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Ukraine’s Drone Spectacle, Britain’s Managed Democracy, and Iran’s New Control Over Hormuz · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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Hello. Good morning. Welcome.
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I am Samuel Trapp and this
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is International Flavor.
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You're listening to dameradio.com/live
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this Tuesday morning, the 23rd
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of June.
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Isn't today the
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summer What do they call it? Solstice,
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the summer, the longest day of the year?
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Or was it 2 days ago and I missed it?
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Are we on the downhill slide? See, I
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always said when I was on my way to 40,
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that it was all uphill. And you know,
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41, the average man, at least at that
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time, was living to about 82.
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And uh
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therefore, the midpoint would be around
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41.
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So, the rest of it's a downhill slide
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that just keeps getting
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closer and closer. Impending doom is
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coming for us murderous bastards. It's
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on the way and uh we're not sure how
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we're going to handle it when we're
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called to the to the What was that line?
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The seats of judgment and uh the
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the court of uh the court of the Lord
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isn't like the court of any earthly
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court that you can trick and bamboozle
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as apparently is the want of uh
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many uh who engage in legal uh
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or lawfare as they call it in some
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circles.
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Um
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What are we doing today? Today happens
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to be uh
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an all day long Tuesday, if you can
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believe it. Tuesday, when it's Tuesday,
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it goes the full 24 hours, you know, and
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that uh
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you know, once I discovered that, it was
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really a surprise to me.
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I have an interview with a uh
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a uh
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state rep coming in
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uh later today. We're going to do some
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recordings um
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uh and uh interview him. That would be
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awesome. Um I don't know if I'm going to
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pick a time on it, but I may actually be
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You know what I was going to do? I was
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going to have a look at
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because uh sometimes I just like to look
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at
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>> [clears throat]
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>> You know what would be really fun to end
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my sentence right there with at with a
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hanging or a a a hanging preposition or
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a dangling
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uh sentence. I haven't even completed
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the sentence and I can leave it with a
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preposition. Like people who end
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sentences with uh at. Uh where are you
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at? That's uh
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it's very Missouri of you to say it that
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way. Thank you.
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Uh where are you at? No,
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where where be you? Uh I don't know. Why
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can't we say it any way we feel like?
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Well, because there are grammatical
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rules, people.
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And you must follow them.
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Uh certainly if you're going to engage
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in uh producing content on uh uh
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on uh
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Dem radio. Uh You know there's a grammar
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test to get in here. If you want to have
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a show, contact me. I'll help you get in
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because there's a pretty serious grammar
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test to make sure that you can speak
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appropriately. And you can't be running
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around saying things like Missoura. You
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know, you can't You're not allowed to
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say that. That's not permitted because
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it sounds fake. Sounds practiced with
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many people who would say Missoura. No.
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We say Missouri because why? It's
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spelled with an I, not an A H.
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And uh so what we're going to do real
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quick is have a look at the old
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schedule.
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And what with JR not coming on until
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2:00 on this wonderful Tuesday, I'm
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believing
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that my show is going to go all the way
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till 9:00 like it does.
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Then I'm going to take a break and I'm
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going to conduct an interview or a
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discussion.
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Uh it's more fun to do a discussion than
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an interview. Uh probably around 10:00
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with the gentleman who's running for
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speaker
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uh
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and is a rep this year and my you know,
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we wish to discuss things with him. Uh
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I have some very interesting well,
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things that are of interest to me. I
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don't know if it's of interest to him,
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but I want to chat [clears throat] with
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him and see where he goes. I don't know
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him very well. I've met him a few times.
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And uh
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and I like going into the uh
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what with having a
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a uh
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uh charitable organization called Civic
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Outlaws that we do our podcast every
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Friday. I may use it for that. Uh but
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either way, I'm doing some interviews.
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If you're interested in providing some
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questions, you can send them to me by
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email
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uh samuelt@internationalflavor.com
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or always
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uh
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live@damradio.com
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and you can send in your information
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here. Sometimes I actually read it. I
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think it's I have to open it up and a
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lot of times I forget to open it up. So,
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there you have it and I don't know where
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it goes. Let's see
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if you get to the
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uh
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ba ba ba ba ba to the news. That's where
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we're going today. I
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wanted to join with you yesterday and
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talk some about what occurred yesterday
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because
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um I
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think and I'm going to quickly go
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through this because I like to do it
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every week, and yesterday I didn't do
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it.
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I watch
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most weeks. I watch Solovyov Vechera s
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Solovyovim, and I watch an evening with
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Solovyov. And like I told you, I really
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like the format. I think it would be
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really entertaining to have a format of
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people
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sitting in a room. Just bring in like he
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he brings in like 12 every week every
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show. And he has uh
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uh six in the first session, and then
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six in the second session, and he he
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gives a topic in on the evening with
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Solovyov from Sunday. He opened up with
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uh
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>> [sighs]
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>> condemnation of the rocket attacks into
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Russia, and framed it as the uh
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European US Ukrainian attacks, not
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uh
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This is not just Ukraine, and it never
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has been. It's It's a rather large uh
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attack by all of NATO.
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And so,
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the core frame is that, you know, here
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Russia is under attack, not merely
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Ukrainian attack. They're under attack
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from NATO, the whole NATO block. And so,
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Ukraine, which we all know this to be
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true. So,
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you don't hear this in
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in in the West as much, but even so,
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everybody still knows it's the case
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because Ukraine, they can't afford even
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their basic needs right now. They got
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nothing.
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And they are living completely off of
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donations
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>> [laughter]
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>> from the West. And I don't mean to laugh
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about that, but they got nothing. That
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their country is uh
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very
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decimated and corrupt anyway. And now
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it's even worse.
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And they are extremely corrupt over
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there. The They're used to it that way.
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They're probably the most corrupt
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government in the world. And
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it's it's not even a bad joke anymore.
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>> [laughter]
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>> It's not Everybody knows it. And it's
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not They They never mention that oh, by
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the way. And And nobody wants you to
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understand this. And I don't know why
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they act like everybody's morons cuz
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they're not. And they they want to have
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you believe that Zelenskyy is a properly
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uh elected leader. He was in 2019.
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He's supposed to be gone in May of 2024.
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And we're a full 2 years
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of martial law of him dictating, of him
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jailing all of his uh
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anybody who's against him. And And you
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don't even have to be only political.
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And the political guys that are leaving
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are getting large parachutes to to run
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off to Israel or to wherever else
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they're off to.
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And you know, large villas in
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the Caribbean or the Mediterranean. Um
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or off to Israel. And like um
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Oh man, now I can't remember his name.
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But
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all of his chiefs of staff, this is
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where they go. All of his former
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advisors are gone. Syrsky is trying to
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save himself over in um
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um
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uh Kostyantynivka. He's trying to save
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himself over there. Syrsky is the
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commanding general.
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And
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the former commanding general ran off to
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England was appointed the after he was
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blamed for the losses of the uh
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offensives of the two years ago, three
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years almost. They sent him off to
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England to be the ambassador and there's
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a strong likelihood that he will be uh
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um
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against Zelensky for president when the
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elections, if they ever do occur,
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finally do.
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So, everybody knows that Ukraine is a
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huge mess. It's a large sinkhole in the
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budget of Europe.
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It's a
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the the Ukrainian sinkhole collapsing
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into
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uh oblivion, perhaps, but that's not how
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they're propagandizing it and
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advertising it. And uh
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Russia
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So, I I I watched a show the other day
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that came across as uh
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Ukraine is sending missiles now steadily
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into Russia instead of uh just the
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drones. Couple hundred a day drones into
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here and there and everywhere. And
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um
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now they're sending missiles as well.
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And
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Ukraine cannot send missiles
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independently. They're being sent from
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somewhere. And these
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uh the targeting data is coming from
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France, from England, from Germany, from
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the United States through Starlink. This
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is how they are targeting.
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Ukraine cannot target their own.
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Uh they try to claim that they can by
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saying, "Oh gee, we're going to make
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some of these in uh
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we're going to make some of these in uh
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uh
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Ukraine now. We're going to make Storm
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Shadows in Ukraine or whatever.
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Uh that doesn't mean the targeting is
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any less Western.
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>> [laughter]
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>> It's any less the ability for you to uh
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uh
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uh create your own. You still got to
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target them with data. You don't have a
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satellite system. You don't have any
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targeting ability. You have to you you
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get it from your NATO
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uh your your partners. You go, "Man, my
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my our partners." Yeah, our partners.
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Yeah, your your gay partners.
