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Language warning: explicit political profanity is discussed/quoted from public remarks. · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Hello, good morning. Welcome. I am
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  Samuel Trap. This is International
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  Flavor. You are listening to DAM radio.
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  [clears throat and cough] I've seen all
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  over the screens today. I didn't know
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  this when I walked in that the
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  uh
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  the Reverend Jackson is uh no longer
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  with us. That's uh truly sad. I don't
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  like to see people um important people
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  pass away. You know, I realize everyone
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  has to go through that journey at some
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  point and uh I too shall go through that
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  journey at some point and uh it'd be
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  nice uh to uh hopefully have a person or
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  two [laughter]
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  uh speak for me when I when uh uh when I
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  go is that was an all right dude, you
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  know, something like that. Um sometimes
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  I'm not so hopeful of that. Sometimes I
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  think, well, of course, you know,
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  [laughter]
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  but it's a crazy old world out there.
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  And uh that guy was u if nothing if he
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  wasn't volatile during the years. And um
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  it's um [snorts]
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  uh it's unfortunate, but uh all the news
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  is about that. I don't know any of the
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  details. I haven't even looked. In fact,
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  it's the first I saw it this morning. Um
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  I've been working on a couple of uh
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  other projects. So, if it's been a
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  couple of days, I apologize for being
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  the last to the table. Um, I've been uh
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  taking care of some things. The I tell
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  you what, my my mind is still
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  full of the uh
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  uh craziness of the
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  the um
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  Munich Security Conference. Um, I have
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  yesterday [clears throat] I didn't get
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  to it and I thought it would be I I
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  still think it's a valuable
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  lesson to go through what uh Vladimir
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  Putin uh had u said in 2007 versus what
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  Rubio is saying
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  uh presently. you know, it's uh the the
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  cheerleading for war uh
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  w was just nonsensical in in my thought
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  process for the so-called security
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  conference. They aren't talking about
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  security. They're talking about uh the
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  same old crap. Um but I I really uh I
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  I'm tired of the cheerleading for for
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  more war. I'm tired of the uh of the
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  same old standard. Um meanwhile, all the
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  audio and video
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  coming [clears throat] from Ukraine
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  right now where there's so they're
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  supposed to be engaging in uh
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  talks, okay, in Geneva, Russia,
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  Ukraine, United States. Russia has sent
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  its highest level team um ever.
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  And so this is a a pretty good um
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  sign in my humble opinion that uh
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  perhaps there could be something come of
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  this, but uh I really don't think so.
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  You know, I I I don't think there's
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  anything going to come of it. We're
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  still uh doing
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  the same old crap. [laughter]
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  Even know a lot of people are saying
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  well if anybody has a chance of bringing
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  the world back to some semblance of uh
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  normaly
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  it's uh Trump meaning globalist theory
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  you know it's um
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  if anybody can bring any I got an I got
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  an email yesterday from somebody don't
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  even know who it was unlabeled and the
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  email was the email said and it was on X
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  and and I honestly I don't get on X all
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  that often. I I should probably get on
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  there right now and see where where my X
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  feed went or if anybody made any
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  commentary on mine. And uh here's the
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  issue. The problem is that in uh
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  that uh this this article came to me.
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  This ex post from some guy says uh and
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  the in the article attached said
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  something like
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  uh brrics is dead. Bricks is dead.
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  Russia coming back to the dollar. Okay.
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  And so I read the article and and I I
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  read it. I was like, "Well, that that's
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  that's interesting." That's not what the
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  article said inside of it. at all. So,
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  it's basically clickbait to get somebody
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  like me to go and read it, but that's
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  not what it says. The the process was uh
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  something like this. It went something
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  like uh well, here's here's bricks.
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  Russia wants to end the war in Ukraine
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  on its own terms. You know, that's what
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  that's what they want to do. And so
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  there's a suggestion somewhere in there
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  that allegedly somebody passed out that
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  from the Russian side uh some foreign
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  minister or another that sent out that
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  we will come back to the dollar. We will
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  come back to the dollar and what do you
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  think of that? Uh what's what's the
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  process on that? And that's it. somebody
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  allegedly floated the idea. There's
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  nothing definitive about it at all. It's
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  just somebody, you know, asking a
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  question. And the pretty funny part is
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  is that uh every time I beat up on
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  anything the Trump team does, I am told,
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  "Well, you just don't understand how
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  Trump works. You don't understand the
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  transactional nature of Trump. Trump is
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  a uh transactional guy and he's always
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  engaging in the art of the deal. He's
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  he's uh posturing. It's all posturing
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  with Trump. Life is one big posture
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  event for Trump. when he's yelling at
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  somebody on uh ex I'm sorry uh true
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  social when he is, you know, wearing his
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  uh uh I'm a dictator and I'm going to
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  take over the world and I'm Greenland's
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  ours. We got to have it. You guys can
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  all kiss off. That doesn't mean what he
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  says.
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  That's just posturing.
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  Uh obviously he's not posturing about
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  [laughter] Venezuela. He was posturing
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  about uh narot terror. That's not
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  anything remotely similar to what he
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  said. And he immediately on Air Force
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  One right after the uh invasion of uh of
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  Venezuela to steal the leader of a
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  sovereign country. Uh right after it, he
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  completely came out of the closet and
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  said, "Uh, oh, by the way, this was all
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  for oil and to keep China out of uh
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  Venezuela."
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  So uh and you know throw Russia in there
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  too and then he started seizing Russian
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  boats and uh so those those are
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  activities those are not uh posturing in
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  the art of the deal. But this article
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  that was sent on the bricks
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  uh was was a weak article number one.
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  Number two there's no uh no real depth
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  to the article. Some somebody allegedly
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  said, "We'll come back to the dollar and
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  here you go." And then somebody is like,
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  "See, Trump Trump's killing bricks."
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  All right.
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  Bricks is officially dead because an
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  article was written. And so I posted
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  something and I never post on on X. I I
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  don't really post much on anything
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  anymore. I have an auto automatic post
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  of my show goes out uh like on Facebook
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  and um couple other places, you know,
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  but I don't usually get on there anymore
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  and and and write. I used to, you know,
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  get on and write lengthy diet tribes
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  about this that or the other. Now my
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  outlet is right here.
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  And I I don't generally do as much of
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  that anymore. or I'll write a formal
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  article um publish it in Russia or write
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  a formal article here, publish it in
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  publish it in English on my own platform
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  here in anukrina.u in uh in Russian and
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  a couple other places or speak with
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  somebody live on the radio or something
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  like that. And I'm trying to get my uh
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  my my Russian language version back up
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  and running again. I've been I've
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  neglected it for a while. been pretty
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  busy with other things lately, other
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  projects, but I do intend to go back to
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  it because I do think it's important to
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  uh say that, hey man, um you know, I'm
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  interested in a dialogue with people
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  whose a point of view I may not
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  necessarily agree with, but I'm
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  certainly curious. And and I think that
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  a lot of Americans are curious and they
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  don't want the BS that is thrown their
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  way all of the time. Like Brics is dead
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  because some Western journalist decided
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  Brics is dead in an effort to get a
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  feeding frenzy going of Trump supporters
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  saying, "See, told you Brics is going to
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  be dead cuz Trump said so. He's going to
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  kill Bricks." Well, I think that's
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  possible that that's what he's trying to
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  do. I don't think it's very likely he
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  might slow them down, but uh but I think
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  that ship has already sailed. And uh a
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  notable uh article came out the other
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  day. Where is this? So right now there's
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  some fights in the EU over Russian steel
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  that now they're trying to do the same
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  thing to Russian steel in Europe that
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  they already screwed Europe with Russian
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  lowcost gas, Russian lowcost oil and uh
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  uh any sort of petroleum products that
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  coming from from Russia, any sort of
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  lowcost energy of any kind and rare
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  earths of any kind coming from Russia.
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  The goal is still for the West to be
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  able to dominate and tell Russia what
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  they're going to do and artificially
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  keep the price of oil low by stealing 50
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  uh million barrels of oil from
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  Venezuela. when you look at your your
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  prices of oil in the US, I was um uh
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  pleased like everybody else when you
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  look at the pumps, but don't think
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  that's not just as artificial as the $4
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  was several years ago. Um these are
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  artificial inflations and artificial
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  devaluations. If you can keep us
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  distracted with other um positives like
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  OG oil prices and gas prices are
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  affordable.
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  You can hide a lot of uh a lot of
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  wrongdoing in that because in general
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  everybody's
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  uh you know life is looking okay. you
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  know, everybody is able to afford uh to
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  drive to grandma's house in uh I don't
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  know, Kentucky and uh um my grandma
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  lived in Cincinnati, but uh both of
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  them. And uh so uh I don't know where
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  you drive, but whatever. Maybe you can
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  afford to get there now cuz gas prices
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  are lower and people can take road
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  trips. One of the best things to do in
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  America is take a road trip. If you
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  haven't gotten on Interstate 80 headed
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  west, you're missing out. People, you
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  know, Kuster Battlefield out that way,
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  driving across South Dakota and then
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  across Wyoming, those are and into into
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  Idaho, those are fantastic drives and
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  any time of year, but especially in the
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  summers when you see the plains and and
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  all that stuff. And uh there are tons
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  and tons of uh national parks up that
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  way. So anyway, if you keep the prices
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  of energy low,
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  you can hide a lot of wrongdoing. And so
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  that's a lot to say to get to uh to both
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  the Munich security conference which had
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  nothing to do with Munich, the release
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  at the same time of this anti-bricks
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  uh I don't know rhetoric that is that
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  has come out or the we've defeated them.
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  the Nalli OG some guys killed him or
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  Putin killed him with frog poison
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  nonsense. And um [laughter]
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  and I don't even care if it's true. It's
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  still nonsense. It's and I I find it
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  extremely hard to believe. And once
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  again, here's the doubting Sam and me.
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  And uh uh I need to relate to you
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  something about the doubting Sam
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  portion. And I know there's a lot of
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  doubting Americans and I hate to be
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  always questioning. That's been me my
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  entire life. I've I've I've said that. I
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  always question. Just because somebody
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  said it doesn't make it true. And
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  [clears throat]
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  I have always wanted to know more. Yeah.
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  But why? I always have a question. Well,
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  why does that work that way? How does
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  that work that way? I don't get it.
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  [laughter]
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  I don't get it. Give me something more.
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  I don't just accept the Oh, gee, the sky
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  is blue, you know. I want to know. All
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  right. Is that really blue? Is
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  [laughter] is it I I see blue as being a
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  lot more blue than this uh uh than this
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  color. You know, maybe my form of blue
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  is a deeper blue, and I want to know why
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  this guy can change colors of different
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  blue or different hue of blue or
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  whatever. And uh so I'm a just a
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  questioning individual. Okay. And a lot
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  of people don't want to do that. They
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  won't question why gas is suddenly $2.40
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  a gallon. And uh two years ago it was
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  $4. Also unexplained, also artificial.
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  And but they won't ask when it's
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  artificially low. Well, who would? You
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  just need to, you know, a lot of people
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  in including me, it's like, you know,
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  just shut up and not say anything. You
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  don't want these idiots to raise the
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  price on you again. You know, maybe it's
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  good we we stole all this uh uh uh what
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  do you call it? Uh petroleum uh products
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  from u Venezuela and maybe it's good
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  that we're we're keeping the price of of
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  oil low globally and uh so that we can
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  defeat you know strategically defeat
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  Russia and but it and it hurting it
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  hurts everyone. Okay. And the only ones
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  that are allowed to benefit according to
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  those who say that that Trump is the u
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  beall end all and has a huge plan to
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  take over the world for the next three
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  years um and and leave it into you know
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  a golden period this three-year golden
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  period you know unless we can steal uh
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  and and and put our own people back in
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  Venezuela put another set in Canada a
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  third set in uh um Greenland
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  and then somehow keep China out of
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  Taiwan and blow up Iran with Israel. I
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  mean, there's all of these things
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  interlocking and trying to go together.
