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Power, Promises, and the World After Memory: Putin’s Four-Hour Reckoning and a Global Order in Motion · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  There's several others.
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  We'll go into those another day uh tell
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  you what does anybody else ever get the
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  feeling that there's like, uh, The familiar Explanations
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  just no longer work you know that that
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  all of the Crap, they've been slinging For
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  years all the propaganda being pumped down our
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  throats Just they're down down our ears.
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  I suppose coming out of their throats Just
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  isn't working anymore.
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  You know all these all these globalist propagandist
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  A-holes that are that are sending crap
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  our way just Are are failing and and
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  I and I like that that it's failing
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  that people aren't paying attention to propaganda as
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  much and you know I I tell you
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  what the familiar explanations that that you know,
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  the the uh world order rules based uh
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  Rules based order of the clinton years, you
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  know and all of that just Is is
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  is just total crap and uh, everybody sees
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  it and it's like Unfortunately, those who live
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  it are generally the ones that see it
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  last We've been living it and it took
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  us a little longer because we're the good
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  guys, aren't we?
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  Yeah That's right.
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  Um events now explain themselves, you know more
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  poorly than the context in which they actually
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  occur and so this is why so and
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  and I say this because This is why
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  it's it It was important to me On
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  friday a four and a half hour annual
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  Presentation if you will and and uh Uh
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  press conference and question and answer live in
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  uh, russia put on um with vladimir putin
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  a four and a half hour annual press
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  conference and so Regardless of whatever your attitude
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  is towards him.
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  I mean i'm like him dislike him.
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  I don't care i'm neutral I don't I
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  don't give a crap, you know, he he
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  is a Masterful politician.
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  He's been at it for a long time.
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  He's a former kgb guy, you know There's
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  all kinds of stuff you could say And
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  uh, but he's an effective leader and this
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  four and a half hour press conference was
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  nothing but proof of that and so this
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  is You know regardless of what you think
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  about it.
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  This is more than just an annual political
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  event.
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  It's like Just shows the symptoms of the
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  deeper shifts in the world, it's like a
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  transformation of the very model of power Responsibility
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  and and historic memory because this guy always
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  talks from the point of view of the
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  past and where we came from and how
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  we got here and why and he Sometimes
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  he over explains, you know in in how
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  he does it, but I tell you what
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  I it would be nice if we had
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  anybody that would do that and I gotta
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  tell you, you know Trump is probably the
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  closest in my lifetime to getting Something similar,
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  you know where he's not afraid to answer
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  questions.
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  He doesn't have a playbook Well, he might
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  but I mean, you know I'm sure they
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  both have thought about their answers and what
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  they're gonna say if someone questions this or
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  but they're They're not afraid to say sit
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  and just answer questions.
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  They don't have to read it off a
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  prompter they don't have to get talking points
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  from somebody they don't they just That's how
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  you know, they're speaking at least they believe
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  what they're saying, right So this wasn't like
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  a triumph performance or anything like that.
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  It was no No exercise in justifying moves
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  that have been done.
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  It wasn't anything like that it was a
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  public administration of crisis for real and it
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  was like a like a rare phenomenon in
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  age of Tiny short 15-minute press briefings
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  that they leave early from and they got
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  a note card to follow and that's it
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  And that doesn't happen with putin anyway, and
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  you can say all the same sorts of
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  things You know negative if you want to
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  but lukashenka from belarus, but he's the same
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  way I've watched press conferences with that guy
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  where he'll sit and talk for hours at
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  a time and take all kinds of questions
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  you know western questions friendly questions Non-friendly
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  questions antagonistic questions and he has no problem
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  answering any of them and putin is the
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  same way and this was not um You
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  know no carefully screened questions here.
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  I'm sure there were some prepped.
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  I mean, especially in the beginning there were
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  some prepped prepped ones, but the key difference
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  between the russian president and our Our Well,
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  I won't call it our let's call it
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  western elitist political discourse in recent years Isn't
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  in the tone, but in the method So
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  like lukashenka like putin they consistently turn to
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  the chronology the 80s german reunification security assurances
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  minsk agreements Istanbul negotiations and failure and an
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  attack against them by people like boris johnson
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  So it's not an appeal to emotion.
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  It's a legal and historical logical chronology, right
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  And here's where the paradox comes in in
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  the west such references are often dismissed as
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  excuses In reality, they serve a different function
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  in my opinion.
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  They they challenge the central I don't know
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  belief structure of the prevailing western narrative That
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  the conflict began suddenly it began with no
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  cause, you know this Unprovoked that constantly you
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  hear in the west this unprovoked attack by
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  russia You know, it's nonsense Economist jeffrey sacks
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  very far removed from the russian government has
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  long pointed To the documented assurances given to
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  the soviet union and later to russia That
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  nato would not expand one inch eastward These
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  assurances were repeated by multiple western officials.
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  This was bush one This was the germans
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  before reunification Promised that they would do this.
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  They were never formalized in a treaty form
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  And therein lies the historical trap they exist
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  within a framework of trust mutual trust Which
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  was gradually replaced by logic of oh, well,
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  if there's no paper, you know, we didn't
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  agree.
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  We don't have any obligation right, and so
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  when One defining feature of the current moment
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  is that the west increasingly denies Not merely
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  the interpretations of the past But the existence
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  of past commitments themselves Nobody said that we
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  didn't put it on paper.
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  So the shift from debate to erasure of
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  history Is a qualitative change history ceases to
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  be a field of argument and becomes I
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  don't know some kind of an object of
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  editorial revisionism, right you get to revise everything
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  Oh that did happen and against this back
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  I know you got to do is go
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  back and listen to it.
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  Go watch it.
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  Go find it You can find it anywhere
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  these days in against this backdrop When I
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  also watched uh as usual once a week,
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  I tried to watch uh, vladimir soloviov and
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  and it was critical highly Um, you know
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  sharp emotionally charged.
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  It's a different role.
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  They weren't It wasn't explanatory.
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  It's accusatory He doesn't argue whether promises were
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  broken.
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  He says the west no longer even pretends
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  those promises existed In his framework, this isn't
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  an error, but a deliberate strategy the removal
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  of moral responsibility through Institutionalized forgetfulness, right?
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  The second critical line of analysis is economic
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  Right notably the economic portion of putin's press
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  conference was, you know, pretty boring, right?
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  Uh, it it was I listened to it
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  But I mean, it's no triumph.
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  I mean people were quizzing him Well, you
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  know when are there going to be roads
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  that go all the way across, you know,
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  a highway that goes all the way across
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  russia You know, that's difficult, you know I
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  can't imagine how I mean that's and you
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  know, there's they have Regional roads and stuff
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  like that, but no huge highway system all
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  the way across right?
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  And so there was detailed discussion of deficits
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  inflation reserves debt legal procedures that kind of
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  thing so that The very fact that it
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  was so boring is probably its most powerful
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  feature against the backdrop of european Panic over
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  trying to find 90 billion an aid for
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  ukraine and all they wanted to do was
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  steal it from russia The legal maneuvering around
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  stealing that money and the fear of setting
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  a horrible precedent has them running scared of
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  course the russian position Of you know of
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  life in general was you know, it was
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  pretty Systematic, you know, the key issue is
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  not numbers but trust any attempt to legitimize
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  confiscation of sovereign money Undermines the architecture of
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  the global financial system itself This is understood
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  not only in moscow, but in riyadh beijing
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  brazilia Europe's hesitation isn't a moral hesitation.
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  It's structural Their concern is not ukraine alone,
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  but what comes after that?
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  And putin noted this and he said once
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  such a process begins It won't be contained
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  And that argument, you know resonates far beyond
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  today's battlefield, right?
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  A crucial element of this press conference was
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  the human dimension that he that he brought
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  in So one of the first things he
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  did was he had a young Lieutenant, I
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  think he was that participated in pokrovsk, which
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  uh is um I can't remember krasnodar maesk.
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  I think is what they call it, but
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  it doesn't mean Pokrovsk is what they call
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  it.
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  You know what it is here.
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  And uh, so um He was presented with
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  no staging.
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  I mean he was scared to death, you
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  know Standing up there talking just a young
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  soldier.
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  He had no no theater.
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  No, he was a symbolic function It demonstrated
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  not a cult of war but a transfer
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  of responsibility Um, you know soldiers To the
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  state and then back again, you know what
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  I mean?
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  Uh western politics, uh, appeals to values We
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  always talk about values But no accountability right
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  the russian model You could call it controversial
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  if you like, but it presented something different
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  here the state Assumed obligations to families to
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  veterans to demographic policy to education to all
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  these things, right?
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  That they talked about it's it's certainly far
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  from perfect but it does show uh, like
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  a chain of command of you know, how
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  vertical the responsibility line goes and uh, While
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  europe is debating rules.
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  It no longer believes in And the united
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  states is absorbed in you know morals over
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  here we fight about you know, right and
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  left the global south is watching And i'm
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  telling you they're watching attentively china in latin
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  america, which is happening Doesn't lecture about values
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  to everybody else.
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  It doesn't say we're going to change your
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  regime.
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  We're going to do this It's building ports.
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  It's building railways.
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  It's building energy infrastructure Africa asia and the
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  middle east are all watching how the west
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  treats other people's assets other people's contracts And
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  commitments to other people in their own region.
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  So in this context ukraine Becomes not the
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  center of the world but a consuming focal
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  point not because it lacks importance, but because
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  you gotta If you get everybody to fixate
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  on this one all important conflict You can
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  obscure all this broader crap that's going on
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  in the world It is quite telling that
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  putin did not emphasize multi-polarity during this
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  press conference.
