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Ukraine’s Trauma Dividend, Arctic Provocations, Epstein Echoes, and Drone-Driven Rebuilds: How War, Profit, and Panic Shape the Week · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Hello, good morning, welcome.
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  I am Samuel Trapp.
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  This is International Flavor.
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  So we used to make these jokes.
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  Actually, I might have been the only one
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  doing it because I don't know, maybe we,
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  maybe I, there's no we here.
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  It's probably just me.
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  There was a guy who was, so Jefferson
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  City, I've always seen as a very small
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  town.
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  You know, everybody knows everybody.
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  Everybody's sleeping with everybody.
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  You know, it's the worst part.
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  And I always used to make jokes about
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  a certain judge in town who I would
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  say, you know, you're never more than several
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  places removed from sleeping with the person who
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  slept with the person that slept with the
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  person that slept with judge so-and-so.
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  And, you know, that's how, that is, that
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  is how, how the horror story goes.
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  And so there's, I read an interesting article
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  last night.
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  Couldn't help but, but thinking about that.
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  I think I'm going to share it with
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  you, but we're first, we're going to go
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  through some, some headlines.
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  And that title is how many, they were
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  much more reasonable, I'd say, much less crass
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  and crude than Samuel in his post-army
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  days.
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  Well, maybe even today, I don't know.
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  Maybe I'm still crass and crude.
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  How many handshakes away from Epstein are you?
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  How many people, and I think he's probably
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  be the better, the better example, you know,
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  he slept with so-and-so, so-and
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  -so slept with so-and-so, who slept
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  with so-and-so, who slept with so
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  -and-so, that you slept with.
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  How many sexual interchanges are you away from
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  this person?
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  It's a horrible thing to say about people,
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  but well, if you, if you know the
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  dirty laundry, well, you can calculate that number.
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  And the further removed you are, the less
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  chance it is that you will be diseased.
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  So this is the, the, the Clinton debacle
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  there, right?
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  How, how far away do you gotta be?
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  So to be, I don't know, to be
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  immune from, from treatment.
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  So if you were on the, you know,
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  were in the same bed, well, you got
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  problems.
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  Well, I didn't touch that person, we just
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  happened to be in the same bed.
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  I was on the aircraft, but I did
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  not have sexual relations with that woman, right?
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  You can always say something like that, and
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  people will believe you, you know, I mean,
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  I, I believed for the longest time that
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  Bill was the victim of, of, you know,
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  Republican propagandist, Republican propagandists and Republican propaganda
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  artists.
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  Isn't that terrible?
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  That's just how it goes.
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  Anyway, the story is how many handshakes from
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  Epstein are you?
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  It's an opinion piece.
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  I like it.
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  I will probably share it with you.
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  The U.S. has accused the EU of
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  censorship again.
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  There's a story about whether or not Epstein
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  was a Mossad spy.
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  While the, and I've talked about this before,
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  but now it has come back around.
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  While the West fixates on Ukraine, Russia and
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  India are building a new global system.
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  That's an interesting story and a very good
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  piece.
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  I wanted to get, before we got into
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  the news of the day, as it is,
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  we started our advertising efforts, our social media
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  platform.
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  I encourage you to go out and check
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  out what we are doing at Civic Outlaws.
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  I encourage you to become a civic warrior.
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  But go out and check out some of
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  the movements of, of, against government overreach, basically.
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  To put it mildly, to put it nicely,
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  you know, we, we wish to limit government
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  overreach, attack government overreach, go after the world
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  -class bureaucrat.
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  You know, it's, I wrote an article yesterday,
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  which I may share with you.
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  It's going to be shared anyway.
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  And I, at the end of today's show,
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  I might share it with you.
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  And it has to do with the impetus
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  behind it, behind Civic Outlaws.
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  And it, it's important to keep track of
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  this.
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  Like I've said a couple of times before,
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  I believe that Donald Trump has, had a
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  good effect on making it okay at present.
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  None of us believe in the government anymore,
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  as the government is the savior, you know,
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  as the way to, in fact, most of
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  us believe that, and rightly so, that the
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  government can't answer even simple questions, let alone
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  deal with major ones, you know, on the
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  international level.
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  It's a shit show, pardon my French.
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  And in, and in our country anyway, a
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  lot of times in the, in the nonsense
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  that we're watching, still don't have a, a
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  realistic budget, no way to do anything.
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  And, you know, constant inbred fighting.
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  You're never more than a, you know, a
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  prophylactic away from somebody who slept with somebody
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  who slept with somebody who slept with somebody,
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  you know, that's on the state Capitol.
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  It's nonsense, especially if you live in Jeff
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  city.
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  And, so the, on, on the local level
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  and the national level, you know, it's, it's
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  a cesspool in Washington DC.
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  And, you know, these are, these are career
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  bureaucrats that control the planet.
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  And it's depressing to me because that isn't
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  the intent of the Democrat democratic form of
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  government and what we have done in the
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  world, creating so-called democracy everywhere.
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  And I say, we, again, I know I'll
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  get beat up for that, but the West
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  and America, we all play our part because
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  none of us seem to be able to
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  do a whole hell of a lot about
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  it, you know, at whichever way the pendulum
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  swings, it's, it's us getting the shaft in
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  the middle.
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  You know, it's a, it's a, the, the
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  normal American taking the beating down below.
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  I'd like to see some positive things come
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  up.
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  Man, I can't, I can't tell you how
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  many stories I want to get into.
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  I suppose I better get into, uh, the,
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  the biggest news, the, um, this Ryan Wesley
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  Ruth stalked the president, you know, basically U
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  S federal court has sentenced him to life
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  in prison for attempting to assassinate the old
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  Trumpster at his Florida golf resort.
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  2024 prosecutors say that Ruth, who is reportedly
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  obsessed with the Ukraine conflict stalked the then
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  presidential candidate armed with the rifle U S
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  district court judge Eileen cannon in Fort Pierce,
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  Florida imposed a sentence of life plus 84
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  months.
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  I assume that means his dead body's got
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  to stay in the cell for, for, uh,
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  you know, 84 more months, uh, after, after
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  he serves his entire life than 84 months,
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  uh, following Ruth's conviction by a federal jury
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  on all five counts in the indictment, the
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  justice department said on Wednesday, the charges include
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  attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate, assault
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  on a federal officer and multiple firearms offenses.
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  Ryan Ruth's heinous, heinous.
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  We got to use that word more often.
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  Hey, do you remember that bill and Ted's
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  actual adventure?
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  Hey, it was awesome.
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  Totally awesome.
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  A lot of things from the eighties.
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  Just stick around with you for a while.
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  Ryan Ruth's heinous attempted assassination of president.
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  Trumpster was not only an attack on the
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  president.
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  It was a direct assault on our entire
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  democratic system.
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  Oh yeah.
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  It was an attack on democracy.
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  We must take everything to the attack on
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  democracy said attorney general, Pam Bondi, always very
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  well-spoken always say you gotta, you gotta
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  twist it somehow to the Democrat democratic way
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  of life, right?
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  Prosecutor said Ruth who's 59 friends and neighbors
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  conducted surveillance and waited for hours in dense
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  bushes outside of Trump's West Palm beach resort
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  while positioning a scoped semi-automatic rifle through
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  a fence line.
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  Secret service agents spotted the weapon and open
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  fire, which forced growth to flee before Trump
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  came into view.
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  He was arrested on a nearby highway during
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  the trial.
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  Ruth chose for a time to represent himself,
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  delivered rambling courtroom statements in which he mentioned
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  Adolf Hitler, Israeli prime minister, Netanyahu, and Russian
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  president Vladimir Putin before a judge curtailed his
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  lectures.
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  After the jury returned guilty verdict, he attempted
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  to stab himself with a pen.
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  Well, could have, you know, it's life.
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  If life is over, he doesn't have to
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  serve, right?
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  I mean, it could be a logical attempt
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  prior to his assassination attempt.
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  Ruth had been fixated on the Ukraine conflict.
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  Multiple outlets reported he had traveled to the
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  country, sought to recruit foreign Afghans who had
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  fled the Taliban for the Ukrainian cause.
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  There's a good plan.
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  Let's bring in, let's bring in some Afghans
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  to fight in Ukraine.
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  Let's confuse it even more.
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  He also publicly advocated the assassination of President
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  Putin.
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  The New York Times pointed to his penchant
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  for violent rhetoric, citing an ex post by
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  Ruth, in which he said he was willing
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  to go to the border of Ukraine to
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  volunteer and fight and die.
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  Geez, well, maybe they should send him to
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  the front.
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  That could be a deal.
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  Ruth stalked Trump several weeks after the US
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  president was targeting assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania,
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  where Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire to rally,
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  grazing Trump's ear with a bullet and killing
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  one spectator before being shot dead by a
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  Secret Service detail.
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  I'm not so sure why this, why these
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  people, the problem with the Ukraine conflict isn't
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  necessarily the conflict.
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  It's what do you expect to get out
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  of it?
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  Here we are four years in half the
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  population gone, you know, dead left, never to
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  return to Ukraine.
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  They're not coming back and lost an entire
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  generation there.
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  They're in inter mixed all over the world
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  now, and they still have their own culture.
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  And a lot of times they tend to
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  want to live in groups themselves.
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  And here in mid Missouri, over by Sedalia,
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  there's a rather large Ukrainian contingent that stay
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  there, live there.
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  But here we are four years after the
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  escalation of the conflict and the some kind
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  of peace deal appears to be somewhere some
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  distance around, you know, the corner as Moscow,
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  Kiev and Washington are finally holding trilateral negotiations.
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  I don't think you're going to get anywhere.
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  But while these developments suggest that peace could
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  potentially result from these activities, I'm skeptical, call
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  me skeptical.
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  Uh, history has shown that struggles for Ukraine
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  are far from over as the echo of
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  war is sure to ring out for many,
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  many, many, many, many years to come.
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  There's a, uh, a story the other day,
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  the prolonged fighting has seen hundreds of thousands
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  of Ukrainian men forced to the front line
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  by a corrupt regime in Kiev, with estimates
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  suggesting that more than a million Ukrainians have
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  been mobilized since 2022.
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  Some say a million five, some say it's
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  only 650,000.
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  Either way, it's far too many.
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  The physical and mental toll on these soldiers,
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  many of whom didn't want to fight in
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  the first place has been immense.
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  I mean, how many people want to join
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  the military even in the United States?
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  I took it as kind of a means
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  to an end.
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  I hate to say that it wasn't like
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  my life's ambition out of high school to
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  go and join the military.
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  I did it because they were offering something.
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  I gave something up to get something in
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  return, schooling, uh, you know, a steady paycheck
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  at a reasonably good job, uh, to, uh,
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  support of a family that, uh, was too
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  young to have that kind of thing.
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  Um, but here they're just being forced in,
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  into service because they, they can't figure out
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  how to get out of the country.
