Another Day in Paradise: How the World Catches Fire While Siri Listens and Macron’s PM Quits (Again

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 Truth Just Tastes Better.

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Well, I do i've got plenty of content
tonight, but nothing It's it's many many many

(01:07):
topics, uh, there's a few things that i'm
Still grumpy about I spent most of the
day today on state overreach Uh state of
missouri overreach is kind of rampant And But
the state of missouri is not alone, you
know u.s. Government's doing it, too I

(01:28):
got some grumpy things to talk with you
about that just Tend to piss me off.
Um, I watched A couple of shows I
like to watch like I told you the
ministry of foreign affairs of russia.
They're uh, Maria zakharova and she had one,

(01:49):
uh, nothing This week's this was actually Several
days ago.
I don't remember the exact day that this
came out then I watched a show Their
version of 60 minutes they have a 60
minute program over there, which basically a news
program I watched a uh news of the
day from another tv, uh station over there

(02:12):
that uh, just to see how they uh
Put together the news these days.
I watched a guy an economist and he's
pretty cool He's sometimes on the vladimir soloviev
show, which I like to see him on
there His name is michael.
Kaz kazin kazin.
I'm not sure the Right stress on his

(02:33):
last name, but I think it's kazin but
it might be kazin, uh, but he's an
economist and uh, it was from uh yesterday
he gave a a little bit of Consolidated,
uh economic issues and then uh One of
the couple of things that are really starting
to bother me, you know, uh this Venezuela

(02:56):
deal is driving me batty, I I just
Can't imagine that.
Oh, we're doing What it appears to be
that we're doing there and uh Contemplating regime
change as if it's our job to uh

(03:17):
force another country to change a regime I
All just for the us to do the
same thing they attempted to do in iraq
go in and take all the uh all
the resources, you know, I mean this this
is This is it it doesn't make it
better just because it's trump, let's let's let's

(03:39):
make that perfectly clear Um, i'm i'm pretty
grumpy about it.
There was an everest whiteout with a thousand
people uh stranded there was a Landslide in
dagestan that cut off a number of villages.
It's like the whole mountain collapsed and it
wasn't snow.
It was the Mountain itself, you know uh

(04:01):
francis Francis prime minister got offed again.
Well this guy he just quit and uh,
macron has convinced him to stay for uh,
Till wednesday, I think the guy agreed to
stay till tomorrow.
We got More problems there, uh ukraine, of
course has got plenty of issues.

(04:22):
Uh, moldova is a democratic Nightmare, but one
of the things I want to go back
to the un general assembly just a little
bit There's been a ton of fake news
out on youtube about the president Of burkina
fasa giving a speech there and I don't
understand it, but they were everywhere I mean

(04:45):
all over And talking about the president saying
the president of burkina fasa saying that they
weren't uh going to allow the west to
steal their gold or other resources anymore and
it's I mean, although he holds those Ideas

(05:05):
He wasn't even the one that spoke at
the un and so You know when I
saw the news clippings about it in a
number of different places I went out tried
to find it because burkina faso they used
to be french.
Um as the What do you call it
the main language in burkina faso?
But uh now They've they still use french,

(05:27):
but it's no longer one of the official
languages and they use for uh, You know
african languages over there, although they're quite multicultural
and they also speak english quite a bit
and so the the allegation was or the
the the news that there's been I mean
a bunch of people have you know copied

(05:47):
various parts of his speech and then like
they must have aided it to Have him
speaking in english, but I understand he does
speak english, but not very well his language
is french and then he speaks a bunch
of the uh, the local languages and it's
like I don't understand who or why is

(06:10):
creating these Lies online, but you know, I
just want people to be careful I try
to be pretty careful when I go out
and hunt down the news and try to
you know source it from other places, too
Uh, but jeez, I don't want it to
be so bad that I don't trust Trust
anything from anywhere.

(06:30):
I don't trust any of the mainstream ones,
but I still listen to them You know,
I just make sure to listen to them
from several different places You know, I still
I still follow a good amount of uh
of american news channels as well And so
at any rate uh jai shankar Uh gave
and we're gonna listen to a clip of

(06:51):
uh, jai shankar.
I I talk about him rather frequently And
there were two things one's only a four
minute clip and the other one's 11 and
I do plan to get to those uh
today because he is just he has a
great way of putting things and when you
see the commentaries afterward and one of them
is Month old or so.

(07:12):
The other one was last week at the
un general assembly where he spoke and I
think it's it's india I don't I I
think india has a a great approach and
and I think he sets off Because these
western and this one that was a month

(07:33):
or two ago Uh is a pretty good
example how western journalists attempted to beat up
on him And he's just like, you know,
uh, oh well, you know He put them
in their place.
Let's put it that way.
And so I like watching him I want
to follow his uh what he did at

(07:55):
the un just uh in the last few
days And then I you know, I want
to talk about a little bit about what's
going on in france and germany and uh,
you know, uh diplomacy versus uh, you know,
the uh forced diplomacy of america in uh,
Venezuela these days I suppose is where we're

(08:15):
going with that Rubio goes down tries to
get the guy to leave and give uh,
and give uh, all of the uh Oil
to american companies, you know, and and I
think I mean my belief is that that
is in part to put pressure on russia
Because if the u.s can, you know

(08:36):
put other pressures on the market then they
can force the uh, Uh the over supply
and then what russia has will be less
valuable allegedly And you know, there's there's a
lot of stuff going on um, and i'm
not so sure That trump and company Are

(08:57):
the good guys on the international stage?
Um, i've worried about us for a long
time and I I always worry about us.
It's just Uh frustrating to me on the
trump and venezuela, we'll get to that a
little bit later in the show, but what
I thought I would start with would be

(09:19):
the burkina faso the guy that You know
regardless of all the nonsense on the internet
right now being posted about this young.
Um, President Traore or however, you pronounce his
name.
He's he's pretty pretty impressive to watch and

(09:39):
to listen to if you get the correct
translations, but i'm I'm afraid of them, you
know, I take take most of that with
a little bit of grain of salt.
However most of the west You know, they
a lot of countries in africa have booted
out the french.
They're anti-colonialist and they've been trying to

(10:00):
Profit from their own resources what the u
.s is allegedly Seems to be attempting to
do in venezuela The people in africa have
been booting out the europeans over the last
few years and accepting russia india china to
come in and fund them or or help

(10:21):
back them or Trade with them without telling
them what they will do and without installing
a western company in a western, uh financial
system, so And burkina faso is no No
exception to that rule and what it looks

(10:42):
like is that there's kind of a reality
check going on in the world for the
west And I you know, yes, it has
to do with bricks countries.
It has to do with the global south
Definitely has to go with the countries of
the shanghai cooperation Organization has to do with
with russia india china that's turning into a

(11:05):
stronger and stronger uh block between the The
two.
Oh, um, I meant to say that I
and I missed this it's on my little
list here, uh to speak about Tomahawk missiles
as well.
I mean what kind of a nightmare is
that?
You don't know whether he authorized him or
not.