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  He did not announce it he Acted and
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  spoke as if it already existed budget discipline
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  infrastructure planning scientific investment demographic strategy This is
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  the language of a long Long game.
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  He's playing the long game.
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  This is an emergency management and so The
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  central question that remains after all these speeches
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  that we heard over the weekend on stealing
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  money versus not stealing money What are we
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  gonna do?
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  How are we gonna do it?
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  How do we punish russia?
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  How do we promote ukraine?
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  How do we save the?
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  Globalist elite that was How do we save
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  them And listening to putin talk about these
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  and all this but it's not about who's
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  right It's something to me a little more
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  obvious and maybe even more unsettling Why are
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  some leaders?
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  willing to answer Uncomfortable questions.
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  I mean this was not all comfort, you
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  know, this wasn't all staged, you know Uncomfortable
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  questions for hours while others avoid them entirely
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  It's possible, you know, we're entering an era
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  in which systems are going to be judged
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  not by what ideology they belong to But
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  by their capacity to explain themselves to their
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  own societies and then to the world Where
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  explanation?
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  You know is replaced By slogans like we
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  do there is no trust trust is gone
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  where memory survives an agency a responsibility to
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  your to your uh your When it keeps
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  they in russia to your to your heirs
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  to the people who take over after you
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  they need to be You know, it's important,
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  you know With You have an agency to
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  those people you have a responsibility To build
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  something better than when you left it and
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  the world's changing it may be You know
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  quiet might be loud could be uneven but
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  but it's changing and it's irreversible And the
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  defining conflict of our time isn't geopolitical But
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  civilizational so memory versus amnesia Administration versus propaganda
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  and rhetoric responsibility versus abandonment of responsibility So
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  I for me in that sense a four
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  and a half hour conversation It's not an
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  answer it's a diagnosis of what the problem
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  really is and you know what needs to
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  happen to uh Combat what's going on in
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  the world?
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  I mean seriously It needs to be discussed
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  more and and I wanted to walk through
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  this The the putin thing because i'm telling
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  you that it was an interesting um Dialogue
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  for sure and uh, I doubt it's out
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  there, uh translated into english and over here
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  Uh, you won't hear anything I want I
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  tried to find it, you know, what do
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  you find?
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  You don't find anything and there there is
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  nothing about this for our uh Conversation, you
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  know, it's not there and I tell you
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  what It was it was interesting to watch
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  and there was like a five minute Deal
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  in the beginning and the excitement in the
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  room There were so many people of so
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  many different ages young old in between journalists
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  not journalists people from wherever I don't know
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  how they get tickets to it.
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  You got me How you get into that
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  room?
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  I assume it's uh something pretty um Unique
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  and special to get in there and there
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  was a guy who um, you know was
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  talking about it He's a man i'm i'm
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  just glad to be here and I hope
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  I get to ask a question It's live
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  on tv.
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  They have a phone in number.
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  You can call in and ask questions and
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  you can have a You know you you
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  have questions that were uh presented.
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  Um Earlier, you know that you may have
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  emailed in and so there's like a A
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  ton of these questions right coming in and
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  so When they introduced him, you know, the
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  the moderator says, you know Like we're accepting
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  questions until the end of the broadcast and
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  the broadcast was four and a half hours
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  And it said you can call in and
• 18:54
  they gave a phone number you can send
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  an sms and gave another number you can
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  submitted a question through vkontakte and odna klasniki,
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  which is uh vk odna klasniki is uh,
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  like a facebook and um in And vkontakte
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  is like contacts like a linkedin more or
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  less Or you can do the website Moscow
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  putin.ru Or the chat bot in the
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  max messenger, which is used for a first
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  time this year They had a little chat
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  bot the total number of questions presented exceeded
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  two and a half million As of the
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  moment of the broadcast when it was starting
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  And so there was what they did was
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  they broke it into five or six different
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  topics And i'm gonna i'm gonna cover some
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  of these because nobody says what he what
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  he Tells his people you never get a
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  translation and so Uh, she says at the
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  beginning vladimir vladimirovich a huge number of questions
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  concerns social policy But first and foremost are
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  questions of war and peace.
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  You've repeatedly said that we are ready for
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  peace At the same time we are satisfied
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  with the dynamics on the front So, what
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  is it war or peace by what path
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  will we achieve the goals Of the special
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  military operation and what is happening on the
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  negotiation track given president Zelensky's statement in berlin
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  over the weekend that In that ukraine is
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  not prepared to discuss giving up any territory
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  And putin says at this point we truly
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  do not see any readiness from zelensky Let
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  me remind everyone how all of this began
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  it began with the coup d'etat in
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  ukraine in 2014 and with the deception surrounding
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  the possibility Of resolving all problems peacefully through
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  the minsk agreements and he's talking about the
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  lies that were admitted later that said minsk
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  agreements minsk one and minsk two were only
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  a chance to give uh ukraine a chance
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  to um Arm themselves and build their army
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  and get more western weapons and stuff like
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  that And so in 2022 when the situation
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  reached a crisis when kiev unleashed war in
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  south southeastern ukraine We told them plainly that
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  we will be forced to recognize these unrecognized
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  republics Because these referenda had been done in
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  donbass years ago and russia kept saying look
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  The referenda is there let them at least
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  pick their own governors.
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  You remember me telling you that story, right?
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  And they kept saying look let them do
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  what you said You were going to let
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  them do honor minsk one and minsk two
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  or we will be forced to recognize them
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  and do something And it would be better
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  if you simply allowed people to live peacefully
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  as they wish Without coups without russophobia and
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  so on this is his words simply withdraw
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  your troops and that would be it But
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  they refused and after negotiations in istanbul they
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  initially agreed they had uh Initialed the agreements
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  and then discarded them just threw them in
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  the trash now They again refused to end
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  this conflict through peaceful means Nevertheless, and I
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  want to be precise here.
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  We do see we feel and we know
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  the signals Including from the kiev regime indicating
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  a readiness for some form of dialogue The
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  only thing I want to emphasize is this
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  we have always said that we are ready
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  and willing to conclude this conflict peacefully on
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  the basis of the principles I outlined last
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  june And only after eliminating the root causes
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  that led to the crisis and they've been
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  pretty clear on that and here he was
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  again clear And then she says well, what
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  about this situation on the front vladimir vladimirovich
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  this situation on the front changes every day
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  We know that you keep your finger on
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  the pulse personally communicate with commanders with our
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  fighters with heroes How do you assess the
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  situation as of today?
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  And he says just recently I heard another
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  report remember me telling you about that.
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  He was uh had another report from the
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  general staff Last week and what could be
• 23:18
  said overall immediately after our troops expelled the
• 23:23
  enemy from the kursk region The strategic initiative
• 23:27
  fully and completely passed into the hands of
• 23:30
  the russian armed forces And the initiative has
• 23:32
  been with them ever since and what does
• 23:35
  this mean?
• 23:36
  It means that our troops are advancing along
• 23:38
  the entire line of contract some contact I
• 23:41
  mean somewhere faster somewhere slower, but in all
• 23:45
  directions the enemy is retreating so and then
• 23:50
  they got into you know, you know some
• 23:52
  of the battlefield discussions on on some of
• 23:55
  the things that came out and In seversk
• 23:58
  when they were talking about seversk Um, they
• 24:03
  putin said after our forces expelled the enemy
• 24:06
  from kursk.
• 24:08
  Um, um The general staff commander and Reported
• 24:13
  about the capture of seversk and this is
• 24:16
  an important settlement settlement.
• 24:18
  And like I told you before because from
• 24:20
  here opportunities open up for movement toward one
• 24:24
  of the main fortified areas toward slavyansk And
• 24:28
  to the south our units are are operating
• 24:30
  that you know I really don't want to
• 24:32
  go too far into this because it doesn't
• 24:33
  matter the agglomeration Also includes konstantinovka And the
• 24:38
  wider operational picture very important is krasna armysk.
• 24:41
  That's pokrovsk Because it opens a significant operational
• 24:45
  opportunities and then to the northeast lies demitrov
• 24:49
  Which is an important staging area and 50
• 24:51
  percent of the cities in there and then
• 24:53
  he talked about zaporizha harkov and sumy and
• 24:56
  so the sumy one I was telling you
• 24:59
  about last week and he spent a little
• 25:01
  bit of time on it too because what
• 25:04
  um Sierski had to do was he pulled
• 25:08
  people from the sumy region and sent them
• 25:11
  down to create something so that Uh, there
• 25:15
  would be some propaganda to sling out about
• 25:19
  down and put pokrovsk because they wanted to
• 25:23
  use it to attack and they kept and
• 25:25
  then Uh, they pulled some and sent them
• 25:27
  off to the east into saverskins.
• 25:29
  And so russia kicked further into sumy region
• 25:34
  And so they're they're getting their butts handed
• 25:36
  to them over there and nobody ever talks
• 25:39
  about it So the city of volchansk has
• 25:41
  been taken and that's in sumy And in
• 25:43
  harkov kupyansk is under the control several weeks
• 25:46
  ago, and he talked about all of this
• 25:49
  said that there's uh, uh Plenty there's still
• 25:53
  people encircled over there, right?
• 25:55
  And then the moderator wanted to talk specifically
• 25:58
  about saverskin the reason now i'm I don't
• 26:02
  want to say it was staged, but it
• 26:03
  probably was at least, you know teed up
• 26:06
  You know what?
• 26:06
  I mean because this is the one where
• 26:09
  zelensky, you know made a fake video And
• 26:12
  and people want to call him on it
• 26:14
  And he said you may have seen the
• 26:16
  reports from the general staff the grouping commander
• 26:19
  and the brigade commanders who fought there I
• 26:21
  asked him at the time.
