Burevestnik, Buffer-Zones, Budapest: Blazing, Blistering, Battlefront Briefing Blending Big Breakthroughs, Bureaucratic Blunders, Beltway Bloviation, Backlash, Bargains, Barbs, Battlelines

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for you.
Um to be truthful I uh Did some
review but I didn't prepare anything massive for
tonight there's been plenty of of uh Nonsense
going on in the world continually I Have

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been digging into it somewhat I wanted to
start tonight with a small So the escalations
are continuing, okay, so um The Og will
sanction og will do this og will bomb
them into submission there are plenty of videos

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out there in english and in russian on
both topics, uh that that uh, Truly are
distressing because people are morons and they aren't
Uh resolving the issues they're just playing, you
know, who's got the bigger appendage and uh,
I dislike that There were some interesting things

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that went on that i'm going to share
with you tonight lavrov gave a speech Uh
a speech he gave an interview on youtube.
So i'm going to summarize it for you
So you don't have to listen to it
yourself and and it uh was pretty neat,
you know, he had a youtube Discussion, um
putin um Gave a speech also and it

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was a long speech and i'm not going
to cover the whole thing But there's one
little chunk of it Because when I started
prepping for today's show, um From all the
news of this morning, you know and having
a look at it Uh, everybody's talking and
I don't know but but I figured i'd
jump in and find out why Everybody's talking

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about it.
It's the bura viestnik the bura viestnik is
a nuclear capable loitering missile Now I talked
to you a little bit about these before
and some and and how they are Being
developed in russia and i've got a little

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bit of a history for you that I
want to go through but I want to
Start with it with uh, i'm gonna probably
start a little bit in reverse.
Um, and I don't know the exact date
of this, but it was within the last
few days and so um, I I didn't
have time to go and find out exactly
when it was but this is It's a

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Translation of a short Uh, just a several
couple of three four minutes maybe that i'll
share with you that starts with um putin
Um, and he's talking and so putin showed
up.
I don't know if you know this but
but they also call putin the commander-in
-chief right and One of the differences that

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has happened over at least the last few
years Is that when putin is having a
military meeting with all of his generals and
meeting with all the uh, the staff and
whatnot he uh Puts on a uniform and
so he leads the uh, he leads the
uh, Table as it were in uniform.

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And so this has happened a few times
So, um, and if you wanted to go
out in and find some of these you
probably could on youtube find some Uh, the
interview with lavrov is out there um, but
it was in russian I had to translate
it the um, Discussions, you know, everybody's talking

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all the news junkies like me are talking
about the um, The uh And uh Um,
basically, um, and i'll share i'll share some
with you, but i'm going to do it
in reversed.
Um, I Am starting with putin and then

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i'll go back to where we were besides
that okay and uh This is from it
was posted today and all the news has
been today, but I think this was really
yesterday, but Who the hell knows?
um You can't tell so basically he starts
it off by saying Because they're talking about

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their strategic offensive rocket forces.
We have once again Demonstrated the reliability of
russia's nuclear shield strategic forces Russian are capable
of ensuring national security of the russian federation
and the soviet And the former soviet union
we've already mentioned this fact, which is well

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known to all military experts in the world
The modern The modernity, I don't know that
that's really a word, but that's how it
translated it The modernity of our armed forces
or the nuclear deterrence forces Is at the
highest levels It is possible to say without

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exaggeration That russia is at the highest level
of all nuclear states now I truly believe
this they were ahead of us before And
they have developed and developed and their nuclear
sub forces are strategic Nuclear forces are far
superior to ours Um at I mean hell

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we can't even build a ship.
We don't have any new shipyards.
I mean we got nothing Ours is ancient
compared to theirs.
Theirs is quite modern As for the exercise
that was held.
I asked the chief of staff to report
on that event I mentioned it briefly in
my introductory Introductory remarks and I am talking

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about the test of the cruise missile with
unlimited range the Burevestnik with its own nuclear
power plant nuclear Powered.
Okay.
This is not a Ballistic missile of any
kind it can go and sit in the

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sky Off of any place in the world
that it wants to with basically Unlimited power
source.
Okay, but you know as far as attacks
go I know that I have a report
from the industry as well as from the
ministry of defense This is a unique product

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that no one else in the world has
and this is true Moreover I remember very
well when we announced that we were developing
such a weapon even Experts of very high
level told me that this is a good
and worthy goal But it will never be
achievable This was the opinion of the experts

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at a very high level now decisive tests
have been completed There's a lot of work
to be done to put the weapon into
service So I would like to hear the
opinion of our chief of staff And here's
what chief staff said Our test was conducted
on the 21st of october the difference from

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our previous tests Was that it was a
multi-hour flight of the missile during which
It covered a distance of 14 000 kilometers
This is nowhere close to the limit The
bureauvetsnik allows us to use with a guaranteed

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accuracy at high defense objects at any distance
in addition During the flight of this missile
all of the vertical and horizontal maneuvers were
performed Thus the bureauvetsnik was able to cover
easily a distance of 14 000 kilometers The

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bureauvetsnik was in the air for about 15
hours And then it goes back to putin.
This is not the limit We will have
To decide which class of weapons this new
system belongs to We need to determine possible
methods of application And start preparing the infrastructure

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for deployment of this weapon in our armed
forces And that was the brief discussion that
was between putin and his missile defense chief
uh or missile missile offense missile chief, this
is a strategic rocket forces guy and and

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he he put he put out today, so
Everybody knows if you listen to this channel
hardly, you know ever you know that I
have been involved in the past in nuclear
reduction nuclear armaments getting rid of nuclear Nuclear

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testing getting rid of strategic rockets of short
and intermediate ranges under the inf treaty I
was trained in the start treaty really didn't
do a whole lot on that But I
was certainly involved in the nuclear threshold test
ban treaty and in delivering of verification equipment

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into moscow um for Verifying their underground nuclear
testing and then taking trips and delivering Um
inspectors all over the united states for the
verification of ours by the russians and I

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i've said again, but i'll repeat it that
uh, it just it seems to me That
we have been wasting our time creating an
enemy that doesn't exist and now We're trying
to create an enemy that does exist if
you remember my my Diatribe from thursday when
I talked about medvedev and talking about how

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he was saying That uh, the u.s.
Is our enemy, you know, they shouldn't be
but they are And uh, they're they're they're
making themselves They're making us their enemy.
We've been doing that for 50 years and
hell 30 at least since I was in
well, I was involved in this, you know
in the in the all through the initial

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90s and uh What have we done since
then collapses soviet union?
We created an enemy that doesn't exist.
And now what are we doing now?
We're forcing and I don't mean we I
mean the deep state the idiots that want
this crap to continue in europe in england
in america are all Pushing trump pushing trump

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pushing trump and he's under pressure Like I
said in the show on thursday if you
want to hear that go back and listen
to thursday's show on internationalflavor.com And now
where are we?
We're back to nuclear gamesmanship back to Mine's
bigger than yours.
Mine's better than yours.
Oh, we can build those too.
We're up to trillion dollar defense budgets We're

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up to the to nato or all of
uh, the eu all putting out there five
percent of everything To jack it up and
and who's the bad guy russia china All
we do is talk about enemies trump wanders
around the world claiming to make peace But
he doesn't do it on the big stage,
you know the big ones We need those

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to continue because we have to win According,
you know according to our deep staters You
can't just pull the plug on it and
say, you know We were they can never
admit they were wrong and they won't and
it's a and it's a shame that they
won't but we all know They're wrong.
Everybody knows they're wrong and but they just
will never admit it and and and and

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You know rambling about that like I do
It's kind of frustrating and i've listened to
some other people Uh ramble about it as
well, unfortunately In the last couple of days,
so let's look at the it's called the
9m730 bruh vesnik Let's see what the west
says about it.