(11:25):
Well, i'm not sure what went on with
that It's it's like he seemed a little
confused on the stage today and yesterday when
talking about these issues Well, i'm really you
know, I think I I think I was
gonna give them to nato But I guess
we got to see where we're going with
those Something is screwy going on here.
You either gotta cut.

(11:45):
Yeah.
Well, don't get me started on that topic
I probably won't leave it but let's talk
about who from from burkina burkina fasa who
actually talked because what's been going on for
generations is the Gold For the from these
places which is one of their biggest assets
has been funneled to the west And now

(12:06):
they want to funnel it keep it themselves
keep it in africa or you know Sell
it as they see fit and they're doing
other things So who spoke at the u
.n. General assembly this year That the general
debate was prime minister rimtolba gene emmanuel odryego

(12:27):
Not president traore And so the viral clips
of traore everywhere on the u.n. Generally
general assembly stage Promising the west isn't going
to get any gold are just I don't
know what motivational remixes.
He does have that theme, but it sure
wasn't in the General assembly this year.

(12:51):
The policy is definitely real and they rewrote
their mining code in 2024 to expand their
own state stake and they asserted preemptive rights
and nationalized a bunch of Assets and they
said they were going to continue to do
so if there are going to be any
disputes Trading halts and company panics followed As

(13:16):
they want a more than 50 percent control
in their own Projects and what that means
it's not a blanket export ban, but resource
Nationalism with a great deal of teeth.
They're going to take a Higher state take
tighter controls and strategic equity.
So in plain English Burkina Faso is not

(13:37):
going to be controlled by the west anymore
But the meme goes way too far, you
know The substance is real most of the
capitals in the sahel are telling paris and
london, you know, no more No more colonialism.
We're we're we're out And so I think
that's important for people to know um this

(14:00):
Uh, why don't we jump into the trump
just because it's freaking driving me nuts That
uh, you know, washington has declared a non
-international armed conflict Now, what does that mean?
I mean you're here making up terms.
I mean there i've read several reports today

(14:23):
that say there's some sort of a top
secret document that says that uh, They can
go to war against these cartels because of
a threat to america and american security So
you can blow up a speedboat in the
middle of the ocean without any sort of

(14:46):
Let's say I mean imagine you're out in
your boat and on the uh, Lake of
the ozarks and all of a sudden somebody
has decided from washington That you're a drug
dealer Maybe you are a drug dealer.
I don't know Maybe you're a drug dealer
and you're you know headed to you know,
wherever drug dealers go with their boats on
the lake and the uh President decided he

(15:10):
was advised that hey, there's a drug dealer
out there cruising around.
He's a criminal therefore Military blow that a
-hole up.
He's not going to be a threat to
other people.
Why because I donald trump said so I
I You know Bad people exist and they
need to be brought to justice, but you

(15:32):
don't just go blow up a boat in
the middle of the ocean, you know, and
it's it's Not my idea justice just isn't
okay and uh, and nobody's You declare war
on a private individual you declare war on
venezuela.
How do you do that without?

(15:53):
The congress I I am not for this
in any stretch maybe someone can call and
encourage me to change my mind, but I
freaking doubt it and uh, Because it just
this this is a little bit of a
bridge too far for me And I and
I don't like it and I see Too
much of this stuff more and more.

(16:15):
I mean, there's four boats blown up.
Come on So you're labeling these operatives Unlawful
combatants and then so therefore you get a
carry out a lethal strike on an alleged
smuggling boat in the caribbean Not in venezuela
in the caribbean.
No trial.

(16:35):
No civilian venezuelan death Reported or i'm sorry
and civilian venezuelan death reported by regional leaders
He now has cut off diplomatic ties diplomatic
outreach as of today allegedly And is weighing
making strikes inside of venezuela Now what are

(16:57):
we complaining about vladimir putin for then Let
the guy do what he wants I mean
if we're gonna go blow up stuff in
iran, which you know, trump did that's no
problem.
Netanyahu wants it.
Well Go ahead have fun, you know, you
want to do it yourself in uh, uh

(17:17):
venezuela Oh, geez, you know, go ahead.
Sure.
We can justify that That's that's perfectly legal,
but it's not okay If your name is
vladimir vladimirovich putin I don't Once again rules
for thee but not for me and uh,
definitely no rules for uh, israel zero A

(17:39):
war powers act.
It's a dodge.
There's a supposedly a Some sort of authority
to Sidestep lawmakers are demanding a war power
vote, you know and targeted killing as a
policy.
This is not police police work at all

(18:02):
regime change publicly, it's cartels Practically it boxes
in maduro chokes oil flexibility for moscow's friends
And signals to opec that op washington wants
its leverage back.
How are they going to get it?
Start another war.
This is what we do.
What are the risks of this?

(18:23):
They're huge maritime Misidentification escalation on shore and
sanction spiral that pushes caracas further into bricks
plus states And and columbia's petro even called
for a criminal case over the killings So
it's not like The other side isn't saying

(18:43):
it, you know for me.
It's the same old playbook With a new
player new hashtags if you bomb first and
brief later, you're not fighting drugs You're auditioning
for another forever war and oil repricing you
know Calling cartels unlawful combatants Is it?

(19:05):
A necessity for our security.
I don't think so or is it?
a legal fig leaf You know, does this
help us families?
I don't think so unless those families are
on wall street you know those people who
you know that get to uh Move in
and take over oil If the u.s

(19:26):
does it again You know here we are
it's embarrassing to me these type of things
to to Once again, we're really not that
stupid, you know, I I assume people think
we are but Once again, it's all about
the oil and i'm i'm just i'm not

(19:47):
happy with this I am Distressed by it
and I don't like it.
So Let's go to a little bit about
Ukraine and tomahawks as long as we're on
the topic so tomahawks storm shadows Taurus missiles

(20:09):
ukraine now allegedly they've been trying to manufacture
some Inside of ukraine.
There's been a big effort lately to uh,
have Ukraine Manufacture its own weapons inside of
ukraine and russia's been bombing the crap out
of alleged factories once they find out Where

(20:31):
the factory is who's getting them?
There was a big report from I want
to say the uh, wall street journal today
that corruption is still extremely alive and well
in um ukraine especially in the military industrial
Complex if you can call it that that
they're overpaying for everything Massively, you know way

(20:54):
overpaying and a few individuals are getting rich,
but they don't have to produce anything Because
it's always getting blown up.
So Put a put a fake factory up
there wait for russia to blow it up
pocket the money and move on That appears
to be what's happening more than anything else.
So what's the u.s?

