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Trump’s Alaska Tango: Z-Man’s Last Stand & the Art of the Backroom Deal · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  shows but I wanted to talk some today About this lawsuit and about the horror
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  stories once again Government doing what government does best out targeting
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  people And I dislike that Just the concept of it pisses me off Because that's
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  not what government was meant for, you know government is meant to um Prevent
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  war government is meant to Guard the border government is meant to Manage small
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  disputes between you and your neighbor.
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  It's not Intended to attack you government is not your your you know
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  government, uh Untouchables able to come and destroy other people because They
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  control the apparatus of the state people have been fighting for this for
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  hundreds of years People have been arguing about this concept and about how
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  government is not supposed to do this Um, you can't argue with a king, right?
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  Trouble is is we got a million kings.
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  We got a Got a government workforce of a million people all of them think
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  they're king So now instead of fighting one king we're fighting a million.
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  So if you find one that likes to target you You got problems.
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  Um And i'm getting my lawsuit ready against the missouri bar like I said too
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  but that one Um is not the one i'm talking about even now Uh, that
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  is the one that i'm gonna speak to you about a little bit and I
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  told you I think I might have Even mentioned it last night, but I don't
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  know.
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  I was a little punchy last night.
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  Um Never sleep and I was on a bad day.
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  Um, that's that's you know, that's really a frustrating thing in your life I
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  don't know if there's people in life that don't sleep like I do It's just
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  a horrid horror story of existence Sometimes you just all you want to do is
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  sleep and your eyes are burning and they're they're uh, I don't know sandy and
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  gravelly and you you feel like you can't hold them open and then you get
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  in bed.
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  No Oh wide awake It's freaking irritating your eyes still hurt.
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  The the stress is still there the from not sleeping but nothing Nothing friends
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  and neighbors if you don't call and talk about that i'd be happy to you
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  know Commiserate with somebody because I guarantee you i've got some bad sleep
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  habits um And if you felt like doing that, uh, five seven three seven four
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  six eighty twenty If you choose to so engage I listen to uh, my friend,
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  uh, alex christopher, I got a lot of topics to talk about I have Probably
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  45 tabs pulled up here and you know me i'll get to maybe half of
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  them and a lot of it has to do with the Summit, you know, everybody
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  has to keep that summit for That summit for Friday in alaska front and center
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  there.
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  There's all kinds of efforts to try to uh, Um Tank it to sabotage it
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  notably a lot of them coming from europe, uh, of course Zelensky, you know,
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  there's uh, my friend alex in his uh initial start of the story he uh
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  He had zelensky the z monster on stage in ukraine on we ukraine tv uh
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  and He's sitting on a stage in his typical get up and he Is telling
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  people that you know, donald trump can't solve this war and uh, let's let's We
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  may listen in for a little bit today, but I didn't set any time stamps
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  on him And there were a couple of uh, very very critical in my opinion
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  pieces, I always recommend that uh People listen to alex Christoforou, um is
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  his name and you can see him see his shows every day he does like
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  a I don't know 40 to 45 minute show And I get to watch it
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  probably At least two three times a week because I like catching him and on
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  the big days I'll always try to go get in this thing.
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  He put up eight hours ago.
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  He's got 72 000 views he's got plenty of people checking out his his uh
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  Channel there and a lot of people listening to him, which is a a big
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  plus, right?
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  And you know, that's uh good for him more power to him.
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  But on top of that he's Generally been right.
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  So if you get a chance to You know, I say generally it's because I
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  don't know of any there are things I disagree with him on But I don't
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  know whether ultimately they were right or not They're they're different
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  approaches that he takes but he but he usually comes in pretty good Anyway,
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  alex christoforou decent channel.
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  I may play a bit of him today if I can find the part that
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  I wanted to talk about um But especially on the on the beginning side may
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  play a little bit of that and all the other news today is about Not
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  all the other news but uh, there's been some huge losses but here we are
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  On international flavor where the truth just tastes better by the way and you
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  know, we're gonna talk about the uh What what what efforts they're trying to
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  get everybody now part of it's trump himself by the way because Today whether
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  he's already no, he hasn't done it today I don't remember but it's coming up
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  either tomorrow or he did it today.
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  I'm not sure but he's supposed to And I don't like this.
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  I think this is foolish.
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  This is what happens every time and it just it just Messes thing up things
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  up.
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  So what he's gonna do is Who's he gonna talk to?
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  He's gonna talk to his alleged, uh allies, you know these people in europe.
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  They're not his allies They're placating him as what's going on and he wants to
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  talk to them and coordinate as it were before, uh, the Uh meeting the historic
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  meeting.
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  It's only historic because biden didn't do a blessed thing Otherwise, this
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  wouldn't be historic at all.
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  This would be a regular meeting between two normal people Do you know that uh,
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  xi jingping and putin meet every year probably twice.
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  I think they have every year putin goes to china uh and uh Xi jingping
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  comes to moscow and they usually coordinate, uh with the um With the war
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  memorial like xi jingping was there for the 80th anniversary of uh, vlika
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  tiechestvenaya the uh, uh, uh, great patriotic war and uh, uh and putin is
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  going to uh, China for there if it's already it might have already happened
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  already.
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  I forget the day that they celebrate the same thing I don't I honestly don't
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  remember but I know that the intent was for them to swap 80 year victories
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  because china's is later in the year and russia's was back in may and uh,
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  so Uh, I you know, they're gonna do it.
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  But why is it such a big deal?
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  It's a big deal because we haven't done anything, you know, our our diplomacy
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  is crap Our diplomacy is for shit.
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  Pardon my french, but it's uh, it's not good Uh, let's let's talk about what
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  do we got?
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  Um trump and putin are set to meet face to face for the first time
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  since the old trumpster came back into office But why does this meeting matter?
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  I mean remember I told you yesterday a little bit about why this uh, Well
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  because depending on who you ask Depending on where you get your news You know,
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  it could be the beginning of the end of the war in ukraine Or just
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  another photo op doomed to failure because uh, You know, they're gonna twist it
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  and that is what?
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  The european likes are looking for that is what the z-man is looking for.
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  There's stories about him putting up some provocations to uh, Uh, make sure
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  that happens Um, there are people that are ready to trash it.
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  I have a good opinion piece i'd like to get to tonight if at all
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  possible That uh tells you uh the points of view on that and it's really
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  not all that long So I think I can get to it and uh But
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  I got my own Trepidations I got my own Thought process on this and why
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  I don't think that it Maybe it won't Be successful.
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  I really hope it is and I have plenty to be Positive Positive about and
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  it's really not positive.
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  It's horror story Did you know that there are stories out there in the last
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  couple of weeks now?
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  We all knew and in fact, this was reported by ukrainian mps Last year before
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  the end of the year that they had already said that there were more than
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  a hundred thousand ukrainian soldiers who had deserted Abandoned run away Taken
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  off and have abandoned are guilty of uh, Uh going AWOL during wartime
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  treasonous Type activities and escaping and running away and we're not just
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  talking those subject to mobilization.
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  Those are the people Already on the front lines who have left Okay And they
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  say uh, there was another article in this past week that said that another
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  hundred thousand Just this year Have done the same thing and with what has
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  happened in the last 48 hours both in ukraine on the ukrainian side and the
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  uh russian side they say the uh Uh, even though a potential deal is emerging
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  that the front lines are Collapsing.
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  In fact, it was a ukrainian uh military man former general or colonel or
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  something i'll get to him too tonight that's saying that Uh, whatever they're
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  reporting to you They're president zelensky.
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  They aren't telling you the truth because the lines are collapsing the people
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  are running Russia has gained i'd like to get to those numbers with Another guy
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  that I listened to on the military summary channel, and i'll try to find those.
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  Oh see if I can get those numbers together for you because uh ukraine is
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  losing their butts and there's talk of another uh Diversion of some sort let's
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  go into kursk.
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  Let's go into bryansk.
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  Let's go into belgrade Let's go into some city like that.
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  Let's attack some airplanes in in uh, you know far into I don't know where
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  vladivostok You know, let's let's attack some russia russia with some drones or
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  anything anything to take the attention away From the fact that ukraine is
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  losing and trump is gonna force him to take a deal if that's what you
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  believe You know, which is which is possible that uh, uh, that could be another
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  one Okay, but they do say that the outlines of a potential deal or emergency
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  the telegraph says zelensky May be softening.
