Arestovich Shreds Ukraine’s Illusions: ICJ Bombshells, BRICS Reality, and Western Hypocrisy as Kyiv’s War Effort Collapses

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Got topics today and you know
There's been some some interesting news coming out for example
Zelensky must hold some elections according to Trump
Trump says that Zelensky has to start accepting the peace proposals. That's another

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Road that he's taking and and number three he has to I
Don't know what actually read the peace proposal
Did you see him Trump's out on the tarmac and his wife is with him and he's heard no
I think they were still in a room before they went out on the tarmac, and he said look this guy hasn't even read the peace

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proposal
Now you realize and I'm gonna talk a little bit more about that because I've been what I you know what I like to do
I like to go and get the opposing
side and then
Regurgitate it to you because I'm listening to it in Russian, and I didn't listen to Solovey old last night
I listened to two major things one Erastovic

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Alexei Erastovic and to Maria Zakharova now Alexei Erastovic is a former
Advisor to Zelensky who was you know?
Thrown away basically by Zelensky couple three years ago as an advisor and all that and and then
Zakharova is the

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Foreign Ministry spokesperson
works for Sergei Lavrov and
The foreign minister, and she always gives a briefing and she gave this briefing came out on Friday
So it's three four days old, but I finally got a chance to listen to it all and it's it's pretty good stuff
So we're gonna go from that point of view when they were talking about their point of view about a lot of these things well

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The Alexei Erastovic deal is like an hour and a half long and that that gives us some good counter
Ammunition to what the US provides or what we provide in the West although. I must admit. We're getting a lot better about it and
But Europe is still in a dreamland

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Somewhere so with that you know I want to start following the money because it really pissed me off
When they let out over the last couple of days the newly proposed US support package
So let's begin with a number
800 million dollars
This is the newly proposed support package for Ukraine in 2026 in 2027

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400 million each year not 800 million for American infrastructure nothing for veterans farmers border security
Nope nope nope 800 million neatly into a ledger the already
drowning in red ink and corruption
You know
directed to a conflict Washington the Pentagon the State Department

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Rubio
Trump
everybody knows
Cannot be won this war cannot be won by the West
It will not be won by the West and while they sign the check with one hand
They wring their hands with the other one, and they're telling us. Oh, we just have to continue to support Ukraine why?

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because a political class
Can't fix
You know
Anything else, but they think it can guard global freedom
They don't give us any infrastructure all these big power dudes. We get nothing. We don't have any high-speed rail
We don't have any new bridges. What do we get we get what we all G?

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We got to support Ukraine poor bloody Amir
Volodymyr's changed his name. He's no longer Vladimir's Volodymyr because that's how you say it in Ukraine people in the real world
Not the think-tank idiots are looking at their bills and going what in the world are we doing paying for this geopolitical fantasy?
The government keeps spending because this isn't about victory in Ukraine. It's about preserving the illusion

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of Western dominance Western control Western profits that flow through the
military industrial complex war machine every dollar in the 800 million is of one more admission that the West can't
Exit gracefully from all the wars it creates it cannot admit defeat
It cannot admit that it lied cannot admit that it marched Ukraine into a war it could never win all while

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Pretending this is some noble
Democracy crusade, but numbers do not lie the battlefield doesn't lie
You know let's talk about this 800 million bucks and be brutally honest about it. Is it gonna change anything?
No, it's not even a sustaining sum for this war
It's a political number just big enough for the Pentagon to looks like it's supporting, but small enough to avoid big headlines

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It's still nonsense, and it's no longer billions. We're throwing out there Jesus half a billion bucks, right?
It's cynical. You know it's totally it allows pull-up politicians in Washington to say see we're still helping
But military analysts estimate that Ukraine burns through 100 to 120 million in materials every week
So what is 800 million?

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Really buy and half this for 400 million a year six to eight weeks of slow defeat
maybe one failed offensive or a month of ammunition a
Month or two months of trying to hold ground Russia's gonna take
Anyway, the money isn't going to increase Ukrainian manpower

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Erastovich in his
What do you call it interview
Bluntly said Ukraine's real crisis is men not money the West can wire billions
It can be taken to Monaco by all the
Globalist elites from Ukraine that have pocketed all this money in the most corrupt fashion
US knows the money is not going to change it Trump's own revised national security strategy said that which I told you about yesterday

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He need and they need according to him an expeditious cessation of hostilities. Let's translate from bureaucrat to
Common English, right? Let's end this before the collapse becomes too visible before its total capitulation
Maria Zakharova said
There she was mocking it as a political prop not a strategic commitment

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She what what's 400 million gonna get him seriously?
Nothing, and she isn't wrong. So the bigger scam is
Deficit war profit moral rot, you know the West loves to moralize to everybody else, but when you check the books
Morality is he has collapsed to the US national debt. How much is it? How much?

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35 trillion right now and climbing
Interest payments alone are the becoming the largest federal expenditure bigger than defense bigger than Medicare somehow
Magically there's always money laying around for foreign wars
Defense contractors profits are going up
Lockheed Martin Northrop Grathian all posted record revenue

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How do you like that? This war is the best thing to happen to their spreadsheets in decades, right?
European economies shrink while they promise more weapons Germany is in
Deindustrialization mode France dealing with the lowest economic confidence in a decade
UK is economically stagnant has been for at least the last five ten years and they're all willing to stand with Ukraine

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They're the coalition of the willing or bunch of morons because they're not the ones standing on the front line
Elites who push these wars do not fight do not send their own children to it
They send them to foreign schools to for education and living they don't sacrifice their own income and they feel zero
consequence from this meanwhile

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ordinary Ukrainians farmers mechanics bus drivers are paying with their bodies and
we are paying with our tax dollars and
These same people have the audacity to lecture me and everyone else about
Democracy Hillary Clinton gets to get on a stage in Doha and talk about you know the rules-based

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order BS
European politicians, I wanted to talk about this because
If it
Wasn't so tragic and it really is it'd be hilarious and I'm and I still find it somewhat
You know funny, but the leaders demanding more war spending and more
Ukrainian
Life sacrifice are the least trusted people even in their own countries

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Let's check this out Emmanuel Macron
His approval rating is in the low to mid 20s one of the least popular
French presidents in modern history
But he never start stops lecturing
He lectures Russia China anybody else who will put his

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Bile out there for people to listen to Olaf Schultz. Let's listen to him. He's below 20%
Germany is collapsing economically socially political and the man can't rally his own party
But somehow he wants to rally Europe into World War three Rishi Sunak approval leader below
20% before the UK election wipeout

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He still had time to make dramatic Ukraine statements while the British public was turning the lights off on the
Conservative party it's gone Pedro Sanchez
He's in the 30s more disliked than liked Ursula von der Leyen the EU goddess, right?
She has EU wide disapproval far above 50% and she's a leader elected by nobody

