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EnergyGate: How Zelensky’s ‘Wallet’ Turned Ukraine’s War into a $100 Million Corruption Carnival on Steroids · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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We're gonna talk about what everybody's talking about
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around the world including in Ukraine Finally, they're
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paying attention in Ukraine huge huge Huge huge.
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How does that as Trumpster say it?
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I don't know huge.
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It was very huge He doesn't pronounce the
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H if I recall, so it's a huge
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Wonderful a fantastic Corruption scandal and let's start
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with I don't know what this is this
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so I watched a whole bunch of videos
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and and what is different is today, so
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Everybody knows that and I talk about this
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a lot that a lot of Ukrainians of
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the fact nearly all of them speak Russian
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Right, and so but all of these are
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done in Russian.
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These are Russian speaking shows and There's quite
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a few of them.
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I listened to Illya Novikov and it's called
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the What did his what did his what
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was the name of his story here?
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the end of the political career of Zelensky
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the next one the end of Zelensky the
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next one the corruption scandal in Zelensky's inner
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circle the next one and this one was
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a little bit crazy because this is the
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guy Forget his name Gordon.
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What is didn't the but Gordon is a
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huge he wears shirts that Satan and Ian
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was in this video, too Man, what is
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his first name?
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I can't remember to save my life, but
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it's somebody Gordon and he's a huge political
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backer of the old Z man and even
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he was in an interview with somebody an
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hour long talking about the Frightening corruption scandal
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in Ukraine that's going on right now right
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now Agents of the FBI are at the
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head of the corruption scandal in Ukraine or
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in the investigation of it What are the
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shocking corruption?
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What will be further?
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There's all of these videos that are out
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all over YouTube all over several of the
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news channels lots of news stories the the
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The pressing corruption scandal in Ukraine corruption scandal
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in Ukraine and Carlson And they they have
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these names of people that are there, so
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I thought that it might be worthy of
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a an entire segment To tie it now.
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I've talked about it for a long time,
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but these ones I've listened to a bunch
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of them, and they have they came up
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I mean there's some some details that are
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going so here We are an international flavor
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where the truth just tastes better everybody knows
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this and we're gonna do something that most
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Western outlets Still don't have the stomach to
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talk about honestly And we're gonna walk step
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by step through how use cranes latest Anti
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-corruption success story is really proof that nothing
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has changed in 30 years It's the same
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old people looting the same old state only
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now they're doing it in the middle of
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a major war under the cover of blackout
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with political slogans and Western backing and the
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Western governments are all aware of it every
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everybody knows that I have a no love
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of the government We're all involved in this
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crap.
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Okay all the all the big wigs.
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They're all in on it, and they know
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it's happening, okay?
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So here's Ukrainian investigators themselves are now calling
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a high-level criminal organization sitting inside the
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state's Nuclear monopoly in their go atom siphoning
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off about a hundred million dollars From contracts
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that are supposed to protect power plants and
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keep the lights on in Ukraine So it's
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not happening so an interview by who was
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a BBC I think but I but there
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was interview in Zelensky you can go out
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and find it on YouTube.
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I had it too that they're Interviewing and
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in the middle of the interview the studio
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lights went out the the place went went
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dark And so Zelensky said to stand there
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looking like I don't know what He's lost
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completely and so was the British the British
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host that was interviewing him and they they
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had to wait and the lights came back
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on and then they flickered out again and
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then they came Back on and Zelensky's going
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well.
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This is how we have to live these
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days and blah blah blah and so it
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was rather entertaining to say the least on
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there, but it's this is something that Really
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needs to be addressed.
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So I'm gonna I Mean is this is
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just exploded.
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It's the biggest scandal of Zelensky's era for
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sure And so they have rolling blackouts destroyed
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infrastructure in a totally collapsing Economy and you're
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gonna hear names a guy named Tim or
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Mindy the man known in Ukrainian media as
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Zelensky's wallet, you're gonna hear about operation Midas
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a 15-month probe by Ukraine's own National
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Anti-corruption Bureau.
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That's a the Sakharov Shinya and the Abbreviation
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for that is Naboo and a BU and
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It's a scheme that according to their filings
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took about a hundred million dollars in kickbacks
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from contracts at the state nuclear monopoly and
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there go Adam and we're not I mean
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None of this is actually new every Ukrainian
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president comes to power promising to clean out
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corruption Everyone has done it for 30 years
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and every single time The result is identical
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new face on the poster same new thieves
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behind the curtains pay no attention to the
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man behind the curtain So let's start with
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what life on the ground looks like right
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now Picture yourself in Kiev or Poltava not
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in a sunny touristic day But last week
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you wake up or at least you think
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you do But it's hard to tell because
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the power's off more than it's on in
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most regions Ukrainians are living on 8 to
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16 hours of blackout a day in Kiev
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the average is 14 to 16 hours a
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day in Poltava one day recently was 20
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.5 hours with no electricity and that's not
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me.
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That's not Russia today That's the blackout schedule
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and grid operators that are openly admitted it.
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These are Ukrainian sources Okay, so the grid
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has been hammered since 2022 anyway, and so
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the you know, we're talking about first They
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took out the generation capacity.
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The big thermal plants are gone.
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The hydro plants are gone Everything is pushed
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on to nuclear power plants and a few
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hydros and some renewable facilities and Then the
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strikes moved to the backbone of the network
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the 3300 kilovolt and 750 kilovolt substation and
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transporters Transformers, I mean that tie those plants
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into the cities So when you start losing
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those you don't have shortages you're cutting the
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entire spinal cord out of the system You
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got nothing.
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So the state Thermal operator Centro Energo has
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publicly admitted once again that it act effectively
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has no Functioning plants.
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They do not produce power anymore.
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All they do is write press statements So
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for industry, it's the same story Ferroxpo one
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of Ukraine's key iron ore pellet producers in
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a major supplier to Europe has shut down
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two of its plants in Poltava because the
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power infrastructure feeding them is completely destroyed when
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the ore stops moving That's not just a
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Ukrainian problem.
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That's European steel mills feeling it, too So
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the ordinary people are sitting in you know
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Concrete buildings apartments no electricity.
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No power.
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You know what that means?
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No elevators No water pumps for anything to
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get water to the second or third floor.
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No heat If you rely on electric systems
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and no light in the stairwells No streetlights
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outside and darkness is the policy now if
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you're a reasonable government, which we claim You
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know Ukraine is not at least on this
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station.
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We tell the truth This is where every
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available dollar euro Krivna, whatever would go into
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fortifying the fortifying power plants upgrading substations building
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protective shelters redundant lines backup systems instead According
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to Naboo What happens is this a high
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-level criminal organization moves in on Energoatom itself?
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Officials and shadow businessmen create a simple elegant
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business racket You supply materials Materials or build
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protective structures for nuclear facilities great You pay
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10 to 15 percent kickback on the contract
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to the network If you don't pay your
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invoices are frozen your contract dies, and you
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never get the The bid this is called
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the the the word for it.
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There is yeah Druzea means friends the word
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is called a schlagbaum a schlagbaum.
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That's actually a German word I think but
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what it means is barrier It's a tollgate
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a tollgate place to cross the money flow
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in a wartime Power and nuclear security so
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investigators say that 100 million dollars were laundered
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through this system through shell for firms offshore
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accounts so while Ukrainians sit in the dark
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apartments and Western taxpayers are told that their
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billions are saving democracy There's a private network
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of inside that I'm telling you.
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There's a buttload of rich Ukrainians in Miami
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and North Port, Florida I I know some
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of them personally and there are a good
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number of them that come over with wads
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of cash okay, and Anyway, this private network
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of insiders is taxing the war at 10
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to 15 percent This is not isolated corruption
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friends and neighbors.
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This is the business model so tonight I'm
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gonna walk you through how this works who
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sits at the top of it not according
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to Sam, but according to these Ukrainian investigators
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in the Ukrainian posts, okay So let's talk
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about the mechanics work how the scam works
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You know we're gonna have fun about the
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schlagbaum and how the scam actually is Built
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so let's get to the prosecutorial world, okay?
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We're gonna be more honest than most prosecutors
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anywhere and certainly in Kiev have been in
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the last 30 years Okay, we're talking about
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a scheme that Naboo themselves condemns as operation
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Midas You don't pick that name by accident
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everything the network touched was turned into gold
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For the participants right here's the architecture based
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on the boo official statements filings at Ukraine's
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highest anti-corruption court Reports from Ukrainian outlets
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and some Western ones who woke up now
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that they can't ignore it anymore so the
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business target was Energo atom atomic energy of
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Ukraine basically you first you have to pick
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the right cow To get the milk right
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the Energo atom is not some little state
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office It's the operator of all Ukrainian nuclear
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power plants Responsible for more than half of
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Ukraine's electricity Oftentimes more than that especially in
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wartime It is a key player in export
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deals and in integration with the EU power
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grid So in war it's even more central
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because when thermal plants which are gone remember
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that and other capacity are knocked out Substations
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all the other stuff nuclear stays online as
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long as the reactors and key substations survive
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Nobody's attacking nuclear power right that is well
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except the Ukrainians Nobody's taking that risk so
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if you can take control of Energo atoms
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contracts Especially for construction and security and rebuilding
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of substations and whatnot you're tapping into the
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largest single wartime Funding stream outside of defense.
