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Bombs, Bloggers, Bodyguards and Billions: Brutal Bribes, Blasted Children and Broken Speech in Ukraine, Russia and the West · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Interrupt this incredibly awesome music to bring you
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  some incredibly awesome political talk on damn radio
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  Hello, good evening.
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  Welcome.
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  I am Samuel trap.
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  This is international flavor.
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  You're listening to damn radio I'm coming to
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  you live tonight from the Lake Ozark real
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  estate of the art studio in I've got
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  a bunch of things.
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  I want to cover tonight, but not in
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  any particular order Lot of topics a lot
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  of interesting news Coming out.
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  I think I want to start with some
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  direct quotes I had to go out and
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  find these because there's been various stories about
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  the Angelina Jolie Guard and I've been out
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  looking and if you listen to it from
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  the West, oh she's out there, you know
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  doing all kinds of things and Protecting children
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  and talking about you with children who sit
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  under constant shelling every day and all that
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  kind of thing and With then you hear
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  it from the other points of view and
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  you hear how?
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  What we do not hear the part of
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  the story that we do not hear and
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  so I'm gonna share with you a bit
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  of a Monologue and that someone was giving
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  and then a bit of a discussion between
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  several people but I'm gonna focus on just
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  two and I don't have their names right
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  here, but Let's talk about it.
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  First.
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  They were talking about some sort of genetic
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  error they were talking about corruption in Ukraine
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  and This is on Solovey off Even an
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  evening with Solovey of which I like to
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  watch and And just to get an alternative
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  view, right and they have their share of
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  propaganda We got ours or we just don't
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  provide the rest of the story, you know,
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  where where is Paul?
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  Harvey when you need him Providing the rest
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  of the story.
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  We don't get the rest of the story,
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  but he was talking about how everybody's He
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  said there's some sort of genetic error on
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  the production line of these puppets and he's
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  talking about people like Zelensky he said it's
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  impossible to distinguish one from the other and
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  he was talking about Yanukovych Zelensky all the
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  other Ukrainian people he says but they are
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  all crooked.
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  They are really crooked But all of this
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  is just some sort of tragedy and at
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  the same time The level of such is
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  so high such theft But notice the Western
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  says, you know blow blow blow by blow.
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  It's gonna be difficult for them and But
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  this is this is Russian propagandists speaking, but
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  it isn't this is this is Naboo So
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  he's saying of course, it's Russia.
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  Why not Russia?
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  Of course Russia.
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  Yes, of course and We don't even need
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  to say anything we don't need to say
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  anything and we will still be a blamed
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  it's just Mindik the owner of studio Kvartal
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  which he co-founded with Zelensky.
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  It was this organization that the created the
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  service of the people the man of the
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  people a popular satire on domestic political corruption
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  in Ukraine Which the show led Zelensky to
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  the presidency and then life-repeated art You
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  can call us Russian propagandists, but the trolls
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  and bots will all be Delighted it is
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  certainly undeniable that Ukraine Should not help that
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  any money or shouldn't have helped that money
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  would be stolen but this phrase Despite all
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  this talk of democracy is no different from
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  any other comments We we didn't steal these
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  come comments.
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  We don't steal.
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  We don't have that type of corruption for
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  us It's not even close those who try
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  to engage in such corruption are sitting in
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  jail all over our country and We were
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  brought to our senses in the 90s, but
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  these People from the West and it reminded
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  me of the guy who calls it all
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  the time these Western faggots Come to your
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  senses you Ursula von der Leyen types stole
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  billions you are even afraid to start a
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  business and you want to steal Russia's money
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  they're talking about and Bloomberg these are the
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  these I'm sorry.
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  I'm gonna tell you just like he said
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  it on the TV He said and these
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  people from Bloomberg these bastards in America you
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  have Biden with his sons in the same
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  Ukraine they stole all kinds of money, but
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  it's all Russia's fault You need to be
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  imprisoned bastards and of course listen to the
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  Western media Angelina Jolie, oh another greedy Hollywood
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  bitch she took pity and Some money from
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  modest guys in the I don't know the
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  abbreviation PC PCC I think it was the
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  Army and you can hear in this part
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  of the story.
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  I didn't hear before I've seen it, but
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  I haven't heard it from anybody and he
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  says Ukrainian officials demanded $100,000 from Angelina
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  Jolie for the release of her bodyguard and
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  he played the video and the video Was
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  in English and I haven't been able to
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  find it and I and I saw it,
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  but I couldn't see any identifying Marks on
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  it and you know like where it came
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  from whether it was a TV station or
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  what?
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  But it didn't appear to be a YouTube
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  video He must have gotten it from a
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  TV station But they played it in English
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  and I heard the English and then heard
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  the translation in Russian And so it was
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  in the English language, and maybe it came
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  from Europe or something I don't know, but
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  what he said on the show was Ukrainian
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  officials demanded 100,000 from Angelo Angelina Jolie
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  for the release of her bodyguards and And
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  I heard that exact comment from whatever person
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  was speaking in English and Angelina Jolie stated
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  that they Wanted a hundred thousand dollars from
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  her so they arrested her bodyguard in the
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  hopes of getting her to pay a bribe
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  to them and so that was new and
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  I'd heard it before but but not straight
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  up and certainly not in English and so
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  The video was in English though.
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  I just haven't been able to find it.
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  Maybe somebody Better skilled than I at finding
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  those will be able to find it But
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  this story goes on for several several minute
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  or this conversation that he was having or
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  this because they each get a go on
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  and do their dialogue and so I Translated
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  what he said as near as I could
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  and it was fun to listen to and
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  so I thought I'd share it with you
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  But Ukrainian officials demanded a hundred thousand from
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  Angelina Jolie for the release of her bodyguard
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  She was dragged into a real drama in
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  the zone of hostilities during her recent visit
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  to Ukraine The bodyguard of the actress who
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  was also her driver Was detained and taken
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  to the police station after he was stopped
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  at a checkpoint He was accused of not
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  having military documents Jolie was in shock when
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  the man was taken away and Sent to
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  the regional recruitment center To and she went
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  to this regional recruitment center to try to
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  negotiate his release the employee of the legacy
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  of wars company who accompanied Jolie said the
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  situation in the recruitment center was sharpened or
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  was Pretty But you it it got worse
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  basically after the employees demanded money from the
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  actress They said they could release him for
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  a hundred thousand dollars.
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  It was shocking They just called the price
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  as if it were part of the documentation
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  said one of the members of the organization
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  And I heard them say as if this
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  was an everyday, you know request asking for
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  a hundred thousand They don't ask for a
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  hundred thousand from everybody I'm sure they did
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  that because it was Angelina Jolie later a
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  statement by the by the News agency confirmed
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  that this incident took place in Nikolaev The
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  official emphasized that Jolie did not interfere in
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  any military work And Ukraine is doing its
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  best to prevent citizens from evading the call
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  to duty because the hostilities intensifying We were
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  told that Angelina Jolie felt an extreme need
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  and had to go pee It's what the
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  guy said and everyone knows Well, the only
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  in play only place in Ukraine where you
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  can calmly satisfy this need for a Hollywood
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  star Is the regional recruitment center?
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  Listen citizens of Ukraine.
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  Do you really want to die for this
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  power?
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  Klitschko told you he's another Ukrainian Theft guy
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  told you that the call that the time
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  to be called had to be shortened to
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  your your what that what they said and
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  this is a bad translation, but the He
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  said that they need to reduce the recruitment
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  age Tell me do you really have what
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  do you have about a million and a
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  half young men left?
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  About a million and a half in three
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  years when everyone dies, will you continue to
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  include?
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  Fools and and young men.
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  I do not understand Those for whom you
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  put your life in their hands are just
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  thieves and scum by the way much worse
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  than those against whom one of you jumped
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  on my dad and my dad is you
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  know the the Overthrow the government Can we
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  match it?
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  Let's show this today Pavel and I Wrote
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  in the morning and Pavel says I just
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  got back, but I want to show it
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  Anyway, this is a frightening video and I
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  watched this video and this I want to
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  share with you.
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  But this is Horrifying and it was a
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  I watched the guy Tell his story and
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  he's basically a Ukrainian Prisoner of war and
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  he's being held and he's telling these things
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  rather matter-of-factly And he's not very
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  bright and he has a bit of a
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  stutter.
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  So it was hard to To follow him
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  completely, but what he said was he said
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  well, it's the the One of the guys
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  talking first he said we may they made
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  this film and it's very hard to watch
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  these I had a whole discussion with my
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  students at the Academy who are all future
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  priests but at the same time I showed
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  this frame to them and we were all
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  in a consensus about these horrible crimes and
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  such a terrible number of crimes But I
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  want people to understand what we are talking
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  about and I'm reading the whole the whole
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  Part and so this guy starts talking and
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  here's where the Ukrainian prisoner of war Started
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  to talk and he what he said was
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  so The commander told us that we had
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  to understand who we are fighting with So
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  that there would be no peace in this
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  village.
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  We were Attacking in this village it turns
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  out was in Kursk.
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  So last year when the Ukrainians crossed into
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  Kursk What they were doing was systematically going
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  to villages and there were a lot of
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  stories of it at the time But of
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  course the West didn't carry it at all
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  and you would he would see it and
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  hear it It was all over telegram and
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  everywhere else.
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  Well this guy and a couple others have
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  been Charged with criminal affairs for crossing the
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  border into Russia and Russia said it that
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  when they picked these people up this was
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  they were not going to charge him under
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  any sort of war they were going to
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  charge him as Criminals and if we catch
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  the people who are doing these things we
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  will charge them criminally and not as Not
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  as this guy needs to be charged criminally.
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  No doubt this guy needs to go to
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  prison for the rest of his life but
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  the they Warned about it and said if
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  you come into Kursk, which is Russian territory
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  we will After if we capture you you
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  surrender we including Western What do you call
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  them?