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>> [laughter]
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>> Is what we're talking about. The guys
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that'll keep on funding you uh cuz it's
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a it's a bad marriage, but they're going
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to keep on funding you because they like
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to stick it to Russia if they can.
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And uh that's the only reason they're
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still funding you. They wouldn't fund
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you if it was uh
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positive for them. They are they fund
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you because you're corrupt and it's easy
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to launder money through you. And so,
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these are the themes. And so, when when
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you watch the core of these frames uh
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from the Russian side,
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Russian television of any sort, and
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especially Solovyov, is not framing
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these attacks as Ukraine hit Russia. Uh
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just like here, they would advertise
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every time they'd say the war in
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Ukraine, they'd say "Putin's unprovoked
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war in Russia." You know,
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>> [laughter]
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>> or they'd create some kind of adjectival
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description of what it is and how it's
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uh evil doing from the very beginning.
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Well, you can say the Ukrainian sinkhole
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ex- exploits of NATO uh in attacking
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Russia. Or, you know, the core frame is
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the non-independence. It's a the NATO's
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direct war against Moscow with missiles
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that are being thrown by Ukraine,
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perhaps is the best way to explain the
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war instead of pretending,
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uh which nobody believes anyway, that
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Ukraine is acting independently. Only
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the extremely stupid believe that
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Ukraine is doing all of this
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independently.
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Because everybody knows the money is is
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only to for I mean their pensions,
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everything is paid by the West. There is
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no
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GDP. There's nothing left. And uh the
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only thing they can do is keep on
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keeping on, but they're not doing it on
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the front lines. All they have left is
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the propaganda war. That is it. And the
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only way they can continue it is with if
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missiles are supplied. Uh so somebody
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reported yesterday um
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uh not on BBC, I think it was an Al
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Jazeera thing,
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that they said that uh Starmer leaving
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that in his last uh
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his last um minutes [clears throat]
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it was um
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at last minutes in off- well, he's still
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in office, but I mean that he is
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supplying
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and giving authorization to use British
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um
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Storm Shadows to uh attack inside her of
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Ukraine and all the and all the data.
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And uh meanwhile pumping up England and
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going, "Russia's going to attack." You
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know, well, the the only way they would
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is if you provoked them, and even then
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they'd be a foolish thing. You're too
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damn far away. What I mean, it's
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>> [laughter]
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>> The only reason you get to attack Russia
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is because you're you're passing all
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your crap off to Ukraine. But they got a
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lot of money invested in uh Odessa,
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England in specifics. That's that's uh
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um
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quite a bit. So, anyway, they want to
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talk about the Russian economy. All they
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can do. So, the economic argument is
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more of an indirect argument. And so,
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the Western claim is that these strikes
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inside are weakening Russia, which of
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course they are.
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They they aren't um
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destroying Russia infrastruc- They're
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frightening people, you know, and
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they're
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but the resolve is still there. Now, I
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haven't been there in a year, so I'm I'm
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eager to go back and uh
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and I will.
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And and I'm going to do it fairly soon.
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I'm hoping it's before
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uh
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January, where I'm going to go to St.
16:16
Petersburg for the Christmas holidays.
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But, um
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but
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I'd like to go before that. I really
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like fall. And I'd love to be fall in a
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sanatorium for 10 days. That'd be
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freaking amazing. But, I also got the
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BRICS thing coming up. And I'm I'm
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trying to figure that out as well.
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And that's in India this year. So, I'm
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I'm eager to go to New Delhi for that.
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Um
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at any rate, the the panel that was
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discussing this economic argument that
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Russia's collapsing. Finally, you know,
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more sanctions. Finally, we're package
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number 21. Finally, these sanctions are
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going to be the one that
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destroy Russia ultimately.
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But, the panel all of them rejected that
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claim that it's weakening. They talk
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about the failure of sanctions,
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Russia's ability to continue production
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for wartime.
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And you know, they have a very
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heavy-duty industrial base.
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And NATO's economic pressure hasn't
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translated into battlefield collapse.
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Now,
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there have been some effects recently
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because somebody got smart and did the
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same thing to Russia that Russia was
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doing to Ukraine.
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They're fighting um
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the um
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uh
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on the supply lines in the rear parts,
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especially in the uh Crimea areas. And
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they're attacking bridge supply routes.
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So, there's some um talk that in
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Zaporizhzhia, especially, that the the
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bridge is being knocked out and all that
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are really damaging, but Russia is
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attacking all the bridges in the larger
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cities as well now, which frankly I
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can't believe they weren't torn out
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anyway. But, uh they also don't want to
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rebuild all this stuff in the Donbas
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when they go and they finally do finish
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up, you know, where where they are. And
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so,
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um yeah, finish up the takeover of the
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rest of the uh
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of the Donbas.
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Um they discussed Mark Rutte's claim
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that Russia spends an enormous portion
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of his budget and tax revenue on
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defense, and those numbers uh were
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called out as false. They're trying to
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say that uh they spend uh an an
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inordinate number or amount of money on
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defense, but they say Russia is not
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collapsing. Europe is overestimating its
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own industrial capacity, which only was
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successful with Russian uh
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resources.
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The West is forcing Ukraine to consume
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enormous funding, and Europe is being
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militarized.
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And that those are both true.
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So, Russia sees itself as having adapted
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into
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a wartime
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economy rather than having been
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destroyed by sanctions or having to
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worry
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about any of
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those sort of not that they didn't they
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they
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They know about those um
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the
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wartime uh
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effects definitely. They obviously, you
19:45
know, people are living through them,
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but it doesn't
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They consider it a cost not a collapse.
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And and and and if that doesn't make
19:54
sense to you, it's
19:57
much more of a resolve sort of thing
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than it is
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uh OG we're collapsing. That's not This
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is a cost of
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of defending yourself. This is what we
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have to do. And um
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So,
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>> [clears throat]
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>> the argument is that Russia's
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adversaries keep mistaking costs
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for collapse.
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And that is a very different argument.
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You know, so you know,
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the recent attacks against Russian
20:31
territory are all on on civilian
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centers, economic centers,
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uh
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buses for God's sake, you know, they're
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they're uh
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hitting buses, schools, children,
20:47
family, industrial objects, uh Crimea is
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hitting being hit hard right now,
20:54
Kherson region, and the broader drone
20:56
campaign, and now missiles.
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It argues [snorts]
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um
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the point though for me when they do
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this, when they
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when they do exactly what you're
21:11
accusing them of,
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which is you have nothing. You can't
21:15
push back the Russians on the front.
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You're not. Syrsky is losing. He he he's
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in
21:22
like I said
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um
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uh
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big trouble where he is right now. And
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and there's talk that if he isn't
21:31
successful
21:33
in holding off the Russians through the
21:35
summer
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um
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from
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Konstantinivka,
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that he's done. You know, that he's on
21:43
the way out anyway, and they're going to
21:45
make it even worse for him.
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Um Ukrainian attacks Yesterday was a
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holiday
21:53
in in Russia.
21:54
Well, it's not a holiday. It's more of a
21:57
day of remembrance. It's but they
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remember it and
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it is the anniversary
22:05
of Nazi Germany invasion into the Soviet
22:09
Union. Was 22nd of June.
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And so Ukrainian attacks are designed
22:15
especially according to them for media
22:18
effect because
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it's a symbolic date. It's a day of of
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of memory for these people. And so
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um
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they argue that Russian
22:34
resilience was shown then and it's still
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shown now.
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They're very upset. So there was a lot
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of discussion on the show about um
22:44
once again, and Solovyov doesn't like
22:46
it. He he Oh man, he go he goes nuts.
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Starts yelling about it. And I don't
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disagree with him, but
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I don't know what you could do about it
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because the filming of the results For
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example, I saw a bridge
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um
23:06
in the Crimea region that was uh blown
23:09
to bits by Russian or by Ukrainian
23:12
missiles yesterday.
