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Starobelsk, Oreshnik, and the Media Silence: Russia’s Retaliation, Ukraine’s Denials, and Escalation Toward Kyiv and Belarus · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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Hello, good morning, welcome.
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I am Samuel Trapp.
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This is International Flavor.
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You are listening to Dem Radio.
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I'm coming to you remotely today.
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I am traveling.
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We're gonna play some Willie Nelson for you
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later because I am on the road again.
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So one of the jokes they used to
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tell about him, if you wish to you
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can you can attempt it.
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I'll tell you the joke first.
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How about that?
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And then before I distract myself with something
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else.
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The joke used to be, did you hear
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that Willie Nelson was dead?
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And people go, oh, no, really?
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And you go, yeah, they found out he
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was playing on the road again.
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Terrible joke for a Tuesday morning.
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Sorry, I didn't have a show yesterday.
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I was unprepared for the travel and it
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didn't go with the cleanest of travel.
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And I'm hoping the sound is okay.
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It appears to be just fine, but I'm
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not listening to it.
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It's the same event.
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I wanted to talk a little bit yesterday
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about events that are going on.
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The Arashnik strike that went on over the
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weekend in Kiev, Russia retaliation for an event
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they have left completely unreported here in the
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West.
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They haven't even talked about it at all.
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And it is disgusting to me that they
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haven't.
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And they have invited journalists.
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I have a bit that I'm trying to
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finish and I hope it ends up by
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the time we are halfway through the show.
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I watched, well, I listened to.
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I never had the opportunity to watch, but
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I was listening to it in headphones while
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doing some other things and traveling a little
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bit.
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And I listened to Maria Zakharova, who appeared
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on Soloveyov last night, and they gave quite
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the critique.
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And I'm really trying to share that in
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its entirety with you.
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And it's highly frustrating that there are no
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reporters that will go and investigate this and
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we'll cover it the correct way.
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And so it's an open plea to Western
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journalists to come over and see what Kiev
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has done.
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And that is a 16 to 18 drone
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strike on a school in town in Russia.
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And they bombed this like a boarding trade
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school for pedagogists, which are people studying to
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be teachers and stuff like that.
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And 14 to 18-year-olds living in
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dormitories, and they bombed the dormitories.
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And 16, several waves of bombs attacked this
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dormitory and killed, I believe the final number
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of killed was like 21, 22, and the
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total injured were like 28, 29 of the
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80 children, 80-something children that resided there
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and their teachers and blew them up.
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And they're under rubble and it's a pretty
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big deal all over Russia, but they won't
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even report it in the West.
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You don't hear anything about it.
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And so Russia's had this horrible Areshnik strike
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that attacked Kiev yesterday in Areshnik.
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And I have plenty of news to discuss
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about that.
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And it's irritating to me.
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And I think my sound, I'm trying to
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do it without Bluetooth today.
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We're seeing how this works, if the sound
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comes out better, because the last couple of
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times I listened to myself on the road,
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the sound just seemed off a little bit.
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And of course it is.
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I'm not in a studio, it'll be off,
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so I apologize for that.
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But I wanted to share with you Nibinzia,
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which is, I believe his first name is
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Vassili, but it doesn't matter.
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But Nibinzia is the ambassador to the European
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Security Council and to the UN.
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He speaks to the UN on behalf of
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Russia and he's pretty blunt and pretty straightforward.
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And I'm going to read to you his
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translated address.
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It's not very long.
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And he gave a short address basically telling
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people, he said, Mr. President, he's talking to
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the whole thing.
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And there were some, I watched like a
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half an hour of this and I was
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disgusted myself, where they just say, they basically
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say Russia's faking and this is all fake
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news and stuff, even on the Security Council.
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And so it's nonsense what they put out
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there, but they don't even talk about it.
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Just like here in America, we don't talk
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about the bombing of the Iranian girls' school
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in the first days of where they took
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out the elite school, children of the school,
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while they were taking out their parents too,
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they took out all the children.
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And so they killed several hundred young girls
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in that school, teenagers, stuff like that.
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Same thing they've done in Russia.
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And I assume that for me, it just
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seems very convenient that OG Ukraine bombed a
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school when that's exactly what happened in Iran.
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That's for me.
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No, I don't believe in coincidence.
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Well, I shouldn't say that I do, but
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it's pretty you got to convince me and
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I remain unconvinced is all I'm saying.
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So Nebentsev, he says, Mr. President, I'm delighted
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with the knowledge of the Ukrainian passport in
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Russian history, because they were talking about this
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idiotic passport issue in the history of Russia
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and how the Ukrainian passport actually showed something
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of Ukraine on it's idiotic, it's stupid, but
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they're trying to separate the Ukrainian as it
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hasn't been part of Russia forever.
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That's far more important than talking about anything
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of substance.
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You got to talk about that.
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And so I'm delighted with the knowledge of
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the Ukrainian passport in Russian history, but with
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your permission, I will not engage in a
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dialogue with him because this is a senseless
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and useless activity.
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And it is, it's idiotic.
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I wanted to say something else.
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Frankly speaking, I am embarrassed and ashamed of
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my colleagues on the security council.
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We knew that we would hear something like
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this from the European security council member, but
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today their level of cynicism is overwhelming.
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None of them even bother to mention the
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dead children in Stara Belsk.
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The representative of Denmark said they did not
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have access to the site to see it.
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Do you need access to the rubble?
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Or will you claim that Russia did it?
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Or is that, or that it is a
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result of computer graphics?
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You say you cannot independently confirm and are
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not sure that this is not staged, hasn't
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been staged, but even the general staff of
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the armed forces of Ukraine confirmed that it
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hits Stara Belsk.
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They actually took pride in it.
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And they said they did it.
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They said that wasn't a school.
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That was a headquarters for some elite unit,
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some elite unit in Russia.
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I forget the name of the unit right
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now, but Ukraine said they did it.
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And they said, yeah, and they double tapped
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it too.
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They did it, waited until the first responders
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got there and then did it again and
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then did it a third time.
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And they did it a third time, total
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of 18 drones or so, and they destroyed
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the whole middle of it.
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The picture is disgusting.
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And it says, these are not even hypocrisy
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or double standards, but a mockery of the
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child victims.
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We said in our speech that you have
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victims worthy of compassion and those who do
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not deserve it.
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Listening to you, to those present and absent
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members, excuse me, of the European union is
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an insult to the feelings of all who
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suffered regardless of which country.
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How did we live up to the fact
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that the representatives of the European countries do
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not even consider the children of young students
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of Stara Belsk, residents of Donbass, and in
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general, Russians as people?
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Because they don't, they just, you know, they
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aren't even people, they're orcs, according to the
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security council and the Ukrainians.
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This, however, deprived a human face, not of
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them, but of you sitting in this hall.
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You should be ashamed to bear what you
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are hearing now.
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After all, these are the dances, these are
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people dancing on the bones of the dead.
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This is all disgusting.
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I would be sincerely sorry for you, if
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not for your disgusting cynicism and regret over
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the memories of the dead.
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Thank you.
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And I wanted to share that with you
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because somebody at least is speaking up, but
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nobody ever listens, and that'll say something.
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Now, war is war, and there is horror
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stories and war everywhere, right?
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And, but they, you know, that was Nebensia
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in the security council talking about it.
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And Russia has taken a different approach after
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this.
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And they are, you know, Vladimir Putin got
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on and gave quite the, quite the, I
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don't know, speech and warning shot to Ukraine.
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And then they hit him over the weekend
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with the Reshnik.
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So the story is this retaliatory strike on
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Kiev involving the Reshniks.
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And so on May 22nd in Starobelsk, which
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is a section of Lugansk, it's a dormitory
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strike, the Russians vowed retaliation.
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And on May 23rd, there were U.S.
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and Ukrainian warnings.
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They sent all these, Sergei Lavrov sent to
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Marco Rubio.
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Some told him to get people out of
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Kiev, you know, we're going to bomb the
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crap out of it.
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You better get your people out of there.
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I don't mean to laugh about that, but
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he was pretty blunt.
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And so on May 24th, there was a
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mass Kiev region strike with the Reshnik, and
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that was confirmed and reported by multiple sites.
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And it's over what was hit and whether
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it was military, civilian, dual use.
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What the Russians said is they were going
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to take out centers of decision making.
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So this is Russia's response because Vladimir Putin
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got, and then he put a statement out
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saying that Starobelsk, Lugansk, that he was, that
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they were coming.
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He asked all of the people and the
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military, he said, I've asked them to provide
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me with options for strikes.
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And I want every option on the table.
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He was pissed.
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You can tell he was frigging pissed and
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the people are pissed about it.
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And, you know, this wasn't an ordinary drone
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flight night on the 24th.