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This is the easy money in defense.
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It's its own story We're not we might
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go there a little bit tonight, but not
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by much so These are protection and fortification
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contracts What are they according to Naboo the
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scheme focus on construction of protective structures for
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power facilities?
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Security and fortification around nuclear plants and broad
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infrastructure related to energy, okay?
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These are funded by Ukrainian state budget, which
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they don't have their own all the money's
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coming from the West and Western aid and
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energy support funds from the EU and other
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Institutional International players right in other words these
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are where the European taxpayers Solidarity money and
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Ukraine's domestic funds come together Right in the
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center of the corruption and the barrier equals
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the schlagbaum Now the heart of this barrier
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How the multiple sources describe it Naboo briefs
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court documents Russian?
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Analyses that are surprisingly close to what the
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Ukrainians admit themselves a Contractor gets the the
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tender gets to contract on paper Everything looks
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legal once the contract is in place They
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get a visit a phone call a meeting
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whatever from a representative of the back office
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Tied to an ergo Adam, then they're informed
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in polite business terms that there is a
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Commission or Service fee for ensuring timely payments
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most importantly smooth acceptance of the work You're
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doing that's whether it's done or not and
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future participation in future tenders, so the service
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fee is 10 to 15 percent of the
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contract if The contractor agrees the money is
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sent through a web of companies consulting logistics
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Western NGOs shit like that pardon my French
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that exist only to launder the funds if
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they refuse Suddenly invoices are unpaid paperwork is
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lost quality inspections are impossible and their firm
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is frozen out of new Programs this is
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not some one-off bribe.
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It's to standardize institutionalized tax Created by an
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organized group on every major project My listen
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to quite a few of these today, and
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I was like I mean all Telling the
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exact same story, and we're talking people in
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Ukraine people that have read the actual stuff.
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These are all Russian-speaking Places this is
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a Second illegal Ministry of finances that lives
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in the shadows so the back office and
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the laundromat So Naboo, which is the anti
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-corruption investigation team and Sapo which is the
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anti-corruption prosecutors office Describe a back office
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where which is really in central Kiev which
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functions as a headquarters for the legalizing for
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legalizing all this stolen money The office is
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coordinated shell companies accountants lawyers and so-called
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Administrators money went from an ergo atom related
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contracts Into these shell companies out to offshore
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accounts and personal holdings among the people Indicted
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and identified Dimitri Basov who is the head
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of an ergo atom security department now under
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arrest eager for Seneca accountant administrator of tense
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defense contractor called Firepoint who's allegedly responsible for
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handling some of the financial flow arrested with
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multi-million dollar bail and Firepoint by the
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way supplies flamingo rockets and drones Also, we'll
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come back to that in a minute So
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we have a shadow financial center physically sitting
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in Kiev Processing money supposed to buy concrete
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steel armored doors blast walls for nuclear facilities
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under that are under constant Russian missile threat
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so they had code names and all of
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these have been put out in wiretaps They
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say they got a thousand hours of these
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wiretaps if you got a thousand hours What
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the hell took you so long?
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Why are you waiting so long for this?
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I think well last night we talked about
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all the corruption and how this is gonna
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somebody has to do something and nobody believes
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that Ukrainians are serious about it because generally
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they aren't and Wait till we get to
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the part about Lukashenko inviting them to Belarus
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That's pretty comical too.
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So inside the wiretaps and a booze says
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the key figure codenames are Carlson this is
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believed to be two more Mindy Zelensky's business
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partner longtime business partner a guy named the
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professor believed to be German Galushenko former energy
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minister and until recently the Minister of Justice
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the courts guy named rocket Who's an advisor
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to the energy minister who's involved in defense
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and energy related products a guy named projects
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I mean tenor a former prosecutor who is
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an ergo Adams new security chief This is
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not a random gang of low-level crooks.
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These are people at the ministerial and top
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Enterprise level so Naboo's own statement calls it
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a high-level criminal organization Not irregularities not
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issues with the criminality Organization, okay so far
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the scale is a hundred million dollars and
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counting prosecutors and Investigators are putting the figure
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at around a hundred million dollars stolen through
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this scheme They're never gonna get it back.
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By the way, some journalists in Ukraine.
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I suggest the true number is far far
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higher This is only what they can prove
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in court so far now in Washington and
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or Brussels 100 million dollars is a rounding
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error.
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You know, that's nothing You know our our
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corruption is at much greater levels this hundred
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million Nobody cares, but in you but this
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is a you know in the Ukrainian aid
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budget no big deal, right?
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We've been given how much to them billions
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and in Ukraine.
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That's the cost of major protective systems around
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nuclear pants That's backup transformers armored control rooms
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substation rebuilds the difference between the city Losing
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light for four hours a day or sitting
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in the dark for 20 and remember this
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isn't an abstract budget line These are blackouts
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you can measure daily a mother carrying water
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up nine flights of stairs an old man
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freezing in an apartment because the boiler needs
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Electricity to run and the toilet doesn't work
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because there's no water Right now so ask
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yourself.
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What kind of people?
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See that reality and still take a 10
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to 15 percent cut from the nation, right?
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So the national security if you steal a
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hundred million from road repairs The roads just
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bad if you steal a hundred million from
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nuclear fortifications and energy in the middle of
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a war You're weakening your own defense capacity
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capacity making your entire grid and therefore your
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population vulnerable to the next wave of strikes
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and potentially playing with nuclear safety That is
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critical, you know that you could fail the
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whole system.
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I mean you're playing with serious Implications here.
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So lots of Ukrainian and even Western commentators.
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We're not even talking about Russia yet are
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calling this treason in everything but name and
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you know This is a scam of global
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proportions when your national security is for sale
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You don't even have a country and Zelensky's
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involved by the way this Mindy or whatever
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his name is is his guy from I
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told you about this yesterday when I started
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looking into this This is a guy from
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Kvartal 95 or 90s, whatever that show was
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I think it was 95 95th quarter.
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You have a territory managed by whoever's paying
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the best You know, whoever's able to launder
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the most money And so who gives these
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people the confidence that they could do this
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and get away with this I mean seriously,
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they know they can get away with it
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Naboo says the codename Carlson Mindig was the
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top and the one person above above Mindig
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the one who made him politically bulletproof for
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years is The man whose face is everywhere
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in Western capitals Vladimir Zelensky, let's talk about
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him or more precisely his wallet Okay Zelensky's
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wallet is a guy named Timur Mindy and
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the court Kvartal 95 95th quadrant 95th block
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connection, right if you listen to Western media,
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they talk about Zelensky like he's some kind
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of solo hero one man in a green
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t-shirt the Green Goblin single-handedly defending
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Democracy, he's clean.
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He's honest.
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He's incorruptible the reality Confirmed now by Ukraine's
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own Anti-corruption agency and a lot of
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her own journalists looks quite quite different to
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understand the inner Ghana Adam Scandal and really
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to understand why Ukraine never actually cleans up
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its corruption ever and especially post-maidan You
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have to understand who Timur Mindig is.
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So he was a comedy partner and shadow
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Oligarch so let's start with the basis Timur
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Mindig as a Ukrainian businessman who's in his
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mid-40s for years He was best known
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as the co-owner and partner in Kvartal
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95 the entertainment studio that produced Zelensky's comedy
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shows and the famous servant of the people
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series The Ukrainian media have long called him
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the kosher York Zelensky bar, which means Zelensky's
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wallet Why because he wasn't a public star?
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Zelensky was he wasn't the official candidate Zelensky
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was but he handled the money the deals
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the relationships including with oligarch who have told
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you about before eager Kolomoisky the billionaire whose
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media empire boosted Zelensky's rise and whose bank
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PrivatBank was later nationalized and stolen by Zelensky
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and company amid Massive fraud accusations, so they
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took him out used him to get in
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power and then took him out right afterward
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Even Western outlets in Ukraine admit that Mindig
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was a central figure in the informal network
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around Zelensky long before 2019 so after Zelensky
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became president then what happened the official story
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is that he distanced himself from oligarchs and
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cleaned house, but the unofficial reality Mindig quietly
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expanded into the defense and energy sector Surprise
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surprise he found himself or his companies Involved
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in what?
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extremely lucrative arms and infrastructure contracts hmm Equipped
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with the most valuable asset in Ukraine direct
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access to Zelensky right so let's talk about
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Firepoint and flamingo remember the name firepoint that
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I told you about before Ukrainian prosecutors and
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media are saying that firepoint is a defense
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contractor producing flamingo long-range rockets and drones
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they're saying they're changing the face of Ukraine
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through these drones and long-range rockets that
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they're using themselves and One of the people
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chained charged in the Energo Adam case worked
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there as an administrator But in practice he
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was handling money flow and using his job
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to secure travel exemptions under martial law so
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firepoint is linked to Mindig part of his
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business So the same man whose network is
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skimming money from the energy sector security context
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was also plugged into military Procurement and using
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a defense company as cover for financial operations
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when you see that this isn't just an
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energy scandal It's a system energy defense Infrastructure
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all run by the same goon so the
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Carlson identity and direct access as Zelensky goes
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like this Naboo's wiretaps according to the Ukrainian
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reporting show a figure referred to as Carlson
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Giving instructions about contracts payments appointments how you
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get them who they're with how much money
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all of that Journalists cite Naboo sources saying
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Carlson is To more Mindig even more damaging
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at a court hearing the prosecutor described an
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episode where?