(21:15):
You know, what's the old trump meister doing?
He's gonna go out and uh say well
i'm considering these tomahawks I think I might
have approved them, but you know, I really
don't know I have to go see I
may have sold them to nato and nato
might give them to ukraine friends and neighbors
ukraine cannot target these weapons without u s

(21:39):
Intelligence just like they can't target the storm
shadow Or the tourists without britain.
There's one other one.
I forget the name of it But well
the whatever the equivalent is from france england
and germany They must have the targeting data
and the people To target it the intelligence

(22:00):
that comes in that is why russia keeps
saying This is an escalation beyond What what
there is so far and It means that
we you know We always say that this
is a war against nato anyway, because basically
we're fighting the whole of nato Nobody even

(22:21):
hides it anymore and everything that they talk
about is funding Funding nato germany today ray
was raising their uh get this their retirement
age Their retirement age they're gonna have to
raise to 73 The germans are gonna have
to tighten their belts because we got to
give billions and billions to ukraine I don't

(22:43):
know how much longer the germans are going
to put up with it, especially when if
you're ukrainian You can come over at age
25 And get all this free state money
just by coming over because you're a refugee
and all this social Social stuff, but you
can't retire by god until you're 73 If
you're a german and worked your whole life

(23:04):
in germany, but jeez if you're a ukrainian
Just wander on over figure out how to
get here and we'll give you a a
free Free quarters living wage way to you
know, pay all your bills And you know,
hey if you if you if it only
lasts for three four months just move over
to austria Austria will give you three four
months then you move over to england England

(23:25):
will throw you a bone for a while
go to france They'll do the same.
All you got to do is hop all
around europe as a refugee Go to poland
go anywhere and they will all provide you
money if you are a refugee from ukraine
Poland had a deal the uh, a couple
of weeks ago that they were saying they
were going to start a recruiting station for

(23:47):
young Uh, well, not young because the young
ones aren't being picked up in ukraine.
They are uh opening them Recruiting stations in
poland for young for ukrainian men To be
mobilized And now they're going to start picking
them up in poland, too unbelievable um I

(24:09):
don't know but all the ukraine's uh, uh,
it is not adding up.
There's uh, they want to take strikes deep
into russia russia's bombing the crap out of
all their uh, all of ukraine's uh Energy
supply and uh anything gas, uh Of gas,

(24:33):
um points, you know where they process gas
and deliver gas to the public it's going
to be a bad winter for them over
there and they Are taken out.
Um Airfields, they're taking out water.
They're taking out everything and uh, Well, and

(24:53):
they claim that and it's true, too because
russia bombed the hell out of harkiv today
because harkiv is across the border from uh,
belgrade and uh, they Kiev did the same
thing So they're sending over all these places
to bomb the crap out of belgrade because
they can reach it from there That's what

(25:14):
they want to do with all these long
-range missiles They want to bombard russia and
their air defense with drones just like russia
does to ukraine And then send in the
bigger guns of these missiles and blow up
russia's ability for oil if donald trump does
this He's doing it to get he's going

(25:36):
to allow ukraine and with us targeting to
go and blow up russian oil refineries and
russian Processing or pipeline points where this is
Provided and delivered so that he can cut
the supply India and china won't quit buying.

(25:57):
Well fine.
We'll blow up the uh, the points is
what it appears He's thinking by this Missile
nonsense, which is exactly what nato's wants and
nato wants all these idiots in nato This
is what they want.
They want to pay triple for gas and
then they can sanctions aren't working So and

(26:20):
and they're paying double for their own gas,
you know They're paying hell of a lot
higher to get it from the u.s
Than they ever would have been from russia
And so they now With with and they're
trying to talk the old trumpster into it
and hell they might have done it by
now This is the indications that he's given
out And this is dangerous, this is extremely

(26:43):
dangerous and our president is also involved Remember
i'm generally a trump Backer, you know, he's
hell of a lot better than the alternative
that we've had for four years you know
a hell of a lot better, but uh,
you know There's a few things Well mostly
on the international level that I just disagree

(27:05):
with I don't think on the world stage
We're playing well with others, but ukraine their
their math doesn't add up their own domestic
Production was damaged in poltova and lvov kiv
has to import gas this winter and where
are they gonna get it?
Where are they gonna get it?
Realistically, that means 10 by u.s. Liquid

(27:26):
natural gas via poland and 90 They're gonna
have to get from where?
Slovakia and hungary The same russian gas laundered
through slovakia and hungary and priced up Europe
foots the bill tells their voters the opposite
tells voters.

(27:47):
We're just getting rid of russian gas.
We're not going to use it And so
these you know There there's there's uh news
about mega deal fantasies over the winter like
kiev is saying There's a 90 billion dollar
us new arms package And they're boasting that
they're going to get more patriots and mirages

(28:09):
um meanwhile the uh europe's annual ukraine, you
know bern Berlin alone is saying they got
it that they're going to give nine billion
to ukraine this year Ukraine is ukraine can't
afford anything.
They can't afford their own salary There's a
lot of people getting a lot of rich,

(28:29):
you know a lot of rich and they're
getting it from handouts um You know, there's
ukrainian fighters who made attacks on civilians and
you know foreign mercenaries that were picked up
And surrendered into russia Some of them are
being charged in uh, uh put in prison

(28:52):
Um, oh, yeah, and there was big news
on the stolen children that allegedly the stolen
children once again Uh, this was from maria
zakharova today Uh, or well, i'm sorry this
last uh speech of hers that once again
the stolen children script has been rolled out
in Kiev has now admitted that it doesn't

(29:14):
have the list The very list it says,
you know, there's 20 000 kids that were
stolen.
It doesn't have the list and they uh,
they um You know, there are some documented
family reunifications about 300 But there's nowhere near
20 000, right?

(29:35):
And uh the un in the un this
this was was the one of the big,
um, what do you call it?
um Memes that came out just uh from
the un general assembly And they wanted a
kiv friendly tv Um kiv not kid if
I said kid I didn't mean to but

(29:56):
uh kiv Friendly ukraine friendly They were splicing
in crowds to mask half empty halls Nobody
cares anymore.
They're they're tired of ukraine at the un2
and so, you know, it's uh It's just
the pattern is getting pretty simple.

(30:16):
The pr is always maxed in favor of
ukraine The supply lines, however are quite strained
and they're gonna have to Uh do something
over the winter.
What are they gonna do european elites can
admit that their gas is russian Which it
is if it comes through hungary or slovakia

(30:40):
Or keep paying a premium to the us
and pretend.
It's not one either way The households are
paying twice as much as they would for
gas And so it's just if it's the
same gas should european taxpayers subsidized clown show
I mean what this is nonsense and where's

(31:01):
the ethical line between uh sanctions, what do
you call it?
cancellation of people or virtue signaling about sanctions
And energy security and I think it's it's
very important at this point Is is to
where we go into jai shankar in his

(31:22):
speech specifically on this topic and I wish
that our politicians here would Speak like this
guy speaks.
Okay, you don't have to agree with him.
You know, I don't really give a rip
You know, I don't agree with everything he
says But uh, he's pretty he's pretty solid

(31:44):
with some of the things he says And
so first i'm gonna play this I believe
it's an 11 minute piece and this one
was actually What was the time frame on
this?
Um blah blah blah blah July yeah, it
was a couple of months ago.