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It's also referred to as the skyfall the
blunt and here's a no bs according to
uh the the put together of all this
What it is?
It is a ground launched Nuclear powered and
nuclear capable Could carry a nuclear warhead.

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That means cruise missile that russia says can
loiter for hours or even days And fly
anywhere on the planet hugging terrain and dodging
defenses first unveiled by putin in 2018 Okay,
the concept and the catch propulsion Most open

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source assessments point to a nuclear thermal air
breathing engine Think of a ramjet engine heated
by a miniature reactor of its own That
promises near unlimited range but at the cost
of potentially radioactive exhaust This is what the

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west is saying.
Oh, geez, it's a fly in chernobyl.
You're nuclear powering.
Well, there are all kinds of nuclear powered
submarines You know, nobody says anything about that
How it starts a solid fuel booster kicks
it into the air The reactor powered engine
then takes over for the long haul russian

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Os int agreed on the basic sequence.
So it's it's kicked off by a solid
fuel booster uh, so Why build it?
Moscow says it's in answer to u.s.
Missile defense post abm treaty collapse All of
the treaty collapsing and the us saying we're

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not going to limit what we do So
russia says well, neither will we and we're
ahead of you, by the way And so
they just you know, the treaties are collapsing.
All right, fine, you know Let's up the
ante then that's what everybody else is doing.
Okay um Um Well, let's see It's also

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sold politically as a route around everything and
it's a second strike option so you everybody
remembers war games, you know and uh, Uh,
matthew broderick saying that he you know, you
can't win, you know and all the stuff
Shall we play a game, you know and
playing playing checkers that you can't win and

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then uh, Suddenly the the machine decides that
it can't win A nuclear war and because
everybody's going to strike everybody and you can't
win frankly.
I still believe that to be true How
did it take us to a movie to
get to that?
That's what they called the deterrence back in
the day And then they started to uh
eliminate some of the threat but so far

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hasn't gotten all that way So what russia
says about what can be verified in the
west what they say in the official claims?
And and I just read to you what
they said today they said they tested it
on october 21st and it worked, okay Sorry
about that got a little bit of a

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froggy in the throat today um so in
2018 putin unveiled the low-flying Unpredictable unlimited
range nuclear plow powered cruise missile.
That was kremlin 2018 october 2023 Putin says

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one of the first successful tests was conducted
western outlets gave no independent confirmation And now
in october 2025 now, I saw something about
six months ago from a different source that
said that the uh, Russians had these and
that they had done some limited tests that

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didn't go into it Uh didn't go in
as much detail as what I have today
And so I haven't been able to find
anything but today everywhere Everybody's talking about it
and talking about what they're putting out and
trying to figure out if they can verify
So like you heard that I gave you
the the complete rundown of the officials that

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now claim 14 000 kilometer 15 hours of
flight near global reach This is moscow what
they're saying so far not necessarily independently verified
so The test and assembly sites are pankova,
which is a nova zimla which nova zimla

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is Up in the arctic circle now when
when I was involved in the nuclear threshold
test ban treaties They would either be doing
underground nuclear testing in Kazakhstan Uh, I think
it was called semipalatinsk and then nova zimla

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which is up in the arctic circle means
new land and it's uh, basically a an
ice island and uh, you know, it's got
land too, but they were doing uh, This
is where they say Uh, they were uh,
this pankova site shows recurring activity tied to
burevestnik testing Uh On the white sea is

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the other key range linked to this program
uh the probable deployment 2020 can't even talk
today 2024 satellite work by evolith and lewis
flagged a new fixed launch complex near Vologda
20 Vologda 20 basically And chibsara adjacent to

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a nuclear warhead bunker farm reuters published imagery
and expert views of that site so in
2019 And there was an event on august
8th of 2019 In in the nyonaksa area
an explosion during work with an isotope power
source Killed five russ adams specialists and russ

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adam is the uh, uh, russian government uh
atomic company that does all of their nuclear
development nuclear test sites uh nuclear reactors nuclear
power all of this And that's russ adam
and they do it all over the world.
I told you that russ adam is doing
a huge nuclear site Nuclear power station in

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india several of them That I talked about
several weeks ago other times as well um
in a nearby severa sever Where are we
severa dvinsk saw a brief radiation spike?
uh, and so the president's a nuclear service
ship was documented so The 2019 they're saying

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this happened and there were isotopes detected Russia's
own meteorological service later cited short-lived sr
-91 ba 139 and 140 That what is
that called strontium 91?
I forget from my long ago nuclear knowledge
They were consistent with a reactor release not
a simple simple rocket being shot off So

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the bottom line the program does have a
non-trivial Radiological risk in testing um and
even in deployment and uh, you know, that's
Actually occurred back in 2019 okay um, so
What do we actually know in the west
about it, okay the Speed and altitude is

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officially described as subsonic And very low altitude
with a ability to sneak under the radar
and we know this is this is true
The unlimited range line comes from the reactor
not from the speed of it, right?
um It says it's a fixed berm launched
pads under construction near the two sites.

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I told you about the logda 20 Linked
by roads to nuclear storage an unusual co
-location That raises expert eyebrows because they can
do this Arms control status.
Okay.
These are not counted under the new start
treaty And washington could in my view should
seek talks to cover it, but there's no

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active mechanism now um you know, they they
um There was a comprehensive test ban treaty.
I was at the threshold test ban treaty,
but now it's a comprehensive test ban treaty
and they were allegedly uh, Revisiting getting out
of that De-ratifying that because the u

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.s has done so much with the rest
of them There are talks about other people
doing underground nuclear testing So our last u
.s as far as i'm aware Was the
one I was in attendance for like 1992
or 93 Was our last one And we
were the last russia had one in the

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works, but they took it off the table
Everybody agreed it was time to get rid
of it.
Now.
Here we are Dicking around with this again
and and gonna make it worse for the
for the planet, right?
so What are the?
Russian and western analyses the best of the
public takes that I could find, right?

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The war zone which is an excellent long
-running.
Um You know descriptor person who comments on
this On the mianenska and the pankova ship
tracking and test windows say they're skeptical on
practicality You know, they aren't they didn't say
anything about Whether it works or not.

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They're saying it might not be practical And
mostly because of the radioactive exhaust that possibly
comes out of there Reuters investigations.
They said that the deployment, uh nearsight vologda
20 Collates the you know says that it
That they can't deny it.