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Mindig texted Zelensky about sensitive issues Zelensky then
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called Goloshenko who's these the energy guy at
26:09
the time the top official in the energy
26:11
sector about the same thing Right this tells
26:15
you two things Mindig isn't some rogue operator
26:18
He has direct real-time access to the
26:20
president the president takes his calls and acts
26:23
on them.
26:24
So combine that with Multiple years of Ukrainian
26:28
media calling Mindig Zelensky's wallet his role Linking
26:32
Zelensky to Kolomoisky the banker and the funder
26:36
of their Kvartal 95 and his sudden expansion
26:39
into state energy and defense contracts after 2019
26:42
which is when Zelensky was elected you'd have
26:46
to be pretty farging naive to believe that
26:49
Zelensky didn't know anything about his friends activities
26:52
at Energoatom and firepoint especially in a country
26:55
under martial law Where every dollar and every
26:59
contract runs through a very small circle Here's
27:04
another Wonderful detail about this according to Naboo
27:08
and media reports Everybody knows Zelensky's a Jewish
27:12
guy, right as investigators prepared to move on
27:17
the network Mindig was tipped off.
27:20
He left Ukraine and he's now believed to
27:23
be in Israel Isn't that hilarious the man
27:29
at the center of a hundred million dollar
27:30
wartime corruption probe involving nuclear security and defense
27:34
Has not been arrested not been extra extradited
27:37
not been subject to a press conference Just
27:40
quietly left the country with his hundred million.
27:43
Some of his associates weren't quite as lucky
27:47
Basov the Energoatom security chief is under arrest
27:50
with a million dollar bail Forsenka the firepoint
27:54
administrator has bail of over two million Others
27:58
have been detained or suspended but the man
28:00
at the top He's long gone and nobody
28:03
in Kiev or Brussels is in a hurry
28:04
to drag him back in front of a
28:06
judge so kvartal 95 Tried to wash its
28:11
hands of them all after the scandal broke
28:14
in the last couple days kvartal 95 rushed
28:16
out statements trying to make It sound like
28:18
like Mindig is just some distant figure who
28:21
didn't influence their operations anymore Of course They
28:24
did because the optics look horrible the same
28:27
creative team that sold Zelensky to the world
28:30
as a pure anti-corruption president turns out
28:34
to have been built Financially on the very
28:37
same network now looting the war budget the
28:41
line between Entertainment politics and corruption is not
28:44
a line at all It's a conveyor belt
28:47
You start with comedians you move into political
28:51
satire you then slide into actual politics Then
28:55
you land in a place where your old
28:56
business partner is caught taxing nuclear bumper bunkers
29:00
at 15% That is the story Why
29:05
does this story matter beyond Ukraine because Western
29:08
governments are already trying to spin this?
29:12
Look Ukraine is fighting corruption.
29:14
Our aid is working.
29:16
This system is functioning Right.
29:18
Yeah, it's functioning just like you planned ten
29:22
years after Maidan all of the talk about
29:24
reform and European Integration the state nuclear monopoly
29:28
is still run like the Mafia's cash register
29:31
the man at the center of the president's
29:33
You know team his own wallet business partner
29:37
and mr.
29:38
Fixit is you know gone to Israel and
29:42
the scandal the only reason it came out
29:44
is because Naboo and Sapo the any corruption
29:48
prosecutor and investigatory teams Agencies are funded and
29:52
mentored by the EU and the in the
29:54
US Decided to go public remember when Zelensky
29:57
tried to shut them down three four months
29:59
ago And they had protests in the street
30:01
and all of that So this is this
30:04
is the West saying oh no No, you
30:07
need to still keep those there.
30:08
Even the European Court of Auditors has been
30:11
warning for years that Ukraine Suffers from grand
30:15
corruption and state capture of all money that
30:18
comes in and the EU money has done
30:21
Very little to change that so on this
30:25
Russia is right on this point and well
30:28
so am I so is everybody else the
30:30
problem is not one bad president or one
30:33
Oligarch or one scheme the problem is that
30:36
Ukraine's political and economic system is structurally built
30:42
Around this type of corruption and always has
30:45
been and every new Western reform just rearranges
30:48
Who sits at the top of the table?
30:50
Mendix Mendix is not an exception.
30:53
He's a symptom a symptom of a state
30:55
that lives on aid From the West has
30:58
no real internal sovereignty Hands out key sectors
31:02
energy defense media to whichever click is most
31:05
useful at the time So we're gonna look
31:09
further we're gonna keep on trucking because I
31:12
like this We look at how Zelensky tried
31:14
to bring Naboo and Sappo under his control
31:17
and he failed We'll look at how EU
31:19
anti-corruption pressure is really about controlling Kiev
31:23
not about saving Ukrainians They don't want them
31:26
taking the money.
31:27
They want to keep it for themselves in
31:29
their own corrupt scandals, right?
31:30
And we'll put this into the longer timeline
31:33
from Kuchma to you Shanka to Yanukovych to
31:37
Poroshenko to Zelensky 30 year loop of the
31:42
same story because if you don't understand the
31:45
pattern You as an American will keep falling
31:48
for the same old freakin slogans that has
31:51
us pumping our money down this rat hole
31:54
that's Nonsense, okay, and but but that's the
31:59
way it is So let's have a look
32:01
at the lights go out and the money
32:04
flows in right?
32:06
so Druzya my that means friends mine my
32:10
friends here We are still at international flavors
32:14
still where the truth is just tasting better
32:17
We're gonna keep on trucking.
32:19
We're gonna go step by step through Ukraine's
32:21
latest anti-corruption or the these Are not
32:26
some ministry not a village mayor.
32:29
This is the heart of the country, right?
32:32
Imagine you're in Kiev or any of these
32:35
offices not a carefully staged visit for Lindsey
32:40
Graham or somebody like that, but an ordinary
32:42
resident last week They call this schedule that
32:47
they have is that is the power on
32:50
schedule this tells you when the power will
32:52
be on The national grid operator says that
32:56
in most regions people are getting between 8
32:59
and 16 hours a day with no electricity,
33:02
right So we in Kiev the average is
33:05
14 to 16 hours a day of blackout
33:09
Right, and and this is the truth Let's
33:14
see So while ordinary Ukrainians are Sitting through
33:20
14-hour blackouts boiling water on camping burners
33:24
and European Union's announcing energy support packages reconstruction
33:29
funds and special facilities to prop up the
33:33
power sector billions of euros have been pledged
33:37
and funneled through the Ukrainian energy support fund
33:41
the Emergency equipment delivery through the European board
33:47
and others Western Taxpayers are saying this money
33:50
is keeping hospitals powered on this money is
33:53
repairing transporters this money is about Resilience in
33:58
Ukraine and rebuilding and some of it a
34:01
small amount is out there on the line
34:04
cruise There are real electricians and engineers A
34:07
freezing in the cold rain trying to fix
34:10
blown lines and melted and melted Transformers, but
34:15
now that this anti-corruption Bureau and the
34:19
specialized anti-corruption Prosecutors it went through something
34:23
all of that are going through something else
34:26
and they're finally uncovering the criminal scheme Let's
34:31
a hundred million dollars a Hundred million dollars
34:37
what they're talking about is offshore accounts When
34:41
you hear energy gate if you hear anything
34:44
like that, which you really won't in the
34:46
West Dominique tapes operation Midas Take away the
34:51
drama and remember this these are power plant
34:54
security funds that are as someone's private ATM
34:57
at the top of the Zelensky system and
35:02
You know this is Not I mean if
35:06
the question is not is there corruption.
35:08
I mean everybody knows there is and they're
35:11
always one It's where we're gonna dig into
35:14
it tonight And who sits at the top
35:17
of it and why do they feel safe
35:19
enough to do this in the middle of
35:20
the war?
35:21
Because you don't skim a hundred million dollars
35:23
from a nuclear fortification contract unless you believe
35:28
The president's got your back The prosecutors are
35:32
either on your side or under your control
35:34
and That Western sponsors are going to look
35:36
the other way as long as the right
35:38
flags are waved and the right speeches are
35:41
made and they're gonna make sure that you
35:43
You get a walk away Scott clean, right?
35:48
On one side a woman in Kiev lighting
35:50
candles on the 12th For the 12th hour
35:53
because the blackout drags on the elevators dead.
35:56
Well, you know, there's no water on the
35:58
other side a group of very comfortable men
36:02
in Kiev counting 10 and 15 percent cuts
36:05
and contracts If you understand that Contrast you
36:10
understand why this scandal isn't just another corruption
36:14
story the sheer Volume of stories out there
36:18
on YouTube about this Corruption has been going
36:21
on a while.