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  I think the pressure might be getting to they say he's agreeing to freeze the
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  current front lines seed claims to donetsk lugansk and crimea in exchange for
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  western security guarantees and a path toward nato Okay, i'm not so sure what I
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  think about that.
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  I I it it has a big You know, you take off the nato Maybe
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  but these security guarantees.
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  What does it mean?
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  Better security guarantees than a path or membership in nato because russia
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  won't take it and then security guarantees If both the us and the uh, if
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  it's not nato if it's the us and russia guaranteeing security I may be able
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  to Get behind something like that They say, you know something along the lines
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  of the uh budapest accords from long ago when they gave up the nuclear weapons,
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  which uh The ukrainians all like to throw in your face and go.
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  Oh, no, the us is supposed to give us.
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  Uh Guarantees.
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  No, that's in the event of a nuclear.
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  Uh Event of some sort when you gave up your nuclear weapons that you would
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  be covered by the nuclear arms of Either russia or the united states and the
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  intent was and not intent but the presumption Sort of was that at that time
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  it would be the russian side because that's what you were giving up in 1991
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  Or whatever it was That you gave up these weapons, right?
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  But in 30 years ukraine has been just a vast failure.
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  They've sucked the uh Mammary glands of the united states and the west for you
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  know, and there's a lot of rich ukrainians Because people are trying to buy
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  everything they can in ukraine and there's a good number of rich ones who
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  profited Handsomely for selling out their country.
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  There's a bunch of them And that's same is true in russia and most eastern
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  Uh, you know most former Warsaw pact countries we bought them out And to some
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  extent it's still going on.
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  That's not part of the story tonight.
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  But uh If if in public zelensky, of course rejects any territory given up but
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  behind the scenes His options are shrinking, especially if the old trumpster
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  stays firm the eu is split we have people like Kaya callous Demanding no
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  concessions while orban and I want to get to that story because orban's just
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  funny.
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  I like listening to him He says russia's already won And the west should face
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  reality And he says that if we just used Ukraine, well, everybody knows that
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  but thanks for somebody finally standing up and pointing that out Meanwhile,
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  the white house confirms anchorage Uh trump says that he gets to go to russia
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  Uh two leaders one of them extremely unpredictable, that's the old trumpster a
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  war that's uh I don't know that it's grinding anymore.
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  I think it's more of a route that a route is occurring especially after what
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  I watched and now openly even some military sources military news sources
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  anyway in the west are Are even saying oh my god, they're they're they're
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  running Russia has uh, literally, uh, I heard numbers today that they have 15
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  000 ukrainian soldiers Surrounded in pokrovsk and now they've cut off the
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  railways.
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  They've cut off two roads out of three coming in and they're about to close
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  the circle close the fist and if they do those 15 000 are just They're
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  done and pokrovsk is gone.
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  Meanwhile.
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  They're pushing Pretty they I forget the number of kilometers.
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  I'll try to find the clip for you If I can that'll play it for
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  you, but I tell you what there's a whole lot of players on these sidelines
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  Lindsey graham.
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  You haven't heard anything from him like we talked about last night, but uh, I
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  don't know you you you wonder if he's finally uh, you know Blown the wad,
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  you know, he bet it all on black 17 just like I do And the
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  number came up, uh, you know The one right next to it red five Or
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  red 20, which is instead and that's what you got.
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  Of course.
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  I always bet on all five of those numbers Starting with 17 And if i'm
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  gonna play some roulette i'm at least gonna buy a chunk of the wheel, you
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  know what I mean?
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  um and and and so instead of just Improve is it raining again?
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  I'm sure we get our daily rain in florida and Here we are.
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  Somebody said there was a hurricane hurricane coming Stand fast and secure
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  those riggings I've never done that before but I heard that in some uh, uh
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  cartoon one time Popeye was it maybe who knows but uh at any rate we
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  get in our rain here and allegedly The first tropical depression of the season
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  is uh out east and headed for florida Not sure.
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  I like that.
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  But uh, well, we'll keep uh, we'll keep an eye on it All I know
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  is it rains hard here and when it does rain hard Sometimes my ip telephone
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  goes on the fritz So far, it doesn't affect my internet all the time, but
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  the ip telephone takes a beating that's for damn sure uh, just for grins, let
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  us Uh, see if we can get to the first couple of minutes of alex's
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  show Um, no, I want to get to where he was a chat Uh especially
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  in donetsk saying so in the areas surrounding pokrosk The russians are Beating
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  the snot out of the uh, ukrainian forces everywhere Everywhere, uh, you know,
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  i'm really afraid to start the clip because i'm not in the right spot Uh,
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  here it is here.
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  Let's let's see if this works.
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  We're gonna try it out Okay, I think I may have found it just you
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  know, even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes Here we go Let's see, I
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  might have to play with it 10 seconds back 10 seconds forward and we'll see
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  Has been de facto surrounded by russian troops while konstantinovka is facing
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  semi-encirclement.
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  He claimed the ex-azov commander Shared a map reporting to show the situation
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  in the area which corroborates media reports of a major russian breakthrough To
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  the north of pokrosk that emerged earlier in the day.
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  Yeah pokrosk is collapsing man pokrosk konstantinovka It's collapsing fast.
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  Russia's gonna gonna capture this area very quick It's going to provide putin
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  with some good, uh good leverage Not that he needs any but it'll provide putin
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  with even more leverage As he heads into the the talks in alaska on friday
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  So here's a map which uh gives you A look at the at the situation
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  in pokrosk You can see the russian breakthrough the arrows show that uh But the
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  russians continue It's a hell of a breakthrough too, by the way konstantinovka
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  kramatorsk.
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  Dobropolia and uh pokrosk all surrounded And it's not good and his map doesn't
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  even show some of the other ones i've seen On telegram and some of the
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  they're saying the russians have gained um Man, I wish I could remember the
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  numbers.
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  I want to say 500 square kilometers in the last week And they are kicking
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  the snot out of them and they are and the ukrainians are run away run
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  away Uh, there was a story that I saw today that said so the azov
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  brigades Do you remember that name from when this war first started?
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  Uh, so the azov brigades are the ones that are the highly nationalized national
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  guard forces and a lot of people think uh Think no, whatever you want to
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  call about it, but I don't Know this to be true.
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  All I know is that the azov brigades have The ss symbol the german ss
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  symbol is their unit insignia and so in the konstantinovka area russia Has
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  pushed back and there's a big reservoir in that area and in the konstantinovka
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  area.
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  There's uh, A large group of azov that one of the azov brigades is there
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  that they were moved there um They usually move the azov brigades because
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  they're highly national highly motivated very well funded They get all the
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  money and a lot of people say that these are the people That zelensky is
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  frightened of like these azov brigades.
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  And so the story that I heard today was that these So they got pushed
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  out of konstantinovka Between konstantinovka and this uh Reservoir very large
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  reservoir that I don't remember the name of but right in that area And so
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  they're crushed up against it and they went around it So the brigade's still in
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  konstantinovka area, but they're on the retreat slowly fighting hard You know
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  that kind of thing meanwhile pokrovsk, which is to the west and south a little
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  bit dobropol is is uh, just west of there and the uh The story that
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  I heard is So the ukrainian units are being routed and they're running they're
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  especially right now think about this Somebody tells you that uh, grandpa trump
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  is going to bring you, you know, christmas presents, uh early And bring you
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  peace plan in from alaska And he's going to fly in on a sleigh and
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  pass out goodies and uh, you're going to be sent home from the war Why
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  would you stand on the front lines and and get your ass kicked and die
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  a lot of people there's a lot to be Said about that.
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  So imagine yourself a soldier on the front lines who's been it has no, uh
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  no prospects of uh no prospects of Replacement no prospects of rotating out,
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  you know, you're not gonna it's not like you're doing a year and leaving It's
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  not like you have something small you're there from start to finish you're not
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  gonna have any uh, gee I need some Some leave I gotta go home and
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  see my wife, you know, I gotta go home and see my kids that crap
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  ain't happening They aren't getting any Any sort of that unless you're the very
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  well-funded as of and stuff like that So these people are running away run
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  away just like in monty python.
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  They're they're taking off and uh, against that evil rabbit uh The rabbit is
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  the russian armed forces and they're coming out to get them and they are
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  pushing them back and the russian army Is motivated as well supplied as well
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  trained and they're a professional military force the ukrainian force You know
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  i've given several lectures on this part many many months ago and I haven't
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  done one recently But we should probably do another one before too long because
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  there's just nobody left and the average age of these soldiers is is 15 years
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  older than they are on the on the russian side.