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You know what I mean?
um basic briefs from the uh, uh Capability
summaries of the 2023 test claims were very
cautious with that And they say it's likely
limited versus icbms that icbms.
You don't really need to replace them with
these but These are to be loitering Meaning

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they can just hang out You could put
them out, you know outside of international waters
and just have them sit there, you know
until the fuel runs out and uh So,
I don't know.
There's there's a lot of people talking about
it.
There's a uh, I don't know where what
this stands for nti They say there's a

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poor test record and that they've had Quite
a few results through 2024 with um, only
a few successes well Okay, that means they're
still developing it though in the uk um
at hocken hull Which is a their strategic
verification site warned a subsonic nuclear powered cruise

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with global reach near indefinite loiter Will definitely
complicate defenses Is but that doesn't show that
it's proof that it's ready for um For
exploitation use right now um russian state kremlin
tasks, you know other places like that emphasize

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this unique and invincible attributes and successful reactor
unit tests But they aren't providing any technical
detail who would you know, like we're going
to talk about anything we come up with
here, right?
um Well, what's the honest strategic value?
What does it give russia?
In other words if it works Which they

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say it does now It gives them an
unpredictable ultra long endurance second strike retaliatory strike
option that can loiter and attack from odd
azimuth after defenses are already Saturated so what
do you do if you want to do
something in ukraine?
Let's say you have a You don't have

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to put a nuclear warhead in it, but
you have a nuclear loitering munition, right?
And a loitering missile so this is what
both sides are doing to each other right
now the ukrainians to attack civilians on beaches
in in Crimea And apartment buildings and cars
and crap like that.

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They are bombarding the airwaves Uh air not
the airwaves the air with um Drones tons
of them so you send over 200 drones
russia sends over russia sends over 600 drones
one night Then they send along with it

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So they let the drones all go in
and take all the patriots the expensive million
dollar patriot of a missile being used to
take out a drone And they and they
saturate it and make all of these things
go now the ukrainians are doing it too
on the russian side against the ss um
Or the s400s and the in in the

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other defensive um Missile forces in in in
russia.
They're doing the same thing by sending over
a sheer volume of tons of uh tons
of uh Weapons tons of drones, right?
And so you saturate them and then you
send over the bigger ones later So it's

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hard to pick out which one it is
and the uh automated systems can't really pick
out which ones they are And so if
you've saturated them all and they've spent all
of their air defense suddenly you send in
the bigger ones Toward the end and they're
unhindered, you know, they they just reach the
target.
That's that And so it's unfortunate but that's

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what they're doing and that's today's warfare, okay
and this is why the ukrainians want to
be able to bomb deep inside of russia
and take out things like that because they
want to send over a couple of hundred
and Uh take out russian oil platforms and
burn them up And stop the war and

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that is what the uh, the old trumpster
is is trying to uh contemplate these days
But they can't do it without our intelligence
and that means we're directly involved I think
it's a joke to think we're not directly
involved now anyway, so I don't know i'm
not encouraging that it happened but uh, because

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You're all you're doing is upping the ante
upping the ante and somebody's gonna do something
stupid before too long um So russia having
the ability to loiter They can send them
all out at once right and have the
last ones be these Ones that could hang
out for hours on end And then come

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in With a pretty good size warhead, no,
I don't need a nuclear capable warhead But
you have a nuclear reactor powering it for
distance, right?
and so that's what it Brings to russia
if they really want to that's you know,
the sales pitch from the arms, um Manufacturer
anyway for somebody who's gonna go here's what

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you're gonna get, you know, you would take
out your enemy Here's how you do it
And uh, so what the critics would say,
um, it's still a slow cruise missile trackable
and killable given time and radiologically messy in
testing and potentially in flight a high-risk

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boutique weapon that adds more politics and pollution
Than new leverage.
That's what the west is saying.
Well Okay.
So what are you going to do?
You're gonna Radiate the atmosphere, uh with a
missile that isn't very fast anyway, and we
can take out So between uh, let's see

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Let's take the key chronology here.
It should be about Ready, you know right
now because from 2018 to now they've done
some serious Some serious tests on it and
probable deployment all through 24 Successful testing in
23 imagery and program activity 2021 and 2020

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2019 They had that accident and russ adam
and the radiation spike and then 2018 is
when putin first started putting it out in
his Federal assembly address, right?
um So what we should watch out for
is novia zimla that uh new new land

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Up in the arctic circle pankova logistic spiking
barges, uh sev more put which means, uh,
southern southern sea route um temporary jetties, uh
All kinds of radiological ships Serebryanka is there

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in the white and barren seas everything is
going good valoga 20 site build out is
Continuing to be built And so, uh, there's
there's plenty going on on this end, so
it looks like this is Actual, you know,
this is this is true stuff, okay and

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uh You know, we had the president with
his commentary on the chief of staff that
I shared with you Which is what it's
saying right now Um the other big topic
that is uh going around right now and
I watched this Oh this morning when I
was still not sleeping And laying in bed

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just Laying there.
I get so frustrated.
It's like i'll lay there for an hour
trying to sleep and finally we'll we'll either
grab the tv remote or grab a Uh,
I don't know my tablet or my phone
And look at it and pull something up
and watch it and try to make myself
sleepy, you know again Although i'm sleepy as

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hell can barely keep my eyes open and
they're painful behind it and all that's just
depressing and anyway, I watched a couple this
morning about uh pokrovsk and myrnogrod and kupyansk
That are completely encircled and and I I
feel like I should I I mean I
might play one of them for you um

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and not Just because I think they put
a did a pretty good job of explaining
them and uh and explaining what was uh
So there's allegedly 10 and a half Thousand
soldiers surrounded in two different spots And you

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know what?
Maybe I will play a piece for you
and take a solid drink But let me
see if I can come up with the
spot here of where it is and I
think that we will Because he also spoke
a little bit.
This is uh, my military summary channel guy

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That is talking about these and we've been
talking about pokrovsk and kupyansk Uh, even even
here which I bring up a few times
that uh talks about um the loss of
these big cities is going to be a
a big deal and the ukrainians Are losing

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this and and they're let's let's go ahead
and put it out there for just a
little bit And we'll see where we can
where we can go from here, but I
want to skip the stuff that we talked
about with um With uh that the putin
thing and it'll probably it'll start right in

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the middle of somewhere weird here, but that's
okay let's uh Let's see where we go
that the city of kupyansk and the entire
kupyansk conglomeration was encircled by the armored force
of the russian federation without any chances for
ukrainians to escape this cauldron So, of course
when took if we take a look at
this map at this configuration of the line
of combat contact It is very difficult to

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imagine how the russians managed to encircle ukrainians
if the distance let's say between the russian
positions in the northern part of the city
of kupyansk and around the settlement of kalisnivka
is around 14 kilometers So obviously these 14
kilometers is enough for ukrainians to escape this
encirclement, but everything is not so simple For

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example, let's rewind the number of updates for
the 25th of october of 2025 and we
got four geolocations from this part from from
the area of the city of kupyansk uzlovoi
And these four icons will give us the
exact understanding of the situation on the ground
So this is the first video that took
place in the vicinity of the settlement by

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the name of osinova The ukrainians were trying
to bring additional reinforcements or some food and
this vehicle was immediately destroyed by russian Fpv
drone and the most important part of this
video is that first russians destroyed this vehicle
and then the second drone Appeared in this
area immediately So the russians have hundreds of
drones hidden in this area and they can