23:14
And immediately some citizen went up and
23:17
was taking a picture of it and saying
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here's a bridge and uh here's
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you know, they've destroyed it and
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here's what it's got and and look they
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took out this and took out that. And
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Solovyov goes bananas. He says that the
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they ought to be uh
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uh
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they ought to be arrested. Um he said
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and and there's a point to this. It's it
23:41
actually is a very a decent point. I
23:44
don't necessarily agree with how they
23:46
send it out, but uh there that these
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citizens in in Russia that it take these
23:52
videos and try to get their uh clicks
23:55
going on of contact yeah
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or on YouTube. Um
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then well, YouTube's pretty much uh a
24:03
non-starter over there anymore. But um
24:07
uh you're helping Ukraine targeting
24:09
systems and AI route planning. So, if
24:13
you give uh remember the discussion that
24:17
I had a
24:18
few um
24:20
uh maybe it was only last week, but a
24:22
couple of weeks ago that talked about um
24:24
the
24:25
um
24:28
the
24:30
use of these drones at the children's uh
24:34
the Pedagogical University where those
24:38
uh children or the well, young young
24:40
people were studying to become teachers
24:42
and said that they had used AI-driven
24:46
data from people that upload their
24:48
social media on Telegram, on Instagram,
24:52
on any of the grams and uh
24:55
use it to
24:57
consolidate targeting data like geofix
25:00
all of your places and take all the data
25:02
and use that video. There are services
25:04
that go out and collect it for you,
25:06
especially with AI and they can generate
25:09
a screen of the inside of a building on
25:11
the other side of the planet and
25:13
[snorts] then say, here's here's what
25:15
we're because people are always
25:16
uploading something. Uh here in America,
25:19
we do these walk-through tours of a home
25:22
to sell it
25:24
>> [snorts]
25:24
>> and then that is always out there. So,
25:26
people have the layout of your home.
25:28
>> [laughter]
25:29
>> If they're If they're criminals, they
25:31
can take it. Now, if you're
25:33
uh
25:34
paranoid about that, well, you know,
25:37
that's that's the way it is, but uh
25:40
don't don't don't put them out. But, the
25:42
fact is that most of it is most of your
25:45
privacy is disappearing anyway and
25:48
that's unfortunate but true.
25:51
But, these AI planning is helped by
25:54
uploading video of attacks that occurred
25:58
today. So, they call all of them call
26:01
for harsh punishment of people who
26:04
post these videos of strike results
26:07
um claiming that, you know, these videos
26:10
are training material for the Ukrainian
26:12
targeting systems, which is true
26:15
from a military intelligence
26:16
perspective. So, both sides understand
26:20
the battlefield is not only missiles and
26:22
drones. It's video, it's made of data,
26:25
it's Telegram clips, social media
26:28
bragging rights, AI, and the public
26:31
itself
26:33
as the intelligence source.
26:36
You know, everything that is uploaded.
26:38
Tell me you couldn't walk through, you
26:40
know, any building um at the lake
26:44
>> [laughter]
26:44
>> with AI. You probably could. And that
26:47
Maybe I'll take that experiment and take
26:49
that bet.
26:54
No coffee today, so I'm drinking my my
26:56
water. I'm a very bad water drinker.
27:00
And so I always take the electrolyte. I
27:03
try to do a couple of them a day. The
27:05
Propel waters, you know, you buy by the
27:07
crate.
27:09
Like $15 a crate. It's freaking water,
27:12
okay?
27:12
>> [laughter]
27:13
>> But I buy it anyway, but I buy it for
27:16
the electrolyte. Somebody told me that
27:17
you can buy these packages of of stuff
27:20
and put it in the regular water and I
27:21
tried them. Way too sweet for me. I got
27:24
to do something else. I like Propel cuz
27:26
it's not very sweet. And
27:28
you know, I don't like sugary sugary
27:30
things.
27:32
Um
27:34
let's talk about NATO and these
27:36
long-range attacks though that are
27:38
enabling this deep strike strategy.
27:40
Ukraine does not possess the full
27:43
technical systems needed for deep
27:46
targeting, route planning, AI support,
27:49
or the fusion of all of these
27:51
intelligence modules together. AI's
27:54
making it easier and you can do it here,
27:57
right? But whether or not you fully
27:59
accept that or not, that is what the the
28:01
Russians are are saying to people.
28:04
Um
28:05
from the Russian side, they argue that
28:07
cruise missiles or long-range drone
28:10
attacks are not Ukrainian military
28:13
actions. They are Western targeting
28:16
systems, Western escalation,
28:19
and and Russian domestic psychological
28:23
trauma
28:25
or resilience that they've got to um
28:30
they spend on this. So um
28:35
you know, they're very aware about
28:37
Western propaganda.
28:39
Um
28:40
they accuse Ukraine and Western
28:42
governments of hiding battlefield
28:44
losses. That is absolutely true.
28:48
of exaggerating Ukrainian success in
28:51
that in this I say it's worse than an
28:53
exaggeration of Ukrainian success. It is
28:58
Ukrainian
29:00
uh
29:01
the lies you know that these
29:04
um
29:07
drone strikes are helping
29:10
in Ukraine cuz they're not. The fact is
29:13
the war is being lost on the front line.
29:17
Although
29:18
the Ukrainians would have you not don't
29:21
look at that. Look at the squirrel over
29:23
there. The squirrel is outside of Moscow
29:26
where we just bombed another gas
29:27
station. And uh that's they're blowing
29:31
up gas stations.
29:32
And uh there was a town in um
29:35
Crimea, I think,
29:37
that uh
29:40
fuel remaining fuel is only for
29:44
the government. And the mayor of a city
29:47
came out and said
29:49
in Russia
29:50
in Crimea said
29:53
all the gas stations are destroyed and
29:58
uh we can't um
30:01
provide for you
30:04
any uh fuel for your car. You can't get
30:08
gasoline for your car.
30:11
And everything is reserved for the
30:13
military or for the uh government
30:16
purposes because the military
30:18
is all diesel, okay? And um
30:22
the Russians manufacture
30:25
tons and tons of diesel. They they all
30:27
kinds of it. But they import most of
30:31
their uh unleaded gas from other places,
30:35
including
30:36
um Belarus
30:38
where they get some of it from. And and
30:41
what it's one of the
30:42
you know, when Zelensky was making his
30:44
threats against Lukashe- Lukashenka the
30:47
other day, he was saying quit supplying
30:48
him with gas, you know, we're blowing up
30:50
all their gas stations and you're still
30:53
supplying them with gas. They would be,
30:55
you know, the the public would be on
30:57
their knees because there's no
31:00
there's no gas for them to get around.
31:03
And the government is limiting in some
31:06
cities the amount of gas that you can
31:08
get or saying it's only
31:12
possible for you to get it
31:14
if you're in the government, you know,
31:17
for for government vehicles.
31:20
But even most of those are are all
31:22
diesel.
31:24
And the military is
31:26
virtually all diesel. And so, but the
31:30
the pressure of the gas is starting to
31:32
hit them.
31:33
>> [clears throat]
31:34
>> And so that that is true. Ukraine
31:37
publicizes Russian damage aggressively.
31:40
I mean, you see it. That you do see on
31:42
the news over here. It's really weird
31:45
cuz they don't say crap about Ukraine.
31:48
Entire cities are flat and you don't and
31:51
I don't mean to laugh about it, but
31:52
there's no news and Ukraine suppresses
31:56
its own damages. They don't want people
31:58
to know. Instead, they're still pumping
32:00
victory victory victory and then the
32:02
West amplifies the Ukrainian propaganda.
32:06
They send it all out and go, "Look at
32:08
them. They're they're brave and they're
32:10
fighting off those Russians." Yeah, but
32:11
they're losing. And you don't catch it
32:14
because you send a drone over. The same
32:16
same principle is going in and attacking
32:18
Kursk couple of years ago.
32:21
Uh
32:22
but Russia should tighten, you know,
32:25
what they were saying, Solovyov
32:27
especially, was
32:29
that Russia
32:31
should increase the penalties and
32:34
tighten the law on public strike
32:36
footage.
32:37
Um
32:39
Ukraine propaganda is built around, you
32:43
know, various spectacles, you know,
32:45
drones, refinery fires, dramatic videos,
32:51
and their claims that they're
32:52
technologically superior to uh
32:57
to Russia.
32:58
And the Ukraine and the West side say
33:01
Russian propaganda is built around
33:05
inevitability,
33:06
patience, endurance,
33:09
historical destiny, and the Russian
33:12
steamroller.
33:14
But the real question is which
33:15
propaganda line
33:17
matches the battlefield reality in uh
33:21
Ukraine? Their drone war is a complete
33:25
substitute for any success on the
33:28
ground, and it proves nothing regarding
33:31
a strategic victory.
33:34
Um
33:36
uh Rai-Alexandrovka,
33:38
Konstantinovka,
33:40
Lyman, Krasny,
33:42
uh and Krasny Lyman, uh the
33:44
Sloviansk-Kramatorsk
33:46
uh areas, Kharkiv,
33:49
enforced evacuations, these are themes
33:52
all over Ukraine that you
33:55
they just keep more cities. What about
33:59
uh
34:02
the cities we were talking about uh
34:05
last year.
34:06
Uh and all those cities that now people
34:09
have forgotten that are gone.
