Pelosi says “shut up,” Trump says BRICS is collapsing, and Samuel says… show your work. Tonight we debunk tomahawk myths, push back on BRICS/India claims, spotlight Andre Bezrukov’s century-pivot forecast, and weigh Col. Douglas Macgregor’s take on missiles, escalation, and winter on the front. Plus Maria Zakharova’s briefing, Odessa maneuvers, Venezuela “drug boat” strikes, and the Boris Johnson connection—served with our Russian-leaning palate and a dash of sarcasm. Also: energy-grid attrition, evacuation chatter, and why containerized “barge batteries” aren’t a magic launch button. A Russian word of the day included. International Flavor: Where the Truth Just Tastes Better.
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This incredibly awesome music to bring you some
incredibly awesome political talk on damn radio Hello
Good evening and welcome.
I am Samuel trap.
This is international flavor.
You are on damn radio Here we are
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in should you feel the desire?
I might even answer five seven three seven
four six 80-20 Some pretty hilarious events
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of today.
There's some things going on and I normally
don't do this because number one it's oh
It's not international.
I suppose it could be but I like
the international stuff I think JR does a
fantabulous job of of giving us all the
news and events and hilarity of the day
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From the national side.
Sometimes I get into it and I complain
because they're all a bunch of Wankers that's
an international word.
If you don't know what a wanker is
perhaps you should find out But I couldn't
resist this one because this one just came
out not long ago Maybe JR had it
earlier and I didn't hear it, but it
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says it just happened on October 15 And
it's a Nancy Pelosi clip It is Nancy
Pelosi telling a reporter to shut up So
that word for our Russian word of the
day We're gonna tell you how to say
shut up in Russian and that is one
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word is that knees meaning?
Shut it basically is that knees means shut
up and it's rather rude similar to shut
up and Here you go you get a
listen to her tell this reporter and I
haven't been able to figure out the volume
on this so I hope it's not too
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loud was pretty loud in my ear.
So, let's see what happens when I play
it Are you at all concerned about the
new January 6th committee finding you liable for
that day Why did you refuse the National
Guard on January 6?
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Shut up.
I did not refuse the National Guard.
The president didn't send it Why are you
coming here with Republican talking points as if
you're a serious journalist the American people want
to know we still have questions Thank you
On there and we should have Did she
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say they had responsibility ask me in the
middle of the thing, but they've already breached
She's got a mask This part we know
the Capitol Police, I mean the National Guard
why weren't the National Guard there to begin
with?
They thought that they had sufficient that was
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not a question about it, but they don't
know They clearly didn't know She's crazy
so Maybe she's not crazy.
Maybe she's just a loony bin.
Maybe she just off her rocker But you
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know what?
The fact is that they get in there
and they stay and they never freaky Leave
they just never leave.
It's like they outstay their welcome.
They get fantabulously wealthy and It drives me
Farging bananas.
I do not like this.
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I don't like it one little bit.
I Just don't so I was listening to
a lecture by Andre Bezrukov and it is
called Strategic where is that one?
But it's in Russian.
So you don't get a listen and what
I did was I Made sure to get
that thing Get the whole thing for us
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hopefully in some of his words and there
it did show up so Basically, this is
some good stuff Because he gave a it's
called his lecture was called strategic foresight from
signal to decision and What he argued why
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he argued it the facts and examples he
cited and his concrete recommendations for Russia and
what happens post transition of all of this
because he's he's He's very well spoken and
I like to listen to him let me
give you a hint and we're not going
to get it till later in the show,
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but I'll give you a an Executive summary.
Let's call it a a one paragraph core
claim of what he is saying he's saying
the world is entering a once in a
century Technological pivot now we've heard this from
other people too that say that Remember me
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talking about this even several months ago that
said that there were That the differences you
are seeing now and the the speed with
technology at which technology is going to advance
is going to be Extremely great in the
next 10 to 20 years.
You're going to see moves like You saw
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Only when the telephone the automobile the airplane
when when all of the the radio all
of these things came Just bombarding upon us
and changed the face of the planet so
he's making something similar a similar sort of
comment and He said, you know, it's once
in a century technological pivot AI genetics new
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energy industry stacks comparable to 1890 to 1914
shift that reshaped economics and geopolitics and the
big players are already Racing to write the
rules of the next cycle now I've argued
myself that Rick Russia India China are going
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to be at the top of this not
only because of the huge Expansive territory that
they cover but the and and all of
the massive resources that Russia has but the
population That they have and the momentum the
they are they are They are the next
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cycle.
No, that's that's just me and I have
an economics degree, but I'm not at the
level You know of a Jeffrey Sachs who's
argued something similar or at this guy Andre
Bezrukov, which Bezrukov means no hands hmm, he
didn't have any hands and so Bezrukov It's
just like in In America, you know, we
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have last names like Sandman or last names
like I don't know what Miller You know,
what is a Miller?
It's the guy who mills right and but
they have the same thing guy with one,
you know one hand and Anyway, he expects
fragmentation into competing techno economic blocks and a
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very turbulent transition Including a extremely deep economic
crisis now I tend to believe this or
Feel the same way we got an economic
crisis coming the dollars gonna collapse in my
opinion And it's you know, we're gonna want
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that gold-backed We're gonna want something else
and I believe the rest not we we're
gonna we're gonna wish that our Fearless leaders
had played this a little bit Better than
they have and anyway, he also alleges that
a fight along the southern rim of Eurasia
where new industrial capacity and massive middle class
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has arisen Russia might use its own strategic
foresight to build a billion person Economic technological
space with their partners India Iran Southeast Asia
China standardized platforms invest in critical technology chips
radio electronic tronics AI aviation and hardwired scenario
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thinking into state management They won't he wants
to forecast forecasting in this his framing is
a memory of the future you plan not
to be right But to become adaptive and
make better decisions sooner.
It was an Interesting hour and a half
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long speech that he gave and so I've
kind of summarized I mean, that's the executive
summary and we're not gonna get to it
because there's plenty of other interesting happy crappy
to get into tonight that we wish to
get to and I have a lot of
Stuff to cover and it's gonna be fun
Why because I said so and I'm gonna
have fun whether you do or not How
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do you like them apples friends and neighbors?
Let's see Where what else did I have
in my history channel here of my YouTube's
besides?
Nancy Pelosi snapping we had something else quite
interesting on the old Trumpster and this one
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is a very short and I might play
it twice because I found a short one
and Then I found one that was a
little bit longer that kind of got the
whole the whole part of it because this
I Can't really control.
It's only a short, you know, and so
you don't get to see the whole thing,
which is driving me crazy But here, let
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me see if I can drag that back
because basically what he is saying is Is
About bricks that he is saying J.
R.