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It was a large combined Russian strike package
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with drones, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, even hypersonic,
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and at least one, although it looked to
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me like several from the videos that I
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saw, a Reshnik intermediate range hypersonic ballistic missile,
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and Russia says it hit military command sites,
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air bases, and Ukrainian defense enterprises in retaliation
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for Ukrainian strikes on the Russian school.
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Ukrainian and Western governments say the strike in
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Kiev caused extensive civilian destruction, damage to residential
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buildings, schools, markets, water infrastructure, diplomatic property and
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cultural sites.
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I was, so I watched Aristovich yesterday, Alexei,
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and he's the guy who wants to be
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president of Ukraine after, I mean, I doubt
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he'll ever make it, but he, but he
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wants to, wants to be, and he talks
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about it and he was connected with Zelensky
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and with the government for quite a while.
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I talked about him before and that he
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was given one and said he wouldn't be
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surprised if Russia took out the only water
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treatment facility in Kiev.
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And he's like, you know, he thought it,
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he thought it would be all, all bombed.
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I've got some things to share from him
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as well, but both things can be true.
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You know, that there was civilian structure.
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The Russians say, well, we hit this at
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night when nobody was there, you know, they
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reported one death on, on some of, in
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one of the sites, one of the buildings
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that Russia targeted because nobody's there at night,
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you know?
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And so Russia says, even when we're targeting
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you, we don't try to kill innocents.
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You know what I mean?
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And I don't know that, you know, you
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can believe that or disbelieve that.
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It's not, not on me to say who's
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telling the truth there, but it's certainly the,
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the, after listening to Zakharova yesterday and the
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pictures that they showed all weekend on all
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of this and the interviews of children in
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hospitals that they were talking about, they were
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talking about the school, there's a mother there,
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her boy was killed, pulled out of the,
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out of the ruins and he, they had
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to cut his leg off to get him
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out.
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And, and she was, you know, bawling and
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carrying on in the, of course, in the,
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and you can't blame her, in the hospital
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while he laid there.
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And she was like, you know, these are
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young kids and their dreams are ruined because,
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you know, because of somebody wants to attack
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a college.
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And, you know, war, war, I mean, I
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get it.
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You know, it's, there are two sides to
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every story and war sucks for them all,
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but there you have it.
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Um, the Russian side starts with the attacks
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of, talking about Kiev afterward, you know, and
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the, the response of attack from Russia.
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They say that the attacks on Stutterbilsk Professional
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College, which is a teacher training college for
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teachers, Pedagogisty is what they're called in the
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Lugansk People's Republic.
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RT says that Russia and Maria Zakharova last
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night said that 21 people, 21 children were
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killed and 42 were injured.
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Mostly teenage girls and trainee teachers after the
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dorm was hit in multiple waves of drone
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strikes while students were sleeping inside.
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Putin described the strikes as deliberate and ordered
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Russia defense ministry to prepare retaliatory options.
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And Russia's position as most of the time
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when these things occur, which are all too
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often on the Ukrainian side is that this
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is a terrorist attack against civilian education facility
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with no military installations there or even nearby.
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And Ukraine says that the operation didn't target
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civilians and hit a Russian military drone related
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facility.
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And Ukraine's ambassador to the UN called Moscow
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their accusation propaganda and said the operation targeted
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Russia's war machine.
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And that dispute, you know, claims it's illegal,
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you know, legal hinge, you know, we're attacking
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this, it's a drone command unit.
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It's, you know, it's independent, verifiable evidence from
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Zakharova and she's been inviting people over.
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Nobody's taking her up on it.
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She goes, where's BBC, where's CNN?
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And I hope to have that, that translated
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portion of her speech, because it was powerful.
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And she, she was on a tear and
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frankly should have been in the whole country
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is on a tear over there.
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And nobody's even listening over here.
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And they don't even talk about it.
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And you know, it's all Ukraine all the
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time.
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Of course, we have to have blue and
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yellow flags painted on the back of our
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windows of our cars, because we're idiots.
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That's because that's what the US has been
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pushing for 30 years.
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So we've been wrong for 30 years.
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But you know, there you have it.
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There were warnings, Ukraine's guy Pravda said that
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the US embassy for the attack on Kiev
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I'm talking about, because Russian air attack, they
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say, you know, they said 24 hours and
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the US citizens were advised to get out
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to leave.
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The same report noted that Zelensky had US
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intelligence, European partners that Russia's going to use
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a Reshnik.
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He didn't need that.
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They said it all over Russia.
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They said, we're, you know, the Reshnik will
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be used.
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And we're getting the options for that right
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now.
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And they were clear about it all over
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the news.
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They were saying, if you're in Kiev, if
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you're in Kiev, leave, because we're gonna bomb
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the crap out of it.
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You can't blatantly bomb a school and, you
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know, with young children in it and not
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get a response.
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So the Zelensky in Ukraine had plenty of
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hours of warning, not minutes, they had the
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whole day beforehand, because they said the event
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of bombing the school was on Thursday, and
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they said, we're going to blow this up.
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And we're attacking Kiev heavy.
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And they allowed senior officials, commanders, personnel, decision
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making centers even to evacuate.
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And they said, we're going to hit decision
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making centers.
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And so, you know, it doesn't mean that
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they were emptied.
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You know, there's still people in there, but
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they did give warning.
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So the strike was the largest strike in
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Kiev since the beginning of the special military
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operation at hundreds of drones, many, many missiles,
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they had Kinzhal's, Kalibr's, Iskander's, Zircon and Sircon,
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and the Russian military, the defense said it
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was a strike, specifically in retaliation for the
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terrorist attack against civilian targets in Russia, which
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had been ongoing for months.
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And nobody says anything about it.
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You know, they've bombed schools, swimming pools, you
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know, these for years, this has been going
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on.
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It's all the Ukrainians have left, okay, is
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to send in, they're losing heavily on the
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battlefield.
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So the only thing they can do is
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the only thing the US can do in
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Iran is bomb shit, right?
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And so you send out some waves of
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drones, you make sure to double tap them
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in the most visible of manner, and kill
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as many civilians as possible, because that is
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how and then you attack, just like Israel
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does, they attack the double tap, they wait
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until the rescue crews arrive, and then they
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bomb them too.
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And that's the way it's done in modern
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warfare, I suppose, today.
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And so we shouldn't be complaining about it,
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right?
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This war is what we're supposed to do.
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I thought we were better than that.
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And, you know, I really did.
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And that's, you know, against the Geneva Convention,
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you know, it really is.
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And it's against all sorts of international treaties.
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And then nobody ever talks about it.
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But I guarantee you, if they did the
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same thing in Ukraine, it'd be all over
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the news here.
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And they tried it a couple of times.
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And most of the time, it's a lie,
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that they put it out there.
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They create their own news.
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Anyway, Ukraine's Air Force, as stated by the
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AP, they said there were 600 drone strikes,
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90 air-to-sea and ground-launched missiles.
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And they said they destroyed about half on
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the way in.
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The Russians say they don't have any air
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defense left.
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And so when they shoot, they hit it.
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So AP reported that Reshnik struck Belotsverka, which
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is in the Kiev region, which isn't really
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downtown Kiev itself, because they said that Reshnik
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was used in the Kiev region.
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But they reported points that say they were
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hit military and military-industrial complex.
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And it says the Artyom military facility in
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Kiev, which is on the outskirts of Kiev.
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And it's a major Ukrainian military-industrial plant
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tied to air-to-air missiles, missile training,
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maintenance systems, anti-tank, and aircraft equipment.
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So that's not yet been corroborated.
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Everybody hasn't put that out, said exactly what
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they hit.
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And they're still coming up with whatever narrative
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the West is going to use, because this
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only happened on the 24th, Sunday.
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And so AP reports damage across Kiev government
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offices, residential buildings, a marketplace.
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They said there were two people killed and
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83 wounded.
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The Guardian, which cites Zelensky and other Ukrainian
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officials, said that at least four were killed
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and 100 were injured with damage to the
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water facility.
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The water, as what Arestovich was talking about,
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was saying that they should attack.
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He would think Russia would attack that, because
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there's really only one in Kiev.
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Residential buildings, schools, and other sites.
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But civilian and military targets aren't really mutually
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exclusive in the war.
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A defense plant in Kiev, it can be
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a lawful military target, but still create lots
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of collateral damage.
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And so the weapon in the Rashnik and
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why it matters is because the Rashnik is,
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according to all, including Western media, all media,
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it's an unstoppable hypersonic missile.
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And Russia hasn't used it very often.
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This is only the third time, possibly the
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fourth, that they have used it.
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The confirmed ones are when Russia says they
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come back, and the possible ones are when
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people claim it's out there.
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The AP and Guardian both say that Russia
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used the Rashnik in this attack, and it's
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the third known use of this weapon.
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Some footage says the missile appeared slower than
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the last one.
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And it says you can't strategically defeat or
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realistically defeat the Rashnik.
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You can't.
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They can't hit it.
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It's going too fast.