34:11
What about um
34:13
um
34:14
the losses on the battlefield? You never
34:16
get them. So, the Russian argument is
34:18
pretty simple. If Ukraine is winning,
34:22
why are they evacuating more and more
34:25
towns?
34:27
Russia has advanced whatever it is, 20
34:29
20 30 km into uh
34:34
uh
34:36
Kharkiv and into uh Sumy regions.
34:40
And uh if if people are leaving these
34:44
large areas
34:46
and Ukraine is evacuating
34:49
people
34:50
out of them,
34:53
how are you winning?
34:54
I I It just makes no sense to me.
34:57
It's uh
34:58
very strong
35:00
logic.
35:01
You got problems. And what about the
35:04
body exchanges, you know? Um
35:08
Russia has returned literally a hundred
35:11
times more
35:13
bodies than any bodies that uh
35:16
you know, than it has received back.
35:19
So, and this happens all the time. When
35:22
they change bodies, Russia will report
35:25
numbers like and Ukraine will, too.
35:27
That here's your here's your 30, 60
35:32
fallen soldiers
35:34
repatriating their uh
35:37
their uh
35:39
remains
35:40
to their homeland.
35:42
Ukraine doesn't want them. Number one,
35:45
they can't afford them because every
35:47
every time a body comes back,
35:49
it's uh
35:51
uh literally
35:53
um
35:54
a couple of $300,000
35:57
that has to be paid out to the families.
35:59
They don't want to accept them and they
36:01
leave them sit in Russia, you know,
36:03
frozen as long as uh
36:05
as long as possible because they don't
36:07
have the money to come up with it and
36:09
they they have to So, Zelenskyy goes on
36:11
his um grifting tour
36:14
>> [snorts]
36:14
>> of Europe and the rest of the world uh
36:17
fairly frequently and goes out and uh
36:20
has his hand out everywhere and um you
36:23
know, pushes the charity case.
36:26
And
36:27
so, the numbers that are turned over are
36:30
consistently reported as
36:33
as minuscule
36:35
on the Russian side of bodies that are
36:37
turned over, and Russia will turn over
36:39
10,000,
36:41
you know, where they'll turn over a
36:43
thousand and get back in response, you
36:45
know, 40, you know, it and these numbers
36:48
are consistent. So the body exchange is
36:52
its own propaganda battlefield. And the
36:56
these ratios
36:58
um argue that Ukraine is suffering uh
37:00
far greater losses than Russia. Now, I
37:04
see it
37:05
as numbers that might not necessarily
37:08
be
37:09
um
37:12
uh unexplainable because I believe they
37:16
are explainable.
37:18
The numbers can
37:20
um
37:22
>> [clears throat]
37:23
>> show that Russia is advancing. So if you
37:26
consider that Russia is advancing, if
37:28
Ukraine was going the other direction,
37:31
they'd be collecting the bodies of the
37:33
fallen as they advanced. So the Russians
37:36
are collecting the dead bodies of
37:38
soldiers as they advance.
37:41
All this does is indicate that they are
37:44
advancing.
37:46
And they're collecting the bodies when
37:48
they do it. So of course they'd collect
37:50
their own bodies. So we have no idea,
37:53
you know, as well as the Ukrainian
37:55
soldiers. They have no idea how many um
37:58
but um how many Ukrainian
38:02
uh uh
38:03
how many Russian bodies that they don't
38:07
report that. We don't have those numbers
38:09
on the West cuz Russia doesn't release
38:11
them. But Russia is all too eager to
38:13
send out that oh gee, we collected
38:16
10,000 bodies and you turned over 23.
38:19
Well,
38:21
that makes sense because Russia's
38:23
advancing.
38:24
So,
38:26
Ukraine avoids emphasizing these ratios
38:29
for sure because the casualty perception
38:31
affects the morale, the more advanced
38:34
mobilization, these boostification
38:36
fights, uh
38:39
and and and any Western support, you
38:41
know, collapses in that uh
38:44
in that
38:46
uh environment, which certainly does.
38:50
Um we're going to take a break a little
38:52
bit early today
38:54
um before we begin
38:57
part two.
39:00
And we're going to play for you a mix of
39:03
songs. Last is 6 whole minutes.
39:07
How do you like that? But I like this.
39:10
And uh
39:11
I maybe you will, too. It's a Hamid
39:14
Shaks. It's a playlist. It's pretty
39:16
cool.
39:17
And uh it's it's a the original of of
39:20
Dreams on here.
39:22
So,
39:23
enjoy.
39:26
Very nice.
39:29
So, I like listening to that type of
39:30
music and uh
39:32
it uh
39:34
I don't know if you've watched them, but
39:36
but think about this. You Here's Here's
39:39
a a business venture for you.
39:42
Um because this is what's happening in
39:44
reality. Get on YouTube and find it.
39:47
So, you can go and I started watching
39:49
these things cuz I don't sleep well. And
39:53
uh so, I try to find uh like the sounds
39:56
of rain or the sounds of beaches or
39:59
whatever. Some of the best sleep I ever
40:02
had was uh when I was in the military
40:04
and I would sleep in the front
40:07
in the front of a
40:08
of a truck with a hut on the back, you
40:11
know, so you'd have a pickup truck
40:13
basically with a with a hut on in back
40:16
with all your electronic equipment.
40:18
There were three people on the team.
40:20
One guy would be
40:22
sleeping in the front of the truck for 8
40:24
hours. Truck has to run 24/7 because it
40:27
powers all the equipment in the back.
40:30
And here here's military memories of if
40:32
you're in the field as a collection and
40:35
jamming guy. And
40:37
you'd have a collection and jamming team
40:39
whether you were set together or apart
40:41
depended. Sometimes the like some some
40:44
you could do collection and jamming on
40:46
the same site but most of the time you
40:47
were either on collection or jamming.
40:50
And on the collection side those with
40:52
greater linguistic abilities would be on
40:54
the on the collection side cuz they can
40:57
understand what's being said and report
40:59
it back. And those without would be on
41:01
the jamming side or those not so good
41:04
would be on the jamming side.
41:07
And they would be able to you know they
41:10
would identify it as Russian language
41:12
but they may not know exactly what they
41:14
were saying. And so you you would jam.
41:16
Anyway, if you happen to be on a jamming
41:19
team the the generators were
41:22
loud and enormous but they were also
41:24
loud in the collection collection site
41:27
because you have a truck with a PTO on
41:29
it that
41:31
powers the entire back of this massive
41:35
energy drain and so you need serious
41:37
power. And so the PTO would be kicked in
41:40
all the time and then you'd have these
41:43
you know if you're within 5 feet of the
41:44
truck the sound is like
41:48
And that's it. And that sound goes on
41:50
24/7. Well, I loved that. You know the
41:53
best sleep is to get to fall and get in
41:56
the front of a pickup truck and
41:59
[laughter]
41:59
sleep to that because
42:02
you know you don't hear anything else.
42:04
Of course if any
42:06
anybody came to blow you up, you know
42:08
the fact that you you were not really in
42:10
a war
42:11
uh
42:12
apparent because if you were in a war,
42:14
they'd have blown you up anyway. Cuz
42:16
they'd [laughter] have hurt you. And uh
42:18
so that's that that was the trouble with
42:20
some collection and jamming. It's a
42:21
little more quiet these days, but not
42:23
the jammer portions. Jammer
42:25
I'm sure they are well, unless they
42:27
solve that problem somehow. But you
42:29
can't have continual uh
42:32
uh jamming without a lot of noise.
42:34
Anyway, I started listening to these uh
42:37
I like listening to the sounds of rain,
42:40
rainstorms, thunder. And you can find
42:43
these things that'll get online and
42:45
they'll play for eight to eight to 12
42:47
hours. You know, you can find a 12-hour
42:51
rainstorm or fire crackling or uh I
42:55
don't hell, you can find Christmas music
42:56
if you want. Or anything on YouTube. And
42:59
so what's been popular lately are these
43:02
AI-generated
43:04
music mixes that people are creating.
43:08
Going through the licensing protocols at
43:11
YouTube.
43:12
And then having a 12-hour
43:17
video
43:19
circle AI video or rotation of the same
43:22
video
43:24
for 12 hours. This video would go
43:26
through.
43:28
And in the background, you have the
43:31
sounds of thunder or whatever. And so
43:33
you also have a lot of this uh sort of
43:37
background music like the one that I
43:39
just played for you. No words, no
43:41
nothing, just plays for And so you can
43:44
find the shorter ones. I mean, that was
43:46
That one was actually you know, a a mix
43:48
and they have a a mix of several these
43:51
that you can get them. But what a what a
43:52
business idea, huh? It you see you take
43:55
uh
43:56
you take
43:58
several days, create your library of
44:01
music, which you have to update all the
44:02
time. Nobody wants to watch same thing.