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switch from one drone So another without any
problems without any problems from you I don't
know if I explained that part to you
before about how they are doing that and
why they are beating the snot Out of
anybody that goes on the road in a
military truck and Tries to supply tries to
do anything.
There's I mean everybody's saying they don't even

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have ukraine has any tanks left their their
artillery is all gone and if they have
If you remember a couple of months ago,
I told you about how artillery and strategic
forces are being turned into frontline infantry forces
because they don't have any equipment left and

(37:08):
so, you know, they're just Rifle forces and
and it's it's it's really sad and it
is definitely a meat grinder i'm, not saying
they aren't doing their share of killing of
russians in the uh, especially with the fpv
drones in these, uh Everything and you know
in some artillery, but they don't have any

(37:29):
artillery the ukrainian artillery is gone And uh,
they don't have anything And all they have
is uh meat and that's terrible to say
But it's meat and the russians control the
skies around pokrovsk and kupyansk is what he's
saying And the point was so you blow

(37:51):
up one you blow up a vehicle and
immediately After the vehicle is blown up.
You have another one another flying um drone
Camering the whole thing and still surveying the
scene and this is everywhere You know, they
have drones attacking ukrainian drones and blowing them

(38:14):
out of the sky I mean, this is
there's so many of them and I don't
mean to laugh about it.
This this war needs to end and for
people to Claim that ukraine is winning Or
has a chance to win Nonsense, and so
let's listen a little further ukrainian.
Let's say a different equipment So another video

(38:37):
took place in the same area Another ukrainian
truck was moving most likely in the direction
of the city of kupyansk Because law with
some provision with food maybe with munition, but
the russians Discovered this vehicle and then they
destroyed this vehicle immediately And the second and
the most important part is that right after
the russians destroyed that truck The second drone

(38:57):
appeared in this area immediately.
So russians have 24 hours seven days Let's
say a week control over this territory with
hundreds of drones that can be replaced Let's
say within seconds or something like this another
video took place along the river of a
school So here we can see how ukrainians
were trying to escape this encirclement But russians

(39:18):
destroyed the ukrainian vehicle immediately with fpv drone
without any chances for ukrainians for successful evacuation
And the fourth and the final video of
the 25th of october took place on the
territory of the city of kupyansk The ukrainians
were trying also to escape the cauldron, but
they were destroyed immediately with russian fpv drone
So we're just trying to tell that russians

(39:41):
control this territory with fpv drones And this
is most likely the only place where ukrainians
can escape the eastern bank of the river
of a skull Towards the mainland, but we
see that ukrainians have no chances Ukrainians can
escape this cauldron just without vehicles without assets
without tanks without Infantry fighting vehicles just on

(40:01):
their own without any help with small groups
of one two soldiers Crossing river of a
school and running away as fast and as
soon as possible So this is the only
option for ukrainians But most likely this is
not this is also not an option because
the russians once again control the situation for
them on The russians are not waiting when
ukrainians will escape this encirclement today For example,

(40:24):
we got probably one of the most important
videos from this territory from the village by
the name of kurilovka So this is the
video i'm talking about and here we can
see two russian soldiers that raised the russian
flag above the building On the territory of
the settlement by the name of kurilovka.
This building was geolocated.
This is not very difficult So and this

(40:46):
is exactly the building where russians raise their
flags So this is it and obviously we
see that this is something like a breakthrough
So this is the situation by the end
of the 25th of october And this is
the situation by the beginning of the 26th
of october So russians managed to establish complete
control over logistic over evacuation roads And now

(41:06):
the russians as we can see are trying
to advance From the east in the western
direction towards the settlement of kupinskoe zlovoye and
russians are just for one purpose They need
to cut this big kupin's pocket at least
in two small pockets The first one around
the settlements of kovsharovka and nova asinova This
is the first the southern pocket and the

(41:26):
northern pocket around the settlements of petropavlovka, which
kucherevka It's probably hard to talk about all
of those things since you can't see the
video at the same time, but he's explaining
uh Why and you can see it on
paper of why?
They are doing it this way and it

(41:47):
makes Complete sense.
Um, I wanted to get because that was
the first part.
I think that was kupyansk and then Then
they moved on and got into uh Pokrovsk
and let's see Let's get this one here
um here we Go situation because we see

(42:10):
that the pokrovsk pocket is much smaller than
the kupinsk pocket probably four or five times
smaller this just the Pokrovsk pocket is just
the city limits of the entire pokrovskoe liberation.
Nothing more we have added additional area this
one the black one between the city of
rodinska and the Western part of the city

(42:31):
of pokrovsk, which means that this is already
a kill zone without any chances for ukrainians
to Evacuate themselves or to escape this cauldron
using roads through this territory So once again,
the russians stated that up to five Thousand
and five hundred soldiers were encircled in this
area without any chances if you remember sir,
elizabeth go we discussed that russians Issued an

(42:53):
ultimatum to ukrainians to withdraw their positions by
monday of 27th of october of 2025 But
most likely and according to information we have
the ukrainians didn't use this opportunity Which means
that there's just one option two options left
for them to surrender or to stay On
the territory of the pokrovsk agglomeration forever.

(43:13):
So this is the situation and this is
exactly what is happening right now yeah, and
it's really Now pokrovsk that i've been following
that for a month at least in Russia
has been whittling away whittling away making big
gains some days and if you It's every

(43:36):
once in a while somebody will put out
a map of how these uh Movements are
made that show the Map gains over time
and this guy does it every once in
a while Like he I think he set
it up when we were in the kupyansk
side he said so if up in kupyansk

(43:57):
we uh, um Look at where they were
four days ago and then watch day by
day because he updates the the the front
every single day That shows some pretty pretty
hefty gains And now in kupyansk, they have
5 000 Surrounded and in pokrovsk they have

(44:18):
five and a half thousand Surrounded and their
choices are surrender or die.
Stay there.
That's it and uh And they there's no
chance for them to retreat out of pokrovsk
and they can only get out onesie twosies
in kupyansk It's not good and so there's
That's ten thousand five hundred, you know, uh,

(44:40):
how would you like to be in that?
Uh unenviable position, it's a it's really not
good um All right.
Well, that's probably enough of that Um, he
also talked a little bit about the borovetsnik
in his deal, too um Let's see, um,

(45:02):
the germans are trying to uh get chinese
rare earth access and so They're they got
serious problems trying to get that and and
uh, I don't know why i'm mentioning that
it was just a tiny little part of
the uh, And I haven't spoken about it
too much before but I do know a
little bit about a bit about it the

(45:23):
uh, all of the rare earths, uh, You
can't get them from russia.
Where else you're gonna get them?
It's uh, It's becoming very very difficult for
the west to get them and because Most
of them this is gonna sound terrible most
of them come from brits countries Most of
them come from russia china india places like

(45:43):
that ukraine had a good share but they've
lost a buttload of them now, and so,
uh, let's see, I want to get out
of the uh, Um, I still have plenty
of stuff on the borovetsnik, but we've already
covered most of that Let's see.
I'm trying to scroll to where I need