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And the multiple warhead scenario, they can't target
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them fast enough to get rid of them.
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So Ukraine can intercept some ballistic missiles with
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Patriot class, but it's, you know, obviously in
24:32
this war, it's been quite discovered that air
24:36
defenses aren't capable of keeping up with technology.
24:39
They're years behind.
24:41
And so that's the big deal.
24:44
But this is much more of a deterrent,
24:49
is what they're saying.
24:49
Russia is saying, we have less escalation tools,
24:53
which are less than nuclear.
24:56
You know, the Rashnik was designed to carry
25:02
nuclear warheads.
25:04
And Russians haven't used nuclear warheads.
25:08
A lot of discussion about that.
25:10
One person said there was a report, but
25:14
I haven't been able to confirm it, was
25:16
that parts of the Ukrainian parliament, their Verkhovna
25:19
Rada was hit as well.
25:21
But the speaker says that that would take
25:24
it with a huge grain of salt because
25:26
he doesn't believe that the Rada was hit
25:29
himself.
25:30
But he did say that there's reports all
25:32
over Ukraine that they did hit the Verkhovna
25:34
Rada.
25:35
And that's the state capital building, basically.
25:39
And so I'm not so sure.
25:41
I haven't been able to find any solid
25:43
corroboration of that, that it was struck.
25:47
So it could have been, but who knows.
25:50
But Russia's official framing is we're retaliating.
25:54
You know, you guys cross the line.
25:56
You keep striking civilian targets and you blow
25:59
up schools and, you know, you're pissing us
26:02
off.
26:02
If you want to stay in, stay in
26:04
the war, stay in the war.
26:06
But quit bombing, you know, civilian, civilian, clearly
26:10
civilian targets.
26:12
Now, May 25th, I told you that Lavrov
26:14
told Rubio that Russia was going to start
26:17
systematic strikes on Kiev and the sites used
26:23
for the needs of Ukraine's armed forces and
26:25
decision making.
26:26
And the Russian foreign ministry statement says the
26:30
move has been in response to these continuing
26:33
Ukrainian terror attacks.
26:35
And RT followed up and said Lavrov warned
26:38
Rubio of long range strikes and repeated Russia's
26:42
recommendation that foreigners evacuate Kiev and saying that
26:48
Starobelsk, this school, is the last straw.
26:52
And, you know, Putin was clearly pissed and
26:55
he keeps his emotions, you know, under wraps.
26:58
He's not like, like the Trumpster or many
27:01
other, you know, American types.
27:03
He, he generally doesn't, you know, go off
27:09
the rails, you know, and he, but he
27:11
was pissed.
27:12
He was clearly pissed when he was speaking.
27:14
So Russia is saying this isn't, this is
27:17
like a possible new phase of pressure, especially
27:21
during this year's counter offensive.
27:25
So Ukraine is saying that Russia is attacking
27:28
Kiev without provocations of any kind.
27:32
And they just send a massive barrage, as
27:35
usual, to kill civilians and damage civilian infrastructure
27:39
and use the Oreshnik as a terror weapon.
27:42
And since they have the bully pulpit, they
27:45
get to say what they like, you know,
27:48
and Zelensky says Kiev is the target, that
27:50
he was the target, and he called for
27:53
consequences.
27:54
You know, well, the European condemnation by Macron,
27:59
by Merz, by Kaya Kalash, and Kalash calling
28:02
the use of Oreshnik is reckless nuclear brinksmanship
28:06
and wants to promise more discussion of more
28:10
pressure.
28:10
What are they up to?
28:11
Sanction level number 23.
28:14
You know, you people need to, there's, there's
28:17
talk of capitulation.
28:19
In Ukraine, there've been five or six Verkhovna
28:23
Rada people come out and say, look, we
28:26
just need to capitulate.
28:28
And the talk is starting.
28:31
And they just go, look, we need to
28:33
capitulate.
28:34
We don't have the forces.
28:36
We don't have the people.
28:37
We don't have the weapons.
28:38
What are we going to do?
28:39
Continue to just send in drones?
28:42
You know, the dispute over Stara Belsk, separate
28:46
but important.
28:48
Russia is trying to turn it into a
28:50
credibility test for the media, rightly so.
28:53
RT says that the Russian foreign, and me
28:55
watching Zakharova yesterday, I'm telling you too, the
28:59
Russian foreign ministry arranged a trip to the
29:02
site for 50 journalists from 19 countries.
29:07
And they say that BBC and CNN declined
29:10
in Japan, blocked Japanese reporters from attending.
29:15
And it's the same old stuff, you know,
29:18
that Russia's several times that come and look
29:21
at what they're doing, and nobody will go.
29:24
And Western media refuses, avoids, or says they
29:27
cannot safely, credibly participate under Russian organized conditions.
29:32
And Russia says that, you know, this is
29:34
because they fear the truth.
29:35
They don't want to come see it.
29:38
And they all say it's a controlled propaganda
29:41
tour.
29:41
I tell you what, I'll fly over there,
29:43
you know, anytime.
29:44
You know, I'm tempted to do it now
29:46
and go see it.
29:48
It would be useful to go and see
29:53
it and go and talk to these people.
29:55
You know, I bet they'd let me interview
29:57
some of the people over there and translate
30:00
it.
30:02
I sent away from my Russian.
30:05
My new one had to get a new
30:06
passport.
30:07
So I should have that back anytime.
30:10
And we shall see.
30:12
But I don't know.
30:17
The Russians are always this, you know, it's
30:21
always sequential strike, right?
30:23
So a deadly strike on a dormitory and
30:26
college facility in Starobelsk has been reported, but
30:29
all across Russia and nobody will pay attention
30:33
to that.
30:33
Russia talks about it inside the UN, inside
30:37
all of its news, warns Lavrov, warns Rubio.
30:41
They all talk about it.
30:42
And then Putin orders a response.
30:44
And the warnings are issued.
30:46
Russia strikes what it describes as military command,
30:49
airbase centers, defense industry targets, and RT and
30:53
Reuters both talk about this and the retaliation,
30:57
but they don't say what was bombed.
30:59
You don't even hear it over here.
31:01
So if this defense enterprises like Artyom, those
31:05
are legitimate wartime targets under ordinary law of
31:09
war.
31:10
And the facts that, you know, some civilian
31:12
or civilian buildings are damaged doesn't make the
31:15
target unlawful like it does with a school,
31:18
you know, and bad intelligence.
31:21
But if your intelligence is, you know, AI
31:24
generated, you can't trust it.
31:27
So this has been a pretty horrific
31:36
event, no matter how you slice it, and
31:39
ignoring it is just completely improper.
31:44
I'm going to try to figure this out
31:47
without destroying the sound quality whilst I figure
31:52
out the next level of the song.
31:56
Remember, I told you I was gonna see
32:00
if we could find Willie Nelson playing on
32:04
the road again.
32:06
And there we go.
32:08
They found him playing on the road again.
32:12
And, you know, he looked pretty good back
32:14
in those days.
32:15
That song's been around for a very long
32:17
time.
32:18
And that was Mr. Willie Nelson.
32:26
Let's see.
32:27
I am in the process of what we've
32:30
been discussing anyway, the airstrikes and on this.
32:35
I told you I watched Aristovic yesterday.
32:39
And Aristovic is a, he's kind of a
32:41
cynical dude.
32:43
He says, it's, he calls it all political
32:48
theater, everything is theater.
32:50
And he was, he talked quite a bit
32:52
about Belarus, Belarus and trying to get Belarus
32:56
into the Zelensky trying to get in.
33:00
And basically, his core thesis is that Belarus
33:05
pressure campaign, the Oreshnik strike, Starobelsk and Lugansk
33:12
dormitory strikes, and wider escalation around Kiev.
33:16
Now there've been reports that people are going,
33:19
you know what, screw this.
33:20
We're just going to take Kiev and be
33:22
done with it.
33:23
We'll take Kiev and it's over.
33:25
And there's been quite a bit of chatter
33:27
about that on the Russian media.
33:30
But according to Aristovic, they're all parts of
33:33
one political military pressure cooker and pressure system.
33:39
And we should take it all, you know,
33:41
with a grain of salt.
33:43
And of course he's a Ukrainian, this is
33:46
a Ukrainian perspective.
33:47
And so I do try to listen to
33:49
him as well.
33:50
And he's a little cynical because of the
33:53
corruption and because of the Zelensky model.
33:56
And he's no fan of Zelensky.
33:58
And, but according to what he says, they're
34:01
all parts of just one military political thing.
34:04
Zelensky, he said, needs distraction.
34:08
And he needs another wave of domestic mobilization.
34:13
He needs more people to join the military
34:15
and they don't have anybody left.
34:17
And so he's, Aristovic is always, excuse me,
34:23
hostile to Zelensky personally.