44:04
The ones right now are all of these uh
44:07
well, maybe it's only me, but uh I I
44:09
don't think so because they got hundreds
44:11
of thousands of views.
44:13
Are these trans music things that people
44:17
are doing and or they'll play a DJ will
44:21
be at a
44:22
and I've been to several of these shows.
44:24
My wife tells me about the ones in in
44:27
Egypt that she goes to is very popular
44:29
over in Qatar.
44:30
That you would go to and that was years
44:32
ago. That was 10 years ago I lived in
44:34
Qatar and they would
44:36
you could go up on the top of a roof of
44:38
some high-rise building and they would
44:41
have a bar and
44:43
a DJ up there, you know, and and on one
44:46
end and then
44:48
several hundred people, you know,
44:50
an enormous number of people watching
44:54
the the DJ who is usually
44:58
cool looking dude or a very attractive
45:00
young woman. And
45:02
>> [laughter]
45:02
>> so now they're putting those experiences
45:05
you can just download them and and watch
45:07
them on YouTube and and some of them are
45:09
live, but now they're all being AI
45:11
generated. So you can have these AI
45:14
generated background, the AI generated
45:17
music, the AI generated vocals, the AI
45:20
generated beautiful woman to mount on
45:23
the on the thing who's whatever whatever
45:25
perfect woman you want to create or man,
45:28
you know, you can create and so you
45:30
create people are creating their
45:33
avatar
45:35
and and this avatar goes out and they
45:37
claim it's themselves, but perfect.
45:41
>> [laughter]
45:42
>> Imagine Sam, but you know,
45:45
finally having shed the 10 pounds he's
45:48
carrying around extra, you know what I
45:49
mean? Something like that. So you create
45:52
these perfect bodies and
45:55
entertainment is changing as well. It's
45:57
all fake.
45:58
And [snorts]
45:59
it's AI. Anyway, I didn't mean to spend
46:02
time with that just to explain a song
46:04
that I played for you, but I have. And
46:06
you know why? Cuz it's my show. Let's
46:09
talk about there was some, you know,
46:12
Keir Starmer resigned. He was crying
46:14
yesterday, and
46:16
you know, well, I feel for him, but good
46:19
riddance is is what I say. Uh and and
46:23
I'm not even from
46:24
England, so
46:26
you know, that's a plus for the world to
46:28
get rid of that guy. And um
46:32
there's a article
46:34
put out by a person named Konstantin von
46:38
Hoffmeister,
46:40
who's a political
46:42
culture
46:44
commentator from Germany. And he wrote a
46:46
book called The Fate of White America,
46:49
and he's a director of what's called the
46:51
Multipolar Press.
46:54
So,
46:55
and he and he wrote the following.
46:58
It's a little longer than I want it to
47:01
be, but cuz I definitely want to get to
47:04
this. Iran is setting up a Hormuz
47:06
hotline with the United States. We got
47:09
to cover that story. That's going to be
47:11
fun. But first, let's talk about the old
47:14
Starmer and the illusion of democracy,
47:17
okay? And by Konstantin von Hoffmeister,
47:20
these are not my words. I'm sharing them
47:22
with you.
47:23
Uh from the Multipolar Press.
47:25
Uh
47:26
British Prime Minister Starmer's
47:28
resignation Monday exemplifies the
47:30
cynical sham of democratic renewal in a
47:34
system dominated by globalist
47:37
plutocratic interests. Starmer stood
47:40
outside 10 Downing Street and announced
47:42
he was stepping down as leader of the
47:44
Labour Party and head of government. He
47:47
cynically masked his political execution
47:51
as a voluntary departure made with good
47:54
grace for the sake of the party's
47:57
chances at the next election. But the
48:00
grim reality is that his hand was forced
48:03
by an imploding cabinet and years of
48:06
plummeting approval ratings fueled by
48:08
economic paralysis,
48:11
disastrous U-turns, and outright voter
48:14
disgust all over England, by the way.
48:18
Um
48:19
media outlets immediately framed his
48:22
moment as historic.
48:26
Historic loss, by the way. But anyway, a
48:30
signal that the system had listened,
48:33
that accountability had prevailed, and
48:35
that Britain can now chart a different
48:38
course. Yet this narrative rings quite
48:41
hollow. Starmer's departure is not a
48:44
rupture,
48:45
but another installment in a
48:47
long-running political theater designed
48:50
to sustain the illusion of choice while
48:53
preserving the underlying structures of
48:55
power.
48:57
In contemporary Western democracy,
49:01
genuine transformation remains elusive
49:04
because the system functions less as
49:07
rule by the people
49:10
and more as management by a
49:12
self-appointed
49:14
aristocracy
49:16
whose priorities consistently diverge
49:20
from those of the native population.
49:23
Now, I'm sharing this with you because
49:25
we're in the same boat, friends and
49:27
neighbors. That's why I'm sharing this
49:30
opinion piece with you. I happen to
49:31
agree with the the the bulk of it.
49:34
Starmer's Labour government, like the
49:37
Conservative administrations that
49:39
preceded it, continued or accelerated
49:42
policies that many voters perceive as
49:45
detrimental to national interests.
49:48
Record levels of legal and illegal
49:51
immigration, the continued aggressive
49:53
pursuit of net zero carbon targets,
49:56
which have driven up household energy
49:59
bills through massive grid upgrades
50:02
needed to integrate intermittent wind
50:04
and solar power, along with the phasing
50:08
out of cheap fossil fuel, and a foreign
50:11
policy closely aligned with
50:14
supranational institution rather than
50:17
British priorities.
50:19
Remember America first, whatever
50:21
happened to that? Uh all persisted under
50:24
Starmer's watch.
50:26
And so this is where Nigel Farage is is
50:31
you know, using the Trump agenda, the
50:33
Trump uh
50:35
uh
50:36
playbook to hopefully get elected,
50:39
right? His resignation changes none of
50:43
Starmer's none of these trajectories at
50:45
the structural level.
50:47
A new leader is going to inherit the
50:50
same institutional constraints, the same
50:53
donor network, the same media ecosystem,
50:58
and the same international
51:01
commitments.
51:02
This is the same as America, by the way.
51:05
Uh which is why really the only defense
51:08
is what?
51:09
Term limits, friends and neighbors. The
51:11
term plutocracy describes a system in
51:14
which wealth and concentrated economic
51:17
power determine political outcome far
51:21
more effectively than a ballot.
51:24
In Britain and across the West, this
51:26
plutocracy operates through interlocking
51:30
networks of finance, multinational
51:33
corporations, media conglomerates, and
51:36
supranational bodies such as the World
51:40
Economic Forum, the European Union, even
51:44
post-Brexit its in influence is still
51:47
present in in England, by the way, and
51:50
global financial institutions. These
51:53
actors
51:55
prioritize borderless capital flow,
51:59
cheap labor, regulatory harmonization,
52:03
and cultural liberalization
52:05
because such arrangements maximize their
52:09
return and minimize resistance from
52:12
rooted national communities.
52:15
Frederick Engels, who lived for decades
52:17
in Manchester and closely studied
52:20
Britain's political order, diagnosed the
52:23
same structural reality more than a
52:26
century earlier.
52:28
In his 1891
52:30
introduction to Karl Marx's The Civil
52:34
War in France, Engels declared that the
52:37
state is nothing but a machine
52:40
Remember this. This is important for
52:42
those of you who don't understand your
52:44
political science.
52:45
Engels declared and he he wrote the
52:48
forward to Karl Marx's books. The state
52:51
is nothing but a machine for the
52:54
oppression of one class by another
52:58
and indeed in the democratic republic,
53:02
no less than in the monarchy.
53:04
Those are the words of Engels. He
53:07
elaborated in The Origin of the Family,
53:10
Private Property, and the State in 1884
53:15
that universal suffrage functions only
53:17
as quote, "The gauge of the maturity of
53:22
the working class
53:24
and cannot and never will be anything
53:28
more in the modern state." Now, that
53:32
telling you, governments been the same
53:35
forever.
53:37
Government is not your friend.
53:40
Excuse me.
53:41
The TVs are on here in the studio and
53:43
several minutes ago
53:45
there was a picture of Ronald Reagan
53:47
came up with a quote next door to it and
53:49
it said,
53:50
"The most frightening" I'm paraphrasing.