• 26:23
  How do you assess this situation in savers?
• 26:25
  Do you control the city and he said?
• 26:28
  We are already advancing westward my brigade brigade
• 26:32
  has moved one and a half to two
• 26:34
  kilometers west So the advance is continuing.
• 26:39
  You may remember the moment the storm group
• 26:41
  reported live from inside savers At the end
• 26:45
  I asked if they were changing their positions
• 26:48
  quickly and yesterday at a ministry of defense
• 26:51
  meeting We were we awarded the fighters who
• 26:54
  participated in the liberation of saversk and after
• 26:58
  that I I invited one of the commanders
• 27:02
  and this is where he invited um this
• 27:06
  lieutenant um naran Alexeyevich Uh to give him
• 27:12
  a microphone the guy was he appeared scared
• 27:15
  He he was scared.
• 27:17
  Let's put it that way and uh the
• 27:19
  moderator when he stands up he goes, uh
• 27:22
  Uh, and putin let him speak for a
• 27:24
  little while, you know, and he didn't interrupt
• 27:26
  him didn't say anything.
• 27:27
  He did.
• 27:28
  Um, uh, he said We saw you in
• 27:32
  a video link wearing a helmet, but we
• 27:34
  haven't been formally introduced Could you tell us
• 27:37
  a little bit about yourself where you're from?
• 27:39
  How long you've been in the operation how
• 27:41
  you got started?
• 27:42
  He said i'm from Kalmykia, I started as
• 27:46
  a simple soldier first as a driver I
• 27:48
  worked my way up from an assault trooper
• 27:51
  to the commander of an assault company And
• 27:54
  putin says to him naran Alexeyevich is being
• 27:57
  modest.
• 27:58
  He began as a driver and now he
• 27:59
  commands an assault company with more than 80
• 28:03
  men Under his command.
• 28:05
  He's a hero of the russian federation and
• 28:08
  deservedly so And uh, he said tell us
• 28:11
  what you can about the operation to liberate.
• 28:14
  How did it come about?
• 28:16
  He said the most difficult part was reaching
• 28:19
  seversk without being detected the terrain is open
• 28:22
  and very few Uh natural shelters, so we
• 28:26
  made the decision to go in in small
• 28:28
  groups covertly and the task was completed we
• 28:31
  assembled, um There without being detected waited our
• 28:35
  orders and launched an assault and he said
• 28:38
  we're this is the interesting part Were there
• 28:41
  still civilians in the city?
• 28:43
  He said yes, they had lived for a
• 28:45
  long time in constant fear When we began
• 28:48
  communicating with civilians after liberating the sector we
• 28:52
  learned That as ukrainian forces withdrew They were
• 28:57
  shooting civilians who refused to leave with them
• 29:01
  And the moderator said unarmed civilians and he
• 29:04
  said yes, especially young men aged 30 to
• 29:08
  40 They were taken out and executed And
• 29:12
  the moderator says so how did the people
• 29:15
  react when you entered the city?
• 29:17
  He said they were living in difficult physical
• 29:19
  and psychological conditions and when they saw us
• 29:23
  they were happy They listened to russian radio
• 29:26
  and were waiting How many people are under
• 29:29
  your command and what were your losses?
• 29:32
  He said my assault group has 157 men
• 29:35
  During the storming of the city 84 men
• 29:38
  were involved.
• 29:39
  Our losses were minimal four men during the
• 29:43
  assault And they said thank you, you know
• 29:46
  and let him go on so they let
• 29:48
  that guy speak for a little while, you
• 29:50
  know And staged not staged who the hell
• 29:53
  can tell you know, I but it appeared
• 29:55
  that the guy was scared Scared to death,
• 29:59
  you know what I mean?
• 30:00
  And he was pretty young lieutenant type and
• 30:02
  you know, he he uh, but he uh,
• 30:05
  you know, he Presented himself fairly well for
• 30:08
  for for not being scared and then they
• 30:11
  talked about uh last week Zelensky recorded a
• 30:14
  video near the city sign of kupyansk Many
• 30:19
  immediately noticed that the signs, uh of it
• 30:22
  suggesting that it was staged if this really
• 30:25
  was a fake How could zelensky decide to
• 30:28
  engage in such deception?
• 30:30
  On this scale at such a critical moment
• 30:34
  And here's what putin said He said I
• 30:37
  don't follow this too closely Zelensky is an
• 30:41
  actor after all and a talented one and
• 30:44
  I say this, you know without irony We
• 30:46
  know that from his films in early years.
• 30:49
  So there's nothing unusual here They say the
• 30:52
  city sign now looks completely different, but that
• 30:55
  is not the point The sign itself is
• 30:58
  located at least a kilometer away from the
• 31:01
  city So if kupyansk were really under their
• 31:03
  control why stand outside the doorstep?
• 31:07
  Go inside the house some female bloggers managed
• 31:11
  to slip through and Thank god that nothing
• 31:14
  happened to them and they videoed it but
• 31:17
  the sky was There is literally full of
• 31:20
  drones both ours and ukrainian So it's impossible
• 31:24
  to approach the center of the city freely
• 31:26
  The time will come when our troops finish
• 31:29
  destroying the encircled enemy grouped on the northern
• 31:32
  eastern bank of the osco And then turn
• 31:34
  western westward as for all these staged acts
• 31:39
  or attempts to reclaim lost positions at all
• 31:42
  costs As is happening now near krasna armaysk.
• 31:46
  The enemy is achieving no success The problem
• 31:50
  for them is that a result Of the
• 31:52
  active and effective action of our troops the
• 31:56
  enemy has suffered very serious losses in their
• 31:59
  strategic reserves Which are practically gone This is
• 32:05
  a very significant factor That will push the
• 32:08
  kiev regime toward resolving disputes and ending this
• 32:11
  conflict by peaceful means And that was it
• 32:15
  on the war.
• 32:16
  So then they switched to the economy and
• 32:19
  the moderator says Reserves are nearly gone and
• 32:22
  war is a heavy burden on their economy.
• 32:25
  Um the european piglets She called them Continue
• 32:31
  doing everything they can to destroy the russian
• 32:34
  economy and under such conditions Are we even
• 32:37
  able to talk about economic growth here in
• 32:41
  russia?
• 32:41
  And where are we growing and where are
• 32:45
  we not growing?
• 32:47
  And and this was interesting um when he
• 32:50
  said as Usual for such events.
• 32:53
  I brought a table with me all open
• 32:56
  data sources Showing what has happened in our
• 32:59
  economy over the past year He said gdp
• 33:02
  growth this year is only one percent But
• 33:05
  if we take the last three years, which
• 33:07
  is a fair calculation, the total growth amount
• 33:10
  was nine point seven percent And over that
• 33:13
  same period growth in the euro zone was
• 33:17
  only three point one percent The lower growth
• 33:20
  rate this year was a decision by the
• 33:23
  government and the central bank To control inflation
• 33:27
  is what he said Uh, the target was
• 33:30
  to reduce inflation By year's end this year
• 33:34
  it will be at five point seven to
• 33:37
  five point eight percent So slowing growth is
• 33:40
  a conscious price paid to preserve economic quality
• 33:45
  and macro economic stability Then he talked about
• 33:51
  wage growth he talked about debt and he
• 33:55
  said The debt was important to me.
• 33:58
  So the deficit was two percent And next
• 34:01
  year it'll be one point six percent and
• 34:04
  over a three-year period.
• 34:05
  It hasn't exceeded one point five percent State
• 34:09
  debt is extremely low and this is higher
• 34:13
  than it has been in in Other years
• 34:16
  that I have seen Seventeen point seven percent
• 34:19
  of gdp And it won't exceed twenty percent
• 34:24
  You know in the coming years and for
• 34:26
  comparison France's public debt is around 120 And
• 34:31
  its budget deficit is six percent And the
• 34:35
  u.s is is far greater The key
• 34:39
  achievement is that the budget has been balanced
• 34:41
  at a quality level comparable to 2021 So
• 34:46
  we meet all of our social obligations develop
• 34:49
  national projects pursue technological development and ensure the
• 34:53
  needs of the armed forces This demonstrates stability
• 34:57
  the economy and finance under the control of
• 35:00
  the government in the central bank So then
• 35:05
  he wanted to talk about brussels or the
• 35:07
  moderator did anyway in stealing the money and
• 35:11
  she said They're trying to seize russian assets
• 35:15
  and he goes theft is not the right
• 35:17
  word theft is secret He said what they
• 35:21
  are attempting is open robbery And why is
• 35:24
  it failing because the consequences to the robbers
• 35:28
  could be very severe One idea is to
• 35:31
  issue loans secured by our assets, but issuing
• 35:35
  loans increases public debt of the issuing country
• 35:39
  So these obligations must appear in national budgets
• 35:44
  France has already 120 public debt and more
• 35:48
  obligations we'll see what happens then because remember
• 35:52
  i'm i'm pointing this out because uh, uh,
• 35:57
  Macron is uh, not very well thought of
• 36:01
  his Uh likability rating is like 10.
• 36:05
  It's pretty bad And so many countries store
• 36:09
  their reserves in brussels and in these companies,
• 36:12
  especially oil producing states And these oil producing
• 36:17
  states are watching and doubts are rising so
• 36:23
  Once such a precedent is set it can
• 36:25
  be replicated Under any pretext today.
• 36:29
  The pretext is ukraine tomorrow.
• 36:31
  It could be values ideology or cultural policy
• 36:36
  This threatens the foundation of the global financial
• 36:40
  systems And whatever they steal one day, they
• 36:44
  will have to return it.