36:22
I mean corruption always has been but Everybody
36:26
is talking about this and I'm not just
36:30
talking Russia Russia's given a Russia has a
36:33
section That came out this morning on Which
36:37
channel was that that was Russia today?
36:39
They have something that says here's the story
36:41
with live updates because these things are happening
36:46
There every every hour.
36:48
They're adding on more information, right?
36:51
So this is important and This is pretty
36:58
Unbelievable to me.
37:00
Let's see.
37:01
We already got these people.
37:02
We already talked about them.
37:04
Where is my next segment?
37:09
To do Hang on I'm sorry I I
37:14
scrolled when I shouldn't have scrolled and I
37:16
have to get back to where I was
37:18
scrolling So I'm gonna take a break for
37:20
a minute Okay, here we get into the
37:23
tapes the ministers and the president on a
37:27
leash, okay So we talked about the mechanics
37:31
of it of operation Midas We put names
37:34
to it to more Mindy Kozlensky's wallet the
37:37
tapes themselves let's talk about the political blast
37:41
here the ministers who have already been taken
37:44
out and the question hanging over Kiev is
37:48
How long can Zelensky stay in the chair
37:53
when his own Wallet is at the center
37:57
of this hundred million dollar Corruption case I
38:00
told you before that Naboo and Sapo say
38:03
they have over 1,000 hour of recorded
38:06
conversation tied to operation Midas and so far
38:11
Only tiny fragments have been released to the
38:14
public Snippets where Carlson tenor and rocket discuss
38:18
kickbacks kickbacks and blocked payments fragmentary references to
38:23
ministerial contract contacts appointments and agreements This is
38:30
not just a few drunken phone calls.
38:32
No, no No, this is long-term wiretapping
38:36
operation against people at the top of the
38:38
power pyramid Ukrainian media citing sources say there's
38:42
at least one episode where that I already
38:45
told you about that Zelensky called and talked
38:49
about this this goes the flow is Carlson
38:53
president minister that alone is not enough to
38:56
destroy the fairy tale that Mindy Mindy was
39:00
just some distant businessman.
39:02
His activities had nothing to do With the
39:05
head of state, of course it is but
39:06
the bigger question is what else is on
39:09
the rest of the tapes is Zelensky directly
39:12
heard discussing contracts appointments or the 10 to
39:15
15 percent Schlagbaum or is his involvement always
39:20
Indirect a text here phone call there enough
39:24
to show influence but not enough to indict
39:27
him We don't know right now Naboo is
39:31
using the recordings like a drip feed, right?
39:34
They're just leaking out enough to justify raids
39:37
and further arrests not enough to make the
39:39
solicit system collapse overnight They still got to
39:42
do this They still people still got to
39:44
get their 15% and that's important because
39:47
it means these tapes aren't just evidence evidence
39:49
They are leverage.
39:51
They're using it now Over Zelensky himself is
39:55
what I say.
39:56
So the mint there to ministers down so
39:59
far Goloshenko and Hrinchuk we've already seen the
40:03
first heads rolling right Herman Goloshenko is officially
40:06
the justice minister But longtime power player in
40:10
the energy sector.
40:11
He submitted his resignation Svetlana Hrinchuk is the
40:15
energy minister.
40:16
She have stepped down after her ministry and
40:18
staff were caught in the same Investigation this
40:22
is this is today yesterday This is big
40:24
news now booze filings in Ukrainian press coverage
40:27
make it clear Goloshenko is supposed to be
40:30
the professor on the tape to senior official
40:32
Hrinchuk is not on the recordings herself so
40:35
far But she's tainted by the fact that
40:37
the racket ran through her ministry, right?
40:40
And the same time the high anti-corruption
40:42
court says that Dmitry boss of tenor The
40:46
security chief has been detained for 60 days
40:49
bail at a just under a million bucks
40:52
and eager to forsake the firepoint guy was
40:55
detained with bail at 2.2 million and
40:58
Prosecutors saying he used his defense company job
41:01
to secure these these travel Travel benefits during
41:07
martial law which nobody else can do so
41:10
on a visible level very visible You got
41:12
ministers resigning senior managers daled a jailed businessman
41:16
Wallet hiding abroad judges publicly falling calling this
41:21
a high-level criminal organization, right?
41:24
This is a category 5 storm Anywhere in
41:28
the world, but Ukraine doesn't have that luxury
41:31
It has something more dangerous going on a
41:33
war a collapsed economy and an increasingly nervous
41:37
West So our Western sponsors Ursula von der
41:42
Leyen, I mean these idiots in the European
41:44
Commission are are calling this Extremely unfortunate.
41:49
All right.
41:50
Listen to the tone from Brussels and the
41:51
g7 Kaya-colas calls the scandal extremely unfortunate
41:56
and says there's no room for corruption especially
42:00
now Because the people's money should go to
42:03
the front and not into pockets.
42:06
Ah Wasn't that a great statement from her
42:09
the European Commission's latest progress report on Ukrainian
42:13
EU path are more blunt.
42:15
I told you something about him last night
42:17
They they insist anti-corruption bodies retain in
42:21
must remain independent, right?
42:23
They demand high-level appointments include international experts
42:27
like they're any better They ward of undue
42:30
pressure from the inside against agencies like Naboo
42:34
and Sapo which are supposed to be Independent
42:39
We don't what they're saying is we don't
42:42
trust Zelensky, but we want to keep him
42:44
on the hook So we'll use these bodies
42:47
and scandals as a way to tighten our
42:49
control over him is basically what they're saying
42:52
So from that angle them the tapes and
42:54
the inner go Adam scandal are perfect timing
42:57
for the EU They have to justify more
43:00
intrusive oversight of Ukraine.
43:02
They want to sell their own voters on
43:05
continued funding They can point and say see
43:07
we're fighting corruption That's why they need us
43:11
to structure their institutions And at the same
43:14
time Dmitry Peskov the Russian spokesman for the
43:17
Kremlin says that what everyone else can see
43:20
what I'm saying the Western taxpayers money is
43:23
being eaten from the inside by the corruption
43:26
of Kiev and it's more and more obvious
43:29
even Ukrainian backers the West is caught between
43:33
the need to pretend Ukraine is a functioning
43:35
democracy and the reality that its own pet
43:39
Anti-corruption bodies are blowing that narrative up.
43:43
So what do they do?
43:45
What would you do they sacrifice ministers?
43:49
They quietly let the wallet run away and
43:52
they keep Zelensky wounded but alive Still easy,
43:57
I mean still useful but far easier to
43:59
manage right?
44:01
What about the anti Zelensky bloc?
44:04
Hmm inside Ukraine even before inner go Adam
44:08
analysts were talking about an informal coalition against
44:12
Zelensky made up of the old political elite
44:16
Poroshenko Kalichko various ex ministers Western funded NGO
44:20
and media who have tired of his attempts
44:22
to centralize his power and Crucially segments of
44:26
Naboo and Sappo themselves who remember very well
44:29
that Zelensky tried to bring them under presidential
44:32
control This summer and only backed down after
44:36
US and EU pressure.
44:38
So operation Midas gives this coalition Something it
44:43
was lacking a clear documented scandal that touches
44:46
the president's inner circle and strategic sectors, so
44:51
The the outline of this narrative is Zelensky
44:54
has lost his moral legitimacy I don't I
44:57
say he never had it his cronies looted
45:00
the energy sector while the army's freezing on
45:03
the front No food either.
45:05
It's time for the government of National unity
45:08
or a technocrat cabinet under tight Western oversight
45:12
That's what they really want whether they move
45:15
now or wait for more tape leaks is
45:17
tactical but it pretty obvious in my Opinion
45:21
Zelensky is president in name But a hostage
45:25
in practice, right?
45:27
Especially to the EU maybe not to the
45:30
u.s. Yet, but today he's a wartime
45:34
president Legally still in office.
45:37
Thanks to suspended elections under martial law Politically,
45:41
he's increasingly isolated between a furious Population with
45:46
about a what was the last poll 16
45:49
17 percent popularity Well, there's predatory elites waiting
45:53
to get rid of him and impatient Western
45:55
sponsors So he can't afford to attack Nebu
45:59
and Sapo.
46:00
They're backed by the EU in the u
46:01
.s He can't ignore them.
46:03
The scandal is too big and too public
46:06
hmm But he can't cooperate with them either
46:09
because deeper digging will expose his direct knowledge
46:12
or involvement So he's doing the only thing
46:15
he has left publicly he supports the investigation
46:18
his words Allows a couple of ministers to
46:21
resign.
46:21
Let's enter go Adam manage managers be arrested
46:26
hmm and Pretends that his own history with
46:31
his wallet Mindic is irrelevant.
46:33
That isn't leadership He's a hostage Every new
46:38
snippet of tape Nabu chooses to release is
46:41
a reminder to him That if he steps
46:43
too far out of line if he tries
46:46
again to leash the independent investigator bodies that
46:50
the scandal will move one step closer from
46:53
Zelensky's wallet did it to Zelensky new and
46:57
at that point his Western sponsors have a
46:59
simple choice protect the face they invested in
47:03
or swap him out for another so-called
47:06
Democratic reformer who will sign whatever they put
47:09
in front of him and promise once again
47:12
To fight corruption, right and that's not gonna
47:15
happen.