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  So therefore Their their their average age was 47 Back then it's probably worse
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  now Um, none of their their stories trump was telling stories about them trying
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  to recruit 16 year olds To pay them some money and get them to go
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  Wouldn't you like to be a 35 year old soldier going out against a bunch
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  of 60 16 year olds?
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  If they're doing that that is freaking foolish Anyway, i've got sidetracked
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  that sidetracked myself so this azov brigade is uh They don't use them except
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  for I don't know what high profile Vic they they want to if there's going
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  to be a victory it's got to be these National azov brigades, right?
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  We got to show them as kicking the crap out of them Well, the story
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  goes that since the ukrainians are all running away They're going to reposition
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  the force Retreat it from konstantinovka and kramatorsk around dobropolia and
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  Bring them up against the only retreat avenue where these 15 Thousand that are
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  surrounded in pokrovsk by the russian forces.
• 27:50
  The only way they can retreat Is through a very small they say it's less
• 27:57
  than right now less than 10 kilometers To get out 15 000 people and nobody's
• 28:04
  letting them retreat And so how you prevent them from retreating now is you put
• 28:10
  the azovs behind them?
• 28:12
  Because the azovs will kill you themselves Is the popular?
• 28:17
  Uh theory and there's plenty to back that up by the way on telegram they've
• 28:22
  done it before you know, they they've they they These are the people who held
• 28:28
  the that cement factory or whatever it was in uh Where was that?
• 28:35
  Wasn't was it wasn't my dad and I forget where but they held these are
• 28:39
  the azovs who uh, Were killing the you know killing people that retreat they're
• 28:43
  killing their own You're not going to reach well, you know if you're going to
• 28:46
  retreat you're dead already here's your bullet You know, uh that that is the
• 28:52
  story going around And that's a terrible story if true, but it wouldn't
• 28:57
  surprise me.
• 28:58
  Let's put it that way so Against this backdrop and all of the crap that
• 29:04
  is going on right now It's it's pretty Bleak For the ukrainians and and uh,
• 29:13
  you know, the russian ministry of defense says that ukraine in keeping with
• 29:19
  that Is preparing a false flag attack in kharkov?
• 29:24
  Right specifically in the city of chuguev to derail the peace talks in
• 29:30
  anchorage Their claim that ukrainian forces plan to strike a densely populated
• 29:36
  civilian area or hospital Using drones and missiles and we're talking about
• 29:42
  their own densely populated A civilian area or hospital and there's going to be
• 29:49
  western journalists already on site to capture the aftermath Moscow says the
• 29:55
  goal is simple that they're hearing talks about this and the goal is simple
• 29:59
  Inflame public opinion in the west again box trump into a hardline stance and
• 30:05
  collapse peace talks before they begin Kiv calls this of course Russian
• 30:11
  disinformation a preemptive excuse for russia's own strikes, right?
• 30:16
  Western outlets like bbc and reuters note that the allegations are Unproven,
• 30:22
  but the timing would make any major civilian casualty Uh, you know grouping
• 30:28
  very explosive Turkish media is reporting that members of zelensky's inner
• 30:33
  circle Are moving 50 million dollars a month To uae linked companies tied to a
• 30:42
  former state property official under international arrest for corruption A
• 30:48
  separate ukrainian mp's claim about a blocked five billion dollar crypto
• 30:53
  laundering scheme adds to this corruption narrative, so my point in adding that
• 30:58
  is Why wouldn't they if this is what you're hiding?
• 31:03
  If you're hiding the gravy train, I mean, what's a what's a another?
• 31:08
  Huge loss of civilian life somewhere that you get a bomb out and switch the
• 31:13
  narrative america's done it before I hate to admit it, but we have you know
• 31:20
  Wonder what this would do if we people don't want to talk about this corruption
• 31:24
  narrative They want to change the track.
• 31:27
  We don't want to weaken kiv's moral leverage ahead of anchorage if we are uh
• 31:32
  people from Kiev and from europe, right?
• 31:37
  For anchorage perception is the ammunition if the headlines before friday Are
• 31:43
  russia's killing civilians?
• 31:45
  Putin loses room to maneuver.
• 31:47
  So does trump if they say ukrainian corruption scandal instead Leverage is
• 31:55
  going the other direction, isn't it?
• 31:57
  Isn't it?
• 31:59
  Trump is hinting at land swaps hinting.
• 32:01
  He's being flat out about it I suppose it's not much of a hint when
• 32:05
  you go get ready for some land swapping Nobody knows what the land swap feed
• 32:10
  is But uh, so what does that mean?
• 32:12
  Does that mean russia keeps crimea dinesh khalid god separation her son that it
• 32:16
  already controls?
• 32:19
  Or do they got to give something back Ukraine keeps its current holdings and
• 32:24
  gets a pathway to nato I don't know NATO membership is going to be an
• 32:29
  extremely hard sell it requires by the way unanimous NATO member approval and a
• 32:37
  country that's brought in at war would drag the entire alliance into a direct
• 32:41
  conflict So the compromise is a nato light argument, right western weapons
• 32:48
  joint exercises air defense coverage, but no article 5 You know no trigger For
• 32:55
  moscow even that is probably unacceptable Ukraine and nato on in any form Is a
• 33:02
  red line.
• 33:03
  What would the middle ground be?
• 33:05
  demilitarized zones maybe entry back into force of some Intermediate range
• 33:12
  nuclear forces treaty of some sort maybe phased security guarantees of some
• 33:17
  sort the uh eu's, uh, and Lindsey graham tyke remember hawk what total
• 33:25
  ukrainian restoration that's never going to happen Orban and others say that is
• 33:30
  fantasy I'm, one of those others and russia has already won.
• 33:35
  That's those are orban's words The biggest european fear washington cuts a
• 33:40
  bilateral deal with russia Leaves brussels as an afterthought in the already
• 33:48
  weak eu Anchorage isn't just about ukraine's borders.
• 33:53
  Is it?
• 33:54
  It's about who writes the rules for europe in the next decade, right?
• 34:01
  Then we want to talk about the battlefield reality check I was already telling
• 34:06
  you about these asaf brigades This guy bogdan krotovic is the former as of
• 34:12
  brigade commander And he warns that prokrovskonstantinovka line Has effectively
• 34:19
  ceased to exist and that pokrovsk is surrounded Konstantinovka is semi
• 34:26
  -encircled morale is low reserves are thin And draft resistance is surging
• 34:33
  Meanwhile, russia is having steady gains and is exploiting gaps with armor and
• 34:38
  utility the artillery and uh Uav drones are beating the crap out of them with
• 34:45
  the uav drones New york times is reporting that late russian strikes in july
• 34:51
  killed 15 foreign fighters.
• 34:55
  I want to share that entire story with you I uh at a ukrainian training
• 35:01
  camp and wounded a hundred more These are americans Colombians danish and even
• 35:08
  fighters from taiwan every loss before anchorage If russia keeps running for
• 35:15
  two more days Kiev's negotiating hand gets weaker and weaker all the uh, all
• 35:22
  the aces are in uh, russia's hands aren't they trump Uh, you know, the front
• 35:29
  line is more than just a map It's a bargaining chip and it's a scary
• 35:35
  one, you know the the the lines of russia moving forward has been huge in
• 35:42
  the last week And let's talk about the long game for just a minute, right
• 35:48
  the financial times Says that europe's arms plants have grown three times
• 35:54
  faster since 2022 Seven million square meters of new production space from
• 36:01
  rheinmetall in hungary to uh mbda in germany These factories are starting to
• 36:09
  come online The leaders frame it as deterrence against russian aggression And
• 36:15
  moscow calls it proof that the west is really preparing for a real war Even
• 36:22
  with a ceasefire these factories will keep on producing Contracts are signed
• 36:28
  jobs are tied to weapons orders and the political class is investing in War,
• 36:35
  that's what they're doing.
• 36:37
  This is why some analysts call any post-summit post-summit settlement a frozen
• 36:43
  conflict they say a piece on paper in other words But war readiness is really
• 36:50
  what's going on They want to regroup so they can you know attempt to kick
• 36:55
  the crap out of russia again in a few years Remember, that's the goal.
