International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

From a paused Budapest summit to Anna Paulina Luna torching EU war-drumming, tonight tracks realpolitik without the Western glaze. We hit Russia’s Rubicon drone milestone, a reported U.S. scheme to nab Maduro via his pilot, and a mystery UAV near a U.S. base in Estonia. Plus: Israel’s far-right turbulence versus Washington’s patience, Rio’s lethal mega-raid, and Capitol Hill’s “auto-pen presidency” drama. Smart-aleck, Russia-realis...

Russia’s winter playbook, Ukraine’s power-grid crisis, and migration as a weapon. NATO’s five-year “Russia scare,” Tomahawk red lines, Solovyov and Burevestnik, and frontline drone warfare. Plus: Budapest’s “Don’t die for Ukraine” protests, the EU’s sanctions boomerang, U.S. meddling in Argentina’s midterms and Venezuela, and India sidestepping Washington’s oil squeeze. Smart-aleck analysis with a Russian-realist lens—savory, not s...

Big show tonight: from Russia’s Burevestnik “unlimited-range” cruise missile and Lavrov’s Budapest blueprint for durable peace, to Kupiansk/Pokrovsk encirclements, buffer-zone logic, and Ukraine’s chaotic mobilization machinery. We unpack jet-assisted FAB strikes, sanctions theater, NATO stumbles, rare-earth realities, and Beltway bloviation—then stitch the battlefield map to the bigger board. Expect blunt analysis, receipts, and a...

Tonight, Samuel Trapp dives headfirst into the tangled world of Trump’s new sanctions, Medvedev’s “this is now Trump’s war” declaration, and Maria Zakharova’s legendary takedown of “democracy—Ukrainian style.” Between laughter, Russian quotes, and sharp analysis, Sam dissects why the EU wants to “borrow” Russia’s money (spoiler: theft by committee) and how the global game of sanctions roulette is spinning out of control. Add a few ...

Trump calls Rutte a “friend,” cancels Budapest “for now,” and slaps “tremendous” sanctions on Rosneft/Lukoil—while pitching a freeze-in-place ceasefire he mocked last week. Tonight I unpack the Oval Office spin, the carve-outs, and why “pressure theater” won’t unplug Russian barrels. We hit Tomahawks (no, he won’t train them), front-line updates around Pokrovsk, a caller’s good-vs-evil sermon on family, Lithuania’s balloon-borne co...

Budapest is “on hold,” the anonymous-source industrial complex is in full spin, and we cut through it. I break down what a real deal would require (freeze vs. guarantees, and a hard cap on long-range strike architecture), then map the weapons pipeline and U.S. training footprint in Ukraine since 2014. We hit Myrotvorets culture, nationalist violence from Crocus to the Fico verdict, Nord Stream’s legal pretzels, and Europe’s energy-...

A night of map-over-microphone radio. We open with the reported plot against Margarita Simonyan and why gag orders by bullet never work. Then: ICC paper vs. sovereign power; Brussels’ “not nice” soundbite vs. its own admission there’s no EU travel ban on the man—only the metal. We walk the real flight-corridor math (hello, Bulgaria), the boring safety that keeps jets alive (GNSS spoofing, late filing, alternates), and the Zelensky–...

From Putin to polar engineers, everyone’s got blueprints for the impossible: a bridge—or tunnel—between Russia and America. In this episode, Samuel Trapp dives headfirst into frozen geopolitics, BRICS money, and the bureaucratic fear of connection.  It’s part Arctic adventure, part economic autopsy, and part therapy session for Western planners allergic to big ideas.  Spoiler alert: the physics are ready, the money’s waiting, and t...

Tonight Samuel Trapp plates a potent platter of P-topics: the Trump–Putin telephone tête-à-tête and Budapest buzz; India’s MEA puncturing Trump’s Russian-oil claim; Ukraine’s ‘partial’ Kharkiv pullouts versus propaganda; highlights from Putin’s Russian Energy Week power plans; a passport-power plunge; and a spicy Solovyov panel sampler. Expect punchy analysis, translated source lines, and zero patience for pundit puffery. Plus: why...