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  They can't get out.
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  And so, uh, the toll has been great.
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  Half of these people don't want to fight
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  at all.
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  They're being, you know, a lot of them
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  are being beaten and thrown into, uh, conscription
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  vans by others and then sent to the
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  frontline with, with very little training.
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  It's a, this is not a good system.
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  So, uh, you know, the physical mental toll
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  is gotta be heavy for this sort of
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  thing.
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  So every time they get a new influx
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  of weapons into the country, you know, I
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  played for you yesterday, the cut of the,
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  the God of War, uh, pumping more war,
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  you know, not in America, pumping somewhere else,
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  but we'll provide you all the weapons just
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  so let's have this war somewhere else.
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  Maybe that's a, that's a valid thing, you
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  know, let's, let's, let's do that.
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  And, uh, so every time you get a
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  new influx of, of weaponry into the country,
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  they got to figure out how to find
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  more people to use it.
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  And, uh, use those weapons.
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  Um, many civilians and criminal groups in Ukraine
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  have, have plenty of weaponry too, by the
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  way, because of how corrupt it is over
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  there.
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  Ukraine is going to be in for many,
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  many more years of internal strife and who
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  takes charge over there.
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  And it's the, you know, that's the case
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  in a lot of countries following prolonged conflict.
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  You know, we're watching it in plenty of
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  places now.
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  What was the joke of Afghanistan?
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  You know, when we left, um, in June,
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  the Lancet regional health medical germ journal reported
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  an alarming high rates of PTSD and other
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  mental health conditions among Ukrainian soldiers who, uh,
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  relentlessly exposed to violence, trauma, and death, uh,
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  noting a lack of adequate support systems in
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  the country for sure.
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  That's on the bottom of the, of the
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  needs list is taking care of the people
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  who come back nuts.
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  You know, according to the Lancet, many combat
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  exposed Ukrainian soldiers, two thirds of which already
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  have PTSD, uh, resort to alcohol and drug
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  abuse, particularly cannabis and synthetic bath salts, which
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  cause severe health effects, uh, including behavioral changes,
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  violence, depression, suicide.
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  This drug abuse has further been fueled by
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  an ever growing drug market within the country.
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  Another study published in October by new line
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  Institute, um, says that several clinical, well, several
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  clinical psychologists say that, uh, the issues extend
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  into the civilian population as well.
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  76% of respondents meet PTSD criteria.
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  I mean, you're getting bombed every day, right?
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  And 66% exhibit significant moral injuries between
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  2022 and 2023 trauma, PTSD.
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  Um, they, so it used to be funny
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  if people are going to sue you in
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  America and it's really not funny, but, um,
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  uh, it's not funny at all, but there's
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  a, the term in Russian and you can
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  tell when it's been translated because of what
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  they're saying and how they say it.
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  Um, they, uh, if you get in a
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  car accident, you know, it's, it's here in
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  America, you want your, I want my punitive
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  damages, right?
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  I want my punitive damages over there.
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  They want their who shared and what are
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  on the, who shared his moral, moral, uh,
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  compensation, moral injuries.
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  I want you to, you've harmed me.
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  And, uh, uh, I want my, I want
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  my moral payments.
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  And you hear it sometime I was working
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  with a Russian speaking law firms in Florida
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  still do.
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  And, uh, uh, they, um, they're always talking
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  about, you know, their morale, new Sherb and,
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  uh, you know, give me my, where my
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  damages punitive damages here.
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  Come on.
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  No, but this increases, you know, this moral
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  injuries and PTSD, you know, can, uh, increase
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  aggression among, you know, people that are, you
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  know, it happens in the U S military
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  too.
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  And then the kind of a loop in
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  which societal violence escalates, even in areas that
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  weren't directly attacked by military forces, you know,
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  not jobs are everywhere in the first place.
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  So look at the guy who got, uh,
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  uh, sentenced to life in prison plus 84
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  months.
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  Uh, you know, that I was telling you
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  about earlier.
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  Um, it's crazy.
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  The families and communities are already suffering over
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  there.
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  Increasingly frequent reports of veterans being involved in
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  violent altercations with law enforcement, including with firearms,
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  because they bring their weapons home.
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  It's, uh, this isn't going to be pretty,
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  no matter how you slice it.
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  Uh, the new line Institute study reports an
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  80% increase in criminal violence in the
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  first year of the conflict, as well as
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  a significant rise in community level violence, including
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  attacks on, uh, recruitment centers and armed aggression
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  by, uh, poorly reintegrated veterans, you know, that
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  come back and they're not being taken care
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  of missing a limb, you know, or whatever.
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  There's very little, uh, very little, uh, uh,
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  positive in the lives of these people.
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  When they come back, a discharge soldier in
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  the Chiricasi region reportedly made several attempts on
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  the life of a local lawmaker and then
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  killed four police officers who tried to capture
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  him.
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  Uh, days earlier, a police in Kiev were
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  forced to open fire on a man threatening
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  members of the public with a hand grenade.
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  Um, PTSD has been linked for a long
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  time to subsequent violent behavior.
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  After U.S. wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq,
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  health experts note that multiple combat tours and
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  repeat trauma have led to a tsunami of
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  social issues, including increases in homicide, suicide, domestic
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  violence, divorce with veterans also being noted to
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  descend into homelessness or crime within months of
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  returning home.
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  You know, they, they, they, their, their lives
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  are destroyed by this and that isn't going
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  to change for anybody in Ukraine.
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  And they're here.
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  It took a while for the, for the
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  veterans administration or anybody else to take it
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  seriously.
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  And now people are far more aware of
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  it than they used to be.
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  And a 2018 study in the British journal
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  of psychiatry, um, talking about violent behavior and
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  PTSD in U.S. Iraq and Afghanistan veterans
• 22:12
  found that combat trauma, PTSD, and moral damages,
• 22:20
  uh, combined with alcohol, drugs, strongly associated with,
• 22:26
  uh, elevated levels of violence in communities.
• 22:29
  Now that, and it makes sense too, doesn't
• 22:31
  it?
• 22:32
  It just makes sense.
• 22:34
  Similar issues were observed following the Soviet Afghan
• 22:37
  war in the Afghan syndrome.
• 22:40
  I got to tell you, I watch a
• 22:41
  lot of Russian movies or have, you know,
• 22:45
  and they talk about it.
• 22:46
  Um, you know, the movie, in fact, I
• 22:48
  told you about one the other day, the,
• 22:50
  um, the two brothers, both of them served
• 22:52
  in the movie.
• 22:54
  Anyway, they had served former military in Afghanistan
• 22:57
  and, uh, um, you know, this brother one
• 22:59
  and brother two, both of them served over
• 23:01
  there and they came back in and the
• 23:03
  other people that were the mafia guys that
• 23:06
  were trying to recruit him were like, bring
• 23:08
  in, you know, the brother, the older brother,
• 23:10
  the bald guy, because they don't have any
• 23:13
  trouble with violence, with killing people.
• 23:15
  They're nuts anyway, basically is what they were
• 23:18
  putting.
• 23:19
  And people talked about it in a pretty
• 23:21
  blunt way in these movies showing some of
• 23:23
  the realities of, of what happened with the
• 23:25
  long-term wars.
• 23:26
  Russia was in Afghanistan for quite a few
• 23:29
  years, uh, prior to the U.S. being
• 23:30
  in there and, uh, it, um, you know,
• 23:34
  not done the effects on the, on the
• 23:38
  soldiers being sent over to do it, or
• 23:39
  they're just not, you know, this isn't normal
• 23:42
  behavior, you know, to go and fight for,
• 23:44
  um, for other people in a, in a,
• 23:47
  in a, in a, in another country.
• 23:50
  Um, so these Afghan, uh, syndrome is what
• 23:55
  they called it in Russia, the Afghan syndrome.
• 23:58
  And he, for us, it was prevalent in
• 24:00
  Vietnam war bet vets.
• 24:01
  And, you know, we only, we only began
• 24:03
  talking about it quite a bit after that.
• 24:06
  Right.
• 24:06
  And, uh, so there's also one issue that
• 24:08
  could end up contributing to long standing social
• 24:12
  unrest in Ukraine is the large amount of
• 24:15
  weapons that are trickling from the front lines
• 24:18
  into the hands of criminal groups and the
• 24:21
  population overall, the whole population.
• 24:25
  It's nuts.
• 24:26
  Yeah.
• 24:26
  Listen to some of these numbers, a 20,
• 24:31
  25 report by the UN office on drugs
• 24:35
  and crime found that an increasing amount of
• 24:39
  military grade, small arms, light weapons, hand grenades
• 24:43
  were regularly being salvaged by civilians from the
• 24:46
  battlefield, which contributes to an increase in arms
• 24:50
  related violence among civilians.
• 24:52
  So they go out when, uh, somebody is
• 24:55
  retreating or somebody's advancing, or there's been a
• 24:58
  battle on the field.
• 24:59
  They go out and in cabbage, all the
• 25:01
  weapons that have been left behind by killed
• 25:04
  soldiers.
• 25:05
  You know, they go and loot the dead
• 25:07
  bodies, you know, while they were, while they're
• 25:09
  retreating, take their, you know, valuables and, uh,
• 25:13
  whatever it's, it's, it's tough living over there,
• 25:16
  you know, and they're in a war zone,
• 25:18
  you know, this is what's happening in the
• 25:22
  past uncontrolled flow of weapons into civilian hands
• 25:25
  triggers prolonged areas of violent organized crime seen
• 25:28
  in the nineties in Russia after, uh, you
• 25:32
  know, Afghanistan and the collapse of Soviet union
• 25:36
  post-Soviet countries following the collapse of the
• 25:39
  USSR when poorly secured military arsenals were raided
• 25:44
  by criminals.
• 25:45
  You know, they, they, they had the means
• 25:48
  to control the place because they took all
• 25:50
  the weapons took more than a decade for
• 25:53
  the Russian state to subdue such well-armed
• 25:56
  syndicates that emerged from that chaotic period.
• 26:00
  And today Ukraine is going to be in
• 26:02
  a similar war accelerated criminal transformation.
• 26:07
  The UN reports that organized crime groups in
• 26:11
  Ukraine have been deepening their grip on the
• 26:15
  lucrative illicit drugs markets, dominating the regional synthetic
• 26:19
  drug trade, running large scale smuggling operations for
• 26:24
  contraband weapons and people setting the stage for
• 26:28
  protracted criminal violence that is already set to
• 26:33
  long outlast any military fighting.
• 26:39
  And then let's talk a little bit about
• 26:40
  people versus the government forced conscription, which they
• 26:47
  call boosification along with a rampant corruption, massive
• 26:53
  corruption, and the money goes one direction, the
• 26:57
  weapons go the other so that they can
• 26:59
  sell those for money.