53:53
"The most frightening words in the
53:55
English language are somebody knocks on
53:57
your door are I'm from the government,
54:00
I'm here to help."
54:02
>> [laughter]
54:03
>> That's absolutely not true. Anyway,
54:06
continuing.
54:07
For Engels, the British parliamentary
54:10
system, even after successive reform
54:13
acts extended its franchise, was not a
54:16
genuine arena of popular sovereignty,
54:18
but a refined instrument of class rule.
54:23
Alternating parties like the liberals
54:26
and the conservatives at that time, now
54:29
it's the same here. Are you liberal or
54:31
are you conservative? Same damn thing.
54:34
Serve as competing administrative teams
54:37
for bourgeois interests, preserving
54:40
capitalist dominance behind the formal
54:43
ritual of debate, election, and
54:46
leadership change. Starmer's resignation
54:51
and the expected elevation of a
54:53
successor
54:54
fits the pattern precisely. Another
54:57
rotation of personnel within an
55:00
unchanged framework where the
55:02
plutocratic
55:04
imperative of global capital,
55:07
immigration policy, and economic
55:10
orthodoxy continue uninterrupted.
55:14
Sounds like the Democrats and the
55:16
Republicans, doesn't it?
55:19
Sustained high immigration depresses
55:22
wages in lower-skilled sectors, strains
55:26
public services, and alters the
55:29
demographic balance in ways that native
55:32
citizens did not vote for.
55:35
Energy policies framed as climate
55:38
necessity impose costs that fall
55:41
disproportionately on working and
55:44
middle-class households, but benefit
55:47
green tech investors and international
55:49
energy traders. Cultural shifts promoted
55:53
through education, media, and corporate
55:56
diversity mandates harm the shared
55:59
identity and social trust that have
56:02
historically underpinned stable
56:05
democracies.
56:06
When voters express discontent through
56:09
protest, low voter turnout, or
56:13
support for outsider candidates, Donald
56:16
Trump, the response is rarely
56:19
substantive policy reversal. Instead,
56:22
the system offers a spectacle.
56:27
I I mean, is there anything in this
56:28
article so far that is inaccurate in any
56:32
way with our system as well? By the way,
56:35
this is why I'm sharing it with you.
56:38
Resignations function as a particularly
56:41
effective herd control mechanism. The
56:45
dramatic exit of the prime minister
56:47
generates wall-to-wall media coverage,
56:50
parliamentary farce, and public
56:52
catharsis. Citizens are encouraged to
56:55
believe that the system works because a
56:58
failing leader has been removed. Joe
57:01
Biden. Hmm. Historical examples abound.
57:05
Boris Johnson's 2022 downfall downfall
57:09
involved dozens of ministerial
57:11
resignations within days. It was
57:16
revolt of principle. Liz Truss's brief
57:19
tenure, remember her? She lasted what, a
57:22
week?
57:23
>> [laughter]
57:23
>> Ended in market chaos and swift
57:26
replacement. Theresa May and even
57:28
Margaret Thatcher's departures carried
57:30
similar dramatic weight. Each episode
57:34
produced intense coverage,
57:36
temporary polling shift, and the sense
57:39
that accountability mechanisms were
57:41
indeed functioning. Yet, as the
57:43
spectacle dissipates, the new occupant
57:47
settles into the same institutional
57:49
furniture,
57:50
and the public attention moves to the
57:52
next distraction, sports, entertainment,
57:56
or the next celebrity
57:59
scandal.
58:01
This cycle keeps populations docile.
58:05
The modern equivalent of Romans' bread
58:08
and circuses include expansive welfare
58:11
systems that foster dependency,
58:14
ubiquitous digital entertainment that
58:17
dull the people's reasoning faculties,
58:19
like me and other the AI music, and a
58:22
news cycle engineered for outrage rather
58:26
than analysis. That's why I like
58:28
Solovyov so much, by the way, because at
58:31
least you got different forms of
58:33
analysis in a in a large scale, and
58:36
nothing just
58:37
not these BS 2-second segments that you
58:40
got to
58:41
pick a side. Oh, look, it's a Ukraine
58:44
flag. It's yellow and blue. Isn't that
58:45
pretty? We hate that hammer and sickle
58:48
from the Russians. Those They must be
58:50
the bad guys. All right, bad guys, game
58:52
over. Oh, look, squirrel.
58:55
The mainstream media acts as a ruthless
58:58
guardian of the status quo by
59:00
relentlessly pushing identity-based
59:03
conflict that fragment public attention
59:07
and block unified opposition to the
59:09
ruling economic order.
59:12
This calculated distraction deliberately
59:15
shields the predatory architecture of
59:18
financialization,
59:20
offshoring, and elite regulatory
59:23
capture, all while advancing policies
59:26
hostile to the ethnocultural interests
59:29
of white British people. The destruction
59:32
of the traditional British heritage and
59:34
institutional favoritism towards
59:36
non-native groups at the expense of the
59:39
historic majority. When frustration
59:42
builds to the point of threatening
59:44
stability,
59:46
a high-profile resignation or leadership
59:48
contest is staged. The message is clear.
59:52
Your voices have been heard. Change is
59:54
coming. In practice, the new leader
59:57
often accelerates elements of the
59:59
previous agenda or introduces cosmetic
1:00:02
reform that leave core power relations
1:00:05
absolutely
1:00:06
intact.
1:00:08
The illusion of choice is reinforced by
1:00:11
the party system itself. Now, remember,
1:00:14
I'm I'm I'm giving you this and telling
1:00:17
you to analyze the
1:00:19
American system in the same way.
1:00:22
Maybe a little cynically, but we're
1:00:25
similar. Okay? Britain's first past the
1:00:29
post electoral framework, winner takes
1:00:32
all system in which the candidate with
1:00:34
the most votes in each constituency wins
1:00:38
the seat even without an overall
1:00:40
majority, and the dominance of two major
1:00:44
parties with an occasional third party
1:00:46
perturbation create the appearance of
1:00:49
alternation while enforcing convergence
1:00:53
on fundamentals.
1:00:55
Now, think about this cuz it's the same
1:00:57
in America. The world has not changed
1:01:01
since the time of Ronald Reagan.
1:01:05
I mean, seriously, ha- Ronald Reagan was
1:01:07
the last great reformer, right? And
1:01:10
what's changed since then?
1:01:12
Through all the
1:01:14
I I mean, what have we had? Who have we
1:01:16
had that's a valuable president through
1:01:18
there? Seriously.
1:01:20
Somebody that changed the world. Trump
1:01:22
might, but the rest of them cookie
1:01:24
cutter. Trump frankly, I think is is,
1:01:28
you know,
1:01:29
what are we
1:01:31
year and a half in?
1:01:32
And um
1:01:35
I don't see anything different.
1:01:36
>> [laughter]
1:01:37
>> It's it's the same in in two and a half
1:01:40
three and a half Oh, I can't even
1:01:42
talk. Two and a half years from now,
1:01:44
they're just going to
1:01:45
you know, go right and you know, Oh,
1:01:47
gee, look, somebody came into office and
1:01:49
issued their own 500
1:01:51
executive orders. Everything's changed.
1:01:54
Open the gates. Get knocked down those
1:01:55
walls.
1:01:57
>> [laughter]
1:01:57
>> Get those out of the way. We need to let
1:01:59
those immigrants back in.
1:02:03
Outsiders
1:02:04
outsider challenges, whether from Reform
1:02:08
UK or any left-wing insurgent, are
1:02:11
contained through negative media
1:02:14
framing,
1:02:16
institutional barriers, or co-option.
1:02:20
The result is a managed pluralism in
1:02:22
which voters select from pre-approved
1:02:25
options whose differences are really
1:02:28
nonexistent, I say, but are largely
1:02:31
style are largely stylistic or tactical
1:02:35
rather than structural.
1:02:37
Andy Burnham, this is the guy they're
1:02:39
talking about as being the next in line.
1:02:42
Okay?
1:02:44
Andy Burnham's emergence as a potential
1:02:48
success for successor illustrates this
1:02:51
point. His by-election triumph was
1:02:55
hailed by some as a rebuke to
1:02:57
Starmerism. Yet Burnham's record as
1:03:00
Greater Manchester Mayor and his
1:03:02
positioning within Labour's broad church
1:03:05
suggests continuity rather than change.
1:03:08
Whether the next occupant hails from the
1:03:11
party's right, center, or soft left, the
1:03:14
institutional incentives push toward
1:03:18
accommodation with the plutocratic
1:03:21
consensus. Same with Republican Democrat
1:03:24
here, by the way.