34:26
Skeptical of Moscow too, and worried that both
34:28
of them, you know, are now trying to
34:32
use Belarus.
34:32
And he started with saying that, who benefits
34:38
the most if Belarus gets dragged into the
34:41
war?
34:42
And now, because he says that both of
34:44
them are trying, he says that Russia has
34:47
a clear military reason to generate pressure from
34:51
Belarus.
34:51
And I've been talking about that because Russia
34:54
and Belarus are stationing troops right along the
34:57
borders in Northern Ukraine there.
34:59
And to prevent and to make it easier
35:02
to prevent Ukrainians from sending drones across the
35:08
Belarus and Russian area.
35:10
They have to go around and go through
35:11
Poland and come into or through the Latvia,
35:15
Lithuania, Estonia to get into St. Petersburg.
35:21
And so Moscow can't add enough troops on
35:25
that line because of the existing front.
35:28
And so if you're trying to force Ukraine
35:31
to remove forces from the Eastern Southern front
35:35
and send them North to cover the Belarus
35:37
border.
35:38
So if they can get Belarus to border
35:40
up on the North, then Ukraine will have
35:44
to spend troops to cover the Northern borders
35:47
instead of ignoring Belarus, which they should do
35:52
at their own peril anyway, because Russia is
35:54
striking from inside of there as well.
35:59
But Russia, you know, he says that, you
36:02
know, Russia needs to get in there.
36:03
But Zelensky also benefits from Belarus.
36:07
And this is the harshest, but this is
36:09
where he says that Zelensky benefits from the
36:11
Belarus threat because it gives him a new
36:14
argument for mobilization.
36:17
You know, look, you know, he's threatening Kyiv,
36:20
Rivne, Volhynia or other places like near Poland.
36:24
And he can argue that Ukraine needs harsher
36:27
mobilization.
36:29
And it's a good way to silence his
36:31
opponents.
36:32
And it can distract everybody from corruption, you
36:35
know, because there's so many scandals.
36:38
And then one of the most critical things
36:41
he said, well, he calls it Minditsch Gate,
36:44
that guy who stole all his money in
36:45
Orestovich and everybody else talks very bluntly about
36:48
all the corruption going on.
36:50
I'm surprised that YouTube lets him stay online.
36:54
You know, they get rid of anybody else
36:56
who's critical of Zelensky, the old Z monster.
37:01
But his view, he says, and he said
37:04
it, he goes, you know, Zelensky gets to
37:07
play Churchill again.
37:08
And everybody likes to try to, you know,
37:11
throw him into that.
37:12
And his foreign policy, Zelensky's foreign policy behavior
37:19
only serves his internal political needs first.
37:23
Excuse me.
37:25
He says, Zelensky raises the stakes all the
37:27
time.
37:28
And then, you know, does what the standard
37:31
narcissist does.
37:34
He just raises the stakes, you know, and
37:36
if a deal is not possible, he can,
37:38
you know, later blame, he just blamed somebody
37:41
else moves on and does it again.
37:44
So that's his explanation for Zelensky, the not
37:48
dealing normally with Lukashenko at all.
37:52
And he sees that as a deliberate delegitimization
37:56
of Lukashenko.
37:59
He doesn't want to talk to him because
38:02
Lukashenko is actually doing quite a good, a
38:07
good job of mediating between the West, Putin,
38:12
China, you know, Zelensky.
38:15
Lukashenko doesn't want war in Ukraine.
38:21
It's, all it is, is escalation, and he
38:26
doesn't want that escalation.
38:27
So Arestovich's view of the Yereshnik strike in
38:31
particular, is that he says that Russia is
38:34
now going to try to make Kiev unlivable
38:37
and push Kiev.
38:39
And he says, this is, this is, you
38:45
know, not proof of trying to end the
38:47
war quickly, but this is even more cold
38:50
and more cynical.
38:52
He says, the strike is propaganda for Russian
38:55
domestic audience and not decisive militarily.
39:00
He says they can't, Russia can't easily mobilize
39:05
another huge contingent of troops before the September
39:11
elections.
39:12
Russia can't guarantee major battlefield gains before then,
39:16
although they're certainly churning along on the east
39:19
side there.
39:20
Ukrainian drones are hitting Russian civilian structures and
39:25
refineries, more importantly, and in Moscow.
39:30
And, you know, he's pretty blunt about it.
39:36
He said Russia has to feed its domestic
39:38
propaganda machine with an answer because they can't,
39:42
you know, they can't not respond inside of
39:49
Russia, they have to respond.
39:51
So, he, I don't know, he says it's
39:54
going to cost about a billion dollars to
39:57
fix everything that was blown up in Ukraine
40:01
over the weekend.
40:02
He says the death count was two.
40:05
And, you know, even on the propaganda claim
40:10
that they're trying to kill civilians, you know,
40:15
Russians haven't done that.
40:17
And he said it would, you know, that's
40:18
pretty expensive, $500 million.
40:21
He said they spent a billion dollars on
40:24
this, on this strike.
40:27
And, you know, that $500 million a person,
40:31
if they were really trying to kill someone,
40:34
you know, he, they don't want, he doesn't
40:36
want to spend high tech military equipment to
40:39
kill a small number of people if they
40:41
really wanted to, they'd have put a nuclear
40:43
warhead on it, is basically what he was
40:45
saying.
40:46
And so, he's pretty blunt.
40:48
And he's, here's what he worries about the
40:50
most.
40:51
He said, and this was interesting, he said
40:53
that Kiev has water sources, but the water
40:57
treatment and the water sewage systems, they have
41:01
multiple water sources because they sit on a
41:04
river.
41:05
So, destroying water access would be difficult.
41:08
But sewage treatment is far more vulnerable.
41:11
He says, see, he raises the issue of
41:14
the Borchny sewage treatment facility and saying he
41:19
doesn't know whether it was hit.
41:21
But he said a city can survive many
41:23
things.
41:24
But if the sewage treatment collapse in a
41:26
multi-million person city during summer, the cities
41:30
will become unlivable very quickly.
41:33
And the danger isn't just inconvenience, it's disease,
41:36
sanitation collapses, and the degradation of urban life.
41:40
So, when he says Kiev is going to
41:42
be unfit for life, he isn't speaking about
41:45
explosions, he's talking about sewer.
41:49
And so, that's the darkest part of his
41:52
statement.
41:55
I don't know, it was a pretty interesting
41:58
and complete discussion that he tried to portray
42:03
there.
42:05
He didn't want to discount, but he didn't
42:12
want to accept either the Russian statement that
42:20
Starobelsk was non-military.
42:27
He doesn't like that, and he clearly doesn't
42:30
like that Ukraine is using, that if they
42:36
are using schools and places where young people
42:43
are in taking education, he really does have
42:49
a problem with that.
42:51
And he says he doesn't know the full
42:52
facts, and he does acknowledge that these children
42:55
are dead.
42:57
And he believes the Russian reports of what
42:59
they're showing and all this stuff, just like
43:01
I do, watching it on TV and seeing
43:04
the interviews with the people who've lost legs
43:09
and limbs and children.
43:11
He says that Ukrainian and international investigators, all
43:18
favorable to Ukraine, say that there was a
43:22
drone-related activity nearby.
43:26
And so, he says that Ukraine may have
43:30
believed there was a military or drone-related
43:32
target, and maybe there was one, but they
43:35
didn't hit it.
43:37
Because Kiev said initially, oh no, it was
43:41
a mistake, we hit only this, and we
43:43
can't believe it.
43:44
And what he says, he says he's 100
43:47
% sure nobody deliberately aimed at children.
43:51
And his view is that neither side spends
43:54
expensive military equipment to kill children.
43:58
He doesn't think people believe that.
44:01
I'd take a more cynical view.
44:03
I think people do do that, and I
44:05
think we do that.
44:07
And I think we've done it in Iran,
44:09
either that we've helped it or we've given
44:11
crappy information, unverified information to people, and we're
44:18
still doing it.
44:19
And you can't take this as even remotely
44:23
accurate.
44:26
Hell, half the time, this stuff is AI
44:28
-generated targets, so it's crap.
44:31
And he, but he does reject the idea
44:33
that there's any high-level strike planning trying
44:36
to kill civilian children.
44:39
He demands that Ukraine investigate, because the dead
44:43
are, from Ukraine's legal standpoint, and this is
44:47
important, because they're firing inside of the Donbass.
44:51
He claims these are Ukrainian citizens.
44:55
And so, they're bombing in the Donbass, hitting
44:58
Starobelsk Education Center, a Ukrainian education center, if
45:06
you believe that the Donbass is Ukrainian.
45:10
And that's a major point.
45:12
He says normal state open criminal cases when
45:17
civilians die, and they do it even against
45:19
their own military.
45:20
So, if some Ukrainian is killing Ukrainians inside,
45:23
which they should have been doing since 2014,
45:27
then they should be taking it seriously, and
45:30
they never did.