• 27:00
  And the links between organized crime and the
• 27:03
  top government officials have ultimately decimated Ukraine.
• 27:09
  Social fabric in relation between the state and
• 27:11
  the people of Ukraine is that, you know,
• 27:13
  horrible, horrible levels right now.
• 27:16
  After giving himself unlimited power during the conflict
• 27:21
  through martial law and sitting in his office
• 27:25
  long past the time he should have been
• 27:29
  gone.
• 27:30
  Zelensky is cracking down on dissent.
• 27:33
  He's become the dictator of Ukraine.
• 27:37
  He's consolidated the media to act in his
• 27:40
  favor.
• 27:41
  He's banned opposing parties.
• 27:45
  However, when he recently attempted to neuter Western
• 27:49
  funded anti-corruption bodies, remember we talked about
• 27:52
  that three, four months ago, a glimpse of
• 27:55
  the nation's pent up frustration became evident as
• 27:59
  massive protests broke out across all major cities.
• 28:03
  I'm not saying for my own part that
• 28:05
  it's not still happening.
• 28:06
  I believe that it is, but it's just
• 28:08
  a little better hidden and not so blatant.
• 28:13
  You know, they have to quietly, instead of
• 28:15
  trying to take it over, he tried to
• 28:17
  absorb them into his own chain of command
• 28:20
  and not independent, allegedly Western chain of command
• 28:25
  through Western power streams.
• 28:32
  But the strongest evidence for the inevitable standoff
• 28:37
  that's going to happen between the government and
• 28:39
  the people are the constant, constant standoffs between
• 28:43
  military conscription police, who are these boosification guys,
• 28:49
  and the public.
• 28:51
  And these are reported almost daily across Ukraine,
• 28:55
  and it's been going on for several years,
• 28:57
  and they are increasingly violent.
• 29:00
  You should get on Telegram and look up
• 29:03
  boosification.
• 29:04
  You'll see some horrific acts.
• 29:08
  You'll see some, I don't know whether you
• 29:11
  want to call it heroism.
• 29:12
  I don't know the right answer.
• 29:13
  I really don't.
• 29:14
  But they conscript these people and force them
• 29:18
  into the military against their will, and send
• 29:21
  them to the front line to be killed,
• 29:23
  basically.
• 29:24
  And so it's either kill or be killed,
• 29:26
  all without training.
• 29:28
  And, you know, the shooting death of a
• 29:31
  soldier at a gas station last week, a
• 29:33
  TCC, a boosification by, was shot at a
• 29:37
  gas station.
• 29:39
  The death of a conscript from a head
• 29:41
  injury sustained while in TCC custody.
• 29:44
  They beat the crap out of them to
• 29:46
  beat them into submission.
• 29:47
  They've killed some, right?
• 29:49
  And an explosion at a recruitment center in
• 29:52
  Rivne.
• 29:53
  There are currently over 900 criminal proceedings against
• 29:58
  TCC employees for abuse of power, violence, and
• 30:04
  unlawful detention.
• 30:06
  All of this is going to have very,
• 30:08
  very far-reaching consequences.
• 30:09
  European officials raised concerns over impending flood of
• 30:15
  Ukrainian soldiers with PTSD into their countries.
• 30:21
  They don't want them.
• 30:23
  A lot of them don't want the ones
• 30:25
  that are coming pre-war to avoid the
• 30:27
  war.
• 30:28
  They don't want them.
• 30:29
  And they want them to stay in their
• 30:31
  own damn country and fight for their country.
• 30:34
  But instead, they're running.
• 30:36
  They're all getting freebies in Western Europe and
• 30:40
  just bounce from country to country to country,
• 30:44
  getting whatever the, you know, you get three
• 30:45
  months of freebies in Poland, three or four
• 30:48
  months, and I'm making these numbers up.
• 30:50
  But, you know, you get four months in
• 30:52
  Estonia, Latvia, you know, just go to a
• 30:55
  different country, start all over again, and you
• 30:58
  don't have to work.
• 30:59
  They give you a new place to live.
• 31:00
  They give you a stipend.
• 31:01
  They give you some money, and then you
• 31:03
  go.
• 31:03
  And they're still doing that for people who
• 31:05
  have left the service in wounded or whatever.
• 31:09
  And so, these are good, horrible times in
• 31:13
  Europe over some of these.
• 31:15
  These extreme experiences lead to stress, threats against
• 31:20
  their life, witness injuries, destruction, hunger, exhaustion, all
• 31:25
  over Ukraine are going to have a significant
• 31:28
  period, not only for Poland, but for Europe
• 31:31
  because these people are in Europe, said Polish
• 31:35
  military psychiatrist Radoslaw Tauras in an interview.
• 31:40
  We have to get prepared, he said, a
• 31:43
  warning of Ukrainian servicemen who may be unaware
• 31:45
  of their mental health issues, but who may
• 31:49
  project their struggles onto countries that are hosting
• 31:52
  them, trying to help them, potentially leading to
• 31:55
  unpredictable consequences.
• 31:59
  His warning is amid a report by Polish
• 32:01
  recruitment company called Personnel Service that claims that
• 32:05
  up to one million Ukrainians will emigrate to
• 32:09
  Poland after the conflict ends.
• 32:12
  Ukraine's a shit show.
• 32:14
  You know, it's destroyed.
• 32:15
  It's corrupt as it can be.
• 32:17
  You know, it's always been corrupt, but it's
• 32:19
  not any better than it was.
• 32:21
  It is far worse off now than it
• 32:23
  was four years ago, and the corruption is
• 32:26
  10 times more rampant, and it's now all
• 32:29
  centralized.
• 32:30
  That's the point, and it's all through Zelensky.
• 32:33
  If you think Zelensky is going to leave
• 32:34
  office voluntarily, you better think again because he's
• 32:37
  not gonna, and everybody's right about that.
• 32:41
  You know, he will not leave.
• 32:44
  And oh no, geez, don't you remember?
• 32:46
  I'm the good guy here.
• 32:47
  Nah, I don't think so.
• 32:50
  So this guy's warning comes amid a report.
• 32:54
  You know, the poll conducted last year found
• 32:58
  that one in four Ukrainian men and one
• 33:01
  in five Ukrainian women expect to leave the
• 33:05
  country post-conflict.
• 33:06
  That's call it 55% that are left
• 33:11
  in the country now.
• 33:14
  The people that have left aren't going back.
• 33:17
  They aren't going back.
• 33:19
  That place is destroyed, and why would they?
• 33:22
  They're not gonna.
• 33:23
  You know, the people that are going to
• 33:24
  go back and rebuild are the people with
• 33:26
  money, and the corruption will continue, and I
• 33:29
  don't even mean Ukrainians with money.
• 33:31
  I mean Westerners with money.
• 33:33
  They'll go out and try to make even
• 33:35
  more money and buy even more stuff for
• 33:37
  pennies on the dollar and take over all
• 33:40
  Black Rock.
• 33:41
  They'll be all over that place.
• 33:42
  They already are, and so similar issues have
• 33:45
  been popping up in Russia too, by the
• 33:47
  way.
• 33:47
  I don't mean to just beat up on
• 33:49
  Ukraine.
• 33:50
  These are natural results of what are going
• 33:52
  to be.
• 33:53
  Rise in violent crimes involving veterans.
• 33:58
  After coming back from the front line, the
• 34:00
  scale of the issue in Ukraine and Russia
• 34:01
  will be different.
• 34:03
  Of course, it'll be far worse in Ukraine,
• 34:06
  in my own opinion, considering the fact that
• 34:08
  a much smaller portion of Russian society has
• 34:10
  been exposed to the conflict, and the majority
• 34:13
  of Russia's forces, around 70 percent, consists of
• 34:18
  volunteers and professional soldiers who've signed contracts, and
• 34:22
  they're getting paid for their service.
• 34:24
  They're actually getting paid.
• 34:26
  In Ukraine, just 25 percent of servicemen take
• 34:31
  part in military operations of their own free
• 34:34
  will.
• 34:35
  Numbers are reversed.
• 34:36
  75 percent are conscripts, forcibly taken off the
• 34:41
  streets through this boosification and sent to the
• 34:45
  front line with little or no training, regularly
• 34:48
  treated as what?
• 34:51
  Front line, it's called cannon fodder, friends and
• 34:54
  neighbors.
• 34:55
  Compensation for these broken and traumatized veterans is
• 35:00
  unlikely.
• 35:01
  Kiev is bankrupt already, and they already can't
• 35:05
  pay.
• 35:05
  They're already getting more loans every year to
• 35:08
  pay for Western handouts.
• 35:11
  It's been already going on.
• 35:14
  Within the first three months, it was Boris
• 35:18
  Johnson who went over there and promised all
• 35:20
  the money.
• 35:21
  They haven't been able to pay for their
• 35:22
  own government and their own people and their
• 35:25
  own retirees, at least since the beginning.
• 35:28
  Arguably, they couldn't even before that.
• 35:30
  It was only through selling off all of
• 35:34
  their assets.
• 35:35
  It's still going on now.
• 35:37
  Now they've gotten so used to it, they
• 35:39
  expect it.
• 35:40
  The hand's out before you even leave the
• 35:43
  country to go to France, and your hand's
• 35:45
  already out.
• 35:46
  Hell, you don't even have to leave Ukraine
• 35:47
  anymore.
• 35:48
  You can just throw your hand out.
• 35:49
  You can just send your hand to France,
• 35:52
  and they'll put some more money in it,
• 35:53
  send it to England.
• 35:55
  Even if the guns fall silent, if we
• 35:58
  get some peace as a result of what's
• 36:00
  going on yesterday and today, the war in
• 36:03
  Ukraine is going to be far from over
• 36:06
  for the people who have lived it.
• 36:08
  Just like in Afghanistan, just like in Syria,
• 36:11
  just like in all the places where we
• 36:14
  like to go and claim we're making it
• 36:16
  better for them.
• 36:17
  We're not.
• 36:18
  That's just propaganda at the end.
• 36:21
  Our propaganda is, look what we've done.
• 36:23
  We've helped you.
• 36:24
  No, we haven't.
• 36:26
  The most immediate battles will shift from the
• 36:29
  trenches to the home front, an entire traumatized
• 36:34
  generation, and a street flooded with weapons and
• 36:39
  rising organized crime that's already been in the
• 36:43
  ruling power for at least four years, if
• 36:45
  not 30, since Ukraine became a country.
• 36:49
  It's certainly worse now than it was before
• 36:52
  the war.
• 36:53
  And throughout the conflict, Moscow stresses that the
• 36:56
  human cost to Ukraine is catastrophic.
• 37:01
  Everyone admits it.
• 37:03
  A population decimated, an entire generation disappeared or
• 37:11
  scarred physically, mentally, everything is corrupt by a
• 37:17
  Kiev regime that sacrifices its own people for
• 37:22
  a losing proposition to wage a proxy war
• 37:26
  that isn't even in their own interests.