• 36:45
  We will defend our interests including in courts
• 36:49
  seeking jurisdictions independent of political pressure so these
• 36:54
  are these were pretty good answers that he
• 36:56
  was given and uh, you know, it's It's
• 37:00
  one one story and and it's so different
• 37:03
  from what we saw in the um European
• 37:07
  summit or the eu summit last last week
• 37:10
  which was Really?
• 37:12
  We're going to get that money for ukraine
• 37:14
  any way we can and we're going to
• 37:16
  agree We're not member ursula von der leyen
• 37:18
  said we're not going to leave Until we
• 37:21
  have the money for them.
• 37:23
  That's what she said This summit will continue
• 37:25
  until we have the money for them and
• 37:27
  they were thinking there were there was only
• 37:29
  two ways to get it either steal the
• 37:32
  russian money and convince brussels to give it
• 37:34
  up or Figure out a way to loan
• 37:37
  it to them and they figured out a
• 37:38
  way to loan it to him because the
• 37:40
  stealing of russian Money is probably not a
• 37:43
  good idea politically economically legally at all It's
• 37:47
  bad news so then they got into science
• 37:51
  and and research infrastructure, um, and journalists journalists
• 37:56
  from novosibirsk said, uh, Novosibirsk is famous for
• 38:01
  academic Academe gorodok, which means academy the academy
• 38:06
  city and with with support from the country
• 38:11
  construction of the siberian, um Circular photons or
• 38:15
  skiff has begun the facility is unique not
• 38:18
  only for russia But globally and despite sanctions
• 38:22
  and economic pressure it was built entirely with
• 38:25
  domestic production And will launch next year How
• 38:29
  can we ensure that our young scientists stay
• 38:32
  in russia?
• 38:34
  and Putin says thank you for bringing this
• 38:38
  up It is very good news The idea
• 38:41
  arose during the presidential council on sciences in
• 38:44
  novosibirsk in 2018 And scientists from the academy
• 38:49
  of scientists and the institute of nuclear physicists
• 38:53
  Raised the need for this accelerator particle accelerator
• 38:57
  facility They were delays due to sanctions, but
• 39:00
  the work has been completed and this is
• 39:02
  a very big success story And a similar
• 39:05
  system will be created in vladivostok and in
• 39:08
  other regions So it's important because it allows,
• 39:12
  uh, both fundamental and applied research in pharmaceuticals
• 39:16
  new material and much more And he said
• 39:19
  how do we keep our young specialists first?
• 39:22
  Infrastructure true scientist is driven by work by
• 39:25
  opportunity Wages housing quality of life and we
• 39:30
  are in developing the entire system grants so
• 39:34
  -called mega grants And they're talking about international
• 39:40
  infrastructure projects and this focus on international Infrastructure
• 39:48
  is a very big deal We can't even
• 39:52
  put together here in in the united states
• 39:54
  an infrastructure deal we're so All the money
• 40:00
  goes to the states, right?
• 40:02
  So so you won't get I mean california
• 40:05
  has screwed up this.
• 40:06
  Uh, Rail this high-speed rail It's been
• 40:10
  screwed for from the get-go and they
• 40:13
  haven't built any you know And all the
• 40:15
  money's gone already and where did it go?
• 40:18
  And there's no National Infrastructure movements because all
• 40:23
  the money goes to the states and then
• 40:26
  it gets distributed Through the political channels that
• 40:29
  way and and i'm not I don't know
• 40:31
  what the right answer is for us to
• 40:33
  do it And there's you know these national
• 40:37
  um forms of movements, it's it's Since there's
• 40:42
  only one government and since we're a republic
• 40:45
  and we can't really do what we do
• 40:47
  it'd be like Uh, it seems to be
• 40:49
  similar the high-speed rail projects, but they
• 40:52
  have that in the euro zone some of
• 40:54
  the high-speed rail is funded through their
• 40:57
  their euro and I wonder I mean we
• 41:01
  have a federal highway system But the money
• 41:05
  goes to the states if you drive through
• 41:07
  for example, um, I like driving through.
• 41:10
  Um, Alabama, you know, you got alabama has
• 41:14
  great roads.
• 41:15
  I mean whatever happens there They're taking the
• 41:18
  federal money and actually using it on roads
• 41:21
  And if you go to some other states
• 41:23
  you go down the road and you're going
• 41:24
  thump thump thump thump thump thump thump And
• 41:27
  you're hitting hitting crappy roads And if and
• 41:30
  trucks don't want to drive in the in
• 41:33
  the right lane They want to stay in
• 41:35
  the left lane because the right lane is
• 41:37
  destroyed And there's plenty of places where that
• 41:40
  takes place And and even in the international
• 41:43
  highway system And if you've driven anywhere, you
• 41:46
  know, this is true And uh, you know,
• 41:49
  there's the the money goes down to the
• 41:51
  states And so I don't know if we
• 41:53
  got to change our system or whatever and
• 41:56
  and you know The russian system's far from
• 41:58
  perfect too, you know, the best roads i've
• 42:01
  been on in a long time were in
• 42:02
  columbia Those were fantastic and then in morocco
• 42:07
  Surprisingly, they had a great a great country
• 42:11
  system I went all the way around the
• 42:13
  entire country of morocco and they had great
• 42:15
  highway systems now I had some crappy roads
• 42:18
  and off places too, but you could get
• 42:20
  between anywhere you wanted to go and so
• 42:23
  um, you know, we infrastructure They want to
• 42:26
  they were talking about they want to send
• 42:29
  their uh, you know trying to send Children
• 42:32
  to school abroad.
• 42:33
  He wanted to combat that and since it's
• 42:35
  become mostly Impossible these days, you know, that's
• 42:39
  that's uh, you know Talking about it.
• 42:43
  This journalist wanted to talk about.
• 42:45
  Um Another program that they had called time
• 42:48
  of heroes.
• 42:49
  It's a program to place veterans of the
• 42:52
  special military operation into leadership roles in the
• 42:56
  government And putin says well, it only made
• 42:59
  sense, you know, he participated purposefully in this
• 43:04
  movement and he said You know the veterans
• 43:07
  of the great patriotic war World war ii
• 43:11
  that is they returned from the front and
• 43:13
  achieved extraordinary success in science education culture many
• 43:18
  in my own Of my own professors.
• 43:21
  He said were war veterans one had lost
• 43:24
  his legs, but was a brilliant specialists Why
• 43:27
  should today's fighters be any different?
• 43:30
  Look at naran alekseevich.
• 43:32
  That's the guy who was talking about at
• 43:34
  first.
• 43:35
  He said yes doubts at first One thing
• 43:37
  is fighting.
• 43:38
  It's another to manage an institution, but hundreds
• 43:40
  of thousands are serving And not all want
• 43:43
  civil careers, but those who do have potential
• 43:47
  and the state has to create opportunities for
• 43:49
  them You know and he went on in
• 43:51
  that regard And uh talked about the unity
• 43:55
  of the peoples of russia and 2026 is
• 43:58
  declared the year of unity Um and they
• 44:02
  pursue the target of supporting culture and languages
• 44:05
  of russia's peoples now remember russia has some
• 44:10
  15 20 different languages in its in its
• 44:13
  uh borders And yakusha is developing But also
• 44:19
  provide exceptional, you know, uh soldiers and you
• 44:23
  know There's film and there he talked about
• 44:25
  film traditional values and blah blah blah It
• 44:28
  went that was pretty good.
• 44:29
  He talked about so then people started getting
• 44:32
  you know they were talking about support for
• 44:34
  soldiers and families and Question was you've said
• 44:39
  that supporting five fighters is not a fashion
• 44:42
  trend But a duty and while preparing for
• 44:45
  today's program we did review a large number
• 44:48
  of appeals There are noticeably fewer appeals from
• 44:51
  servicemen And their families than in previous years
• 44:56
  And we know that work is being done
• 44:58
  by the ministry of defense the defenders of
• 45:01
  fatherland foundation People's front named a bunch of
• 45:05
  places, but the problems do remain delays in
• 45:09
  payments paperwork, especially the search for missing servicemen
• 45:14
  And she said many issues are now being
• 45:17
  resolved And the moderator gave a bunch of
• 45:19
  examples and there was a video appeal of
• 45:22
  from the widow of a fallen soldier and
• 45:26
  the video message was from a lady named
• 45:29
  christina grebia from novosibirsk And she gave her
• 45:32
  name.
• 45:33
  She said i'm the wife of a serviceman
• 45:35
  who was killed in the special military operation
• 45:37
  We live in novosibirsk.
• 45:39
  We have two children six and four years
• 45:41
  old to this day We have not received
• 45:44
  the survivor's pension.
• 45:46
  We do not have official certificates entitling us
• 45:49
  to benefits My husband died in january of
• 45:53
  2024 The death certificate was issued on december
• 45:57
  10 of 2024 It's now the end of
• 46:00
  2025 and our pension has still not been
• 46:03
  paid Can the processing of such cases be
• 46:07
  accelerated?
• 46:09
  now that's A hell of a long time
• 46:11
  and this can't have been a comfortable question.
• 46:13
  It sure didn't look, you know comfortable You
• 46:16
  know and he said first of all, I
• 46:18
  want to apologize to you I apologize for
• 46:20
  the sluggishness of services that are supposed to
• 46:23
  handle such everyday matters Um, he said, uh,
• 46:27
  I assure your case will be resolved quickly,
• 46:30
  but the problems do exist Recently and at
• 46:34
  sevilla the head of defenders of fathers fatherland
• 46:37
  and ministry of defense reported some other things
• 46:41
  to me unfortunately Coordination between the ministry of
• 46:44
  defense and the social services still doesn't function
• 46:48
  completely without error Excess bureaucracy does exist documents
• 46:55
  may be lost between departments And decisions will
• 46:59
  be delayed in your case with two children.