45:31
And so, he wants to know who made
45:33
the decision, evaluate whether the decision was lawful,
45:37
and punish those who made the mistake.
45:40
And he says that Ukraine is going to
45:41
bury the issue under the war rights off
45:44
everything.
45:45
You're just allowed to do it.
45:46
Sorry, that's how it goes.
45:48
And this is a useful analysis.
45:52
And he says that these Russian strikes on
45:57
Kiev are actually helpful to the Green Goblin.
46:01
He gets to say that it takes his
46:05
focus away from all this corruption and the
46:09
scandal, and that's definitely true.
46:11
And Zelensky is always on the take for
46:18
more money.
46:20
He wants that more money all the time.
46:23
He's always out with his hand out somewhere.
46:26
And he has been now.
46:29
He's out doing it again.
46:32
And he's particularly critical of Lukashenko because Lukashenko
46:35
in Belarus is trying to settle this.
46:38
But oh, no, no, no, no.
46:39
Zelensky can't have that.
46:40
If Lukashenko is Churchill, then he's not, right?
46:44
I'm extremely cynical about the Green Goblin.
46:48
Sorry about that.
46:48
I'll try to tone that down a little
46:51
bit for those who love the Green Goblin,
46:53
because there are plenty of those around too.
46:55
But that guy's not very lovable.
46:58
He's not like Cheburashka or any of those.
47:01
We should do a Zelensky is Cheburashka segment.
47:07
Maybe we could do that.
47:10
Maybe that would be the way to go.
47:13
So you know what I'm going to do?
47:15
I'm going to have one more little segment,
47:18
but because I'm remote, it's a little more
47:21
difficult to get to.
47:23
So I'm going to keep the tunes coming
47:30
in play for you.
47:34
Another popular sort of rockabilly, kind of like
47:40
On the Road Again in my humble view,
47:42
but it's not really, but it's similar.
47:44
Ready?
47:44
Here we go.
47:45
Leonard Skinner's Sweet Home, Alabama.
47:52
And that is the name of that tune.
47:55
That was Leonard Skinner, Sweet Home, Alabama.
47:59
And I am Samuel Trapp, continuing here.
48:02
I told you I was going to share
48:03
with you.
48:04
And frankly, I think it's important to do
48:07
so.
48:07
Nobody ever does.
48:09
And nobody ever includes important matters here.
48:14
So think about this.
48:16
I told you about watching Soloveyov on Sundays.
48:22
And this Sunday was no exception.
48:25
I put in there, and like I told
48:27
you last week, Margarita Semenyan has returned.
48:32
And from her cancer treatment, her husband passed
48:34
away.
48:35
She's had a bad year.
48:37
But I do like listening to her.
48:38
She's U.S. educated.
48:39
Her English is better than mine, probably.
48:42
And she is very well spoken, and in
48:45
Russian and in English.
48:46
She spoke on, he let her talk for
48:49
a while last night.
48:51
And they put some, he let her go
48:57
on for a while.
48:58
And I think it's because she hasn't been
48:59
around in a while, that she's been out
49:02
of the country.
49:03
And she always talks about poetry.
49:05
And she is somewhat emotional when she talks
49:11
about it.
49:12
She'll put out these poetry things and kind
49:16
of give a feminine touch to it.
49:20
And I'm mentioning that feminine thing twice, because
49:22
most of the time on Soloveyov Live, these
49:26
people are mostly male.
49:28
They tried to put a couple of women
49:30
in that might be able to replace Margarita
49:34
Semenyan, but they haven't been very effective.
49:37
It's not the same.
49:39
This woman is very well spoken and very
49:42
popular.
49:43
And she's also very clear when she speaks.
49:46
And that, for me, makes it a lot
49:51
more profitable to watch her than people who
49:54
don't open their mouths to enunciate when they
49:57
speak.
49:58
That drives me a little crazy.
49:59
I have a serious issue.
50:02
Sometimes I have to listen to him twice
50:04
to make sure to get it all with
50:05
Aristovitch.
50:07
Aristovitch rumbles and he doesn't open his mouth
50:10
when he speaks.
50:11
You can't hear what he's saying.
50:13
It drives me nuts when people can't clearly
50:17
articulate in any language, Russian or English.
50:23
I often joke that I'm illiterate in two
50:26
languages, but actually, people told me I'm somewhat
50:29
literate and articulate in both, and that I
50:32
tried to say things in Russian that people
50:35
will understand them.
50:38
Anyway, Maria Zakharova and Margarita Semenyan both were
50:44
on the Solovyov on Sunday night.
50:49
And Margarita Semenyan talked about quite a few
50:51
topics.
50:53
One of the interesting parts of what she
50:56
said, she said, on the current stage of
50:59
the war and comparing it to 1941, she
51:03
says, you know, you are here from zero
51:05
to ten.
51:06
We're already at the point in the song
51:08
written overnight on, you know, June 22, 1941.
51:13
And she talked about the Beatev Kumak and
51:16
what his words were, we shall resist the
51:19
stranglers of all fiery ideas.
51:22
It's violators, it's robbers, tormentors of people.
51:26
She said it's as if it was written
51:28
right now, you know.
51:30
She goes, do you remember what this is
51:31
from?
51:32
And it says, and she's very poetic, so
51:35
I think it's fun to include this stuff
51:37
in there.
51:38
And she says, arise, great country, arise for
51:42
mortal battle against the dark fascist forces, against
51:46
the cursed horde.
51:48
Let noble rage boil like a wave.
51:52
The people's war is underway, our sacred war.
51:56
And she says, one might say Ukraine is,
51:59
she says this afterwards, she goes, one might
52:01
say Ukraine is too small for a sacred
52:04
war, but we are not waging war against
52:06
Ukraine.
52:08
I will never tire of repeating this.
52:10
The war with Ukraine ended on February 28,
52:14
2022, six days after the special military operation
52:18
began.
52:19
That was indeed like a small operation like
52:22
Georgia.
52:23
That ended.
52:24
They were ready to give everything away to
52:26
accept any conditions.
52:29
Then this red-haired dog arrived for some
52:32
reason with the Russian name of Boris.
52:36
She's talking about Bojo, Boris Johnson, and said,
52:41
brother, all of Europe will fight Russia for
52:44
you.
52:45
With your hands, we promise you all of
52:47
Europe would fight, but through you.
52:50
And now we've been fighting all of Europe
52:52
for the fifth year running.
52:54
So this is a sacred war for us.
52:56
And she says, absolutely arise, great country.
53:02
So, and she says, they're preparing many surprises
53:04
for us in other regions, just like the
53:06
fascists did, trying to persuade Japan to open
53:09
an Eastern front.
53:10
I hadn't heard that before.
53:12
Japan, how shall I put it politely, soiled
53:15
itself.
53:16
And that was very helpful to us in
53:19
41, because they were able to redeploy full
53:24
-strength Siberian divisions to Moscow.
53:27
The battle of Moscow was not entirely determined,
53:29
but in large extent it was.
53:32
And now why did Japan get scared?
53:33
Anyway, she's talking history.
53:35
It was pretty good stuff.
53:38
She went on for a while, but more
53:40
importantly, well, she talked a little bit about
53:43
AFD, RT, democracy and force.
53:45
And she said the strongest part of Germany
53:47
gave an interview recently.
53:50
And said, are they out of their minds
53:52
banning RT, the television, her channel?
53:56
How does democracy work?
53:58
The strongest party in Germany is against banning
54:01
RT.
54:02
The German people are against banning RT and
54:05
against their own German leadership.
54:07
And she said, what is the support of
54:10
what the leadership is?
54:12
16%.
54:13
They don't have any support anymore.
54:15
And she went on on that topic for
54:17
a while.
54:18
And she talked about, I mean, he let
54:20
her speak for a while because it's only
54:23
the second time she's been back, but he
54:25
was more talking about escalation, the continued war.
54:31
And when he brought in Zakharova, and this
54:35
is the important part, and I'm going to
54:38
share with you pretty much everything that she
54:42
said.
54:43
And it's not, it'll take me a little
54:46
while to go through it.
54:48
We'll probably be the last thing that we're
54:51
ending with on what Zakharova put out on
54:55
this show.
54:56
And I think this needs to be shared
54:58
in English.
54:59
And so I've done a pretty, pretty good
55:03
translation of this.
55:06
And I'm going to share it with you,
55:09
but I watched it as well.
55:11
And I watched what she was saying.
55:12
And she was, there were people in the
55:17
area that were watching me.
55:19
And one person said, man, she's pissed off
55:22
because she's speaking Russian.
55:24
And this person didn't understand Russian.
55:25
She was really pissed off.
55:27
And I was like, yeah, she is, rightly
55:28
so.
55:30
But she's pissed off for a reason.
55:32
And here's what it is.