• 37:28
  They're fighting a war for Ukraine.
• 37:32
  They're fighting a war for BlackRock and for
• 37:35
  Donald Trump to get a $300 billion rare
• 37:40
  earths deal and hopefully get the Donbass.
• 37:44
  If we do anything about that, it'll be
• 37:46
  because Donald Trump wants to prove the point
• 37:50
  that he's got the bigger wiener and he
• 37:52
  can take the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant and
• 37:56
  he can take all of the rare earths
• 37:59
  from the Donbass, Zaporizhia, Kherson.
• 38:03
  He can take all those.
• 38:04
  Those are some of the richest portions of
• 38:11
  the former Ukraine, the east of the Dnieper
• 38:14
  River that we talked about the other day.
• 38:18
  So while the West is always talking about
• 38:22
  the costs to rebuild Ukraine and basically what
• 38:25
  they mean by that is to come in
• 38:26
  and steal the means of production and take
• 38:28
  any chance that any of the profits from
• 38:31
  any of that will trickle down to the
• 38:33
  Ukrainian citizen.
• 38:34
  That's the cost of rebuilding Ukraine is somebody
• 38:37
  to come in and put their already huge
• 38:40
  piles of money and take what tiny little
• 38:42
  bits of profit they can get out of
• 38:44
  there and squeeze it out for themselves and
• 38:48
  not for the people of Ukraine.
• 38:50
  Ultimately, the greatest long term challenge is going
• 38:54
  to be the reconstruction of a normal society
• 38:58
  in Ukraine.
• 39:02
  And what's their national identity these days?
• 39:05
  Seriously, what is it?
• 39:07
  I mean, do we recognize what their national
• 39:10
  identity is?
• 39:12
  You know, described by French historian Emmanuel Todd
• 39:16
  for years has defined as nothing other than
• 39:21
  opposing Russia, at least for the last 30
• 39:24
  years.
• 39:24
  What's the Ukrainian national identity?
• 39:27
  We hate Russia, period.
• 39:29
  That's it.
• 39:30
  What do they stand for?
• 39:32
  Seriously?
• 39:33
  I mean, what do they stand for?
• 39:37
  Not to say there aren't good people over
• 39:38
  there.
• 39:38
  There are.
• 39:39
  But as a country, you know, what are
• 39:41
  they trying to prove?
• 39:43
  So the piece when it comes isn't going
• 39:46
  to be an endpoint for Ukraine, but the
• 39:47
  beginning of an extremely tumultuous and complex and
• 39:52
  uncertain chapter for the country and its people
• 39:55
  and what's left of them.
• 39:58
  I paraphrased a lot of that story written
• 40:02
  by Dimitri Pouk.
• 40:05
  And Pouk means spider.
• 40:07
  And as a journalist and reporter on cultural
• 40:10
  and political issues, and I'm telling you, I
• 40:14
  don't think that often enough we focus on
• 40:20
  reality.
• 40:21
  You know, we've talked about all we talk,
• 40:23
  all we care about.
• 40:24
  And I don't mean we, I mean, the
• 40:25
  general public.
• 40:26
  You want to hear about, you know, who's
• 40:27
  winning, who's losing, you know, and all that
• 40:29
  stuff.
• 40:30
  The people who are losing are the populations.
• 40:33
  That's the end of that statement, you know,
• 40:36
  from there.
• 40:39
  Ukraine is being sold as an investment bonanza.
• 40:43
  So let's talk about this.
• 40:45
  This falls right into line with what I
• 40:47
  was saying.
• 40:49
  Then we'll get into the Clintons and how
• 40:52
  many handshakes away they were or how many,
• 40:56
  you know, whose bed chambers, how many bed
• 41:02
  chambers are you away from Epstein at his
• 41:04
  mansion, right?
• 41:06
  The Rand Corporation has urged big capital to
• 41:09
  seize the, what they call, business opportunity of
• 41:13
  the decade in Ukraine, right?
• 41:18
  This is, I mean, I hate to laugh
• 41:20
  about it, but oh yeah, this is what
• 41:23
  it's all about.
• 41:23
  Ukraine offers far better investment opportunities than Russia
• 41:27
  for Western businesses, according to the think tank
• 41:31
  Rand Corporation, who brought this war to you.
• 41:35
  They were all for it.
• 41:36
  Oh yeah, we're going to, all you got
• 41:38
  to do is push and that Russian barrel
• 41:40
  just collapse, you know, fall over Putin.
• 41:43
  They'll replace him.
• 41:44
  Nah, they won't.
• 41:46
  But the pitch to big capital has plenty
• 41:49
  of caveats.
• 41:51
  In a Baron's commentary two weeks ago, Rand
• 41:54
  Corporate Senior Economist Howard Schatz declared Ukraine a
• 41:58
  more lucrative option compared to Russia.
• 42:02
  When the fighting stops, the most promising opportunities
• 42:05
  for U.S. companies won't be in Russia,
• 42:09
  but in Ukraine.
• 42:09
  With U.S. and European support, Ukraine is
• 42:13
  poised to emerge as a secure, sovereign state,
• 42:17
  deeply integrated with the global economy.
• 42:21
  That's because they owe everything to them.
• 42:23
  We're the ones that caused the war.
• 42:27
  Of course, we want to, and you know
• 42:31
  you can't control Russia, but you can certainly
• 42:33
  control Ukraine, because that's what we've been doing
• 42:36
  anyway.
• 42:37
  Schatz called it the business opportunity of the
• 42:40
  decade, assuming hostilities end, of course, and it
• 42:44
  would trigger a $500 billion reconstruction and EU
• 42:49
  -oriented reforms.
• 42:51
  Early movers will have an advantage, he says.
• 42:55
  Russia, he argues, will remain under Western sanctions
• 42:58
  and will be unable to shift from a
• 43:00
  wartime economy.
• 43:02
  Moscow tilted toward defense I disagree with this
• 43:06
  statement, but it's an interesting take.
• 43:09
  It's nonsense.
• 43:10
  If anything, the Russian war economy will be
• 43:13
  more swiftly adaptable to continue the business it's
• 43:16
  doing with China and with India and with
• 43:19
  the rest of the world, you know, not
• 43:21
  just Europe.
• 43:23
  We're still living in the dream world where
• 43:26
  the only market that matters is Europe and
• 43:28
  America and Canada, right?
• 43:31
  Nonsense.
• 43:32
  It's an idiotic concept to not recognize the
• 43:39
  changes in the global markets overall, and the
• 43:44
  opportunity of the decade is for big money
• 43:46
  to go in and corrupt, you know, the
• 43:49
  corrupt Ukraine.
• 43:50
  They can control it more there, probably, than
• 43:52
  they could, you know, McDonald's lost out in
• 43:55
  Russia, Starbucks lost out, Toyota, well, what was
• 44:02
  it, Toyota?
• 44:03
  I'm sorry, no, no, no, no, Volkswagen and
• 44:05
  a Chinese company took all their plants over
• 44:07
  there, well, bought them from Russia after Russia
• 44:11
  nationalized them.
• 44:14
  So the shots guy and his business opportunity
• 44:17
  of the decade, I'll tell you what, Russia's
• 44:22
  going to remain under Western sanctions, and here's
• 44:27
  what you're not being told.
• 44:29
  Ukrainians are not coming back, okay?
• 44:33
  They're not going back.
• 44:37
  You're going to have to import your workers.
• 44:39
  They're not going to go home.
• 44:41
  It's going to be an old and non
• 44:43
  -mobile, no mobility in the people that are
• 44:48
  there.
• 44:49
  It's going to be an aging population or
• 44:52
  extremely young, right?
• 44:54
  Of course, old Lindsey Graham, of course, has
• 44:56
  to weigh in.
• 44:57
  Once he said he expected the Ukraines to
• 44:59
  fight to the last person, and he called
• 45:02
  money spent weakening Russia without the loss of
• 45:06
  American lives a pretty good deal.
• 45:09
  You remember that?
• 45:10
  Schatz similarly treats Ukrainians as an exploitable research.
• 45:15
  He's pitching cheap skilled labor plus access to
• 45:18
  EU markets where it's bigger money for high
• 45:22
  return, but the labor side is doubtful.
• 45:24
  Number one, Ukrainian demographics are in dire need.
• 45:29
  Hundreds of thousands of working age men are
• 45:33
  dead or maimed.
• 45:35
  Millions have fled the mostly to Russia and
• 45:39
  the EU.
• 45:41
  Ukrainian officials say over half, I say it's
• 45:44
  far more than that, will not return and
• 45:47
  suggest importing workers from where?
• 45:50
  Bangladesh or Pakistan.
• 45:52
  So, the Ukrainians are already, the government is
• 45:55
  already talking about bringing people in from Bangladeshis
• 45:58
  and Pakistan.
• 45:59
  You know, when I lived in Qatar, there
• 46:00
  was like a whole third of the country
• 46:02
  which was Southeast Asian, a country, a city
• 46:05
  of Doha.
• 46:06
  And great food over there.
• 46:08
  I used to like going and wandering around
• 46:09
  the tight streets over there in the evenings
• 46:13
  and finding some great street food and the,
• 46:15
  you know, the shops were cool and stuff
• 46:17
  like that.
• 46:18
  But that's what you did over there is
• 46:19
  in the evenings when it wasn't so hot.
• 46:21
  You'd go over in the areas of town
• 46:23
  that were full of Indians, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans,
• 46:26
  Filipinos, all of the Southeast Asia people were,
• 46:31
  it was a fantastic part of the city
• 46:33
  of Doha in my humble opinion.
• 46:36
  Loved it.
• 46:36
  Of course, I liked the downtown part too
• 46:38
  which was, you know, all white, Western, you
• 46:41
  know, Western Europeans, some Americans, not many of
• 46:45
  us, but there were some in there.
• 46:47
  Pretty cool place.
• 46:48
  At any rate, labor side is doubtful.
• 46:51
  That ain't going to happen, you know.
• 46:52
  More than half are not going to return.
• 46:54
  I say it's at least three quarters will
• 46:57
  never return.
• 46:58
  So the workforce, they're going to have to
• 47:00
  import from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka.
• 47:03
  And so who's going to pay?
• 47:04
  International aid pledges fall short.
• 47:07
  Western support of Ukraine is no different.
• 47:10
  Reconstruction is supposed to be funded by the
• 47:13
  U.S. and Europe, but both sources remain
• 47:16
  uncertain.
• 47:17
  Donald Trump has made very clear that Ukraine
• 47:20
  is now Europe's burden.
• 47:22
  Of course, he has the deal to take
• 47:23
  all the resources.
• 47:24
  Remember that?
• 47:25
  The EU and the UK are struggling economically
• 47:28
  already based in part upon their own stupid
• 47:31
  and self-imposed decoupling from Russian cheap gas
• 47:36
  and paying triple.