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  Mercenaries at those mercenaries we're going to Prosecute
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  you criminally you'll be in jail the rest
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  of your lives This is not the the
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  war the war is in Ukraine.
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  This is people invading our country So now
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  the Ukrainians have taken a similar approach on
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  the other side, by the way, so that's
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  that's not unusual But they're generally holding to
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  the Geneva Convention for the most part for
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  stuff that is going on the war But
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  these are separate crimes and I don't claim
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  to be an expert on which one it
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  is But I get the argument both ways
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  is all I'm saying so we can figure
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  that out later.
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  But here's this Ukrainian Whore.
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  Oh what a guy but it's he was
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  matter-of-fact about it and he and
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  you know, he did it You know, this
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  is not somebody who didn't do these things
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  so He said there was going to be
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  no peace left in this village and no
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  one left alive So we went from village
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  to village We but this village we went
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  to the very first house and there was
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  a young girl named Nadia the The commander
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  of our group gave the command to kidnap
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  and rape the girl Which I did she
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  was then shot in the back and we
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  went to the next house There were two
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  men and a woman the man Was beaten
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  and and killed and shot and the woman
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  was raped and Raped and raped and then
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  killed our next battle in that same village
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  was on the first and he's talking about
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  because Well, that'll that'll be made clear here
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  later we went to the very same village
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  and there was a basement in the same
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  house and there were Elderly people and we
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  tied them up and put them in the
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  basement and threw grenades at them in The
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  second room there were two women and a
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  man The men were killed or the man
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  was killed at once The women were raped
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  and then killed and then we returned to
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  our positions and they see the Interrogator says
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  where was that?
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  He said it was the course guy oblast
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  the suit John ski district This is where
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  and and the guy paused the tape and
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  he said This is why I think our
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  guys are Saints.
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  He's this interviewer.
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  He's talking about I would have strangled this
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  man with my own hands.
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  I would have torn him to pieces He
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  has no right to live on this earth
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  This is why Vladimir Putin said all the
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  terrorists that came to course Oblast will be
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  killed in the basements all of them all
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  of them and then the guy who was
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  it who did the video?
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  Or it was introducing the video.
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  He says I agree velodya remember three years
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  ago when we discussed the possibility of Holding
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  a public trial trial for the mariopal prisoners
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  Because they were they were terrible if you
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  watch those mariopal videos years ago.
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  Well three years ago We hoped that there
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  would be a public trial.
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  It would be good To be a lawyer
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  for the victims, but in the end everything
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  ended with just an exchange You know you
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  give back your prisoners and we take ours
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  and the mercenaries, you know Because of the
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  fear that there would be a fund to
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  buy this Australian Canadian Austrian Finnish Spanish and
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  Georgian mercenaries.
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  That is why we try not to take
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  them as For this subject.
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  It's 21 episodes This guy that was just
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  the first one.
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  I'm the one who interrogated him and I
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  can't interrogate Investigators, it's very difficult for me
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  to bear what he says and almost impossible
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  to watch But it turns out that it's
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  necessary It's necessary because he says a very
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  important thing.
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  He said it's not important, but it's something
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  to remember He says that the commander gave
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  an order not to leave any Civilians alive
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  in the village and when he says they
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  came back on the 1st It's almost a
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  month later on the 1st of September and
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  they came back to clean up It's almost
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  like a hundred years ago 80 or 90
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  years ago The Nazis were cleaning the whole
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  occupied territories and one of the Nazi Ideologists
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  Heinrich Himmler said that the task was This
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  is horror not to turn our victims into
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  our accusers So that's what they were doing
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  If they were killing people that might later
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  accuse them of atrocities They just you know,
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  rape them and then kill them it was
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  the key of authorities who learned these lessons
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  of Nazism and they consider Hitler a failure
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  and what he says that the task took
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  was to destroy This guy they were talked
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  that we were interviewing to destroy all the
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  civilians the girl who was first raped and
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  then killed she was a Teenager they didn't
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  leave anyone alive when they entered our Kursk
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  territory What we used to say is that
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  we need to create a buffer zone These
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  28 settlements that that we drove through glushkova
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  Kornievsky Sujansky districts there is not a single
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  house left.
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  There is not a single Temple from is
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  what the word is.
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  It's actually a church with the it's the
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  one with the golden cupola on top He
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  said this is a film that we just
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  finished with velodya's team And I hope it
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  will be shown and and I watched that
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  video and and and maybe I'll give you
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  a couple more minutes but I I Want
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  to get back to where we were but
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  he says because in parallel with the cleaning
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  of Killing all these people the cleaning up
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  of people that were left alive that might
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  be able to accuse them another team Also
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  learning from the Nazis came to the churches
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  and temples and took icons and and if
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  you ever been in a Russian church, which
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  I have it is incredible how old they
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  are and They have icons that are Centuries
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  old in there that were painted in 800
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  AD, you know stuff like that that have
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  been around in these churches are built ages
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  and ages ago so they go in and
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  they are cutting them out of the wall
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  and taking them right and the most valuable
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  the oldest are taken out of the and
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  they're usually got gold on them and Then
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  they destroy the temples and so they they
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  they in these 26 cities They they took
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  out every church they got rid of them
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  But first they went in and took all
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  of the icons is what they are Saying
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  and this guy the 26 temples were destroyed
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  These are his accomplices and the news comes
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  from Ukraine today.
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  Not that it's a corruption scandal, but that
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  today Vlad Vladika arsony the head of the
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  st.
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  Torgos Galavra is that the church a man
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  seriously ill who survived a severe operation and
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  They say that Chai of Lavra was plundered
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  the key of purchase Lavra was plundered and
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  I will and the Lavra is the Spot
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  where all the icons are stored and it's
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  a very beautiful place.
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  And when you go in these Russian churches,
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  they're just unbelievably beautiful and Wow, I went
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  into one a wooden a wooden structure built
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  in like 1300 and in Jeez, what city
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  was that?
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  I can't remember but but it was it
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  was unbelievable to walk into where people have
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  been going to church since the 1300s and
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  they have the same icons that are in
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  there and these same paintings that were done
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  and people have been praying to them forever
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  and It in front of them.
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  I mean they don't pray to them That
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  that I don't know and they're providing evidence
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  because it just so happened that I had
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  to go to a fun and I'm not
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  gonna read these whole stories.
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  But but these I Listened to the whole
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  show and I was kind of glued to
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  it, you know because of what they were
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  talking about And so I wanted to go
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  into some of that for you and I
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  do plan to come back to that a
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  little bit because Further in my my text
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  here.
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  I have some of it some of it
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  scripted but there's there's plenty more that I
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  want to talk about today and I wanted
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  to kind of put This I mean war
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  sucks and it really needs to end I
• 23:29
  mean it just does and you know, it's
• 23:31
  kind of funny.
• 23:32
  We haven't heard anything said about it since
• 23:35
  shutdown and I mean seriously, what have we
• 23:39
  heard about?
• 23:41
  US funding u.s. Engaging.
• 23:44
  The only thing I've heard was that oh
• 23:46
  gee We aren't gonna give anything to Ukraine
• 23:51
  NATO has to buy it or Europe has
• 23:53
  to buy it and they buy it from
• 23:54
  us and then give it to Ukraine because
• 23:56
  We're gonna run this place like a business
• 23:58
  now.
• 24:00
  I Think we shouldn't even sell it to
• 24:02
  him.
• 24:02
  But but that's me I suppose if you
• 24:04
  want to make money off it, that's okay,
• 24:06
  but it's it's really not.
• 24:08
  Okay, because on the battlefront is Faster and
• 24:13
  faster.
• 24:14
  This is no longer Incremental tiny gains.
• 24:18
  We're having pretty large gains on the Russian
• 24:21
  side Frequently and they there was a report
• 24:25
  I listened to today.
• 24:26
  It said that Sierski is really in in
• 24:31
  hot water over this put cross Debacle and
• 24:35
  and that there, you know this cauldron this
• 24:38
  encirclement of Prokhorov sq and that Their stories
• 24:44
  that say that they found another 10,000
• 24:48
  soldiers.
• 24:48
  In fact, it was on one of these
• 24:49
  shows I heard it that there's another 10
• 24:52
  ,000 soldiers that they picked up and gave
• 24:54
  them two weeks two weeks basic training and
• 25:00
  Threw them into the front in Prokhorov skill
• 25:03
  Two weeks brand new soldiers two weeks now
• 25:10
  My training was longer than most Okay, but
• 25:12
  basic training if I remember basic training was
• 25:15
  12 or 14 weeks something like that three
• 25:18
  months, right?
• 25:20
  Two and a half three months Then I
• 25:23
  went to Russian school.
• 25:25
  Now.
• 25:25
  That was a year.
• 25:26
  I went to Russian school for a year,
• 25:28
  but then I went to Learn my job
• 25:31
  electronic warfare right electronic warfare collection jamming Interrogation
• 25:37
  those were my duties as an interpreter If
• 25:41
  I was gonna if I went to war,
• 25:44
  you know, that's what I would be doing
• 25:45
  and we had tactical equipment strategically the strategic
• 25:49
  part was knowing the Russian and I ended
• 25:52
  up doing I had a strategic assignment and
• 25:54
  that was My diplomatic passport holding and doing
• 25:57
  arms control.
• 25:58
  Those are strategic issues tactical means during warfare
• 26:02
  and I was electronic warfare and signals intelligence
• 26:05
  and listening to using equipment to Listen to
• 26:10
  other people right to the other side or
• 26:13
  be able to in all the training that
• 26:15
  you went through I never used it in
• 26:16
  war Because you know, I speak Russian if
• 26:19
  I assume if I'd have spoken Arabic I'd
• 26:22
  have been on the front in Iraq one
• 26:24
  in Iraq two, but to take people who
• 26:28
  have never been in the army or practice
• 26:32
  or been in the military at all and
• 26:35
  Give them two weeks to learn how to
• 26:37
  use a weapon to learn how to throw
• 26:39
  a grenade to learn how to maybe use
• 26:43
  a collage Kalashnikov rifle something To even wear
• 26:48
  your equipment properly, you know anything Yeah, and
• 26:52
  everybody wants to be a drone operator, but
• 26:54
  these two weak people they aren't learning how
• 26:57
  to do drones No friggin way.