• 36:59
  Whatever the goal is.
• 37:01
  It's to get russia to uh to stand down And remember that's big picture stuff.
• 37:09
  Okay, so whatever happens the alaska, uh talks Uh, they're in a world where
• 37:15
  alliances everywhere are shifting the world is changing It's a big deal russia
• 37:21
  and uae now have hit 11.8 billion in trade last year nearly double what
• 37:30
  they were, uh the year before um, moscow and Abu dhabi are collaborating on
• 37:37
  energy defense and even space india and china are resuming direct flights
• 37:43
  That's a huge deal and they're deepening bricks ties Even as all of these
• 37:50
  Countries are facing u.s tariffs because they import oil from russia, right?
• 37:57
  the multipolar world is in motion No matter what comes out of anchorage It'll
• 38:05
  be shaped and diluted By the fact that europe is no longer the only major
• 38:12
  theater If putin and trump strike a deal The question isn't just what it says
• 38:20
  But who's listening?
• 38:22
  And where?
• 38:23
  Does it stabilize?
• 38:25
  the world now Or does it accelerate?
• 38:29
  a new world order shift That is already occurring That is an important question
• 38:37
  And I think it's an important question to think about even on your own You
• 38:43
  know, and I hope we've laid that out.
• 38:45
  Well, you know, I still think there's probably something Between Trump and
• 38:52
  putin because I think and trump hasn't mentioned it a whole lot later I should
• 38:57
  probably ask my friend jr because he listens to him religiously and knows
• 39:00
  everything and uh pays attention to it all but I uh read a lot of
• 39:07
  international stuff and I get I get a lot of trump direct from himself, but
• 39:11
  I also Focus more in other places.
• 39:14
  I wonder if there's been any real news recently on the old trumpster and our
• 39:24
  arctic movements whatever happened to where we're taking panama back or we're
• 39:30
  uh You know gonna rob you of greenland.
• 39:34
  Uh, denmark.
• 39:36
  We're taking it back and uh, uh And alaska we improved our we took the
• 39:42
  shelf so we could say those are all our resources The alaskan shelf which was
• 39:47
  never part of it before we've uh Said that it is now Sorry, this is
• 39:54
  ours.
• 39:54
  We've told canada to get their poop in a group so that we can uh,
• 39:59
  Start to do something bigger in the arctic circle Uh, there was another article
• 40:04
  that said uh ice in the arctic circle is melting Faster this year.
• 40:09
  I don't know if that's you know more Global warming bs or if it's something
• 40:16
  You know reality Uh, I don't know what to believe when it comes to that
• 40:20
  stuff.
• 40:20
  I've heard lies about it for so long who the hell knows um, and i've
• 40:24
  always believed that um, it's a cyclical thing that you know, you go through
• 40:29
  you go through hundreds of years of uh, Of warmer temperatures and then they'll
• 40:34
  go down one huge volcano.
• 40:36
  Oh, it's coming down You know and maybe we're just coming off of that.
• 40:41
  I don't know but uh, that is possible.
• 40:45
  Um before I uh moved on to a So I still got all of my
• 40:50
  tabs pulled up on top and I went A little longer than I intended to
• 40:55
  on my free babble.
• 40:57
  Let's call it that Sam's free babble session went a little longer than I
• 41:02
  thought.
• 41:03
  I usually only babble for about a uh or try to only babble for about
• 41:09
  a half an hour, but uh, I I went a little further than I uh
• 41:14
  usually do today to get uh to get through in this In this good time
• 41:20
  period but this is going to be there's I want to get to that opinion
• 41:25
  piece For sure, so I may just go ahead And uh, and I also want
• 41:31
  to get to zelensky's dangerous games, you know Um, let's get to the short
• 41:38
  opinion piece Usually these opinion pieces are a hell of a lot longer than they
• 41:44
  are and this one's not so The problem with the future You know is that
• 41:53
  It is unpredictable and inescapable You can never know with certainty what
• 41:58
  tomorrow will bring but you have to prepare for it.
• 42:01
  Nevertheless.
• 42:02
  Yes This may seem trivial But it remains a great challenge You know, do you
• 42:09
  stock your basement full of food and then live in the basement need it all
• 42:13
  whether you get a whether you get a A reason to or not I don't
• 42:19
  know Consider the current international reaction to the scheduled summit
• 42:23
  between putin and trump The announcement of the meeting Later specified to be
• 42:31
  in alaska on august 15th was a surprise, but then again was it viewed against
• 42:38
  the background of trump's long-standing signaling of respect for russia as well
• 42:43
  in an interest in relationship normalization between moscow and washington It
• 42:50
  really is probably the culmination of a messy but real trend, you know the
• 42:56
  russian and the u.s Ultimately will probably be working together.
• 43:02
  Don't you think in at some level?
• 43:06
  Things the world's changing and I think trump if anything has been clear that
• 43:13
  You know, he doesn't want this war in ukraine to damage that possibility Now
• 43:21
  he's been wishy-washy about it.
• 43:23
  You know, he in my opinion he could have but maybe i'm uh slightly biased
• 43:28
  because uh, i'm not the The the typical american who may not know anything
• 43:34
  about what you know, what's going on?
• 43:36
  But at any rate within the short-term context of recent american turn against
• 43:41
  russia It was another evidence of proof that trump can be hard to predict While
• 43:48
  some observers believe the latest american zig To be the last one others full
• 43:55
  disclosure including the author of this article Argue that another zag is
• 44:01
  possible I believe i've said the same thing that trump has gone whoever he
• 44:06
  talks to next and if he talks to these people in europe Tomorrow and the
• 44:10
  next day or anytime before friday, he could go in there and you know You
• 44:15
  know put a hand grenade on the peace process himself, you know, because I think
• 44:19
  we already know what what?
• 44:21
  Putin is going to say same thing.
• 44:23
  He's been saying since 2007 In the big picture and then the same thing he's
• 44:29
  been saying for three and a half four years on the ukraine picture or since
• 44:33
  2014 Anyway on the ukraine picture and here we are It is true that rt
• 44:40
  editor-in-chief margarita simonyan Dares not predict the summit's outcome or
• 44:47
  even whether it will really take place That was an interesting article Uh,
• 44:54
  meanwhile russian deputy foreign minister sergey ribkov has warned that we are
• 44:58
  still far from a new peace Yet there is no denying that at least for
• 45:02
  now.
• 45:03
  We are not where we were during the preceding biden administration either
• 45:08
  Namely in a hopeless dead end of escalating yet failing western proxy war
• 45:13
  flanked by the literal anti-diplomacy that is An obstinate refusal to
• 45:20
  communicate That has been perversely elevated to the rank of foreign policy
• 45:26
  This is nonsense and i've been complaining about that for years For now, it is
• 45:33
  impossible to predict where we go from here once and if the summit in alaska
• 45:37
  takes place And hopefully a follow-up meeting in russia as well We will finally
• 45:42
  have left the bloody and dangerous stagnation that was produced by firstly The
• 45:47
  west permitting kiev to sabotage the 2015 minks 2 agreement Then the
• 45:53
  stonewalling of moscow's last chance negotiation officer in late 2021 and later
• 46:00
  Bojo's boris johnson's Nixing of an almost peace in april 22 Or will we be
• 46:08
  again disappointed and face more of the same?
• 46:12
  An ongoing western proxy war against russia through ukraine or even worse Will
• 46:19
  trump come out of that meeting saying saying well looks like it's sanctions.
• 46:23
  He's not listening He's not listening to what i'm telling him to do and that's
• 46:26
  that That means time for more sanction more so sanctions aren't going to help
• 46:31
  even if you do them, but you know, whatever, you know, I I I Sadly
• 46:37
  for me and this isn't part of this.
• 46:38
  Uh this uh opinion piece i'm reading sadly for me I think that's almost as
• 46:44
  Just as likely as not Anyway, one thing is clear.
• 46:50
  However an end to the fighting and a halfway decent settlement Would be good
• 46:55
  news not only for ukraine, but for the rest of the world including nato and
• 47:01
  eu europe that currently is or pretends to be Ready to spoil a quick end
• 47:08
  to the slaughter in ukraine Um When I practiced law the statement was always
• 47:15
  this and what I would tell my clients before Uh, there were people I remember
• 47:19
  one of my uh, there was a jury trial I lost Oh, that was terrible.
• 47:25
  I lost this jury trial and uh, I was I was I was gonna kick
• 47:31
  some ass.