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  I I just sometimes make jokes about it.
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  It's like, yeah, but does one really
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  affect the other? It's there's no doubt
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  in my mind that the the theft of uh 50
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  million barrels of of oil from Venezuela
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  and and claiming that they've given it
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  to us is uh uh
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  you know
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  [laughter]
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  effects there's some effect on it right
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  now there's conversations going on and
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  and uh because what the effect is that
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  they're trying to get it's all over the
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  TV even now that Trump was trying to get
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  additionally a break with Iran. They
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  want to take Iran out of where? Post
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  Maduro Venezuela. They're trying to take
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  uh whatever her name is. The the uh I
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  forget her name. Rodriguez, was it? I
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  can't remember her new name. Um I I want
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  to say Rodriguez, but what the hell do I
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  know? And uh so will Caracus break with
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  Iran? US is pushing for Venezuela
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  investment and energy sector warns about
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  legitimate of legitimacy of Chinese
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  deals because those deals are
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  legitimate. They have legitimate deals
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  on the table where they put a hundred
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  billion dollars uh into uh uh over the
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  last periods of time into Venezuela. So
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  all of these things maybe they're all
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  background noise for the exact same
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  result that you get to publish on a
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  piece of paper and say bricks is dead.
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  Okay. Uh but on the other side of the
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  planet and maybe that is the case. Okay.
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  Maybe that's the case. But on the other
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  side of the planet there is an article
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  that came out that says the following.
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  World news. Okay. This is a new world
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  news link.
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  This one came out 17th of February
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  today.
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  Bricks needs
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  strategic maritime cooperation.
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  Cooperation between the navies of member
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  countries would help protect sea lanes,
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  said Nikolai Patrushev.
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  The BRICS countries need strategic
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  maritime cooperation in order to enhance
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  security along global shipping lanes
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  from western piracy from Trump stealing
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  uh ships and we need to have some kind
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  of uh you know we're escalating and
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  going war talk here. Uh Russian
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  presidential aid Nikolai Petrushv's
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  comments calling for cooperation between
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  bricks countries comes at a time when
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  the US is seizing tankers
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  all illegally by the way law for for you
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  not for me I create the law I am king
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  Trump and this is I don't have to worry
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  about those I seize tankers why because
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  I claim they are transporting sanctioned
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  oil. And so what uh this Petrusev said
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  was we will tap into the potential of
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  bricks which needs to be given
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  full-fledged strategic maritime
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  dimension. He told the Russian outlet
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  argument faci and that means arguments
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  and facts obviously on Monday. The
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  member countries are already conducting
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  joint naval exercises, said Petrus,
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  citing drills held in January and
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  February. Um,
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  let's see. That's what Patrruv said.
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  There's a nice little video of it that
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  you can watch. And then they talk about
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  the joint uh maritime exercises um and
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  how long they run. And it says the wi
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  will for peace. Uh, and you know what?
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  This is this is a Sam commentary when
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  when you have an an [clears throat] an
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  activity a war games something like that
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  uh called will for peace 2026
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  that's a hell of a lot different than
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  golden dagger 2027
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  you know where we go in and we kick the
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  crap out of the next country in line
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  right started off of the coast of this
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  these uh will for peace case started off
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  the coast of Cape Town, South Africa,
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  days after the US forces seized a
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  Russian flagged oil tanker over claims
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  it breached Washington sanctions against
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  Venezuela. Russia, China, and Iran
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  participated in the maneuvers.
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  Patrushev, who was also the chairman of
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  the Russian Maritime Board, said the UAE
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  also took part in the exercises. Now
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  that's curious. Remember UAE is a a
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  block member. Moscow has condemned the
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  recent seizure of Russian cargo vessels
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  which Western countries conduct under
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  various pretenses. Everything's a
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  pretense with the West. They get to uh
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  impose illegal rules like this. This is
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  not a posturing politically. This is
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  theft. That's all it is. So, but it
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  keeps our gas down or our our uh fuel
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  for our vehicles and everything down to
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  uh under $2.50 a gallon. So, we should
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  all be up and cheering for this type of
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  thing, right? We get a beat up on the
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  Russian and Venezuelan and many other uh
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  what do you call it? Economies around
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  the world. Uh but that's okay. We're
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  America, right? This is this is this is
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  what we do. This is long as we can keep
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  the masses shut up. This is like the,
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  you know, uh, let them eat cake. What
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  was the French queen said? All that, let
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  them eat cake. You know, uh, give them
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  cake. As long as long as they got their
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  cake, life is going to be good. Uh, and
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  and then for us, the cake is the uh, oil
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  products, right? So NATO countries are
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  plotting an illegal maritime blockade of
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  Russia, particularly in the Baltic and
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  Arctic. Moscow's ambassador to Norway,
• 21:57
  Nikolai Cortunov, said recently. The
• 22:00
  US-led block is developing plans for a
• 22:03
  partial or complete naval blockade of
• 22:06
  the country, said the envoy. These
• 22:08
  comments came after reports that US
• 22:10
  defense or UK defense secretary John
• 22:13
  Healey met with counterparts in the
• 22:15
  Baltic and Nordic nations on the
• 22:17
  sidelines of the Munich Security
• 22:19
  Conference where they were all rattling
• 22:20
  sabers for war. you know, more war to
• 22:24
  discuss the seizing of Russia linked oil
• 22:27
  tankers.
• 22:29
  And Trump is defending his push for
• 22:31
  Greenland as a way to counter Russia,
• 22:33
  China, while Moscow and Beijing
• 22:35
  dismissed these claims. They're talking
• 22:36
  about uh uh you know, the the keeping
• 22:39
  the sea lanes safe. NATO is planning to
• 22:42
  increase its military presence in the
• 22:44
  Arctic around Greenland, a spokesman for
• 22:46
  the block said earlier this month. Now
• 22:48
  that's kind of driven by the uh um
• 22:52
  EU members more than the US members and
• 22:56
  Canada is involved in that as well. And
• 22:59
  people are like look part now they're
• 23:01
  just as worried. Well, first of all,
• 23:04
  they're not worried that China or Russia
• 23:07
  are going to take over Greenland.
• 23:08
  Nobody's been worried about that. That's
• 23:10
  not even a serious uh complaint. You
• 23:13
  know, they're not worried about that.
• 23:15
  It's it's it's nonsense for for us to be
• 23:18
  claiming that oh gee that's in the plans
• 23:20
  but it is in the plans and you can
• 23:23
  believe what Trump says even if you
• 23:25
  believe that it's just posturing you
• 23:27
  know and when I first heard it I laughed
• 23:30
  about it when he first said it way back
• 23:32
  when and I don't laugh about it anymore
• 23:35
  I think the guy's gone off the deep end
• 23:38
  as far as all of that stuff that oh gee
• 23:40
  I'm the king I can do what I want you
• 23:43
  know forget law doesn't matter and law
• 23:46
  has been completely ignored
• 23:49
  to so far and and now we're becoming
• 23:52
  used to it. You know, I given you lots
• 23:54
  of discussions about Carney and lots of
• 23:57
  things about um the hedging of bets in
• 24:00
  the EU and otherwise. And I believe
• 24:03
  they're all just doing the typical
• 24:05
  bureaucrat person in power thing when
• 24:08
  you're dealing with a big bully is
• 24:11
  they're just marking time until he's
• 24:13
  gone. And hopefully they can go back to
• 24:16
  business as usual. That's why the Marco
• 24:18
  Rubio rise and the uh the keeping of the
• 24:22
  u unit party the the uh neocons and the
• 24:27
  and the democrats all all aligned
• 24:31
  [laughter] with the same desires is uh
• 24:35
  it will rise again and now they'll just
• 24:37
  claim well well gez you know Trump was
• 24:39
  really good for us [laughter]
• 24:41
  because he stole Venezuela maybe he'll
• 24:44
  steal Greenland and if they do they'll
• 24:46
  never give it back. So they take these
• 24:49
  extreme positions. But so but I can tell
• 24:52
  you this, if the America did seize
• 24:54
  Greenland, they're not going to give it
• 24:55
  back. Okay? So the these stories about
• 24:59
  bricks uh creating the or disappearing
• 25:02
  because Trump is posturing
• 25:05
  are far less likely uh
• 25:09
  than
• 25:11
  further escalation of wartime
• 25:15
  footing on both sides. And now the
• 25:18
  discussion about bricks needing
• 25:20
  strategic maritime cooperation.
• 25:23
  There's also the article about the steel
• 25:26
  which I wish to share with you because
• 25:28
  now what are we on? Sanction package
• 25:31
  number number 20 just went by. I think
• 25:34
  we're on sanction package number 21 now.
• 25:37
  You know to bring Russia to its knees.
• 25:41
  Um I'll share with you the um
• 25:45
  uh we need we somebody also urged it
• 25:48
  might even be the same guy urged uh
• 25:52
  retaliation to western piracy. Um,
• 25:55
  meanwhile, everybody has to keep u
• 26:00
  naysayers like Orbin in line and uh kick
• 26:04
  any Russians out of their country.
• 26:06
  According to Zalinski and and if you
• 26:10
  haven't heard his uh FU bombs uh while
• 26:14
  he was at the uh security conference in
• 26:18
  um in Munich, you should listen to him,
• 26:21
  but the guy's nuts. And uh well, in my
• 26:25
  opinion, that's of course Sam's opinion.
• 26:27
  He may or may not be nuts, but he uh
• 26:30
  certainly uh is is non-diplomatic. Let's
• 26:34
  put it that way. So, the the next uh
• 26:36
  thing I'd like to share with you is the
• 26:38
  highstakes fight
• 26:40
  erupting in the EU.
• 26:43
  This is through Euro News over Russian
• 26:46
  steel. Lawmakers are attempting a
• 26:49
  backodor ban and it's facing resistance
• 26:53
  from people that rely upon such imports.
• 26:55
  You know, Russian steel, uh,
• 26:57
  inexpensive.
• 26:59
  So, the European Union is bracing itself
• 27:01
  for yet another fight over a proposed
• 27:04
  ban on Russian steel imports as
• 27:06
  lawmakers attempt to push restrictions
• 27:09
  through a legislative backdoor. members
• 27:12
  of the European Parliament and EU
• 27:14
  members. All these people are unelected
• 27:16
  by the way uh state uh you know they
• 27:20
  will begin negotiations next week on
• 27:22
  whether now to completely ban Russian
• 27:25
  steel in line with a wider EU sanctions
• 27:28
  campaign over Ukraine. So the standard
• 27:32
  people, Belgium, Italy, Czech Republic,
• 27:34
  and Denmark are resisting this measure,
• 27:38
  saying they rely on Russian semifinished
• 27:42
  steel for further processing, said Euro
• 27:45
  News on Tuesday. What began as sanctions
• 27:48
  debate morphed into a highstakes
• 27:51
  political fight, according to the
• 27:53
  outlet. Uh so the attached steel ban,
• 27:57
  you know, they have attached it to a
• 27:59
  separate piece of legislation like we do
• 28:02
  in the United States. You know, you
• 28:03
  could have legislation on who knows what
• 28:07
  um I don't know uh the banning of u
• 28:12
  building buildings in u uh state parks.