• 47:03
  These issues must be resolved without delay And
• 47:06
  he says there's another problem of missing servicemen
• 47:09
  This is clearly visible from the number of
• 47:12
  appeals we receive What can be done a
• 47:15
  central coordinating center for such searches for missing
• 47:19
  servicemen has been established And there are dedicated
• 47:22
  units in the military grouping So they got
• 47:25
  their problems, too Then there was request for
• 47:28
  oversight and he talked about that and these
• 47:31
  were clearly uncomfortable Questions for him and then
• 47:36
  there's a huge problem this surprised me a
• 47:38
  little bit i've heard about it before You
• 47:40
  know because I read the newspapers over there
• 47:43
  and I have heard about it, but they
• 47:44
  have a huge telephone fraud problem And I
• 47:48
  think i've spoken about it here in the
• 47:50
  past where there have been uh efforts from
• 47:55
  ukraine To call and i've told you about
• 47:58
  the ones like I think I said one
• 48:00
  even last week.
• 48:01
  There was a girl who was Convinced to
• 48:03
  go pick up bombing things because they say
• 48:06
  they're there that she has to and that
• 48:08
  they work for the security services and In
• 48:11
  russia, and they got to go pick this
• 48:13
  up and drop it off here and it
• 48:14
  turns out to be uh, um scammers, you
• 48:18
  know And this telephone fraud is a pretty
• 48:22
  pretty big problem And he wants to know,
• 48:25
  you know, the number of these crimes have
• 48:27
  fallen um And the fraud is still there
• 48:32
  And with the development of ai criminals are
• 48:35
  only improving their methods And he urges the
• 48:39
  city the citizens that the moment anyone starts
• 48:42
  talking about money or property Hang up immediately
• 48:45
  and don't say anything else Resolve financial issues
• 48:49
  only in person with institutions that you actually
• 48:52
  know and wow, this was uh A pretty
• 48:58
  big topic then they talked about taxes and
• 49:02
  Small business and there were some uncomfortable stuff
• 49:06
  my point in bringing this out to you
• 49:09
  Because they talked about culture cinema national narratives
• 49:13
  and culture You know efforts and censorship Um,
• 49:19
  some argue that culture today is overly regulated.
• 49:23
  Where is the line?
• 49:25
  and he said, uh No one's creativity is
• 49:29
  prohibited But when public money is used society
• 49:32
  has the right to expect its basic values
• 49:35
  are respected It's not censorship.
• 49:38
  It's accountability he says now i'm not positive
• 49:42
  I agree with all of that, but um,
• 49:44
  I mean I don't it didn't go far
• 49:47
  enough into it for me to uh to
• 49:49
  get it.
• 49:50
  But uh, he's he talked about personal connections
• 49:55
  And the memory of how a child Sees
• 50:01
  how the family honors its Elders, you know
• 50:06
  that type of thing and how schools tell
• 50:08
  the stories of a local hero or how
• 50:11
  films honestly portray sacrifice that the he's talking
• 50:15
  about a collective memory And I mean it
• 50:20
  was very interesting to hear this and uh,
• 50:22
  I don't know He said, uh, the journalist
• 50:26
  last question was um Well, it really wasn't
• 50:30
  the last question, but this last one i'm
• 50:32
  going to talk about said that on emigration
• 50:35
  Leaving the country many people left russia in
• 50:38
  recent years And some are returning What is
• 50:43
  your attitude about this?
• 50:46
  And he said we've never closed the door.
• 50:48
  He said people leave for many reasons career
• 50:51
  curiosity family He said but russia is not
• 50:55
  hostile to those who left those who return
• 50:58
  and want to work They are welcome.
• 51:00
  What matters is not where you were But
• 51:03
  what you intend upon your return?
• 51:06
  and uh, so, you know, they were talking
• 51:09
  about this because One of the troubles that
• 51:11
  they have over there uh is growth and
• 51:15
  that the the growth of the family he
• 51:18
  talked at length about um, Uh the benefits
• 51:21
  that they give to families, so there's Payments
• 51:26
  for having children, you know in the large
• 51:28
  family you get a larger payment and they're
• 51:30
  pretty serious uh Payment issues, you know, there's
• 51:35
  a lot of money that is uh, that
• 51:37
  is Spent on that, you know and and
• 51:42
  the reason I spent so much time on
• 51:45
  that is because Of the excuse me of
• 51:50
  the uh, the I don't know it seems
• 51:54
  like When somebody is willing to sit for
• 51:58
  that long and answer questions I mean you
• 52:02
  could argue that you know, you get all
• 52:04
  g russian propaganda misinformation disinformation, whatever you want
• 52:08
  to call it but And and I don't
• 52:11
  call it that I say it's a guy
• 52:16
  Connecting With with the people they focus a
• 52:20
  great deal upon the youth they They don't
• 52:25
  believe and and and i'm going to switch
• 52:28
  into um the the jeffrey sacks and You
• 52:33
  know the rewritten history you know of of
• 52:37
  what has happened since the 90s and all
• 52:39
  of that that makes this type of Discourse
• 52:43
  so important and and at least in my
• 52:46
  view because it doesn't happen.
• 52:48
  Um in other places, you know, it Doesn't
• 52:52
  even happen here as much as it needs
• 52:55
  to you know here.
• 52:56
  We got people who won't explain anything They
• 53:00
  don't explain a damn thing.
• 53:02
  They go do what they're gonna do you
• 53:04
  get into office and then you you know
• 53:07
  You all your only job is to stay
• 53:09
  there and you do that by keeping quiet
• 53:12
  You know unless you got gold to be
• 53:14
  the president yourself, then you you you make
• 53:17
  sure to stay on top of the scam
• 53:19
  You know of what is going on and
• 53:21
  and i'm i'm not saying it's any different
• 53:23
  in russia.
• 53:24
  I don't know.
• 53:25
  I don't live there but it's um And
• 53:28
  but I do pay attention and the differences
• 53:30
  to me are striking in at least a
• 53:34
  way that people Speak, you know putin's got
• 53:37
  a pretty big A percentage of people that
• 53:42
  trust what he is doing over there and
• 53:44
  the people in general are I I don't
• 53:49
  I don't even want to say that it's
• 53:51
  they're all for it But they certainly understand
• 53:54
  it and they know what they are fighting
• 53:56
  for They are fighting for their You know
• 53:59
  their own country And we've gotten so far
• 54:03
  away from fighting for our own country and
• 54:06
  we're on some global dominance thing At least
• 54:09
  it appears in my lifetime to have been
• 54:11
  this global dominance thing that we're forgetting what's
• 54:14
  important And what's important is the basis of
• 54:17
  what we?
• 54:18
  are accomplishing here And and what we want
• 54:23
  to leave to our children here Is it
• 54:26
  matter if we?
• 54:28
  Take over the world for our children.
• 54:30
  No It matters what we leave them here
• 54:33
  and we leave it in a better condition
• 54:36
  Than when we took it over from our
• 54:39
  parents and i'm not so positive that's the
• 54:41
  case you know, i'm really not I I
• 54:44
  hope that that the old trumpster is helping
• 54:47
  us change this but If you don't understand
• 54:51
  your past, how can you figure out where
• 54:53
  the hell you're going?
• 54:55
  And we are We've destroyed the past for
• 54:58
  the last 20 years here, maybe longer and
• 55:02
  uh, you know, uh You know, I like
• 55:06
  to watch uh, jeffrey sacks if you pay
• 55:08
  attention to me at all, and I I
• 55:10
  think the guy is You know, he had
• 55:12
  another um He gave an another assessment here
• 55:16
  recently um And you know, I want to
• 55:19
  talk a little bit about the broken promises
• 55:21
  of history Recent history, you know, why does
• 55:26
  1990 still matter?
• 55:29
  so if if putin is right that Responsibility
• 55:33
  begins way before 2022.
• 55:35
  He is by the way Who broke the
• 55:38
  chain first?
• 55:39
  so jeffrey sacks Talks about the german reunification
• 55:45
  where germany Promised that if they were allowed
• 55:49
  to reunify They wouldn't expand that.
• 55:54
  That's it.
• 55:54
  You know, the the west germany is, you
• 55:57
  know had obviously nato And there were talks
• 56:01
  then That you know We'll get rid of
• 56:05
  the warsaw pact, you know, we'll get rid
• 56:07
  of it but We don't want nato expanding
• 56:11
  this way and we had promises from a
• 56:13
  lot of people from the german chancellor I
• 56:16
  forget his name at that time and from
• 56:19
  uh, uh bush one at that time that
• 56:23
  said uh You know not one inch eastward
• 56:29
  Nato expansion since that time it's like nine
• 56:33
  times or something like that and poland all
• 56:37
  the baltics Georgia and ukraine are predictable flash
• 56:41
  points according to sacks Well, according to me
• 56:43
  too if you're going to go into georgia,
• 56:45
  that's bad news if you're going to go
• 56:47
  into ukraine That's a clear red line And
• 56:50
  that's all we've been trying to do is
• 56:52
  create coups in there through through all of
• 56:55
  our shenanigans Around there and so when you
• 56:58
  listen to people like jeffrey sacks, he's pretty
• 57:02
  blunt about it and Soloveyov who I like
• 57:06
  to watch he's even he's he's quite accusatory
• 57:10
  And he's pretty sharp, you know, and he
• 57:13
  doesn't argue whether the promises were broken He
• 57:16
  says the west doesn't even pretend those promises
• 57:20
  exist anymore or exist dead ever And he
• 57:25
  says he calls it erasing history laundering the
• 57:29
  narrative and infantilization of the public You know
• 57:34
  turning the public into a bunch of babies,
• 57:36
  you know who don't pay attention and so
• 57:39
  How do you tie this to putin, you
• 57:41
  know what sacks explains academically putin has answered
• 57:45
  politically And soloveyov, you know, he indicts people
• 57:50
  for it, you know putin says we have
• 57:52
  to discuss the root causes soloveyov says the
• 57:58
  west refuses to Say what the root causes
• 58:02
  are, you know Those things don't exist and
• 58:05
  sack says but they were documented in real
• 58:09
  time And so when you have all these
• 58:11
  people all three of them are correct, by
• 58:14
  the way Is you know this is Why
• 58:19
  you hear that these explanations?