• 47:32
  I didn't lose I won the jury trial But I lost as i'll explain to
• 47:36
  you why I actually won But it wasn't a victory and here's why Uh, and
• 47:41
  sorry for the quick diversion, but it's important because if you're not if you
• 47:45
  don't know the truth You can't very well defend it.
• 47:49
  Can you and we don't know what is happening?
• 47:52
  And so what I always tell people Is that a bad deal?
• 47:56
  Beats a good Judgment anytime, right?
• 48:00
  So that would translate it for the law, you know before trial usually the two
• 48:06
  lawyers and the judge and everybody else involved is has made their final
• 48:10
  offers and In this case the offer to me and my client was like, I
• 48:15
  don't know the exact numbers, but I want to say like 32 000 it was
• 48:19
  over 30 but not by much certainly under 40 and uh So the offer was
• 48:25
  we're going to give you 40 000 would have put you know I don't know
• 48:28
  decent amount of money in my pocket and and I don't care.
• 48:32
  It's not my decision It was the client's decision to to uh to uh, take
• 48:36
  that money or not, right?
• 48:38
  And I remember sitting there chatting with her telling her what's gonna be and
• 48:42
  I was like, you know That's a fair offer, you know, you've got whatever it
• 48:48
  was 15 000 in damages 15 000 in medical bills, you know, you should probably
• 48:54
  take this and and move on We can wipe those out get them all resolved
• 48:59
  get me paid off you put some money in your pocket and blah blah blah
• 49:03
  Off we go.
• 49:04
  She goes.
• 49:05
  No, no, no.
• 49:05
  No, I what do you I said?
• 49:06
  Well, I I don't care.
• 49:08
  It's not up to me It's up to you.
• 49:10
  I'm gonna put on the same case regardless And uh, you know, we're gonna you
• 49:15
  know, but it's a jury out there you might lose, you know It's a jury
• 49:19
  you're gonna put your life in the hands of a jury.
• 49:22
  Well, just understand that sometimes you're not gonna win Jury might not like
• 49:27
  you they hated her and i'll tell you why Uh, because we get all the
• 49:31
  way through this and it was pretty funny.
• 49:33
  I get the whole day.
• 49:34
  It's my case I bring I got the I don't know the car expert.
• 49:38
  I got a doctor.
• 49:39
  I got all the medical bills I have everything that we've gone through and
• 49:41
  everything is there and uh, then the uh judge says let's let's take a you
• 49:48
  know, 20 minute break and we'll come back in and uh, we come back in
• 49:52
  and uh the Opposing lawyer who's a decent guy st.
• 49:57
  Louis something like that a good guy and uh, he uh, He stands up and
• 50:03
  he he calls my client Now I anticipated this calls her back to the stand
• 50:08
  puts her back on the stand and says, uh, miss so-and-so.
• 50:11
  Um, You ever been in a car accident before?
• 50:16
  She goes No He goes you haven't been in a car accident, you know, no
• 50:24
  And uh, she said he says you don't remember he goes well, let me ask
• 50:28
  you this then did have you ever driven a This kind of car whatever it
• 50:32
  was Have you ever driven?
• 50:34
  Uh, whatever call it a toyota camry.
• 50:37
  She goes.
• 50:37
  No.
• 50:37
  No, no, you never owned one She goes no he goes you ever borrow one
• 50:41
  from a friend and i'm going where in the hell is this guy going?
• 50:45
  Where's he going?
• 50:46
  And what is he talking about?
• 50:47
  Well, we should already have this information this uh, This stuff should be
• 50:51
  here already and He goes She goes no um and he says Okay, you sure
• 51:02
  and she goes?
• 51:03
  Yeah, i'm sure and he Uh, then shows her a picture of herself on a
• 51:09
  uh, on a stretcher On a stretcher with a smashed up car next to it
• 51:17
  and she goes he goes you don't remember uh Getting a loaner car from some
• 51:22
  some car dealer and that car was involved in a crash.
• 51:26
  She goes.
• 51:26
  Oh, I remember that And he proceeded to show her as a complete liar and
• 51:33
  um She was she still won I mean It was not her fault the accident
• 51:39
  But we we did not get anywhere near the amount of money that we we
• 51:44
  got her medical bills paid and I think that was it So anyway, I only
• 51:48
  tell you that to say just because uh, you win doesn't mean it's a victory
• 51:53
  and if uh people are Are gonna, uh, you know not know the whole story
• 51:58
  about what's going on The likelihood is that you could you know, here's where
• 52:02
  we've got a good deal is better than Millions of people continuing to die.
• 52:07
  Don't you agree with that?
• 52:09
  That's the only reason I told you that story I do tend to get sidetracked,
• 52:12
  uh every once in a while um You know, but I enjoy it Um, anyway,
• 52:23
  um I'm going to continue this story.
• 52:26
  Sorry.
• 52:26
  I've sidetracked myself ukrainian and russian lives could be saved right?
• 52:31
  Hopefully for a better future the still real uh if by comparison uh with peak
• 52:38
  biden Danger the danger of escalation into a regional or even a global war
• 52:46
  Would be taken away if you come up with a bad deal even And since
• 52:51
  this has also been a very costly war of sanctions There'd be substantial
• 52:56
  economic benefit to finishing this war ukraine in particular Would have the
• 53:02
  opportunity to rebuild especially if its domestic politics took a post-war Turn
• 53:09
  for the better.
• 53:10
  They've been in bad shape.
• 53:11
  They've had a horribly mismanaged country for 30 years um everything that
• 53:17
  ukraine was a Extremely solid member of the soviet union was the most
• 53:24
  productive if I recall uh aside, you know non-russian country, uh, you know and
• 53:31
  the production was incredible all the resources everything that they have it
• 53:35
  could You know if they could turn out something different and they could leave
• 53:40
  the ultra corrupt authoritarian and maniacal Zelensky behind You know, that
• 53:47
  would be a good deal um But I suppose that means it's counterintuitive To uh
• 53:59
  consider Uh Zelensky wanting anything different than what he is, uh, what he is
• 54:08
  Talking about here, which is we can't we can't agree to this, right?
• 54:14
  So the many western friends of ukraine are disturbed if not Panicked by the
• 54:21
  fact that trump might come up with something Uh outside of their inclusion a
• 54:27
  ukraine where men are no longer hunted down by force mobilization squads to die
• 54:32
  Or be traumatized physically and mentally in a militarily pointless war
• 54:38
  Provoked by failed western strategy to use ukraine to take russia down You
• 54:46
  know, what about a ukraine that could actually recover from this horribly
• 54:50
  devastating Catastrophic and perfectly avoidable War that we are in nobody's
• 54:58
  avoided it have they they in fact have pushed it to occur They wanted this
• 55:05
  And so this is what we've got so Many of ukraine's friends from hell especially
• 55:14
  those in nato and eu europe Seem to still find it hard to accept this
• 55:19
  possibility instead of seriously and honestly exploring not only The inevitable
• 55:24
  cost of peace, but also the enormous benefit Or facing the immense additional
• 55:30
  human cost of fighting on they can't stop issuing stale warnings about Obvious
• 55:36
  fact that those who lose a war That is the west and ukraine cannot expect
• 55:41
  quite the same outcome as those who win it They still want to tell russia
• 55:46
  what they're going to do after russia has won the war I don't understand it
• 55:51
  would it not perhaps Then have been to best avoid this war altogether What was
• 55:57
  the reason for instance of not closing that famous open door into nata?
• 56:03
  nato nato that has no Basis in the nato treaty and through which ukraine would
• 56:09
  never have walked anyway These are questions that precisely need to be answers.
• 56:15
  These are the people who did their worst to Destroy the process and and push
• 56:21
  this war, right?
• 56:23
  Then there are the many whose perma grudge against russia and putin personally
• 56:28
  is only rivaled by their bitter Resentment of having to live in a trump 2
• 56:33
  .0 World When they were expected to have the uh, the biden tone forever They
• 56:40
  find their sad refuge and endlessly warmed over and mine numbingly on original
• 56:46
  carping About how they are sure the american president is going to be duped by
• 56:52
  putin, right?