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Representing institutions. Nobody trusts and making decisions. Nobody asked her voted for
Poland's post 2024 government publicly divided approval gone
Polish public wants border security less Ukrainians and
Domestic focus not endless funding of Ukraine who come over to Poland no work

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Baltic the idiots over there. They're the loudest war
You know mongers they they love their war, but they don't pay for anything of it
It even even though they hate the Russian language like I was telling you about when I was over there
They have pretty shallow domestic support for further war than nobody's for war
The public is far more divided about escalation than their politicians pretend and these numbers matter

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Because they tell the truth that nobody admits
Only unpopular leaders want more war. You know who's very popular these days globally
Who wants peace globally?
India
India sees what's going on and they're not afraid to talk about it. China sees what's going on
They're not afraid to talk about it

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The BRICS countries in the global south see it and talk about it and want peace and talk about working together
Building bridges building infrastructure all of that. Nope
It's only the Western political class and the ones losing elections that refuse to acknowledge reality
The Hillary Clinton's of the world, right?

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The EU even has a an insane 2030 war plan, right?
This is crazy. This is Europe is planning for a war. It cannot even fund in
2025 the EU can't get enough ammunition for Ukraine or to Ukraine. It can't balance its own budget
It can't keep its government stable can't maintain even internal security and certainly doesn't know how to protect its own borders in Europe

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They're all being overrun by Ukrainians and by the global south, but it can write great, you know glossy print
2030 war readiness brochures, right?
This is like the man who can't run a mile planning to climb Mount Everest sometime in the next five years
Problem isn't ambition. It's delusion. These people got delusions

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We're talking
The recent IAEA report about structural damage to new and safe confinement at Chernobyl
right, this is a symbol of systemic failure, right a
1.5 billion structure was built to last a century
This is the metaphor for the West's Ukraine project. It's cracked. It's expensive

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It's poorly maintained and everybody pretends it's fine
But tell you what, there's no shelter there it's a reminder of how how fragile
Ukraine and the conflict in it really is and
the reality is
Well, the West won't say it out loud, but it's starting to come out

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All of the money all of the speeches all of the summits and declarations boil down to several unavoidable truths
one big one
Ukraine cannot win this war
Not because Ukrainians are weak not because they lack bravery not because they don't try
They can't win because and think about this because it's important and everybody needs to hear this

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Russia is larger far wealthier except for the oligarchs who?
Ukraine that are you know taking our money to Monaco
They're wealthier
strategically positioned Russia produces
ammunition
Five to eight times faster is what they estimate
Ammunition right Russia recruits better trains better

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Russia has a united government a stable amount of public support and a prepared for war
infrastructure
Ukrainians have a manpower crisis that is
Irreversible the West isn't gonna send any troops the West cannot outproduce Russia

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Anymore and the thought of us said it plainly what she here's what she said
She said the Western leaders are stuck in a theological mindset where belief
Substitutes for strategy this was interesting and very telling she said they believe Ukraine can win
therefore they act as if victory is

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inevitable even as the battlefield says the exact opposite I
Found that quite telling because it's true, and we still are doing it
You know the Mitch McConnell's and the idiots in Washington are all saying the same thing the West's public us
We are begging for the truth look at the polling across Europe in the u.s.

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The majority of Europeans oppose war spending
Americans oppose more Ukraine aid by by much larger numbers in Germany
70% opposed sending more weapons to Ukraine in France
60% distrust
Macron's Ukraine strategy and in the UK war enthusiasm is gone totally and

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You know right along with soon acts approval the people want peace we want peace
Politicians all they're trying to do is save face and where does Ukraine fit in this?
Ukraine is a pawn
Sacrifice to protect political pride, this is why Zelensky is panicking
This is why he's purging his ministers chasing Western leaders for personal

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personal
security guarantees and losing domestic support
Rapidly the political winds have definitely changed, and he feels he feels that definitely
He's definitely feeling it. He isn't fighting any any Russia anymore
Not him he's fighting his own irrelevance. You know meanwhile. What's going on the world is moving on right?

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The West pouring more money into Ukraine. What are BRICS nations doing?
They're growing. They're trading in national currency. They are stockpiling gold
Did you read that report they have a huge countries? They're building
Infrastructure they're signing energy deals with Russia. They're taking market share

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They're up over 38%
For the whole thing and they are stabilizing politically
meanwhile
Western economies not necessarily us we seem to be doing all right right now, but these are they're like
aging engines
Running on premium fuel that they can't afford you buy the most expensive gas you can to try to keep it going

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But it ain't working Russia's gold reserves are at an all-time high
China's expanding its trade routes forever India's asserting independence and foreign policy
Saudi Arabia UAE Egypt Iran all are aligning with the new
Multipolar order and Ukraine is not the center of global history

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It's a symptom. It's a symptom and
That ain't good the West created this mess, and it's having a hard time escaping it
The West told Ukraine it could win a war that the West itself would never fight
And they can't walk it back. They're having trouble. They cannot admit

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They cannot admit there. It's coming out anyway, but nobody is admitting it. You know you'll never get Mitch McConnell or
Lindsey Graham to admit this stuff or even Marco Rubio although he has gotten closer to this
NATO expansion pushed Russia into a corner, that's what we did

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Western intelligence misread the entire conflict and
the likelihood of success
And who's gonna succeed sure as hell isn't Ukraine right?
Sanctions backfired they can't admit that either it actually strengthened Russia and Russia's economy

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Ukraine has never had enough manpower to defeat Russia on the battlefield never
Europeans are sick of war spending they can't admit that
US our population we're tired of foreign adventures going off and I
Don't know fighting for freedom and other places

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overthrowing alleged
Dictators and installing our own as if that changes anything
You know like we're trying to do in Venezuela even now
Did you hear about Cambodia and Thailand that the peace deal fell through and they're back and back fighting again?
the battlefield in Ukraine is
Deteriorating rapidly and Russia's controlling it not Ukraine so instead. What do we do we write more checks?