Meyer may have already played this if he
did I'm sorry to repeat but guess what
my program talk about what I want and
he's talking about bricks and I Don't think
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he's telling that you know, I See a
Pinocchio nose growing there.
This is not Accurate friends and neighbors, but
let's try it Anyway, just because it's the
Trumpster and we like to listen to him
But I think he has a tendency to
speak first and find the facts later Which
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is sometimes happens.
So let's listen to what he has to
say.
I don't anybody wants to bury be in
bricks That's fine, but we're gonna put tariffs
on your nation.
Everybody dropped out They're all dropping out of
bricks bricks was an attack on the dollar
and I said you want to play that
game I'm gonna put tariffs on your on
your all of your product coming into the
u.s They said like I said, we're
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dropping out of bricks Dropped out there dropped
out.
They're all dropping out of bricks.
I don't anybody wants to bury there is
nobody that has said that Nobody I did
a I did a search for this.
I tried to find it somebody please find
for me One country who says they are
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dropping out of bricks.
I I've been looking ever since I heard
this Late last night and I Got nothing
There's nothing there and they're saying that people
are leaving.
He also said Another Pinocchio in my opinion.
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We'll wait and see what that says tomorrow.
But this is a Pinocchio he said Let's
see if I can find it because that
was in a different Clippage that he gave
us and we'll get a little bit more
into it as well, but I want to
play this There's Pelosi again.
Oh, that's one unattractive woman.
You know that Let's see here.
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And maybe it's just because do you know
what?
this is sometimes you just look at a
woman or or a person and you're just
repulsed Okay, that's a repulsive woman Just like
Hillary Clinton, I cannot stand it I can't
stand to look at them even because they
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don't tell the truth.
I don't think they even believe what they're
saying That's the problem as you sit and
you watch him talking and you're going, you
know If you weren't in public you wouldn't
say that if you were talking to you
know Your loved ones or in a private
place with somebody that you were strategizing with
You would say something different to them then
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you're saying to us even now I think
it's nonsense So we're gonna go now and
in the first part of this and I
and I'm not even sure where the Modi
thing is but it comes up in here
in a minute and But but the old
trumpster and in the first part he talks
about bricks again so and you'll get the
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full quote of what he was saying about
people leaving and So let us start and
see if and I'll let it play for
a little while just because he's amusing anyway
and Let's see what he has to say
because he also says that Narendra Modi has
assured him that India will no longer be
buying Russian oil Curious that is a complete
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turnaround Why would India?
Engage in a complete turnaround you think they're
doing it because 25% 50% I
don't think they're doing it at all and
I need I'm a doubting Samuel as many
of you know And so I need something
more than Trump just saying it Okay, I
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don't believe that people are bailing out of
bricks so far Nobody has shown me that
and I went and checked all the bricks
webpages, you know Indonesia was the last to
join back in like February or March or
whatever it was But there hasn't been anybody
bail out that I'm aware of nobody's gone
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Nothing that I've been able to find says
that people are leaving bricks, so Sorry, mr.
President Happy birthday mr.
President No, but I need Proof I need
something more Than a guy saying it.
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I need a little bit more.
But anyway, let's listen to the story of
what?
These two are saying whoever these people are
once Trump him.
I recognize the other guy thinks Is that
Patel?
I think he was having an FBI briefing,
but I really don't know listen to this
ready That's not trading in conspiracy theories, okay
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Mr. President, thank you so much.
Thank you in light of China's export curbs
on rare earths.
Do you view India as a Reliable partner
going forward and are you planning to meet
Prime Minister Modi in Malaysia?
Are you open to talks?
Yes, he's a friend of mine.
We have a great relationship.
He just said that two days ago as
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you know We have a great relationship.
No, we were not happy with him buying
oil From Russia Because that lets Russia continue
on with this ridiculous war where they've lost
a million and a half people by the
way Russia's lost a million and a half
people.
Isn't it amusing that he's now talking about
Russia losing people and he's no longer focused
on Ukraine who estimates are far greater than
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a million and a half for them Very
odd because he was not too long ago
Saying that Ukraine is lost at least that
amount of people Now he's not saying it
and he's putting it all on Putin because
of what?
It's only the only way this war is
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continuing to go on is because India and
China are buying their oil right soldiers mostly
This is a war that should have never
started but it's a war that Russia should
have won in the first week and they're
going into the fourth year and I want
to see it stop So I was not
happy that India was buying oil and he
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assured me today that they will not be
buying oil from Russia So today today Narendra
Modi told Our fearless leader and I say
that for real him.
He is fearless, but I told our our
main in the White House That we are
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no longer buying Russian oil.
That's what he said We will not be
buying oil from Russia Somehow I doubt that
to be true and we shall have to
see what happens tomorrow And I've gone out
and I've done a search to try to
find any supporting evidence of this the only
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supporting evidence are People like 1214 channels repeating
what Trump said, but no comments from Jaishankar
no comments from Modi himself.
No comments from the what do they call
it their?
external affairs MEA Ministry of External Affairs nothing
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We don't have that and so sorry, but
I have to see that before I believe
it I I'm not saying it can't happen.
I'm not saying it won't happen I'm saying
there's no Confirmation of that yet.
Let us continue.
That's a big stop Now I got to
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get China to do the same thing You
know that that is relatively easy compared to
what we just did over the last Week
in the Middle East Middle East was 3
,000 years.
Yeah, I don't care about it yet stuff
Not that I don't care, but you know
I I have a set of topics related
to India related to bricks and related to
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things I want to talk about we may
come back to this possibly Possibly we will
come back, but I'm not positive Okay and
we're gonna jump around a little bit today
because I also listened to Maria's a hot
of us.
She had a three-hour briefing and I
listened to a good chunk of that today
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as well which was a lot of fun
and You know, she's she's always fairly Entertaining
let's say and some of the things that
she talks about Let's see I Want to
look where am I gonna go?
I have so many places to go that
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it's rather rather Comical where to go I
wanted to talk about one thing from last
night's show So I had to because I
was going a little loopy on this and
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I Went into it in two different ways
first I went into the you know Remember
JR told me I should Get on and
do some research whether it's a I or
any other way and I'll tell you how
this Went off.
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Okay, I Did a bit of a search
and First of all, I asked The AI
goddess, I don't know why but I have
her speak to me in a female voice
and maybe I just like that I don't
know.
Maybe I want somebody to tell me things
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in a female voice and I asked if
I was just lunatic or maybe it's possible
that the caller was a lunatic and that
you can't just take a tomahawk and throw
it into the water and Have it take
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off on its own.
Do you need a launcher?
And so I did a little research So
yes, I thought I had done all the
appropriate research on them yesterday And I must
admit that I haven't been familiar with missiles
for quite a while Because I haven't been
liquidating them as we used to say in
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When I was in the business as it
were and guess what the word is for
liquidation in Russian.