• 56:54
  That's funny actually, especially from europeans After all, it's their very own
• 57:01
  ursula von der leyen who has just delivered a gala performance of being as
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  victor orban said eaten for breakfast at the negotiating table by the very same
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  american president But even after trump's once impossible electoral comeback
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  his full spectrum domination of nato Clients reduced to saying and calling him
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  daddy And his complete humiliation of the eu For some it seems there is no
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  cure for Underestimating trump the politician They will only have themselves to
• 57:38
  blame if he and putin pull off what they cannot imagine once more as As
• 57:45
  decent an end of this war as possible despite much of europe and the zelensky
• 57:50
  regime's own obstruction Nonsense friends and neighbors But there's another
• 57:57
  kind of pessimism about the upcoming summit That is in some ways even more
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  puzzling it comes from observers who are well-informed And if not sympathetic
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  to russia, then at least not blinded by western propaganda Its essence is a
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  radical distrust of the u.s And the ultimate conclusion that it is moscow It
• 58:21
  should not try to negotiate You know moscow says they should not negotiate with
• 58:26
  washington What makes this line of thinking more realistic than the endless
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  complaint of russophobes?
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  Is the fact that the u.s has a very long and rich history of
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  breaking agreements especially with russia And even worse of deliberately using
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  negotiation and promises to prepare Some sort of foul play Indeed, perhaps the
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  deepest root of the war in ukraine is precisely the policy of deception
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  america's breaking of the perfectly real promise Not to expand nato, which I
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  was around for During 1990 and 94.
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  I was in the military.
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  I was a arms control inspector I heard these things said and said this is
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  you know, these things are coming russia is going to be russia not the soviet
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  union and You know, this is going to be good.
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  This is going to be great and If you get rid of warsaw pact and
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  all the weapons, then we you know have no need to expand and uh, uh,
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  you know And we did what was it 9 times 14 who the hell knows
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  over and over and over So much so that we have all the baltic states
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  right on the border of russia As as part of it, this is nonsense, right
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  I don't know I don't know against that background.
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  Anyway, these pessimists argue any agreement.
• 1:00:02
  These are russian pessimists, by the way Any agreement with the u.s will be
• 1:00:06
  another trap for them to walk into now I I would love to say that,
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  you know, we can be trusted Not so positive that I can That I feel
• 1:00:19
  that way.
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  I I I wish that I did feel that way Um, but i've seen it
• 1:00:24
  all too much, you know But trump's in charge too.
• 1:00:28
  Maybe if he did something but then what are you going to do when he's
• 1:00:32
  no longer in office?
• 1:00:33
  Who are you going to trust then?
• 1:00:35
  you know If trump seems to be different from his predecessors they say Then
• 1:00:41
  that is either for show or irrelevant because ultimately the long-term strategy
• 1:00:48
  of the u.s political establishment Consistently hostile toward russia will
• 1:00:55
  continue to prevail And if the u.s should end up abandoning abandoning direct
• 1:01:00
  participation in this ukraine proxy war It could keep going indirectly through
• 1:01:08
  washington's belligerent european clients and through the lindsey grahams of
• 1:01:14
  the world continuing to funnel money that direction This approach certainly
• 1:01:19
  does not lack intellectual substance or evidence in fact Its arguments amount
• 1:01:26
  to excellent due diligence for anyone entering into negotiation with the u.s I
• 1:01:32
  happen to agree, but the real question is what practical conclusion should be
• 1:01:37
  drawn from these warnings I don't know for me.
• 1:01:41
  I don't know that it means you don't talk.
• 1:01:44
  What are you going to do continue to keep slaughtering people?
• 1:01:47
  I don't know.
• 1:01:48
  Um Can the correct answer to that question Be to avoid even negotiation But
• 1:01:56
  then moscow would be doing the same thing that uh, you know the west's mutists
• 1:02:03
  like biden Uh have been doing before trump If sensible observers agree that
• 1:02:12
  communication and diplomacy are always better than silence Why should russia
• 1:02:17
  follow the west's?
• 1:02:19
  Silly precedent of anti-diplomacy good question Especially in view of the fact
• 1:02:24
  that there is one thing moscow does not have to worry about i'd say losing
• 1:02:29
  the war But that's not what this guy says unlike in some western countries like
• 1:02:34
  germany britain france Russia does have a top-notch set of foreign policy
• 1:02:39
  professionals And institutions I happen to agree Diplomacy therefore is not
• 1:02:45
  only principally good but also plays to moscow's strength Well, that's true and
• 1:02:52
  they've been pretty good at uh holding the line So far have they not I
• 1:02:59
  think they've been doing a pretty damn good job with uh where they are at
• 1:03:05
  present, so The current russian leadership has been explicit repeatedly about
• 1:03:12
  its realism concerning the west only recently putin has reiterated his view of
• 1:03:19
  the war in ukraine as reflecting an existential western threat to russia moscow
• 1:03:26
  has an empirical verifiably record of healthy skepticism in action If its
• 1:03:34
  policy were one of easily accommodating the west then we would not be where we
• 1:03:40
  are at all If moscow's policy were one of easel easy accommodation Then it
• 1:03:48
  would long ago have concluded a disadvantageous Agreement, that's probably true
• 1:03:55
  But russia has not in reality this upcoming summit May mark the point at which
• 1:04:02
  both russia and the united states understand that only serious negotiation
• 1:04:08
  based on reality on the ground and detached from superficial ideological mantra
• 1:04:15
  like territorial integrity That it is the only way it can succeed And if that
• 1:04:22
  is not the case then We will fail and the war will continue there will
• 1:04:28
  be no agreement The war will continue russia will get more sanctions and on we
• 1:04:32
  go.
• 1:04:33
  This is only going to go one of two ways That's what i've been saying
• 1:04:36
  Finally, there is a fundamental difference between caution and fear caution
• 1:04:41
  enables but fear paralyzes precisely because the traditional challenge of
• 1:04:46
  Negotiating with the us are so clear.
• 1:04:49
  There is no reason to shy away from contact the challenge is to transform
• 1:04:53
  Caution into practically applicable conditions Will the us continue to share
• 1:05:01
  intelligence with ukraine?
• 1:05:04
  I believe this is uh something that I have said if we stop the money
• 1:05:09
  And stop the armaments and stop the intelligence only from the us side This war
• 1:05:17
  will end and sooner rather than later.
• 1:05:19
  We're actually saving lives by cutting these people off Don't you think and
• 1:05:24
  these poor people that are dying over on the front lines?
• 1:05:28
  They deserve somebody to look out for them and so far their own country is
• 1:05:32
  not so You could argue that on both sides but I I think we are
• 1:05:38
  to uh, and and the the people pushing from the west are far more Dastardly
• 1:05:44
  than those uh standing up from the east.
• 1:05:46
  That's what I say Um What about spies Can and will trump tell the cia
• 1:05:55
  to drop its ukrainian Cutouts and stop contributing to attacks on and inside of
• 1:06:02
  russia If the us really intends to keep selling weapons to europe so that they
• 1:06:07
  can then be handed to ukraine How can that be squared with trying to bring
• 1:06:12
  about peace?
• 1:06:14
  These are valid questions It is possible that once tested by such questions and
• 1:06:19
  quite a few of them The american side will expose its lack of commitment to
• 1:06:24
  the process Yet, no one can rule out that a more useful outcome might come
• 1:06:30
  about as a result In fact, the summit plan itself may be a sign that
• 1:06:37
  some of these issues have been broached already I suppose that's a possibility
• 1:06:42
  in such a situation The rational approach is to try while keeping up one's
• 1:06:48
  guard Given its post-soviet experience and how it has processed them among
• 1:06:53
  other things by striking back militarily There is no reason to believe that
• 1:06:58
  russian leadership is not capable of pursuing this strategy as well Those eager
• 1:07:04
  to see russia hold its own against the west and in particular the u.s
• 1:07:08
  Should consider that it is moscow that defines russian national interests
• 1:07:14
  Depending on a concrete analysis of specific circumstances at this or some
• 1:07:19
  future moment Even an imperfect agreement made with the us that cannot be
• 1:07:25
  trusted Might serve these interests And those who rightly favor Multipolarity
• 1:07:32
  should recall that a russia which keeps fighting in a ukraine war handing
• 1:07:36
  handed over to the europeans cannot play The same international role as one
• 1:07:42
  that is finally free of the burden of war So this article was written to
• 1:07:49
  russians, okay Right, you know i'm sharing it with you, but this is written,
• 1:07:55
  you know to convince russians That this war needs to be over to convince
• 1:08:02
  russians to come to the negotiating Table with an open mind not that you need
• 1:08:08
  that from the diplomacy group, but you do need it from uh, The normal folks
• 1:08:14
  on the ground a lot of them are going.