• 26:59
  They're throwing them out in the front and
• 27:00
  throwing them a rifle and saying take Prokofiev's
• 27:02
  back and This I've seen several reports of
• 27:06
  this but I only saw the one video
• 27:08
  and if that's true The end is the
• 27:10
  end is nigh at the end is here
• 27:13
  basically And you heard me read a little
• 27:16
  while ago that that little clip that said
• 27:21
  You know you want to grab a weapon
• 27:25
  and you know, come on down and stand
• 27:28
  to post Do you know you what would
• 27:30
  you for your young men?
• 27:31
  You have a million and a half young
• 27:33
  men left now.
• 27:35
  Remember the recruitment age or the mobile.
• 27:38
  It's not recruitment It's mobilization there They're just
• 27:41
  picking people up off the street beating the
• 27:43
  snot out of them throwing them in a
• 27:45
  van and taking them to a place giving
• 27:47
  them two weeks of Training and and they're
• 27:50
  they're they're anti they're against it So two
• 27:53
  weeks of training when they don't want to
• 27:55
  be trained and the they're having they're leaving
• 27:59
  they say a fourth of them a fourth
• 28:02
  are Going AWOL and trying to get out
• 28:05
  and then they're getting charged with that, you
• 28:07
  know, we're killed for that I mean, it's
• 28:09
  it's it's brutal what's going on, but 18
• 28:13
  to 25 year olds are not mobilized and
• 28:16
  in fact, they've allowed tons of them to
• 28:18
  leave the country and And they just have
• 28:21
  to register and then they can leave the
• 28:23
  country And so that's exactly what they're doing
• 28:25
  because they know the next step is to
• 28:27
  mobilize the 18 to 25 year olds So
• 28:30
  the comment is well, geez What do you
• 28:32
  got a million and a half of those
• 28:33
  if you're lucky and that's true because they
• 28:36
  don't have more than 20 million people left
• 28:38
  in Ukraine, they had 50, you know back
• 28:43
  1991 their leather less than 20 now is
• 28:47
  the numbers that I've seen and Then everybody's
• 28:51
  leaving, you know, anyway They don't have anything
• 28:55
  to go I I'm Against this war and
• 28:59
  it needs to end it will end at
• 29:01
  some point and and Russia is driving right
• 29:04
  now they're driving and But there were two
• 29:07
  stories that I wanted to talk about and
• 29:10
  for different reasons and the first one Is
• 29:16
  just another part of how ugly this is
• 29:20
  now this one happened in Donbass now Donbass
• 29:23
  is now Russian territory and they didn't say
• 29:26
  whether it was Donetsk or Lugansk but another
• 29:29
  one occurred south of Moscow as well that
• 29:32
  there there are people there but It not
• 29:35
  as bad as this one in this one
• 29:38
  In Moscow south southern suburbs somewhere in Moscow
• 29:43
  there's a nine-year-old boy and He
• 29:46
  picked up what he thought was some money
• 29:50
  because they tied some money to something in
• 29:53
  the ground in the string and instead he
• 29:57
  lost He was he's not dead but he
• 30:02
  was blown up by a an explosive device
• 30:06
  picking it up and That's one story I
• 30:11
  want to get to on the other one
• 30:13
  is a lady from Siberia and Russia day,
• 30:17
  which I can't remember the day.
• 30:18
  I want to say it's like June 12th
• 30:20
  or something, but I don't remember but She's
• 30:23
  a blogger.
• 30:24
  Her name is Maria Machmutova, and she's from
• 30:27
  the town of Shelekhov in the Irkutsk region
• 30:30
  and She opened her mouth on Russia day
• 30:33
  and went on a rant on the on
• 30:35
  a video and Now she's serving a criminal
• 30:40
  sentence for the I don't know what you
• 30:45
  would call it circumstances for what Resulted afterward
• 30:51
  so same country same government two different types
• 30:56
  of cases Both of them tell us about
• 30:59
  you know The line between Protecting society or
• 31:04
  just punishing people.
• 31:06
  Okay, so let's start with the boy first
• 31:08
  and according to the Russian reports He sees
• 31:11
  what looks like a banknote on the ground.
• 31:14
  He's nine years old.
• 31:15
  Of course.
• 31:16
  He reaches down to pick it up and
• 31:18
  Somebody planted it improvised explosive device Right under
• 31:23
  the money and it detonated Wasn't a movie
• 31:26
  stunt not a YouTube prank It's a kid
• 31:28
  in a city street, and he's maimed for
• 31:31
  life because somebody went after the enemy But
• 31:36
  you know allegedly by putting a handful of
• 31:38
  cash and turning it into a booby trap
• 31:41
  You know You don't have to like or
• 31:45
  dislike Russia You don't have to support or
• 31:48
  not support policies of Moscow to look at
• 31:51
  something like that and say That's evil that
• 31:55
  is terror that's targeting children It's designed to
• 31:59
  paralyze a society, you know, not this is
• 32:04
  not Proving who's right or who's wrong?
• 32:08
  It's this this isn't even war, you know
• 32:11
  It's the same mentality as putting bombs in
• 32:15
  school buses Or leaving toys rigged with explosives
• 32:18
  in the playground, you know, this is not
• 32:21
  Resistance it's not Heroism this is hatred, right?
• 32:26
  That's and so all over Russian TV, and
• 32:29
  I saw it in several different places They're
• 32:32
  using this story For you know now now
• 32:36
  it is I'm not saying this story is
• 32:39
  propaganda.
• 32:39
  The story is the story, but they're using
• 32:42
  it to push the line of thoughts they
• 32:44
  say This is why we are fighting this
• 32:49
  is who we are up against these are
• 32:52
  not just misguided people these are monsters Okay.
• 32:57
  Now that is quite extreme, right?
• 33:01
  I Mean, that's what you're saying about Ukrainians.
• 33:04
  Now.
• 33:04
  All Ukrainians aren't monsters all Ukrainians aren't misguided
• 33:09
  people all miss all Ukrainians aren't Capable of
• 33:14
  putting a bomb in the ground tying some
• 33:16
  dollars to it and blowing up a nine
• 33:18
  -year-old boy.
• 33:19
  That's just Evil.
• 33:21
  Okay, and so on the one hand we
• 33:25
  have Newscasters and people and I read to
• 33:28
  you a little bit about the Soloveyov show
• 33:30
  because it's an adult program They swear they
• 33:33
  say things like I said that, you know,
• 33:35
  they were calling people bastards for which and
• 33:37
  they were calling them You know Whores and
• 33:43
  they they say some bad things and on
• 33:45
  there sometimes, you know But but normally the
• 33:48
  swole which is about the worst as it
• 33:49
  gets but it's it's usually not too far
• 33:53
  And then they'll call him pederasty, which you
• 33:55
  know it that is a pederasty.
• 33:56
  They'll they'll call them, you know Stuff like
• 33:59
  that, but but generally it's not too bad,
• 34:02
  but they can say things as long as
• 34:04
  they say them about the enemy Okay You
• 34:08
  know it if you accept That framing that
• 34:13
  you convince yourself that your opponent delights in
• 34:16
  blowing up nine-year-olds Then suddenly every
• 34:19
  airstrike every missile every harsh law at home
• 34:22
  Appears justified.
• 34:24
  It's like us here in America they blew
• 34:27
  up the two towers, which which to me
• 34:29
  is probably more and more likely to me
• 34:32
  a Inside job of some sort, you know,
• 34:35
  I I don't accept that it would occur
• 34:38
  the way that they have it.
• 34:39
  I Need some far more convincing.
• 34:42
  So so somebody out there did that then
• 34:44
  and to use that to claim to steal
• 34:48
  from us the rights that they stole under
• 34:50
  the after I can't remember what it is
• 34:54
  anymore, but the Terrorism laws, you know where
• 34:58
  we give up certain rights and they create
• 35:01
  these Airline things and start to track everybody
• 35:05
  and track your phone and track this and
• 35:07
  track that We give these up these rights
• 35:11
  that we have to be not followed Unidentified
• 35:16
  because they've used that will other governments governments
• 35:19
  do the same thing Ukraine definitely does it
• 35:22
  you know, you don't have any freedom of
• 35:24
  speech over there But you can say things
• 35:26
  in Russia against the other side.
• 35:28
  And the only reason I bring that up
• 35:31
  is because suddenly every airstrike every Missile every
• 35:37
  harsh law just as justified.
• 35:39
  We're at war with monsters.
• 35:41
  We have to be harsh, right?
• 35:43
  So hold that picture in your mind a
• 35:45
  child a bank bit a fake banknote and
• 35:48
  an explosion.
• 35:49
  Okay, these are bad And now let's shift
• 35:53
  to Maria the girl.
• 35:54
  I was telling you about earlier and her
• 35:57
  name is Maria I can't remember.
• 36:03
  Yeah, it doesn't matter but a Russian name
• 36:05
  and and Maria Makhmutova and Maria Makhmutova is
• 36:11
  not a general not a politician not a
• 36:14
  billionaire.
• 36:14
  She's a 30-something blogger Living in a
• 36:18
  factory town in Siberia.
• 36:20
  I Was right.
• 36:21
  It was in June June the 12th Russia
• 36:24
  day the official line is be proud be
• 36:27
  grateful celebrate your country she picks up her
• 36:31
  smartphone and Records a furious little video, right?
• 36:37
  She looks into the camera and says What
• 36:40
  kind of holiday is Russia day supposed to
• 36:43
  be?
• 36:44
  What are you proud of?