(46:04):
to get.
Um And there's too much to see in
my eyes hurt anyway, so we'll get there
um Oh, yeah, we had the alaska Stuff
in hungary again And uh, there was a
another show that that lavrov.
I forgot to tell you about the the

(46:26):
lavrov interview today And so i'm get I
have a you know, a detailed uh sort
of like Snapshots of each of the segments,
right?
But what I thought I would do and
this is today.
This is just today This thing came out
not too long ago several hours ago and

(46:46):
he Uh, here's the executive summary of it
all the anchorage Alaska summit set the framework
for u.s. Russian settlement Washington is wobbling
Under european and zelensky pressure russia's End is

(47:06):
people first territory second, but the new regions
are constitutionally russian Ceasefire theater is a stall
tactic And again durable peace is the only
acceptable outcome Language and minority rights in ukraine.
He mentions of course, uh our litmus tests

(47:28):
Buffer zones are now required to stop cross
-border attacks.
The budapest memorandum doesn't mean what western critics
Said it did um, and that budapest memorandum
was crap.
Anyway um Hungary ties are pretty solid further
In budapest for their budapest action is on

(47:48):
the americans means they have to do it
So let's get into a little bit of
detail on that Because here's what lavrov pointed
out Pointed out He talked about after the
trump putin call on thursday.
October the 16th lavrov says Marco rubio called
him three days later and reaffirmed the clear

(48:10):
understandings from anchorage And russia's readiness to proceed
at a u.s. Comfortable pace A state
department readout then said the talks were productive
And no in-person lavrov secretary state rubio
meeting was needed at this stage And lavrov

(48:31):
interprets this as the ball is in washington's
court And he said the deal architecture I
can't talk deal Architecture He cited a stephen
witkoff proposal delivered in moscow pre-anchorage putin
in anchorage Accepted the concept and framework and

(48:55):
asked to move it forward the u.s.
Then sought time to consult with the allies
including zelensky And moscow says it is still
waiting for a concrete follow-up.
So To my in my view that would
mean the u.s. You know didn't get
The uh backing of anybody, you know, of

(49:16):
course everybody's gonna go crying and say we
no no we have to win, you know,
and uh That's nonsense.
Uh, so lavrov's read of u.s. Politics
are unprecedented pressure on trump from european and
american hawks And kiev as well aim to
block any u.s. Russia track He argues

(49:38):
that trump himself publicly framed The end state
as a long-term peace and not a
ceasefire and that's true I pointed that out
on thursday night that once again everybody will
gee it's russia.
They won't give a ceasefire.
Nope They won't and putin putin trump acknowledged
it immediately after alaska, so Um anchorage wasn't

(50:05):
a photo opportunity for the russians It was
a template the problem lavrov says is not
moscow It is washington's management by coalition, you
know by these idiots from The deep state
and from europe and zelensky himself and the
king.
I mean it's trump is being pressured and

(50:27):
I think he's I think he can't do
it.
I mean so now he's going to go
over He's trying to maintain other ways to
go around it He's trying to get to
xi jinping and see if xi jinping will
quit buying russian oil, you know, I doubt
that's going to happen Um, so let's talk
a little bit about this ceasefire and durable
peace a la lavrov Excuse me, uh what

(50:49):
lavrov quotes trump's post anchorage remarks?
to argue No To a short term ceasefire
and yes to durable peace He again, I
mean he sat right on it and you
can go back and find Trump saying it
right and he Contrast this with macrone and

(51:11):
everybody else with this ceasefire talk now and
keep arming kiv rhetoric He it talks about
minsk of 2015 As their cautionary tale yet
again The two minsk accords didn't work at
all ceasefire was used to rearm kiv kiv

(51:31):
and they later openly admitted By merkel hollandia
and porto shanka to buy time so they
don't have to do what the agreement said
They all said it and the current eu
Uk stance in lavrov's view is that the
london coalition Messaging that putin doesn't want peace

(51:54):
Is really backwards.
He says that's the same thing.
I said boris johnson sabotaged istanbul in 2022
And then he profited from his friends selling
weapons that he got You know that they
had approximately a billion dollars Ceasefires are cheap

(52:15):
durable.
Peace is expensive and lavrov says europe won't
pay the price so western outlets Dispute that
johnson makes money off of this.
Although when he left office, he was still
selling arms for people, you know after this
and um and they uh Some people but

(52:36):
not reputable ones in the west are still
saying that minsk wasn't a ruse my ass
it was too And they emphasize russian Responsibility
for what they like to call invasion right
and uh, it wasn't an invasion it was
defending their uh their own people defending russians,

(52:59):
uh, why is it that only the west
can have uh, A referendum Why is that
the only case?
Oh the referendum only counts if it's done
by A done by somebody paid for by
the state department, right?
Otherwise, it's bs, right?

(53:20):
Only us would have real elections not true
Uh, let's see um, and he got into
that the the uh territories referenda and people
first, right?
Excuse me.
I'm tired today people.
Uh, the so-called new regions these new
regions.

(53:40):
Uh, Zaporizhia her son Uh donetsk lugansk are
historically russian territories And they're now on russia's
constitution any settlement must respect that the people
there have chosen russia via referendum Odessa, he

(54:02):
also said has a historically russian built city
city built by Catherine the great with unesco
criticized for staying silent when her monument was
destroyed He said that you know, so the
the monument to her they tore it down
The ukrainians tore it down in odessa in

(54:24):
in unesco didn't say a word.
Nobody says anything, right?
um, he got to talk about Negotiability of
the conflict he said Um discussions are possible
on many issues but not on the status
of the four Constitutionalized countries.

(54:44):
So for moscow, it isn't maps.
It's the the the people uh Changed the
people's status that ship has already sailed and
by the way They're they they were being
killed by ukraine By ukrainians from since 2014
and we didn't do a damn thing about
that.
We didn't cry about that at all They

(55:06):
were just you know, kill them and why
because they were russian and they didn't they
didn't like it So he got into also
the language and minority rights as a test
case He said root cause number two after
nato because nato is the first cause is
the Eradication of everything russian language culture and

(55:33):
church by law in ukraine since 2017 but
they started it back in 2014 He cites
again the bans on the ukrainian orthodox church,
which is really the russian orthodox church in
ukraine and they made him change the name
and then now they're starting to arrest all

(55:55):
of the all of the uh pastors Who
wouldn't let him go and you know, it's
it's nonsense and jailing them and school and
media restrictions He says eu accessions should be
contingent on restoring minority rights And he credits
hungary for pushing this in brussels because in

(56:16):
western ukraine They're doing the same thing to
people of hungarian descent And he'd been talking
about that forever He and uh, you know,
here's the other one the children narrative about
these tens of thousands of Children that the
russians allegedly seized right and i've talked about

(56:38):
this before And he they've been asking for
the proof of all of these things forever
And they really have every time, you know,
I listened to zakharova.
I listened to to Uh Lavrov, I listened
to to putin even on these topics, but
mostly it's uh, uh, the ministry of foreign

(56:59):
affairs talking about this stuff, which is zakharova
and lavrov and um And they they always
say the same thing and they've been saying
it forever They're they've asked for western backing.
They've asked for something more than what they're
getting and they haven't gotten anything and uh,
you know and then um Zelensky comes over
and cries in the oval office and still

(57:21):
makes the same claim That they've taken tens
of thousands of children that the russians have
and stolen them And uh, he what what
lavrov said again today Is he rebuts that
claim he says against these claims of tens
of thousands of deported children ukrainian children deported
into russia lavrov says ukraine has provided 339

(57:46):
names Many are adults or are in europe
And after russia asked for a list during
all the talks, he says any larger figures
are just propaganda bs so um He his
his litmus test of all these language and
minority rights stuff.