• 28:17
  Let's let's say that. and you have one
• 28:20
  topic and what you can do is you can
• 28:22
  throw on in there something about
• 28:24
  transgender rights, you know, and slide
• 28:26
  that in as part of another Well, here's
• 28:29
  a paragraph. And by the way, uh, nobody
• 28:32
  can say the word transgender on the
• 28:36
  airwaves without uh, paying a fine, you
• 28:38
  know, something like that. And you can
• 28:40
  just slide in a little paragraph and get
• 28:42
  people to say, "Well, gee, I want this
• 28:44
  one thing, and I don't really care about
• 28:45
  transgender rights." All right, I'll
• 28:47
  sign it. Well, that's what they're
• 28:49
  trying to do in Europe is uh slide in
• 28:53
  with a separate piece of legislation, a
• 28:56
  bill renewing steel safeguards that
• 28:59
  expire in June under World Trade
• 29:01
  Organization rule. Safeguards are
• 29:03
  designed to protect the uh EU steel
• 29:06
  industry from global over global over
• 29:09
  capacity. Unlike sanctions that require
• 29:11
  unanimous support, trade files need only
• 29:15
  a qualified majority. So they're back to
• 29:17
  the same old tricks. The maneuver allows
• 29:19
  the European Parliament to bypass
• 29:22
  countries that otherwise could veto
• 29:24
  Orbin. Hello. The Parliament is playing
• 29:27
  politics again. An industry source told
• 29:29
  Euro News, one diplomat insists that
• 29:32
  banning Russian steel and protecting the
• 29:34
  EU from over capacity totally are
• 29:36
  totally different goals. Russia
• 29:39
  consistently dismisses sanctions on
• 29:41
  production. Uh Moscow maintains a
• 29:44
  measure hurts EU more than it hurts
• 29:45
  Russia. That's absolutely true. Uh
• 29:48
  Russia has a pretty captive audience to
• 29:50
  the east.
• 29:53
  The European Union doesn't produce
• 29:54
  enough steel and semi finished products
• 29:57
  to meet its own needs and is heavily
• 29:59
  reliant on imports. Gee, wonder where
• 30:03
  they'll get them. Perhaps the US and our
• 30:06
  gas prices will go down even further. So
• 30:09
  the campaign is being led by Swedish MP
• 30:12
  uh Karen Carlsboro who has expressed
• 30:15
  astonishment that EU imports of Russian
• 30:17
  steel are nearly 3 million tons annually
• 30:21
  or 1.78 billion dollar. Sweden produces
• 30:25
  semi-finish steel as well including
• 30:27
  steel slabs. The volume of Russian
• 30:30
  imports is equivalent to Sweden's entire
• 30:33
  yearly steel output.
• 30:36
  Current EU sanctions prohibit Russian
• 30:38
  finished steel. Semi-finished steel
• 30:41
  remains permitted under quota system
• 30:43
  designed to phase it out by 2028.
• 30:47
  So there you have it. Um
• 30:50
  let's talk about what the the US is uh
• 30:54
  attempting to do here. Was there was an
• 30:57
  interesting
• 30:59
  uh article. I've talked a little bit
• 31:00
  about it and uh then I want to get into
• 31:03
  my my review of uh of of Putin because I
• 31:09
  I want to share that with you. And let's
• 31:13
  see here. But can you buy a country is
• 31:16
  the name of the article came out this
• 31:19
  morning.
• 31:20
  Um, and it's a
• 31:23
  reasonably long article and so and it
• 31:27
  has some um uh some uh pretty good facts
• 31:30
  in it. That's why I want to share it. I
• 31:32
  like this story and it's by a guy named
• 31:34
  Yeni Norin and he's a Russian journalist
• 31:37
  and historian and uh you know he's
• 31:40
  focused on war conflict and uh you know
• 31:43
  history and it's a pretty good article
• 31:46
  you know full of u maps and uh stories.
• 31:49
  So, and uh it's short enough. It's not
• 31:52
  going to take long. 5 8 minutes,
• 31:54
  something like that. Uh when US
• 31:56
  President Trump revived the idea of
• 31:59
  buying Greenland and refused to to rule
• 32:02
  out stronger measures if Denmark
• 32:05
  declined. I'll take it over. Sell it to
• 32:07
  me or I'm going to come kick your ass.
• 32:09
  Uh the reactions across Europe were
• 32:12
  swift and indignant. The proposal was
• 32:14
  framed as an anacronism, a throwback to
• 32:16
  imperial horse trading. We always want
• 32:19
  to talk about whenever Trump speaks,
• 32:21
  he's only horse trading. It's art of the
• 32:23
  deal. That modern international politics
• 32:25
  has supposedly outgrown. They haven't.
• 32:28
  We still do it. But if we don't get what
• 32:30
  we want, we just go steal it. But the
• 32:33
  outrage obscures an uncomfortable
• 32:35
  historic reality.
• 32:38
  United States not only forged through
• 32:40
  revolution and war, it also builds
• 32:44
  through transactions.
• 32:46
  Largecale territorial purchases
• 32:48
  concluded at moments when the balance of
• 32:51
  power left the seller with limited
• 32:54
  options. Now, that's where Trump is
• 32:56
  creating these options. That's why I
• 32:58
  wanted to share these and Trump is
• 33:01
  engaging in the deal. So, those of you
• 33:02
  who who live, breathe, and and eat
• 33:05
  Trump, you're going to love this. you're
• 33:07
  going to eat all this stuff up. You know
• 33:08
  that, oh jeez, he's great salesman.
• 33:11
  Well, he's not supposed to be a
• 33:12
  salesman.
• 33:13
  [laughter] He's looking out for us. No,
• 33:16
  he's creating his legacy. And uh that's
• 33:19
  all he's doing. Uh from continental
• 33:21
  expanses to strategic islands,
• 33:23
  Washington repeatedly has expanded its
• 33:26
  reach by writing checks backed by
• 33:30
  leverage. Backed by military leverage. I
• 33:33
  say if the idea of buying land now
• 33:37
  sounds jarring, it is worth recalling
• 33:39
  that some of the largest such deals
• 33:41
  helped shape the United States into the
• 33:44
  country we know today. To understand why
• 33:48
  Greenland debate resonates so strongly,
• 33:51
  we need to revisit the major acquisition
• 33:53
  that redrew the American map.
• 33:58
  Louisiana, the biggest purchase.
• 34:02
  French explorers ventured into the
• 34:03
  Mississippi Valley in the late 17th
• 34:06
  century, claiming new territory and
• 34:09
  named this vast expanse Louisiana after
• 34:12
  King Louie the 14th. In 1718, they
• 34:16
  established New Orleans at the mouth of
• 34:18
  the Mississippi and gradually populated
• 34:22
  the colony not just with French
• 34:24
  settlers, but also through policies
• 34:27
  enacted by Louisie that granted freedom
• 34:30
  to children born of unions between white
• 34:33
  settlers and black slaves. Still, the
• 34:37
  population was sparse. The region's bad
• 34:40
  climate and complex relationships with
• 34:42
  Native Americans made settlement
• 34:44
  difficult. As a result, France France
• 34:47
  didn't particularly value this
• 34:50
  territory.
• 34:52
  Despite its huge size,
• 34:55
  French Louisiana encompassed not just
• 34:58
  modern-day Louisiana, but either
• 35:01
  partially or wholly the modern states of
• 35:05
  Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri,
• 35:08
  Colorado, Wyoming, North and South
• 35:11
  Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Montana,
• 35:15
  Nebraska, Texas, only the east half, New
• 35:19
  Mexico, and even parts of Canada.
• 35:24
  Despite this, it is hard to find a
• 35:26
  Frenchman. Uh, it was hard to find a
• 35:29
  Frenchman beyond New Orleans. Okay? And
• 35:32
  so they owned all this New Orleans and
• 35:34
  it went all the way up through Ottawa,
• 35:37
  Canada, Quebec, Canada and all the way
• 35:40
  up all to New Foundland almost. Okay.
• 35:43
  Well, all the way to New Foundland and
• 35:45
  uh so different parts of it. Um, and and
• 35:49
  remember they were huge up in the up in
• 35:52
  the uh Great Lakes area, the French and
• 35:55
  Spain owned parts of uh, you know,
• 35:58
  Texas, Florida, stuff like that. And in
• 36:00
  between them were, you know, Louisiana
• 36:04
  is with that port of Louisiana, but it
• 36:06
  went all the way up to Fort Bourbon in
• 36:11
  um, what which which one is that? It
• 36:14
  it's that's not Ottawa. Uh it's well
• 36:17
  Quebec and Ottawa in Ontario up in the
• 36:20
  up in the uh Great Lakes areas is where
• 36:24
  they are. And so these territories were
• 36:27
  seated by France to Great Britain in the
• 36:29
  Treaty of Ultrect in 1713.
• 36:33
  Okay. And so Great Britain owned the
• 36:36
  parts that were east, but all that was
• 36:38
  there, the the Louisiana territories
• 36:42
  were uh you know, the 13 original states
• 36:45
  basically. And the French had forts
• 36:47
  everywhere. Um Fort Bourbon way up
• 36:50
  north, Fort Defrain, Fort L, these are
• 36:52
  in Canada, Fort St. Pierre, uh uh Fort I
• 36:57
  can't even pronounce that one, but there
• 36:58
  are hundreds of them, you know, through
• 37:00
  Quebec all the way through. They're all
• 37:02
  these forts. Anyway, story continues.
• 37:04
  1763, following a seven years war,
• 37:07
  France seated Louisiana to Spain. The
• 37:10
  Spanish administration didn't oppress
• 37:12
  the French settlers and manage the
• 37:14
  colony competently. However, much of
• 37:16
  this enormous land remained largely
• 37:19
  uninhabited, aside from the Native
• 37:21
  Americans, the total number of settlers,
• 37:23
  including black slaves, amounted to
• 37:25
  several tens of thousands of people. By
• 37:28
  the early 19th century, Europe saw many
• 37:31
  changes. Napoleon regained control of
• 37:34
  Louisiana, aiming to revive France's
• 37:37
  overseas empire. However, this ambition
• 37:40
  crumbled when his attempt to restore
• 37:42
  French rule in Haiti failed. A force
• 37:44
  sent by Napoleon was decimated by black
• 37:47
  rebels and succumbed to tropical
• 37:50
  disease. Against this backdrop, Napoleon
• 37:53
  quickly realized he could not hold
• 37:55
  Louisiana and the English or Americans
• 37:57
  would easily seize it. As for the US, it
• 38:00
  had mixed feelings about Louisiana.
• 38:02
  Controlling the mouth of the Mississippi
• 38:04
  was crucial, but Americans were also
• 38:06
  wary of potential French aggression.
• 38:08
  Finally, US President Thomas Jefferson
• 38:11
  initiated negotiations with France for
• 38:14
  the purchase of Louisiana.
• 38:17
  Napoleon saw this as a big opportunity.
• 38:19
  He recognized he could get real money by
• 38:22
  selling the territory which France
• 38:24
  didn't really need and couldn't control.
• 38:27
  Anyway,
• 38:29
  Jefferson and the American side
• 38:30
  initially aimed to purchase only New
• 38:32
  Orleans and the surrounding areas and
• 38:34
  offered 10 million. However, the French
• 38:36
  surprised their American counterparts.