(32:05):
July the 23rd and uh he was appearing
at a a Press conference with a lot
of A lot of people these are several
different tracks combined together because first He they
were trying to beat up on him with

(32:26):
a western journalist who gets to talk about
how he's not He's not Uh, well he's
he's not I don't know defending ukraine.
He's not condemning russia like he should be
and and they're you know Basically yelling at
him, you know, it's like how can you
possibly say that?

(32:47):
You know that you can do this and
jai shankar just sits there with his hands
folded, you know and says well first of
all well, i'll let you listen to him
because it's if you haven't listened to him
in the past you really ought to because
he's uh, he's uh quite bright and it
would be very nice if some of our

(33:08):
Politicians said similar things So here we go
Um, how do you think you'll be trusted
by others after that?
Why do you think anyone will help?
delhi After you didn't help others over ukraine.
Thank you First I would urge you to
get the factual position accurately that I come
in in one conflict Because it will help

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me in conflict too.
That's not how the world works.
Where does india fit into this picture?
Are you planning to not?
No, i'm sorry.
That is exactly where I disagree with you
This is this is the construct you are
trying to impose on me and I don't
accept it You cannot also sit on the
fence.
I look I don't think we're sitting on
the fence just because I don't agree with
you Doesn't make me sitting on the fence.

(33:51):
It means i'm sitting on my ground uh,
dr josh and car, um with the the
indian government essentially ignoring Uh war crimes in
ukraine not condemning russia not doing sanctions um
question you then expect i'm totally sorry, I
know what I do, uh with uh, the
with india counting on global support for uh

(34:15):
in its struggle with china its issues with
china Um, how do you think you'll be
trusted by others after that?
Why do you think anyone will help?
delhi After you didn't help others over ukraine.
Thank you You know, it's a interesting question
which you might I mean not you meaning
you personally uh, but uh people might want

(34:39):
to ask themselves because If I were to
take europe collectively, which has been singularly silent
on many things which were happening For example
in asia, you could ask why would anybody
in asia trust europe on anything at all?
Uh, so here's the take uh, I I
don't think uh I mean first of all
I think you're mischaracterizing our position Uh where

(35:04):
we've where they have for example when butcher
happened we condemned butcher And we actually asked
for an investigation uh into butcher in terms
of What is happening with the ukraine conflict
our position is very clearly that we favor
uh An immediate cessation of hostilities.
It's not that we've ignored it unless you

(35:26):
call Phone calls to putin and zelensky as
ignoring something Uh, so first I would urge
you to get the factual position accurately secondly
in terms of the connection you're making look
You know, we we have a difficult relationship
with china We're perfectly capable of managing it

(35:50):
it's uh If if I get global Uh
understanding and support obviously it is of help
to me But this idea that I do
a transaction That I come in in one
conflict because it will help me in conflict
too.
That's not how the world works uh, so
A lot of our problems in china have

(36:12):
nothing to do with ukraine have nothing to
do with russia.
They predate it And there are I mean
if we are getting into who is silent
on what issue at what point of time?
I could point to a whole lot of
issues on which as I said, I mean
europe has sort of Held its peace so
I mean, it's it's a great Polemical point

(36:35):
you made So I take it in that
spirit I think as a follow-up to
that a lot of uh, the noises i've
been hearing both in the united states and
here in europe is on a similar train
that You have a problem with china, uh
on the in the border on the border
it's been going on for Decades now it

(36:55):
is getting worse What position does that leave
you in when it comes to seeking support
if further incursions are done further?
skirmishes happen at the border or within the
border to kind of echo what's happening in
ukraine in terms of Sovereignty issues that are
being raised.
Um, so I'm sorry.
Do you mind if I interrupt?
Please do but I want I want to
come back to a question.

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Um The the crux of the question which
I asked a few people in um, uh
in the political circles in the financial circles
What's your big question?
And one of the foremost geopolitical strategists on
wall street sent me this question for you
And the question is simple if and when
the choice comes down to it Not today
not tomorrow, but in the future and she
strongly believes it will for india Will it

(37:39):
become in terms of support the us or
china?
And that will be kind of a defining
moment that comes out of the situation that
we face with russia right now look, uh
Uh, number one, uh, the you know why
I wanted to uh interrupt you in a
way I mean i'm partly reacting to the

(38:02):
previous observation You know somewhere europe has to
grow out of the mindset That europe's problems
are the world's problems But the world's problems
are not europe's problems That it's if it
is you it's yours.
It is me.
It's ours I think that's something And I

(38:23):
see, you know reflections of that uh Again
in terms of you know, you there is
a linkage today, which is being made You
know a linkage between china and india and
what's happening in ukraine So come on guys,
I mean china and india happened way before
anything happened in ukraine so the chinese don't

(38:44):
need a precedent somewhere else in the world
on how to You know engage us or
not engage us or be difficult with us
or not be difficult with us So I
I as I said, I mean, I just
see this as frankly a not very clever
argument a very self-serving one and uh
this idea that you know Your grand strategy

(39:07):
must be about how you will choose I
will do what as all of us do
I will weigh the situation, you know, like
Everybody after what do how do countries eventually
make decisions?
There will always be two axes at this
point I think it's an it's an understood
accepted fact that you have the west u

(39:28):
.s led you have china as the next
Potential axis, where does india fit into this?
Are you planning to not no?
I'm, sorry, that is exactly where I disagree
with you This is this is the construct
you are trying to impose on me and
I don't accept it Is becoming a key
point for a transshipment of russian oil to
bypass, uh sanctions.
How does that serve india's foreign policy interests?

(39:52):
I don't know Does whoever wrote that knows
what transshipment means?
Well, I mean transshipment is when you get
it no when you get it and you
sell it to somebody else I I've not
even heard of anybody in india Thinking along
those lines So yes, we do by saying
the wall street journal report is inaccurate that

(40:14):
they're quoting.
Uh, Politely.
Yes.
Okay So I can say it less politely,
but I'm not a conduit to any russian
oil transactions.
No not I mean listen Please understand the
oil markets.
There's an enormous shortage of oil There's a
physical shortage of oil getting access to oil
is difficult.
I mean A country like india would be

(40:36):
crazy to get oil from somebody and sell
it to somebody else.
I mean, this is nonsense what will or
what is india's position on the world stage
because if you Want to talk about one
-fifth of the world's population You cannot also
sit on the fence when it comes to
foreign policy matters uh, non-alignment isn't Plausible

(40:57):
if you want to take your position on
the world stage What does it look like
with three years of your government left approximately?
Um, and what's up this time?
Oh, oh two years actually two years Thank
you for the correction or even in the
next decade or so.
What is india's position?
Sitting on the fence is not an option
to be a world leader I look I
don't think we're sitting on the fence just

(41:18):
because I don't agree with you Doesn't make
me sitting on the fence.
It means i'm sitting on my ground and
my ground is actually You know, if what
are the big challenges of the world, okay
big challenges of the world are climate change
I think i'm very critical to the solution.
I can be an exemplar.
I can be Actually an arena for an