47:16
They aren't gonna fight any corruption be s
47:21
Let's talk about these foreign watchdogs or these
47:24
watchdogs on foreign leashes, right?
47:27
Nabu Sapo who they really work for right
47:31
we've talked about the scam Operation Midas we
47:36
talked about the wallet Timur Mindic.
47:38
We talked about political fallout Ministers following Zelensky's
47:42
wobbling.
47:43
He's like Weebles wobble, but they don't fall
47:45
down yet So let's talk about the people
47:48
holding on to the detonator Who's got the
47:52
hand grenade pin, right?
47:54
Ukraine's independent anti-corruption agencies are Nabu and
47:59
Sapo Why they are not just watchdogs their
48:04
watchdogs on Foreign leashes, right Where did they
48:10
come from?
48:11
They didn't come from the Maidan crowd.
48:13
The official story goes like this in 2015
48:16
after Maidan Ukraine created the National Anticorruption Bureau
48:23
Nabu to investigate top-level corruption MPs members
48:29
of Parliament judges Ministers even the president once
48:34
he leaves office That same year it set
48:38
up the specialized anti-corruption Prosecutors office Sapo
48:45
to oversee Nabu cases in court that there's
48:49
they're supposedly Independent prosecutors within the prosecutor general's
48:55
office right what they don't shout as loudly
48:59
is Why these bodies were created they were
49:03
demanded by the EU and the IMF as
49:08
conditions for Ukrainian visa free travel loans and
49:15
financial aid in other words Nabu and Sapo
49:19
are not Ukrainian institutions born of internal reform
49:24
They are projects written into Western conditions You
49:30
want our money and our political support you
49:34
build our?
49:36
Anti-corruption machine and from day one Brussels
49:41
and Washington have treated this alleged independence as
49:45
non-negotiable separate appointment procedures foreign quote experts
49:53
on the Selection Commission's and Direct monitoring by
49:58
EU missions and IMF Staff you believe those
50:03
guys so yeah They're allegedly independent, but depends
50:07
on your on your definition of that word
50:09
or who really is Independent if you think
50:13
the EU mission or IMF staff are independent.
50:16
They're not they have their own scams running,
50:19
right?
50:19
They're not independent of the West they're independent
50:23
of Ukrainian Elected government remember that because that
50:28
matters the double game is fighting corruption versus
50:33
political leverage to be fair Nabu and Sapo
50:37
really do some real work They've indicted MPs
50:41
judges ex-officials a few months ago They
50:45
exposed a graft scheme in a military drone
50:48
procurement Remember we were talking about that where
50:51
contracts were inflated by 30% and National
50:55
Guard officers were taking a cut so they
50:59
do catch thieves But they also serve another
51:03
function leverage So if you think about it
51:06
these agencies can open cases against almost Anybody
51:12
in Ukraine's political chaos over there?
51:16
Western donors watch the Ukrainian political class and
51:22
their performance like hawks Every EU report an
51:27
IMF statement repeats the same line the independence
51:32
of Nabu and Sapo remains central to our
51:35
engagement that's because They control them if you're
51:40
in Kiev, and you control Nabu you control
51:45
Weapon if you are in Brussels and you
51:48
control Nabu Indirectly you can control Kiev itself,
51:55
right?
51:56
That's why Western reports obsess over pressure on
52:01
anti-corruption agencies the European Commission report in
52:05
24 24 and 2025 on Ukraine warned that
52:09
pressure on Nabu and Sapo remain a matter
52:12
of concern criminal cases open against Nabu detectives
52:17
by the Security Bureau of Ukraine and other
52:21
bodies are tracked as political interference because remember
52:25
the real prosecutor the Regular Ukrainian prosecutors office
52:30
and their corruption claim the same thing against
52:33
Nabu and Sapo, right?
52:35
but if you the Ukrainian the Ukraine must
52:40
protect these agencies if they ever want to
52:44
be part of the EU so the Translation
52:48
the watchdogs belong to the reform project.
52:52
We are paying for keep your hands off
52:55
of them and recently, let's fast forward or
53:00
Reverse, however, you will look at it to
53:02
July of 2025 They'd been in business for
53:07
10 years or so, so what did Zelensky
53:10
do?
53:11
He tries to put them on his own
53:14
lease right before the Mindik scandal breaks He
53:17
tries to chain the watchdogs to his own
53:20
office on July 22.
53:22
He signed the law that effectively stripped Nabu
53:26
and Sapo of their independence put them under
53:30
tight presidential and prosecutor general control Human Rights
53:36
Watch and others call it exactly what it
53:38
was a law that undercut the independence of
53:41
Ukraine's key Anti-corruption bodies.
53:44
So what happens next for the first time
53:46
since the war?
53:48
Well, the full-scale war began thousands of
53:51
Ukrainians protested in central Kiev not against Russia
53:54
But against their own government's attack on anti
53:57
-corruption Western politicians went ballistic EU officials the
54:02
IMF and the usual think-tank crowd the
54:06
IMF publicly reminded Kiev that independence of these
54:10
agencies was a Central concern of their reform
54:14
and funding so under this pressure Kiev folded
54:18
like immediately by July 31 Parliament reversed and
54:23
Restored the formal independence of Nabu and Sapo
54:26
in a stormy session that the fight there
54:28
was a fight even in there remember that
54:30
That the Financial Times noted as a humiliating
54:34
u-turn for Zelensky himself and for his
54:37
chief of staff So what did we see
54:40
then?
54:40
We saw that Zelensky does not control the
54:43
anti-corruption agencies the moment He tries he
54:46
gets his he gets street protests funded by
54:49
the West by the way and Western pressure
54:52
and then The leash was snapped back.
54:56
So it's clearly not in his hand and
55:00
then they bit his own Wallet, look at
55:03
the timing of this weeks after the fight
55:06
over the independence Nabu and Sapo go public
55:09
with operation Midas They raid and ergo Adam
55:12
detained top managers and name is a suspect
55:15
ringleader a man Everyone knows is Zelensky's longtime
55:18
friend and business partner Timur Mindik the wallet
55:23
You don't need to be an X-Files
55:25
conspiracy theorist to see what this means.
55:28
The agency Zelensky tried to leash in July
55:32
Kept their independence.
55:34
Thanks to the EU Continue building massive cases
55:38
in secret and when they're ready drop a
55:41
hundred million dollar bomb on Zelensky Right Now
55:48
Zelensky can't shut them down without losing Brussels
55:51
He can't ignore them the blackouts in the
55:54
money trail are too obvious He can't embrace
55:57
them because the closer they get to mendic
55:59
the closer they get to him That's why
56:02
foreign-backed watchdog looks like Something okay in
56:06
practice, but it doesn't serve the Ukrainian public.
56:09
It doesn't answer to the Ukrainian president It
56:11
answers to the sponsors clean just enough pressure
56:16
just enough never questioned the overall Ukraine project
56:22
funded by the West What does Russia say
56:25
about all this external management doesn't equal reform.
56:29
I Happen to agree with that point of
56:32
view from Moscow's point of view.
56:34
None of this is new for years Russia
56:37
has said Ukraine is under external management The
56:41
anti-corruption reform is a polite term for
56:44
direct Western control and the president in Kiev
56:49
Poroshenko Zelensky whoever is next are Replaceable front
56:53
men on top of a system designed by
56:55
other people So look at these facts Naboo
56:59
and Sappo are born out of EU at
57:01
EU and IMF right Independence is defended more
57:06
aggressively in Brussels than in Kiev The president
57:09
of Ukraine tries to control his own country
57:12
and he gets slapped down Now these agencies
57:15
have blown open a scandal that exposes theft
57:18
in the energy and defense sector Forces resignation
57:21
puts the president's wallet on the wanted list
57:24
and suddenly they're the heroes Are they I
57:28
don't think so Not really, they're doing some
57:31
sort of right things exposing corruption But for
57:35
their own reasons and for their own masters
57:38
the tragedy the unfortunate part is that none
57:44
of this matters to the ordinary Ukrainian it
57:47
doesn't change a freaking thing for them Nothing
57:52
changes the script.
57:53
The lights are still off The water isn't
57:57
flowing You got no heat.
58:00
You got no power.
58:01
You got no warmth The money is gone
58:04
and the decisions about their country are being
58:07
made in another country Right 30 years of
58:12
anti-corruption promises in Ukraine from Kuchma Yashchenko
58:16
Yanukovych quarter shank Porter shanka and Zelensky and
58:21
You know, this is a pattern right that's
58:24
it 30 years of fighting corruption and nothing
58:28
changed and I say nothing will so we've
58:32
spent a Lot of this show and I
58:34
got I'm gonna try to make sure I
58:36
get to the final part of this Why
58:39
is anybody surprised by this?
58:41
I?