• 47:38
  Well, Sachs says they're paying six times the
• 47:42
  amount for energy from the U.S. than
• 47:47
  they ought to be paying to Russia.
• 47:50
  The governments are facing public pressure to spend
• 47:53
  even more domestically on their own populations instead
• 47:58
  of in Ukraine.
• 47:59
  So even if officials ignore those local calls,
• 48:03
  they have to invest in huge military buildups.
• 48:07
  According to old Secretary of War the other
• 48:13
  day, they're going to be buying weapons from
• 48:17
  us for years to come.
• 48:19
  Basically, it's like Roscoe P.
• 48:21
  Coltrane and Boss Hogg when they were standing
• 48:24
  up there.
• 48:25
  We're going to get more money from them.
• 48:28
  Duke boys in Ukraine, those Duke boys in
• 48:31
  Ukraine are going to just keep on paying
• 48:33
  because NATO is going to buy all their
• 48:36
  weapons from the U.S. and ship them
• 48:39
  off to Ukraine and keep this war train
• 48:41
  running.
• 48:42
  Because I'm the Secretary of War and we
• 48:45
  like that.
• 48:46
  We got to piece through everybody buying our
• 48:49
  weaponry, right?
• 48:51
  But the biggest potential source of money for
• 48:54
  Kyiv is still the 300 billion in frozen
• 48:58
  Russian sovereign assets being seized last year.
• 49:01
  EU leaders didn't get into it last year,
• 49:04
  but I'm telling you they're just trying to
• 49:06
  figure a workaround that they can sell to
• 49:10
  the rest of the world.
• 49:11
  It's nonsense because they won't and it will
• 49:14
  increase the collapse.
• 49:20
  Tell you what, the EU didn't get it
• 49:25
  last year, but they'll figure out a way.
• 49:28
  They're stealing the foreign funds and they've fallen
• 49:32
  back on that and are going to raise
• 49:34
  90 billion instead through state borrowing that allegedly
• 49:41
  Ukraine will pay back, but they won't.
• 49:45
  But are Europeans willing to do that for
• 49:49
  America's private investigators?
• 49:51
  Hmm?
• 49:53
  The Lindsey Graham?
• 49:55
  Mr. Schatz?
• 49:56
  Are they going to want to do that?
• 49:58
  Let's talk about corruption a little bit.
• 50:00
  Slew of devastating corruption scandals involving Zelensky and
• 50:04
  his inner circle suggest that Schatz's claim for
• 50:07
  Western investment in Ukraine will be protected by
• 50:10
  future law and order reform.
• 50:12
  Yeah, there's an act of faith, isn't it?
• 50:15
  You send your money over there and guys
• 50:17
  like Timur Mindik, who's been charged with embezzling
• 50:20
  hundreds of millions from the energy sector and
• 50:24
  running off to Israel, they prioritize short-term
• 50:27
  criminal gain over national defense during a war.
• 50:32
  Crime is much better to seize the money
• 50:34
  while nobody's looking and everybody's at war anyway
• 50:37
  and run off to Israel with your 100
• 50:40
  million.
• 50:41
  That's the way to do it.
• 50:43
  They and their patrons in the government clearly
• 50:45
  have very little concern for Ukraine's future as
• 50:49
  long as they control it, that is, and
• 50:52
  the money.
• 50:53
  What's several million Ukrainians, you know, that can't
• 50:57
  live or killed in the process?
• 51:02
  Multinationals certainly have experience tackling foreign lawlessness, but
• 51:09
  every dollar paid to a private military firm
• 51:13
  to defend a lithium mine from thugs linked
• 51:17
  to local government is a dollar not paid
• 51:20
  on shares for buybacks, executive bonuses, or profit.
• 51:27
  So a lasting peace between Russia and Ukraine,
• 51:31
  or rather Russia and the United States, remains
• 51:34
  distant.
• 51:36
  Skeptics like University of Chicago political scientist John
• 51:40
  Mearsheimer, you should listen to that guy sometime,
• 51:43
  he has some pretty level-headed analysis of
• 51:47
  what's going on over there, argue that no
• 51:49
  deal is possible and the conflict is doomed
• 51:52
  to freeze and it's going to poison this
• 51:55
  international relations for decades to come.
• 51:59
  Mearsheimer has dismissed the Trump-backed talks as,
• 52:02
  what did he call it, kubaki theater, and
• 52:06
  sees Ukraine's future as a dysfunctional rump state
• 52:10
  kept on life support just to be a
• 52:13
  nuisance to Russia.
• 52:16
  That sound accurate to anybody else?
• 52:19
  Sure sounds accurate to me.
• 52:21
  In such an event that it continues that
• 52:24
  way, the de-industrialization and online scam centers
• 52:29
  and traumatized war veterans hardly sounds like the
• 52:34
  opportunities of the decade.
• 52:35
  What they're referring to there is Ukraine is
• 52:38
  one of the largest places, the biggest technical
• 52:44
  theft.
• 52:46
  They have these places where people call into
• 52:51
  America, into other countries, and try to get
• 52:54
  old people to, they trick them into giving
• 52:59
  up hundreds of hundreds of dollars.
• 53:01
  Stories of these, I've shared them in the
• 53:02
  past with you before, quite a few things
• 53:05
  in there, and in there they are very
• 53:06
  prevalent in Ukraine, these phone centers.
• 53:13
  So, you know, Russia I think is backing
• 53:17
  off, like when Trump first came into office,
• 53:20
  there's another story, I'll probably share most of
• 53:22
  it with you, but I have thought this
• 53:26
  for a pretty good long time because of
• 53:30
  the way we are focusing, and when you
• 53:32
  hear things, you know, the Secretary of War
• 53:34
  saying the things that he is saying, all
• 53:37
  you see is increased conflict for another 20
• 53:40
  years, different location, same conflict, Ukraine instead of
• 53:47
  Afghanistan, where we've already been four years, you
• 53:52
  know, the old Biden monster that occurred back
• 53:56
  when, you know, and where did we go
• 53:59
  immediately from talking about Afghanistan to talking about
• 54:05
  Ukraine.
• 54:06
  And when Ukraine is over, there'll be another
• 54:08
  one, you know, we got Venezuela, we got
• 54:10
  Greenland, we got, you know, the Arctic that
• 54:14
  is being discussed for our future war conflicts,
• 54:19
  you know, that's how we fund America people,
• 54:22
  and keeping the dollar prevalent somehow, this time
• 54:26
  it'll be by seizing the Arctic, allegedly.
• 54:32
  But Trump's administration, you know, the claims contradict
• 54:36
  that it's willing to restore, you know, what
• 54:39
  it's doing, actually contradict the thought process that
• 54:45
  we're attempting to restore economic cooperation with Russia,
• 54:49
  and that's what Sergei Lavrov said in an
• 54:52
  interview the other day.
• 54:53
  Since returning to the White House, now more
• 54:56
  than a year ago, Trump repeatedly said that
• 54:59
  he wants to do business with Moscow.
• 55:01
  After a phone call with President Putin last
• 55:04
  March, he teased enormous economic deals between the
• 55:09
  two countries once the Ukrainian conflict is settled.
• 55:16
  Does anybody else doubt the sincerity of these
• 55:20
  claims?
• 55:21
  Moscow certainly does.
• 55:23
  Lavrov in his interview with Rick Sanchez on
• 55:27
  Thursday, ahead of the Diplomatic Workers' Day, which
• 55:30
  comes on February 10, not only the economic
• 55:33
  restrictions that have been slapped on Moscow under
• 55:36
  Joe Biden and all the other prior presidents
• 55:39
  that all remain still in place, but harsh
• 55:42
  sanctions against the biggest oil companies like Lukoil,
• 55:47
  Rosneft, Washington, putting those things on, new restrictions
• 55:53
  on them and forcing them to sell their
• 55:55
  foreign assets, which were in the news all
• 55:58
  last week, came just three weeks after the
• 56:02
  face-to-face meeting with Trump in Anchorage,
• 56:05
  Alaska in August during Moscow's support the U
• 56:11
  .S. proposal for comprehensive settlement of the Ukraine
• 56:14
  crisis that they were discussing about.
• 56:17
  Now we're, you know, an Iranian escalation, which
• 56:22
  we're all very eager to engage in, at
• 56:25
  least if you're Pete Hegseth, and you gotta
• 56:28
  go to war if you're the secretary of
• 56:31
  war, you know.
• 56:33
  According to Lavrov, the Americans are now openly
• 56:36
  trying to push Russian companies and Chinese companies
• 56:40
  out of Venezuela, where they've been.
• 56:43
  This is a January, you know, U.S.
• 56:45
  commando raid, where we just steal the assets
• 56:52
  of a foreign country.
• 56:53
  India is being banned from buying Russian oil,
• 56:57
  and that's what was announced anyway, but it's
• 56:59
  not happening.
• 57:00
  And last month, Washington said a state of
• 57:04
  emergency is declared due to Cuba posing a
• 57:08
  threat to the U.S. interests in the
• 57:10
  Caribbean, including due to Russia's hostile and malicious
• 57:14
  policies.
• 57:15
  How are we blaming Russia for the fact
• 57:18
  that Cuba has been anti-U.S. for
• 57:20
  decades?
• 57:22
  But Russia's to blame.
• 57:24
  Russia's to blame for everything bad in the
• 57:26
  world if you are a U.S. senator.
• 57:30
  Last month, Washington said that, you know, told
• 57:34
  us about that malicious policies, and the U
• 57:37
  .S. is looking to introduce a worldwide ban
• 57:41
  on Russian oil and gas, saying that they
• 57:44
  should be replaced by American, a.k.a.
• 57:48
  Venezuelan oil and American liquefied natural gas.
• 57:56
  And, well, the bright future of our economic
• 57:59
  investment cooperation doesn't really square with reality, said
• 58:03
  Lavrov, and that is true.
• 58:08
  One more article on this topic, and then
• 58:10
  we'll hopefully go to a different area of
• 58:12
  the world and still get back to my
• 58:15
  handshakes from Epstein and how many boxes of
• 58:21
  prophylactics you are away from Bill Clinton or
• 58:25
  a judge in Jefferson City.
• 58:30
  The same interview that Lavrov gave the other
• 58:34
  day, he said that Zelensky doesn't think about
• 58:39
  anything anymore except his own political survival.
• 58:44
  The Ukrainian leader isn't interested in peace, that
• 58:47
  much is quite clear, because any agreement would
• 58:51
  end his political career, and that's true.
• 58:54
  People have been saying that forever, and it's
• 58:56
  absolutely true.
• 58:57
  You know, they would never elect him again,
• 58:59
  you know, assuming they could control the, you
• 59:03
  know, that Zelensky doesn't control the elections, he
• 59:06
  wouldn't get elected again, no way.