Oh This is difficult Liquidate see Liquidate see
it's liquidation.
And so my old Russian instructor would always
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say Words that are the same in Russian
as they are in English like Telephone Telephone
he'd say he'd say this at the end.
Oh Sam.
Did you know that?
That starter a ruska slova that's an old
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Russian word Because according to him the Russians
invented everything first right and not the other
way around they didn't just they didn't take
our technology and Change it around They do
you know what's really funny and I'm totally
all over the map today, but it just
reminded me of another thing I was over
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there.
Oh One of the first times I was
over there and a show a cartoon came
on TV and Gets guess what this show
was called and I've never researched it never
and I I'm afraid to haven't done it,
but that it's a cartoon show and it's
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about a bear and a a piglet and
an eeyore and They have all these things
and guess what to name it a show
is Vinnie pooh Vinnie pooh Winnie pooh, and
it's Vinnie pooh, and he has a lot
of the same adventures and He's been around
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for at least an equal amount of time
some of their earliest cartoons are a Vinnie
pooh and It made me think man This
is horrible now, they've got me thinking that
maybe what was it a a Milne was
it with the Vinnie pooh?
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That took it over here, and I don't
I don't disbelieve that I'm sure it was
you know some Russian guy stole it and
took it Over there, I don't know, but
they have Vinnie pooh, and we have Winnie
the pooh, and they were nearly the same
But it didn't say The name of the
author of the stuff on their cartoons, and
so I found it rather Interesting anyway back
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to the tomahawks because we got to go
back to the tomahawk a little bit for
our show tonight Because the short answer given
to me was that I Surprise surprise.
I'm not crazy.
I Am not crazy.
You probably can't just throw them into the
water and They will self launch You know
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tomahawks do not self launch if you drop
them in the water they absolutely need a
purpose-built launcher and canister and a fire
control system to work and here's why the
idea of throwing them in the water and
Letting them go just doesn't hold up because
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the canister is The launcher Every tomahawk you
see on a ship a submarine or on
a truck sits in a sealed canister eyes
round with a booster rails umbilicals to connect
and environmental controls that canister provides power communication
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and a safe mechanical interface for ignition and
Separation meaning no canister no launch That's point
one point number two Mission data and crypto
have to be loaded and verified and this
is why the u.s. Providing this data
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is Entering the war that's what's happening.
Not that they're not already in Anyway, but
a tomahawk cannot fly without a full mission
load route altitude corridor constraint no fly boxes
and Crypto keys like you see on you
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know Turn your key meaner shooting off nuclear
weapon.
You gotta have a key, right?
That is done through the tomahawk fire control
System which is shipboard or on the Army's
ground systems.
Yeah, I can't just Turn it on it
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has to be controlled.
Okay number three alignment and arming logic pre
-launch the missiles navigation system needs INS GPS
alignment arming requires a strict chain of consent
interlock environmental queue Acceleration timing safe to arm
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logic programs These are provided in a controlled
sequence by the launcher and the fire control
system Not by the depth of the water
you drop them into Okay number four Physics
itself means this is impossible.
This is actually probably the only one I
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got right Without looking into it, but it
needs to be it needs a guided boost
in a known orientation the tomahawk leaves the
canister under a Solid rocket booster thrust like
any missile, right?
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Then it deploys wings and starts a turbofan
a free floating round in the water would
just tumble Ingest water or break long before
stable flight sub-launched tomahawks aren't loose rounds
they are Encapsulated and ejected from a torpedo
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tube Which I said last night in a
controlled way before the booster lights up Okay,
number five safety and handling a launcher exists
to keep crews and bystanders alive the safe
pins the umbilicals the thermal control the command
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destruct the misfire procedure and Blast and fragment
shielding are all there drop it in and
hope it lights up would fail every safety
and legal standard on earth and the cost
reality Okay The cost reality is this a
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100 million dollar launcher conflates the whole battle
the whole battery launchers plus command vehicle Plus
comms plus spares plus training plus canisters plus
missiles With one single truck, okay So you
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have to have this hundred million dollar launcher
system, which includes all of that, right?
But even a cheap Single cell concept which
they don't do anymore.
I told you they Marines got rid of
it the army never implemented in the first
place It's still need a single cell concept
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would one missile would still need power communications
alignment Direction and thrust fire control and a
certified canister That's the price of making a
complex weapon reliably repeatably safe and the bottom
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line You cannot have a tomahawk without a
launcher is correct Just dropping it in the
water signs sounds like a mashup of how
submarines launch missiles from tubes and encapsulated rounds
and how VLS typhons fire from strike length
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canisters In every case you have to have
launcher plus canister plus fire control.
Those are Non-negotiable and I found it
very interesting because every once in a while
usually about once a week.
I will find a I Assume everybody knows
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who this is But I don't know I
could be one of the nuts that that
does and maybe a lot of people don't
listen to him But there's a guy who
has a Channel, and he's interviewed all the
time by other channels and his name is
Colonel Douglas McGregor and he's been talking about
these topics for a long time about Ukraine
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about Russia about all these things and just
so happened that today I was listening to
his Show and he Guess what?
He was talking about Tomahawks and what he
said was the following Let's see, here's what
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he put He had he had tomahawk remarks
Where'd he go?
what he said about tomahawks was Somewhat similar
to what I said You know the no
canister no fire control no launch and what
he said Not that the tomahawks if given
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to Ukraine Will not be any sort of
strategic game changer He called the tomahawks and
I never thought of this part, but I
but I I mean It's not that I
didn't think about it.
I didn't focus on this part.
He called tomahawks an old system It still
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has its uses But he says that it'll
never settle the war and that Trump and
Zelensky are overestimating this missile and Underestimating any
Russian response to it.
I Can see that and I and I
probably agree with it Range and punch as
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he said it.
He said it reaches a little out a
little further than a thousand miles and I
think It's a little less than a thousand
miles You know according to what what I
recall about it, and then he said it
carries a 3,300 pound warhead, but I
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think he's wrong in that I thought it
was a thousand pound warhead, but maybe it's
3,300 Maybe he's right.
I'm not but he says the air and
sea launched uses for Ukraine Just like I
said are Out that they can't launch from
the air because they don't have aircraft you
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know and those are those are not in
existence anyway to launch tomahawks and sea launched
uses there's they don't have anybody that would
definitely have to be America that did it
and So he said those are out and
the only way they can do it is
a ground launched System as the only practical
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path for Ukraine and then surprise surprise What
did he get into ground launch systems?