58:42
Mean, I'm not I'm not remotely surprised I've
58:44
been saying for years that the corruption is
58:47
why they weren't allowed into the EU and
58:49
why they weren't allowed into NATO in the
58:51
First place if you look honestly at the
58:53
last three decades of Ukrainian politics, you see
58:56
the same script on Repeat new president promises
59:00
a fight corruption West praises reforms sends money
59:04
sends Uh, I don't know what advisors sends
59:09
military oligarchs rearrange the chairs at the same
59:14
freaking table Then several years later another scandal
59:18
another purge exact same result inner inner go
59:22
at him isn't a glitch it's the latest
59:25
episode in in the longest-running comedy series
59:29
called Ukraine and Zelensky's just a next servant
59:33
of the people right servant in quotes, so
59:38
The system not a bug in the system
59:41
the system itself Self right.
59:44
Let's start with something boring back in 2021
59:47
before the war The European Court of Auditors
59:52
looked at EU anti-corruption aid to Ukraine.
59:55
What was the conclusion?
59:57
EU support was only partially effective why Grand
1:00:03
corruption and state capture by oligarchs are still
1:00:07
the major problem in Ukraine After years of
1:00:11
Western programs support and measures have not delivered
1:00:15
the expected results That's Brussels.
1:00:18
That's not our tea.
1:00:20
Not the Kremlin.
1:00:21
Not me That's Brussels grand corruption and state
1:00:26
capture are still widespread in 2021 the system
1:00:31
is run for the benefit of a small
1:00:33
circle at the top Anything else is theater
1:00:37
that was before Zelensky before EnergyGate before Mindic
1:00:42
tapes So when Western media suddenly clutched their
1:00:45
pearls about a hundred million Skimmed remember their
1:00:49
own auditors told them years ago that nothing
1:00:52
had changed Yet they kept pumping money money
1:00:54
down the same rat hole pre Zelensky corruption
1:00:58
as a business model kuchma yana shank you
1:01:01
could Let up Get to speaking too fast
1:01:04
kuchma.
1:01:05
You shanka Yanukovych and then poroshenko Ukraine followed
1:01:09
the classic post-soviet pattern strategic sectors energy
1:01:13
metal defense transit carved up between oligarch clans
1:01:17
Political parties were vehicles for the clans not
1:01:21
ideological movements state posts were investment opportunities with
1:01:26
expected Returns take the defense sector before Zelensky
1:01:33
investigations into ukra boron prom the state defense
1:01:38
conglomerate exposed kickbacks smuggled components political cover stories
1:01:43
for sweetheart contracts The pattern is always the
1:01:47
same Insiders arrange overpriced deals money disappears offshore
1:01:53
Reforms are announced nothing changes That's why the
1:01:57
EU use a frame state captured political rotation
1:02:00
doesn't break the system Just shifts who sits
1:02:04
at the top.
1:02:05
So let's talk about post Maidan after 2014
1:02:08
the narrative sold in the West was We
1:02:12
overthrew the corrupt Yanukovych regime and are building
1:02:15
a European rule of law state.
1:02:17
Oh, yeah That's what they were doing Oligarchs
1:02:21
are not dismantled.
1:02:22
They were just rebranded New reform parties are
1:02:28
built on the same old Western money the
1:02:31
EU and the IMF poured in billions of
1:02:36
Dollars on the condition that Kiev create things
1:02:39
like Naboo Sapo and the high-end a
1:02:42
corruption court Did that kill the corruption?
1:02:45
Not at all the European Court of Auditors.
1:02:48
I already told you that grand corruption and
1:02:51
oligarch Influence are deeply entrenched These EU projects
1:02:57
haven't yielded the expected results oligarch system shapes
1:03:02
how power and money move so by the
1:03:04
time Zelensky shows up in 2019 in his
1:03:09
t-shirt Yelling we need to fight corruption.
1:03:12
He's not landing on a clean slate.
1:03:15
He's climbing on to a well-oiled corruption
1:03:18
machine So his reform at the front loot
1:03:23
in the back you're told we're at war
1:03:26
we're Reforming we're fighting corruption but what actually
1:03:30
happened before an Energatum blew up the egg
1:03:34
scandal and defense food in January 2023 Ukrainian
1:03:38
journalists revealed that Defense Ministry was buying food
1:03:41
for soldiers at Wildly inflated prices eggs potatoes
1:03:46
cabbage all marked up Compared to normal retail
1:03:49
now boo and Sapo charge officials in a
1:03:52
scheme that embezzled 17 to 18 million From
1:03:55
food contracts in a year part of the
1:03:58
stolen money was used to buy property abroad
1:04:00
That's the typical thing they buy they buy
1:04:03
homes in Miami.
1:04:05
They buy homes in an island somewhere Defense
1:04:08
minister Alexei Reznikov was eventually removed in his
1:04:11
under investigation The West says this is a
1:04:14
system that works.
1:04:15
The reality is simple.
1:04:17
They get caught stealing from soldiers budgets in
1:04:20
a Food budget during a time of war.
1:04:23
So how about example number two Supreme Court
1:04:27
bribes?
1:04:28
In May of 2023 Naboo caught the head
1:04:31
of the Supreme Court See a Volod Knyaznev
1:04:36
Allegedly taking a 2.7 million dollar bribe
1:04:40
to fix a case for oligarch Constantine Zhivago
1:04:44
and his company Fair Expo investigators found a
1:04:48
back office a fake law firm that had
1:04:51
been taking money for legal services and Passing
1:04:54
it on to the judge in exchange for
1:04:56
favorable verdicts and had been operating across multiple
1:04:59
courts for a long time So the top
1:05:03
judge in the country a multi-million dollar
1:05:06
bribe a secret back office distribution system Recognize
1:05:10
this architecture.
1:05:11
It's the identical to what we're seeing around
1:05:14
an ergo Adam and Mindik his back office
1:05:16
example three arms and drones in early 2024
1:05:21
Ukraine security services the SPU Arrested officials and
1:05:26
a private CEO over a 40 million dollar
1:05:29
arm fraud Money paid for 100,000 mortar
1:05:33
shells that never arrived the funds siphoned to
1:05:38
accounts in the Balkans in 2025 another case
1:05:42
Naboo and Sapo charged six people including a
1:05:45
sitting MP and a National Guard officer in
1:05:48
a scheme to skim 30% of contracts
1:05:50
for drones and electronic warfare systems One drone
1:05:54
contract alone was overpriced by 80,000 bucks
1:05:59
So when people act shocked that the Energo
1:06:02
Adam scandal, you know was a surprise They're
1:06:08
ignoring the pattern that was already fully visible
1:06:12
steal from soldiers food steal from shells steal
1:06:16
from drones Steal from court decisions and now
1:06:20
we're stealing from nuclear fortifications different sector same
1:06:24
operating System and Ergo Adam fits the pattern
1:06:27
it doesn't break it so energy gate Naboo
1:06:32
says high-level criminal organization ten to fifteen
1:06:35
percent schlock bomb critical contracts hundred million But
1:06:38
we've already seen the back office buying court
1:06:41
the kickbacks and embezzlement and food everything grand
1:06:44
corruption state capture fully entrenched What makes Energo
1:06:49
Adam different is not the structure of the
1:06:51
stream?
1:06:52
Scheme it's the altitude it touches nuclear backbone
1:06:55
of the grid It touches EU funded energy
1:06:58
programs and the president's personal wallet Okay, so
1:07:03
they already took out the the the chief
1:07:06
judge at the Supreme Court It's this is
1:07:09
that's why it's exploding now not because the
1:07:12
system suddenly developed a conscience But because the
1:07:15
theft is big enough and strategic enough to
1:07:18
threaten a Western narrative none of the rest
1:07:22
was and the anti-corruption Agencies backed by
1:07:25
the same Western sponsors now have great leverage
1:07:29
over Zelensky and his gang, right?
1:07:32
History repeats itself because the incentives never changed
1:07:36
what has really changed in the last 30
1:07:39
years If you're in the Ukrainian elite your
1:07:44
rational move grab what you can while the
1:07:46
money tap is open Whether the tap is
1:07:48
Russian gas transit EU subsidies IMF loans or
1:07:52
now wartime aid and energy funds if you're
1:07:55
a Western sponsor you pretend reforms are working
1:07:59
because you need Ukraine as a geopolitical tool
1:08:01
against Russia and Admitting the corruption problem undermines,
1:08:05
you know saying that the corruption problem is
1:08:08
still there Undermines your own propaganda But if
1:08:11
you're a typical Ukrainian you get the worst
1:08:13
of both you get tariff inflation mobilization blackouts
1:08:17
European reformers and their local partners divide up
1:08:20
the proceeds.
1:08:21
That's what happens This is exactly the point
1:08:24
Moscow has been making for years The West
1:08:29
has not Civilized Ukraine at all it is
1:08:33
outsourced its own dirty work to the local
1:08:35
elite that saw the state as a Cash
1:08:38
-cow my Dan didn't change that Porto Shanka
1:08:42
didn't change that Zelensky very obviously has not
1:08:47
changed that and now we have the mendic
1:08:49
takes the president's wallet on a wiretap sitting
1:08:53
at the junction of the nuclear energy and
1:08:55
missile procurement and running off to Israel just
1:08:59
in time I suppose the honest question here
1:09:03
is What did you expect?
