, you're allowed to be subversive.
• 1:44:10
  You're allowed to kiss the rear end of Donald Trump and come over and slobber
• 1:44:15
  all over yourself.
• 1:44:16
  You're allowed to force Zelensky to wear a freaking suit coat.
• 1:44:21
  Holy crap.
• 1:44:22
  Now that's some kissing ass, don't you think?
• 1:44:25
  You got that guy in a suit coat.
• 1:44:28
  Wow, that's really doing something.
• 1:44:30
  You have changed the world right there.
• 1:44:34
  Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 1:44:36
  Such free choice could not possibly have anything to do with American
• 1:44:41
  influence, channeled through, for instance, US Agency for International
• 1:44:48
  Development, mainstream media, global think tanks, and of course, covert
• 1:44:54
  organizations as well.
• 1:44:57
  The CIA, anybody?
• 1:45:00
  But if Europeans even show a desire to at least understand Moscow's position,
• 1:45:05
  that must be something that only a big bad Russian has made them do, right?
• 1:45:12
  In this regard, an end to the Ukraine war is likely to deprive European and
• 1:45:17
  American centrists of one of their favorite tools of Neo-McCarthyite new right
• 1:45:23
  bashing.
• 1:45:24
  In Britain, for instance, the ruling Labour Party has just started a fresh new
• 1:45:29
  campaign explicitly geared toward damaging Reform UK and its leader, Nigel
• 1:45:36
  Farage, by hammering the local version of the draft Russia, Russia, Russia
• 1:45:42
  theme.
• 1:45:43
  Now, if any of you haven't listened to Nigel Farage, you probably should.
• 1:45:47
  He's extremely interesting and funny.
• 1:45:50
  He's fun to listen to.
• 1:45:51
  He's certainly channeling Donald Trump.
• 1:45:54
  Maybe I shall play some of him on my show as well because I like listening to
• 1:45:58
  him and I think he's funny, and he makes a lot of good points.
• 1:46:03
  But it's like Trump with a British accent, only he has a, I don't mean this too
• 1:46:08
  horribly, Trump, has a larger vocabulary.
• 1:46:11
  His vocabulary is a little bigger than Trump's.
• 1:46:15
  In the German AFD, some politicians seen as too close to Russia have been
• 1:46:21
  marginalized to create an overall less Russia-friendly image.
• 1:46:26
  But fortunately, that is a surface effect due to media pressure.
• 1:46:30
  Recent ex-post by the AFD's single most important leader, Alice Wiedel.
• 1:46:35
  Wiedel has not stopped criticizing the aggressive course of the German
• 1:46:39
  government and its waste of billions on arming Ukraine.
• 1:46:43
  She keeps demanding normalization with Russia through a realistic foreign
• 1:46:47
  policy focused on German national interests, like why are we paying a 15%
• 1:46:54
  premium on buying gas and oil products from the United States and we could get
• 1:47:00
  it 15% cheaper from Russia?
• 1:47:03
  Because we're stupid and we're Europe and we got to kiss the ring of daddy
• 1:47:08
  across the pond.
• 1:47:10
  Crazy.
• 1:47:12
  Peace in and over Ukraine is very likely to benefit Europe's new right and make
• 1:47:19
  life harder for European centrists.
• 1:47:21
  That's why they're fighting so hard to get the Trumpster to keep the war going.
• 1:47:28
  Centrists will lose one of their main instruments of whipping up war scares
• 1:47:32
  among the population.
• 1:47:33
  The new right will be less vulnerable to smears of being Russia's fifth column.
• 1:47:38
  And while realistic and constructive positions on policy toward Russia will
• 1:47:42
  become only more plausible.
• 1:47:44
  Finally, once peace does actually happen, the war and those in the West who
• 1:47:51
  provoked and prolonged it may finally come under the intense scrutiny they
• 1:47:59
  deserve.
• 1:48:00
  Lindsey Graham, Blumenthal, come on.
• 1:48:06
  An honest critical assessment of the bloody centrist war folly, including
• 1:48:13
  politicians, alleged experts, and those in the global media mainstream variety,
• 1:48:22
  would further undermine the hold of the centrists, which are the globalists,
• 1:48:28
  which are the deep staters.
• 1:48:31
  Everyone knows that the Ukraine war brought great change to Europe.
• 1:48:38
  And so might Ukraine peace.
• 1:48:43
  Don't you think?
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  I don't know.
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  I enjoyed that thought process brought to you by a gentleman I like to
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  follow and his opinions, and I like to share them with people, because
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  sometimes you just need to, right?
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  It's by a guy named Tariq Cyril Amar.
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  And I always try to share his articles with you because he's pretty smart and
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  correct in this respect.
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  So I like it when people are correct.
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  And maybe, see, maybe I'm under the influence of Russia, Russia, Russia, but
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  Amar, Amar, Amar.
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  I don't know, maybe so.
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  That could be bad, people.
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  What if I have to take other people's opinions, read them all, and decide which
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  ones work for me?
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  Holy crap.
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  Is that called something along the lines of a thought process and how people
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  should engage in their own thought processes?
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  Isn't that called critical thinking, is analyzing the opinions and discussions
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  of other people, hopefully getting as much as you can straight from the horse's
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  mouth?
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  And which I tried to do.
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  I like listening to them.
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  But I haven't seen anything new on that side either.
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  I mean, there's nothing other than more stuff, you know, there's an alleged,
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  let's see, there was an interesting article I also read, because a king came to
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  Moscow, right?
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  And this King Sultan from Malaysia, King Sultan Ibrahim was the first visit by
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  a monarch, since the two countries established diplomatic relations in 67.
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  He came to Russia.
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  How do you like that?