1:03:26
True democratic renewal would require
1:03:29
mechanisms that genuinely genuinely
1:03:32
empower citizens to alter foundational
1:03:36
policies.
1:03:37
Stricter controls on elite influence
1:03:40
through campaign finance reform,
1:03:43
actual referendums on immigration and
1:03:46
constitutional questions with a binding
1:03:48
force,
1:03:50
and devolution of power that reduces the
1:03:53
distance between rulers and ruled.
1:03:56
Instead, the current arrangement offers
1:03:59
periodic leadership musical chairs
1:04:02
while the music, global capital
1:04:04
preference, continues uninterrupted.
1:04:08
Starmer's resignation will be remembered
1:04:11
as another well-choreographed
1:04:13
scene in a production whose directors
1:04:17
remain firmly in their chairs.
1:04:20
The British public, like most citizens
1:04:23
across the West, grow increasingly aware
1:04:26
of this dynamic, just like we are in
1:04:28
America.
1:04:30
Polling has shown deep distrust in
1:04:33
institutions, which needs to exist, by
1:04:35
the way,
1:04:36
and descends that the political class
1:04:39
operates in its own interest. Oh my god,
1:04:42
what a revelation. Did you know that?
1:04:45
>> [laughter]
1:04:45
>> We have institutional distrust and a
1:04:48
political class that operates in its own
1:04:51
interest. Yet awareness alone does not
1:04:55
alter the structure.
1:04:56
Until mechanisms exist for ordinary
1:04:59
people to impose real costs on elites
1:05:02
who disregard national interest, the
1:05:04
cycle of spectacle and continuity will
1:05:07
persist.
1:05:09
Resignation will come and go. New
1:05:11
puppets will be installed and the
1:05:14
plutocracy, globalist by nature and
1:05:17
insulated from the consequences of its
1:05:20
own preferences, will continue to rule
1:05:23
in democracy's name.
1:05:26
The question is no longer whether the
1:05:28
next leader will be different in any
1:05:31
fundamental way. He will not, but
1:05:34
whether citizens will continue to accept
1:05:37
the performance
1:05:39
as the substance of self-government.
1:05:43
Self-government doesn't exist in either
1:05:46
system. It doesn't exist in England
1:05:49
and it sure as hell doesn't exist
1:05:53
here.
1:05:56
It just is not so, friends and
1:06:00
neighbors.
1:06:02
I wanted to get to today and I only got
1:06:04
about 15 minutes left. I want to talk a
1:06:07
little bit about Iran. Um
1:06:11
and Andy Burnham who you know is there
1:06:15
they're
1:06:15
prepping for the takeover, you know,
1:06:20
he
1:06:22
you know, is ready.
1:06:24
He's ready. He's going to be the next
1:06:27
one that
1:06:29
we'll we'll have to watch as he he
1:06:32
already arrived um
1:06:35
in uh
1:06:36
he's already arrived at 10 Downing
1:06:38
Street. He gets a new house out of
1:06:40
there, right? Um
1:06:44
I don't know. I'm not sure what's going
1:06:45
to go on in the world, but either way
1:06:48
everybody's musical chairing the leaders
1:06:50
of Europe and
1:06:52
Starmer was what? 16%
1:06:55
favorable rating. Macron is 11 11%
1:07:01
approval rating. Merz is
1:07:05
Uh, it less and
1:07:08
well, no, he's I think he was over 20,
1:07:10
but barely. It's It's It's pretty
1:07:14
terrible. These three These three
1:07:16
globalists.
1:07:18
And uh,
1:07:19
you know, all of them notably. They call
1:07:22
it the Zelenskyy curse, by the way.
1:07:26
They all support Ukraine.
1:07:29
And they all support
1:07:31
Zelenskyy. They all support the Green
1:07:32
Goblin.
1:07:34
And uh,
1:07:38
Here's the new puppet, Andre Andy
1:07:41
Burnham, in 2015 Labour leadership
1:07:44
election.
1:07:45
The first country I will visit if
1:07:48
elected is
1:07:50
Israel.
1:07:51
>> [laughter]
1:07:52
>> Meet the puppet, same as the old one.
1:07:54
And this is a Twitter a Twitter feed.
1:07:57
It's It's pretty funny.
1:07:59
Um, and there's
1:08:00
there's several articles on this out in
1:08:02
the international press, which are are
1:08:05
are one of the main questions. Are Andy
1:08:08
Burnham and Keir Starmer really
1:08:10
different?
1:08:11
Uh, aesthetical differences aside,
1:08:13
Starmer and Burnham are both products of
1:08:15
the same political pipeline. Both were
1:08:17
educated in England's elite
1:08:19
universities. Starmer studied at Oxford
1:08:22
Oxford and Burnham at Cambridge. Both
1:08:24
represent the centrist managerial New
1:08:28
Labour of Tony Blair, not the left-wing
1:08:31
Labour of Jeremy Corbyn. Back in 2015,
1:08:34
both tried and failed to prevent Corbyn
1:08:37
from taking control of the party after
1:08:40
the resignation of Ed Miliband, with
1:08:42
Starmer endorsing Burnham's failed
1:08:45
leadership bid. So, these guys are
1:08:48
buddies from way back. Starmer
1:08:50
eventually succeeded Corbyn in 2020,
1:08:53
used accusations of anti-Semitism to
1:08:56
oust one of Britain's most vocal
1:08:58
supporters of Palestine. He has since
1:09:01
reshaped the party as
1:09:04
Atlantic
1:09:05
Atlanticist
1:09:07
pro-Israel political force, and there's
1:09:10
no indication that Burnham will abandon
1:09:13
this course. Labor's position on
1:09:16
Israel-Palestine and its conflict is
1:09:19
existential for the party. Under
1:09:21
Starmer,
1:09:22
Palestinian action was listed as a
1:09:25
terrorist organization, and the PM
1:09:28
called for the policing of language and
1:09:30
banning of anti-Israel protest. As a
1:09:33
result, Labor's left-wing base has
1:09:36
abandoned the party in droves, switching
1:09:39
allegiance
1:09:40
to the pro-Palestinian Green Party.
1:09:43
Against public protests and complaints
1:09:45
from his own MPs, Starmer refused to
1:09:48
call for a ceasefire in Gaza in 2023 and
1:09:52
affirmed Israel's right to cut off power
1:09:54
and water to to the strip's 2 million
1:09:58
residents. They cut off power and water.
1:10:00
Burnham, like Starmer, is a member of
1:10:03
Labour Friends of Israel, a group that
1:10:06
only a quarter of Labour MPs have
1:10:08
joined. He backed Starmer's coup against
1:10:11
Corbyn, describing the party as
1:10:14
embroiled in anti-Semitism,
1:10:17
and his 2015 leadership bid, he promised
1:10:21
that his first overseas trip would be
1:10:23
going to Israel, which he praised for
1:10:25
its long history of promoting uh uh
1:10:28
protecting
1:10:30
protecting minorities and promoting
1:10:33
civil rights. None of this is going to
1:10:37
ingratiate Burnham with Labour's
1:10:39
left-wing, nor will it help with Muslim
1:10:42
voters, two-thirds of whom will say they
1:10:45
no
1:10:46
no no longer consider voting for the
1:10:48
party,
1:10:49
according to a poll taken last month.
1:10:53
Burnham
1:10:55
backed the Iraq War. Starmer famously
1:10:58
marched against the US invasion of Iraq
1:11:00
in 2003.
1:11:03
But prevaricated when the US and Israel
1:11:05
began striking Iran in February.
1:11:09
After an initial public statement in
1:11:11
which he condemned Donald Trump and
1:11:12
Benjamin Netanyahu's attempts to impose
1:11:15
regime change from the skies, Starmer
1:11:18
went on to allow the US military to
1:11:20
military to conduct what what he called
1:11:23
defensive strikes on Iran from British
1:11:26
bases.
1:11:28
For his part, Burnham voted in favor of
1:11:30
joining the 2003 invasion of Iraq, a
1:11:33
decision he has since described as
1:11:35
agonizing. However, he went on to vote
1:11:37
against formal inquiries into Britain's
1:11:40
conduct in Iraq and has said little
1:11:42
about the war on Iran, describing it as
1:11:45
not simple.
1:11:47
Like Starmer and every conservative PM
1:11:50
since 2022,
1:11:52
Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak,
1:11:55
Burnham is staunchly pro-Ukraine,
1:11:59
promising to stand with Ukraine for as
1:12:03
long as it takes.
1:12:06
Mhm.
1:12:07
Crazy freaking sauce.
1:12:11
I wanted to share with you the Hormuz
1:12:14
hotline.