• 1:08:15
  Yeah, but you guys have lied to us for years We like you sam.
• 1:08:19
  We like you american people sam, but your government, you know All they do is
• 1:08:24
  lie You know, I can't tell you how many times i've heard that It's hard
• 1:08:28
  to hard to disagree, you know with all the all the proof that they put
• 1:08:32
  out and uh, And not just in not just in russia.
• 1:08:36
  I mean in other places too so it's uh Somewhat scary proposition don't you
• 1:08:44
  think but I enjoyed that article and that article Should you choose to copy is
• 1:08:51
  called why?
• 1:08:52
  Here's why all critics of the alaska summit Are wrong Okay So that was a
• 1:09:00
  good a good article and I think it was worthy of spending the time on
• 1:09:06
  it um Margarita simonyan, did she do this in english?
• 1:09:12
  I think she's this is in russian.
• 1:09:14
  She wrote it in english on her x page Where yeah, it was it was
• 1:09:20
  translated.
• 1:09:20
  It said I do not undertake to predict How the meeting between putin and trump
• 1:09:26
  will end And unfortunately, I do not undertake to predict whether this meeting
• 1:09:32
  will even take place She's got on these cool white shoes though, those are
• 1:09:38
  pretty cool I like listening to her.
• 1:09:41
  I think she's funny.
• 1:09:42
  Um, and she's pretty uh, She's pretty strict.
• 1:09:45
  She's the uh The chief of rt I think whether she's chief editor runs the
• 1:09:50
  whole show.
• 1:09:51
  I don't remember I think she runs the whole shoot and match but I truthfully
• 1:09:54
  don't recall all I know is I like listening to her sometimes I think she's
• 1:09:59
  uh, I told you before she she does a lot of poetry and is very
• 1:10:04
  Uh, you know when when I interviewed scott ritter the other day, uh, he talked
• 1:10:09
  about the russian soul and how uh Uh, what would he what did he call
• 1:10:17
  it?
• 1:10:19
  Romantic And poetic, you know, they try to be and and the way that they
• 1:10:24
  and the way things Should be in the way, you know, there's there's a lot
• 1:10:28
  of that going on And uh, and and so she shares a lot of that
• 1:10:34
  um when she Um talks about You know some of the russian things like she's
• 1:10:42
  on that show.
• 1:10:43
  I like to watch.
• 1:10:45
  Um Let's see as as in keeping with that I I did want to uh,
• 1:10:49
  or with you know, these uh discussions that are going to be going on in
• 1:10:53
  uh in alaska Um, and the plots that are coming afterward I want to talk
• 1:11:02
  about ukraine And zelensky remember that we said what we said in the beginning
• 1:11:08
  here that he has been Softening his stand About territorial concession, but
• 1:11:18
  there's a lot of information out there that there's also some kind of a
• 1:11:26
  Provocation we've talked about this provocation of false flag operation to uh,
• 1:11:33
  you know kill civilians so that uh, You know this Falls apart something from
• 1:11:39
  europe something from you know, whatever it's going to be But I wouldn't put it
• 1:11:43
  past any of them To uh have this come about I sure hope not but
• 1:11:51
  uh Here we are.
• 1:11:53
  Anyway, the telegraph has said that uh, zelensky is is willing Okay, and this
• 1:11:59
  this one's not very long either.
• 1:12:00
  So i'll I'll give it to you uh A deal purportedly under consideration that can
• 1:12:09
  see ukraine cease attempts to take control of russia's Lugansk people's
• 1:12:16
  republic Donetsk people's republic and crimea and retain control Of the parts
• 1:12:24
  of russia's opereggia and her son regions It already occupies these regions
• 1:12:31
  Overwhelmingly voted to join russia in referendums in 2014 and 2022 Uk ukraine
• 1:12:39
  remains strongly opposed to any settlement in which it gives up More land than
• 1:12:46
  what is currently controlled by russian forces to report claims So russia has
• 1:12:51
  said you give up the territories that um Had referenda to say that they wish
• 1:13:00
  to join russia.
• 1:13:02
  So they've already taken All of Donetsk or lugansk and and well virtually all
• 1:13:10
  of both of those there might be Two percent of the territory they haven't taken
• 1:13:14
  something small, you know some small amount but way over 90 Of both of those
• 1:13:19
  are currently occupied by russia, okay so that is the truth as far as uh
• 1:13:32
  You know considering Those two countries but zapereggia and her son That's not
• 1:13:40
  true.
• 1:13:40
  The number could be somewhere in the Call it 80 percent range that uh that
• 1:13:48
  russia has taken Most of but not all of okay so Russia is saying that
• 1:13:57
  we're going to continue until we take over those four areas and then you'd be
• 1:14:02
  lucky If we don't take over Uh kharkov and don't take over sumi in a
• 1:14:09
  couple other or or even nikolaev And odessa we could go that way too because
• 1:14:14
  odessa has historically been russian And those people should be allowed a
• 1:14:18
  referendum, you know, nobody's talked about that.
• 1:14:21
  That's pure sam talk, right?
• 1:14:23
  but That is what you know, the those russians did vote or russian regions did
• 1:14:29
  vote overwhelmingly to join russia And ukraine is strongly opposed to any
• 1:14:36
  settlement in which it gives up any land, right?
• 1:14:41
  Ukraine in exchange, however, you know if they did ukraine would demand
• 1:14:46
  security guarantees Including weapon deliveries from the west and a path to
• 1:14:52
  nato according to the report The apparent softening of zelensky stance comes
• 1:15:00
  ahead of the Meeting on friday an unnamed western official It's always the
• 1:15:06
  unnamed official, right?
• 1:15:09
  Told the british daily that the plan can only be related To the current
• 1:15:14
  position held by the military Meaning you don't get the rest of zaparizhia.
• 1:15:20
  You don't get the rest of kursan And he added that the weekend saw some
• 1:15:25
  frantic diplomacy between kiev and its western backers This report also claims
• 1:15:30
  the eu had decided to support ukraine's vision for peace In an effort to boost
• 1:15:36
  its diplomatic position In dealing with both trump and russia on monday Trump
• 1:15:42
  said that he and putin would discuss a potential deal that would involve a land
• 1:15:46
  swap between russia and ukraine Noting that it would be to the betterment of
• 1:15:52
  both apart from the aforementioned territory Moscow currently controls swaths
• 1:15:59
  of land in kharkov sumy and nepropetrovsk Other regions, right?
• 1:16:06
  Obelisks zelensky publicly rejects any territorial concession, but moscow
• 1:16:12
  insists that any peace deal Must involve ukraine's withdrawal from donbass
• 1:16:18
  zaparizhia and her son Kiv's commitment to stay out of nato as well as the
• 1:16:24
  country's demilitarization and denazification That has been the same in How
• 1:16:34
  many years now just the same?
• 1:16:37
  um I don't know.
• 1:16:40
  I'm i'm hopeful.
• 1:16:41
  I truly am this is uh Good stuff.
• 1:16:46
  Let's talk about how the west used ukraine This is victor orban, I wish I
• 1:16:51
  wish he had done this in english, but it's pretty pretty funny no matter even
• 1:16:55
  if he didn't A staunch advocate for peace talks rather than the eu's military
• 1:17:02
  backing for kiev um Oh, actually, this one was fico.
• 1:17:07
  This is the one Fico said this orban gave a different speech.
• 1:17:11
  I'm sorry.
• 1:17:11
  This is um, that's a different article.
• 1:17:13
  I'm in the wrong one altogether Um slovak prime minister robert fico is the one
• 1:17:18
  who said That the west just used ukraine fico made these comments in a video
• 1:17:23
  address Posted on facebook over the weekend saying that ukrainian leadership
• 1:17:29
  also Also bears responsibility Having backed the western plan to harm moscow by
• 1:17:37
  supporting this war effort Ukraine was used by the west in an attempt to weaken
• 1:17:43
  russia that did not succeed And for which it say seems ukraine will have to
• 1:17:49
  pay dearly He said everyone already knows that the conflict Has serious roots
• 1:17:57
  in recent history has no I would say western military solution And that
• 1:18:04
  ukraine's membership in nato is impossible Moscow framed the u ukraine conflict
• 1:18:12
  as a nato proxy war And has long denounced western military aid to kiev saying
• 1:18:18
  that u.s-led military blocks eastward expansion And ukraine's ambition to join
• 1:18:25
  nato are key drivers of continued hostility Fico who survived an assassination
• 1:18:33
  you attempt by a pro-ukraine activist Over his opposition to arming kiev has
• 1:18:40
  repeatedly criticized the west's approach Warned that it threatens global
• 1:18:45
  security His latest remarks come as the russian and u.s. Leaders meet blah blah
• 1:18:50
  blah The kremlin has said securing a permanent and stable stable peace will be
• 1:18:56
  the focus of the talks in alaska on friday Russian officials insist that any
• 1:19:04
  deal here it comes folks.