• 36:46
  people are living in poverty sometimes you're scraping
• 36:50
  by You drown your problems in alcohol and
• 36:53
  you're supposed to be of good cheer because
• 36:55
  somebody hands you a flag and a slogan
• 36:57
  Then she goes further.
• 36:59
  She doesn't just attack the holiday She attacks
• 37:02
  the war and the people fighting it she
• 37:05
  says the only way many people can afford
• 37:09
  nice cars and Apartments is by going off
• 37:12
  to war to kill other people now I've
• 37:14
  told you they get paid some pretty good
• 37:16
  money to go and do that.
• 37:17
  It's a very well paid Job, and that
• 37:20
  is why they have people volunteering to go
• 37:24
  And she calls getting medals and decorations A
• 37:29
  Branding that they are branding and it's a
• 37:32
  mark that you are a killer.
• 37:34
  This is what she said on the on
• 37:36
  the Little video she posted and she says
• 37:40
  that the those medals will bring suffering to
• 37:43
  your own children later and then She dropped
• 37:48
  a line that really got her into trouble.
• 37:51
  This is the one that got her those
• 37:54
  other ones those were Minor okay, and well
• 37:59
  they were all relatively minor.
• 38:01
  I mean she wouldn't be jailed for this
• 38:03
  She would have been in trouble and she
• 38:04
  would have been sanctioned and but the likelihood
• 38:06
  of jail was pretty small but what she
• 38:09
  said was That if there's all the soldiers
• 38:12
  fighting in the special operations special military operation
• 38:16
  died tomorrow then she would sit back and
• 38:20
  pour herself a glass of wine and celebrate
• 38:24
  and She said that is not Under Russian
• 38:29
  law polite dissent, you know dissent of you
• 38:33
  know, what's going on?
• 38:34
  That isn't a careful academic critique of policy
• 38:38
  this is a raw and angry a deliberately
• 38:42
  offensive attack on soldiers and she is spitting
• 38:47
  on sacred symbols in a wartime society Patriotism
• 38:52
  sacrifice the army the dead so you can
• 38:56
  understand why a lot of ordinary people in
• 38:59
  Russia Some whose sons and husbands were over
• 39:02
  there hate her for it and they wanted
• 39:05
  to they wanted something to happen to her
• 39:07
  So the so-called Z activists there and
• 39:11
  that's what they call them a hardcore pro
• 39:14
  -war crowd Ripped the video spread it on
• 39:19
  their channels demanded punishment Tagged a prosecutor general's
• 39:24
  office the investigative committees they highlight the line
• 39:27
  about drinking wine of soldiers die and frame
• 39:31
  it as public approval of the death of
• 39:33
  our troops and Discrediting the army which is
• 39:37
  an insult to the memory of the falling
• 39:39
  fallen So the state the next day some
• 39:44
  the cops went to arrest her, okay And
• 39:48
  she was hit with an administrative charge.
• 39:50
  No, this is not a jailable deal, it's
• 39:53
  a fine, you know, and it's Discrediting the
• 39:57
  armed forces and she was fined 45,000
• 40:02
  rubles equivalent of A $4,500 something like
• 40:10
  that That's a lot of money over there
• 40:13
  and in court She said she'd been wrong
• 40:16
  and that she realized her mistake and that
• 40:18
  she wouldn't do it again so the it
• 40:22
  was Forced repentance, you know you stand there.
• 40:26
  Yeah.
• 40:26
  I mean we do the same thing over
• 40:28
  here.
• 40:28
  No judge.
• 40:29
  I'm sorry I won't do it again.
• 40:30
  I was a drunk driver and I'll never
• 40:33
  do it again, and I'm really sorry and
• 40:35
  or you know, geez, I I Don't know
• 40:40
  stole my grandmother's purse, you know, or somebody's
• 40:43
  grandmother's purse, but the story didn't stop there
• 40:46
  Okay, the story gets worse So according to
• 40:50
  the police during one of the proceedings After
• 40:54
  she'd gone into court right in the corridor
• 41:00
  Outside she lost her temper and got mad
• 41:03
  at one of the officers and she bit
• 41:05
  an officer Insulting him and biting him So
• 41:13
  assault on a police officer here.
• 41:15
  We do that crap.
• 41:16
  I mean they charge you with that all
• 41:18
  the time You know you say something better.
• 41:20
  Oh, geez.
• 41:20
  I've been assaulted.
• 41:21
  Yeah But over there, they don't wear 50
• 41:24
  pounds of SWAT gear.
• 41:26
  You know what I mean?
• 41:27
  You are an assault an officer over here
• 41:30
  That any way that they could feel it.
• 41:33
  Usually it's the other way around.
• 41:34
  They're beating this not out of you but
• 41:37
  they claim she bit him and You get
• 41:43
  charged with resisting arrest over here you Depending
• 41:47
  on what else you got along with it.
• 41:49
  Maybe you'll get probation.
• 41:51
  Maybe it's a criminal deal.
• 41:52
  Maybe it's misconduct If if it's something minor
• 41:57
  and nobody got seriously hurt, it's just another
• 41:59
  fine But in this climate in the climate
• 42:03
  in Russia, it turned into a full-blown
• 42:05
  criminal prosecution so now because they she bit
• 42:10
  him and used violence against the police she
• 42:14
  was sent to pretrial detention and She was
• 42:19
  sentenced to two years and seven months That's
• 42:25
  prison.
• 42:25
  That's not a fine.
• 42:27
  That isn't a warning.
• 42:28
  She went away She you know, she disappeared
• 42:30
  for close to three years and that just
• 42:33
  happened here in the last few weeks so
• 42:37
  whether you believe everything about the story or
• 42:41
  not, and I'm not saying I do because
• 42:43
  the there there's stuff that came from from
• 42:47
  various angles, I'm Much much much more of
• 42:51
  a middle-of-the-road Type both in
• 42:54
  the u.s. And in Russia, you know,
• 42:56
  I I don't think you should assault the
• 42:59
  police officer Okay, that's probably a bad plan
• 43:01
  no matter how you slice it and it
• 43:04
  is criminal in both countries You know, it's
• 43:07
  certainly criminal here and you won't get away
• 43:11
  with it.
• 43:11
  You know, and you're you you can't Assault
• 43:15
  him but you can't bite a police officer
• 43:17
  and pretend that nothing happened I don't know
• 43:20
  that you should get two years and seven
• 43:22
  months for it but Okay, you know I
• 43:27
  You know different strokes for different folks.
• 43:30
  I've told you before that in Russia People
• 43:35
  who kill get less time than people who
• 43:38
  deal drugs I Always thought that was a
• 43:41
  bit odd, but it but it's definitely true
• 43:44
  so my middle-of-the-road position says,
• 43:47
  you know, I'm much more giving this to
• 43:50
  you to to a Food for thought as
• 43:55
  it were do I think it's disgusting to
• 43:57
  raise a glass to the hypothetical death of
• 44:00
  thousands of soldiers?
• 44:02
  many of whom may have been You know
• 44:07
  A Thinking twice after they sign the contract,
• 44:11
  you know, so yes, I do Do I
• 44:14
  think her comments are cruel to mothers and
• 44:17
  families who lost someone I sure do Would
• 44:21
  would anybody invite her to speak at a
• 44:24
  memorial event?
• 44:25
  probably not but I suppose the hard part
• 44:30
  is Having grown up in America and knowing
• 44:35
  what I know about freedom of speech It
• 44:39
  is not whether we tolerate polite well-reasoned
• 44:44
  and respectful opinions the test of free speech
• 44:48
  is Whether you can tolerate the ugly ones
• 44:53
  the ones we hate the one that makes
• 44:57
  our blood boil Because here the rule is
• 45:02
  you can say what you want But if
• 45:05
  the rule happens to be you can say
• 45:07
  what you want as long as it doesn't
• 45:10
  offend the army the government a church an
• 45:15
  activist Donald Trump anybody but a private party
• 45:20
  has has a private recourse if you say
• 45:22
  something untruthful about someone They can sue you,
• 45:26
  you know if they if they change the
• 45:29
  story before they put it on the BBC
• 45:31
  You can sue them for that, you know,
• 45:34
  if it's if it misrepresents what you were
• 45:36
  saying there then then but if you Just
• 45:42
  think that something is is is ugly now.
• 45:45
  Are you attacking someone specifically when you say?
• 45:49
  I wish all these people were dead No,
• 45:53
  you're you're you're you know, you're you but
• 45:56
  it's definitely offensive and I don't know that
• 46:00
  I mean freedom of speech doesn't exist in
• 46:03
  a lot of places anymore and there are
• 46:06
  rules when you know that you have to
• 46:09
  societal rules that you got to learn to
• 46:11
  live by but Freedom of speech doesn't mean
• 46:15
  I can tell lies about you You know
• 46:17
  that you can sue me for that right
• 46:20
  but there's I can say it sure I
• 46:23
  have the freedom to say whatever the hell
• 46:24
  I want if it's untruthful somebody can sue
• 46:28
  me and Financially is the way to get
• 46:31
  those people.
• 46:32
  I don't think I should be thrown in
• 46:34
  jail for something I said, you know, I've
• 46:36
  said some some things On this program that
• 46:40
  perhaps might might not be all that favorable
• 46:44
  to Some folks versus others, you know what
• 46:47
  I mean, and I don't want to Encourage
• 46:51
  anyone to do that any sort of thing.
• 46:53
  So the Russian state Looks at a nine
• 46:57
  -year-old gets blown up and says we
• 46:59
  need harsher law harsher punishment less tolerance For
• 47:03
  those that might undermine our war effort and
• 47:05
  we got to do something about these people
• 47:08
  Putting dollar bills on in it in in
• 47:11
  but they allow People in Public commentary spaces
• 47:19
  like TV Radio to say horrible things about
• 47:26
  other People in other countries and you know
• 47:31
  swole itchy and stuff like that all those
• 47:33
  other words But you can't let a girl
• 47:35
  say, you know, if everybody died tomorrow, I'd
• 47:38
  like to sit down and have a drink
• 47:40
  of wine I think that's offensive and I
• 47:42
  don't like it but as an American I
• 47:45
  have a different point of view in Russia.