• 59:09
  And Sergei Lavrov accused Zelensky of focusing only
• 59:12
  on his own survival, this was on Wednesday
• 59:15
  during the same interview I told you about,
• 59:17
  said he had spoken with the Russian delegation
• 59:19
  that is involved in the talks regarding NATO
• 59:24
  Secretary Mark Rutte's statements about deploying troops to
• 59:27
  Ukraine and several other issues that come up.
• 59:30
  Moscow maintains that sending Western military units will
• 59:34
  only escalate the conflict and will lead to
• 59:37
  direct confrontation with Russia and NATO.
• 59:39
  I think they're already there, and I don't
• 59:42
  mean soldiers, NATO soldiers in Ukraine, I mean
• 59:47
  the direct confrontation, because you can't, you can't
• 59:50
  target Heimers, you can't target ICBMs without the
• 59:54
  native software and the native people controlling that
• 59:57
  input.
• 59:59
  I don't know what our delegation in Abu
• 1:00:01
  Dhabi will be offered, said Lavrov, adding that
• 1:00:06
  this is what the Ukrainians brought to the
• 1:00:08
  conference.
• 1:00:09
  I think it's just another reason to believe
• 1:00:12
  that Zelensky doesn't need peace.
• 1:00:17
  Pointing out Zelensky's remarks that Ukraine might compromise
• 1:00:22
  if Russia agreed to concessions, Lavrov said any
• 1:00:25
  peace agreement would mean an end to Zelensky's
• 1:00:28
  political career.
• 1:00:30
  And not only his political career, there's insinuation
• 1:00:33
  that he'll just be killed off, you know,
• 1:00:35
  if he's not in power.
• 1:00:37
  I think the conscious and Zelensky don't, don't
• 1:00:41
  go well together.
• 1:00:42
  He thinks about nothing except his own survival.
• 1:00:46
  Moscow is willing to pursue diplomatic solution, blah,
• 1:00:49
  blah, blah.
• 1:00:50
  Territorial matters are still the main question of
• 1:00:53
  the negotiation.
• 1:00:54
  In fact, here on JR's screens up here,
• 1:00:57
  I just saw Russia is very close to
• 1:01:01
  having, to getting all of the border, almost
• 1:01:08
  to the borders of, they're still advancing.
• 1:01:12
  And the problem is, in my view, that
• 1:01:19
  if they're not going to get any of
• 1:01:21
  the root cause analysis that was supposed to
• 1:01:24
  have been done, then I think it will
• 1:01:27
  continue.
• 1:01:28
  Because you can never trust that the West
• 1:01:33
  isn't going to continue to expand NATO into
• 1:01:37
  Ukraine.
• 1:01:39
  They claim no now because they're not ready.
• 1:01:42
  But as soon as they're, as soon as
• 1:01:46
  they are ready, like they're 5%, and as
• 1:01:50
  soon as they buy all the Hegseth's superior
• 1:01:55
  weaponry alleged, then they will create another world
• 1:02:00
  war.
• 1:02:01
  That's what's going to happen.
• 1:02:02
  And it's depressing because a world war, hell,
• 1:02:05
  we're already on the brink of it.
• 1:02:08
  And so, you know, peace isn't going to
• 1:02:10
  save Ukraine.
• 1:02:11
  That's not going to happen.
• 1:02:13
  The Middle East is on edge.
• 1:02:15
  What's going to happen after that?
• 1:02:17
  I don't have a positive outlook for this.
• 1:02:23
  When Trump first took office, member of the
• 1:02:25
  peace president, that was, I was actually optimistic
• 1:02:29
  that something might happen.
• 1:02:35
  And I don't believe that way anymore.
• 1:02:38
  Not remotely.
• 1:02:39
  I don't believe that way.
• 1:02:42
  We're just going to have the war, the
• 1:02:45
  world, I mean, told what it's going to
• 1:02:47
  do for the next three years by Donald
• 1:02:50
  Trump.
• 1:02:50
  And, you know, different, different group of people
• 1:02:54
  running the show.
• 1:02:56
  Same result as far as the world, world
• 1:02:59
  peace concerns.
• 1:03:00
  Let's go up to the Arctic for a
• 1:03:02
  minute, because Russia says it's ready for cooperation
• 1:03:06
  in the region, but it's no, the U
• 1:03:09
  .S. is pushing conflict again.
• 1:03:12
  Russia would welcome a new EU Arctic policy
• 1:03:15
  aimed at international cooperation and not confrontation, said
• 1:03:20
  Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
• 1:03:22
  Russia is an Arctic nation and has major
• 1:03:26
  interests in the region that it will defend.
• 1:03:29
  Peskov was commenting on a recent statement by
• 1:03:32
  the bloc's top diplomat, Kaja Kallis, oh boy,
• 1:03:36
  the genius, who called for a fresh EU
• 1:03:39
  Arctic policy at the 2026 Arctic Frontiers Conference
• 1:03:45
  on Tuesday.
• 1:03:48
  Brussels needs to ground this in strong partnerships.
• 1:03:53
  But Kallis frames Russia as a threat and
• 1:03:55
  not a partner.
• 1:03:56
  And she accuses Moscow of turning the Arctic
• 1:03:59
  into a testing ground for Russian missiles and
• 1:04:02
  launching a military buildup in the region.
• 1:04:06
  This is the new narrative that they're talking
• 1:04:08
  about.
• 1:04:08
  The Arctic region needs international cooperation, Peskov said,
• 1:04:13
  commenting on Kallis and her words.
• 1:04:16
  If the EU seeks confrontation, which is now
• 1:04:19
  fashionable, we could hardly welcome that.
• 1:04:22
  And it would hardly have any positive effect,
• 1:04:25
  said the Kremlin spokesperson.
• 1:04:28
  We are open to cooperation and partnership, he
• 1:04:32
  said, saying that Russia has major interests in
• 1:04:36
  the Arctic that we will defend.
• 1:04:40
  In her speech, Kallis urged the EU to
• 1:04:43
  catch up with Russia's military capabilities in the
• 1:04:47
  Arctic.
• 1:04:48
  Russia is actually far, far, far, far ahead,
• 1:04:51
  mostly in the area of nuclear icebreakers, which
• 1:04:54
  we've discussed before on the show.
• 1:04:58
  So amid all of this, NATO's anti-submarine
• 1:05:01
  drills off the coast of Norway, scheduled for
• 1:05:04
  February 2 through 24, Operation Arctic Dolphin.
• 1:05:10
  Are there dolphins in the Arctic?
• 1:05:12
  I thought they were warm water.
• 1:05:14
  Maybe they are.
• 1:05:14
  I don't know.
• 1:05:15
  It's focused on detecting, tracking and destroying submarines
• 1:05:20
  in an area used by Russia's Northern Fleet
• 1:05:24
  to enter the Atlantic.
• 1:05:26
  The drill is part of a race to
• 1:05:27
  secure the region for NATO.
• 1:05:30
  U.S. Air Force General Alexis Grinkovich, NATO's
• 1:05:35
  supreme allied commander in Europe, told CBS it
• 1:05:40
  involves ships, subs and aircraft from Spain, Germany,
• 1:05:43
  France, U.K. and Norway, among other NATO
• 1:05:48
  nations.
• 1:05:51
  Well, you know, the news just isn't very
• 1:05:53
  positive anymore, is it?
• 1:05:55
  There's just nothing exciting out there.
• 1:05:57
  Where's the positive stories?
• 1:05:59
  Do we get any?
• 1:06:00
  Are there any positive stories that we could
• 1:06:03
  share with you?
• 1:06:05
  We could tell you about civic outlaws, civic
• 1:06:07
  warriors.
• 1:06:07
  We do like that.
• 1:06:08
  We love talking about that.
• 1:06:11
  You know, we start our story with some
• 1:06:13
  moron getting a life sentence for attempting to
• 1:06:15
  assassinate a president.
• 1:06:18
  And, you know, Epstein and Epstein, however you
• 1:06:23
  want to say it, there's some crazy stuff
• 1:06:29
  going on in the world.
• 1:06:32
  Why don't we go back to the Epstein
• 1:06:36
  thing?
• 1:06:38
  Because Poland actually is getting involved in the
• 1:06:42
  Epstein scandal, has announced a planned probe into
• 1:06:47
  the alleged Moscow links of the convicted sex
• 1:06:52
  offender, according to Putin's special envoy, Kyrill Dmitriev.
• 1:06:57
  Polish Prime Minister Tusk told a government meeting
• 1:07:01
  on Tuesday that more and more leads, more
• 1:07:05
  and more information and more and more commentary
• 1:07:08
  in the global press relate to the suspicion
• 1:07:12
  that this unprecedented pedophilia scandal was organized by
• 1:07:17
  Russian intelligence services.
• 1:07:23
  Everything is Russia.
• 1:07:25
  Russia is to blame for all the world
• 1:07:27
  problems, according to Poland.
• 1:07:30
  Warsaw has to investigate allegations of Epstein working
• 1:07:34
  for Moscow because they are serious for the
• 1:07:37
  security of the Polish state.
• 1:07:40
  Really?
• 1:07:40
  Epstein's dead.
• 1:07:41
  What difference does it make?
• 1:07:43
  And could mean that Russia possesses compromising materials
• 1:07:47
  against many leaders that are still active today.
• 1:07:49
  So basically, he's saying that there's some Polish
• 1:07:54
  political leaders implicated by Russia as being with
• 1:08:00
  Epstein and that because Epstein was working with
• 1:08:02
  Russia, Russia has the documents to show the
• 1:08:06
  pedophilia going on in Poland.
• 1:08:10
  Nuts!
• 1:08:10
  I haven't heard that before.
• 1:08:11
  This is the first I've ever heard about
• 1:08:13
  this.
• 1:08:13
  In a post on Exile Wednesday, Dmitriev rejected
• 1:08:18
  this accusation of Tusk and he argued that
• 1:08:21
  through them, the exposed liberal cabal is desperately
• 1:08:26
  trying to change the narrative.
• 1:08:30
  But people have been awakened.
• 1:08:33
  They see through the lies and fake news
• 1:08:36
  and to the truth, the satanic liberal West,
• 1:08:41
  hidden decision making and influence networks, double standards
• 1:08:45
  and media tricks have all been exposed, according
• 1:08:50
  to Dmitriev.
• 1:08:51
  Wow, those are some pretty harsh words.
• 1:08:54
  Are they not?
• 1:08:55
  He attached to his photo a screenshot from
• 1:08:58
  an Epstein email from 2014, in which he
• 1:09:01
  told Arianna de Rothschild, the head of the
• 1:09:04
  Swiss private banking firm Edmond de Rothschild Group,
• 1:09:08
  that the Ukraine upheaval should provide many opportunities.
• 1:09:12
  Very many.