And he said those are boutique at best
and have to be run by the United
States He described the army version as a
boutique weapon modified by for u.s. Ground
Forces, but really they were only modified in
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The Philippines and He's stressing the mission planning
and execution would lie entirely in US hands
Which is just what I said and what
Moscow keeps saying to that you can't do
that The only people who could fire him
or the u.s. They know their missiles
They were involved in the INF treaty, too
and So they know how these things get
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fired and they sure as hell you don't
just hand a piece of paper and a
missile on a on a Pontoon boat with
a piece of paper saying here's how it's
gonna get here's how it's gonna be targeted
It doesn't work that way So Moscow has
said that if any strike by by a
tomahawk is a strike Against us by the
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United States the end Okay, so containerized deception
and a barge idea I found this funny
as hell because this is JR's idea for
a Pontoon boat, but it's not a pontoon
boat And it's a really freaking big one,
but what he said was he said that
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you could put a 40-foot missile in
a box container up container concept that could
be mounted on a barge and Fired from
the river with other containers as decoys so
they you know, well, you know They don't
just come out with this 40-foot 40
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-foot Missile box and have that immediately blown
up by Russian airstrikes But the but it
would still have to have u.s. Planning
and it would still be Escalatory if they
did this and they'd need a number of
decoys Then he talked about the number and
effectiveness just what I said He said he
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doesn't know how many the u.s. Could
spare.
He said they're hard to make they take
a lot of time and If around 50
were launched Russian integrated air defenses would likely
shoot most of them down, but probably not
all and The estimates are they couldn't get
more than 20 to 50 anyway Likely targets
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if they did use them would be fixed
infrastructure power grids airfields refineries Not moving targets,
but he still doubts any real Strategic effect
because there hasn't been any so far with
any of the other Systems that they've had
he would spend a lot of time on
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calling it a preemption risk any practical launch
setup has to enter crane Ukraine and Get
closer to the targets which are under persistent
Russian surveillance So if they showed up in
Western Ukraine To get to Eastern Ukraine.
They sure as hell can't come to Odessa
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and if they come through Poland They'd be
in Western Ukraine, and they'd be destroyed long
before they hit a place where they would
have a sufficient Range to do significant damage,
so he's saying you know they would they
would be found before they got close Which
is a good point that I didn't mention
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yesterday Nuclear escalation risk medvedev Out of
Russia former president said that his warning was
Russia can't tell in flight if a tomahawk
is nuclear or Conventional so the Russian doctrine
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would reserve the right to escalate I Didn't
think of this either, and I didn't hear
medvedev say this But this is what Colonel
McGregor said he said that medvedev gave a
warning said you know a tomahawk is a
nuclear missile and can carry nuclear payload and
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Now there's an I doubt that the US
would ever give Ukraine any sort of nuclear
payload But who knows we'll find that out
on Friday or maybe tomorrow there was no
news on it today, and we were supposed
to get some kind of News on that
today, which never occurred But anyway medvedev said
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that that would be an escalation and could
cause a nuclear response I think that's just
fear-mongering, but anyway the bottom line is
that tomahawks aren't gonna change the war No
way no, how and I Don't know It's
not there.
They're there.
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No magic bullet.
You know and fingerprints us everywhere u.s.
Planning u.s. Planners u.s. communications u
.s. Mission data Moscow would read that as
Washington firing at Russia not Ukraine, and I
think it's a mistake to do so if
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if the old trumpster give it gives it
but I've Claimed he's made you know quite
a few mistakes on some of this stuff,
and maybe maybe it is just posturing who
the hell knows He also talked about some
non tomahawk topics He talked about Trump was
moving from end the war to bullying and
(38:35):
that he's becoming More hawkish as he goes
and he's he's listening to these hawkish advisors
once again And you know I always say
that he you know he keeps he swings
like a pendulum.
He turns around Changes and he listens to
the last person that he talked to and
so when he talks to Putin He's gonna
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come out and say pro Putin stuff when
he talks to Zelensky this Friday he'll come
out and he'll say pro Zelensky stuff and
You know change his mind about whatever it
does and You know drives me crazy when
they talk about that This escalation you know
I'm not all for it If they escalate
(39:21):
and give these tomahawks well What's to stop
the u.s.? From making attacks on I
don't know Lithuania Romania Air bases NATO places
like that where they store and What do
they call that when you?
stage and staging these weapons for delivery to
(39:43):
Ukraine I Mean arguably would that be a
target.
Do you think could be we don't need
that escalation I say Putin talked about nuclear
testing recently and They talked about Their nuclear
testing You know we should both get back
(40:07):
Into it instead of getting off of it
and what he said was if other people
are gonna do underground nuclear testing I guess
we are too You know we have stay
current on what's going on because everybody's talking
about it again He blasted von der Leyen
and call us for Repeating the London and
(40:28):
CIA talking points He the Middle East peace
optics he says Trump's You know Unchanged Israeli
ghost that was kind of cool today to
watch all the stuff was it yesterday whatever
day It was where they were talking all
the stuff that went on in the Middle
(40:49):
East and all the Magically all the European
leaders showed up.
It's like he he told him get here
So I'm gonna show up Keir Starmer shows
up that guy's you know Trump tells him
to jump because they yes, so yes, so
how I Thought it was pretty comical one
thing that I really got a little bothered
(41:10):
at today, and he talked about this to
did our Colonel McGregor talked about Venezuela and
regime change and You know there's gonna be
a pretty he talked about and I said
this too but not as maybe not as
clear that there's gonna be a Latin American
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backlash and further risk if Washington digs in
in Venezuela and urges deals on oil and
gas instead of invasion and then finally he
talked about these China and rare earths and
(41:51):
Tariffs and said that you know China's not
gonna change their tactics.
That's just not gonna happen I tend to
agree with him on that.
I don't see China changing at all I
really don't see India chain at all changing
at all regardless what the old Trumpster said
today.
I just I don't think that's the case
(42:14):
Let's see where do I want to go
do I want to go to Andre Bezrukov
and his speech Maria Zakharova and her speech
Or do I want to go well her
press conference?
I was three hours long But it was
pretty good.
You know there was there was plenty to
go on and then what did we have
(42:36):
here?
Who are these folks?
I wanted to talk about these Where did
I start today, I'm you know what I'm
gonna go to the Trump thing where where
go I got a revert to the story
(42:58):
of bricks in the collapse of bricks because
Trump said so I Did a pretty detailed
search and I found Not one country That
has publicly said they're dropping out of bricks
today or any other time and there's been
(43:18):
no official Indian Modi or the Ministry of
External Affairs Confirmation that India is going to
stop buying Russian oil what we have is
Trump's claims repeated across Western outlets and The
Kremlin and and he was talking about people
against the dollar Was our Trumpster and the
(43:40):
Kremlin came back and said look bricks isn't
against the dollar we're not anti dollar It's
like it's like Modi has said it's like
Jaishankar has said we're not anti-west we're
Without the West we're we're You know outside
(44:00):
of the West we're not We're not anti
them they're just not involved in in this
regional group They're not involved in bricks.