(41:41):
enormous leapfrogging of green technologies Look at terrorism
Look at the emergence of a world order
uh Look at security Look at sustainable development
goals.
I mean you take any And all of
the big challenges of the world some part
of the answer either comes out of india

(42:03):
can be contributed to india and again, I
I I hate to say, you know come
it's a bit like a broken record, but
Look, a lot of things are happening outside
uh europe uh, we have Partly because of
climate change for a lot of humanitarian natural
disasters humanitarian responses in our part of the

(42:24):
world today uh A lot of people look
to us to help out The days when
they expected europe to come which europe did
at the 2004 tsunami the difference today is
nobody's even Thinking of that anymore So the
world is changing new players are coming new
capabilities are coming but a new agenda must

(42:46):
come The world cannot be that eurocentric as
it used to be in the past and
who will india Play with will it be
europe and the us or will it be
china and russia?
Look, they're not exclusion.
They're not exclusionary, but we are a democracy
We are a market economy.
We are a pluralistic society we have laws

(43:08):
and contracts we Have positions on international law
So I think that should give you a
fair part of the answer after all you
began the question with reference to the quad
I mean, even though we didn't get much
time to talk about it, but the fact
that you have Today a grouping like the

(43:29):
quad We just had its summit in tokyo
where very important decisions were made on connectivity
on telecommunications on supply chains on cyber security
on in fact on maritime domain awareness It
should tell you something which direction we're going.
So again, I urge you that don't use

(43:52):
necessarily a caricature version of one situation as
a yardstick to pass a sweeping judgment because
even on ukraine Do do reflect on this
point somewhere at some point surely the conflict
has to end Somebody will have to you
know a set of people It cannot be

(44:14):
a single country probably not we'll have to
engage the players.
It is our collective interest To find some
kind of resolution Unless you're throwing up your
hands and say this is not fixable So
at that point, I I think people will
need us It says a diplomat a career
diplomat turned politician Than diplomacy and keep going

(44:36):
with it.
Thank you very much minister for joining us
and thank you all for so I like
listening to that guy and he Basically is
saying I mean and he was pretty clear
about it, you know quit Quit turning everything
into europe, you know, you ignore us basically
and he wasn't very harsh about it You
know, he was uh, he was pretty decent

(44:59):
about it, you know, um He was a
little rude to the first guy, but the
first guy was a Dork anyway, you know
Can't believe you know, you're you're you're not
condemning russia.
You're buying their oil.
Well, they're still buying their oil and uh,
I believe that they are Passing it through
to other players as well, but he is

(45:20):
absolutely right that the large bulk of it
is being used in india And you know,
he's been pretty vocal about this over the
entire three and a half year plus Conflict
that india is going to do What's in
its best interests?

(45:41):
And he also talked about the quad.
So the quad is is the u.s
india japan and australia that is the quad
and he was talking about them and how
they are a strong regional player well so
is Uh, the shanghai cooperation organization that india

(46:02):
is an integral part of with china with
russia with kazakhstan with many of those countries
in the Southeast of asia and there are
big players in there too, and they're not
just going to Bend over he was saying
we're not going to play How do you

(46:23):
like that the arrogance of the question that
we have to is That somehow there's going
to be two axes, right?
There's going to be a china and russia
and a u.s and europe That this
is you know, sorry.
This is what it is We have we've

(46:44):
created the bad guys versus the good guys
and there must be conflict India is opting
out And saying no, we don't want conflict
with any of you Why can we not?
Work on this side with you know When
here it's profitable for us to work together
and over here It's profitable to work with

(47:06):
you or or somebody else or a different
player And I think it's important.
I wanted to get to his more recent
uh Discussion which came out.
Um At the un Where are we on
this?
Uh, let's see, I want to make and
this one's only five minutes long, it's not

(47:27):
very long and uh, so Let's see and
he he uh Well, this is this is
this just passed, you know, eight ten days
ago.
Not very long ago Uh, here we go
excellencies friends Uh, thank you all for joining

(47:50):
us, uh this afternoon uh We meet in
increasingly uncertain times When the state of the
world is a cause for mounting concern for
member states The global south in particular Is
confronted with a set of challenges which have

(48:10):
heightened in the first half of this decade
They include the shocks of the covid pandemic
two major conflicts in ukraine and gaza extreme
climate events volatility in trade uncertainty in investment
flows and interest rates And the catastrophic slowing

(48:34):
down of the sdg agenda Most of all
the rights and expectations of developing countries in
the international system Which has been so assiduously
developed over many many decades are today under
challenge In face of such proliferation of concerns

(48:55):
and multiplicity of risks It is natural that
the global south would turn to multilateralism for
solutions Unfortunately There too.
We are presented with a very disappointing prospect
The very concept of multilateralism is under attack
International organizations are being rendered ineffective or starved

(49:19):
of resources The building blocks of the contemporary
order are starting to come apart And the
costs of delaying much needed reforms Is today
starkly visible?
So as like-minded global south countries We
today approach world affairs united and through a

(49:43):
broad set of principles and concepts And these
include one Fair and transparent economic practices that
democratize production and enhance economic security a stable
environment for balanced and sustainable economic interactions including
more south-south trade investment and technology collaborations

(50:07):
Resilient reliable and shorter supply chains that would
reduce dependence on any single supplier or on
any single market An urgent resolution of conflicts
that are impacting food fertilizer and energy security
the protection of global commons including addressing maritime

(50:30):
shipping concerns HADR situations environmental challenges, etc A
collaborative leveraging of technology for development, especially the
creation of a digital public infrastructure and a
fair and level playing field in different domains
that do justice to the development concerns of

(50:52):
the global south Excellencies friends To get you
get there India would propose the following points
for your collective consideration One we utilize existing
forums to strengthen consultations among global south with
a view to enhance solidarity and encourage collaboration
To bring to the table specific strengths experiences

(51:16):
and achievements that we may have individually developed
But which can actually benefit fellow global south
members Some good examples of these are vaccine
production digital capabilities education capacities agro practices and

(51:37):
SME culture Three in areas like climate action
and climate justice Come up with initiatives that
serve the global south rather than justify the
global north for discuss the promise of technologies
on the horizon, especially AI and five Reform

(51:59):
the United Nations and multilateralism as a whole
So with those thoughts I look forward to
hearing from you all and once again I
really thank you.
I think all of us know what a
busy time this is that we move from
meeting to meeting and I think Any time

(52:21):
which any of us commit is a is
a statement in itself So again, I want
to say how pleased I am to see
you all this evening So basically he is
saying well you heard it saying, you know
quit quit using any any Attempt to work

(52:44):
with us to justify your own things that
are going on in the north Did you
get that part about the limited supply chains
and the much shorter supply chains?
remember when I gave several weeks ago now
a Look at the infrastructure projects that are
going on internationally by the way between huge