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We delay the moment of reckoning
We are writing more checks to disguise political cowardice you need to cut them off
Quit giving them u.s.. Intelligence. Did you know the new bill requires Congress to be told?
by the Pentagon if the Pentagon
stops providing

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US intelligence to Ukraine did you know that that's in the bill that's BS
So now Trump can't stop it by telling generals quit providing the aid has to be go through Congress isn't that nuts
Mm-hmm so the house of cards always falls eventually right
You follow the money you find the truth this war was never about democracy never about freedom never about

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sovereignty or
Territorial integrity never about rules based orders like Hillary Clinton says it's about freakin money. It's about contracts
It's about influence. It's about huge ego for oligarchs and everyone connected. It's about control. It's about
So-called pride and the inability of a declining political class to admit failure

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Ukraine deserves honesty
Realism and leadership it gets speeches
slogans and nothing else
Maybe Zelensky gets applauded in Western Parliament when he goes and now it's gonna get 800 million more from us
not to win
But to prolong the inevitable to delay it further. This is the real story and somebody need to tell it

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This is be freakin s. Okay. It's just it's wrong. This is wrong and
I
I think people need to talk more about this not less and
It's a

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There's so much that ties into this so much that I listen to so the the West has been lying about this for how long?
For how long seriously let's think about this. This is a war built on promises that could have never
been kept and
We're not dying for it Ukrainians are dying for it

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Farmers, but like I said the the the the middle of the rotors the not the rich the rich won't send their kids
They don't do it
Aristovitch said something about that. We're gonna get to him actually toward the end of this today
We're definitely gonna get to some aristovitch because I think it's important to get his

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almost his full show was
And how he does his show
He in it and it's usually about an hour and a half hour and 45 minutes something like that every once in a while a couple
Hours, and he interviews with other people and basically they ask him his
Opinion questions and and he answers and we're gonna talk about him and panchenko and the sanctions that they've gone through

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Here later in the show and what they have done, but this is total
BS what they do and and the lying that has gone on from the very start of this
Now it's just you know
There comes a moment in the conflict when the fog of war lifts and the truth is visible

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Even to those who spent years and that's us
Pretending that it didn't exist or pretending that they didn't see it. You know we're here now
Everything that the Western politicians, you know Boris Johnson
Freaking Lindsey Graham all of them standing over there
You know congratulating the Z monster for the last four years right victory

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Territorial integrity matters right endless supplies. We're with you till the end. Yeah
And a collapsing Russian economy that they said all Russian economy is gonna collapse. They're still saying this by the way a
United Europe Europe isn't United a
Grateful Ukrainian populace. They aren't they don't want this anymore. You can still see every single day on

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telegram this
boosification as they call it and
boosification is
mobilization forced they're they're taking people
They're talking about recruited not recruiting
mobilizing men over the age of 60 now
remember it was a

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You could be mobilized up to 60 if you were an officer up to 55 if you were not
And so they're mobilizing people up to 55 when they started it was age 27 to
55 that was who's being mobilized the average age is 47 years old way back then
Now they have lowered the limit to 25 years and that gave them an alleged another

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130 140 possible people but Erastovich is pretty pretty brutal on that too, and we'll get to him
but this is this is
Rubbish as they say
You know everything they promised all of this has dissolved into something. That's really ugly for Ukraine a

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losing war a
Collapsing corrupt state. It's been corrupt for 30 years, but it's collapsing now
And a political class trying to explain why reality doesn't match what they're telling us
You know
The West lied and Ukrainians died is no longer rhetoric

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It's a description of events for nearly three years
West was told that enough Western money enough Western weapons enough Western speeches
Would defeat a nuclear armed powerful state with triple Ukrainian production ten times its industrial base
And centuries of battlefield depth it was told it could reclaim Donetsk

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It's still saying that Donetsk Lugansk a Parisian course on Crimea
Territories that Ukraine barely controlled for the last decade and they still say they can take them back
It was told the Russians had run out of missiles remember that was told sanctions would collapse the Kremlin
Remember that it was told NATO is gonna remain united and that Western public support would stay high

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Against Russia it was told Western leaders had their back. We have your back. It was told democracy
demands sacrifice and
None of it is true. No not any of it
Ukraine has fought courageously. You know that's all there is to it nobody should deny that but

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Courage doesn't compensate for the lies and the lives came from every direction
Except on the battlefield which is you know if you're on it, it's gonna be brutally honest who's winning and who's losing
So the strategic lie that we've been told the territorial integrity is non-negotiable

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This is the biggest deception of them all
Western leaders repeated this
Endlessly that Ukraine is not going to be asked to give up its territory. Not one village not a ridge not a meter
They made it sound like it was principle, but it wasn't it was politics because everybody involved including NATO's own
analysts

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New Ukraine had no manpower. No equipment. No industrial capacity to retake the territories that Russia holds
They know and knew that Russia's producing shells at at least three to four times the rate of the entire
NATO bloc
I've heard
Numbers that are five times eight times higher. They knew the Ukrainian population

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Curve has collapsed or gone out of the country
They have nobody left to mobilize their country is half of the population. It was back in the 90s
They knew morale is deteriorating they know draft evasion is
Exploding they can't get anywhere and they knew the elites in Kiev were already negotiation, you know involved in negotiations

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privately for their own personal guarantees just like Zelensky now and
They still let the charade can continue
This is why Rostovitch and people like him have been screaming about this for a long time
And you cannot build a war strategy on

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illusion
Territory held firmly by Russia is not a negotian
negotiation point
It's a physical reality Russia holds it and and even yesterday when when
Trump said he was disappointed in
Zelensky because Zelensky doesn't see reality and he doesn't you know, he's still not weak

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We our Constitution says we can't give up territory. Well, you know, it's not you gave it up. It's been taken from you. I
Don't know that the lines of think think tank maps don't mean much if you don't have any soldiers to control them
I tell you what it remember when Zelensky was in Dublin last week

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He said that you Crane would not withdraw a single soldier from any position in Donbass. It's not defiance
Yeah, he's not out there. His kids aren't out there. It's denial and
Western leaders, you know standing around in Dublin they applauded because they knew
That you couldn't sit. She couldn't tell the truth

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Aristovitch says that
five to seven kilometers of territorial gain
Every single month
Depending on the sector and the front is a thousand at least a thousand to twelve to twelve hundred kilometers long
Okay, and they're gaining at the rate of five to seven kilometers along the entire

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Dependent on the sector which what it is at that rate even with Western support Ukraine's defensive line is shrinking
Steadily
Territorial integrity is really not a principle in this war
It's the casualty Russia's gonna take it Putin said it last week in his interview in India. He said well
You know where we will meet our goals, which are the entire Donbass area

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We'll get it and we'll get Zaporozhye. We'll get her song. We'll take 100% of those
How about the moral lie they've been telling that the West is fighting for democracy?
Let's look at the people who made these promises right
Macron who has no approval he lectures the world about defending democracy, right?