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  That's, that's an interesting article, but I feel like I'm getting out of the,
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  the where I wanted to be.
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  There was a cult massacre that we should probably read something about in
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  Kenya.
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  There's a, oh, the Nord Stream 2 guy I was going to share with you.
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  The Italian media have published his photo.
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  His photo is out there.
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  Okay.
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  Several Italian outlets Friday released an image showing the Ukrainian man
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  arrested a day earlier, that's yesterday, over his involvement in Nord Stream
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  pipeline.
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  The man identified by the media as 49 year old Sergei Kuznetsov is suspected of
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  leading a team that sabotaged the pipeline in September of 22.
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  The image published by La Stampa and Open Online appears to be a police mugshot
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  or a photo from other identity documents.
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  Neither outlet disclosed where they got it.
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  Kuznetsov, I think it's Kuznetsov, was detained near Rimini on Thursday under a
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  European arrest warrant issued this month by German prosecutors.
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  They allege he helped plant explosives on the pipeline near Denmark's Bornholm
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  Island.
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  And they disabled three of the four Nord Stream lines.
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  The man allegedly oversaw divers that placed the explosives from a sailing
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  yacht he rented using forged documents in Rostock, Germany.
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  Crazy stuff.
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  It actually showed the explosion on a little video.
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  According to the Italian media, the suspect entered Italy under the alias name
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  of Sergei Kuznetsov with his family on a tour through booking.com.
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  Authorities reportedly tracked his movement until his name, which had been
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  recorded in a local hotel guest database, triggered an Interpol alert.
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  He reportedly offered no resistance, handed over documents, phones, computers,
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  tablets and credit cards upon his arrest.
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  He faces charges under German law for causing an explosion, anti-constitutional
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  sabotage and destruction of infrastructure, offenses that carry a 15-year
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  sentence.
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  He's expected to appear at the Bologna Court of Appeal later on Friday, that's
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  today, for a hearing to validate his arrest and set his date for extradition to
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  Germany.
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  But La Stampa also reported he was being investigated in a separate case by
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  General Prosecutor's Office over a February bombing that damaged a Sea Jewel, a
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  Maltese flag tanker off the coast of Sabona.
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  The Nord Stream explosions were seen at the time as an attack on critical
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  energy infrastructure and an example of rising economic fallout of the Ukraine
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  conflict.
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  Speaking in February 2022, President Joe Biden declared the event of an all-out
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  military conflict between Russia and Ukraine, there will no longer be a Nord
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  Stream, we will bring an end to it.
• 1:54:30
  In 2023, veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published a report
• 1:54:36
  claiming that Biden had given the order to destroy the gas connectors, a claim
• 1:54:41
  dismissed as complete fiction by the White House.
• 1:54:45
  According to an informed source who talked with the Pulitzer Prize-winning
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  journalist, the explosives which reportedly caused blasts of 2.3 and 2.1 on the
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  Richter scale were planted by U.S. Navy divers months previously under cover of
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  NATO exercises.
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  Frankly, I find that more likely because these things don't just blow up, some
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  guy goes and puts some bombs under there.
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  You need something a hell of a lot more than what you can put on a sailboat,
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  that's what I think.
• 1:55:14
  Swedish engineer Eric Anderson who led the first and only independent forensic
• 1:55:20
  investigation at the blast site told an Italian journalist, the more I look
• 1:55:24
  into this, the more I feel that the Nord Stream attack is part of a bigger
• 1:55:30
  scheme to cut off Russia from Europe.
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  Also, President, I'm sorry, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov earlier laughed off
• 1:55:40
  the claims that a small group of divers could have carried out such an attack
• 1:55:45
  and says that theory is ridiculous.
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  I shared that with you previously and I think it is worth noting because that
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  article, geez, that was last year when that one came out.
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  He said, anybody who believes such stories are afraid of the truth and are
• 1:56:08
  shielding the Kiv regime.
• 1:56:09
  And he laughed them off as ridiculous, saying that Nord Stream pipelines were
• 1:56:15
  blown up by a small group of divers from a little boat.
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  Remember that article?
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  When did that come out?
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  Let's see, I found my reference to it.
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  That was dated 12
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  September 2024 is when he said that.
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  Crazy stuff.
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  Crazy, but you got to pin it on somebody.
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  So it wouldn't surprise me if they're still not going to try to.
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  But back then, Lavrov claimed that five people were sitting around drinking,
• 1:56:54
  having a laugh and decided, I know, why don't we blow up the Nord Stream
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  pipeline?
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  They had diving skills, allegedly hired a little boat, sailed to the place
• 1:57:04
  where Nord Stream was passing by, went down, planted explosives and detonated
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  them.
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  If someone can actually believe this version, then it's people who are afraid
• 1:57:12
  of the truth and are trying to protect a criminal Kiv regime in any way
• 1:57:17
  possible, he said.
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  We will not abandon this topic, he said.
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  We will continue to seek a transparent investigation, which is being blocked in
• 1:57:28
  every possible way by the US, Britain and their allies.
• 1:57:35
  And he claimed the fact that activists say they can do this is complete
• 1:57:42
  nonsense.
• 1:57:45
  And he insists that the explosions were carried out by professionals supported
• 1:57:49
  by the full might of the state, which has certain technologies in abundance.
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  Well, folks, friends and neighbors, I hope you've enjoyed the program today.
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• 1:58:58
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• 1:58:59
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• 1:59:08
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• 1:59:10
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• 1:59:14
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• 1:59:22
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• 1:59:28
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• 1:59:29
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• 1:59:30
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• 1:59:33
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• 1:59:42
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  I've had a great time here.
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  I'm on my way to Moscow in the morning.
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  Continue to report from there.
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  So I appreciate you, and you have a very nice day.