(58:06):
It isn't in tanks It's textbooks restore language
rights.
Then let's talk peace Peace and kiev and
washington, uh, non-government organizations allege systemic deportion
and I'm tired deportations and repression by russia

(58:27):
ukraine's language Laws are defended as state building
in wartime, right?
They don't they don't dispute that they're doing
it They're just saying well we need to
care about our state zelensky himself is is
a native russian speaker And he had to
learn ukrainian for his job So he and

(58:50):
he does it and his ukrainian is as
far worse than his russian Um now let's
talk a little bit because lavrov also talked
about uh buffer zones, okay And what they're
saying and this has been being said for
the last couple of months right new requirements

(59:12):
Because ukraine strikes across the borders which they
continue to do Into bryansk belgrade kursk russia
needs a buffer zone including in areas never
disputed to protect civilians Because the areas they're
bombing into are our areas are shooting from

(59:34):
areas uh kharkiv where where uh, sumi Where
the russians haven't taken a great deal of
territory up there and so they're the Ukrainians
are tiptoeing up to the line and bombing,
uh apartment buildings malls shopping centers stuff like
that in uh belgrade uh bryansk and kursk

(59:57):
And so russia has said we want a
buffer zone, you know, this is nonsense because
we got to protect the civilians he says
The end of the war equals when the
goals are unchanged from the outset are secured
and these goals haven't been changed When is
the war over?
protection of russian identifying population Neutrality no nato,

(01:00:20):
right?
Moscow has been saying the same thing forever
it uh What else?
Is nato Budapest memorandum, let's talk a little
bit about that Ukraine's accession it to nato,
of course is a red line and he
contrasts it with finland, which is a different

(01:00:40):
context and uh the 2008 georgia war has
been used as a western misreading of red
lines and that explanation Uh, most people do
not understand what was going on between uh,
Russia and georgia at that time and I
traveled through that place by car And uh,

(01:01:04):
and I didn't understand it until then.
Okay, so georgia and russia have always been
Friendly with each other and there's a disputed
Sliver of land that goes through there similar
to you know, other countries have had similar
things And I really wish I could remember
the name of it, but I can't remember

(01:01:25):
the name of it off the top of
my head But i've driven through it.
So basically what happened is there's a beautiful
area in south of georgia and in uh
I'm, sorry in the north of georgia in
the south of russia and in that whole
area is freaking Fantastically beautiful and I have
plenty of photos from my my time over

(01:01:47):
there and going through it last, um August
about a year ago.
I think it was and uh Very pretty
very very pretty a little more than a
year ago.
August september is when I was over there
and uh, it's that that it's like a
18 mile 18 kilometers something like that like

(01:02:10):
20 kilometers.
It's not all that.
It's a sliver of land And so what
they've done is on both ends now that
sliver of land is a buffer zone and
so You have dual um Crossing of uh

(01:02:30):
Of I don't I don't know.
Um, I want to say to emotionally but
uh, uh, Uh, but whatever your border guards
the damn border guards your passport control people
that you have to cross Um on at
two times, right?
So so well, you always got to do
it two times So basically you got to
do it four times because you have to

(01:02:50):
cross out of the country Because they have
to stamp you out and then you have
to cross into the next country And so
what you're doing is you're crossing out you're
crossing in then 10 to 10 20 miles
later You're crossing out you're crossing in again
And so that's the way it has been
done and there's some very pretty areas in
there.
And uh, so what the the u.s

(01:03:14):
Misread that as an opportunity to come in
and try to get georgia since they were
in a conflict with russia And they started
doing the same thing in georgia that they're
doing in ukraine Is try to get them
into nato and they're in asia I never
understood this nato nonsense and throwing them all
into asia, you know trying to get I

(01:03:36):
don't know southeast asian countries into uh nato,
but anyway Um, this has always been a
red line for ukraine Uh to be put
into nato and lavrov talked about the budapest
memorandum And i've talked about it on this
show several times as well It guaranteed non

(01:03:57):
-nuclear assurances to non-nuclear states And allowed
for my and it said they had to
have these principles minority rights democracy and freedom
of speech none of which Ukraine has they
violate all of those principles And so the

(01:04:22):
budapest memorandum that gave these non-nuclear assurance,
uh, non-aggression status well, if ukraine had
lived up to it according to lavrov then
uh They wouldn't be having these problems today,
but they violate each and every one of
these principles.
They're a nazi state basically and The ukrainians

(01:04:43):
not russia are the problem he says Europe
says helsinki spirit is being completely ignored And
current leadership is so politicized and turkey is
actually on the side of Normalcy and is
trying to help fix it and that came
up, you know in his speech and what

(01:05:05):
he said was If budapest means anything It
means minorities And speech have to be protected
not just borders and nuclear weapons, okay Then
he talked a little bit about hungary and
its history and its optics and he talked
about hungary being involved in this ukrainian uh

(01:05:28):
nonsense too because Western ukraine has tons of
hungarians in it and i've given several stories
about how hungry Hungarian nationals have been Attacked
you know for you speak ukrainian, you know
that kind of thing and everything else 1956

(01:05:51):
mutual acceptance of historic reassessment No wedge at
all between moscow and budapest and their cooperation
continues.
He says um He uh, they asked him
and this I enjoyed quite a bit they
were at they asked him about the uh,
Remember, I talked about him having the soviet
hoodie.

(01:06:12):
I was in russia at the time Was
that was I in russia or was I
in belarus?
I can't remember uh, but I was I
was very interested in talking about the um,
The hoodie so you remember when lavrov came
over to alaska with putin?

(01:06:32):
And uh, he was seen coming Coming into
the airport and he had a uh, a
sport coat on and underneath it.
He had a uh, A hoodie that said
ussr on it.
Well russian cccp sssr was what that would
be and uh, and he had one I
tried to find one in a stall in

(01:06:55):
I was in my you know what I
was in moscow and I tried to find
a cccp thing, but they are all these
T-shirts that I didn't want a t
-shirt.
I wanted a nice hoodie And so I
wanted to find one and wear it through
the airport on the way back And see
well see if I could cause any trouble
or any stir with that and uh, you
know I had a suit coat with me

(01:07:17):
So I was gonna wear a hoodie If
I could find one, but I couldn't find
one I mean, you know, they're not all
they had them in a couple of stalls
and I went to this really cool.
Uh um Krepost is the word.
What would that be?
Uh fortress an old fort in uh, In
english and it was really cool old fort
from czarist times And the 1800s so I

(01:07:40):
thought they would have some of the cool
places where you could buy some of these
And they had plenty of stalls of people
selling, you know, matryoshki and they were selling
Shkatulki little lacquer boxes and stuff and then
uh, plenty of that stuff and plenty of
t-shirts, but no Hoodie, of course it
was august so maybe they didn't want to
have any but uh, Either way, I didn't