• 1:19:06
  You ready?
• 1:19:08
  Hey here, what's this deal got to address?
• 1:19:11
  root causes of the conflict And reflect what friends and neighbors?
• 1:19:17
  Reality on the ground including the status of crimea donetsk.
• 1:19:22
  Lugansk.
• 1:19:23
  Zaporizhia her son funny stuff, huh Vladimir zelensky who is not invited to the
• 1:19:32
  putin talk putin trump talks Has already rejected any truce that involves
• 1:19:39
  territorial concession Despite the old trumpster insisting that swaps will be a
• 1:19:47
  part of the agreement I don't know.
• 1:19:51
  Do we really control ukraine that much I suppose I suppose we could I suppose
• 1:19:57
  we should argue Ukraine is sovereign.
• 1:20:03
  Well, so does that mean that trump can then go and tell him what to
• 1:20:07
  do?
• 1:20:09
  Hmm curious Curious curious.
• 1:20:13
  I say that it does say he can tell him what to do but They
• 1:20:21
  are still sovereign But if they're still sovereign and we cannot tell them
• 1:20:26
  where trumpster cannot tell them what to do Doesn't that mean that they should
• 1:20:30
  have to do it on their own?
• 1:20:32
  Isn't that what trump said in the beginning?
• 1:20:35
  instead you know, we got the the lindsey grahams of the world wanting to uh,
• 1:20:40
  Come up with more money Come up with more arms finding different places to come
• 1:20:46
  up with with more u.s uh money and weapons Which i'm completely against But
• 1:20:54
  you know, of course i'm i've been against it since the very beginning.
• 1:20:58
  So There you have it.
• 1:21:01
  Anyway, interesting article.
• 1:21:03
  Uh, let's see.
• 1:21:04
  We'll skip the uae Uh Oh, here's the genius Gaia callas She's a genius, isn't
• 1:21:13
  she?
• 1:21:14
  If this wasn't short, I wouldn't share it with you.
• 1:21:17
  Um EU foreign policy chief kaia Kaja callas has called for more pressure on
• 1:21:26
  moscow.
• 1:21:27
  Gee surprise surprise more pressure on moscow, she says foreign ministers of
• 1:21:34
  the bloc's member states held an urgent video conference monday After it was
• 1:21:41
  announced that russia and u.s leaders will meet face to face Following the
• 1:21:47
  discussions callas issued a post on x To offer the bloc's support for u.s.
• 1:21:53
  Steps that will lead to a just peace transatlantic unity support to ukraine And
• 1:22:01
  pressure on russia is how we will end this war and prevent what Future russian
• 1:22:10
  aggression in europe.
• 1:22:12
  She says right I wonder what and i've always wondered where the evidence is of
• 1:22:18
  this future russian aggression You know, where is it?
• 1:22:24
  I i've I don't know i'm missing the boat somewhere friends and neighbors
• 1:22:29
  according to the foreign policy chief Genius foreign policy chief.
• 1:22:34
  I gotta say The eu is currently working on what?
• 1:22:38
  more sanctions against russia And what else do they want to provide more
• 1:22:44
  military support for ukraine And what else more support for ukraine's budgetary
• 1:22:51
  needs?
• 1:22:52
  And a session process to join the eu Boy she is She's a hell of
• 1:23:00
  a supporter, huh?
• 1:23:01
  Wouldn't you like to have her on your side?
• 1:23:04
  On monday trump confirmed he will consult with zelensky and the leaders of
• 1:23:09
  kiev's western european backers before his summit with putin He says i'm going
• 1:23:17
  to get everyone's ideas.
• 1:23:19
  I go into that thing Fully loaded right up there and we're gonna see what
• 1:23:24
  happens.
• 1:23:25
  He says I I tell you what.
• 1:23:35
  I hope he's successful.
• 1:23:36
  I really do And uh i'm i'm eager to see What comes of all this?
• 1:23:48
  Very much.
• 1:23:49
  So Oops, i'm throwing things around the room while uh While talking to you, but
• 1:23:57
  we're getting toward the end of the end of the program and I want i'm
• 1:24:04
  looking for more Of of the things I wanted to say make sure I haven't
• 1:24:08
  missed anything, uh critical Let's see here Make sure um From the russian side.
• 1:24:19
  Here's what russia says.
• 1:24:20
  They're going to expect from the uh From the talks, right?
• 1:24:26
  This is important um Wonder what they're gonna say to us.
• 1:24:31
  This is a fairly short article too.
• 1:24:33
  So hopefully I can Oh, I might have to rush.
• 1:24:36
  We're a little further along than I thought Russia sees the upcoming summit
• 1:24:40
  between the presidents as a chance to mend relationships And tackle long
• 1:24:46
  -running disputes.
• 1:24:48
  Did you know that sergey?
• 1:24:50
  lavrov and uh Uh rubio had discussions this week Uh ahead of this in an
• 1:24:57
  interview with asvestia, there's a guy named deputy foreign minister sergey
• 1:25:01
  ryabkov Said that the much anticipated meeting, uh in the largest of the u.s
• 1:25:09
  states Would focus not only on settling the ukraine conflict but on bilateral
• 1:25:14
  ties that sank to an all-time low during biden We hope that the forthcoming
• 1:25:20
  high-level meeting will give an impulse to the normalization of relationships
• 1:25:25
  Which I think is a good idea.
• 1:25:27
  That's what I say um Normalization of bilateral relations which will allow us
• 1:25:34
  to move forward on several issues Maybe the arctic maybe some kind of a
• 1:25:39
  partnership direct flights between russia and the u.s Were suspended in 2022
• 1:25:44
  after washington imposed sanctions over ukraine Ryabkov said that it is clear
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  that the leaders will focus on other topics as well Remember their phone calls
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  last hours and hours and it's not all about ukraine.
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  It's about other stuff.
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  I hope they keep that up you know On monday trump said the summit, uh
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  will be a feel-out meeting would explore a potential deal involving swapping of
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  territory But the official acknowledged that at this stage, there is no
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  observable progress regarding the return of russian diplomatic property in the
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  u.s He's referring to several compounds including russia's san francisco
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  consulate Which were closed by the u.s in 2016 and 2017 at the time
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  washington said those closures As well as the expulsion of dozens of diplomats
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  were in response to alleged election interference Bs, I call it um he uh Recent
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  files declassified by the u.s director of national intelligence have
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  substantially Undermined that claim that didn't stop us from you know, doing
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  what we did though.
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  Did it?
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  Um, moscow has accused the u.s of expropriation of property protected by
• 1:26:59
  diplomatic immunity following trump's inauguration in january Moscow appointed
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  alexander darchaev as its new ambassador to washington in june.
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  He met with the u.s president telling that he would do everything to restore
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  russian-american relations And bring them back to normality and common sense.
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  He said that the russia and the u.s are destined to have a non
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  -confrontational and peaceful existence and frankly I'm all for it.
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  There's no reason for this.
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  I still have one two, three, four, five six seven Why count them all it's
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  well, it's almost 20 20 uh tabs still up Well, uh, we're not going to
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  get to them the uh, there was an interesting story.
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  Um The uk has released 26 000 inmates early because they don't have any prison
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  space Yeah Well, maybe they should build some more instead of trying to find
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  ways to fund a war in ukraine, huh?
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  Maybe they should do that um, what else can we anticipate for tomorrow the
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  polish have some uh, A neo-nazi acts and the polish prime minister blasted
• 1:28:28
  these local idiots After their neo-nazi flag scandal, maybe we'll get into that
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  tomorrow.
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  I don't know.
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  Um What else did we have south africa said it's reset its trade ties with
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  the u.s um That's all I got folks.
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