• 47:47
  You're not supposed to say during wartime anything
• 47:50
  that is Negative It's not really the right
• 47:58
  word and I'm not reading and I didn't
• 48:00
  pull pull up the law in specifics, but
• 48:03
  you can't you can't Publicly demean what what
• 48:07
  is going on?
• 48:08
  You have you're you're not allowed You know
• 48:11
  and same same in Ukraine.
• 48:13
  I mean they have similar Similar.
• 48:15
  Well, it's more harsh in Ukraine to be
• 48:18
  frank, but I don't know But if you
• 48:21
  lump a bloggers ugly rant in with like
• 48:24
  terrorism and sabotage If you treat words as
• 48:28
  a kind of bomb that has to be
• 48:30
  you know Given a prison sentence.
• 48:34
  I mean it's not but if she went
• 48:36
  to prison for biting a policeman You've cropped
• 48:40
  because she was only fined well only she
• 48:43
  was fined the 45,000 I'd be pissed
• 48:45
  off, too were you gonna come up with
• 48:48
  that as a blogger in a in a
• 48:51
  factory town But I don't know if you're
• 48:55
  defending people from violence at that point or
• 48:58
  if you're defending your image from being Embarrassed,
• 49:01
  I don't know but let's not pretend that
• 49:04
  we're a whole lot better here in the
• 49:05
  West We might not be jailing people For
• 49:09
  discrediting the army, but we destroy people's lives
• 49:12
  for saying the wrong thing We people shoot
• 49:17
  other people because they disagree with them We
• 49:21
  don't always send you to a penal colony.
• 49:23
  We send you to a digital wilderness You
• 49:27
  lose your job.
• 49:28
  Your bank account is drained.
• 49:30
  You know, you lose money.
• 49:31
  You lose a Platform, do you know trying
• 49:34
  to watch this of Vladimir Solovyov show?
• 49:37
  It gets deleted all the time by YouTube
• 49:40
  says it violates YouTube policy so when it
• 49:45
  comes up I try to download it as
• 49:47
  quick as possible and watch it and Because
• 49:51
  it's hard to it's hard to watch because
• 49:53
  they always delete it and because they don't
• 49:56
  agree with what he's saying So you can't
• 49:58
  watch Mmm News and comment from other countries
• 50:04
  in America.
• 50:05
  Tell me that's freedom of speech because it's
• 50:07
  not and so What are you afraid of?
• 50:11
  You know, what what words are you specifically
• 50:14
  afraid of you know?
• 50:18
  I Don't know what's right or what's wrong
• 50:21
  as far as Different systems.
• 50:24
  I know in our system.
• 50:26
  You're able to say stuff I want to
• 50:29
  talk about a little bit more about this
• 50:32
  little prick who Because I hate this topic
• 50:37
  to you know, war is ugly war is
• 50:39
  nasty I hate everything about it, but you
• 50:42
  know if you're gonna talk about the war
• 50:45
  and how it needs to end, you know
• 50:46
  like an adult You don't get a look
• 50:49
  away when it's ugly and I've watched You
• 50:52
  know I told you the one last week
• 50:53
  about the Ukrainian drones blowing up the guy
• 50:56
  that's on his knees praying and is clearly
• 50:58
  a civilian and They blew up the guy
• 51:01
  and his dog right before that it were
• 51:03
  two guy and a dog walking down the
• 51:05
  street He blew up the first one hit
• 51:06
  him in the chest with a drone and
• 51:09
  a third drone was up there filming it
• 51:10
  all So, I don't know we got one
• 51:14
  captured Ukrainian soldier on a Russian Interrogation video
• 51:22
  sitting there and calmly describing how his unit
• 51:25
  went house-to-house House with orders to
• 51:28
  not leave anyone alive Nobody can be left
• 51:30
  alive and we went through that the girl
• 51:33
  named Nadia The men beaten and then shot
• 51:36
  the women raped and then murdered elderly people
• 51:39
  Driven in the basement killed with grenades and
• 51:42
  then a repeat visit to clean up any
• 51:45
  survivors That alone should be enough to make
• 51:49
  you sick but You know the Russians take
• 51:54
  this video On the Solovyov show and they
• 51:57
  go see this is who we are fighting.
• 51:59
  These are not just soldiers These are terrorists
• 52:02
  and there can be no mercy Now Solovyov
• 52:07
  is a bit on the extreme side, you
• 52:08
  know, he's I Don't want to call his
• 52:14
  show entertaining but I Like to get the
• 52:19
  other perspective, you know, and he's doing it
• 52:22
  for entertainment.
• 52:23
  He's doing it because he's being graphic He's
• 52:26
  doing it because he's in some ways Offensive
• 52:31
  and people that's how I mean he's been
• 52:33
  doing it for so long in this way
• 52:35
  It's kind of like how did Howard Stern
• 52:38
  get famous, you know by being a pig,
• 52:41
  you know, there was a story I don't
• 52:43
  know if it's true or not, but I
• 52:44
  believe that he was a Washington DC radio
• 52:50
  shock jock in Washington DC and I remember
• 52:53
  when that plane took off from Reagan National
• 52:56
  and went up and there was ice on
• 52:58
  its wings and It crashed into the Potomac,
• 53:01
  you know And all those people were dying
• 53:04
  and they were you know They were trying
• 53:05
  to get in and rescue him or something
• 53:07
  and I think they all died.
• 53:09
  I don't remember and then Allegedly the story
• 53:13
  goes and I don't know that it's true
• 53:14
  or not, but this is the way I
• 53:15
  always heard it was that he called whatever
• 53:20
  airline it was the next morning and asked
• 53:22
  how much it was for a ticket from
• 53:25
  Washington National to the Potomac Bridge That that
• 53:31
  would cost him his job and is what
• 53:33
  I heard in Washington DC and I don't
• 53:37
  know the truth of that or not, but
• 53:38
  I remember Hearing that on more than one
• 53:42
  occasion when I lived in Washington, DC And
• 53:45
  I never really cared for the guy anyway,
• 53:47
  cuz he just too offensive, but he was
• 53:50
  more just gross, you know So if you
• 53:52
  have his political Bashing of the other side
• 53:58
  and and that is you know gladiator sport
• 54:02
  in my In my opinion, so I don't
• 54:05
  mind it that much and calling somebody a
• 54:07
  bastard is not That's not the end of
• 54:10
  the world and Anyway, once you start everybody,
• 54:15
  you know, once you can label everybody in
• 54:18
  Ukraine a terrorist instead of an enemy soldier
• 54:22
  Anything that you do to them is easily
• 54:24
  justified just like here in the US if
• 54:27
  you can call everybody that wears a turban
• 54:30
  a terrorist Well, you can justify taking rights
• 54:35
  away from Americans to stop terrorism So let's
• 54:40
  see this on paper under the Geneva Convention
• 54:43
  Captured fighters on the other side.
• 54:45
  There are prisoners of war you can interrogate
• 54:48
  him You can hold him, but you don't
• 54:49
  get to put him on trial Just for
• 54:51
  being on the other side of the front
• 54:53
  line if he's accused of a specific war
• 54:56
  crime That's another matter.
• 54:59
  So the West we claim that that's a
• 55:04
  blur of the line, but Raping of civilians
• 55:07
  is is his is and has been a
• 55:11
  violation of law in the country you're in
• 55:14
  for years, so if they if they take
• 55:17
  this guy and Send him to prison for
• 55:22
  for you know, rape and murder He deserves
• 55:26
  it, you know, and I hope they do
• 55:27
  frankly But on our sides, there's supposedly a
• 55:32
  recent analysis that counted 145 people so far
• 55:37
  and I I saw this somewhere in a
• 55:39
  in a Russian Publication too, but I don't
• 55:43
  remember when and I can't I couldn't find
• 55:46
  it when I wouldn't have to look for
• 55:47
  it But they say that there were a
• 55:49
  hundred and people hundred forty five people that
• 55:51
  have been given prison time in Russia in
• 55:54
  the first half of this year based on
• 55:59
  Crimes created during war like rape like murder
• 56:03
  of civilians that kind of thing and that
• 56:06
  includes around 60 of these Ukrainian POWs that
• 56:10
  were tried under criminal law or terrorist Acts
• 56:15
  rather than being treated as prisoners of war
• 56:19
  About 49 of those were captured in the
• 56:23
  Western Kursk region Now Russia had said anybody
• 56:27
  we capture over here in Kursk that is
• 56:29
  across, you know That is on our land.
• 56:32
  We are taking what they are fighting in
• 56:36
  Ukraine is disputed territory where all of the
• 56:43
  six places with you start with Crimea all
• 56:50
  of the six places have declared themselves as
• 56:55
  Subject, you know, they've asked to be they
• 56:58
  had referenda and asked to be part of
• 57:00
  Russia so the people say they're part of
• 57:04
  Russia and Russia is fighting to enforce that
• 57:07
  so Their point of view if you are
• 57:11
  coming into places that are clearly Russia York,
• 57:16
  that's a crime and that makes sense if
• 57:19
  you're in Zaporizhia or you're in the Donbass,
• 57:23
  which is Donetsk and Lugansk or if you're
• 57:25
  in Crimea or you're in Nikolaev up Oh,
• 57:28
  they haven't gone in Nikolaev yet.
• 57:30
  But but if you're in any one of
• 57:31
  these Zaporizhia, let's say Those are disputed territories.
• 57:37
  That's where the war is going on and
• 57:39
  it's going on because it's disputed territory but
• 57:43
  Kursk is a Russian Obelisk it's a Region
• 57:49
  inside of Russia.