1:12:16
>> [laughter]
1:12:16
>> Iran's going to set up a hotline with
1:12:18
the US and other countries to present
1:12:21
and resolve any misunderstandings
1:12:24
involving ships transiting the Strait of
1:12:26
Hormuz. The strait will henceforth be
1:12:29
managed under Iranian arrangements and
1:12:32
will never return to what it was before
1:12:35
the war, Ghalibaf Mohammad Bagher
1:12:38
Ghalibaf has said he returning when he
1:12:41
returned from the first round of talks
1:12:43
with the US in Switzerland. Problems can
1:12:46
arise in the Strait of Hormuz, so we
1:12:48
agreed to establish a center and a
1:12:50
communication line so that if issues
1:12:53
occur, we can resolve them more quick
1:12:55
quickly within a 30-day period. Well,
1:12:59
that's cool.
1:13:00
The
1:13:01
Yeah, that'll work.
1:13:02
A communication line will not be used to
1:13:05
obtain Iranian permission for passage
1:13:07
through the waterway, he said. Saying
1:13:09
clearance procedures will remain
1:13:11
separate. Instead, it will serve as a
1:13:13
mechanism for resolving issues involving
1:13:16
ships and clarifying potential
1:13:18
incidents. Golly. Boff stressed that
1:13:20
Iran will implement international laws
1:13:23
precisely
1:13:25
and move quickly to resolve any
1:13:27
incidents or misunderstandings.
1:13:30
Just as problems may arise in Lebanon or
1:13:32
elsewhere, problems can also arise in
1:13:35
the Strait of Hormuz.
1:13:37
As you've seen in some nights, there may
1:13:39
have even been clashes. Washington and
1:13:42
Tehran agreed on a roadmap toward a
1:13:45
final accord following Qatar and
1:13:47
Pakistan-mediated talks at the Swiss
1:13:50
resort of Burgenstock.
1:13:52
Ooh, I want to go there. Over the
1:13:54
weekend, while no joint statement was
1:13:56
released, mediators said the sides
1:13:58
agreed to a 60-day path toward a deal.
1:14:02
The path toward a deal. Hmm. Further
1:14:04
technical negotiation and creation of a
1:14:07
high-level committee to oversee the
1:14:09
process.
1:14:11
Tehran said the talks focused heavily on
1:14:14
practical economic issues, including the
1:14:16
release of $12 billion in in frozen
1:14:19
Iranian assets and the lifting of
1:14:22
restrictions on Iranian ports
1:14:24
and shipping.
1:14:26
Although shipping traffic through the
1:14:28
Strait of Hormuz has resumed, ship
1:14:31
owners are deeply concerned and
1:14:34
uncertain about how to navigate the
1:14:36
waterway amid conflicting instructions
1:14:38
from Iran, the US, and Western insurers.
1:14:43
Iran has warned that vessels will face
1:14:45
penalties or be forced to turn back
1:14:48
unless they obtain prior clearance from
1:14:51
Tehran and follow designated routes
1:14:54
closer to the Iranian coast. The US and
1:14:57
some Western insurers, meanwhile, have
1:15:00
advised vessels to use routes along the
1:15:02
Omani side of the waterway under the
1:15:05
protection of US air cover, according to
1:15:08
three shipping industry executives. The
1:15:11
conflicting guidance, surprise,
1:15:13
surprise, has left ship owners uncertain
1:15:17
over which route to take despite the
1:15:20
strait being open to commercial traffic.
1:15:26
Yeah, that war is over.
1:15:28
>> [laughter]
1:15:29
>> That war is done. I wanted to share with
1:15:33
you something uh
1:15:35
uh
1:15:36
um the new Wild West that story that
1:15:38
says a written by a guy named
1:15:42
Robert Bridge.
1:15:45
Uh only a gun will make an American feel
1:15:48
safe these days. What does that say
1:15:51
about the US society? I've had a lot of
1:15:54
people tell me the fact I've considered
1:15:56
it myself and uh you know, perhaps I
1:15:59
should go get one. But more importantly
1:16:02
today, Britain's first gay father and
1:16:05
his husband uh they have been charged
1:16:09
with child sex offenses. Millionaire
1:16:13
football club owner Barrie Drewitt
1:16:16
Barlow and his spouse face 18 charges.
1:16:22
British businessman who became known as
1:16:24
the country's first gay father has been
1:16:27
charged with child sex offenses. Barrie
1:16:30
Drewitt Barlow, 57, was facing a number
1:16:33
of current allegations alongside his
1:16:35
current husband Scott, who is 32.
1:16:39
The couple who bought the Essex based
1:16:42
football club Maldon and Tiptree FC
1:16:45
in 2025 appeared at Chelmsford Crown
1:16:49
Court on Monday and hit with 18 more
1:16:53
charges including rape and sex offenses,
1:16:57
child sex offenses.
1:17:01
The new offenses committed between 2013
1:17:05
and 2026 according to Essex police.
1:17:09
They were charged with two counts of
1:17:11
sexual activity with a child, two counts
1:17:13
of paying for sexual service of a child,
1:17:15
five counts of rape, four counts of
1:17:17
sexual assault, among other offenses.
1:17:20
Scott Druitt Bar low faces two
1:17:22
additional rape charges and one count of
1:17:25
causing or inciting sexual activity. The
1:17:28
pair due to return to court for a plea
1:17:30
hearing in September. They were remanded
1:17:33
to custody and a provisional trial date
1:17:36
of January 18.
1:17:39
Isn't that crazy?
1:17:41
You own a football club and you can't
1:17:44
you know to sleep with an adult. Come
1:17:46
on, what's your problem?
1:17:48
Um
1:17:49
let's see.
1:17:53
I believe I'm not going to start this
1:17:55
last story. I'll just share with you
1:17:57
some headlines. There was a uh
1:18:00
a a
1:18:02
minister, the hawkish Israeli national
1:18:04
security minister
1:18:07
Itamar Ben-Gvir has rejected US and
1:18:10
Iranian calls to halt military
1:18:12
operations in Lebanon.
1:18:15
And he says that Lebanon should be
1:18:17
Israel's
1:18:19
playground.
1:18:20
Yeah.
1:18:23
A country that supports terrorism is
1:18:25
what he calls it and even with smaller
1:18:27
number of soldiers we can achieve
1:18:30
results if Lebanon is our playground.
1:18:34
He previously wrote on X that all of
1:18:36
Lebanon should burn.
1:18:40
Under a US-Iranian memorandum of
1:18:42
understanding, the sides declared an
1:18:44
immediate and permanent termination of
1:18:46
military operations on all fronts,
1:18:50
including Lebanon.
1:18:53
So far that hasn't happened, friends and
1:18:55
neighbors. On Monday, Vice President
1:18:57
Vance said very good progress was made
1:19:01
on the deconfliction mechanism for
1:19:04
Lebanon during talks with Iran in
1:19:06
Switzerland, Qatar and But yeah, but
1:19:09
Israel's not there. Neither is Lebanon.
1:19:12
>> [laughter]
1:19:12
>> They agreed on the creation of a
1:19:14
deconfliction cell. Yeah, we'll see
1:19:17
about that. I I don't see that as being
1:19:20
successful remotely.
1:19:23
Well,
1:19:24
friends and neighbors, it is a happy
1:19:26
Tuesday. I uh
1:19:29
like I said, have I think I'm going to
1:19:31
come back on at uh 10:00 10:30 live.
1:19:35
Uh but uh
1:19:37
uh
1:19:37
I'm I might only do a recording. I'm not
1:19:39
quite sure how I'm going to do it in
1:19:40
studio with
1:19:42
Representative Vernetti that I'm going
1:19:44
to be speaking to and recording it for
1:19:47
use maybe on Friday's Civic Outlaws and
1:19:49
maybe for for uh tomorrow's um
1:19:53
International Flavor.
1:19:55
But uh we'll be we'll be keeping it and
1:19:58
we'll be doing a a a recording of of
1:20:00
all. It's going to be uh entertaining.
1:20:03
And uh we'll we'll
1:20:06
Uh we shall see. And it might be just a
1:20:08
I'll record it in here and and have it
1:20:11
go very nice and we will meet again
1:20:14
tomorrow.
1:20:15
I appreciate y'all being here on
1:20:16
International Flavor. You can listen to
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1:20:21
You can get all the good music.
1:20:23
And um you can go back for past episodes
1:20:27
of International Flavor by going to
1:20:29
internationalflavor.com.
1:20:31
Hope
1:20:32
you have a fantabulous
1:20:36
Mid-Missouri Tuesday.