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He can hardly
Defend his own presidency
how many times has he had to replace the government the Parliament that he's been or that the Parliament has
Collapsed and he's had to put in a new coalition
Schultz is he has nothing
economies collapsing in Germany
Nonsense these are all crazy, and what's the institutional lie NATO's promises are very empty

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weapons yes
You know this is what they promised to Ukraine weapons ammunition training intelligence
troops nope
reconstruction nope
Ukrainian NATO membership nope
That's never been promised never real not for a minute

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Not at all Ukraine is told fight now, and you can join the club later
But NATO's own membership rules to one Western politicians. Don't bother to mention
Explicitly prevent admitting any country with unresolved territorial disputes or active wars
So behind closed doors US and EU

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Officials knew that NATO cannot intervene directly Ukraine had never be allowed inside NATO while fighting
Article 5 protection is never going to be given to them
But the West needed Ukraine outside of NATO to absorb the blows
So the entire arrangement it appears to have been designed to ensure that only Ukrainians bleed and NATO remains

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Somewhat intact right so I rest ovitch calls it the great illusion
Because it gave them just enough hope to keep the Ukrainians fighting, but never enough reality to bring a victory right
What about the internal lies inside a Ukraine right what about them

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corruption purges
Collapsing trust you know Ukrainians aren't just deceived by the West
They've been deceived by their own governments
Zelensky's government is collapsing right now his chief of staff
Yermak was pushed out under corruption pressure a little bit, and they can't find another one so Zelensky says he himself is doing it

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He's not appointing number two
So your max is number two and he can't appoint anybody else because he got rid of your mock ministers have been purged
Scandals involving 100 million bucks on the kickbacks
MPs calling for punitive measures against draft dodgers right there. They want to there's more than a hundred and fifty
Thousand draft dodger cases people who have or people who have abandoned the front lines

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And they print you know, but they protect their own families. They don't send their own kids, and they're penalized penalizing
Draft dodgers right
Mobilization is collapsing under draft evasion and a shortage of manpower and the fact that everybody's gone out of the country
Zelensky chases Western leaders for personal security guarantees

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and
Aristovitch is pretty pretty brutal here
Ukrainian elites told the people to fight he said but do not send their own sons
And he reminded us he was talking about past wars
And he was saying that Ukraine in the past in past wars during Soviet times even and during historic
They always talk about it. He that elites served to they didn't hide their children behind exemption and diplomatic

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Passports or got him out shuttle him out of the country to go to school in England
You know they they sent him to the front lines. They sent him to war they fought for the country
So this is a hypocrisy
It's not lost on the Ukrainian public they know about it. It's why draft evasion is

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Exploding because none of them none of the people I imagine how we would do it here in the United States think about it
would you complain if
No if they were drafting everybody and they but they never drafted anybody with money
I mean, that's what happens. You know that it

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Why do you think there is no the moral collapse that there that I mean that there is a moral collapse in
In Ukraine nobody's for this nobody wants it. They'd all rather
Run away, then you know that you know they're not fighters. I wouldn't want to fight with somebody doesn't want to fight
Do you know there's an article in the paper that says?

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Now this is Russian paper, so I've been trying to find a Ukrainian equivalent
But Aristovitch said it too. He put a little bit out there about there said that said that
There are no that that training get this this is
Unfreaking believable that even now when they mobilize somebody they are sending them straight

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to the front that training if you know basic training is gonna be
Conducted at the unit you're assigned to at the unit level
Huh
Nonsense it's a government out of men out of options, and it never had the luxury of truth. You know

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Let's talk about the legal lie over all this European governments talk endlessly about international law in
Putin needs to pay for being the aggressor and blah blah blah
But the ICJ rulings are contradicting at least half of it one of the
things that came out in the last couple of days is that the ICJ dismissed Ukrainian genocide claims and

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sided with Russia on
key procedural issues and Western media hasn't even mentioned it and these are going all the way back to
2010 and the ICJ is now open them up for things that happened in
Maidan and
Because you know they don't want to talk about this instead of reporting this they just move on

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Because the truth is only useful
When it supports desired
Narrative otherwise, it's ignored and this double standard is everywhere and everybody in America knows it the West is allegedly
outraged by
Russian censorship right but silent about YouTube deleting

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Member what was her name?
Panchenko she had 1.8 million followers, and they deleted her channel
We're gonna go a little bit further into that here a little bit later, but the West defends alleged freedom of expression
You saw what happened to Elon Musk getting?
Sanctioned personally it looks like by NATO to pay 150 million dollar fine for not blocking

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the content on X
But they you know
They applaud sanctions on people like panchenko though. They applaud putting people like her on the on
mirror towards list and
Erastovich to the West gets to lecture Russia on democracy
But bans parties and censored dissent in Ukraine all under Western applause right you can't

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Say anything negative
You know it's a rules-based order Hillary
Hills rules-based
Yeah, but if you only understand you only got to understand one rule the rules apply to you
But not to people so let's talk about panchenko in the censorship, right?

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What she did cannot be reduced to propaganda. You can't call what she did propaganda. She she
Told the truth right her interviews her analysts her documentation did something that Western outlets refused to do
They showed from the beginning the war's actual impact
contradictions inside Ukraine

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Corruption suffering human cost and what happened to her she was sanctioned not because she lied
But because she contradicted the approved
version of the truth
So the Ukrainian SBU accused her of justifying Russian aggression
So if you say that that Russia

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You know if you say some of the things that I'm saying that
Russia, you know had set red lines forever and told us don't do this NATO. Don't do this NATO that that would be
Justifying aggression against Ukraine, which is illegal by the way
You can't say it
Ukrainian courts added treason charges against her for saying that

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She had sanctions against her in December of 2023
Inside a Ukraine YouTube blocked her in
2024 YouTube right you YouTube Google
Blocked her in 2024 and she had 1.8 million followers and then
YouTube
deleted

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Her entire channel and she had a very professional channel very profession they deleted the entire channel in
2025 just this year back in like February or something 1.8 million subscribers and
What did they cite to do that?
Ukrainian sanctions

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YouTube isn't that crazy. This is not about safety. It's not about integrity. It's not about preventing falsehood. It's about preventing
The
arrival of different opinions of the other story if your narrative is so fragile that a
journalist with a microphone becomes a national security threat

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Your narrative has already collapsed. You know if you're afraid of speech
Tell you what you're done
What's the political lie in all this?
Western leaders have used Ukraine
to save
themselves and prop themselves up

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The leaders that most aggressively pushed the war
Have the lowest approval ratings
What does that tell you? I mean if you can't read a spreadsheet, you know
Perhaps I shall help you. It means that all of these leaders have no mandate even at home and

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All they do is go to the EU go to the u.s. And want to talk about moral and you know clarity and
Democracy abroad they're they're moral giants outside of their own homes, but in their own homes
They're a joke
They're they're they're one in five like and I won't say they like what's going on one in five will put up with what's going

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on
Why is this?
Well because foreign policy is the last refuge of those that are politically bankrupt
That's where they go
You know when your own citizens turn against you. What do you do?
You go outside of your country you focus on global threat you create moral drama

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You wrap yourself in the Ukrainian flag you warn of enemies everywhere Russia's our enemy. They're gonna attack us by 2030
You accuse critics critics of siding with dictators Penchenko is a Putin puppet
Everybody's a Putin puppet
Tucker Carlson is a Putin puppet, right? You substitute war narrative for domestic legitimacy

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Ukraine is a crutch
crutch for people like Mitch McConnell for people like Lindsey Graham
For other Western leaders unable to stand on their own
Collapsing approval ratings do not fix inflation
They do not fix energy prices crime immigration or government failure

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But perhaps you can disguise
your failures
enough behind a speech about
Standing with democracy in Ukraine even though there's you know no democracy there
You know and so while they these people

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Ours EU's they don't stand for crap at home. They you know nobody likes them nobody wants them and
Ukrainians are standing in the trenches
Funding all of that and the elites in Ukraine get rich
It's it's not good
What about the lie that Russia is losing?