55:34
And so he invites her on, and I'm
55:36
going to share most of what she said
55:37
to you in kind of a, I'll skip
55:43
parts, probably, but I will, I'm going to
55:46
share with you what her appeal was to
55:49
foreign journalists, right?
55:51
She says, yes, to your entire studio and
55:55
guests.
55:56
And you know, you have multi-millions in
55:59
your audience.
56:00
And that's true.
56:01
He said, a group of journalists is now
56:03
in the region.
56:04
She's talking about Starobelsk.
56:06
And she goes, I'm going to tell you
56:07
how it happened step by step.
56:09
We remained in Moscow.
56:11
My colleagues, employees of the department are accompanying
56:14
these journalists.
56:17
We did it this way.
56:18
So there would truly be more seats available.
56:20
Everyone among the foreign correspondents that expressed a
56:23
desire to go received the opportunity to go.
56:27
And she works with the Ministry of Defense.
56:29
So she said, our task was to make
56:31
sure that the world community sees this through
56:34
the eyes of its own journalists.
56:37
And I will explain why.
56:38
I think you've spoken about this a great
56:41
deal today and in recent days, and I
56:43
know you have drawn attention to the tragedy.
56:46
And briefly, it is monstrous.
56:48
And at the moment of the strike, there
56:50
were 86 people in this educational institution.
56:54
They were minors aged 14 to 18 years
56:57
old.
56:59
Immediately on May the 22nd, at Russia's request,
57:03
the UN Security Council was convened.
57:05
I want to say that these Security Council
57:08
meetings are broadcast live, but usually because of
57:11
the time difference, they fall during the night
57:13
in Moscow.
57:15
Most of our country is already asleep and
57:18
later watches recordings.
57:19
I want to say the Security Council meeting
57:22
was exceptional because I received hundreds of calls
57:26
and messages the next day saying, what are
57:29
they saying?
57:30
And this referred to the Western representatives.
57:33
We've heard many fakes and much disinformation over
57:37
all the years.
57:38
But both our citizens and foreigners were struck
57:41
by the cold-blooded, indifferent, and false narratives
57:45
which they spoke at the UN Security Council
57:48
table about supposedly no strike having occurred, about
57:52
Moscow inventing everything, about no one striking children,
57:57
and about there supposedly being no victims at
58:00
all.
58:00
That's true, by the way.
58:02
But the particular cynicism of the situation was
58:06
that these words were spoken by women representing
58:10
Western countries.
58:11
It's not only cynical because these Western countries
58:14
speak about human rights, but because women were
58:18
saying this.
58:20
I want to say that my phone was
58:21
exploding.
58:23
Journalists and public figures were calling me saying,
58:26
how is this possible?
58:27
And you know, when the permanent representative of
58:30
Latvia at the UN is speaking, I realized
58:32
something.
58:33
I could never understand before how women could
58:36
work in the children's concentration camp at Salaspils.
58:42
She's talking World War II.
58:44
We have written, read, and spoken a lot
58:47
about these things.
58:48
That was the camp, the place where children's
58:51
blood was taken, where children were killed so
58:54
their blood could be used for the soldiers
58:56
of the Third Reich.
58:58
And admittedly, for many years, the Baltic countries
59:01
claimed that this was a children's health camp.
59:04
But in reality, it was a camp where
59:06
they experimented and conducted experiments on living children,
59:11
on small children.
59:13
And blood was taken from them to give
59:15
to the soldiers of the Third Reich.
59:17
I did not know what the women who
59:19
did that could have looked like or how
59:21
they could have felt.
59:22
But when I looked at Latvia's permanent representative
59:25
at the Security Council, I understood.
59:29
Now that's freaking cold.
59:31
That is cold.
59:32
And it's part of the reason I wanted
59:33
to share with you.
59:34
And she goes, and what is most astonishing
59:36
is that this basilisk is still alive, just
59:40
as in those same places, in that same
59:44
Latvia, women have been found who could take
59:47
blood from children, understanding these children were dying
59:51
and simply cart them off to pits and
59:53
bury them.
59:54
So too now they do in principle the
59:56
same thing, only while occupying high posts.
1:00:00
Today the list was published.
1:00:02
21 children were killed, 42 were wounded.
1:00:06
After the blasphemous Security Council meeting, made blasphemous
1:00:12
by the Western representatives, we literally the same
1:00:15
night formed a group of journalists, those accredited
1:00:19
in Moscow, who did not need to fly
1:00:21
in from abroad.
1:00:23
Moreover, there are no direct flights from Western
1:00:25
countries now.
1:00:26
Anyway, they have canceled them.
1:00:28
So we assembled a group.
1:00:30
This group included 51 foreign correspondents, 51 journalists
1:00:35
from 19 countries, flew out this morning and
1:00:38
are working there.
1:00:39
They're walking through the remaining corridors.
1:00:43
They are seeing traces of children's bloody handprints
1:00:46
on the walls of the destroyed educational institution.
1:00:50
I do not know whether their editorial offices
1:00:53
will allow them to do so, but I
1:00:55
believe that perhaps not all of them, but
1:00:57
some of them will be permitted to present
1:01:00
these reports for the judgment of their own
1:01:03
viewers.
1:01:04
Countries from all continents have been represented.
1:01:07
There are journalists from France, Germany, and the
1:01:10
United States.
1:01:11
There are British journalists.
1:01:13
There are, of course, journalists from other areas
1:01:15
of the world majority, China, Venezuela, Cuba.
1:01:19
There are Arabic journalists from various countries in
1:01:21
that region.
1:01:23
We have done everything so the world would
1:01:25
know the truth.
1:01:27
And she says, I want to say one
1:01:28
more thing.
1:01:29
They are accompanied by the Human Rights Commissioner,
1:01:33
Jana Lantratova.
1:01:35
Representatives of the local administration and investigative committee
1:01:40
and rescuers are speaking with them.
1:01:43
We have done everything so that, and I
1:01:45
don't know how this will happen and how
1:01:47
much strength the parents of the killed and
1:01:49
wounded children will need, but we've done everything
1:01:52
so the journalists would have this opportunity.
1:01:55
And now I will say what needs to
1:01:57
be said.
1:01:58
All of this has an intentional legal component,
1:02:02
and that very intentional legal foundation was created
1:02:05
by those same Westerners.
1:02:08
First and foremost, they talk about human rights
1:02:11
and children's rights.
1:02:13
Look at the Convention on the Rights of
1:02:15
Children.
1:02:15
That is exactly what it is called.
1:02:18
It is developed, by the way, in an
1:02:20
international treaty adopted by the General Assembly on
1:02:24
November 20, 1989, and entered into force in
1:02:27
1990.
1:02:28
It's the most universal document regulating this sphere.
1:02:32
The entire world signed this document, including Ukraine,
1:02:37
that is now striking these children, and they
1:02:39
are aware that they have obligations to the
1:02:42
international community.
1:02:43
I want to quote Article 38 of this
1:02:46
document.
1:02:47
It establishes that states' parties undertake to respect
1:02:51
the norms of international humanitarian law, and then
1:02:54
the list follows.
1:02:55
But most importantly, Paragraph 4 states, in a
1:02:59
direct quote, in accordance with their obligation under
1:03:02
international humanitarian law to protect civilian population in
1:03:07
armed conflicts, state parties have to take all
1:03:10
measures to ensure protection and care of children
1:03:14
affected by an armed conflict.
1:03:17
This means that countries caught in the raging
1:03:19
flames of conflict must do everything both to
1:03:22
protect children and provide them with primary assistance.
1:03:26
But not only the General Assembly, and of
1:03:29
course that document has a recommendatory character, but
1:03:33
also the Security Council has developed a series
1:03:37
of documents on this very issue.
1:03:39
Resolution 1261 of 1999 concerns children's issues.
1:03:44
It is called Children in Armed Conflict.
1:03:47
It designates six grave violations against children, killing
1:03:51
and maiming, the use of children as combatants,
1:03:54
sexual violence, abduction, attacks on schools and hospitals,
1:03:57
and denial of humanitarian access.
1:04:00
That is exactly what the armed forces of
1:04:02
Ukraine and the Kiev regime and Banderivtsi are
1:04:06
now doing.
1:04:07
Banderivtsi or Benderites is what they call the
1:04:11
Nazis over there.
1:04:13
But the most relevant document in this context
1:04:16
of what we are seeing is, of course,
1:04:17
Security Council Resolution 2601.
1:04:20
Believe it or not, it was adopted by
1:04:22
consensus in October of 2021.
1:04:25
It speaks precisely about these points.
1:04:27
Allow me to read it.
1:04:28
Paragraph 2 strongly condemns continuing attacks and threats
1:04:33
of attacks in violation of international humanitarian law
1:04:36
against schools and civilians associated with schools, including
1:04:41
children, teachers, and so on, calling on the
1:04:44
parties.
1:04:44
Who do you think developed this resolution?
1:04:47
I will list them for you.