(53:08):
players remember India signed a 10-year contract
to run a port in Iran for them
and That port, you know is part of
The north-south transport corridor that they're creating
over there and what they are doing is

(53:30):
Changing the face of Asia and the global
south the most populous area on the planet
You know India 1.48 billion China 1
.42 or something like that.
It's not far behind and Growing and All

(53:53):
of those areas are growing Quickly quickly quickly
to think that we're gonna continue to control
countries like India I Mean last week when
we were talking about Trump's new idea to
charge him this hundred thousand dollars How much
you want to bet that wasn't all about

(54:13):
immigration that it was more about Russian oil
How much you want to bet that?
I'd almost guarantee it, you know, what else
would it be for?
Telling an Indian they're gonna have to pay
because And they've been doing it forever They
have they have ten times more engineers than

(54:35):
we have their education systems are pumping out
more and I Don't know.
I like I like listening to this guy
There was another one that I thought about
but I think this one Is a little
bit too long.
Let me see.
I don't want to play it just yet

(54:56):
Let's get how long this one goes yeah,
it's only 13 minutes and It's the same
thing with Jaishankar and I think who else
is on there This one came up one
day ago So, I don't know maybe I

(55:17):
won't play it it's It's got there's but
if it's the same topics about how they're
there they keep talking about Adjusting how the
international order deals with the global south They
cannot the the structure never changes in the

(55:39):
UN it's always Tilted to Europe United States
and You know and The rules don't apply
to us, you know, we can go invade
via Venezuela if we feel like it, right?
Who's gonna stop us right who's gonna complain
about it?
Who except Venezuela, you know, they're gonna they'll

(56:01):
complain about it.
But who else is gonna right?
I Don't know.
I just don't know there's Let's see, I
want to get to a little bit about
The poor people that Got snowed in on

(56:22):
Everest Jesus that would that would suck wouldn't
it you go there and the horrible weather
change?
They said it was very quick moving in
a weather change that just all of a
sudden there's all kind There's more than a
thousand people stranded up there And then they
started talking about who they're gonna charge For
the rescue efforts to go and rescue all

(56:42):
these people who climb up they should each
have to pay for being rescued, right?
Who I think it's gonna be a nightmare.
I bet there's gonna be a lot more
frozen bodies up there you ever seen those
things on YouTube where they Jesus it's terrible
where they go through and see all the
people that have died up there frozen.

(57:03):
They can't really Drag their bodies down that
that has happened That's that's definitely unfortunate Let's
see.
We already talked about Moldova at length So,
what do we have going on in street
politics Georgia has lots of Western funded Western

(57:31):
funded Street violence, you know Once again, they're
to there have been four coups attempted there
in in the last Year and a half
they said Isn't that crazy?
Let's see Money diplomacy and multi polarity Youth

(57:59):
and bricks three thousand teens from 67 countries
Adopted a children's peace declaration for submission to
the UN they call it horizontal diplomacy and
That that was an interesting story, but I

(58:19):
think we're gonna Go back out of Those
topics I just want to review one more
time and make sure that I've covered everything
I wanted to cover before we get to
our News portion that we were going to

(58:44):
talk about here.
I wanted to talk about mr Kazin member
him the economist and What they are talking
about?
They're talking about Creating changing the Financial superstructures
and talked about how the 1913 fed syndicate

(59:07):
created a DNA for today's cross-border war
financing logic and so they're attempting to change
this the house profits because the Table is
rigged, you know, and it's it's I wish
I could go further into his But it
was a one-hour very interesting discussion about

(59:31):
what he But it's all economics that he
was talking about so it might not be
all that interesting to some other people and
Let's see, there were a couple of stories
that I wanted to cover as well Hang
on and let me get to them.

(59:52):
Oh, no Son of a nutcracker, I Closed
it out.
I have to go open it back up
again.
Give me just a second and we will
get there I apologize for that.
Technology's gotten me today Let's see here Where

(01:00:15):
are we?
Oops wrong one and Mm-hmm, what happened
there it is.
Oh Sorry about that there were some big

(01:00:39):
stories in France.
Okay, so we were talking about Macron and
his Prime Minister Guy named Edouard Philippe is
in Cologne encouraging Macron to resign He wants
him to call an early presidential election Due

(01:01:01):
to this.
I mean very deep political crisis.
I mean on Monday Sebastian Likourneau became the
fifth French Prime Minister to resign under Macron's
Leadership if you want to call it that
in two years and he stepped down Mere

(01:01:23):
hours after unveiling a new cabinet.
I saw something today that said he was
in his his cabinet was complete for all
of 14 hours and Now that he stepped
down Each of them will receive 10,000
euros apiece for three months and he will

(01:01:44):
receive 16 thousand euros a month for three
months and You know while they look for
other jobs, right It's quite quite the unemployment
package, huh?
since taking office in 2017 Macron has had
seven of his prime ministers resign including Edouard

(01:02:07):
Philippe in January 2020 John Castix in April
2022 Elizabeth Bourne January 2024 Gabriella tall July
of 2024 Michael Barnier December of 2024 Francois
Beyrou of September 2025 and then Likourneau this

(01:02:28):
week is the latest in its You know,
his resignation is a split in Parliament over
the government's efforts to pass a budget aimed
at curbing the nation's rising debt and The
guy says I'm not gonna be able to
force anybody to come to a budget So

(01:02:48):
I so I'm done and Macron should leave
after the budget is adopted and announce an
early Presidential election said Felipe to a French
radio station on Tuesday I'm not for an
immediate and brutal resignation, but the president must
take the initiative He described some of Macron's
choices for prime ministers Very curious and called

(01:03:10):
his decision to dissolve the National Assembly in
2024 Disastrous, you remember that the move was
prompted by his coalition defeat in European Parliament
elections And it was widely seen as a
gamble that backfired Produced a hung Parliament and
halted much the country's legislative work Felipe was

(01:03:32):
the longest-serving prime minister under Macron And
during his tenure he oversaw major labor and
tax reform managed controversial fuel tax That triggered
the yellow vest protests remember those and he
resigned in 2020 during Macron's pre-election reshuffle
and he founded his own center-right party

(01:03:55):
and officially declared his own candidacy for the
2027 presidential race if Macron is two steps
down France would be required to hold a
new presidential election in 2035 days a new
poll found that 86% of Those questioned

(01:04:19):
see the current situation as a sad spectacle
produced by the political class, which is not
up to the task and 51% believe
the president's departure would help to unblock political
impasse And you know something needs to happen,

(01:04:41):
you know it's Crazy crazy stuff.
Let's see the The German Elections.
Here we go a German mayor After he

(01:05:01):
was elected was stabbed and he was in
critical condition with multiple knife wounds Iris Stolzer
the newly elected mayor in a town of
North Rhine-Westphalia Germany was found with multiple
stab wounds and critical conditions No arrests have
been made a social Democrat and labor lawyer