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This is the biggest delusion that has been going on forever
They don't talk numbers anymore you never get numbers from the battlefield you never get anything because nobody wants to talk about it instead you get
These I don't know what
Platitudinal, I don't know if that's even a word, but these these
Self-gratifying words Russia's running out of missiles. No, they're not

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Russia's running out of drones. They aren't Russia's running out of tanks. Nope
Russia's running out of manpower
Nope Russia's collapsing
economically
No, it's not
Russia's
Isolated globally I think Putin in India last week and Putin in China earlier this year

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Proved that he's not you know he might be
Not in it have any desire to go to Western countries that might arrest him
But other than that you know he's
participating
Quite well on the global stage

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Meanwhile Russia gains territory every month they have increased their missile production
their military has adapted and
Gotten extremely good at what it does faster than NATO
You know ever dreamed possible their economy is stable
They deep into their ties with China India the Middle East Africa Latin America other BRICS countries

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They just have
Russia is the world's fifth largest
gold holder
They have a diversified energy export system, and the ruble is doing very well
and Ukraine
No men their money's worth crap, you know it's why Restovich says the war isn't just being lost it is

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Unwinnable and has been from the start
The West lied to itself and lied to Ukraine and when the truth finally came out it was in the form of manpower charts
battlefield maps and casualty lists
that's what it is and
What is the final lie that we are hearing even now?

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This lie persists only because they can't admit all of the prior truths that I give you
The Western leaders are admitting that Ukraine cannot win, but if well they're not but I mean
Reality is biting them in the butt so this final lie is still going on
But if the Western leaders do admit the Ukraine cannot win has to capitulate

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They then have to explain why they have spent hundreds of
billions of
Dollars on a lost cause and why the old trumpster is going to sign off on another 800 million
They'd have to explain why they
Escalated the war after it was resolved in April of 22

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Boris Johnson instead of negotiating they would have to explain why they silence any dissent
Panchenka
Erastovich they would have to explain why they've ignored
Military analysts their own intelligence agencies that warn that Russia held long-term advantage

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If they were receiving
Information that they could beat Russia, and they were receiving it from us
Tell you what that is foolish and anybody who believes that is in it's it's bad freaking news
I didn't believe it from the beginning, and I hope you know well
There's some others you know, but now people are actually talking about

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About it all these lies. They would have to explain why they treated Ukrainian lives as expendable, and they're still doing it
Zelensky Ukrainians are expendable to that guy
And obviously they're expendable to us because we're still sending another 800 million
for another six to eight weeks of

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You know funding
Men getting thrown into the meat grinder. It's BS
They'd have to explain why they make promises that they know they can never keep
So what happens the lie continues
We still have a lot of people saying Ukraine can still win because their careers depend upon it

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their money depends upon it, but the Ukrainian people are not surviving and
Erastovich is telling a brutal truth what here's one of his quotes the war is lost
That's what he said the country is being emptied
The leadership class is panicked

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Peace even bitter
Humiliating peace is the only peace that preserves what remains of Ukraine
now that
That's a that's a hell of a comment by it by a guy if that truth had been acknowledged two years ago
We could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives

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You know the numbers that they're saying for the month of September that that Putin put out and were backed by a couple of Western
think tanks, you know military
channels
44,000
700
How does this war end one of three ways right victory of Russia or you know?

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Defeat of Russia that ain't happening or a
negotiated surrender of
illusions
It's an end of this this BS where Ukraine keeps thinking that that it can tell Russia to back out of these
Territories, they're heading toward their own toward the third option the negotiated surrender
But only because the West refuses to admit in engineered the defeat

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You know number two the defeat isn't possible, but the negotiated surrender they can do that
You know because the West lied
institutions lied all the politicians lied the media lied and in the middle of those lies are
millions of Ukrainians who believe they were defending democracy and
Their homeland's future when in reality the leaders were defending their own poll numbers their own positions

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Their own money train and their own pride and Erastovich said it again
Here's another quote this war continues because nobody wants to admit they were wrong
Think about that in the end the truth always
Arrives it does come out sometimes it goes too late and when it does arrive it walks over the graves of the people

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Who paid for this delay in truth?
I'm telling you. This is this is a horror story that is coming toward the end, right?
We're gonna get into the Erastovich that interview was so interesting and
I put together quite a bit of stuff on here some of it

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I've covered, but his interview was an hour and hour and a half hour and 45 minutes long now Alexei Erastovich
Just so you know who he is
He's always been
Somewhat of a paradoxical character. You know he is in the power class or was

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But he always spoke the truth. You know he's one of those guys and
You know the Ukrainians at least the connected ones
you know do not want to admit that he was right all along, but he has been and
So let's talk about that he once sold. You know hope he was the voice of calm back

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you know when he was in Kiev and
You know he was the voice of optimism. You know, but today. He has no position. He's been exiled. He's been sanctioned
He's hunted by the same state
You know that he once defended, and he's one thing that Ukraine cannot tolerate a
Teller of truth and a witness to reality and the reality as he tells it now is not a heroic

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heroic epic Western media you know
Thing you know nor the motivational sound bites that Kiev gets to broadcast
Reality is the country is bleeding out
Demographically
militarily
Psychologically while the leadership clings to fantasies that cost lives every single day

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44,700 of them in September on the Ukrainian side
so
You know
If we previously exposed what the West did to Ukraine
You know and all the lies that came out of the West
I want to tell you from according to a rest ovitch what Ukraine has done to itself

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Because you know he isn't speaking as an outsider
He's speaking as a man who sat in the rooms heard the plants watched the illusions take shape
Even helped sell them when the country needed unity and now he's watching as all those illusions are killing the nation
They were trying to protect
It's not gloating. It's not revenge. It's a confession and

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You know confessions are dangerous because you know they can actually be truthful, and that's the trouble you know
Aristovitch returns to one brutal premise all the time. He says wars are won with men
not with speeches and