• 38:39
  They asked for 15 million,
• 38:42
  but as part of the deal offered vast
• 38:45
  territory stretching all the way to
• 38:47
  Canada. [laughter]
• 38:48
  Beyond New Orleans, the French
• 38:50
  essentially sold the freedom of uh to
• 38:52
  claim land inhabited by Native
• 38:54
  Americans. The French had very little
• 38:56
  control over this territory. The Native
• 38:58
  Americans didn't even understand what
• 39:00
  the sale entailed. In fact, aside from
• 39:02
  the Native Americans, the vast territory
• 39:04
  was inhabited only by 60,000 settlers,
• 39:08
  including black slaves. Regardless, the
• 39:10
  deal was concluded and America's
• 39:11
  territory effectively doubled overnight.
• 39:14
  Robert Livingston, one of the founding
• 39:16
  fathers and a US ambassador to France,
• 39:18
  famously declared, "We have lived long,
• 39:21
  but this is the noblest work of our
• 39:23
  whole lives. [laughter]
• 39:26
  From this day, the United States will
• 39:29
  take their place among the powers of the
• 39:32
  first rank.
• 39:35
  So, you get somebody who can't control a
• 39:38
  piece of property and you get to take it
• 39:40
  all. It's already owned by Indians, but
• 39:42
  you don't care about that. And it goes
• 39:45
  all the way through the Idaho River
• 39:47
  [laughter]
• 39:48
  or ID Snake River, whatever that is up
• 39:50
  there that divides the uh the Idaho line
• 39:53
  and almost all the way through Montana
• 39:55
  all the way up to the uh Canadian
• 39:57
  border. And uh all they really wanted
• 40:00
  was the port to enter the Mississippi
• 40:04
  uh because this was all west of the
• 40:06
  Mississippi, right? So that's that uh
• 40:10
  that [clears throat] that was the
• 40:11
  Louisiana purchase. Florida in
• 40:13
  Louisiana's footsteps. In the case of
• 40:15
  Louisiana, both parties were pleased
• 40:17
  with the agreement. However, when it
• 40:19
  came to Florida, the seller wasn't
• 40:21
  particularly thrilled.
• 40:24
  Spain discovered Florida in 1513.
• 40:29
  At the time, however, Spain didn't see
• 40:31
  much value in the territory, and early
• 40:33
  colonization efforts were sluggish. It
• 40:36
  was main uh mainly used as military
• 40:38
  outpost. In the 18th century, Britain
• 40:41
  seized Florida from Spain, but during
• 40:43
  the American War of Independence, Spain,
• 40:45
  Spain regained control of the colony,
• 40:48
  similar to the situation with France and
• 40:50
  Louisiana. However, formal ownership did
• 40:52
  not equate to actual territory
• 40:56
  authority in the territory. Meanwhile,
• 40:59
  American settlers flooded into Florida.
• 41:02
  Conflict smoldered at the border.
• 41:04
  American settlers encroached upon
• 41:06
  Spanish land turned Florida into a
• 41:08
  constant battleground, including the US,
• 41:11
  Native Americans, and occasionally the
• 41:13
  British. Spain struggled to respond
• 41:16
  effectively
• 41:18
  to these incursions. Furthermore,
• 41:20
  between 1807 and 1814, Spain was
• 41:23
  embroiled in a grueling war against
• 41:25
  Napoleon, during which the French
• 41:27
  temporarily occupied mainland Spain. And
• 41:30
  after the war, Spain was devastated and
• 41:32
  unable to fend off the Seinal Indians
• 41:34
  who were raiding the colony. Frustrated
• 41:36
  by the issues caused by the Seinals, the
• 41:39
  Americans occupied most of Florida,
• 41:42
  claiming that the land had essentially
• 41:44
  been abandoned.
• 41:46
  Yeah, Indians don't count. They've
• 41:48
  abandoned it. So, Spain decided that any
• 41:51
  gain was better than losing the
• 41:53
  territory outright. America offered to
• 41:56
  compensate Spain $5 million for the
• 41:59
  damage resulting from its own invasions.
• 42:01
  And by 1819, Spain had no choice but to
• 42:05
  seed Florida to the United States. So
• 42:10
  that's what happened.
• 42:12
  The Virgin Islands. The 19th century was
• 42:16
  the age of colonial empire, but the US
• 42:20
  acquired the Virgin Islands in the 20th
• 42:22
  century during the First World War.
• 42:25
  Denmark isn't the first country that
• 42:28
  comes to mind when discussing the
• 42:30
  struggle for control over the Caribbean.
• 42:32
  But in 1672,
• 42:34
  the Danish West India Company annexed
• 42:37
  the small island of St. Thomas, followed
• 42:40
  shortly after by the island of St. John.
• 42:43
  Denmark may have been an unusual
• 42:45
  colonizer, but its ambitions were quite
• 42:48
  ordinary. The Danes established sugar
• 42:50
  plantations and relied on slave labor.
• 42:53
  Sugar was the backbone of the uh Virgin
• 42:56
  Island economy. But by the mid-9th
• 42:59
  century, global market prices plummeted
• 43:01
  and prompted the Danes to consider
• 43:04
  getting rid of this asset. Meanwhile,
• 43:08
  America was interested in acquiring the
• 43:10
  port of St. Thomas, but at the time the
• 43:13
  deal fell through. US decided that
• 43:16
  Alaska was a better investment and
• 43:18
  purchased it from Russia, which didn't
• 43:20
  need this remote territory. I remember I
• 43:22
  did several weeks ago a uh a deal well a
• 43:26
  couple of months ago I guess uh did an
• 43:29
  analysis of the uh purchase and why a
• 43:32
  bridge between um uh a bridge through
• 43:36
  the bearing straight would be a a useful
• 43:38
  deal. Anyway, US decided that Alaska was
• 43:41
  a better investment. Perched it from
• 43:43
  Russia which didn't need that northern
• 43:45
  remote territory for Russia. Alaska was
• 43:47
  far away, hard to defend all the way on
• 43:50
  the other end of its huge continental
• 43:52
  gains that it had already held. Uh, plus
• 43:55
  the Russians already reaped a quick
• 43:57
  profit from it. So, the Virgin Islands
• 44:00
  remained under Danish control until the
• 44:02
  20th century. During World War I, the
• 44:05
  Americans revisited the idea of
• 44:07
  acquiring the Virgin Islands.
• 44:10
  Officially, the US was concerned that
• 44:12
  Germany might seize Denmark and take
• 44:14
  over the islands using them as a
• 44:17
  submarine base. It sounded like a
• 44:19
  pretext. Gee, surprise, surprise, since
• 44:22
  building a base so close to the US would
• 44:25
  not have been an easy task, and
• 44:27
  supplying it would have been even
• 44:29
  harder. Regardless, the US decided to
• 44:32
  acquire the Virgin Islands, and Denmark
• 44:34
  received an offer it couldn't ignore. US
• 44:38
  President Woodro Wilson sent a clear
• 44:41
  warning. If Denmark didn't sell the
• 44:43
  islands,
• 44:46
  America would occupy them, [laughter] of
• 44:48
  course, merely to prevent them from
• 44:50
  falling into German hands. To soften the
• 44:54
  blow, Wilson sweetened the deal with an
• 44:56
  offer of 25 million in gold, which was
• 44:59
  about half of Denmark's annual budget at
• 45:02
  the time.
• 45:05
  Sound familiar?
• 45:07
  Initially, Copenhogen uh hesitated,
• 45:11
  especially in the economic significance
• 45:13
  of the islands growing after the opening
• 45:16
  of the Panama Canal. But the Americans
• 45:20
  made it clear that the islands would
• 45:23
  fall under US control eventually,
• 45:26
  [laughter]
• 45:26
  either the easy way or the hard way.
• 45:30
  Does that sound familiar? Denmark held a
• 45:33
  referendum and handed over the islands
• 45:35
  to the United States. In August 1916,
• 45:39
  the two sides agreed to the sale. As
• 45:43
  part of the agreement, the US
• 45:44
  acknowledged Denmark's rights to
• 45:46
  Greenland.
• 45:48
  By 1917, all the formalities were
• 45:50
  settled. The islands changed the flag.
• 45:52
  Water Island uh was sold separately in
• 45:56
  1944.
• 45:58
  Interestingly, after World War II, the
• 46:01
  US once again turned its attention to
• 46:03
  Greenland, seeking to acquire it in the
• 46:06
  context of the Cold War. Denmark
• 46:10
  refused, though US bases were
• 46:12
  established there. At one point, a
• 46:15
  strategic bomber carrying nuclear
• 46:17
  weapons crashed above Greenland. A fact
• 46:20
  the Danish public was wisely kept in the
• 46:24
  dark about. There was actually an
• 46:26
  X-files uh uh story about that. They
• 46:30
  always try to keep some of it. So in
• 46:32
  that sense, Donald Trump's proposals are
• 46:36
  less unprecedented than they appear. The
• 46:40
  United States, sorry, lost my uh throat
• 46:44
  there, has expanded its territory
• 46:46
  through purchases for more than two
• 46:48
  centuries. Sometimes the seller was
• 46:52
  relieved to dispose of a distant or
• 46:54
  costly possessions. At other times,
• 46:57
  agreement following mounting pressure
• 46:59
  and strategic imbalance.
• 47:02
  Expansion through transaction has never
• 47:05
  been an exception in American history.
• 47:08
  It is a recurring method. Trump's
• 47:11
  interest in Greenland fits squarely into
• 47:14
  that historical pattern. Like his
• 47:17
  predecessors, he appears to be drawn to
• 47:20
  the symbolism of enlarging America's
• 47:23
  strategic footprint. Of course, a better
• 47:27
  idea might be to wait until Denmark
• 47:30
  finds itself in a crisis and then come
• 47:33
  out with a bag full of cash. But the
• 47:36
  wait may be long, and patience is not
• 47:40
  Trump's strong suit. [laughter]
• 47:42
  So, I enjoyed that article. I hope you
• 47:46
  did. And uh you know, I don't speak to
• 47:48
  the to all of the uh detail in that, but
• 47:51
  and I know my history too. I know that
• 47:54
  we did those uh and and those purchases
• 47:58
  uh whether you agree or disagree, you
• 48:00
  know, there's a number of people out
• 48:01
  there to, you know, claim no matter
• 48:03
  what, no matter how you slice it, we
• 48:06
  didn't own it in the first place. It was
• 48:08
  not uh Francis to sell.
• 48:11
  [laughter]
• 48:12
  You don't just
• 48:15
  going into uh Venezuela for example and
• 48:19
  just saying well you're going to come
• 48:20
  along or not and not give not give any
• 48:24
  money in fact you make them pay with 50
• 48:26
  50 million uh barrels of uh oil is is is
• 48:31
  one thing and at least it's clear you
• 48:32
  know we did that to steal your oil you
• 48:34
  know and and and we admit it perfectly
• 48:37
  and uh but I liked the article I think
• 48:40
  it was great a very good Um, a very good
• 48:45
  uh um article and and history. I like
• 48:50
  it. Um, now I wanted to go to the uh the
• 48:54
  retaliation to uh or the thoughts that
• 48:58
  have that have come out on Zalinsk's uh
• 49:01
  fbomb. I don't know if everybody heard
• 49:03
  what he said. It hasn't been promoted
• 49:06
  over here like it is. The guy's really
• 49:08
  he he's a terrible diplomat. All he is
• 49:11
  is a beggar. wanders around, you know,
• 49:13
  with his hat in his hand and it's always
• 49:15
  turned upside down so you could put more
• 49:17
  cash in it. You right. And so he he went
• 49:20
  on a rant the other day
• 49:23
  in Munich. And so uh what he said was
• 49:28
  um Ukrainian leader Zalinski delivered a
• 49:32
  profanity laden tirade urging Western
• 49:35
  countries to expel Russian citizens and
• 49:38
  students. Speaking to Politico Playbook
• 49:41
  on the sidelines the Munich Security
• 49:44
  Conference Saturday, Zalinski called on
• 49:47
  President Trump and European leaders to
• 49:50
  ramp up sanctions against Moscow.