You know nothing like that so It's a
it's a distinction, and it might be narrow,
but it's still a distinction But Trump claiming
(44:20):
that that and he told lots of reporters
this he was pretty blatant about it I
I played that for you, but there's no
Indian government Confirmation as of this moment Well
right before the show there was no statement
from Modi the PMO the MEA confirming Trump's
(44:41):
version AP noted that the Indian Embassy had
not yet commented Kremlin and Kremlin says Moscow
rejects Trump's broader bricks narrative so Peskov comes
out and he says and he's a like
(45:02):
oh I don't know a press secretary it
for the Kremlin and he came out and
said bricks isn't about Undermining the dollar it's
about providing alternatives, and they've been highlighting India's
ongoing purchases that have even risen in October
(45:22):
and then they talked about settlements and that
not being anti dollar But that they're being
paid in you want and in Indian rupees
And it cuts against the idea that India
is bailing out This dropping out of bricks
again.
There's nothing there India joined Brazil has publicly
(45:45):
reaffirmed its commitment to bricks the only person
that he's even been invited and is not
fully in is Saudi Arabia, but there's still
a An offeree a partner, but they haven't
said no they haven't said yes either But
everybody else that's been invited is either fully
(46:05):
in or fully out.
You know and the only one that's in
the middle hell bricks denied Pakistan entry because
they're still in a conflict with India That's
the only one I'm aware of at all
that was a couple a couple of years
ago For context as recently as August Indian
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officials signaled zero change in policy under u
.s. Tariff pressure Ministry of External Affairs said
steady and time-tested Russian partnership New Delhi
hasn't said anything that I'm aware of so
the collapse of bricks I doubt it's imminent
(46:47):
I doubt that it's gone and The Kremlin
says Trump's framing is incorrect and bricks is
cooperation focus and RT's India desk the Russia
Today newspaper their desk reports like I said
higher October imports from India and alternative payments
(47:12):
without the dollar no halt continuity and until
Modi or the MIA M E a say
something different Russia says the status quo is
still going So they they listened they heard
what Trump said, but so far we got
nothing We got the old zipster.
(47:35):
Okay, so I watch some of the front
line I wanted to do a quick look
at the front line In light of what
Trump is saying that Russia's you know losing
all kinds of people and people are dying
in light of his comment that Russia hasn't
(47:59):
They didn't win they everybody expected him to
win in a few weeks, that's old news
by the way and That said that they
they aren't fighting it that way and They're
they're not trying to win it all that
way And I'm not so sure that they've
lost a million and a half men I
(48:21):
know that Ukraine has lost at least a
million and a half men by any Reasonable
estimate, but I don't know where he's getting
these numbers on the Russian side and any
valid sort of Or Reputable, let's say War
(48:45):
analyst is saying the opposite that Ukraine has
losing at least three to one to Russia
and men dying and Maybe as high as
Six to one one estimate.
I saw said that it was nine or
(49:06):
ten to one Now I still believe there's
a lot of young men getting killed that
are Russian Nobody knows those numbers because Russia
doesn't publicize them But there's far more Ukrainian
loss of life than there is Russian and
(49:27):
I think that is Something to To talk
about but anyway when I was watching one
of the ones that I watched quite a
bit at least to get my updates on
the front lines because they have mapping and
(49:47):
It's called the military summary channel.
I like listening to him.
I'm not gonna play any of it well,
maybe I'll play the first few minutes because
but because he talked a little bit about
the The Tomahawks to I wonder if that
would be worthwhile Do you know what I
think I will play a small part of
(50:10):
that for you Because I I like listening
to him anyway Not as much as the
Pelosi monster when she's on a roll But
let's see because he had and I won't
go I won't go all the way through.
It's a it's a long like 18 minute
(50:32):
clip for them and for him and I
don't want to Go that far.
Let's see if I can Get to where
he is Okay, let us let us listen
to a few minutes of what he has
to say ready The day we've been waiting
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whether the United States of America will announce
additional help to Ukraine and will the United
States of America Provide Ukrainians with Tomahawk missiles,
but nothing like this happened today We got
report that Pentagon chief Hexhead arrived in Brussels
where a meeting of NATO defense Ministers and
the Ukraine arms contact group Rammstein will take
(51:16):
place and upon arrival He called on NATO
countries to allocate more funds for the purchase
of American weapons for Ukraine and that's it
So nobody announced that Ukraine will get some
of our missiles Maybe this is going to
happen tomorrow or the day after maybe today
the minister Hexhead was talking with European countries
(51:36):
and leaders with the purpose to understand whether
they're planning to allocate additional funds or not
So today we most likely we will not
understand anything Most likely after this meeting Hexhead
will turn back to Washington and then the
president of the United States of America Will
make a final decision But at the same
time we see that Ukraine continues suffering huge
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problems with electricity By the end of the
15th of October 2025, we got report that
almost the entire Ukraine has no electricity Did
this part is interesting not just about the
electricity about what their plans are for winter?
I forgot all about this but pay attention
to this just several regions So Ukraine still
(52:20):
have some power and that's it.
And obviously this is the beginning of disaster
We see that the Russians stopped attacking the
territory Ukraine most likely they also see the
picture across Ukraine and the picture is very
bad furthermore today We got reports that Ukrainians
began preparing of buses and trucks for evacuation
purposes The Ukrainians are evacuating not just sounds
(52:42):
and settlements along the line of combat contact
where the Russians are advancing The Ukrainians began
thinking how to evacuate the entire population of
Ukraine from the territory Ukraine in the direction
of Western countries And we're talking not about
several thousands of people.
We're talking about millions of Ukrainians So this
is the reality on the ground Zelensky needs
(53:03):
these Tomahawk missiles to begin attacking deep inside
of the territory of the Russian Federation But
it seems that he he is the only
person who understand this need Most likely nobody
else understands what exactly deep credence key is
planning to achieve with this Now let's discuss
this yeah now he's gonna talk about situation
on the front but I forgot that part
(53:25):
and because He is not the only person
that said something like this Zelensky needs a
game-changer.
I argue Douglas McGregor colonel argues that the
Tomahawk is not a game-changer The f
(53:46):
-16 was not a game-changer.
They're all gone Patriot missile not a game
-changer The attack comes missiles not a game
-changers any of the other missiles from East
from the Western European countries no game-changers
anywhere Russia is still advancing along the front
(54:08):
lines and there is nothing different now Russia
over the last month has Completely destroyed the
entire energy infrastructure There's no gas for the
winter.
I told you that they shortened it again
(54:28):
yet another month that they shortened the the
gas or the heat season when you will
get heat which is dictated by the government
You know heat won't be turned on just
because it's cold It's turned on because the
government says it's cold how much you want
(54:49):
to bet.