• 58:22
  never reach Audiences in the west.
• 58:25
  I mean how long did it take people
• 58:27
  after 2022?
• 58:30
  From waving their ukrainian flags all over the
• 58:33
  damn place To understanding that there was even
• 58:37
  another side of the story There's plenty of
• 58:41
  that going around right nobody knew And some
• 58:44
  people still got their heads buried in the
• 58:46
  sand and don't want to believe it.
• 58:48
  Oh, geez, you're putin apologist No, i'm a
• 58:51
  realist is what I am and there are
• 58:53
  plenty of realists out there now but there
• 58:57
  weren't many of us in the beginning because
• 59:00
  people you know You never heard the story
• 59:03
  of hell We didn't even know I wouldn't
• 59:05
  say we because I certainly knew but but
• 59:07
  people didn't know That this had been going
• 59:09
  on in the donbass since 2014 You know
• 59:13
  that the coup even occurred that crimea wasn't
• 59:16
  the issue that everybody said it was, you
• 59:19
  know nonsense and so You know What is
• 59:23
  the I mean, how do we combat this
• 59:26
  seriously?
• 59:28
  you know Did this so let's go on
• 59:32
  to another core question of all of this
• 59:34
  of all of this nonsense and all the
• 59:36
  people that are talking Is this 90 billion
• 59:39
  dollar?
• 59:41
  Uh euro, i'm, sorry 90 billion euro, um,
• 59:45
  you know panic all over western europe and
• 59:50
  uh, you know Russia's claim, you know that
• 59:53
  you better not steal our money because everybody's
• 59:56
  watching You know putin's saying look they're watching
• 59:59
  you In riyadh, they're certainly paying attention in
• 1:00:03
  the global south But all these oil countries
• 1:00:06
  are paying attention because where do we keep
• 1:00:08
  our money?
• 1:00:09
  Where do people keep their?
• 1:00:11
  their State assets more and more of them
• 1:00:15
  are switching to gold, right?
• 1:00:17
  And he he says, you know steal from
• 1:00:20
  us that means you'll steal from anybody if
• 1:00:23
  they you know, if they cross you that's
• 1:00:25
  how the System works if you're in the
• 1:00:29
  west if you don't, you know, kiss our
• 1:00:31
  rear ends politically or agree with us politically
• 1:00:36
  We'll take your stuff financially.
• 1:00:38
  We'll just Take your take your stuff So
• 1:00:42
  the eu and its 90 billion euro loan
• 1:00:46
  to ukraine Is because of its failure to
• 1:00:51
  seize russian assets They were scared off of
• 1:00:56
  that now that doesn't mean they're not going
• 1:00:57
  to continue along that that uh front and
• 1:01:02
  still try to steal them somehow, but So
• 1:01:05
  far the legal and debt constraints in brussels
• 1:01:08
  have kept them off of it And you
• 1:01:11
  know, this is just political theater for everybody
• 1:01:14
  out there For how to steal it and
• 1:01:17
  uh, you know soloviov goes right for the
• 1:01:20
  guts here He says you know the eu
• 1:01:24
  is afraid of setting a precedent They're afraid
• 1:01:26
  of courts and afraid of its own citizens
• 1:01:28
  and and they're trapped by their own Rules
• 1:01:32
  based order because now people are starting to
• 1:01:35
  go.
• 1:01:35
  Well, there are no rules.
• 1:01:37
  So how is this a rules-based order?
• 1:01:39
  And uh, you know, he mocks he he's
• 1:01:42
  mocking them just like I do everybody's mocking
• 1:01:45
  them because it's nonsense They say this is
• 1:01:47
  about values core values western values, but they
• 1:01:52
  don't explain who pays the money And so
• 1:01:54
  what did putin say about this?
• 1:01:56
  We saw it, you know He says we're
• 1:01:58
  trying to keep a balanced budget low debt
• 1:02:00
  courts about not seizing our money and long
• 1:02:03
  -term trust in currency has to exist so
• 1:02:08
  Putin spends hours explaining where the money is
• 1:02:12
  where it goes.
• 1:02:13
  Why does it matter?
• 1:02:15
  It spends four and a half hours talking
• 1:02:18
  about it and in brussels They just throw
• 1:02:20
  out this 90 billion and hope nobody asks,
• 1:02:23
  you know, where is this coming from?
• 1:02:25
  Because it's coming from their own funds.
• 1:02:29
  Germany can't afford this, you know, they're they're
• 1:02:31
  losing their butts And uh, their economies are
• 1:02:35
  tanking, you know Nobody's is is booming.
• 1:02:39
  Well, that's not true.
• 1:02:40
  India and china are doing pretty well And
• 1:02:43
  russia isn't stagnant.
• 1:02:45
  I mean they got some growth we're doing
• 1:02:46
  pretty well You know right now under the
• 1:02:49
  trumpster.
• 1:02:50
  That's true Um, so putin's explaining where the
• 1:02:53
  money is where it goes.
• 1:02:55
  Why does it matter, you know, and that
• 1:02:59
  you know Is important and that's why these
• 1:03:02
  narratives are so important and the questions that
• 1:03:05
  people ask so while the west is arguing,
• 1:03:09
  you know about This, you know, how do
• 1:03:11
  we steal money versus should we steal the
• 1:03:14
  money versus you know, what about our rules
• 1:03:17
  based order?
• 1:03:18
  the rest of the world is watching closely
• 1:03:21
  because The alignment is i'm telling you if
• 1:03:27
  the west is consumed by ukraine Who is
• 1:03:32
  shaping the rest of the board I mean
• 1:03:34
  seriously who is is it china and latin
• 1:03:37
  america?
• 1:03:38
  Who's building infrastructure ports rail energy, right?
• 1:03:43
  Rubio in his own press conference this past
• 1:03:46
  weekend He made accidental admissions that you know,
• 1:03:49
  the global south is watching this asset seizure
• 1:03:52
  He talked about it and he talked about
• 1:03:54
  china in south america And solovyov says ukraine
• 1:04:01
  is only a strategic distraction You know, that's
• 1:04:04
  what it is.
• 1:04:05
  He says the u.s is stuck refereeing
• 1:04:08
  europe's unresolved war psychology And china is building
• 1:04:13
  And they're building in latin america africa and
• 1:04:17
  asia and they're choosing delivery delivery of infrastructure
• 1:04:22
  delivery of of Of Capacity industry Over
• 1:04:32
  moral lectures, which is what we've done for
• 1:04:37
  Forever we morally lecture them about connect with
• 1:04:41
  us You know buy from and then we
• 1:04:44
  go steal their resources.
• 1:04:45
  We I shouldn't say we I should say
• 1:04:48
  the same old elitists make the same old
• 1:04:51
  money and you know, that's Tell you what,
• 1:04:57
  so the putin presser And the accountability and
• 1:05:02
  everything you put together You know four and
• 1:05:05
  a half hours.
• 1:05:06
  We hear one leader answer questions with no
• 1:05:09
  filter and then uh, you know I don't
• 1:05:13
  know that that uh kind of being put
• 1:05:17
  under the gun is uh Well, it's interesting
• 1:05:23
  to see it's it's it's very interesting to
• 1:05:26
  see and uh, you know, I want to
• 1:05:29
  contrast that with what nonsense we have going
• 1:05:32
  on in the eu right now, right we
• 1:05:34
  have get this so a court has forced
• 1:05:41
  collis kaja kaya collis to uh Um get
• 1:05:45
  this this is an interesting story the eu
• 1:05:47
  foreign policy chief kaya collis Was forced by
• 1:05:52
  the court to publicly retract false Statements that
• 1:05:57
  she made about an estonian opposition politician in
• 1:06:02
  a social media post in february of 2022
• 1:06:07
  Collis estonia's prime minister at the time and
• 1:06:11
  now she's eu foreign foreign representative claimed the
• 1:06:15
  police were attacked at a protest that was
• 1:06:18
  organized by the other side And the foundation
• 1:06:23
  for the protection of family and tradition that
• 1:06:25
  he headed So she linked the same guy
• 1:06:29
  to covet 19 restrictions rallies and She was
• 1:06:34
  sued She got sued in 2022 And they
• 1:06:39
  sued her saying her claims had no factual
• 1:06:41
  basis and last year an estonian court ruled
• 1:06:45
  in their favor And found that no police
• 1:06:47
  were attacked at rallies organized by either of
• 1:06:50
  these parties and neither were linked to his
• 1:06:52
  this demonstration so earlier this week The estonian
• 1:06:57
  supreme court declined to hear her appeal and
• 1:07:01
  make the rule made the ruling final and
• 1:07:05
  uh Here's what she had to post on
• 1:07:07
  saturday morning.