• 49:53
  Europeans
• 49:54
  still didn't put sanctions on nuclear
• 49:57
  energy of Russians, on the state-run
• 50:01
  energy company Ross Atom, on people, on
• 50:04
  their relatives, on their children that
• 50:06
  live in Europe, that live in the United
• 50:09
  States, which study in the universities
• 50:11
  of Europe, which have real estate in the
• 50:13
  United States, said Zillinski.
• 50:17
  So they have a lot of real estate. They
• 50:19
  have children,
• 50:22
  relatives everywhere.
• 50:25
  [ __ ] away to Russia. Go home, he said.
• 50:30
  And those are his words. Zilinsk's
• 50:32
  remarks come as the US, Russia, Ukraine
• 50:34
  prepare for round three. And uh what I
• 50:38
  you know there's very few places you can
• 50:41
  find this.
• 50:43
  >> Give this message to Europeans.
• 50:44
  Europeans made a lot but didn't put
• 50:47
  still sanctions on nuclear energy of
• 50:51
  Russians on Rosatam on people on their
• 50:54
  relatives on their children which live
• 50:56
  in Europe which live in the United
• 50:58
  States which study in the universities
• 51:00
  of Europe which have real estate in the
• 51:02
  United States. So they have a lot of
• 51:05
  real estate they have children relatives
• 51:07
  everywhere. [ __ ] away to Russia.
• 51:11
  Go home. You don't respect anybody in
• 51:14
  the United States. You don't respect
• 51:16
  rules. You don't respect democracy. You
• 51:18
  don't respect Ukraine, Europe, etc. Go
• 51:22
  home. Why? It's not right. So just I
• 51:25
  think
• 51:28
  to do what he can do. I think so.
• 51:32
  [laughter]
• 51:33
  >> Well, that is your world leader right
• 51:35
  there. So uh FOA to uh to Russia, right?
• 51:41
  You don't respect uh Ukraine Ukrainian
• 51:44
  democracy.
• 51:46
  Oh yeah. You're you're a a good world
• 51:49
  leader [laughter]
• 51:51
  showing us what democracy is and can be.
• 51:55
  No corruption in your country at all.
• 51:58
  You know, Zalinski's remarks come after
• 52:00
  the US, Russia, Ukraine prepare for a
• 52:03
  third round of three-way talks in
• 52:05
  Geneva. Moscow uh condemns measures
• 52:08
  targeting Russian nationals and cultural
• 52:10
  cancellation of everything Russian as
• 52:14
  rousophobic. Uh I personally disagree
• 52:17
  with that type of behavior. Um you know
• 52:19
  citizens are citizens. You know you
• 52:21
  don't get a uh who knows what. Um treat
• 52:26
  them uh you know as expendable. You know
• 52:30
  it's nonsense. Uh the trip also comes
• 52:33
  amid a conscription crisis. I have
• 52:36
  plenty of videos. So there are a couple
• 52:38
  of videos that if you haven't seen them,
• 52:40
  you should go out and look at them. This
• 52:41
  is frightening. Okay? And uh the the
• 52:45
  people of Ukraine are fighting back.
• 52:47
  Now, of course, on the on the Ukraine
• 52:49
  side, what they say is, "Gee, those
• 52:52
  Russians, those are all uh fake." No,
• 52:55
  they're not. Those are Telegram things
• 52:57
  published by Ukrainian citizens,
• 53:00
  Ukrainian nationals, and they're they
• 53:02
  are putting them out of this
• 53:04
  busification patrol. So, you ought to
• 53:06
  see these horrific videos all over
• 53:08
  Telegram. [snorts] And uh what's
• 53:10
  happening is uh uh the people are
• 53:13
  standing up. They almost so this this uh
• 53:18
  they threw an older older man out into
• 53:20
  the street uh when he went up to try to
• 53:24
  assist in uh somebody taking a child or
• 53:27
  whatever. And uh they threw him out in
• 53:29
  the street. And so he almost got hit by
• 53:31
  a truck, a big truck, you know, like a
• 53:34
  semi style truck. and the truck driver
• 53:36
  got out, ran across the street and
• 53:38
  started beating on [laughter]
• 53:41
  the military uniformed uh busification
• 53:44
  officers, these uh recruiters who are
• 53:47
  actually, you know, out stealing
• 53:49
  citizens from off the street. Uh he went
• 53:51
  over and started beating him up and they
• 53:53
  started running down the road. They're
• 53:55
  running away, going down the road and
• 53:57
  the kid they were trying to seize and
• 53:58
  and take into custody and throw out on
• 54:01
  the front lines, he ran the other
• 54:03
  direction. He escaped. And another one,
• 54:06
  they were beating some kid in uh to
• 54:09
  throw him into a van. Three guys, and a
• 54:11
  whole crowd of people went up. They
• 54:13
  don't like the way these boostation
• 54:17
  squads are doing it. The people don't
• 54:18
  like it. And Zalinski told a lie the
• 54:21
  other day when he said that uh well,
• 54:25
  he has zero fact to back it up. He says
• 54:29
  90% of Ukraine, 90%. That's not the
• 54:32
  numbers I saw in any of the latest
• 54:34
  polls. 90% still uh support. He says no
• 54:41
  elections. No elections. Here we are
• 54:45
  coming up on two years after his
• 54:47
  elections were supposed to happen. And
• 54:50
  he says, "Oh, no, no, no. The people
• 54:51
  don't want 90% of the people want it."
• 54:53
  Yeah. What'd you get? nine people in a
• 54:56
  room that also have power or 10 people
• 54:58
  in a room and nine of them uh said,
• 55:00
  "Gee, let's keep you in his power
• 55:03
  because they don't support that. He has
• 55:06
  no backing of that." Listen to
• 55:08
  Aristovich. Listen to other Ukrainian
• 55:10
  people that are telling the uh more
• 55:13
  factual uh portions than he has the
• 55:16
  potential to tell and probably a lot
• 55:19
  less rudely. Uh Zalinsk's reputation is
• 55:22
  tarnished by uh multiple corruption
• 55:25
  scandals and his inner circle. Uh two
• 55:29
  government ministers and his longtime
• 55:32
  chief of staff have resigned in the last
• 55:34
  five six months. On Monday,
• 55:36
  anti-corruption agencies charged former
• 55:39
  energy minister German Galashenko
• 55:42
  who tried to leave the country too and
• 55:45
  uh f off to Israel like his his uh buddy
• 55:49
  Mindic and uh he was taking his money
• 55:53
  laundering of 100 million kicks back
• 55:55
  schemes in Ukraine from US and Western
• 55:58
  money and headed to Israel.
• 56:02
  Then they caught him at the border and
• 56:04
  uh stopped him from going out, but they
• 56:06
  haven't done anything about it. They
• 56:08
  just said you can't leave and so he is
• 56:10
  there in the country. So there you have
• 56:13
  it. Um I don't know. I also wanted to
• 56:17
  give to you a a story that came out
• 56:21
  also. Uh, Russia has long talked about
• 56:26
  um,
• 56:29
  Western pilots flying F-16s for Ukraine
• 56:33
  and they're they're trying to, you know,
• 56:36
  Western
• 56:38
  mercenaries are fighting on the side of
• 56:43
  uh, Ukraine, okay? Including US and
• 56:45
  Dutch pilots. So, the Ukrainian military
• 56:48
  is secretly using a squadron of NATO
• 56:51
  pilots to fly the donated US-made F-16
• 56:55
  jets, said the French outlet
• 56:59
  Intelligence Online.
• 57:02
  Moscow has long stated that Western
• 57:04
  nations are moving closer to a direct
• 57:06
  conflict with Russia. Well, the
• 57:08
  Ukrainians don't have any pilots left.
• 57:11
  They're all dead, you know, and it takes
• 57:13
  a long time to figure out how to pilot.
• 57:15
  an F-16. It's not something you just
• 57:18
  learn overnight. Uh the report, which
• 57:20
  Kiev denies, of course, said the covert
• 57:24
  missions rely primarily on experienced
• 57:26
  US and Dutch Air Force vets. The foreign
• 57:30
  personnel are deployed far from the
• 57:32
  front lines and focus on intercepting
• 57:35
  Russian long range weapons. They are not
• 57:37
  part of their original militaries and
• 57:40
  they work for Kiev as civilian
• 57:43
  contractors without military rank and
• 57:45
  outside the Ukrainian chain of command.
• 57:48
  That's impossible unless they're working
• 57:50
  for the US chain of command. A shortage
• 57:53
  of trained Ukrainian pilots is
• 57:55
  identified as the main obstacle to using
• 57:57
  the F-16s donated to Kiev.
• 58:01
  Training courses are reportedly
• 58:02
  undermined by language barriers, lack of
• 58:04
  qualified trainees, and other issues and
• 58:08
  have been simplified for speed. Shortly
• 58:11
  after the first F16s arrived in Ukraine
• 58:14
  in August of 2024, Kiev began losing
• 58:17
  those pilots
• 58:19
  in botched air defense missions. Four
• 58:22
  such incidents actually acknowledged
• 58:25
  many more that actually occurred.
• 58:26
  According to the Russians, the secret
• 58:29
  design foreign squadron provides pilots
• 58:31
  with experience needed
• 58:34
  to operate these advanced F-16s, said
• 58:38
  Intelligence Online. So Moscow says the
• 58:41
  Ukraine conflict is a NATO proxy war.
• 58:44
  Now they admit it. The [laughter] the
• 58:47
  French newspaper is now admitting it.
• 58:49
  These are, you know, and I've said this,
• 58:52
  American intelligence, French
• 58:54
  intelligence, uh, British intelligence
• 58:57
  are all being supplied by Elon Musk
• 59:01
  satellites and military satellites
• 59:03
  because otherwise they cannot target
• 59:06
  Western missiles. They cannot use
• 59:09
  Western weapons without the associated
• 59:14
  intelligence.
• 59:15
  That's how it works. So uh western
• 59:19
  specialists uh have been involved in
• 59:21
  Ukrainian strikes using storm shadows
• 59:24
  scalps. These are air launch cruise
• 59:26
  missiles on Russian territory especially
• 59:29
  recently. German officials opposed
• 59:33
  supplying tourist missiles because
• 59:35
  Ukrainians cannot launch them
• 59:37
  independently. They also can't launch
• 59:40
  Storm Shadows, Scalps, Himars, any of
• 59:43
  the American ones. they you know they
• 59:46
  can't launch them without
• 59:49
  um
• 59:52
  military intelligence supplied by the
• 59:54
  source country. So Russia says western
• 59:57
  nations uh support gives recruitment of
• 1:00:00
  course and mercenaries from among their
• 1:00:03
  military veterans. Ambassador at Large
• 1:00:06
  Rodian Marosnik estimates that around
• 1:00:09
  20,000 foreign fighters have taken part
• 1:00:13
  in the conflict on the Ukrainian side.
• 1:00:17
  Poland in a recent article, this came
• 1:00:19
  out on the 14th of February,
• 1:00:23
  is trying to give amnesty to mercenaries
• 1:00:27
  that have fought for Kiev. And they will
• 1:00:30
  cover all crimes committed by Polish
• 1:00:32
  citizens
• 1:00:35
  since when?