It's nice and warm in in The president's
living quarters or any of those places, but
the normal people are gonna freeze their testicles
off it's not gonna be good and And
this is the second or third person that
I have heard talk about a massive form
(55:11):
of evacuation about what is going on because
Winter is coming and these guys have nothing
and they they the Situation is quite bad
and along the front lines people are just
(55:32):
Dying.
I mean, that's all there is to it
there were some discussions about where these About
the surrenders that are going they're saying that
there are people on the front lines Ukrainian
that the only way they had water and
food delivered Were by drones, but that the
(55:55):
Russians are controlling the airspace and knocking out
all the drones So the deliveries of food
and water because they can't have You know
when I was in the military and we
were out in the field and you were
playing war games or whatever I was not
in I was in during wartime, but I
was a Russian interpreter.
(56:16):
I didn't end up going to Iraq or
anything like that, you know what I mean?
And So I didn't see this in wartime,
but I know how it worked.
They You Know you would have You're like
if you had a platoon and you have
four squads in a platoon Each squad is
(56:37):
it has its duties in a different location
the platoon sergeant two three times a day
You would have one meal a day.
That was an MRE maybe two and in
the winter or the cold or hot, you
know They would dictate whether you got a
hot meal in the morning You had to
have one hot meal a day Or whatever
if you had and so you you would
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have your platoon sergeant would pick them up
and deliver you these hot meals one time
per day and then you would have have
two MREs or vice versa or Sometimes they
would have to cancel the hot meal because
you know, whatever there was no way to
get you there or whatever And you all
these things came in these little cards that
they opened up that were random and they
(57:19):
said here's your wartime Scenario and they would
follow the wartime scenario.
That was a random sort of scenario, right?
Well, what they're saying is is that in
Ukraine there aren't any hot meals their hell
and then now there aren't even any meals
because the only way they can deliver them
is by is by Drone and the Russians
(57:41):
are knocking out all the drones.
And so these are bad times over there
and The Same is true Because the Russians
are knocking out bridges a lot of bridges
on the western parts of Ukraine that supply
the front lines are being destroyed and all
(58:02):
the railroads are being destroyed and therefore none
of the None of the resupply is getting
to the front lines So this is very
terrible for the people that are on the
front lines but it's equally as terrible for
anybody left in any city near the front
and most of them are Evacuating because they're
(58:23):
all getting bombed anyway and they're trying to
get everybody that is east of the Dnieper
River to the west part of Ukraine that
wants to go and So they're saying they
got all these buses that are going back
and forth and carting them back You know
trying to get them out and evacuate them
and they're allowing people to leave the country
(58:44):
as well.
So it's It's a hell of a scenario
that they're going through and on these These
massive power outage and mass civilian evacuation westward
is With him and just a couple other
(59:06):
sources But no mass media is talking about
it and you won't get that from any
Ukrainian newspaper you just won't so wherever he's
getting this information He's usually pretty Solid as
far as the front lines go.
He's talking about Kherson Dnieper Delta and Kherson
(59:29):
City, there are conflicting reports that Russian infantry
tried to land on Karabakh some maps show
the south part as Russian held meaning they
crossed another river and So there you know
if they can and then they were driven
back and if they can get back across
that side of the river This is really
bad for Ukraine heavy crashes Clashes around Poltavka
(59:52):
and Who's been if cub and Poltavka could
we will probably fall within the week is
what he is saying Tass is highlighting Russian
gains on the Eastern battle group, which is
Nova Veselovskaya and Yonchua River and so they're
they're marching but the Russians are along this
(01:00:14):
and on the Volga River Alexeyevka is There's
they're they're taking more and more places and
the Ukrainians are you know backtracking pretty seriously
and so since October 9 or 10 this
(01:00:34):
show has tracked a Russian push on the
southern Myrnogrodd arc and the Kazachskaya Moskovskaya Balagan
Novopavlovka all of these cities near Myrnogrodd Which
are both all southeast east northeast to cut
the southern half of the city and they're
all being squeezed out of yet another city
(01:00:55):
and Pokrovsk is you know We've been fighting
over that one for a while and the
Russians are already like 60% Into Pokrovsk
and Pokrovsk was a pretty good-sized city
in Kharkiv same thing Sumy You know is
holding firm and you know per this episode
(01:01:15):
What he is saying is that momentum is
still with the Russians All the bridges are
destroyed power grids are gone Let's see.
I covered all this stuff already and they
are just you know, the frontline winds of
the Russians are just a bunch of them
(01:01:36):
and And I don't know If they don't
find a game changer It's gonna be a
long winter but what they're saying is is
they're gonna This is gonna keep on going
for several years I know we're trying to
fund it for years, which I think is
(01:01:59):
nonsense, but I'm not sure where to go
with this With the war, it's freaking war,
you know, who knows who's telling the who's
telling the truth on there I did want
to go into Everybody knows well, maybe everybody
(01:02:19):
doesn't know but I like to listen to
several people that That have pretty good Programs
and I was on the program with Alex
and Alex Um, alex christoforou And I forget
the other alex the guy from the guy
from england and the other guy that's greek
(01:02:40):
I think And he travels around a lot
and alex christoforou.
I listen to more than I do the
other alex But both of them have pretty
good shows And you can listen to him
on a show called the duran if you're
interested and um And and alex christoforou has
his own show.
I don't listen to the duran much anymore
(01:03:02):
um At least not the joint ones.
I listen to alex christoforou and he Always
has a pretty good Take on the news
and today he uh Gave some some pretty
good news And he's always I like to
listen to him because he's freaking funny And
(01:03:24):
uh, I I would replay a little a
few parts of his show But he jumps
around so much that uh, it's hard to
um To track them all you know what
I mean where i'd have to sit down
and say oh geez at minute number Eight,
you know, here's where this is And I
really don't have time for that.
(01:03:45):
So I don't really do it.
So I kind of uh, take notes on
what I liked on it and then uh,
uh, make sure to get to a couple
of those points and he he um Get
some of the uh He he was making
fun in the start of his show maybe
I should play the mark ruda place because
(01:04:08):
That was pretty funny ruda saying that um
Uh, in fact, I you know what?
I think I will maybe i'll play a
little bit Of his first part of his
show because it was damn comical Um what
he was telling us And it was about
mark ruda and mark ruda is no genius.
Let's uh Let's put it that way this
(01:04:30):
guy I I you wonder where they're getting
their info from you know um in order
to talk about and he's basically Let's see
at the very beginning.
Yep.
It's ruta at the very beginning that he
is talking about so Let's see what he
says um Hang on one second because he's
(01:04:54):
mocking russia, right?
And uh, and it's more it's more bs.
This is like that idiot kellogg over here
Talking about you know, russia.