• 1:07:08
  Here's her post I kaya collis published false
• 1:07:12
  factual claims in a post on february 17
• 1:07:16
  2022 Stating that estonian police were attacked at
• 1:07:20
  a demonstration organized by varro vuglade and sap
• 1:07:25
  tk in tumpea and that varro vuglade and
• 1:07:29
  ekre organized a demonstration on october 23 2021
• 1:07:34
  at freedom square in tallinn.
• 1:07:37
  These claims are untrue She did not apologize
• 1:07:41
  to either plaintiff But she did put her
• 1:07:46
  post out as she was ordered to by
• 1:07:47
  the supreme court She has faced repeated criticism
• 1:07:50
  over the accuracy of her public statements.
• 1:07:54
  She recently claimed that russia invaded at least
• 1:07:58
  19 countries over the past 100 years None
• 1:08:02
  of which ever invaded or attacked russia a
• 1:08:05
  claim that is absolutely false The remark was
• 1:08:09
  later echoed by finnish foreign minister elena valentine
• 1:08:13
  led russian foreign ministry spokesman maria zakharova to
• 1:08:17
  accuse western europe of deliberately promoting the inept
• 1:08:20
  and uneducated to top government posts Separately Collis
• 1:08:27
  expressed surprise to learn that russia and china
• 1:08:30
  defeated fascism in world war ii Calling that
• 1:08:34
  something new this comment prompted russian foreign minister
• 1:08:39
  sergey lavrov to suggest that she should study
• 1:08:43
  history Which she clearly does not in which
• 1:08:47
  she clearly does not excel She's not very
• 1:08:51
  bright Collis has also faced growing criticism for
• 1:08:55
  her hardline approach to foreign policy and hawkism
• 1:08:59
  against russia Analysts and eu officials have accused
• 1:09:02
  her of favoring confrontation over diplomacy the czech
• 1:09:07
  newspaper Hn reported this month that her work
• 1:09:12
  style is increasingly seen as unproductive I found
• 1:09:19
  that comical Let's see where what other news
• 1:09:25
  did we have that was uh that I
• 1:09:27
  wanted to get to today uh witkoff um
• 1:09:33
  Called the talks with putin's envoy over the
• 1:09:36
  weekend um Productive so russia is committed to
• 1:09:41
  achieving peace in ukraine Uh steve witkoff described
• 1:09:47
  the latest negotiations in miami With kirill dimitrov
• 1:09:51
  as productive and constructive In a statement posted
• 1:09:55
  saturday witkoff said dimitrov held meetings over the
• 1:09:58
  past two days in florida with an american
• 1:10:00
  delegation including witkoff donald trump's son-in-law
• 1:10:04
  gerard kushner and white house official josh Greenbaum
• 1:10:09
  the discussions were aimed at advancing trump's peace
• 1:10:13
  plan for ukraine Russia remains fully committed to
• 1:10:16
  achieving peace in ukraine Witkoff wrote adding that
• 1:10:21
  moscow highly values the efforts and support of
• 1:10:24
  the united states And so um Kirill kirill
• 1:10:32
  dimitrov, uh wrote.
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  Thank you.
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  Miami And uh posted a he's got an
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  interesting post on on x that uh shows
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  a next time in moscow shirt The uh
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  talks with dimitrov took place In separate rounds
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  of meetings involving ukraine and its western backers
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  according to witkoff ukrainian delegation spent three days
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  in florida holding consultations The discussions include american
• 1:11:04
  representatives and key european national security advisors No
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  result and no discussion about that Um this
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  brand new news here car bomb killed, uh
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  senior russian general um in moscow So uh
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  russian general killed in the car bomb blast
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  He was identified as lieutenant general feniel sarvarov
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  head of operational training at the general staff
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  college according to the statement an Explosive device
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  was planted beneath the vehicle.
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  He was traveling in and detonated on monday
• 1:11:45
  morning southern part of the russian capital the
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  blast damaged several other vehicles And this is
• 1:11:53
  the second bomb last december a bomb hidden
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  on an e-scooter killed lieutenant general eager
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  kirillov commander of russia's nuclear chemical and biological
• 1:12:03
  defense forces um in a ukrainian plot, so
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  Um, I think this is important here china
• 1:12:14
  set a new monthly record Purchasing what china
• 1:12:19
  bought a record amount of gold from russia
• 1:12:22
  in november with shipments rose to almost 1
• 1:12:28
  billion russia's gold sales to china valued at
• 1:12:34
  961 million in november following october's total of
• 1:12:39
  130 million As moscow steps up efforts to
• 1:12:44
  reroute precious metal exports away from western markets
• 1:12:49
  In october and november last year russia did
• 1:12:52
  not ship any gold to china and its
• 1:12:54
  previous peak was just 223 million over the
• 1:13:00
  first 11 months of 2025 Chinese imports of
• 1:13:05
  russian gold were 1.9 billion dollars Wow,
• 1:13:11
  that's a big deal russia and china have
• 1:13:14
  intensified cooperation since february 2022 That's uh true
• 1:13:20
  true Um, where's this other story I wanted
• 1:13:26
  to get to um Hmm No, I already
• 1:13:33
  read that one Where'd it go?
• 1:13:37
  Damn it Uh, let's see here.
• 1:13:39
  Here it is.
• 1:13:40
  Zelensky admits that ukraine cannot afford an 800
• 1:13:47
  ,000 man army ukraine will not be able
• 1:13:53
  to afford maintaining an 800,000 man army
• 1:13:57
  after the end of the conflict Zelensky admitted
• 1:14:01
  saying he wants western aid to help finance
• 1:14:05
  the military as part of post-conflict security
• 1:14:09
  in january 2025 now, I don't believe this
• 1:14:13
  number.
• 1:14:14
  Zelensky said the ukrainian army numbered 880,000
• 1:14:18
  troops, however Leaked versions of a u.s.
• 1:14:22
  Peace roadmap floated last month called for the
• 1:14:25
  force to be capped at 600,000 and
• 1:14:29
  some said that number was only 400 Kiev
• 1:14:32
  and its european backers have argued that ukraine
• 1:14:34
  needs a larger military to deter This presumed
• 1:14:38
  russian threat.
• 1:14:40
  Remember russia's taken over the planet according to
• 1:14:43
  uh, eu officials a claim moscow dismisses as
• 1:14:48
  nonsense Speaking to reporters on saturday.
• 1:14:51
  Zelensky was asked whether kiev would be able
• 1:14:54
  to support 800,000 active servicemen When the
• 1:15:00
  conflict is settled will ukraine be able to
• 1:15:03
  independently finance such an argument?
• 1:15:06
  Such an army if there's a ceasefire He
• 1:15:09
  said no it won't we don't have the
• 1:15:12
  financial resources Zelensky said that is why i'm
• 1:15:16
  holding talks with western leaders because I view
• 1:15:20
  partial funding of our army by our partners
• 1:15:24
  As a security guarantee Kiv's european backers spent
• 1:15:31
  weeks searching for ways to fund the collapsing
• 1:15:34
  economy of ukraine and the collapsing military This
• 1:15:39
  week they failed to approve a reparations loan
• 1:15:43
  backed by russia's frozen assets So They're blown
• 1:15:49
  in the 90 billion euro, which is 105
• 1:15:52
  billion dollars over the next two years and
• 1:15:55
  shifting the cost to their own taxpayers senior
• 1:15:59
  eu officials told politico The loans would cost
• 1:16:04
  taxpayers three billion a year in interest as
• 1:16:07
  long as the loans are outstanding russia has
• 1:16:11
  accused kiv's european backers of prolonging the conflict
• 1:16:15
  And they are obsessed with finding more money
• 1:16:19
  to continue this war They've been talking about
• 1:16:27
  elections, um also and You know The ukrainian
• 1:16:36
  leader zelensky is contradicting himself By saying he
• 1:16:41
  would not allow outside interference in elections while
• 1:16:45
  simultaneously seeking western involvement his term expired over
• 1:16:50
  a year and a half ago, so There's
• 1:16:52
  a huge huge discussion on this topic by
• 1:16:56
  all sorts of political people because Earlier this
• 1:17:01
  month.
• 1:17:01
  He said he was prepared to hold elections,
• 1:17:03
  but only if ukrainian's western backers guarantee their
• 1:17:07
  security Vladimir putin said moscow will consider halting
• 1:17:12
  deep strikes on ukraine on election day But
• 1:17:16
  here's the caveat The millions of ukrainians living
• 1:17:21
  in russia are allowed to take part in
• 1:17:24
  the elections Ukrainian leader said in a post
• 1:17:27
  on x on friday that he discussed The
• 1:17:31
  issue with the u.s. Officials and expects
• 1:17:34
  washington to impose a ceasefire to ensure safe
• 1:17:38
  elections.
• 1:17:39
  So peskov um said he's a kremlin representative
• 1:17:44
  Said zelensky is contradicting himself He says that
• 1:17:48
  he would not let anyone interfere would not
• 1:17:50
  let putin interfere in the elections yet He
• 1:17:53
  appeals to the americans so he doesn't object
• 1:17:55
  to interference by the americans Zelensky has insisted
• 1:17:59
  that voting must only be done by citizens
• 1:18:03
  of ukraine who are within the country on
• 1:18:06
  ukrainian controlled territory Claiming this would ensure fair
• 1:18:10
  and transparent elections while he acknowledged that there
• 1:18:14
  is also a practice of voting abroad He
• 1:18:17
  said nothing about residents of donbass which kivsto
• 1:18:21
  claims is Uh its territory or the millions
• 1:18:25
  of ukrainians living elsewhere in russia Now that
• 1:18:30
  number they claim is 10 million that have
• 1:18:34
  left ukraine for russia And there's similar amounts.
• 1:18:39
  I mean over here.