1:09:07
I?
1:09:08
Seriously I expected this that's it so broken
1:09:13
state broken society blackouts exodus Spiritual rot of
1:09:21
the Kiev regime.
1:09:22
That's what you got, right?
1:09:24
We spent most of tonight on the plumbing
1:09:26
of corruption and ergo Adam mendic tapes Ministers
1:09:31
falling foreign-controlled watchdogs, let's talk about what
1:09:36
all of this is doing to Ukraine itself
1:09:39
How is the energy collapse changing day-to
1:09:42
-day life?
1:09:43
How is the regime's ideology Dragging people toward,
1:09:48
you know a bigger abyss and why for
1:09:51
many Ukrainians the only realistic future is to
1:09:56
leave and they have been in huge Quantities,
1:10:01
but before they leave they take as much
1:10:04
money as they can.
1:10:05
What would you do?
1:10:06
I mean, where are you gonna go?
1:10:08
You got to feel sorry for the normal
1:10:10
Ukrainian I mean the trouble is though you
1:10:12
don't know whether it's somebody who was somebody
1:10:14
in before and Scalped as much money as
1:10:18
they could and have a big pile of
1:10:20
it I met a bunch of those people
1:10:22
and I don't like it.
1:10:24
I don't and the Europeans don't like it
1:10:26
They don't like these Ukrainians coming over and
1:10:29
getting freebies and not having to work and
1:10:32
Traveling and buying new cars and getting state
1:10:34
money everywhere you go, and I'm not against
1:10:37
the Ukrainians I feel sorry for most of
1:10:40
them, but how do you know?
1:10:42
Which ones which you just don't and they
1:10:45
and they have to leave.
1:10:46
I'm not exaggerating.
1:10:47
That's that's how it is.
1:10:49
This is You know, they're being invited to
1:10:54
Belarus There's more that there's Huge numbers that
1:11:00
have gone to Russia.
1:11:01
In fact hopefully we have time to get
1:11:04
to it where they They're going Lukashenko's inviting
1:11:08
them to Belarus.
1:11:09
So Life in the dark.
1:11:12
What kind of social experiment is that?
1:11:15
You know, it's not wires transformers This is
1:11:18
an exocial experiment.
1:11:19
Nobody volunteered for I mean, how do you
1:11:22
like to be a kid?
1:11:22
What do you go to school?
1:11:23
I mean there ain't nothing good going on
1:11:27
over there and even in Kiev, which I
1:11:30
mean Nothing, you can't live online.
1:11:33
You can't rely on ATMs banking apps or
1:11:36
smart anything You're forced back into a pre
1:11:39
digital existence and concrete cages, you know Never
1:11:43
supposed to operate without electricity.
1:11:45
That's what one Ukrainian analyst calls D digitalization
1:11:51
of society People are forced to talk to
1:11:54
their neighbors again They're forced to organize in
1:11:57
stairwells court wells or courtyards basements work with
1:12:01
their their local neighbors in order to get
1:12:03
something done forced to decide whether they'll sit
1:12:06
alone in the dark or Rediscover a community
1:12:09
in spite of everything and at the same
1:12:11
time the regime is still running mobilization squads
1:12:15
these territorial Recruitment centers Cops half criminal volunteers
1:12:22
that are sweeping the streets and stairwells for
1:12:25
men to throw at the front Do that
1:12:28
in an unlit city with no streetlights.
1:12:30
No cameras.
1:12:31
No witnesses.
1:12:32
No internet and you don't have Mobilization you
1:12:35
have an open-air hunting ground Add in
1:12:38
no lighting silent elevators stuck between floors.
1:12:42
How do you like that?
1:12:43
No reliable police response the result is exactly
1:12:47
what even pro-government commentators admit a surge
1:12:51
in criminality a collapse in trust the power
1:12:56
is off because they're exporting electricity to the
1:12:59
EU to make money and We sit in
1:13:02
the dark in Ukraine So somebody's offshore account
1:13:06
gets bigger and after everything that I've covered
1:13:09
tonight about Energo out of Mindic and 10
1:13:12
to 15 percent kickbacks.
1:13:14
You honestly believe they're wrong to think that
1:13:18
Here's Belarus and Russia doors out of the
1:13:22
burning house now, let's see how this looks
1:13:24
from Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko who I like
1:13:29
listening to people call him a dictator or
1:13:31
whatever, you know Belarus I was there several
1:13:34
months ago Good country things, you know lights
1:13:38
are on there things are seeing seem to
1:13:40
be going pretty well pretty clean foods good,
1:13:44
you know, they At the opening of a
1:13:48
rebuilt bridge over the Pripyat River inviting Ukrainians
1:13:51
to come live in Belarus He said he
1:13:54
promised them and their children a life like
1:13:57
Belarusians have not an EU fantasy not an
1:14:00
Instagram war stability Electricity food and something resembling
1:14:06
a normal life Some people try to spin
1:14:09
this as trolling Zelensky, but Belarusian political analysts
1:14:14
like Yuri Voskresensky are very clear on this.
1:14:17
This is a serious offer The message is
1:14:20
we see what's happening to civilian Ukrainians We
1:14:24
understand there's no end in sight under the
1:14:28
current regime if you are people of work
1:14:31
not NGOactivists not banderite fanatics, that's Stepan Bandera
1:14:36
You are welcome to come to Belarus.
1:14:40
You are our brothers Russian or Ukrainian and
1:14:44
Belarus is a good place for you to
1:14:46
live.
1:14:47
It's a wonderful country That's one doorway out
1:14:51
another one comes from Russia itself Politician Victor
1:14:56
Medvedchuk the head of the other Ukraine movement
1:14:59
says openly Lukashenko's offer is a path to
1:15:03
survival for Ukrainians both physical and cultural because
1:15:07
Ukrainian culture is destroyed in Belarus nobody will
1:15:12
be breeding a special strain of combat Bandera
1:15:15
people out of them and beyond Belarus Ukrainians
1:15:19
have the option of Russia where Putin keeps
1:15:22
repeating that Russians and Ukrainians are one people
1:15:25
and six regions of Ukraine have already voted
1:15:30
to join the Russian Federation You don't have
1:15:33
to like it, but if you're a Ukrainian
1:15:35
looking at 20-hour blackouts mobilization raids collapsing
1:15:40
universities and education a regime openly saying this
1:15:44
war is going to go on indefinitely and
1:15:47
Making no effort to stop it These offers
1:15:51
start to look less like propaganda and more
1:15:53
like an exit strategy There's been stories about
1:15:57
the Satanist Zelensky moral and spiritual language enters
1:16:02
the fight.
1:16:03
You have voices from inside Ukrainian culture itself
1:16:07
Exiled Ukrainian actress and TV host a lady
1:16:11
named Snezhanna Egorova said something that really cut
1:16:15
through the noise the other day.
1:16:17
She divided Ukraine into those who follow the
1:16:21
Satanist Zelensky and Those who refuse her line
1:16:26
is brutal if you are following Zelensky's project
1:16:29
if you believe in his version of Ukraine
1:16:32
and support this course you are voluntarily leading
1:16:38
yourselves and your children into hell and Effectively
1:16:43
pledging allegiance to dark forces.
1:16:45
That's brutal.
1:16:47
Okay, and that's not the Kremlin That's a
1:16:50
Ukrainian media figure who had to leave the
1:16:52
country This is important because it shows how
1:16:56
the conflict is no longer about territory language
1:16:59
or even alliances It's about a spiritual war
1:17:05
how long have we been saying that a
1:17:08
war between a regime obsessed with NATO Nazi
1:17:12
collaborators flags monuments of Bandera and those who
1:17:18
see themselves as defending orthodox Civilization Russians Bella
1:17:25
Russians and Ukrainians who've had enough when people
1:17:29
start using words like Satanist and hell in
1:17:33
political analysis it means they see the problem
1:17:37
as beyond corruption it is civilizational decay and
1:17:42
Frankly, if your president's wallet is looting the
1:17:46
nuclear defense money in the middle of winter
1:17:48
in the middle of a war How in
1:17:50
the hell do you argue that they're wrong
1:17:53
Right pieces over Zelensky's head.
1:17:56
What is it about peace former advisor to
1:17:59
President Kuchma?
1:18:00
economist olig Soskin Commented on Donald Trump's recent
1:18:05
claim that significant progress had been made on
1:18:08
ideas for ending the conflict Soskin's take if
1:18:13
there's a real deal taking shape It will
1:18:17
be made between Russia the US and China
1:18:20
and Zelensky will simply be told Go sign
1:18:24
this Nobody will bother negotiating with him.
1:18:28
That's what I've been saying that is the
1:18:31
logical endpoint of Everything that we've discussed if
1:18:36
your country is run on Western money if
1:18:39
your anti-corruption System answers to Brussels and
1:18:42
not to Kiev if your presidency is built
1:18:45
on an actor who fronts for oligarchs and
1:18:48
foreign curators Then of course the real decisions
1:18:52
about peace or partition are going to be
1:18:56
made elsewhere Soskin even guesses the content of
1:19:02
such a deal ceasefire along the current line
1:19:05
of contact neutral status no NATO Guarantees on
1:19:10
language rights church questions, etc Isn't that what
1:19:15
Russia's been saying for years Whether he's right
1:19:19
or not.