It's trump calling it a paper tiger and
they well if it's a paper tiger Why
do we so that say the same thing
that you're saying about?
oh gee um How come if they're a
(01:05:16):
paper tiger?
How come ukraine can't take them out?
If ukraine's so powerful with all these western
weapons and we've put Basically 300 billion between
the allies and us In ukraine 300 billion
and you still can't beat them.
I mean we could say the same thing
You know, that's what we're going doing.
(01:05:37):
And so ruda made some idiotic comments in
there You should hear them.
This guy's a genius ready Russia's military is
stretched there and elsewhere Its mediterranean task force
was once a mix of surface ships submarines
and support vessels Now in effect, there is
(01:05:58):
hardly any russian naval presence in the mediterranean
left There is a lone and broken russian
submarine limping home from patrol What a change
from the 1984 tom clancy novel the hunt
for red october Today it seems more like
(01:06:18):
the hunt for the nearest mechanic is that
they are saying if a plane Would pose
a threat we have the authorities to do
if necessary the ultimate But if the plane
is not posing a threat, we are not
going to shoot it down And then we
will gently guide it outside the airspace This
is exactly what they should do and I
totally agree with that approach because we are
(01:06:39):
so strong It's proportional response exactly and and
we are so much stronger than the russians
We don't have to take down russian airplanes
because they enter our airspace We do it
if they enter our airspace and also pose
a threat if we were weak You might
maybe think okay.
We are weak.
So we have to immediately show them That
whenever they enter our airspace we shoot them
(01:07:00):
down But if they don't pose a threat
being so much stronger than the russians I
think it is much stronger that our reaction
is as it is Proportionate and of course
making clear to the to the to the
russians that we are not too happy about
these incursions this So i'm i'm gonna let
you listen to alex because he gives some
pretty funny commentary on that But did you
(01:07:22):
hear that this guy's saying we are so
much more powerful than russia.
Oh, really?
If that's the case Then Why are you
giving all your crap to ukraine and nothing
is happening with your powerful weapons that are
there?
Russia is defeating all of nato Including you
mark ruta the nato chief, right?
(01:07:44):
If you got all these powerful nato weapons
How come ukraine doesn't have them?
You've been passing them out to them forever
And the the patriot isn't defending anything.
There's very few left over there I'd like
to know what exactly You mean by that?
Mr. Ruta now, we'll listen to alex because
(01:08:06):
he he was pretty funny on this topic
is my video update on this wednesday afternoon
october the 15th coming to you from nicosia
cyprus Let's talk about some news And let's
(01:08:28):
start things off with nato ceo mark ruta
Who was at a nato event discussing?
How to make it easier for uh for
nato to shoot down russian fighter jets over
nato airspace and mark ruta he said that
(01:08:51):
That if a russian fighter jet is over
Nato airspace and it does not pose a
military threat to to nato then what nato
should do is that they should escort that
fighter jet Out of nato airspace.
They should not shoot that fighter jet down
if it does not pose an Immediate direct
(01:09:14):
military threat to nato and the reasoning according
to mark ruta for this is that That
nato is much more powerful Than russia nato's
military is much Much more powerful than the
russian military.
It is infinitely more powerful than the russian
(01:09:38):
military and shooting down a russian fighter jet
that does not pose a military threat to
nato would be A sign of weakness and
nato should not display weakness towards a russian
military that is So much more weaker than
(01:10:01):
nato because according to ruta nato is much
much much more powerful Than the russian military.
So if there is a fighter jet over
nato airspace And it is not a threat
to nato then escort it out of nato
airspace And nato should not show any any
weakness because it is the much stronger military
(01:10:23):
much much stronger than the russian military ruta
made it a point to say that nato
is much much stronger than the russian military
nonsense Yeah, that's crazy stuff.
Um But I like listen to alex, that's
(01:10:46):
uh, that's funny stuff and he has a
good he has a good program alex christoforo
He's also got like 245 000 subscribers So
that's pretty cool.
Um good for him.
I like that.
Um I what else did he talk about
on his show?
The the he did talk about the russian
navy being down to one lone Submarine it's
(01:11:11):
it's mockery which they're doing, you know on
purpose.
Um If you remember from and in he
he did it in his show just like
uh, the the prior guy that was talking
about The tom hawks that nobody's talking about
yet uh, we shall see and um The
(01:11:34):
kiev team, um is in Washington already waiting
for the z-man to show up and
talk to uh, trumpster on friday and uh
right now That's sphere sphere dinka and yermak
and the u.s. Treasury.
Um, that guy's a genius, too Uh besant,
(01:11:58):
he says the kiev's team met the u
.s. Leadership Uh scott besant discussing money and
pressure on russia and how to get more
money This is not good.
They're gonna finance the next escalation and we're
gonna end up paying for it You know
that that is What's becoming clear and I
(01:12:18):
think we're gonna be on the hook and
so this war Is gonna end up being
trump's war not biden's it'll be trump's war
But he still likes to keep saying that
war never would have happened if I was
If I hadn't lost, you know if I
was still in office or if I hadn't
had the election stolen from me however, you
(01:12:40):
want to put it but uh, uh now
Now it's going to be if he escalates
And i've said this about a couple of
things and I actually believe if it's not
already his escalation will definitely make it his
but that's what rubios of the world and
Whoever I talked about in a long time
(01:13:01):
Lindsey graham.
Lindsey graham wants it to be our war
for sure.
You know you want it um And so
the the ukrainian delegation is already in got
their hands out Zelensky will come here have
his hand even further out and want to
know where those uh, Where the tomahawks come
(01:13:23):
on, give me some tomahawks Give me a
few give me some tomahawks and a bunch
of pontoon boats and we're gonna we're gonna
take these to the creek down down past
the farm and we're gonna we're gonna drop
them in the creek and they'll they'll uh
Take out them bad russians.
(01:13:43):
It'll just take them out, right?
I don't know.
We also got the bailout of argentina going
on to about 20 billion and uh Trump
is gonna, you know generosity depends on the
election outcome, which is pretty funny and uh,
(01:14:07):
he he so whether or not trump gives
money to argentina of the 20 billion Depends
on how the election turns out.
Sorry yawning.
It's getting a little bit late for me.
I'm i'm i'm Um either old or tired.
I suppose I could be both but uh
(01:14:28):
There you go Uh trump saying that putin
should have won in a week He claims
1.5 million russian casualties and still is
claiming gas lines in russia trump is and
and uh I don't Remember seeing any gas
lines in russia and I got around some
(01:14:50):
in there There aren't lines to get gas.
They have plenty of gas And I don't
understand Why this claim is still out there
um But I think that that trump is
back to russia bashing um, and and I
(01:15:10):
think that's uh Uh unfortunate And let's see.
What else did he talk?