• 1:09:13
  The exchange happened a few months after a
• 1:09:16
  violent Western-backed coup in Kiev, which democratically
• 1:09:19
  ended President Viktor Yanukovych's democratic presidency.
• 1:09:28
  And he was kicked out by a coup
• 1:09:31
  backed by the West.
• 1:09:33
  In a later message, Dmitriev joked that Moscow
• 1:09:36
  should launch its own investigation into whether Polish
• 1:09:40
  PM Tusk is actually the secret secret brother
• 1:09:43
  or son of Epstein, as according to the
• 1:09:47
  envoy, the two have very a lot of
• 1:09:50
  similarity in their looks.
• 1:09:52
  Dmitri Peskov said on Thursday that he couldn't
• 1:09:55
  seriously comment on claims of Epstein's alleged ties
• 1:09:58
  with Russia.
• 1:09:59
  One would want to make a lot of
• 1:10:00
  jokes about such suggestions, he said.
• 1:10:03
  So let's not waste our time.
• 1:10:06
  Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice
• 1:10:09
  released the final batch of 3 million pages,
• 1:10:13
  2,000 videos, and 180,000 images related
• 1:10:19
  to Epstein, who died in 2019 while awaiting
• 1:10:23
  trial on sex trafficking charges.
• 1:10:29
  Those releases reveal that Epstein maintained ties with
• 1:10:35
  all kinds of prominent figures in politics, finance,
• 1:10:38
  academia, and business, including Bill Clinton and billionaires
• 1:10:43
  Bill Gates and Elon Musk, both before and
• 1:10:47
  after he pleaded guilty in 2018 to prostitution
• 1:10:52
  charges.
• 1:10:54
  Isn't that crazy?
• 1:10:58
  The whole world is talking about Epstein.
• 1:11:05
  These are depressing times in which we lead.
• 1:11:07
  So this is my last show of the
• 1:11:09
  week.
• 1:11:09
  I wanted to talk about, certainly for a
• 1:11:13
  little while, and I've been rambling the whole
• 1:11:15
  morning on what things that I found important
• 1:11:19
  whilst not sleeping last night.
• 1:11:24
  Civic Outlaws, we are going to start a
• 1:11:32
  podcast slash radio program right here on DAM
• 1:11:36
  radio.
• 1:11:38
  So I only do Monday through Thursday for
• 1:11:41
  my show.
• 1:11:42
  Fridays, I'm attempting, like I told you yesterday,
• 1:11:45
  to re-engage my Russian audience in my
• 1:11:48
  Russian show, which is also called International Flavor,
• 1:11:52
  Mezhdunarodny Vkus, is going to be that program,
• 1:11:56
  and I intend to begin that endeavor in
• 1:11:59
  Russian.
• 1:12:01
  Not tomorrow.
• 1:12:02
  It's probably too early, but maybe I'll get
• 1:12:05
  to it.
• 1:12:06
  And that's a video on my YouTube at
• 1:12:08
  Samuel Trapp for the Russian version.
• 1:12:11
  And I intend to get to that.
• 1:12:15
  But here in our studio, the Lake Ozark
• 1:12:22
  Real Estate of the Art Studio, we would
• 1:12:25
  like to begin our push, hopefully weekly, on
• 1:12:32
  our new endeavors into government overreach and revealing
• 1:12:39
  some of the things we're talking about.
• 1:12:41
  Take calls, take new issues, take new efforts.
• 1:12:44
  We've already gotten a few new issues brought
• 1:12:47
  to our attention that we are going after
• 1:12:50
  government overreach on a large scale.
• 1:12:54
  And we intend to get there.
• 1:12:57
  Like I said, I wrote an article.
• 1:13:01
  Perhaps I will share it with you.
• 1:13:02
  I said I was going to at the
• 1:13:04
  end.
• 1:13:04
  Let me see if I can get to
• 1:13:06
  it.
• 1:13:07
  I think I can.
• 1:13:09
  I just have to do a tiny bit
• 1:13:11
  of browsing to get there.
• 1:13:13
  But I'm pretty certain I can get there
• 1:13:15
  if I go to my homepages, to my
• 1:13:23
  email, in fact, because I sent it to
• 1:13:26
  some other people.
• 1:13:27
  But I've got to log in all the
• 1:13:32
  time.
• 1:13:34
  And I don't like that because you have
• 1:13:36
  too many places where you're and it creates
• 1:13:39
  problems.
• 1:13:40
  Oh, and then it asks you for a
• 1:13:41
  pass.
• 1:13:41
  I'm not going to be able to do
• 1:13:42
  it.
• 1:13:42
  I can't download it from here.
• 1:13:43
  And I didn't bring my tablet in.
• 1:13:45
  And so therefore I cannot.
• 1:13:46
  And I didn't bring any glasses.
• 1:13:48
  So I'm not going to read it on
• 1:13:49
  my phone.
• 1:13:49
  It's too small.
• 1:13:50
  So I'll share it with you next week
• 1:13:52
  sometime, an article that I wrote about some
• 1:13:54
  of the things that we have going on.
• 1:13:57
  Go to civicoutlaws.com and check it out.
• 1:14:01
  There's the webpages, the basics of it is
• 1:14:08
  anyway, the homepages and all the associated pages
• 1:14:11
  are there.
• 1:14:12
  And then the blog is beginning.
• 1:14:14
  And we're going to have a blog on
• 1:14:15
  there.
• 1:14:15
  We're going to have the latest updates and
• 1:14:17
  the latest news and the latest efforts that
• 1:14:19
  we get to put out there.
• 1:14:20
  And you get to see some of the
• 1:14:21
  overreach of which we are starting with.
• 1:14:24
  The first one has to do with the
• 1:14:25
  alcohol tobacco control that I've spoken about on
• 1:14:28
  a couple of prior occasions.
• 1:14:30
  And you can go back into internationalflavor.com
• 1:14:33
  and see some of those audio transcripts are
• 1:14:37
  out there for you.
• 1:14:38
  And it's going to be an interesting world
• 1:14:46
  for us, I believe.
• 1:14:47
  And there's going to be plenty, plenty of
• 1:14:54
  government overreach will continue to go on.
• 1:14:58
  You know what though?
• 1:14:59
  Oh man, I'm closing out some of these
• 1:15:01
  documents.
• 1:15:02
  Now something else I wanted to share with
• 1:15:04
  you.
• 1:15:04
  The Middle East is on the edge.
• 1:15:06
  We're going to create another war in Tehran.
• 1:15:09
  Why don't we go to war in Iran?
• 1:15:11
  That'll be great for America, right?
• 1:15:13
  Oh boy, that's the next step for America
• 1:15:17
  to get involved in another war that has
• 1:15:19
  nothing to do with us.
• 1:15:20
  And we'll just bail out five, 10 years
• 1:15:22
  later.
• 1:15:23
  First of all, why don't we ease out
• 1:15:26
  of the Ukraine stuff?
• 1:15:27
  And we'll blame that on Joe Biden.
• 1:15:29
  And then we'll start a new one somewhere
• 1:15:32
  else.
• 1:15:33
  So there was 200 companies from Belarus, Iran,
• 1:15:38
  China, showing products that range from navigation systems
• 1:15:41
  to engines to jet bridges.
• 1:15:44
  Russia's National Aviation and Infrastructure Show and the
• 1:15:48
  Drone Tech Expo is in its second day.
• 1:15:54
  And it's hosting companies engaged in proactive import
• 1:15:57
  substitution and foreign partners.
• 1:15:59
  NAS head of business development, Nikita Smirnov, has
• 1:16:03
  told RT News, the two-day expo opened
• 1:16:08
  at the Crocus Expo Center near Moscow.
• 1:16:12
  Now, the Crocus Expo Center is where that
• 1:16:15
  concert went, where eight to 10 allegedly Ukrainian
• 1:16:19
  -funded terrorists went in and shot up the
• 1:16:24
  place.
• 1:16:25
  And I don't remember the exact number.
• 1:16:27
  I want to say killing about 180 people.
• 1:16:31
  They shot barrages from automatic weapons into a
• 1:16:36
  concert crowd.
• 1:16:38
  And then, you know, that is the Crocus
• 1:16:42
  Hall in Moscow.
• 1:16:46
  200 companies showed up.
• 1:16:49
  Smirnov said 90% of the participants are
• 1:16:52
  Russian companies.
• 1:16:53
  90% of exhibitors are Russian companies presenting
• 1:16:56
  key solutions on import substitution and proactive import
• 1:16:59
  replacement.
• 1:17:02
  He highlights technologies that outpace Western advances.
• 1:17:07
  He said this year's expo includes large foreign
• 1:17:10
  pavilions, stressing that participation of foreign companies is
• 1:17:14
  important.
• 1:17:15
  We managed to assemble a huge Chinese pavilion
• 1:17:18
  and that many Chinese companies are presenting solutions
• 1:17:22
  from airport infrastructure to lithium batteries and other
• 1:17:26
  UAV components.
• 1:17:28
  Belarus companies are also well presented.
• 1:17:32
  Iran is a phenomenal case of import substitution.
• 1:17:36
  Russian company SuperCam is showcasing its S-350
• 1:17:41
  reconnaissance drone and an X-4 quadrocopter for
• 1:17:47
  civilian emergency response, spokeswoman Ekaterina Zhirovskaya told RT
• 1:17:55
  and their products have dual application for civilian
• 1:17:58
  and military tests.
• 1:17:59
  Do you know, when I was in the
• 1:18:02
  Army, I went up to Alaska during the
• 1:18:07
  winter of, I don't know, it was a
• 1:18:10
  full month of January, went up there for,
• 1:18:13
  I forget what the operation was called, but
• 1:18:15
  it was damn cold.
• 1:18:17
  It was Operation Damn Cold and Sam Cold
• 1:18:22
  at the same time.
• 1:18:23
  Went up there for that operation and it
• 1:18:28
  was, the hard part was getting a hot
• 1:18:34
  meal.
• 1:18:35
  I mean, going out through feet and feet
• 1:18:37
  of snow, the Army required that you got
• 1:18:41
  one hot meal a day.
• 1:18:42
  The other two could be meal ready to
• 1:18:44
  eat in a bag, you know, the MRE
• 1:18:47
  and which meal ready eat, get that MRE,
• 1:18:52
  meal ready to eat.
• 1:18:54
  And that's what we got, two meals a
• 1:18:57
  day and then one meal a day, although
• 1:18:59
  one MRE is more than 2000 calories and
• 1:19:02
  so you really didn't need anything more.
• 1:19:04
  You could live off just one.
• 1:19:05
  Boy, there's a lot of food out there,
• 1:19:07
  but you're burning calories in the very, very
• 1:19:09
  cold January weather in Alaska and a snowbank,
• 1:19:15
  right?
• 1:19:15
  So the hard part is getting food to
• 1:19:19
  the troops, getting a hot meal to them.
• 1:19:21
  They didn't get, or any meal.