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Ukraine doesn't have the men
He's very poetic. He has said it publicly privately analytically emotionally angrily
He says it reasonably often and every time he says it the Ukrainian
Establishment loses its mind and they hate him
Because acknowledging the manpower collapse means acknowledging everything else

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That Russia has a demographic advantage that the front cannot be held indefinitely
Territorial loss is not hypothetical
Year of victory slogan is dead and that the West cannot and will not replace
Ukrainian soldiers on the ground that political leadership in Ukraine has no plan

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except asking for more sacrifice from other people right and
Here's our arrest ovitch breaks it down now pay attention this because these are numbers right he said and if and if the and and this
Doesn't cover even a month worth. He said that Ukraine needs and I've heard this number repeatedly

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Repeatedly that they need 30 to 40,000 trained soldiers per month
Just to hold on to the front lines
30 to 40,000 now if you're not losing. Why do you need 30 to 40,000 right?
It is generating according to him a third of that if that

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So they're generating according to the numbers. I've seen between eight and twelve thousand is what they are
Getting every month and only through these increasingly aggressive
mobilization tactics Russia is
getting twenty to thirty thousand
volunteers per month without

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Mobilization and it still has reserves right now
The numbers aren't these are not a battlefield statistic. This is a death sentence
You can't force
10,000 a month and Russia's getting double to triple that and
They're training them, and they're rotating them. They've said that rotations have vacations a leave of absence

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Haven't occurred because if they send somebody away from the front line. They won't come back
The only way you get out of there is you know is a death sentence
You know they're even sending people who are injured back to the front
This is why Kiev has now ordered conscripts to be sent directly to front line brigades for training because

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The training system is non-existent or overwhelmed with a little bit that they have
Casualties are too high
Rotations have collapsed fresh units have to be fed into positions
Immediately, this is not reform. It's desperation
So what is there a stove which is conclusion here Ukraine is fighting with the army of?

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2022 goals
using the manpower of
2024 reality and those realities aren't aren't very promising you know
The five to seven kilometer per month reality the steady
patient Russian advance he talked about

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The Western media likes to say the front is stable
It's a stalemate
It's a war of attrition
They're grinding to a halt
Erastovich said he hates that fiction because he studies the map the way a doctor studies
Cancer the tumor is growing slowly until the patient dies suddenly

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That's brutal in it Russia advances five to seven kilometers a month on average across sectors
Sometimes ten kilometers and breakthrough a sometimes two to three when resistance is strong, but always forward always consistent always
Methodical it's not a blitzkrieg. It's an attrition
engineered with
mathematical precision precision and that's according to Erastovich

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Now I read an interesting article the other day that I wish I could find that said
The following now I happen to know a little bit of Russian history. You know I enjoyed it
in college and enjoy it even today and my minors in in Russian studies is what they called it at University of Illinois and

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I
Know a little bit about Russian history
and
The place where Ukraine is Kiev in Rus which Vladimir Putin talked about in his interview in India the other day
is a
step
Steppe
Sort of place. It's like plains

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rolling hills, but they're there hills and valleys and stuff like that on the eastern part which
end
According to the analysis that I read that are ending basically after the river
Donetsk which goes after and they get up over the hills that come along that River and in the eastern parts of

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Zaporozhye and
Zaporozhye Donetsk and Lugansk that once they get over that part. It's all flat and
spread out and
Mostly farmland and the cities are a long way away
Well once they get past this set of of cities

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Then it's going to be
quite a bit of
forward progress on their part
Let's see, I have an collar hello, mr. Collar
Good morning top of the morning to you. How are you top of the morning to you, sir? Nice to have you
How are you doing? Nice to be had. I'm well. Thank you. Good good. I

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Still do not understand why you're blaming me and you and young Jack
for the destabilization in Ukraine
Wouldn't it be more accurate to blame?
Like the bathhouse administration of the CIA or the deep state instead of
Blaming Western civilization for what happened in Ukraine when I say West I'm talking about EU

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leadership and our deep state types
so when I say we we are part of that and we can't get away from that that
sad part of our own history
That's what I'm saying. That's what that's the problem I have is
You and I are part of the West, but we're not part of the bathhouse administration. We work for that

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In fact, if I'd have known about it, I'd have been way against it in 14
Yeah, but who's putting who's putting eight hundred thousand eight hundred million more into the end of the kitty even now
That's us
No, it ain't me. It's not well who's doing the deep state or the well probably
Capitol Hill Capitol Hill. That's right. And who's in charge of that? Who's in charge of writing check?

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When are we gonna make a stand on that what if the old trumpster didn't give
I'm not blaming you
Well, then we have to do something about it, how do we get rid of these yay-whos

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No, I don't mean to blame you I when I say I'll try not to say we any longer
Why not
It's not only bathhouse it's everybody this was heavy-duty Bush time too. We've all done well we

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Started all this in 14
that one that one color revolution that was that was a
Engineered coup in Ukraine
Well, okay
Well, then I always thought it was like an orange color revolution with Victorian Newlands and bathhouses fingerprints all over it

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Definitely see people not I wouldn't blame Western Civilization for it
It is it is Western Civilization
I'll try to be I
Know I don't mean to blame you at all. I know I know you think like I do but we haven't done much about it

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Have we?
Well, let's say we probably do everything we can. I think it's important. My opinion is I guess
Close notes of this call would be that if you can blame specific people for this instead of the entire
Planet for it. That'd be great. Well, I
I'm naming the people involved here as the elites in Ukraine

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When I say West I say
Western leadership you all of the EU leader leaders
globalists same in the u.s. And the military-industrial complex

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He is that's true
But the majority are going the other direction. I've named some of the specific leaders here in this who have nothing
positive in their own countries and have gone forward people like the Schultz's of the world the
Who have no backing even in their own country, but are traveling the world pumping Ukraine down people's throats

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I
Get your point point. Well taken. Thank you. Thank as I would say to my old drill sergeants
Thank you for conditioning my mind and body drill sergeant
I don't mean to be I mean to be blaming the same old globalist elites who are always to blame for this sort of crap

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Right, yeah global elites now you're getting there I've been there
I've been there. I just sometimes I sometimes get a little
Weak in my in my what do you call it being a sharp pointed?
pencil instead of a dull one

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Western civilization is a good thing
When you're making it sound like we're the problem
We're not the problem. Nope. Nope. Nope
Western globalist elites there you have it. I
Apologize for slowing you down, but I'm not slow. I'm still cruising
Okay, brother. Go get him party on. Have a nice day

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see you bud and
There he goes and I like it when he when he calls in and corrects me. I know he thinks that I'm beating up on people
all over but when I say we once again, I'm talking about the
Western elite and the dominated of what what