1:04:49
Britain, Greece, Denmark, France, and now a big
1:04:53
drumroll, Ukraine.
1:04:56
Can you imagine such hellish hypocrisy, first and
1:04:59
under the very spotlight and camera of the
1:05:01
whole world, because the entire world really does
1:05:04
watch Security Council meetings, and I watch them,
1:05:08
so it's kind of funny.
1:05:09
They pretend to care so much about children,
1:05:12
and then they do exactly the opposite of
1:05:14
their own obligations.
1:05:17
She was pretty rough on them.
1:05:19
There are two more important documents.
1:05:21
The Security Council regulates the issue of arms
1:05:24
supplies to regions where children suffer from armed
1:05:27
conflict.
1:05:29
Resolution 1261, adopted in 1999 by consensus, recognizes
1:05:37
the harmful effect of proliferation of weapons, particularly
1:05:40
small arms, on the security of civilian populations,
1:05:43
especially children.
1:05:44
In that connection, it refers to Resolution 1209
1:05:48
of 1998 that emphasizes the importance of all
1:05:51
states involved in the production and sale of
1:05:53
weapons that could provoke or prolong armed conflict.
1:05:57
Can you imagine?
1:05:58
And no one at the Security Council on
1:06:00
May 22, 2026, among Western representatives, said they
1:06:05
are directly responsible or guilty for what is
1:06:07
happening because they sponsor the kids regime and
1:06:10
supply the weapons with which these children are
1:06:13
being killed.
1:06:15
Our children, and there are no other people's
1:06:17
children.
1:06:18
And what else do I want to say
1:06:20
about this?
1:06:21
Each of these resolutions, each mechanism, whether of
1:06:24
the General Assembly, the Security Council, or the
1:06:26
UN Secretariat as a whole, has monitoring mechanisms.
1:06:30
What does that mean?
1:06:32
Special reporters, commissioners, all kinds of secretaries and
1:06:36
responsible officials who either have representation on the
1:06:39
ground in certain countries or are delegated there
1:06:42
to understand what is happening and how it
1:06:45
violates the relevant documents or implements them.
1:06:48
What is the problem?
1:06:49
The problem is that even when representatives of
1:06:52
international organizations, in particular the UN, want to
1:06:56
come and record the relevant violations, not just
1:06:59
violations but tragedies, they cannot do so.
1:07:03
Why?
1:07:03
Because the Kiev regime says this can only
1:07:06
be done from its territory, as you understand,
1:07:09
and they do not provide passage, access, or
1:07:12
flights.
1:07:12
They gather groups and take them only where
1:07:15
their staged events have taken place.
1:07:17
In order to make all these officials of
1:07:20
international organizations kneel to them and give them
1:07:23
more money, I say.
1:07:24
But I want to say it again.
1:07:26
We will do everything possible so that this
1:07:29
information reaches the international community.
1:07:32
There are so-called refusers.
1:07:34
I want everyone to know about them.
1:07:36
The BBC officially refuses to go to Stotterbelsk.
1:07:41
They sent us an official letter stating that
1:07:44
they would not go, not for any technical
1:07:46
reason, because it was their principled position.
1:07:50
CNN said all of its reporters were on
1:07:53
vacation.
1:07:54
Japanese journalists were forbidden by official Tokyo channels.
1:08:00
You know, I want to say that my
1:08:03
question is not that they are here taking
1:08:05
interviews and engaging in journalistic activity, but I
1:08:09
have two questions.
1:08:10
First, are they not only engaged in journalistic
1:08:13
activity, or are they engaged in propaganda, distortion
1:08:17
of information, or collection of sensitive data?
1:08:20
But the second question that constantly troubles me
1:08:23
is this.
1:08:24
On what basis, when attending official events as
1:08:27
journalists, where they have the right and the
1:08:30
duty to ask questions, do they act as
1:08:32
if they are lecturing us?
1:08:34
Look at how BBC representatives formulate their questions.
1:08:39
Are they even questions?
1:08:40
They're always judging.
1:08:42
It is as though they are the heads
1:08:43
of tribunals reading out accusations against us.
1:08:48
No, it is not for them to accuse
1:08:50
us.
1:08:50
It is we who accuse them of betraying
1:08:53
journalism itself, and now also betraying children who
1:08:59
are being killed with money supplied by their
1:09:02
own governments and weapons supplied by their governments.
1:09:06
So when Solovyov says Russian journalists are not
1:09:09
allowed in Western leaders' press events, she says,
1:09:14
we are not allowed there at all.
1:09:17
Vladimir Rudolfovich, she says, we're not allowed into
1:09:21
the palaces of Champs-Elysees either, in France,
1:09:27
she's talking about.
1:09:28
So I wanted to share with you her
1:09:32
commentary because, man, she was harsh, and I've
1:09:36
provided it all.
1:09:38
And you won't, you know, people don't, they
1:09:42
don't provide it in the United States.
1:09:43
You don't get the information, well, anywhere, really.
1:09:48
And you could say that there's certainly a
1:09:50
level of, I don't want to call it
1:09:52
propaganda, but because she was speaking, you know,
1:09:56
straight up.
1:09:57
And the reason that I watched these three
1:10:00
-hour-long shows, and by the way, Zakharova,
1:10:03
every Thursday gives it, or Thursday or Friday,
1:10:07
it depends on when it comes out.
1:10:08
I'm not sure the official day that she
1:10:10
actually gives it, but it comes out on
1:10:13
YouTube once a week and late in the
1:10:16
week.
1:10:16
And I tried to watch, you know, parts
1:10:20
of it, at least her opening statement in
1:10:22
there, because she gives a set of current
1:10:24
events and all the important stuff will show
1:10:26
up in the first half hour or so.
1:10:29
And that's when I'm driving or something, Zakharova
1:10:32
will be telling her stories.
1:10:36
And so, and when I find the good
1:10:37
ones, I, you know, well, not that they're
1:10:39
not all good, but it's all the, it's
1:10:41
all straight from the horse's mouth or from
1:10:43
the, you know, whatever you want to call
1:10:45
it, you know, it'd be our equivalent to
1:10:47
Marco Rubio's press secretary, or the president's, the
1:10:52
White House press secretary, that's the equivalent, you
1:10:55
know, and so she's the press secretary for
1:10:58
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with Lavrov.
1:11:03
And so she's always present in, you know,
1:11:05
when it's a big deal for Lavrov, she'll
1:11:07
travel with him and stuff like that.
1:11:10
But she also does her own brief.
1:11:13
And so, and she's pretty critical and very
1:11:17
well spoken.
1:11:18
And so it's, you know, that's typical, these
1:11:21
are our diplomatic level people.
1:11:25
And so they do talk in some of
1:11:26
the harshest means against what the West has
1:11:34
been doing in Ukraine, against what's going on
1:11:38
in Iran and this current stuff.
1:11:40
But, you know, on a bigger picture, I
1:11:43
talk about, you know, people tiring of this
1:11:46
war and of the lies that are continually
1:11:51
spewed out worldwide, really.
1:11:58
And, you know, everybody is critical and can
1:12:01
be critical of their own and everyone else's
1:12:03
government.
1:12:04
I mean, if you are living in America,
1:12:06
and you believe everything our government says, well,
1:12:09
you're part of the problem.
1:12:11
All right.
1:12:12
It'd be nice if you could believe these
1:12:14
a-holes, but you can't.
1:12:16
And that is the unfortunate truth.
1:12:18
You can't believe, never trust a politician, he's
1:12:21
selling you something.
1:12:22
He's just like a used car salesman, you
1:12:25
know, this car was driven by, you know,
1:12:28
a little old lady, you know, once a
1:12:31
week to go to the grocery store.
1:12:32
And, you know, she didn't drive it much
1:12:34
else besides that.
1:12:35
Well, yeah, maybe that's true.
1:12:38
But it doesn't say what happened the other
1:12:40
six days with that vehicle driven by a
1:12:43
grandson going out behind somewhere or doing whatever.
1:12:48
So, you know, there are shades of truth
1:12:51
or facts left out, and you can't just
1:12:53
believe what you are told.
1:12:56
And I hate to say it to the
1:12:58
Trump lovers out there, but the Trump government
1:13:02
is no different than any other government, in
1:13:04
my humble view, although it's more likely to
1:13:07
get a realistic approach, that's for sure.
1:13:12
And I trust, I trust individually, I would
1:13:17
trust Trump far more than Biden on an
1:13:21
individual level.
1:13:22
But in the government level, they're all a
1:13:24
bunch of liars and crooks, whether they work
1:13:27
for Trump or not.
1:13:28
So the problem isn't the Trumpster.
1:13:31
The problem is all the idiots that work
1:13:33
for him because they're the same idiots that
1:13:35
work for everybody else, and it's getting worse.
1:13:38
And so, you know, I watched another complete
1:13:43
set of lies by, and I can't stand
1:13:45
watching him anymore.