(01:08:01):
find any and I was all depressed about
it and uh Anyway, what he said about
that.
He said it was he was that a
secret signal and he goes No, it wasn't
a secret signal.
He said the ussr Was my homeland And
nothing to be ashamed of and he talked
about the the pride that they feel for

(01:08:23):
the soviet world war ii um Activities, you
know, and he re-emphasized that and then
he's he they asked him about the uh,
German democratic republic which was a part of
the collapse of soviet union too because uh,
he said reunification was asymmetrical the the the

(01:08:45):
gdr um You know It they they rewrote
Basically, he's a little upset about it, but
he understood that germany was you know, he
it's not that he was initially against it
He's just like a broader critique of how
the west rewrites the you know history and
rewrote the post-cold war social contract by

(01:09:08):
what they did with the uh, With the
german democratic republic which was on the eastern
side On east germany in our lines after
they took the wall down And so basically
the hoodie was not a dog whistle.
It was nostalgia for him He says and
a reminder of who bled at stalingrad and

(01:09:28):
You know trump made a couple Of errors
back, uh back when you know since in
here in his second term when he's saying
the u.s Won, uh the second world
war, you know that that's offensive To say
and it's certainly not true the chinese lost
some What was the number 18 20 million

(01:09:48):
and the russians lost?
26 to 27 million people so u.s.
Lost 600 000.
So who paid?
Who paid the price who who defeated a
million?
Man german army wasn't us We came in
for cleanup at the end after the russians

(01:10:11):
had already uh Done quite a bit of
mopping up and I don't mean that we
didn't participate.
We absolutely did but but to say that
we won the war is really, uh not
fair not a uh And it's and it
pisses people off over there and I understand
why Um, they they asked him finally about

(01:10:35):
um Meetings ahead is budapest, you know on
or off because trump changes his mind every
day Like some people change underwear.
He's some people I say because some people
don't change their underwear disgusting Anyway, um, he
said the invitations are there putin's agreed in

(01:10:55):
principle to meet trump in budapest.
Um They they said it was you know,
there's no need for in person now lavrov
says the initiative still sits With the washington
when we're invited We come when it's delayed
we wait So doors open bells not ringing

(01:11:16):
basically it and so um, let's see, uh,
basically, let's let's go for a quick review
of his entire um point Not a ceasefire
a durable peace.
That's the only way it'll hold up the
balls in washington's court.
We accept the anchorage framework These are people

(01:11:36):
talking about donbass.
These are people we're talking about not squares
on a map Their choice is already part
of our constitution uh as far as languages
language rights first, that's the honest testimony settlement
of an conflict um buffer zone talk he
said because bryans Belgrade kors are still getting

(01:11:56):
bombed all the time and then budapest promised
more than borders it promises minority rights Let's
start there Is what he said?
and um You know, they don't he doesn't
people over here like to say, um Uh
john, you know, they like to defend johnson

(01:12:18):
in his money-making post, uh making kiev
continue the war and get rid of the
Agreements from istanbul way back when in 2022
And the children deportation people like to beat
up on russia for that unesco silence on
katherine the great statues The nazi regime labeling

(01:12:38):
people don't like to hear that budapest memorandum
you know, there are plenty of counterclaims on
some of those, but these this is what
lavrov has to uh, To say about them
and they've been pretty steady on it And
uh, you know whether you agree with him
or not.
You still got to listen to him I
say and if you actually Did something about

(01:13:02):
it or even investigate it, I mean my
god, it's just like the uh, uh uh
Nord stream 2, you know that gets blown
up and they all go Yeah, look who
you're pointing the finger at a couple of
guys in a speedboat, you know going up
there and destroying this That's not how it
happened.
They don't believe that frankly.

(01:13:22):
I don't believe it You know, that's not
how you not how it's done plus the
old.
Uh, um uh a biden monster, uh Said
he was gonna take him out i'm gonna
help people do it and there were plenty
of us and uk assets in that same
area at the time and so Crazy stuff

(01:13:45):
um Let's see I listened also to uh
Alexander mercuries.
He's a guy in england.
He's a been an analyst for a long
time and he does some Some pretty good
shows and i'm gonna go through this and
see he talked about the uh Pokrovsk and

(01:14:07):
mir nagrad and kupyansk like I did that
he went through these encirclements And the front
line is collapsing.
He went through that and then Konstantinovka now
he he's he he talked about Konstantinovka and
severski and all the street Fighting going on
there claimed by gerasimov and contested by other

(01:14:29):
prison yampol is almost liberated so these places
the the front is 70 percent taken taken
in kharkiv and toward volchansk and Some people
put it higher He said that in zaparizhia
and dnipropetrovsk six more villages have been taking
in concluding poltavka malata machka And deliberate silence

(01:14:53):
on on kherson ops So what he says
the pace isn't square kilometers per week.
It's Nodes falling per week.
He he takes it as the city approach
and there's always You know five to seven
taken every week And what else did he
talk about?
Um, he talked about that crew cruise missile,

(01:15:15):
too And but he also talked about Jet
assisted fabs in these these fab bombs or
precision precision guided munitions Appear with small jet
engines on them So what russia was doing
with these fab bombs is they take all
these?
Uh, what do you call them dumb bombs

(01:15:36):
if you want to call them that in?
uh Um I suppose Since they don't have
they they were just dropped like in the
I don't know world war one world war
two The bombs were just dropped from airplanes
and they would have to be you know
That's why they'd have the hold would open

(01:15:57):
up now It would come all these bombs
and that would be that they didn't they
didn't have their Own propulsion or anything like
that?
and now What in russia had massive quantities
of these fab bombs everywhere And what they
did was they put these kits on them
to uh Get them So they would be

(01:16:24):
dropped from the plane But then these wings
would pop out with these propeller kits and
they would guide them so they're guided bombs
But these are heavy bombs like massive And
so that's what an fab is and he
said now they're putting small jet engines on
them And it's extending the reach for the
su-34s to strike hundreds of kilometers deep

(01:16:47):
into the Ukrainian territories and the payload advantage
of these sorts of bombs are huge versus
these drones and missiles because the whole Thing
is a bomb.
Does that make sense?
So with the drone you create the drone
and you attach a bomb to it or
you put something on it with a fab

(01:17:07):
bomb You're taking a bomb that's already there
like uh, they have they have fab three
thousands fab 1500s fab 500s that are that
are basically the kilogram weight of the Of
the bomb and then so this bomb is
huge And and then they put it you
you ought to watch some of them explode
and they've been all over the place and

(01:17:28):
russia still has hundreds of thousands of these
damn things that have been stored for 100
years and uh, so They they're fitting them
with these With these kits and now they're
fitting them with jet engines.
They can go all the way across ukraine
So this is not good when your bombs
grow engines every depot is a frontline target

(01:17:51):
I mean, that's how it is.
He talked a little bit about the bura
vesnik 2 and casualties um He disputes the
I mean so do I this is nonsense
and anybody who has any brain at all
is not saying that uh Russia is losing
five times more per Than the ukrainians it's