(01:05:23):
who's 57 years old won last month's runoff
election with 52 percent of the vote and
Became the mayor of her decade.
She was found in her apartment with the
injuries and She was found by her 15
year old son Said she was attacked by
several men outside her home Dragged herself back

(01:05:44):
into the apartment Her 17 year old daughter
was in the apartment during the attack.
The outlet reported the boy was taken from
the scene in handcuffs wearing an evidence preserving
overall Investigators said this was to prevent evidence
from being covered up.
We fear for the life of the mayor
Blah blah blah and they don't know who

(01:06:05):
it is Dear Spiegel reported that there was
an alleged That there also had allegedly been
a case of domestic violence in the politician's
home earlier this year When the adopted daughter
used a knife against her so nobody knows
what's going on Lots of knife violence in

(01:06:26):
Germany Unbelievable nonsense there were a couple of
Opinions On the International Criminal Court members talking
about that the other day and Let us
get to that as well You heard me

(01:06:52):
talking about the president of Burkina Faso earlier
in the in the show here and Late
last month Mali Nigeria and Burkina Faso Announced
that they were going to withdraw from the
International Criminal Court people are really getting tired

(01:07:12):
of it and how how how weak it
is and So It's an interesting story and
under the United under the alliance of Sahil
states called the AES These three countries which
have distanced himself from the regional economic bloc

(01:07:33):
of eco Watts, which is another Western Africa
Have accused the ICC of serving as a
tool of foreign powers France and took a
step Another step in their quest for their
own sovereignty.
They're getting away from Europe since the creation
in 2002 the ICC has presented itself as

(01:07:55):
a universal judicial body Tasked with prosecuting war
crimes crimes against humanity and genocide yet behind
this noble political statement is a harsh reality
the majority of the courts high-profile cases
Actually involve African states the West acts as

(01:08:18):
judge, but never as the accused so one
of several examples in this case was a
Guy detained in the Hague for seven years
before being acquitted acquitted in 2019 or the
case of Omar al-bashir of Sudan who's
been under ICC arrest warrants since 2009 While

(01:08:41):
Western leaders responsible for what they call illegal
wars Such as George W Bush or Tony
Blair for the war in Iraq have never
even been investigated I mean you could talk
about a few others as well Western crimes
remain Untouched by the Hague court NATO's bombing
campaign in Libya Which caused thousands of civilian

(01:09:04):
deaths has never been seriously investigated the infamous
tortures of Abu Ghraib in Iraq exposed in
2004 with photographic evidence were never pursued in
2020 the ICC announced its intention to investigate
war crimes in Afghanistan including by US forces

(01:09:26):
in response Trump imposed economic sanctions and visa
bans on ICC judges and prosecutors including the
chief prosecutor these measures were seen as an
attempt to deter the investigation into the u
.s. And Ultimately the ICC scaled back the
scope of investigations practically admitting the difficulty of

(01:09:49):
holding Western powers accountable and The role of
Western powers, you know is great in Destabilizing
this area of Africa to understand why these
states believe they are right to withdraw from
the ICC Somebody has to go back to
the political divisions that destabilize the region one

(01:10:11):
of the turning points was the 2011 intervention
into Libya under the guise of protecting civilians
an Action that unleashed regional chaos in France
president Nicolas Sarkozy remember this spearheaded the push
for intervention in Libya and then secured a

(01:10:31):
UN security resolution Security Council resolution 1973 the
resolution authorized Quote all necessary measures to protect
civilians including the establishment of a no-fly
zone and arms embargo and explicitly prohibited any
foreign occupation of Libya Although framed as humanitarian

(01:10:56):
intervention the resolution enabled NATO military led operation
immediately went there and So, you know, here's
another group of people saying look these rules,
you know Never apply to you.
They only apply to us Sarkozy was recently

(01:11:17):
convicted in France for illegal campaign financing related
to his 2007 presidential campaign Including the alleged
support from Libya, but this conviction was unrelated
to his decisions regarding the military intervention in
Libya in UK Prime Minister David camp Cameron

(01:11:37):
Launched operation elemy providing military strikes in the
US President Obama authorized Operation Odyssey dawn handing
down over handing over command to NATO NATO
and finally NATO coordinated operation unified protector and
managed airstrikes in regime change Multiple reports and

(01:12:03):
parliamentary inquiries confirmed that this intervention is not
limited to civilian protection, but is regime change
which culminated in the killing of Muammar Gaddafi
the collapse of Libya opened the doors for
a flood of weapons militias jihadist groups across
the entire region and Directly fueled the instability

(01:12:26):
of Mali Niger and Burkina Faso that they
are facing today This area's war on terror
is especially tough for Mali and Niger according
to UN human watch rights over 10,000
civilians were killed between 2012 and 2022 in
the region in 2019 ICC prosecutor Announced investigation

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into crimes committed in Mali By Mali and
armed forces yet.
The court has shown little interest in investigating
international networks that facilitate the violence like arms
traffickers foreign sponsors Etc and the foreign sponsors

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are France the UK the US and NATO
including Sarkozy Comer and Obama and their military
allies So by withdrawing from the ICC what
Mali Niger and Burkina Faso are saying is
that no self-respecting?
state Can accept a tribunal in the Hague?

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Vulnerable only to the pressure of great powers
who decide who gets to be tried on
the territory I mean, it's just like the
same thing in America only on a much
larger scale If you got the right friends,
you don't ever have to worry about trouble
on your doorstep And well, if you're a

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westerner and you want to engage in regime
change hello, Donald Trump in Venezuela and Marco
Rubio in Venezuela Nonsense and nothing will ever
happen to them.
We might we might I might for sure
Well, I will you know for sure bitch
about it, but who what's gonna happen to

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them?
Nothing same old same old It's just business
as usual for us.
You know, that's that's how our So-called
leaders are supposed to act they're supposed to
act this way so they're proposing their own

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AES criminal court and Prosecute crimes in Africa
by Africans for Africans and of course such
a court you know is Gonna be a
little bit hard to input but the withdrawal
of Niger Mali and Burkina Faso from the
ICC You know critics argue that these states

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are shielding themselves from accountability But the truth
is they refuse to be ruled You know
judged by rules that they didn't design and
they choose to build their own Mechanisms.
I'm telling you a lot of these people
are going into Places like Structures like bricks

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is what's happening Let's see Where are we
gonna go after this?
I?
Had another opinion piece that I wanted to
show Yes The Tradition Against

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corruption and This has to do Again with
this is a commentary on Putin's speech by
somebody else in his recent Valdai speech President
Putin declared the age of a single-model
for everyone has entered and Nations now more

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themselves in their own traditions and draw strength
from culture faith in history across the globe
Ancestral values are reawakening as globalism and cultural
Imperialism are fading the world is witnessing witnessing
a rising concert of sovereign civilizations Putin spoke

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with I can't talk with clarity about the
condition of the world He said that there's
no shared agreement on how the international order
would be structured mankind is long Been searching
for something new and the path forward is
going to be marked with trial and error
Turbulence and storms there are no blueprints.