Pelosi says “shut up,” Trump says BRICS is collapsing, and Samuel says… show your work. Tonight we debunk tomahawk myths, push back on BRICS/India claims, spotlight Andre Bezrukov’s century-pivot forecast, and weigh Col. Douglas Macgregor’s take on missiles, escalation, and winter on the front. Plus Maria Zakharova’s briefing, Odessa maneuvers, Venezuela “drug boat” strikes, and the Boris Johnson connection—served with our Russian-...

Samuel Trapp slices through the Tomahawk circus: what the missile really needs to launch (Typhon vs. the flashy new XMAV), how few ground launchers actually exist, and why the “20–50 missiles” chatter is mostly theater. Then we follow the Hill’s Ukraine money lines (USAI, S.2592), count Patriots and the backfill shell game, and pull donor tallies from Kiel. Also on deck: a caller’s “pontoon-boat launch plan,” the Pentagon’s new pre...

From the Nobel Prize snub to Venezuela’s U.S.-backed opposition, Samuel Trapp unpacks how “peace” prizes have become tools of regime change and global manipulation. Tonight’s International Flavor traces the hypocrisy of Oslo’s decision, Trump’s militarized makeover, and Europe’s centuries-old habit of using Russia as its permanent boogeyman. Hungary’s Orban, the EU’s unraveling, and the quiet rebirth of the CIS complete a hard-hitt...

Tonight’s broadcast dives into the global revolt against Western bullying. From Venezuela to BRICS to India’s Jaishankar putting Blinken on diplomatic blast, it’s a full masterclass on how countries are saying: “Yeah, no thanks, Uncle Sam.” We take a sarcastic walk through history, explore U.S. overreach, laugh at the absurdity of “pick a side” diplomacy, and even squeeze in Project Blue Beam and a couple of bad jokes. If you’ve ev...

Tonight on International Flavor, Samuel Trapp surveys the world’s latest parade of madness — Trump declares a “non-international armed conflict” in Venezuela, France’s Prime Minister quits (again), Siri gets caught eavesdropping, and Jaishankar schools Western reporters at the UN. From Burkina Faso’s gold politics to BRICS reality checks, Samuel reminds us that world order isn’t exactly orderly. International Flavor: Where the Tru...

Tonight on International Flavor, Samuel Trapp goes deep into the story of Camden County Presiding Commissioner Ike Skelton—charged, targeted, and ultimately vindicated after standing up to Missouri’s expanding web of automatic license-plate reader cameras. What starts as a local scandal becomes a national debate over privacy, surveillance, and the quiet rise of a digital police state. With real federal cases, government leaks, and ...

Tonight’s Deep Dive Sundays opens with Sam’s on-air setup from Lake Ozark (frog-in-throat and all) and a quick personal note from the Katy Trail—then gets straight to geopolitics: a recap of Vladimir Putin’s Valdai themes (polycentric order, UN reform, sanctions reality) and a detailed walk-through of Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya’s 54-minute press conference launching Russia’s October UNSC presidency—Addis trip, UN@80 debate, Gaza, U...

Tonight’s International Flavor dives into two pivotal spotlights: Vladimir Putin’s wide-ranging Valdai address laying out a polycentric world, and Russia’s UN envoy Vasily Nebenzya’s unusually candid 54-minute English-language press Q&A as Moscow assumes the UN Security Council presidency for October. We sample Putin’s key lines on multipolarity, Europe, sanctions, and Ukraine, plus Nebenzya’s take on what’s realistic at the Co...

Tonight on International Flavor, Samuel Trapp examines the escalating crisis at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, where diesel generators replace lost grid power in the longest outage since the war began. We explore competing narratives from Russia, Ukraine, the IAEA, and Greenpeace—and what’s really at stake. The show then turns to Moldova’s elections, U.S. influence, and the EU’s push to bypass veto rules. From multipolarity debate...

Tonight’s International Flavor dives into the outdated power structure of the United Nations, exposing how veto politics keep the Security Council paralyzed while Western elites selectively enforce global rules. Samuel Trapp breaks down the veto records since 1946, Russia’s seamless takeover from the USSR, and reform efforts from the G4 to Africa’s demands. We also explore Trump’s UN critiques, EU war rhetoric, Orban’s defiance, Pe...