• 1:18:40
  We estimate some 400 000, I believe And
• 1:18:43
  there's a similar, you know, there are a
• 1:18:46
  couple million in uh, well, I don't know
• 1:18:48
  the exact number in europe But it's it's
• 1:18:51
  a large number and so I You know,
• 1:18:54
  I don't know how they do these elections,
• 1:18:57
  but it's um, it's the same old same
• 1:18:59
  old, you know How do we control it?
• 1:19:03
  We don't know Interesting times, however And the
• 1:19:13
  coast guard Is reportedly in active pursuit of
• 1:19:18
  another vessel The u.s has attempted to
• 1:19:22
  intercept a third oil tanker linked to venezuela
• 1:19:27
  With the coast guard in active pursuit they
• 1:19:30
  say in international waters The u.s official
• 1:19:33
  claimed the ship is sailing under a false
• 1:19:36
  flag and is subject to a judicial seizure
• 1:19:38
  order And describes it as part of venezuela's
• 1:19:43
  Dark fleet they call it The vessel has
• 1:19:46
  not yet been boarded.
• 1:19:48
  But if it is successful the operation will
• 1:19:51
  be the third such vessel seizure since december
• 1:19:55
  the 10th when the u.s forces seized
• 1:19:58
  the tanker skipper Followed by another vessel the
• 1:20:02
  centuries on saturday so the latest seizure Comes
• 1:20:07
  just days after trump announced a total and
• 1:20:10
  complete blockade of oil tankers Officials have yet
• 1:20:15
  to identify this vessel, but according to media
• 1:20:20
  Reports the tanker being chased is the bella
• 1:20:24
  one Which was previously sanctioned for transporting iranian
• 1:20:29
  oil U.s. Officials said the ship refused
• 1:20:32
  to submit to boarding and continued sailing Prompting
• 1:20:36
  what one official says is an active pursuit
• 1:20:40
  The escalating seizures are part of trump's broader
• 1:20:43
  pressure campaign against maduro Yes, I disagree with
• 1:20:49
  these things, um, let's see There were uh,
• 1:21:00
  there were uh, New details, do you remember
• 1:21:05
  me telling you about the louvre heist that
• 1:21:07
  happened?
• 1:21:08
  that chainsaw Chainsaw thieves stole over eight thousand
• 1:21:14
  gemstones in a carefully planned heist at this
• 1:21:19
  museum So this happened when did that actually
• 1:21:24
  occur?
• 1:21:26
  um, it was back in october, I want
• 1:21:28
  to say And it says the hall from
• 1:21:31
  the daylight heist at paris's louvre museum in
• 1:21:35
  october Has been valued at about eighty eight
• 1:21:39
  million euro or ninety six million Dollars with
• 1:21:44
  thieves making off um with gemstones set into
• 1:21:49
  french crown jewels Four masked men armed with
• 1:21:54
  chainsaws Broke into the museum on october 19th
• 1:21:58
  went to the apollo gallery Gallery, they cut
• 1:22:01
  open a display case and fled with the
• 1:22:03
  jewelry pieces and the heist lasted only minutes
• 1:22:06
  And was conducted with no one being injured
• 1:22:13
  8482 Diamonds were stolen 35 emeralds 34 sapphires
• 1:22:19
  and 212 pearls So they were mounted in
• 1:22:24
  eight jewelry pieces that were part of a
• 1:22:26
  temporary exhibition on loan to the musician a
• 1:22:29
  museum The investigators believe the thieves targeted the
• 1:22:33
  items for the value of the stones rather
• 1:22:37
  than the Artistic significance of the jewelry police
• 1:22:41
  say the operation was well planned Two suspects
• 1:22:45
  entered the gallery while two accomplices waited outside
• 1:22:49
  To assist in the escape they fled using
• 1:22:52
  scooters And abandoned equipment used to reach the
• 1:22:56
  display They later determined the vehicles linked to
• 1:23:00
  the getaway had been stolen and altered to
• 1:23:03
  avoid detection CCTV footage And evidence reviewed allowed
• 1:23:10
  police to retrace the suspects movements before and
• 1:23:13
  after the robbery And they believe much of
• 1:23:15
  the preparation and escape was coordinated from a
• 1:23:19
  suburb south I'm sorry north of paris where
• 1:23:22
  multiple vehicles were seen leaving and returning in
• 1:23:25
  tightly choreographed sequence The van believed to have
• 1:23:29
  been used Has not been recovered two suspects
• 1:23:33
  were later detained and admitted their involvement one
• 1:23:38
  of the men 34 year old algerian Reportedly
• 1:23:41
  said he was a delivery driver.
• 1:23:44
  The second also worked in delivery The louvre
• 1:23:48
  which is home to the mona lisa has
• 1:23:50
  long faced scrutiny over security and modernization delay
• 1:23:58
  Yeah, the jewelry has not been recovered Investigators
• 1:24:03
  say it remains unclear whether the gemstones were
• 1:24:06
  removed from their settings sold or hidden We
• 1:24:10
  do not know Isn't that crazy?
• 1:24:15
  Mm-hmm.
• 1:24:18
  You want to hear some more international stuff?
• 1:24:22
  Denmark is slamming the completely unacceptable trump move
• 1:24:27
  You know the u.s. President has appointed
• 1:24:30
  a new envoy to greenland We haven't heard
• 1:24:33
  anything about this in a while.
• 1:24:35
  Have we that we're taking over greenland?
• 1:24:38
  And who's the you know, he said he
• 1:24:40
  will make greenland part of the united states
• 1:24:43
  So copenhagen is expressing outrage over president trump's
• 1:24:49
  announcement of the new special envoy to greenland
• 1:24:53
  um On sunday trump stated on his truth
• 1:24:56
  social account that louisiana governor Jeff landry is
• 1:25:01
  now going to be the special ambassador to
• 1:25:03
  the island explaining that he Understands how essential
• 1:25:07
  greenland is to our national security Landry confirmed
• 1:25:11
  the appointment on a post on x saying
• 1:25:13
  he will work to What make greenland part
• 1:25:18
  of the united states?
• 1:25:19
  So the danish foreign minister lars loke rasmussen
• 1:25:23
  said the development came out of nowhere and
• 1:25:27
  is completely unacceptable Isn't that funny according to
• 1:25:31
  remarks cited by television too?
• 1:25:34
  His department will summon the u.s. Ambassador
• 1:25:37
  in copenhagen to demand explanations Greenland prime minister
• 1:25:41
  jens frederick nielsen said the u.s Move
• 1:25:43
  doesn't change anything for us at home and
• 1:25:46
  the island still belongs to its people trump's
• 1:25:50
  interest in acquiring greenland from denmark Dates back
• 1:25:54
  to his first term but has also featured
• 1:25:56
  in his international rhetoric since returning to white
• 1:25:59
  house in january And he has not ruled
• 1:26:03
  out annexing the island U.s. Has maintained
• 1:26:06
  a military presence on the strategically important island
• 1:26:09
  since world war ii president jade vice president
• 1:26:13
  I'm, sorry, jd vance visited the u.s.
• 1:26:15
  Space force base on the northwest coast of
• 1:26:17
  greenland in march He noted that while the
• 1:26:20
  u.s. Does was not likely to use
• 1:26:22
  force to seize the territory It remained open
• 1:26:25
  to locals exercising their right to self-determination
• 1:26:30
  And breaking away from denmark and joining the
• 1:26:33
  united states So self-determination counts in greenland,
• 1:26:38
  right But not in ukraine not in donbass
• 1:26:44
  does it not in crimea Oh, no, no,
• 1:26:48
  no, they can't self-determine right Oh Trump
• 1:26:55
  is purging biden era diplomats in a global
• 1:26:59
  recall That was an interesting deal.
• 1:27:02
  It's a short story.
• 1:27:03
  So i'll share it with you Oh, you
• 1:27:05
  know what?
• 1:27:05
  I don't think i'm gonna have time i'm
• 1:27:06
  running out here But they're recalling he's recalling
• 1:27:10
  more than two dozen career diplomats from posts
• 1:27:14
  worldwide the ap said The move comes as
• 1:27:18
  part of a sweeping reshuffle under his foreign
• 1:27:21
  policy efforts africa has been the most affected
• 1:27:27
  with recalls in 13 counties including Countries jeez,
• 1:27:31
  why am I losing it today because I
• 1:27:33
  slept about an hour last night.
• 1:27:35
  I don't know why But it goes and
• 1:27:38
  fits and starts.
• 1:27:39
  I never sleep.
• 1:27:40
  It's ridiculous But africa has been most affected
• 1:27:44
  13 countries including nigeria Rwanda somalia asia has
• 1:27:49
  eight countries including philippines and vietnam four european
• 1:27:53
  states Armenia, macedonia montenegro and slovakia And along
• 1:27:58
  with two each in the middle east and
• 1:27:59
  the western hemisphere Politico said targeted diplomats were
• 1:28:04
  not given reasons for their recall Asked for
• 1:28:09
  comment the state department said the recalls were
• 1:28:11
  standard process and declined to give details but
• 1:28:16
  stressed that ambassadors are the president's personal representative
• 1:28:19
  and it his his Is his right to
• 1:28:23
  ensure they advance his agenda So the recalls
• 1:28:28
  come amid broader shifts in u.s. Foreign
• 1:28:30
  policy under trump He has also overhauled trade
• 1:28:36
  policy and what he calls reciprocal tariffs Yeah
• 1:28:43
  Interesting times trump is trying to divorce himself,
• 1:28:47
  uh, you know from nato, you know Filing
• 1:28:50
  for divorce Divorce is so messy and we
• 1:28:56
  shall see what comes of it when uh,
• 1:29:00
  these things uh develop I appreciate you joining
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