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No authority dictates what the outcome is going
to be but amid the chaos he said
Nations must hold on to anchors They cannot
drift in instability true anchors lies in their
own culture in the ethical and religious Values
that they have developed over the centuries in

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their own geography in the space they inhabit
these forms of identity Provide a sort of
compass they provide foundations on which nations can
build a steady life Traditions are the heart
of the compass Each tradition is unique shaped

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by its own history respect for these traditions
Putin said is the first law of order
among people and Attempts to force a single
model upon the world has always failed Putin's
message is still a Multipolar message just like
Xi Jinping's just like Jaishankar's just like an

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Narendra Modi's each People must return to its
own Foundations and draw strength from within I
heard an interesting report the the other day
that said that the reason America Has issues
in finding its identity Is Because we come

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from so many That were you know, we're
the melting pot, right?
And so ours is more difficult to find
now You don't think about that like I
don't think about that I think we you
know, you know baseball apple pie hot dogs,
you know But is that really our identity

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or is that you know something from TV
in the 70s?
I don't know And so about Putin gave
a clear indication of renewal of this trip
these traditions in Russia he told of young
women who now come out go out in
clubs and bars and seraphim's and Kokoshniki headdresses

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the dress of their ancestors and this is
no costume gimmick it's a demonstrates that Western
attempts to corrupt Russian society have failed and
The same current flows across the globe in
China The hanfu movement is gathering pace young
people proudly wearing robes of dynasties past on

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city streets and in public festivals in Latin
America indigenous cultures experiencing a resurgence of growth
I Forget how you say it Kate you
are in Peru is taught again through bilingual
schools and is broadcast on radio and television
Indigenous music art and symbols are making a

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comeback across Africa Drumming and ritual once pushed
into shadows during colonial rule are brought again
into the light UNESCO now recognizes traditions such
as the royal drummers of Burundi and Senegal's
a bar drumming is treasures of mankind symbols
of a continent Reclaiming its own ancestral voice.

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These are not just Curiosities they show tradition
is alive everywhere a force that is resisting
the steamroller of Globalism and restoring dignity to
people once told to forget their roots the
United States under Donald Trump We see the
same impulse a turn from empty liberal dogma

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toward roots identity and history the 1776 Commission
born reborn.
I'm sorry under his leadership is restoring patriotic
education and reclaiming the narrative of America's foundation
from distorted ideology Trump is issuing executive orders

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to reshape how national symbols monuments and museums
present history demanding that they not inappropriately disparage
past Americans or betray the founding spirit He's
re elevating faith and national symbols insisting on
sovereign national narrative framing a culture war as

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one between people and the elite who would
rewrite the memory of our predecessors It's a
return in a pride in heritage reclaiming stories
once handed over to the liberal scholars and
And well to destroy and the reassertion of

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a nation which must grow from its past
Not abandon it, you know those of us
who know better have said so for a
good long time Traditionalists also exist inside of
Western Europe.
They're not enemies of their own society rather
They are an enslaved class within the society
the elite suffocate them Use diversity as propaganda

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Preach false morality to demand that they accept
being displaced by foreigners in their own land
for these Traditionalists Putin's words carry power they
hear in them a message of hope That
their struggle is part of a wider revolt
and they are not alone They will join

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hands with others across the world who defend
tradition against the machine of globalism and uniformity
at the heart of this new world stands
people like Trump people like Modi people like
Jaishankar and people like Vladimir Putin and Russia

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Russia is more than a state.
It's a kind of an ideological center.
It offers not a single doctrine Putin called
it his political polyphony in This concert of
nations each voice is distinct and is rooted
in its own Tradition will we as the

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United States take part in this chorus?
That remains an open question But Putin has
extended a hand It's a hand stretched towards
Trump towards those in America that resist the
liberal establishment towards the West as a whole

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and the concept text sharpens another truth woke
ism born in America Is already exhausted it
is burning itself out In its own birthplace
its slogans sound increasingly meaningless even to its
former believers Alongside it globalism is fading its

(01:23:57):
claims of universality are exposed as fraud But
Europe remains trapped Europe has become a fortress
of insanity and racism it cloaks itself and
talk of equality while imposing Anti-values with
arrogance it insists on exporting LGBTQ ideology transgender

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experiment and climate hysteria These are the banners
Behind them lies contempt for others.
This is the new liberal form of white
supremacism The choice for Europe is clear.
It can continue down the road of arrogance

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Pointlessly trying to push its liberal creed upon
the world while collapsing and utter irrelevance or
It can accept a new role it can
rejoin the concert of civilization Not as a
master of it, but an equal it can
trade supremacism for dignity dogma for heritage contempt

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for respect history has no mercy But it
does offer renewal Europe has to change with
the times or sink into emptiness The storms
will be strong ahead yet with firm roots
civilization civilizations endure That was written by a

(01:25:32):
guy named Konstantin von Hofmeister He's a political
and cultural commentator from germany and he wrote
the book multipolarity and esoteric Trumpism could be
interesting to read either of those books, but

(01:25:54):
so far I have not politico says This
is this is troubling Makes me happy.
I don't have an Apple, but I but
I wonder if my Android is in the
same same boat Siri has been accused of
eavesdropping on its users French prosecutors have opened

(01:26:18):
a criminal probe into the u.s. Tech
giant they over Voice assistant serious collecting and
analyzing users recordings without consent The probe has
been entrusted to France's cybercrime agency.
Oh, yeah, it'll be great Sure, they're I'm
sure they're capable.

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Yeah The investigation follows a complaint filed in
February by a French NGO based on testimony
from whistleblower Thomas lebaniac a former employee of
Apple who says Subcontractor actually who says he's
listened to thousands of Siri recordings as part
of quality control work since 2019 He reportedly

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worked for girl But technical services in Ireland
where he reviewed and annotated audio clips to
help improve series Accuracy, he told political that
material sometimes revealed intimate moments and confidential information
The whistleblower has welcomed the probe saying it

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should allow urgent questions to be answered an
Apple representative in France told politico the company
Never used Siri data to create marketing profiles
never made it available for Advertising and never
sold it to anyone for any reason whatsoever

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That doesn't mean it didn't collect it does
it Apple told Reuters that is Titan series
privacy control since 2019 and again this Year
company said conversations with Siri Were never shared
with marketers or sold okay in January the
company stressed it would not keep Audio recordings

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of interactions with Siri with Siri unless the
user agreed Apple has faced similar class-action
lawsuits in the u.s. Where its voice
assistant has been accused of recording private conversations
Reviewed by third-party contractors as part of
quality control same case it means Earlier this

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year Apple agreed to a 95 million dollar
settlement which a federal judge approved last month
The deal provides payouts of up to a
whole $20 per Siri enabled device for users
who owned Apple products between 2014 and 2024

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Apple has also been ordered to delete older
Siri recordings within six months older Why wouldn't
it be then all of them?
hmm Crazy sauce no matter how you slice
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