1:13:46
He just, he just, I can hardly bear
1:13:50
it.
1:13:51
If you put on, put me on, you
1:13:52
put out, put me on coach there, put
1:13:54
me in coach.
1:13:57
Higgseth, you put him out there, you know,
1:13:59
put me in coach.
1:14:00
I got this covered.
1:14:01
Let's go bomb the hell out of everybody.
1:14:03
We got, everything is positive.
1:14:06
Yeah, real positive.
1:14:08
I wouldn't follow that guy into a bowling
1:14:11
alley, you know, to take over the, I
1:14:14
wouldn't, that guy, never in a million years
1:14:17
would I follow that guy anywhere.
1:14:20
And unfortunately, as a military person, that's where
1:14:24
I would have serious problems, is following a
1:14:28
guy like that.
1:14:30
You can't, you cannot trust a word that
1:14:32
guy says.
1:14:33
And, and if you do, do so at
1:14:35
your own peril, is what I say.
1:14:38
And you don't have to believe that, but
1:14:40
there's just something not right about that guy.
1:14:44
And he should have stuck with being a
1:14:47
TV, a TV pundit, you know, because he
1:14:51
was, you know, funny enough to pull that
1:14:54
off.
1:14:54
But I don't want some funny dude, some,
1:14:57
some JV quarterback, funny guy running the, running
1:15:01
the war machine.
1:15:03
You know, I can't help but think that
1:15:05
he's, he's part of the reason we switched
1:15:07
it to the department of war because he
1:15:10
wanted to be all powerful.
1:15:12
Oh geez, I got this department of war.
1:15:14
What are we talking about defense?
1:15:15
It's like, it's like the idiots in, in
1:15:18
the police department saying we're not police or
1:15:21
law enforcement.
1:15:22
They focus on the enforcement all the time.
1:15:26
They don't focus upon, upon what their job
1:15:29
is.
1:15:30
Policing, administration, taking care of things.
1:15:34
They talk about enforcement.
1:15:35
That's it.
1:15:36
Go out and arrest somebody.
1:15:37
That means you're doing your job, right?
1:15:40
Oh, that's what it is.
1:15:43
So if you're in the, if you're in
1:15:44
the, uh, the, uh, department of defense, you're
1:15:50
defending things, right?
1:15:51
There's, there's stuff you can defend, but by
1:15:53
God, if you can be in the department
1:15:55
of war, well, you're far better off, aren't
1:15:59
you?
1:15:59
You can, you can, you can conduct war
1:16:02
with the department of war.
1:16:03
Even if you're not conducting war, you don't
1:16:05
need war powers relief.
1:16:07
You don't need any of that.
1:16:08
Screw it.
1:16:09
We're the department of war.
1:16:10
What else do we do?
1:16:11
We go out and kidnap foreign leaders, bring
1:16:14
them to justice and justice in America.
1:16:17
Yeah.
1:16:19
Good old misnomer.
1:16:20
That doesn't work, does it?
1:16:22
At any rate, I've been rambling, but, uh,
1:16:25
I have finished my, uh, my, my base
1:16:28
topic there.
1:16:30
And, uh, we, you know, I think, I
1:16:33
think that, you know, it did give me
1:16:34
a little bit of time.
1:16:35
And I, I said, if I had a
1:16:37
little bit more time, I'd go back to
1:16:38
Margarita and tell you what she said on
1:16:41
a couple other topics, because, uh, she said,
1:16:46
um, especially on Starobelsk, because what she said,
1:16:50
and that's all that Maria Zakharova talked about,
1:16:54
but she said that, um, she, she gave
1:16:57
some, some religious text at first.
1:16:59
And, you know, then she talked about this
1:17:01
same disgusting Danish woman.
1:17:04
She says, we don't know anything because the
1:17:07
Russians always lie to us is what she
1:17:09
says.
1:17:09
And so, uh, not Zakharova, we already heard
1:17:12
about Zakharova, this is Semenyan.
1:17:13
She goes, oh, we don't know anything because,
1:17:16
you know, they don't have the ability to
1:17:18
know because they haven't been there.
1:17:19
And conveniently they secured that inability for themselves
1:17:23
in advance preventatively when they banned RT and
1:17:28
other Russian channels, that is all.
1:17:30
Nobody shows anything from us anymore.
1:17:33
The BBC refuses to go.
1:17:35
CNN said they were on vacation.
1:17:38
Moscow Bureau of CNN is on vacation.
1:17:42
Even unfortunately from the Arab world, some journalists
1:17:46
who were invited refused to go, but why
1:17:49
get involved?
1:17:50
My house is on the edge.
1:17:51
I know nothing in the literal sense of
1:17:53
this phrase.
1:17:54
People prefer not to know, but in China,
1:17:57
hundreds of millions have viewed what happened in
1:17:59
Starobelsk.
1:18:01
I already publicly expressed my condolences on social
1:18:04
media.
1:18:05
And now I express them again on television,
1:18:07
on your show.
1:18:08
And then of course, to everyone who was
1:18:11
killed.
1:18:11
And if anyone needs anything, treatment, any kind
1:18:14
of health, please write on social media and
1:18:17
we will do everything we can to help.
1:18:19
So they conveniently do not know about this
1:18:22
because they don't wish to just that they
1:18:24
do not report about the girls in Iran.
1:18:28
And you should see what is happening in
1:18:29
Ukrainian media right now.
1:18:32
Ukrainian media is insisting that generals were sitting
1:18:35
there in this, in this school, in this
1:18:37
headquarters.
1:18:38
And that's true that what the Ukrainians are
1:18:41
saying anyway, that this was some kind of
1:18:44
military headquarters and all the videos have already
1:18:47
been put out.
1:18:48
Yana Lantratova, our human rights commissioner, Yana is
1:18:52
doing excellent work.
1:18:53
She is there now showing fragments of the
1:18:56
UAVs, speaking with relatives, with people who died,
1:19:00
of people who died and with survivors who
1:19:02
were wounded.
1:19:03
And you can see these are children, youth,
1:19:05
teenagers.
1:19:06
It's very visible.
1:19:07
They say that they, Ukrainians say that it's
1:19:10
a general and an operational headquarters.
1:19:13
What can anybody say?
1:19:14
Many Ukrainian channels writing on this are called,
1:19:18
and I didn't know this word and I
1:19:20
still don't, but they call themselves Truha, which
1:19:26
it's justified.
1:19:27
They're trying to justify the name of a
1:19:30
powerful strike.
1:19:31
And this is a powerful strike weapon.
1:19:34
And the colleagues here know it better, but
1:19:36
perhaps almost since the beginning, one of the
1:19:39
most powerful strikes since the beginning of the
1:19:42
special military operation.
1:19:44
And they're talking about the strikes on Ukraine
1:19:49
that were taking place on Sunday during the
1:19:51
day.
1:19:52
And she says, because there is no other
1:19:54
way, because they don't listen in any other
1:19:57
way.
1:19:57
If there was something else to hit with,
1:20:00
she says, I'm not a specialist on this
1:20:02
either, but I know that this needs to
1:20:06
be taken very seriously.
1:20:08
So at any rate, I am going to
1:20:13
end the show on that note.
1:20:16
And I very much appreciate you being here
1:20:19
on International Flavor today.
1:20:21
I invite you to into the studio every
1:20:23
morning, coming to you live from the Lake
1:20:26
Ozark real estate of the art studio today,
1:20:29
a little bit farther remote than that, because
1:20:32
I'm on the road again.
1:20:34
And tomorrow will also be on the road
1:20:38
again.
1:20:39
And hopefully, and I'll review the sound and
1:20:41
make sure everything came out all right.
1:20:43
If I have to adjust, I'll adjust tomorrow
1:20:44
because I can't do both same time remotely.
1:20:47
So I apologize.
1:20:49
The sound wasn't as clear as it normally
1:20:51
is in our wonderful studio.
1:20:54
And I'll be traveling most of this week.
1:20:57
So I will keep you posted on my
1:21:02
whereabouts and on the news of the day.
1:21:04
And certainly, if you don't know anything about
1:21:07
this Starobelsky, you should look into it.
1:21:10
This is a real tragedy and unfortunate.
1:21:13
And people in the West should pay attention
1:21:15
to this.
1:21:16
And they never do.
1:21:18
And so I'll go ahead and put it
1:21:20
out on my on my channel here at
1:21:24
International Flavor, where the truth just tastes better.
1:21:28
Thank you so much for joining me.
1:21:30
And I hope you all have a very
1:21:33
good evening or day.
1:21:36
I suppose it would be in in mid
1:21:39
Missouri, but I'm not in mid Missouri today.
1:21:43
But I mean, what would we call this?
1:21:47
We call this tapping out.
1:21:48
I will tap out a minute early today.
1:21:51
Have a very nice day.