• 1:00:37
  2014.
• 1:00:40
  2014. So the lower house of the Polish
• 1:00:44
  Parliament adopted legislation that
• 1:00:46
  gives amnesty to Polish citizens who
• 1:00:49
  fought as mercenaries in Ukraine at any
• 1:00:51
  time basically after 2014. And they're
• 1:00:54
  formalizing Warsaw's endorsement of
• 1:00:57
  participation in the conflict. As long
• 1:01:00
  as you're fighting against Russia, fine.
• 1:01:02
  You know, we'll forgive you. Go and kill
• 1:01:04
  away. Have fun.
• 1:01:07
  The bill was approved
• 1:01:10
  by the same and I for I forget how he
• 1:01:13
  say that. I knew it at one point on
• 1:01:15
  Friday in a near unanimous vote. 406
• 1:01:18
  deputies in favor, 19 abstaining, and
• 1:01:21
  only four opposing. That's Poland for
• 1:01:24
  you. The legislation will now proceed to
• 1:01:27
  the Senate where it is also expected to
• 1:01:29
  pass.
• 1:01:31
  Amnesty will cover all crimes related to
• 1:01:35
  joining foreign armed forces, offenses
• 1:01:37
  that carried a sentence of up to 5 years
• 1:01:39
  in prison that date back to April 2014.
• 1:01:43
  the start of Kiev's so-called
• 1:01:46
  anti-terrorist operation,
• 1:01:49
  which is what they called uh when they
• 1:01:51
  were bombing the Dawnbass and killing
• 1:01:53
  their own people. It was an
• 1:01:55
  anti-terrorist opera operation against
• 1:01:58
  the people of Donbass who revolted
• 1:02:00
  against westernbacked Maidan coup in
• 1:02:02
  Kiev. You know, when we and nobody makes
• 1:02:06
  any secrets about it. Now the Maidan
• 1:02:09
  coup really did happen and it really was
• 1:02:11
  supported by pe people like Victoria
• 1:02:14
  Nuland. So Polish officials frame this
• 1:02:17
  legislation as a measure to forgive
• 1:02:20
  volunteers
• 1:02:21
  formalizing a pipeline that sent
• 1:02:24
  thousands of Polish fighters to the
• 1:02:26
  front lines. The law allows the
• 1:02:29
  forgiveness and release into oblivion
• 1:02:32
  of crimes related to mercenary and
• 1:02:35
  recruitment activities. Lawmakers also
• 1:02:39
  included a threemonth delayed
• 1:02:40
  implementation clause to ensure those
• 1:02:44
  currently in the trenches will receive
• 1:02:46
  pardons.
• 1:02:48
  [laughter]
• 1:02:49
  We got to pardon everybody if they're
• 1:02:51
  out killing uh Russians or even
• 1:02:54
  Ukrainians in the wrong spot. According
• 1:02:57
  to Russian estimates, over 15,000
• 1:02:59
  mercenaries from Poland, the US, and
• 1:03:01
  Georgia have fought for Kiev since the
• 1:03:04
  escalation in 2022, and nearly 6,500
• 1:03:08
  have been killed in action. Moscow
• 1:03:11
  maintains that foreign nationals
• 1:03:13
  fighting for Ukraine do not enjoy the
• 1:03:15
  protections of lawful combatants under
• 1:03:17
  the Geneva Convention. That's an
• 1:03:20
  interesting argument. I don't know how
• 1:03:21
  legally that would play out. Russian
• 1:03:24
  officials stated that these individuals
• 1:03:25
  are legitimate military targets. Well,
• 1:03:28
  of course, if they're fighting in the
• 1:03:30
  war, they are targets and will be
• 1:03:32
  treated as mercenaries, not prisoners of
• 1:03:35
  war. For the banderites, they are
• 1:03:37
  nothing more than expendable material,
• 1:03:40
  said the foreign embassy in Argentina
• 1:03:43
  recently, and added that Kiev is not
• 1:03:46
  interested in these wild geese returning
• 1:03:49
  home to tell the truth about the
• 1:03:51
  disastrous situation at the front.
• 1:03:55
  And that's true. Kiev isn't KV really
• 1:03:57
  doesn't want them to come over.
• 1:04:01
  Wow. Uh it's a crazy world out there,
• 1:04:04
  you know. I wanted to circle back to
• 1:04:07
  what I told you some of yesterday and I
• 1:04:13
  want to get to
• 1:04:15
  where is it?
• 1:04:18
  Let us get to my
• 1:04:22
  uh discussion about
• 1:04:25
  I think it's important to share with you
• 1:04:28
  a large um
• 1:04:32
  group of
• 1:04:35
  of the discussion yesterday that I
• 1:04:38
  talked you out and I never finished
• 1:04:41
  that. Uh we can finish with Rubio. We
• 1:04:43
  got about 25 minutes left in the show.
• 1:04:46
  Yeah.
• 1:04:47
  and I wanted to
• 1:04:51
  um
• 1:04:52
  talk about the there's seven parts. So,
• 1:04:57
  one one of the speeches that I've
• 1:04:58
  encouraged everyone to read is and and
• 1:05:01
  and and I'm try I try to frame this as
• 1:05:05
  carefully as I can. Okay? Because I'm
• 1:05:07
  not anti-West. I'm anti a lot of things
• 1:05:11
  that that the West has done, you know,
• 1:05:14
  and I laugh about some of the history
• 1:05:16
  repeating itself, you know, here we are.
• 1:05:18
  We're gonna we're gonna steal we're
• 1:05:21
  going to steal Greenland or force them
• 1:05:23
  to sell it to us for, you know, God
• 1:05:25
  knows how much money. You know, we'll
• 1:05:28
  challenge them to do it and and steal
• 1:05:30
  it. It's not theirs to sell if the
• 1:05:32
  people of Greenland don't want to sell
• 1:05:35
  it. But we don't care about them. We
• 1:05:37
  just got to pay somebody for it. Well,
• 1:05:38
  if you want to pay somebody, pay me. I
• 1:05:41
  mean, I can give you as much right as
• 1:05:42
  the Danish can. [laughter] You can claim
• 1:05:45
  I mean,
• 1:05:47
  I I don't know. It's It's an interesting
• 1:05:49
  world out there. Um, you you're not
• 1:05:52
  entitled as just a normal person to uh
• 1:05:55
  have anything if it hasn't been given to
• 1:05:58
  you by some king or another, right? So,
• 1:06:01
  there has to be a legal backing. The US
• 1:06:03
  is in the same boat. your piece of
• 1:06:05
  property that you own. How far back do
• 1:06:07
  you have to go to show where it is? And
• 1:06:11
  is it possible for u uh historically for
• 1:06:15
  an Indian descendant, if they can prove
• 1:06:18
  it, to come back and say, "Wait a
• 1:06:20
  minute, my family lived right here." But
• 1:06:22
  probably not, cuz they were all nomadic.
• 1:06:25
  And you go, "Well, wait a minute.
• 1:06:26
  they're just a bunch of nomads and all
• 1:06:28
  we did was get rid of their entire
• 1:06:30
  nomadic uh way of life and uh they can
• 1:06:34
  no longer uh be nomads because they got
• 1:06:36
  to be civilized, right? And so I assume
• 1:06:40
  that's the same argument that would be
• 1:06:42
  used in uh Greenland except those people
• 1:06:46
  have had rights to all the properties up
• 1:06:48
  there, right?
• 1:06:50
  um that is I don't know it's interesting
• 1:06:53
  but when you talk about all these things
• 1:06:57
  you always have to circle back to the
• 1:07:02
  continued dominance and and and the way
• 1:07:06
  we dominate and the rhetoric of
• 1:07:08
  domination and the actual views of
• 1:07:12
  domination by seizing ships, by taking
• 1:07:15
  over countries, by arresting foreign
• 1:07:18
  leaders, by overthrowing governments and
• 1:07:20
  I got plenty of stuff on that. You know,
• 1:07:23
  I I went back and had a look um earlier
• 1:07:28
  couple of days ago in preparation for
• 1:07:30
  this week's uh tales of woe that I
• 1:07:34
  wanted to tell and talk about again the
• 1:07:39
  the record of Russia versus the United
• 1:07:43
  States. Okay? And I stuck only with
• 1:07:46
  those two because those are the big east
• 1:07:48
  west. And I also tried to go after
• 1:07:52
  um
• 1:07:54
  after uh 1990
• 1:07:57
  let's call it the time period that the
• 1:07:59
  uh the wall came down the Soviet Union
• 1:08:02
  collapsed blah blah blah. So just since
• 1:08:05
  that time. Okay.
• 1:08:07
  So the broad record and um you know
• 1:08:10
  Russia has been in in 1992
• 1:08:14
  Transnistria which is a separatist state
• 1:08:19
  in um Malddova. It's a northern state.
• 1:08:23
  There was a a Russian army contingent
• 1:08:27
  based there because Malddova like
• 1:08:30
  Ukraine was part of the CIS. They're
• 1:08:32
  trying to get out of it now. You know,
• 1:08:34
  they don't want to be part of the CIS
• 1:08:35
  any longer and supposedly that'll be
• 1:08:38
  done this month. But they were always
• 1:08:40
  part of the CIS and they had joint uh
• 1:08:43
  defense things and so the Russian
• 1:08:45
  military was there. Transnistria, the
• 1:08:47
  northern state of um u in Malddova
• 1:08:51
  wanted to separate and had a lot of and
• 1:08:54
  it's all Russian. I mean the the further
• 1:08:56
  north you went the more Russian it was.
• 1:08:58
  I mean that entire area had tons and
• 1:09:00
  tons of Russians and Ukraine also by the
• 1:09:04
  way across the all through Odessa all
• 1:09:07
  through that all of that has been
• 1:09:09
  Russian for generations you know the
• 1:09:11
  majority of speakers including all the
• 1:09:14
  way up to Romania
• 1:09:16
  and um of a huge portions of Malddova
• 1:09:20
  but Malddova wanted to you know they're
• 1:09:23
  uh pre- Ukraine right and they they're
• 1:09:25
  trying to avoid war and Russia was
• 1:09:28
  involved in um Transnistria, okay? And
• 1:09:33
  Transnistria now they get to pick their
• 1:09:35
  own governor, you know, and they still
• 1:09:37
  have a little bit of this freedom and
• 1:09:39
  the Russian foreign troops are still
• 1:09:41
  there, okay? they still are sitting
• 1:09:43
  there. And uh Transnistria is really
• 1:09:46
  part of the Russian Federation uh
• 1:09:49
  arguably um
• 1:09:52
  arguably part of the Russian Federation
• 1:09:54
  and it's an independent Russianbacked
• 1:09:59
  state of Malddova officially. Okay. But
• 1:10:02
  on the map it shows as part of of of
• 1:10:05
  more Russia than it would in Nate. So
• 1:10:07
  2008 there was a Georgian crisis after
• 1:10:11
  the uh US said that uh Georgia will be
• 1:10:16
  part of NATO. The Georgians and the
• 1:10:18
  Russians got into some bees disputes in
• 1:10:21
  there and so they were involved in that
• 1:10:24
  incursion but that was a former CIS
• 1:10:26
  state too uh and former uh territory of
• 1:10:30
  the Soviet Union. uh Crimea political
• 1:10:33
  upheaval in Kiev. If in 2014 the uh
• 1:10:37
  Russian forces were deployed to Crimea
• 1:10:41
  after a referendum wherein the people of
• 1:10:45
  Crimea said they wanted to back uh or
• 1:10:48
  wanted to be part of Russia. Donbass
• 1:10:51
  same thing in 2014 and they did that and
• 1:10:54
  that's part of the uh alleged terrorism
• 1:10:57
  that uh uh after the the upheaval and
• 1:11:00
  the throw out of Yanukovich by the
• 1:11:02
  western forces uh and seriously backed
• 1:11:05
  with all of that which everybody
• 1:11:06
  acknowledges these day these days Russia
• 1:11:10
  uh were back were backing the separatist
• 1:11:14
  uh protecting Russian speakaking people
• 1:11:17
  and people that wanted to stay part of
• 1:11:19
  uh Russia Russia.