• 57:51
  So if you're going over there and starting
• 57:54
  to fight with people, I don't It doesn't
• 57:58
  surprise me that they're being charged criminally is
• 58:01
  what I'm saying But those that are captured
• 58:04
  in Donetsk Lugansk is a pretty person those
• 58:08
  places those people should be Under a Geneva
• 58:14
  Convention and that's that but if you're in
• 58:18
  Kursk, you know, there's paperwork, you know That's
• 58:21
  the trail and that's what they said they
• 58:22
  were doing.
• 58:23
  Let's give you an example from last year
• 58:25
  Ukrainian citizen named Sergei Kaz karamazin a Russian
• 58:30
  military court gave him 25 years in prison.
• 58:34
  They accused him of railway sabotage Remember, these
• 58:37
  are the guys that blew up the railway
• 58:38
  that Brew up a bridge under a railway
• 58:41
  inside of Kursk But they're saying it's because
• 58:45
  you're on Russian territory, you know, those other
• 58:48
  territories are are Disputed and there you know,
• 58:53
  that's war that's different but here in Kursk,
• 58:57
  that's railway sabotage planning terrorist attacks inside of
• 59:01
  Russia, so according to independent reporting he he
• 59:06
  might not have had a good lawyer, but
• 59:09
  But everything else, you know, he did check
• 59:14
  every box on terrorism clandestine training sabotage Conspiracy,
• 59:19
  you know, look what just happened in Rostov
• 59:21
  -on-Don a Russian court sentenced 15 captured
• 59:26
  fighters from the IDAR battalion to between 15
• 59:31
  and 21 years each in a high-security
• 59:34
  colony They're labeled as member to members of
• 59:38
  a banned terrorist organization and trying to violently
• 59:42
  overthrow Russia's constitutional order based on actions back
• 59:47
  to 2014 to 2022 in the Donbass Okay,
• 59:53
  but the Donbass first tried to declare itself
• 59:56
  free in 2014 I believe and That's when
• 1:00:02
  Ukraine started killing all of them so that
• 1:00:05
  then they are when when Donbass was taken
• 1:00:08
  by the Russians they arrested these people and
• 1:00:11
  Charged him with crimes back then.
• 1:00:13
  I'm not so positive.
• 1:00:14
  I agree with that, you know because until
• 1:00:17
  the referendums that occurred in 2022 Those Places
• 1:00:23
  were not in the Russian Constitution We're not
• 1:00:27
  Russian territories or they weren't even disputed territories
• 1:00:31
  at then because Russia wasn't trying to enforce
• 1:00:33
  it So those were still Ukrainian I'm not
• 1:00:36
  sure I agree with that but not for
• 1:00:39
  me to agree or disagree who really cares
• 1:00:41
  if I do or don't but the pattern
• 1:00:43
  that you see is They're Catching Ukrainian terrorists
• 1:00:49
  in Kursk and Belgrade Bryansk Donbass and so
• 1:00:53
  in the courtroom that translates to criminal charges
• 1:00:56
  sabotage espionage terrorism and Sentences that you know
• 1:01:02
  are pretty harsh Does that mean every accusation,
• 1:01:07
  you know, it is false and these guys
• 1:01:09
  know it doesn't it's just a question of
• 1:01:11
  how they're prosecuting it There's no question that
• 1:01:14
  these Ukrainian special units were operating inside of
• 1:01:17
  Russia and even Kiev admits that they're sabotage
• 1:01:22
  Experts in Belgrade and Kursk still so That
• 1:01:27
  that's what they're doing if they get caught,
• 1:01:29
  you know, they know that they're gonna be
• 1:01:31
  charged under Russian law They've been saying that
• 1:01:33
  forever.
• 1:01:34
  They're not this is not war if it
• 1:01:36
  occurs inside of Russia Said and they've always
• 1:01:40
  said it I'm not saying they're right.
• 1:01:41
  I'm just saying that's what they've said.
• 1:01:44
  So You shell a Russian city.
• 1:01:47
  That's terrorism.
• 1:01:48
  You crossed the border as with a rifle
• 1:01:51
  as part of a raid, you know Maybe
• 1:01:53
  that's terrorism too.
• 1:01:54
  It's certainly a crime under Russian law so
• 1:01:58
  Let's go to the confession video in that
• 1:02:01
  that That moron who his boss told her
• 1:02:07
  his commander told him to rape a girl
• 1:02:10
  and so he did There's an unlimited Supply
• 1:02:15
  of these sorts of horror stories.
• 1:02:17
  That's for sure.
• 1:02:18
  So they Have plenty of there's plenty of
• 1:02:23
  telegram videos about these case after case bombings
• 1:02:29
  Assassinations attacks on bloggers attacks on Russia, you
• 1:02:33
  know some of the you know, a lot
• 1:02:36
  of the cases are real and Once you
• 1:02:43
  accept that the enemy is capable of those
• 1:02:48
  crimes though Bearing a bomb under a bank
• 1:02:53
  note for a child in Moscow or ordering
• 1:02:56
  a platoon to wipe out a village cellar
• 1:02:58
  full of old people Then you Tend to
• 1:03:03
  believe everything that anybody throws at you.
• 1:03:06
  We do the same thing here our our
• 1:03:10
  Propaganda machine does the same thing?
• 1:03:12
  So there was a lady who?
• 1:03:18
  Lady a girl there were several of these
• 1:03:21
  that were floating around last year that were
• 1:03:24
  shooting Russian POWs and the legs Beating on
• 1:03:28
  them urinating on them some of them were
• 1:03:32
  serious enough that That Kiev said they would
• 1:03:36
  investigate but you don't see much of it
• 1:03:42
  Let's see there was Allegedly a Wikipedia one
• 1:03:51
  showed that a Ukrainian POW Was also killed
• 1:03:56
  by some Russian forces back in 2022 But
• 1:04:05
  I couldn't find the ones of these Of
• 1:04:10
  the women that were so harsh to the
• 1:04:13
  men and the Russian Russian video shows them
• 1:04:17
  being Telegram showed some of them being picked
• 1:04:21
  up.
• 1:04:21
  So there's a There have been in Russia
• 1:04:27
  quite a few of these sentences on 20
• 1:04:29
  years 20 plus years of some of these
• 1:04:33
  people who are blowing some of these things
• 1:04:35
  up so I tell you what, like I
• 1:04:38
  said, I don't like this subject because You
• 1:04:43
  know their various extremes One one side on
• 1:04:49
  the extreme says, you know Everything Ukrainian is
• 1:04:53
  pure and noble and every Allegation is you
• 1:04:58
  know, nothing but propaganda and the other side
• 1:05:02
  are criminals and animals you know, that's what
• 1:05:05
  they say, but both sides are Guilty of
• 1:05:08
  the same thing.
• 1:05:09
  So Those are fantasies I Just want you
• 1:05:15
  to remember what we talked about Earlier the
• 1:05:18
  nine-year-old boy in Moscow getting blown
• 1:05:20
  up by a fake fake banknote bomb that's
• 1:05:25
  that's crap and Not that horrible things don't
• 1:05:32
  occur every day all over the world.
• 1:05:35
  But you know, this is nonsense You know
• 1:05:39
  everybody that Every person every fighter is not
• 1:05:45
  a Nadia killer Nadia rapist a basement grenade
• 1:05:49
  thrower a banknote bomber, you know, they're not
• 1:05:52
  but you don't If you know these people
• 1:05:58
  or you come upon them during war I
• 1:06:01
  got news for you You don't you don't
• 1:06:03
  negotiate with them.
• 1:06:04
  You don't think of them as soldiers you
• 1:06:07
  don't even think about them as people you
• 1:06:09
  take action and But we do we do
• 1:06:14
  a lot of the same thing on on
• 1:06:17
  as far as a discussion or politicization of
• 1:06:24
  such Events.
• 1:06:27
  Okay.
• 1:06:27
  I wanted to make sure that that got
• 1:06:30
  put out and I have a huge list
• 1:06:35
  of church that churches that were Taken you
• 1:06:41
  know Because I researched quite a bit of
• 1:06:44
  that, but I don't know that I'm gonna
• 1:06:47
  Go that far through them.
• 1:06:50
  I think I'm gonna skip that part because
• 1:06:53
  we covered a lot of a lot of
• 1:06:56
  the churches, you know, but they're saying that
• 1:06:59
  when Ukraine was backing out of these villages
• 1:07:04
  Especially in the Kursk region again 28 villages
• 1:07:08
  26 churches killing all of the residents Blowing
• 1:07:14
  up their churches and taking all of their
• 1:07:19
  religious symbols and very valuable items from that
• 1:07:26
  You know It's I Think I've gone through
• 1:07:31
  there.
• 1:07:32
  I wanted to talk about this tons of
• 1:07:34
  money.
• 1:07:34
  I heard an interesting Another discussion on Solovyov
• 1:07:38
  And from there's a guy that I like
• 1:07:41
  to listen to and Solovyov never lets him
• 1:07:44
  talk He interrupts him all the time and
• 1:07:48
  he interrupts him worse than he interrupts everybody
• 1:07:52
  else There's something about this guy and he
• 1:07:55
  always makes him go last This guy always
• 1:07:58
  shows up.
• 1:07:59
  He's a lawyer And he Was on On
• 1:08:05
  the Kiev side.
• 1:08:06
  He was he was a I don't want
• 1:08:09
  to say he was an advisor to Zelensky
• 1:08:11
  but he was attached somehow to the Zelensky
• 1:08:14
  government when back in 2021-22 When I
• 1:08:21
  was watching quite a bit of this and
• 1:08:24
  the abuse that he took At the hands
• 1:08:27
  of Solovyov was you know, he's he's pretty
• 1:08:30
  brave for just showing up.