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We have done forever now remember part of the we was me years and years ago
Because I worked in the government sphere and I watched it from the inside in this exact topics, you know while
while people were
You know building these things and money was being pumped into things that didn't need to be

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pumped
Nonsensically in my view, but they were doing it
We were pumping that money into the former Soviet Union and into the former Eastern
Republic's the former Warsaw Pact countries like madmen
even then and trying to create these

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anti Russia
Sentiments everywhere. We're doing it. It did it in Georgia. It's still going on in, Georgia
The the a very positive occurred when US Agency for International Development went away and I want to get to the
there's a a
Little bit to get to I think I'll have time to get there. I think we will

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Let's see
What were we saying
every kilometer that Russia takes
Widens the operational depth
Destroys Ukrainian logistics even more
undermines morale
forces further retreat stretches the line even thinner and

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accelerates
the inevitable collapse
Okay, because as I was saying that when they cross this
Step area. It's all going to be flat and farmland almost all the way to Kiev. There's
When they get past the hearse on

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When they get Harkin very I mean when they get past that and they get past
They will take all of the the doneatsk all of Lugansk. Those will be taken all of Zaporizhia
Russia has been pretty clear about that. It's gonna happen and
There's you know, Trump can be disappointed all he wants that

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Zelensky won't see reality
But he won't
and
Aristovich says and he went through that a little bit too. He said when the front collapses
It doesn't collapse like a wall. It collapses like wet cardboard
first one brigade
Then the neighboring brigade bends then the light and retreats 20 to 30 kilometers in days and you use

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thousands of men
You know in that process this is not a prophecy it's how Ukraine lost saved or a doneatsk
Lisa chance
Solidar Bachmuth and dozens of smaller positions these cauldrons that Russia forms
When they do it and they finally break the line in each of these places

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They suddenly get a big push, you know, and then they have to stop
Operationally because their own rear lines can't keep up with the front lines
So they slow down and they start over again, you know, this isn't prophecy. It's it's not there and
You know
Aristovich spent a little bit of time talking about the it's the elites that never bleed and he attacked the Ukrainian

(01:09:33):
so-called
aristocracy and
You know
He he wasn't he was partially angry, but he appeared more disgusted to me, you know, here's a
Here's a truth that every country according to him once understood that elites
Lead by example elites send their own sons to

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elites show the nation how to
sacrifice
But what happens in modern Ukraine?
The
Elites are protecting their sons protecting their assets protecting their positions
protecting their own exemptions and protecting their own
tails false of falsehood, you know and

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He says his quote was the elites are demanding heroism from the common people
while providing cowardice from above
That's harsh and
He's not wrong, you know draft officers are chasing men on the buses in the ark of and
MP sons are vacationing abroad

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Ministers children hold dual passports and go to America all the time
oligarch families live in Vienna, London
Miami and former officials like his Kuliba guy. Have you seen him? He openly says well if I'm summoned
Maybe I'll join the army, but they spend years calling on Ukrainians abroad to come home and fight

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Mm-hmm. He's 40-something. He can still be mobilized. Why hasn't he been you know?
Berestovich talks about this as a broken social contract, right and in past wars
He talked about elites fighting today
They send telegram messages from Europe telling ordinary Ukrainians that they need to fight to defend

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democracy and the people see this and
The resentment of it is growing and the state has zero
Moral authority in Ukraine. So this is the internal part, right and
when he talked about
Zelensky
He said that Zelensky has been

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Quietly seeking personal security guarantees from Western governments
Not national guarantees not state guarantees not security for Ukraine
but security for himself
Will he be able to?
live in London one of the things was

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You know, I don't want to be handed over to the US for stealing US money
You know according to Aristovich, he says this is not a rumor. It's a logical outcome of this
political leader who has
Collapsing support can't even name another

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number two
He can't they have collapsing mobilization
territorial control
Western enthusiasm is gone
Public trust of him in Kiev is also gone
He has no approval rating of his own
Internally, they aren't allowed to publish these numbers

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but they the last ones I saw that were public said that he was less than 30% and
Nobody believes the illusion about victory anymore
And so once he was strutting through European Parliament speaking everywhere now
Nobody wants him to come to Doha

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No invite and he's asking for help about his personal safety
That's not a leader. That's planning victory. That's a guy planning his exit exit stage, right?
and
You know
Aristovich is almost sympathetic to the old Z monster. He says Zelensky's trapped in a system of

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expectations that no human
Could
you know
Figure out that no human could produce
These expectations what they want from him, but you know feeling sorry for the guy
Well, you how could you he's got all this money at his own when he's negotiated

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Negotiating for his own survival though
That means the state's already in freefall
and
So he also points out that Ukraine isn't just losing villages and I found this part of his
Analysis pretty interesting. He said that it's losing the terrain that controls rivers

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And they're around several large
Reservoirs and dams that Russia has seized the Zaporozhian nuclear power plant places like that
the high ground
Once Russia gets past these high ground places in the eastern parts, then it's all just flat plains

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You know that that means the artillery which are Russia already dominates in the artillery area
now they get to
forward that from a position of high ground and
You know all the lifelines to the supply lines have been broken and
Russia can take over all of these historic industrial areas in Zaporizhzhia and

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in the Donetsk and Lugansk in towns that symbolically and
Psychologically are critical to Ukrainian identity. He says this is the slow erasure of the state's
military skeleton and
Tell you what that

(01:15:43):
Loss of industrial capacity is gonna weigh heavily later on. That's why they need to
Seal the gap now they need to capitulate now and
Apparently there well, obviously they don't plan to do so what we can't give up territory. Well fine. We'll take it from you then says Russia

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crazy stuff
And then he talked quite a bit about the
Psychological exhaustion of Russia. I mean of Ukraine. He said
Society is living in a freeze mode unable to move forward unable to retreat
People are living you know with their families separated men can't go anywhere

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Women are working out of the country the elderly are caring for abandoned children
Cities are half empty villages are empty and an economy is running only on foreign loans
That are never gonna be able to be paid
Tragedy isn't just the war. It's the halt of

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Life I suppose you'd call it the halt of a regular life
No weddings
No births
No, long-term plans. The only future is trying to survive
This according to him is more dangerous than any
military defeat

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Country can lose territory and still survive
He's afraid there won't be any Ukraine at all and the country cannot lose its will to live, but it is
There's something going on
Remember I told you that
there's a lot of effort on the part of
Ukraine to destroy people like

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Erastovich and people like panchenka
But there's a another counter to that that
Western money
the
endowment for democracy remember them and the
It used to be US Agency for international development funding all of this pro-ukraine

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rhetoric rhetoric that we got to hear for so long, right and
He was talking about one showed a couple of videos of it. It's
ridiculous
Ukrainian
And
Moldovan youth and Keishon you know, I say it is