• 1:11:22
  Then Syria. Russia was invited into
• 1:11:25
  Syria by the Syrian government. Had a
• 1:11:27
  couple of bases in there. So, and yes,
• 1:11:29
  they were involved in some militarily,
• 1:11:32
  but but not much. Uh 2022,
• 1:11:35
  Ukraine, but that's it. Okay. Now let's
• 1:11:38
  let's so we have arguably and all of
• 1:11:41
  these are for except Syria are former
• 1:11:45
  Soviet or CIS portions that have heavy
• 1:11:50
  heavy heavy Russian populations
• 1:11:53
  internally including in Georgia. Even
• 1:11:56
  today everybody speaks Russian in
• 1:11:58
  Georgia. When I was in Georgia I spoke
• 1:12:00
  Russian all the time and people spoke
• 1:12:02
  Russian back. you know there places full
• 1:12:04
  of Russians everywhere and Georgians too
• 1:12:07
  and they have great food over there you
• 1:12:09
  get a chance to go uh those are facts
• 1:12:11
  that's a factual concept okay during the
• 1:12:14
  same time period let's look at the
• 1:12:16
  United States 1990s Bosnia Kosovo air
• 1:12:21
  campaigns destruction
• 1:12:24
  and uh not even a referendum we just
• 1:12:27
  went in and announced that we recognize
• 1:12:29
  Kosovo Kosovo is now independent because
• 1:12:33
  we said so and a couple people may have
• 1:12:35
  said uh oh gee we want to be independent
• 1:12:38
  they still don't control themselves but
• 1:12:41
  you know the the US and company do but
• 1:12:44
  uh there you have it um that's Bosnia
• 1:12:47
  Kosovo those you know uh incursions
• 1:12:52
  let's call it supported this is the US
• 1:12:54
  militarily 2001 Afghanistan invasion for
• 1:12:58
  20 years we had nothing to do with any
• 1:13:00
  of that crap shouldn't have been there
• 1:13:01
  in the first place. I have been a
• 1:13:03
  disagreeing uh Samuel with that part the
• 1:13:06
  whole time. 2003 Iraq invasion and
• 1:13:10
  occupation regime removed
• 1:13:13
  years of military presence. 2003 2011
• 1:13:18
  Libya intervention right 2014
• 1:13:22
  Syria air operations ongoing operations
• 1:13:26
  in Pakistan Yemen Somalia across several
• 1:13:30
  administrations let's go straight to
• 1:13:33
  Trump
• 1:13:34
  missile strikes in Syria in 2017 and 18
• 1:13:38
  killed Iranian general uh Kosam
• 1:13:40
  Solommani in 2020 continued global they
• 1:13:44
  call it counter terror operations. Um,
• 1:13:48
  you know, that's behavior. This is not,
• 1:13:50
  you know, I don't necessarily believe
• 1:13:54
  the uh rhetoric on either side. Okay. US
• 1:13:58
  has continually used military force
• 1:14:01
  globally across the continents
• 1:14:04
  repeatedly and Russians are concentrated
• 1:14:08
  uh only in areas where they are. So when
• 1:14:11
  people claim that, oh gee, you got to
• 1:14:13
  watch out. Russia wants to take over the
• 1:14:14
  world, I find little support for that,
• 1:14:19
  but I find a lot of support for what
• 1:14:21
  Russia claims all the time. You know,
• 1:14:24
  you can't you know when where's the next
• 1:14:26
  war you're you're going to take. And
• 1:14:28
  it's hard not to find these use of
• 1:14:31
  forces use of force, I mean, as
• 1:14:35
  I don't a problem. I find this
• 1:14:38
  problematic. uh the scale and dispersion
• 1:14:41
  are dramatically different. You know
• 1:14:43
  what Russia does is pretty small. And uh
• 1:14:46
  so this is uh arithmetic not uh
• 1:14:49
  ideology. I'm not trying to do that. So
• 1:14:52
  if you want to get into legitimacy
• 1:14:53
  arguments, Crimea actually had a
• 1:14:55
  referendum. Donbass had a referendum.
• 1:14:58
  Transnistria held referendums. Then
• 1:15:02
  governments in the west said, "Yeah, but
• 1:15:03
  that those referendums are BS."
• 1:15:07
  Kosovo declares independence. few people
• 1:15:09
  get in a street corner and declare
• 1:15:11
  independence and no referendum.
• 1:15:14
  And the moment they declared they were
• 1:15:16
  independent, they were rapidly
• 1:15:18
  recognized as a legitimate government by
• 1:15:21
  the United States and many European
• 1:15:23
  nations.
• 1:15:25
  The only legitimate one, Scotland held a
• 1:15:28
  referendum and it was accepted because
• 1:15:30
  it occurred under constitutional British
• 1:15:33
  procedure. Right? So what determines how
• 1:15:36
  you get recognition? It's not the vote.
• 1:15:39
  It's political always. International
• 1:15:42
  legitimacy isn't mechanically derived
• 1:15:44
  from somebody counting a ballot. You
• 1:15:47
  know, it's only by the powerful states
• 1:15:49
  recognizing that, right? So, you can
• 1:15:52
  argue the Crimea's vote um was
• 1:15:55
  illegitimate.
• 1:15:57
  You can do that. And the and the West is
• 1:15:59
  always doing it. But they never even had
• 1:16:01
  votes in any other places like Kosovo.
• 1:16:04
  They just recogn Oh, yep. Somebody said
• 1:16:07
  they're independent. Oh, guess they're
• 1:16:08
  independent. You know, that's it. So,
• 1:16:10
  you can deote debate them both, but for
• 1:16:13
  me, it is uh what do you call it? Not um
• 1:16:21
  not uh apples to apples. It drives me
• 1:16:23
  crazy. You know, I'm not trying to give
• 1:16:26
  you conspiracy theory. I'm talking about
• 1:16:28
  structural power here. That's what I'm
• 1:16:30
  doing. But you can't deny it because it
• 1:16:34
  all deals with who is geopolitically
• 1:16:36
  aligned. That's it. And how you get that
• 1:16:39
  alignment, whether you get to be the US
• 1:16:41
  and take over the Virgin Islands by
• 1:16:43
  sending them some money and saying,
• 1:16:44
  "Well, take like it or leave it, you
• 1:16:46
  know, because we are taking it one way
• 1:16:48
  or the other." And uh the that article
• 1:16:51
  was an interesting article. Let's talk
• 1:16:53
  about NGO influence and political
• 1:16:55
  engineering of all these situations.
• 1:16:57
  Since 1990s, the US funded NOS's, US aid
• 1:17:01
  programs, democracy promotion. They
• 1:17:03
  claim democracy promotion initiatives.
• 1:17:06
  They're across Europe and any of these
• 1:17:08
  former Soviet states. Supporters say
• 1:17:10
  civil society development. That's what
• 1:17:13
  we're doing. They didn't have society
• 1:17:15
  before. Everybody else says I'm a
• 1:17:17
  critic. You know, me personally, I say
• 1:17:21
  it's regime engineering. You know, both
• 1:17:24
  interpretations exists. I believe the
• 1:17:27
  stronger argument is engineering of
• 1:17:29
  regime change.
• 1:17:32
  But domestic grievances are real on both
• 1:17:34
  sides of the fence. External support
• 1:17:36
  amplifies or in fact creates the
• 1:17:39
  outcomes. Right? Influence doesn't
• 1:17:42
  automatically equal orchestration. But
• 1:17:44
  influence isn't just imaginary. From
• 1:17:47
  Moscow's perspective, westernbacked
• 1:17:50
  political movements in neighboring
• 1:17:52
  states are viewed not as democracy but
• 1:17:55
  as encroachment.
• 1:17:57
  And that is the security dilemma and the
• 1:18:00
  security spiral Putin talked about and I
• 1:18:04
  only got 10 minutes to go through it,
• 1:18:07
  but Putin in 2007 said unipolar
• 1:18:10
  dominance destabilizes.
• 1:18:13
  And what I did was I went and took his
• 1:18:15
  entire speech from 2007
• 1:18:19
  and I want to read you some key
• 1:18:23
  sections of it that he talked about and
• 1:18:26
  you can take it or leave it doesn't
• 1:18:28
  matter to me but these are realities.
• 1:18:31
  Okay. He talked about unipolarity.
• 1:18:36
  He said, "Figuratively speaking, I mean
• 1:18:40
  ideological
• 1:18:42
  stereotypes, double standards, and other
• 1:18:47
  uh templates of block thinking." Oh,
• 1:18:51
  hold on. We're going to take an call
• 1:18:53
  here. Where are we? How do I get this to
• 1:18:57
  work? Hello, friends and neighbors.
• 1:19:01
  Hello.
• 1:19:03
  >> Good morning.
• 1:19:04
  >> Good morning. How are you, friend and
• 1:19:06
  neighbor?
• 1:19:07
  >> I am well.
• 1:19:08
  >> I'm well. Just checking on you, making
• 1:19:10
  sure you're doing okay.
• 1:19:11
  >> I'm totally fine. How are you?
• 1:19:14
  >> Oh, I'm good. I was just curious.
• 1:19:15
  >> Were you going to complain about
• 1:19:17
  something I said? Is that why you're
• 1:19:18
  calling?
• 1:19:19
  >> No, I'm just checking on your
• 1:19:20
  well-being. Just I'm wondering if you
• 1:19:23
  are doing okay.
• 1:19:25
  >> You think I have Trump derangement
• 1:19:27
  syndrome?
• 1:19:29
  >> Nope. [clears throat]
• 1:19:30
  >> No, I just I'm just worried about your
• 1:19:32
  well-being. I heard you laughing
• 1:19:35
  hysterically
• 1:19:36
  at how the world's borders are formed.
• 1:19:40
  Laughing at Trump and
• 1:19:41
  >> Woodson laughing at Trump and
• 1:19:44
  >> certainly chuckling along with the
• 1:19:46
  acquisitions that Woodro Wilson made and
• 1:19:48
  Donald Trump is contemplating.
• 1:19:50
  >> Well, of course. Yeah.
• 1:19:53
  >> But um do you know what percentage
• 1:19:56
  of the world's borders
• 1:19:58
  are result of conquest by chance? Do you
• 1:20:01
  know that number? I'm not talking about
• 1:20:03
  conquest. I was talking about purchases.
• 1:20:06
  >> You've talked about both, sir.
• 1:20:08
  >> Well, that's true. And uh so uh who gets
• 1:20:11
  to decide the conquest? You're for
• 1:20:15
  conquest, I presume.
• 1:20:18
  >> Actually, it doesn't matter what I'm
• 1:20:20
  for. I'm talking about the the history
• 1:20:23
  of the world and how borders h are
• 1:20:25
  accumulated. Every border on the planet
• 1:20:28
  was done through conquest with the
• 1:20:30
  exceptions of the times. United States
• 1:20:31
  has actually bought stuff.