• 1:08:32
  I thought and But he and he still
• 1:08:35
  shows up, but I don't think he can
• 1:08:36
  go back to Ukraine now because he's been
• 1:08:39
  you know there were I heard some some
• 1:08:42
  of the comments that he said that he's
• 1:08:44
  not allowed to go back because he hasn't
• 1:08:46
  Because he's not allowed this freedom of speech
• 1:08:49
  stuff And so they got to talking about
• 1:08:52
  the corruption in in Ukraine the story I've
• 1:08:55
  been talking about with Mindich the wallet for
• 1:08:58
  wallet for Zelensky Escape into Israel and they
• 1:09:03
  were talking about how everybody has been doing
• 1:09:07
  this Forever and they were talking about there's
• 1:09:11
  so much money floating around Ukraine If you're
• 1:09:16
  in the right circles that they're weighing the
• 1:09:19
  dollars by How heavy you know how many
• 1:09:23
  how much how much money you can?
• 1:09:27
  How did they put it?
• 1:09:29
  How much does a million dollars weigh and
• 1:09:32
  and he put it out specifically he said
• 1:09:35
  one u.s. Bank It's simple math.
• 1:09:39
  All right, so let's talk about this and
• 1:09:41
  It's something a lot of people pretend is
• 1:09:44
  complicated, but it's pretty simple It's money piles
• 1:09:47
  of money tons of it enough money that
• 1:09:49
  you don't even get to talk about it
• 1:09:51
  in thousands or millions Anymore you talk about
• 1:09:54
  it in tons and this they were talking
• 1:09:57
  about it for like a half an hour
• 1:09:58
  And it was a very interesting segment, and
• 1:10:01
  I liked watching it.
• 1:10:03
  So I kind of paraphrased it here for
• 1:10:04
  you it says so the guy the the
• 1:10:09
  Ukrainian lawyer that I was telling you about
• 1:10:12
  He says do you know how much or
• 1:10:16
  do you know what a hundred million dollars
• 1:10:18
  looks like in cash?
• 1:10:21
  and The answer is if you do if
• 1:10:24
  you can do the math is one u
• 1:10:26
  .s. Bank note weighs one gram So put
• 1:10:31
  it in all hundred dollar bills and 100
• 1:10:34
  million dollars is a million bank notes and
• 1:10:38
  a million grams is a Thousand kilograms or
• 1:10:43
  one metric ton and that's not a metaphor.
• 1:10:46
  That's math, right?
• 1:10:47
  So when they talk about the first hundred
• 1:10:51
  million that this Mindich Grafted In this, you
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  know in this particular Ukrainian corruption case They
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  always you know, there's there's tons of these
• 1:11:03
  cases What they're really saying is we're not
• 1:11:07
  arguing about a few envelopes of cash We're
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  talking about a literal ton of money and
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  right now Ukraine is serving up even more
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  fresh examples right on our dinner platter.
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  Yes a hundred million dollar Energo atom scandal
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  in the middle of the war and so
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  this National Corruption Bureau that they are talking
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  about the suppliers paid the 10 to 15
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  percent that I told you about and So
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  People are acting shocked like how could this
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  happen during a war, you know Give me
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  a break about all this Ukraine didn't just
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  suddenly become corrupt in 2022 it was corrupt
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  the entire time.
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  In fact money was the entire point of
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  his campaign and You know, what is interesting
• 1:12:01
  to me and I think if you're listening
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  to me right now You really ought to
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  think about this Donald Trump hasn't said a
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  word about the hundred million dollar scandal with
• 1:12:18
  Zelensky There are rumors there are whisperings that
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  the FBI is involved when with and help
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  this naboo this anti-corruption deal in Ukraine
• 1:12:35
  to find the money What if this is
• 1:12:40
  the old Trumpsters way of getting rid of
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  or Forcing the Z man to do something
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  now, I could actually see that being the
• 1:12:54
  case Um, I know that he probably would
• 1:12:57
  like to get rid of Zelensky.
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  Anyway, he's he's said a couple of times
• 1:13:02
  that he you know He's called What did
• 1:13:07
  he call him the dictator who never leaves
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  the Martial law guy who isn't who isn't
• 1:13:14
  wanting to get out that kind of thing
• 1:13:18
  You know Mr. Trump or president Trump mr.
• 1:13:24
  Tactful He's so very tactful said the UN
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  that Ukraine was one of the most corrupt
• 1:13:31
  countries in the world Yeah, and it wasn't
• 1:13:35
  exactly controversial was it Everybody knows it and
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  I mean Biden went over there and collected
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  his pile of money because that's how you
• 1:13:44
  do it You go to Ukraine you get
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  your pile of money because that's how the
• 1:13:49
  game is played and it's not small money
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  It's not like you're picking up 10,000.
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  You're getting 10 million.
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  You know, it's it's this is not small
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  and that's what the Solovey of was saying
• 1:14:02
  look It was kind of funny because he
• 1:14:07
  said he goes look here here in Russia
• 1:14:10
  they catch corruption ears or whatever they call
• 1:14:13
  them and These corruption ears they're taken, you
• 1:14:17
  know, and when somebody steals something they take
• 1:14:19
  they don't steal the whole cake They take
• 1:14:22
  a tiny little bite, you know, it's kind
• 1:14:24
  of the metaphor.
• 1:14:25
  He was using he said not so in
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  Ukraine You know half the cake is gone
• 1:14:32
  or all of it and You know the
• 1:14:34
  the crumbs actually are what's left for the
• 1:14:37
  people who are supposed to get the benefit
• 1:14:39
  of the contract or the deal?
• 1:14:41
  And but the everything else is given to
• 1:14:43
  corruption so 90% goes corruption 10%
• 1:14:47
  goes to the the place it's supposed to
• 1:14:49
  be and You know, there's been defense procurement
• 1:14:52
  scandals 2022-23 and even 24 Inflated food
• 1:14:57
  equipment contracts.
• 1:14:58
  I told y'all about the other day
• 1:15:00
  that blew up bad enough to cost Alexei
• 1:15:04
  Reznik of his job the defense minister there's
• 1:15:07
  been tons of smaller scandals at regional military
• 1:15:11
  recruitment offices the one where the Commander is
• 1:15:16
  sending his subordinates to his wife's Shashliki she
• 1:15:21
  was selling little Her little Shish kebabs a
• 1:15:28
  little little kebab shop that she was selling
• 1:15:30
  things And so his soldiers were going to
• 1:15:34
  work for his wife and they then they
• 1:15:36
  were splitting their money There's talks about all
• 1:15:40
  of the money that they're supposed to deliver
• 1:15:42
  to a dead soldiers Family that the commanders
• 1:15:46
  were taking parts of it in order to
• 1:15:48
  make sure the family got it They would
• 1:15:51
  say, you know, it'll take you a year
• 1:15:53
  to get it But if you give me
• 1:15:55
  a tenth of it, then you 10%
• 1:15:57
  of it, then I'll make sure you get
• 1:15:59
  it I mean there's been so many of
• 1:16:01
  them.
• 1:16:01
  It's not it's it's crazy.
• 1:16:03
  We've moved from rotten eggs to Energy ministers,
• 1:16:08
  but it's the same deal.
• 1:16:10
  You know, it's 100 million dollars is not
• 1:16:12
  pocket change it's a ton of money and
• 1:16:15
  You know same same ballpark is the ton
• 1:16:19
  of money that Soloviev's dude was talking about
• 1:16:22
  so Western countries pour money in military financial
• 1:16:28
  humanitarian the money hits the ministry state countries
• 1:16:33
  contractors and a percentage gets peeled off into
• 1:16:36
  shell companies consultancies fake invoices and discounts that
• 1:16:43
  are really bribes and Then when it when
• 1:16:46
  it does burst into the open Politicians throw
• 1:16:49
  one or two people under the bus and
• 1:16:51
  say look how serious we are about fighting
• 1:16:53
  corruption That's how it goes now Soloviev was
• 1:16:59
  saying Yeah, but you guys on the West
• 1:17:02
  you're the masters of corruption I mean you
• 1:17:06
  guys make make Russia look like pikers and
• 1:17:09
  you know, who is the guy?
• 1:17:12
  Zelensky a Zelensky Defender today, it works for
• 1:17:18
  Zelensky.
• 1:17:19
  I forget his name.
• 1:17:20
  I can't find it.
• 1:17:20
  It might come up here later in my
• 1:17:23
  scrolling Excuse me a little tired little late
• 1:17:26
  for me He said he said, you know
• 1:17:31
  corruption in Ukraine This is an interesting argument.
• 1:17:35
  I mean this could this could really be
• 1:17:37
  the case Ukraine was so long under the
• 1:17:42
  USSR's boot from 20 or from 1917 until
• 1:17:50
  1991 they were under the boot of the
• 1:17:54
  USSR for so long That they don't know
• 1:17:58
  any better.
• 1:17:59
  They're corrupt because the Soviet Union was corrupt.
• 1:18:02
  That's what he said Does that make any
• 1:18:06
  sense at all none of those people were
• 1:18:08
  a lot I mean geez the people who
• 1:18:10
  are stealing everything weren't even alive then it's
• 1:18:13
  nonsense But you know, whatever sound sounds good,
• 1:18:17
  I suppose Everything's blamed on Russia Russia Russia
• 1:18:23
  Russia Ukrainian corruption is now blamed on Russia
• 1:18:27
  hmm Hmm curious well This ton of money
• 1:18:34
  has kind of got me all worked up.
• 1:18:37
  Let's talk about the The pallets of cash
• 1:18:42
  in the lost Billions, remember if you think
• 1:18:45
  this is just Ukrainian pathology, let's zoom out
• 1:18:49
  a tiny bit, right?
• 1:18:51
  the US special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction
• 1:18:59
  has spent years Documenting what happened to Western
• 1:19:05
  money during the 20-year Afghanistan adventures so
• 1:19:11
  there was billions of dollars spent on reconstruction
• 1:19:15
  assets buildings vehicles Projects that were never used
• 1:19:23
  Abandoned or quickly fell apart one review found
• 1:19:28
  that 2.4 Billion dollars was wasted out
• 1:19:34
  of 7.8 billion examined That is almost
• 1:19:41
  a third of the money There was massive
• 1:19:46
  overhead costs that were skimmed by org by
• 1:19:51
  international organizations that acted as middlemen that took
• 1:19:55
  6 to 14 percent for quote management and
• 1:20:03
  when Kabul finally collapsed Tens of millions of
• 1:20:08
  dollars simply disappeared from government accounts in all
• 1:20:12
  the chaos tens of millions We've seen all
• 1:20:17
  the pallets remember these photos of pallets being
• 1:20:21
  rolled off cargo planes in Iraq and Afghanistan
• 1:20:25
  That's not a metaphor.