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And I that's the city I was in for
close to three and a half months and that I was there and
one of the
things he discussed is the explosion of
fake bloggers, right
That are funded somehow. These are people that pretend to be analysts insiders whistleblowers that

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you know are trying to
Promote the war and all this other stuff and he says that there's a group in
Keishon you often he showed several of their videos. I found it quite interesting
He said it's a coordinated
disinformation network built to attack
critics
Pump government narratives and create the illusion of consensus and the message that they're passing out is this

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It
Well the messages
In Ukraine today, the truth isn't actually the truth. It's some sort of manufactured and it's not unique to just
Ukraine every government in a wartime would manipulate information
But in Ukraine's case the manipulation is the primary political weapon

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Critics aren't debated. They're drowned
Arrested sanctioned forced into exile or like Penchenka
erased digitally by platforms that claim to defend democracy
For rest of it's the mountain of fake bloggers isn't an annoyance
it's proof that the state has lost control and is now outsourcing its propaganda to

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amateurs and trolls
What he called them when a government relies on influencers instead of institutions the war is lost
Morally psychologically strategically. He said these guys are out there
Telling that telling these lies right and he himself he started talking about his own

(01:20:31):
Sanctions, right? He wasn't sanctioned for treason. He wasn't sanctioned for revealing classified information
He wasn't sanctioned for aiding
Russia his crime
According to Ukraine is telling Ukrainians. Here's what it is. Russia is advancing
The war cannot be won. Our leadership hasn't been truthful the West now

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This is his words the West misled Ukraine
Mobilization is failing
Territory will be lost
peace talks are
Necessary and
We hope that illusions must die before the country does
That's it in an authoritarian system. That is

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Sedition that is treason. He's a traitor in a democratic system
Allegedly that is discourse
But in Ukraine's wartime, it's heresy, you know, you can be burned at the stake
Every point he raised in 2028 2023 and 2024 the collapse of mobilization Western fatigue Russian

(01:21:41):
adaptation
Territorial loss inevitable push for negotiations. He was absolutely right
Punishing him sanctioning him didn't protect Ukraine and at all. It only protected the illusion
You know somebody could win
right
Er
Stovich hammers the point that terrifies Ukraine and its officials the war cannot be won

(01:22:08):
Militarily if nobody gets that by now
You know, they got a bag over their head or their head in the sand or something similar
They can't win they have dwindling manpower
Exhausted brigades Western support is gone
Industrial inferiority they can't produce they can't keep up
territorial loss is

(01:22:30):
accelerating internal corruption is
Accelerating and it's going to as people see this winding down
They're going to continue grabbing more and more and more of the dollars that come their way and hiding it in
You know offshore account somewhere
socially, they're they're all exhausted victory as

(01:22:52):
Defined by Kiev in 2022 push Russia back to the 1991 borders is absolutely impossible
And has been for some time
But acknowledging this political suicide
You know
By saying it anyway
It's an embarrassment to the what to the Western governments that supported all this and it's you know Ukrainian leadership

(01:23:16):
You're not allowed to say it so they cling to these slogans
Russia has to lose
Ukraine must win total victory is inevitable and we will defend every meter that was said by Zelensky last week
Last week he's throwing people to the front. What is there a Stovich say?

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He said victory requires reality and reality is gone. He doesn't say Ukraine must surrender
he doesn't say Ukraine has to kneel he says Ukraine has to live on and
Living on requires ending a war that is killing the country
Isn't that crazy?
you know, it's

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Quite enlightening to see these things
Go on. What is the post-war map of Ukraine?
seriously
What will they rebuild if they don't exist
What territory can be regained by diplomacy seriously right now

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Russia ain't gonna give it up. They've won it to think that they're going to walk away and go. Oh, we're sorry
Here you go
We told you what to do since 2014 and you ignored us all the way to
2022 and when we told you what we were doing in 2022 you say all right, you know in 2025
2026 give us give it back to us and we'll mind you not mind you but we'll do the right things now

(01:24:49):
We won't destroy the Russian language. We won't destroy the Russian Church. Did you hear about the the Russian?
Not the Russian the Ukrainian
priest
Arrested this past week sentenced to five years
Because they stole all of his phone calls
I need to find that article if I can but they they listened to all his phone calls where he said

(01:25:12):
some of the things that I've just said he said, you know, we really need to do something because we're not gonna win and he
was from Odessa and
They arrested him. He's going to prison for five years for telling the truth
that's what's happening and
And that's not just those are Ukrainian newspapers talking about that his his

(01:25:35):
recorded conversations that were intercepted while he was driving in his car down the street by the
Ukrainian special intelligence they
copied his his
discussions with a third person and said that him saying the things he said is
treason
Isn't that crazy truth tellers truth tellers and grave diggers is

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Where we're headed
The war is not going to be remembered simply for territory lost or gained
It's gonna be remembered for the illusions and lies
That happened Ukraine was lied to by the West lied to by its own elites lied to by bloggers
institutions US Agency for International Development and the men sent to the trenches paid for those lies with their own

(01:26:28):
blood
the people who are arrested and
punished for telling the truth
They're the ones who you know
One truth told one simple truth Ukraine cannot defeat Russia
but Ukraine might be able to save itself if it listens to the people that it silenced and

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I don't think they will
Listen to the people they silenced. That's not what I think
You know
Trump for his part
He is saying that Zelensky has to hold some elections. He's trying to they need to get rid of this guy, right?
and because Putin says it's legally impossible for

(01:27:13):
The Z monster to sign a peace treaty right now
can't be done and
Trump urges Ukraine to hold elections questioning the Democratic credentials in an interview published Tuesday
He appeared to issue a new challenge to Zelensky. This is this morning in
Russian news

(01:27:33):
A new challenge to Zelensky his presidential term expired in May of 2024, but
He still isn't going to organize a presidential election citing martial law
He was elected in 2019 declared in 2023 Ukraine will not hold

(01:27:54):
presidential or parliamentary elections while martial law remains in force
and Trump says
They haven't had an election in a long time, you know, they talk about democracy
But it gets to a point where it's not democracy anymore
Asked directly if you trade cranium should go to the polls

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Trump said it's time and argued it was an important time to hold an election
Adding that while they're using war not to hold an election
Ukrainians should have that choice
Pretty cool now Kaia Kallis calls that a

(01:28:38):
Provocation
The criticisms that the European Union
Received from Trump's national security strategy are not true according to her
and so there's some pretty comical stuff going on and
Trump said that the that Europe is

(01:28:58):
Decaying group of nations led by weak leaders. This is what he said. I think they're weak
He said Europe doesn't know what to do
And its leaders talk too much
He said but he knew the good leaders the bad leaders the smart ones and the stupid ones

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You got some real stupid ones, too
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