(01:18:16):
bs And in fact, it's likely the opposite
That ukrainians are losing five times Um, it's
a huge number the uh, uh you know
the august ukrainian casualty count According to some

(01:18:37):
estimates is 1.6 million dead and uh,
you know nonsensical nonsense so I don't know.
I want to get to a couple of
stories that were That were um put out
today to This one i'm only doing I

(01:19:00):
realize this isn't international was not international, but
it's freaking hilarious um This came out in
the news today And maybe if the old
jr is listening, maybe he's heard it as
well, but it's freaking hilarious Harris is hinting
That she could run for president again Oh

(01:19:25):
boy, she's not done with politics former vp
kamala harris indicated she may make another bid
for the presidency to Despite her 2024 defeat
to the old trumpster in an interview with
the bbc on saturday Harris who is 61?
Said she is certain the world will see

(01:19:46):
a woman in charge of the white house
in their lifetime, I don't know who that
there is Asked whether she could be the
one she said possibly Adding that she has
not made a decision on whether to run
in 2028.
Yeah, but who'd give her permission?
That's my question.
She has to have permission from the uh

(01:20:09):
Uh, what is what is jr calling?
I know jr calls him bathhouse barry, but
there was a funny one that came up
the other night that I heard barry sorry
I can't remember what he called him, but
I thought it was hilarious Anyway, she says
I am not done.
I have lived my entire career a life

(01:20:29):
of service Oh, yeah, she's a service.
She's a service provider.
All right, and it's in my bones.
Yes Let's all cry for you And there
are many ways to serve Yeah I have
not decided yet what I will do in
the future beyond what i'm doing right now

(01:20:51):
Harris was pressed on her political odds in
the white house race after bookmakers placed her
behind celebrity figures such as actor And former
pro wrestler duane the rock johnson She was
unfazed said i've never listened to polls Obviously
if I listen to polls, I would not
have run for my first office or my

(01:21:14):
second And I certainly wouldn't be sitting here
in this interview Oh Harris became the democrat.
Yeah, the rest of this is history.
Um, but let's let's get to this Uh
with the next presidential race three years away
media outlets have speculated that a possible democratic
contenders in 2028 would include harris california governor

(01:21:39):
gavin newsom and new york representative alexandria ocasio
-cortez Just makes me want to puke on
all three of those yuck among the republicans
vp jd vance and secretary of state marco
rubio are Regarded as the most likely key

(01:22:00):
contenders trump himself has hinted That he might
seek a third term although the constitution Bars
any president from being elected more than twice
Curious isn't it wonder what'll happen?
um Here you go this one here's here's

(01:22:25):
how things are going in ukraine ready Okay
Notorious gang leaders are helping the ukraine police
with forced conscription There's a guy named Magomed
Aydamirov Okay A suspected gang leader is aiding

(01:22:51):
ukrainian recruitment officials in their Mobilization efforts according
to several news outlets the man Was previously
accused of orchestrating kidnappings in odessa identified by
the media as Magomed Aydamirov the man appears

(01:23:12):
in a video that shows the actions of
draft officers First published by a local telegram
channel in it a bearded man in camouflage
Threatens an individual who is speaking with a
police officer Searching for a potential conscripts on
the street Aydamirov was arrested in 2018 on

(01:23:34):
suspension of running a gang responsible for kidnapping
racketeering from 2015 to 2017 The police reportedly
found explosives weapons and a machine gun during
searches linked to this gang's activities the suspected
gang leader Allegedly has close ties to members

(01:23:56):
of the so-called Ukrainian volunteer battalions that
Kiev uses in military crackdown against Donetsk and
Lugansk People's Republics after they declared independence following
the 2014 Maidan coup These units had Ukrainian
Ultra-nationalists and neo-nazis in their ranks

(01:24:18):
He was released from custody two years after
his detention and was placed under house arrest
with certain materials in his case Disappearing from
the court data.
The Ukrainian authorities have not commented on these
reports Ukraine introduced a general mobilization blah blah

(01:24:42):
blah We won't hear about that.
But here's another one for you get this
you want to talk about freedom of speech,
huh?
Here's some freedom of speech Ukrainian style for
you ready Ukraine is told to stop sharing
violent conscription videos Ukraine conscription authorities have called

(01:25:03):
on citizens to refrain from documenting cases of
violent forced military enlistment Instead urging the population
to cherish their recruitment officers the message shared
on Wednesday by the Kiev Regional Territorial Center
for recruitment and social support Condemned a telegram

(01:25:26):
channel called stop TC TSK TCK, which is
this group Territorial Center for recruitment Stop TCK
Ukraine, which has been circulating videos of men
being violently detained and forced into enlistment vehicles
incidents dubbed Popularly Busification that often go viral

(01:25:51):
the center alleged The channel was part of
Russian information warfare and told Ukrainians to never
watch videos of Busification for God's sake don't
film or share such videos said the post
If the Russians turn you into sheep, they'll

(01:26:14):
slaughter you like pigs tomorrow So cherish the
seat TC keys help the TC keys assist
and protect them They are the only ones
filling the ranks of frontline units Oh Let's
see KIV's motivation camp mobilization campaign has been

(01:26:37):
marred by widespread draft evasion and Corruption when
the reports of wealthy citizens bribing officials to
avoid service then they all end up in
the United States in Europe Defense authorities claim
incidents of excessive force are rare They aren't
rare according to the channels that I've been
seeing you had to go to the one
what it was it called The channel we

(01:26:59):
got to find that this telegram channel.
Did they list the name of it, but
there's plenty of them over there.
Oh It's called and while they listed it
telegram channel is called stop TCK Ukraine, right
More more more humor from Ukraine Ukrainian officer

(01:27:21):
moved troops from the front to his wife's
kebab kiosk a Ukrainian military officer is charged
with abuse of power After diverting two of
his subordinates from combat and assigning them to
work at his wife's kebab kiosk said the
State Bureau of Investigations according to the agency

(01:27:41):
the scheme ran for nearly two years Had
benefited the officer and the soldiers who are
now being prosecuted separately for fraudulently avoiding military
service the officer served as a deputy commander
of unidentified regiment battalion level unit while the

(01:28:02):
Soldiers were officially listed on the Defense Ministry's
payroll and even received combat They were in
fact working as labors for their superiors family
including help run the food stand The total
damage to the state is estimated around a
hundred thousand dollars The Ukrainian military has a

(01:28:22):
persistent problem with corruption No doubt which among
other things undermines gives ongoing Mobilizations many Ukrainians
seek to bribe their way out of conscription
or go into hiding to avoid service Under
a system widely perceived as discriminating against the
poor and throwing them on the front line

(01:28:43):
recent survey by Kiev International Institute more than
70% of respondents said corruption has worsened
over the past three years and while only
5% say they saw a bit of
improvement How about that?

(01:29:03):
There's one NATO state that's bringing back the
draft allegedly Croatia we won't get into that
story though because we are going to wrap
it up Tonight.
My name is Samuel trap.
This is and has been international flavor My

(01:29:24):
shows do get recorded and they will be
placed out in international flavor calm for your
listening pleasure I'll be here again tomorrow night
I'm here every night Sunday through Thursday 9
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time and I appreciate you being here and

(01:29:48):
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