• 1:20:26
  That's physical Pallets of cash that were accounted
• 1:20:31
  for on paper, but are nowhere to be
• 1:20:34
  found in reality This is we are the
• 1:20:39
  masters, you know, and you can't blame Russia
• 1:20:41
  for this We did this we taught Ukraine
• 1:20:46
  how to do it not Russia and Ukraine
• 1:20:50
  Already was pretty gifted.
• 1:20:52
  Let's say that they knew exactly what they
• 1:20:55
  were doing.
• 1:20:55
  So When I look at Ukraine I see
• 1:21:00
  a hundred million in alleged bribes at inner
• 1:21:03
  go at him multi-billion dollar fraud at
• 1:21:07
  Privat Bank defense procurement scams Biden era nonsense
• 1:21:14
  US Agency for International Development Lindsey Graham running
• 1:21:19
  over to Kiev to promise more money then,
• 1:21:23
  you know Western politicians promising another package of
• 1:21:29
  money for Ukraine another tranche of money another
• 1:21:34
  set of Guarantees, I don't hear.
• 1:21:37
  Well, maybe we've learned from Afghanistan Maybe we've
• 1:21:42
  learned from my rack So instead this is
• 1:21:46
  Afghanistan 2.0 Iraq 3.0 with just
• 1:21:50
  better PR and a blue and yellow filter
• 1:21:54
  We get white people instead of you know,
• 1:21:59
  those other types those those brown-skinned people
• 1:22:02
  and So so now we can't find them
• 1:22:06
  guilty because they're more like us, right?
• 1:22:10
  But all this is the same Scam been
• 1:22:14
  going on being pulled by the same people
• 1:22:17
  for the for forever Who really ends up
• 1:22:22
  with the money?
• 1:22:23
  The same old people end up with the
• 1:22:27
  money the here's the right of part the
• 1:22:29
  Russian talking heads Like Solovyov they love this
• 1:22:32
  and they're not wrong They say you sent
• 1:22:36
  Ukraine hundreds of billions of dollars Part of
• 1:22:39
  it gets stolen by the local elite part
• 1:22:42
  of it ends up back in your own
• 1:22:44
  hands You know your your own leaders some
• 1:22:47
  of the stolen in and money ends up
• 1:22:50
  in London real estate Cyprus accounts Miami condos
• 1:22:53
  Delaware LLC's Years later Western regulators wake up
• 1:23:02
  and say boy what a bunch of corruption
• 1:23:04
  The assets are frozen.
• 1:23:07
  The properties are taken and it all ends
• 1:23:09
  right back in Western hands Look at let's
• 1:23:16
  look at hola Moise key member hola Moise
• 1:23:18
  key.
• 1:23:18
  He's the guy who opened the Privet Bank
• 1:23:20
  He's the guy who helped start Kvartal 95
• 1:23:23
  He's the guy who funded Zelensky as a
• 1:23:26
  as a servant of the people He did
• 1:23:28
  that okay, and he stole all this money
• 1:23:31
  from the Kiev government through private bank Allegedly,
• 1:23:35
  he washed all the money through properties He
• 1:23:38
  owned in the US and in the West
• 1:23:40
  and now the US is seizing those same
• 1:23:42
  assets piece by piece And who's gonna get
• 1:23:45
  them?
• 1:23:47
  The United States so their money goes into
• 1:23:50
  private bank He takes the money then he
• 1:23:53
  buys property in the US and then the
• 1:23:55
  DOJ sees it back so who pays the
• 1:23:57
  pays the price US taxpayers and Alleged Ukrainian
• 1:24:04
  Beneficiaries that are supposed to get something out
• 1:24:07
  of it right and nobody did Who's supposed
• 1:24:13
  to uphold the law and you know nobody?
• 1:24:16
  You know the London Court orders billions repaid
• 1:24:20
  to private bank, right?
• 1:24:22
  So private bank has to get the money
• 1:24:24
  back nice headline But the real problem never
• 1:24:27
  ever changes the system allows the scale of
• 1:24:31
  the theft up front Decades later there might
• 1:24:35
  be some judgments So when when I and
• 1:24:39
  when Solovyov and when the Ukrainian lawyer talk
• 1:24:42
  about a ton of money They aren't just
• 1:24:44
  playing with numbers.
• 1:24:45
  I mean you need to visualize this think
• 1:24:47
  about this one ton of cash Peeled off
• 1:24:51
  of energy contracts while the grids get bombed
• 1:24:55
  several tons worth of siphoned out of a
• 1:24:57
  national bank and parked in Western properties an
• 1:25:01
  entire cargo plane of taxpayer money that left
• 1:25:07
  Washington to promote democracy in Afghanistan and Ukraine
• 1:25:13
  and ends up in somebody's new villa, and
• 1:25:17
  we don't get any of it back I
• 1:25:21
  Don't think Ukraine needs any support.
• 1:25:24
  I think we cut off The corrupt government,
• 1:25:27
  but the problem is if we cut off
• 1:25:29
  every corrupt government on earth then The Pentagon
• 1:25:34
  half of DC would be you know on
• 1:25:38
  the food lines You know because we'd have
• 1:25:40
  to cut them off, but let's stop lying
• 1:25:42
  to ourselves though Ukraine Corruption is not a
• 1:25:47
  myth It's baked into every single case we
• 1:25:51
  talk about and it's spilling out just more
• 1:25:55
  and more During this war the West loves
• 1:25:59
  this model because it allows our Elitists to
• 1:26:05
  use our Hillary Clinton's to give her daughter.
• 1:26:08
  What was it 85 million through USAID?
• 1:26:11
  You know the West loves this pour in
• 1:26:13
  money look away while people skim it off,
• 1:26:16
  and then come back later and Accused somebody
• 1:26:19
  after it's too late.
• 1:26:20
  They've been able to to park the money
• 1:26:23
  places.
• 1:26:23
  It's not able to be touched Yeah, that's
• 1:26:26
  that's the business cycle That's how it works
• 1:26:28
  and third the people that pay for this
• 1:26:31
  ordinary people Ukrainians Russians Americans Europeans are the
• 1:26:36
  ones paying for the ton of cash whether
• 1:26:39
  it's taxes inflation or dead relatives, so when
• 1:26:44
  you hear Politicians Political commentators Anybody
• 1:26:54
  any officials talk about a Hundred million dollar
• 1:26:58
  irregularity In your head you should translate it
• 1:27:02
  the translate it to well We're talking about
• 1:27:05
  a literal ton of money that went somewhere
• 1:27:08
  where it shouldn't have Whose kids are gonna
• 1:27:12
  pay for that money, we don't know where's
• 1:27:16
  it gonna happen?
• 1:27:17
  We don't know And the fact is it
• 1:27:22
  is going to continue That's what I say
• 1:27:25
  it will continue Let's see if I can
• 1:27:31
  fit in one more topic.
• 1:27:33
  I don't think I can We are almost
• 1:27:37
  out of time.
• 1:27:38
  I wanted to talk about Bezrukov tonight, but
• 1:27:41
  it looks like I'm gonna save him tomorrow
• 1:27:43
  But we've gone from a nine-year-old
• 1:27:46
  boy being blown up to soldiers confessing about
• 1:27:49
  rape and murder churches being shelled Tons of
• 1:27:53
  money Angelina Jolie in a flak vest and
• 1:27:59
  I Wanted to get to Andre Bezrukov, and
• 1:28:05
  he's he's a pretty interesting, dude Same movie
• 1:28:11
  different century it'd be nice to Talk about
• 1:28:15
  him, but we will get to him tomorrow
• 1:28:17
  night.
• 1:28:18
  I think he's got some very interesting Perspectives
• 1:28:22
  and so that is exactly what we will
• 1:28:26
  do he He had another hour and a
• 1:28:31
  half long Appearance and some questions afterward.
• 1:28:36
  He's a very smart person.
• 1:28:38
  He knows about Blackrock remember This is the
• 1:28:40
  guy that he and his wife Where is
• 1:28:43
  that if I can find it?
• 1:28:46
  He's a deep-cover Russian intelligence officer that
• 1:28:50
  spent more than 20 years living in Canada
• 1:28:53
  in the US and Remember he was on
• 1:28:56
  that show I forget what it's called the
• 1:29:00
  the Russians or Okay, but his wife is
• 1:29:03
  Alina Vavilova and his own kids their own
• 1:29:08
  kids their two sons grew up thinking they
• 1:29:11
  were Canadian kids that just both went to
• 1:29:13
  American schools in Washington DC and The neighbors
• 1:29:18
  saw a standard couple he had a Harvard
• 1:29:20
  degree in a consulting firm and Anyway, we'll
• 1:29:23
  talk about them tomorrow.
• 1:29:24
  I think I appreciate you being with me
• 1:29:27
  tonight.
• 1:29:27
  It's international flavor I am Samuel trap.
• 1:29:31
  I'm here every oh, you know what I'm
• 1:29:33
  switching I'm actually gonna well.
• 1:29:36
  We'll talk about that tomorrow night.
• 1:29:37
  We're gonna switch my time again I'm gonna
• 1:29:39
  go early morning not early morning, but morning
• 1:29:42
  drive time after the first of the year
• 1:29:44
  I'm very glad you were with me.
• 1:29:46
  Hope you join me again tomorrow 9 o
• 1:29:50
  'clock on this same bat Channel have a
• 1:29:54
  good evening Now back to the rock