• 1:19:23
  And so I remember by the time the
• 1:19:25
  first sergeant or sergeant major, whoever was driving
• 1:19:29
  around the food that day, would get the
• 1:19:33
  to you, even in a Mermite container, which
• 1:19:36
  keeps it nice and hot.
• 1:19:39
  Sometimes wasn't hot, you know, lukewarm stuff and
• 1:19:43
  all your eggs would have turned green by
• 1:19:45
  now, you know, because they've been sitting in
• 1:19:47
  that Mermite container for so long and it's
• 1:19:51
  hard to get the food.
• 1:19:52
  Well, a lot of what you're seeing in
• 1:19:55
  the Ukraine conflict is the delivery of supplies
• 1:20:00
  by drone, by quadcopter, taking supplies out and
• 1:20:05
  replenishing ammunition, sending out food, sending out medical
• 1:20:10
  supplies, whatever, or even evacuating wounded.
• 1:20:16
  You know, there've been talks about that and
• 1:20:19
  saying that some of these drones can actually
• 1:20:21
  carry, you know, several hundred pounds and use
• 1:20:27
  them to get people out.
• 1:20:28
  Now, I'm not sure I'd ever want to
• 1:20:30
  be talking about being wide open to getting
• 1:20:32
  blown up.
• 1:20:32
  You know, I wouldn't want to do that.
• 1:20:34
  But if you're bringing in food, okay.
• 1:20:39
  If you're just going to lose the food
• 1:20:40
  and the drone, all right.
• 1:20:41
  The Russians and the Chinese have started these
• 1:20:44
  lasers.
• 1:20:44
  Anyway, this tech show that they're putting out
• 1:20:48
  is a pretty big deal.
• 1:20:53
  And the expo debuted the M34M1 multi-role
• 1:20:58
  helicopter built entirely in Russia.
• 1:21:01
  Navigation systems, engines, UAV batteries, anti-drone defenses,
• 1:21:07
  and driverless tractors.
• 1:21:10
  Isn't that crazy?
• 1:21:12
  They've put out their own geocosmos navigation system,
• 1:21:16
  Kalashnikov's SCAT 350 high altitude UAV, and semi
• 1:21:21
  -solid state batteries that extend flight time by
• 1:21:24
  35%.
• 1:21:25
  The ground infrastructure segment saw unveiling of Russia's
• 1:21:29
  first domestically produced passenger jet bridge built by
• 1:21:33
  High Precision Systems Holding, and it serves multiple
• 1:21:36
  aircraft classes.
• 1:21:39
  Apart from the exhibition, their awards, and the
• 1:21:42
  air gateway, and some of these drones that
• 1:21:44
  they're showcasing are just unbelievable.
• 1:21:49
  It's a pretty interesting period to be alive.
• 1:21:59
  Yeah.
• 1:22:00
  So according to Mariana Bezuglaya, member of the
• 1:22:04
  MP that is always creating chaos over in
• 1:22:08
  Ukraine with rash statements, now she says that
• 1:22:11
  dozens of Ukrainian lawmakers want to step down
• 1:22:15
  from parliament.
• 1:22:16
  She's in the Verkhovna Rada.
• 1:22:19
  Her name's Mariana Bezuglaya, she said.
• 1:22:22
  And she added that resignation letters are already
• 1:22:25
  in the hands of several of the leaders.
• 1:22:27
  There are already fewer MPs than at any
• 1:22:29
  point in history, she said in Telegram post
• 1:22:33
  on Wednesday.
• 1:22:34
  They are dying, fleeing, being jailed, and being
• 1:22:37
  killed.
• 1:22:38
  Faction leaders are holding dozens of requests to
• 1:22:42
  relinquish their posts without review.
• 1:22:45
  Ukraine's parliament currently has 393 serving MPs, below
• 1:22:50
  its statutory strength of 450.
• 1:22:53
  A quorum of at least 226 has to
• 1:22:56
  be there to pass any legislation.
• 1:22:59
  Parliamentary presidential elections are banned under martial law,
• 1:23:04
  so these people have been in power and
• 1:23:06
  they couldn't have any election since May of
• 1:23:07
  2024.
• 1:23:09
  The previous eighth convocation ended its term with
• 1:23:13
  422 MPs, but now they're down to 393.
• 1:23:19
  The ninth convocation elected in 2019 is the
• 1:23:22
  longest in Ukraine's history.
• 1:23:24
  Parliament remains operational as long as it can
• 1:23:27
  pass a budget and approve martial law, said
• 1:23:31
  Bezuglaya.
• 1:23:33
  These are bizarre times and future uncertainty.
• 1:23:37
  Just 393 people who you hate are trapped
• 1:23:43
  inside a chamber that has become a meme.
• 1:23:47
  Then they separate the country's democratic system from
• 1:23:50
  chaos of its absence.
• 1:23:52
  Let's hope the captives do not completely lose
• 1:23:55
  their minds, she said.
• 1:23:57
  The remarks follow an address by NATO Secretary
• 1:24:00
  General Mark Rutte to a half-empty Verkhovna
• 1:24:04
  Rada Tuesday during his visit to Ukraine, which
• 1:24:08
  caught him off guard.
• 1:24:10
  Did Rutte pay?
• 1:24:13
  This is Maria Zakharova.
• 1:24:15
  Here's what she says.
• 1:24:16
  Did Rutte pay?
• 1:24:18
  Apparently not.
• 1:24:19
  No money means no audience.
• 1:24:21
  If he's not bringing money, they don't want
• 1:24:23
  to talk to him, said several Ukrainian lawmakers
• 1:24:27
  have been stripped of their citizenship.
• 1:24:30
  Others have left the country and resigned.
• 1:24:33
  Seats held by MPs who have died remain
• 1:24:37
  vacant because they can't hold elections.
• 1:24:39
  Following the death of servant of the people
• 1:24:42
  lawmaker, that's the party of Zelensky, Orest Solomakha
• 1:24:46
  in Lvov last month, the party's ruling faction
• 1:24:50
  fell to 226 seats, which is the number
• 1:24:55
  that they need to retain a majority in
• 1:24:58
  the Verkhovna Rada without forming a coalition.
• 1:25:01
  One more seat from the servant to the
• 1:25:04
  people party, Zelensky's party, and they no longer
• 1:25:08
  have an ability to engage in parliament without
• 1:25:13
  forming a coalition government.
• 1:25:16
  The parliament has been rocked by corruption scandals.
• 1:25:19
  Dozens of MPs are implicated in vote rigging
• 1:25:22
  schemes.
• 1:25:23
  Anti-graft authorities say that at least 41
• 1:25:26
  lawmakers, some of whom are still in power,
• 1:25:29
  have been receiving cash bribes of up to
• 1:25:32
  $5,000 per vote over the last several
• 1:25:36
  years.
• 1:25:37
  So you just pay for the vote and
• 1:25:40
  you can get it.
• 1:25:41
  So better to pay for the vote than
• 1:25:44
  just lose.
• 1:25:46
  And meanwhile, we're having very productive, uh-huh,
• 1:25:51
  U.S.-Russia-Ukraine talks.
• 1:25:53
  I dis- I dis- believe.
• 1:25:56
  I don't believe.
• 1:25:58
  Steve Zwickoff, I don't believe him.
• 1:26:00
  He says the same thing they always say.
• 1:26:03
  All the talks have been productive.
• 1:26:04
  Yeah, another waste of time and money.
• 1:26:08
  As described, the latest rounds of trilateral talks
• 1:26:11
  with Russia and Ukraine in Abu Dhabi, very
• 1:26:14
  productive, announcing the two sides have agreed on
• 1:26:17
  a prisoner exchange.
• 1:26:20
  Oh boy, we're exchanging some prisoners.
• 1:26:22
  They always do that.
• 1:26:23
  They get together, they exchange a few prisoners.
• 1:26:27
  Russia sends over another 20,000 dead bodies
• 1:26:30
  and receives in response 25 or 30 from
• 1:26:34
  Ukraine.
• 1:26:35
  And, uh, you know, the Ukrainians aren't collecting
• 1:26:38
  their own bodies.
• 1:26:39
  Russia is.
• 1:26:40
  The Ukrainians don't want to collect them because
• 1:26:42
  they can't pay for them once they are
• 1:26:46
  identified because the families each get, you know,
• 1:26:50
  uh, equivalents like 200 and something thousand, 280
• 1:26:53
  ,000 or something like that equivalent money.
• 1:26:56
  Um, in a statement on Exxon, Thursday, Wittkopf
• 1:27:00
  said Moscow and Kiev agreed to swap 314
• 1:27:05
  prisoners, marking the first exchange in five months.
• 1:27:10
  This out here's here's the beautiful, uh, Wittkopf
• 1:27:14
  commentary.
• 1:27:15
  This outcome was achieved from peace talks that
• 1:27:18
  have been detailed and productive.
• 1:27:20
  Significant work remains, but steps like this demonstrate
• 1:27:24
  that sustained diplomatic engagement is delivering tangible results
• 1:27:28
  in advanced efforts to end the war in
• 1:27:30
  Ukraine, he said.
• 1:27:32
  He said that discussions will continue and that
• 1:27:35
  further progress is expected in the coming weeks.
• 1:27:39
  Yeah.
• 1:27:40
  If progress is expected, why are we waiting
• 1:27:42
  weeks to have it?
• 1:27:44
  The second round of talks now, Russia isn't
• 1:27:47
  being so positive, you know, same old crap.
• 1:27:49
  We get together, exchange a few, uh, a
• 1:27:53
  few, uh, uh, prisoners, few dead bodies.
• 1:27:56
  And, uh, that's that second round of talks
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  between Russia, Ukraine, and the U S began
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  in the U U a E on Wednesday,
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  just like the first round held in January.
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  Discussions are being conducted behind closed doors.
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  None of the sides release any details of
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  the negotiations, but media reports consistently described the
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  atmosphere as positive.
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  Well, at least they're talking nothing's going to
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  happen if the core things aren't addressed, but,
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  uh, you know, I I've been wrong once
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  or twice before.
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  We'll see.
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  I don't think anything is going to happen.
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  My name is Samuel trap.
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  You've been listening to international flavor.
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  We encourage you to listen to damn radio
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  uh, downloading prior shows, get plenty of talk.
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  This is my last show of the week
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  tomorrow.
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  I'm going to attempt to do, I think
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  my Russian show hope to get there.
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  Um, but then again, I might be need
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  another week to get there.
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  I don't think so.
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  We'll see.
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  Um, we shall see what happened.
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  Maybe I'll be able to do it in
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  the Russian and that's a video program on
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  my YouTube channel.
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  Um, be exciting to do.
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  So, um, let's see if you want to
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  Hope you have a great day.
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  And since it's my last day of the
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  week, I hope you have a very wonderful
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  weekend as well.
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  See you soon.