• 1:20:33
  >> Well, okay. So, where where's the next
• 1:20:36
  conquest? Did we did we conquer um
• 1:20:40
  Afghanistan, for example? Did we conquer
• 1:20:43
  Iraq?
• 1:20:44
  >> Well, I'm just worried about you
• 1:20:46
  laughing at world history when 95% of
• 1:20:48
  the world's borders were taken through
• 1:20:50
  conquest and you I heard you talking
• 1:20:52
  about it with regard to Trump and Woodro
• 1:20:54
  Wilson and just yucking it up and just
• 1:20:56
  like I'm wondering if you're okay.
• 1:20:58
  >> Well, I'm totally fine. I'm talking
• 1:21:01
  reality. What's going to happen is
• 1:21:04
  >> I think that's what I'm talking about is
• 1:21:05
  reality. It's like 99% of the world's
• 1:21:08
  conquests or the world's borders came
• 1:21:10
  through conquest. And you just think
• 1:21:12
  that's the craziest thing you've ever
• 1:21:14
  heard.
• 1:21:14
  >> Not what I'm No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm
• 1:21:17
  wondering how you justify seizing
• 1:21:21
  seizing right now us today in a in a uh
• 1:21:25
  democ democratic world. how you justify
• 1:21:28
  seizing a foreign country under false
• 1:21:32
  pretext. By the way, you know, narco
• 1:21:35
  terror, oh gee, let's go in and replace,
• 1:21:38
  right? That that's okay. And you're
• 1:21:40
  taking it for uh for what purpose? Is
• 1:21:43
  that what we're for? We're for being the
• 1:21:45
  big bully. Is that right?
• 1:21:49
  >> Okay. Um that's a different topic. I'm
• 1:21:51
  talking about the history of the world
• 1:21:53
  here. How did every border come to be on
• 1:21:56
  the planet Earth?
• 1:21:57
  >> Of course, I'm laughing. From the
• 1:21:59
  beginning of time, from the beginning of
• 1:22:01
  time to today, where's everybody get
• 1:22:02
  their borders?
• 1:22:03
  >> Well, okay. Where do we
• 1:22:05
  >> I'm telling you, it's closer to 95 plus%
• 1:22:07
  of the world's borders came through
• 1:22:09
  conquest. I'm just making sure you're
• 1:22:11
  okay cuz you think that's just
• 1:22:13
  hysterical and like world history. I'm
• 1:22:16
  so What's so funny about world history?
• 1:22:18
  >> I Okay, I'm I'm fine with history. I'm
• 1:22:22
  not fine with repeating that history.
• 1:22:24
  >> No, cuz you were laughing cuz uh Woodro
• 1:22:27
  Wilson just took some property and I'm
• 1:22:29
  like, well, that's how every freaking
• 1:22:31
  nation
• 1:22:31
  >> No, no, no, no, no, no. What I was
• 1:22:32
  laughing at, what I was laughing at was
• 1:22:35
  the parallels of today. And the parallel
• 1:22:38
  was he created a pretext, said Nazi
• 1:22:43
  Germany is going to take Nazi. It was a
• 1:22:46
  false threat. And we're doing the exact
• 1:22:49
  same thing right now. False threats
• 1:22:54
  of China taking over uh Venezuela, China
• 1:22:59
  and Russia taking Greenland. That's what
• 1:23:02
  I'm laughing at. Are [laughter] the
• 1:23:04
  continual the continual false
• 1:23:08
  narratives that are used instead of
• 1:23:12
  world conquest.
• 1:23:12
  >> I'll take you at your word. All I
• 1:23:14
  thought I heard you laughing was like
• 1:23:15
  the way the world borders have come to
• 1:23:17
  be.
• 1:23:18
  >> No, no, no. I'm laughing about the
• 1:23:20
  repeat of history right now and whether
• 1:23:23
  >> Yeah. No, there's nothing new under the
• 1:23:24
  sun. I agree with you,
• 1:23:26
  >> right? And so, how do we justify that in
• 1:23:28
  today's OG far more intelligent, smaller
• 1:23:32
  society, right? Back in back in uh when
• 1:23:35
  when Wilson did that.
• 1:23:36
  >> I'm not trying to. Actually, I'm not.
• 1:23:39
  Maybe you're alone on that one because
• 1:23:40
  I'm that's not where I'm coming from.
• 1:23:42
  Okay. Well,
• 1:23:43
  >> I mean, that's I didn't know that's what
• 1:23:46
  you were laughing about.
• 1:23:47
  >> Do you believe there's a threat from
• 1:23:49
  Russia and China and Greenland?
• 1:23:53
  >> A threat? Um, I know that the uh the
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  future of security is in the Arctic and
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  uh we need to have our foot there
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  somewhere otherwise somebody else will.
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  I I unlike you, I don't have a problem
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  with the United States being the world
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  police force because the United States,
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  unless you allow leftism to grab a hold
• 1:24:10
  of, is usually a force for good.
• 1:24:13
  Anything that you've made fun of, the
• 1:24:14
  United States has done or what you call
• 1:24:16
  the West has been done by leftists. But
• 1:24:18
  when the United States is doing what
• 1:24:20
  it's supposed to be doing and and not
• 1:24:23
  >> I'm going down a rabbit trail here. I'm
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  sorry. That wasn't my point. We should
• 1:24:27
  have been We should have been in
• 1:24:29
  Afghanistan then. That's that's where we
• 1:24:31
  we as America's policemen should be
• 1:24:33
  there. We should go bomb the crap for
• 1:24:36
  Israel, not for us out of Iran, right?
• 1:24:41
  >> You know what? If I have the world's
• 1:24:43
  biggest military, I'm going to use it
• 1:24:45
  for good. And if it means taking out
• 1:24:47
  evil people, I think that's a a virtue.
• 1:24:49
  >> Evil.
• 1:24:49
  >> And I bet you disagree with me on that.
• 1:24:51
  >> I don't disagree with that. I dis I
• 1:24:53
  disagree with who gets to define evil.
• 1:24:56
  That's always my problem. Who in the
• 1:24:58
  world?
• 1:25:00
  Okay. Maduro. Good or bad?
• 1:25:03
  >> Maduro is I don't give a crap. He We has
• 1:25:06
  >> Well, I do. I bet you about 35 million.
• 1:25:09
  >> Okay. Then if he's a Then if he's a
• 1:25:11
  threat, why can't you be truthful about
• 1:25:14
  it? Why do you got to blame it on some
• 1:25:16
  kind of narotist BS that nobody has
• 1:25:20
  heard about now? And what happened to
• 1:25:22
  him since then? Where is he now?
• 1:25:25
  >> What's going What's What's going on now?
• 1:25:26
  I'd say we're learning all sorts of
• 1:25:28
  things about how the elections have been
• 1:25:30
  stolen.
• 1:25:31
  >> I'm guessing he's probably coming up.
• 1:25:34
  >> Maduro is [laughter]
• 1:25:35
  because Venezuela's been controlling all
• 1:25:38
  of the elections on this globe for the
• 1:25:40
  past two decades.
• 1:25:41
  >> Venezuela's controlling US elections.
• 1:25:44
  >> Yes.
• 1:25:48
  >> I shall listen to your show and hear
• 1:25:51
  that.
• 1:25:53
  No. Oh, I do. I listen to you quite a
• 1:25:55
  bit, but but I haven't heard that theory
• 1:25:59
  thrown out that Maduro has
• 1:26:01
  >> You don't have to listen to my show.
• 1:26:02
  Just go to X and I would probably start
• 1:26:06
  with Emerald. Um what's her name? The
• 1:26:09
  real hot chick. Uh Emerald, what's her
• 1:26:12
  name?
• 1:26:12
  >> Hot chick. You got me.
• 1:26:14
  >> Emerald. Uh come on. What's her name?
• 1:26:16
  >> Sounds like a stripper to me. I'm I'm
• 1:26:19
  the strippers I know aren't named.
• 1:26:21
  >> Robinson. Okay. Go to X and and and read
• 1:26:25
  the wall on Emerald Robinson. She's been
• 1:26:27
  chronicling this for years.
• 1:26:29
  >> How Maduro is controlling the world
• 1:26:31
  elections.
• 1:26:32
  >> Well, it started off under Maduro's
• 1:26:34
  predecessor.
• 1:26:36
  >> Okay,
• 1:26:38
  I will I will anyway
• 1:26:41
  to go and read that. But how does
• 1:26:43
  [laughter] how does that justify narco
• 1:26:45
  terrorism as an excuse to steal the oil
• 1:26:49
  to steal the oil from Venezuela?
• 1:26:54
  Although I agree with the $2.40
• 1:26:56
  price tag for gas I just saw this
• 1:26:58
  morning, but [clears throat] I think it
• 1:27:00
  was ill gotten, but that's okay. I, you
• 1:27:03
  know, I'm I I will justify that. So, I'm
• 1:27:06
  just as big a a problem as all the rest
• 1:27:10
  that think this is okay activity for a
• 1:27:12
  civilized society.
• 1:27:14
  >> Taking out the ships is all about
• 1:27:16
  cutting off money to our enemies, the
• 1:27:19
  deep state, the CIA. that he's cutting
• 1:27:21
  off their funds at every at every at
• 1:27:23
  every turn, starting with us a
• 1:27:27
  >> Well, okay. I I agreed with those in the
• 1:27:30
  beginning. I agreed with those in the
• 1:27:31
  beginning, but we're down to 2 minutes
• 1:27:33
  and or three and I got a boogie. So, I
• 1:27:36
  appreciate you. We should discuss this
• 1:27:38
  more. I find you highly [laughter]
• 1:27:40
  highly intoxicating with some of these.
• 1:27:43
  >> Love you so much. See you.
• 1:27:44
  >> Interesting. See you later.
• 1:27:46
  >> Bye now.
• 1:27:47
  >> Bye. Bye.
• 1:27:49
  And there he goes. Well, uh there there
• 1:27:52
  are plenty of things to disagree with in
• 1:27:54
  that uh in that discussion. And I wanted
• 1:27:57
  to get to the old now I got to save it
• 1:28:01
  for tomorrow cuz uh I saved all these
• 1:28:04
  and and and I point out how if if you
• 1:28:08
  want to believe that well I won't I
• 1:28:11
  won't have time to get to it cuz I only
• 1:28:12
  got a minute and a half and I can't get
• 1:28:14
  that thought off in that time period. Uh
• 1:28:17
  but in short,
• 1:28:19
  if you don't understand how history is
• 1:28:22
  created and the the way of the world
• 1:28:25
  that is what I'm laughing about, uh JR
• 1:28:28
  is that this is more par for the course
• 1:28:34
  creating a narrative
• 1:28:36
  for people to buy into to say, "Oh, gee,
• 1:28:38
  it's great. Let's take over Greenland.
• 1:28:41
  Oh, gee, it's fine. Let's go beat the
• 1:28:43
  snot out of Maduro and Venezuela." And
• 1:28:46
  if if if Maduro was co controlling US
• 1:28:50
  elections,
• 1:28:51
  don't take out Missouri. Fix your
• 1:28:53
  elections.
• 1:28:55
  Fix your elections. If that's the
• 1:28:58
  problem all of this has brought about,
• 1:29:01
  well then let's deal with the problem.
• 1:29:04
  We'll go into that tomorrow cuz now I'm
• 1:29:05
  interested. Now I'm on a mission. Uh but
• 1:29:08
  that'll have to be tomorrow because the
• 1:29:10
  show is coming to a conclusion. I enjoy
• 1:29:13
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• 1:29:17
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• 1:29:20
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• 1:29:26
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• 1:29:50
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