1:19:20
The key point is this even Ukrainian analysts
1:19:24
now assume Zelensky is a non factor in
1:19:29
any serious talks He is not the author
1:19:33
of Ukraine's future.
1:19:34
He's a guy waiting for Instructions if there's
1:19:39
an endless war there will be fewer Ukrainians
1:19:42
foreign prime minister Nikolai Azarov adds that one
1:19:46
more piece to this ugly puzzle.
1:19:48
He says after losing Crimea and Donbass Ukraine
1:19:53
lost 10 million people in demographic terms through
1:19:57
separation emigration or simple disappearance from Kiev's control
1:20:02
current estimates For population on Kiev held territory
1:20:08
are around 20 million Maybe less it was
1:20:11
more than double that before at the same
1:20:14
time the entire field of acceptable presidential candidates
1:20:18
the regime is floating Timoshenko Poroshenko and the
1:20:23
rest are in his words sterile from the
1:20:26
standpoint of Nazi ideology meaning They're all committed
1:20:29
to the same Ultranationalist anti-russian line no
1:20:34
real alternative is allowed inside the country so
1:20:38
even if if Elections are eventually held.
1:20:42
He says whoever you pick from the sterile
1:20:46
list the war's gonna go on different face
1:20:49
same suicide course He reminds people how during
1:20:54
my Don he warned of economic collapse Lack
1:20:59
and loss of sovereignty destruction of industry Nobody
1:21:04
listened they wanted coffee in Paris and Lace
1:21:09
panties from Italy the famous mocking slogan about
1:21:13
what the protests supposedly promised now No coffee
1:21:19
in Paris for most of them.
1:21:20
No panties either just a mobilization notice and
1:21:25
power outages as Are of is very blunt
1:21:28
this war will not be eternal It will
1:21:32
end in the defeat of the Kiev regime
1:21:35
The only variable is how many Ukrainians will
1:21:38
be left and in what condition?
1:21:41
They will be in by the time that
1:21:44
happens the longer it is delayed the worse
1:21:47
the outcome for the people put all of
1:21:53
this together a Corrupt elite treats war as
1:21:57
business Western controlled anti-corruption uses scandalous leverage
1:22:02
Spiritual vacuum where TV comedian turns wartime leader
1:22:06
is called a Satanist by his own countrymen
1:22:10
neighboring states of Belarus and Russia are openly
1:22:13
offering Ukrainians a way out of the burning
1:22:16
house and a demographic clock ticking down on
1:22:19
a population being bled out By mobilization emigration
1:22:24
blackout and hopelessness That's not just bad governments
1:22:29
or governance friends and neighbors.
1:22:31
That is civilization dead-end and You know
1:22:36
what?
1:22:36
We got just a little bit for to
1:22:39
fire to there to go How does the
1:22:43
Ukrainian project die and what comes after that?
1:22:48
Huh?
1:22:48
We've gone through quite a bit tonight I'm
1:22:51
surprised that I Pretty much got it What's
1:22:56
let's talk it out quickly Pillar one war
1:23:01
as a business model The first pillar is
1:23:03
money the kickbacks missing money overpriced drones bribes
1:23:08
and now 10 to 15 Skimmed off a
1:23:10
nuclear top not random creator inherit a crisis
1:23:14
turn the crisis into funding pipeline through the
1:23:17
IMF the EU USAID emergency budgets insert your
1:23:21
people at choke points in the Defense Ministry
1:23:23
and ergo Adam infrastructure Reconstruction projects set up
1:23:27
the schlagbaum the barrier 10 to 15 percent
1:23:30
on every contractor You don't get paid launder
1:23:33
the proceeds through your shell companies and back
1:23:35
office and offshore accounts Real estate deals and
1:23:39
dual passports for all That have the money
1:23:42
anyway war isn't a tragedy For these people
1:23:46
war is high season to get rich and
1:23:49
this Energo Adam case shows how far they're
1:23:52
willing to push it not content with stealing
1:23:55
from food and construction They went straight for
1:23:58
nuclear security Infrastructure during a conflict where the
1:24:02
grid is under constant attack if they're willing
1:24:05
to gamble with atomic Safety for a cut
1:24:08
of a contract.
1:24:09
There's nothing you can do for them Pillar
1:24:13
to Anti-corruption we already went through that.
1:24:16
I'm not gonna visit a third time pillar
1:24:18
three moral and spiritual rot Third pillar values
1:24:24
or in this case the lack thereof You
1:24:30
have a political class worshiping Bandera and Nazi
1:24:33
Nazi collaborators president attacks the canonical Orthodox Church
1:24:38
and Steals everything raids monasteries and and blesses
1:24:44
units with openly extremist symbols Western media calling
1:24:49
this defense of democracy Which doesn't exist and
1:24:53
Ukrainians like that sneeze on a you go
1:24:55
over calling Zelensky a satanist.
1:24:58
I mean Where's the rot state can't protects
1:25:02
its people?
1:25:04
Won't admit any mistakes uses patriotic slogans and
1:25:08
an EU flag as a fig leaf for
1:25:12
you know to cover their theft and cruelty
1:25:14
to everybody else That's why the offers from
1:25:17
Belarus Belarus and Russia are so important Lukashenko
1:25:22
says come here.
1:25:23
We'll treat his brothers not guinea pigs and
1:25:25
somebody else's experiment Russia says we're one people
1:25:28
Regents have already returned more will come you
1:25:32
don't have to agree with them But if
1:25:34
you're Ukrainian trying to raise kids in a
1:25:36
freezing apartment on the 14th floor with no
1:25:39
lift No light and a draft notice in
1:25:41
the mailbox these offers sound less like propaganda
1:25:44
and more like sanity, right?
1:25:46
These are two myths shattered first myth Ukraine
1:25:51
is corrupt But reforming is fast Russia's just
1:25:54
as corrupt not true for years Washington politicians
1:25:58
have told their voters Yeah, Ukraine has problems
1:26:01
but it's improving and our money is building
1:26:04
a European modern democracy, right?
1:26:09
You know, all you do is listen to
1:26:10
tonight and I went through all that Let's
1:26:12
talk about the Ukrainian myth the Ukrainian myth
1:26:14
from the other side My dad changed everything
1:26:17
our corrupt past is behind us If you
1:26:21
haven't been if you listen tonight, you know,
1:26:23
you got the same back office structure That's
1:26:26
buying court decisions the same kickback logic in
1:26:29
every sector the same oligarch mentality dressed up
1:26:34
in war patriotism and EU language the face
1:26:38
changed Yanukovych Poroshenko Zelensky the wallets the schemes
1:26:44
motivations did not What comes next three ugly
1:26:49
scenarios scenario a controlled downgrade?
1:26:52
Zelensky dis or the West decides Zelensky is
1:26:55
damaged but usable he can stay in office
1:26:58
national unity technocrat cabinet formed under heavy Western
1:27:02
supervision That doesn't help anything regime failure military
1:27:07
setbacks another blackout for the winter and We're
1:27:13
running out of time anger over mobilization and
1:27:16
corruption with elite infighting see long slow Collapse
1:27:22
Unfortunately, no dramatic coup.
1:27:24
No clear piece just out migration continues reduction
1:27:29
in birth rate continues constant mobilization continues a
1:27:34
shrinking exhausted population Holding together a zombie state
1:27:40
that exists only because Western politicians can't admit
1:27:45
Failure think Afghanistan on the nipper But colder
1:27:49
poorer and much closer to the EU in
1:27:53
all three scenarios The people who looted and
1:27:56
there go Adam and all the earlier schemes
1:27:58
will be fine They've got passports property abroad
1:28:02
children of Western schools the ones who won't
1:28:05
be fine the conscript in the trench the
1:28:08
grandmother boiling water the Engineer at a power
1:28:11
plant trying to keep a 40 year old
1:28:13
transformer alive without parts Because the money to
1:28:17
replace it went to back office somewhere in
1:28:20
central Kiev So if you're looking for a
1:28:24
big theme to hang on Energy gate and
1:28:29
the death of the Ukrainian project by Sam
1:28:32
how war Western money and oligarch oligarch wallets
1:28:38
turned a country into a machine for corruption
1:28:43
you know what I'm saying I Am Wow,
1:28:48
I'm I'm actually a little surprised that I
1:28:52
got through everything on that I had some
1:28:55
backup in case I went a little bit
1:28:57
faster, but I cruised through that and I
1:29:00
think I have To start for tomorrow I
1:29:03
have Lavrov's recent press conference that went an
1:29:07
hour and 15 minutes that I watched as
1:29:09
well That was very interesting No time to
1:29:12
get into it tonight.
1:29:13
So this corruption deep dive tonight.
1:29:15
I appreciate you listening to it I am
1:29:18
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1:29:50
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1:29:51
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1:29:52
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