Oh, he said something about um a power
move By zelensky in odessa by getting rid
of the mayor who's a guy named trukhanov
(01:15:30):
and uh, he said he had a russian
passport And he was he installed instead some
kind of a military administration and um but
then he said That uh, it's a just
a power grab to lock down the port
And wants to uh preempt any pro-russia
(01:15:54):
mood if the front um the war front
Hits to odessa But I think it's already
going there, you know, odessa has always been
a russian city And I and and you
know, there's been a lot of talk for
a lot of time about um About odessa
(01:16:15):
Transferring to russian hands and I that part
If this drags on for several more years
I believe that nikolaeva and and odessa Will
be russian and will link to transnistria, which
is moldova That's that's me.
That's a prediction.
(01:16:36):
I had months and months ago and several
people Have also had that.
Um I don't remember when the first time
was but uh I know i've thought about
that for quite a while that it could
be a Something that could happen um, I
(01:16:57):
watched on the news here on all the
All the tvs going on here in uh
in studio And saw this and I had
actually seen it a little bit earlier in
the day And I meant to comment on
it because i'm very very much against this
(01:17:19):
But we've done it again um the u
.s Sank another boat near venezuela it's the
fifth such strike on alleged smugglers Um in
a boat in international waters, they killed six
people Um I still say there's no reason
(01:17:43):
they couldn't have stopped the boat Bordered boarded
it Shown me even if it's only me
that uh, there were some drugs aboard and
that these were people transporting drugs and then
Taking them into custody this in my humble
(01:18:06):
opinion Is just downright un-american you don't
just go blow up a boat Because somebody's
drug running you're not calling them terrorists.
Well, you're trying to but you're not a
drug runner It's not a terrorist.
Okay, you don't get to call them a
(01:18:27):
foreign enemy combatant or anything like that It's
a guy running drugs And they might be
bad people.
Well Kill them while they're doing something bad
besides Running drugs.
I'm not saying drugs are good Arrest them
take them into custody in international waters and
Prove it.
(01:18:48):
That's all i'm saying.
I want some proof That's what I want
um this also came out about Uh maria,
uh corrina macado Said something to trump jr
And remember me talking about this when the
(01:19:09):
nobel prize she's the lady who actually won
the nobel prize And trump didn't get it.
Well, she passed out something to uh, Uh
trump jr and kind of was pretty vocal
about it and she's been saying the same
thing I said some not the same thing,
but I talked about it last week um
on uh This oil and the platforms and
(01:19:34):
letting u.s firms come in and profit
after She takes over as president and the
u.s being engaged in regime change This
is this is how you get nobel peace
prizes You get to go out as the
nobel peace prize winner gets to go well
regime change then But as long as you're
(01:19:54):
u.s backed, it doesn't matter You know
that that doesn't hurt anything if the u
.s has a coup somewhere nobody's supposed to
say a word And if you u.s
regime change, that's a you know That's just
par for the course.
It's the uh, it's the way it's supposed
to go, you know We have the ci
op cia operating in venezuela This is bs
(01:20:17):
and they're going to go down there and
kill people and change the regime That's what
we do And then all of the oil
and gas and all the stuff goes and
then what do we get to say?
Oh, well maria macado.
She can be the president and because she
just won the nobel peace prize So she's
one of the good guys and she's been
fighting for democracy for 20 years, right?
(01:20:38):
like she's going to be any different than
um, what is her name sandu and moldova,
uh, whether she's going to be any different
than Zelensky or any predecessor of his and
after 2014 They won't be any different.
All they are are u.s puppets and
we're doing the exact same regime change Did
(01:21:02):
I say regime regime change bs that we've
been engaging in for?
freaking ever And I don't like it, but
that's me um Let's see Uh, let's see,
let's see, where are we going?
(01:21:23):
I had one more do you remember how
I started this?
We had maria zakharova and we had the
uh gentleman who had the Economic discussion.
Mr. Bezrukov and I talked about his his
forecasting um I tell you what, I I
(01:21:44):
wish I could provide maybe i'll do it
tomorrow night And use him as a start
for tomorrow and then talk about some of
the um Topics that maria zakharova talked about
because she had quite a few of them
the first one That she always talks about
(01:22:06):
so Her briefing that she gives at least
once a week and usually two or three
times a week are three hours long, right?
And but you know when you listen to
him the first 10 minutes is about attacks
on civilians by ukrainians So ukraine they talk
(01:22:28):
about this kind of thing a lot and
they like to say.
Oh, jeez russia's killing civilians I don't believe
that and I don't see it, you know
And they lied about bucha and they lie
about a lot of stuff over there and
this could be political propaganda I don't think
it is, you know, they they uh, you
know They talk about the same things and
if you go back and you see it,
(01:22:50):
it's the same But basically she all of
her opening segments She says that kiev continues
strikes on civilian targets in russia across multiple
russian regions From the 8th to the 14th
of october.
They killed in in inside of russia by
attacking civilian targets They killed 21 people injured
(01:23:14):
83 including six children examples, she lists october
8th Maslava priestin with a grad mlrs Hit
a sports and health complex and killed three
people including a 25 year old school teacher
12 people were injured in the same on
(01:23:35):
the same day Then mishona strike injured a
child on october 9th Inova devolzhenko a drone
injured an eight-year-old girl on october
10th.
A couple was wounded in Gorodovrin on october
10th and 11th drones hit cars cars in
Uh, coke, what's this one?
(01:24:02):
Four were wounded from that on october 12th
and shebakin There was a blast near a
housing unit that injured four including two ten
-year-old boys um on proletarskiy Uh, they
had a drone attack that wounded two uh
dorokozhen Bach, uh Bachovka a drone drop injured
(01:24:24):
a driver of a combine a farmer She
cited further hits in eniel by mortars two
bus attacks in gorlovka A drone wounded seven
including two teenagers on october 12th a drone
wounded six including a teenager damaged to a
kindergarten residential administration buildings on october 13th an
(01:24:46):
ammo drop caused casualties in ilkova and gorlovka
one later died in her son Uh on
october 9th burivka in gola pristin.
There was shelling and two died Civilians are
all these um a shell killed a 49
year old woman in bactory and another one
(01:25:07):
was seriously hurt by By uh the same
strike novaya mayachka um I think that stress
is wrong should be mayachka And uav hits
a grocery store On october 14th novaya zabarovka
shelling killed an 80 year old woman Uh
near chernyanka a trucker was injured by a
(01:25:29):
drone She accuses ukrainian units of looting and
arson in areas.
They still control and lists oh this was
they also list all the russian court sentences
against ukrainians who are accused of crimes for
killing civilians and uh Said that zelensky has
(01:25:50):
approved further special ukrainian forces operations inside of
russia And so I mean they always talk
about that and we never hear anything about
any of that I'm, not saying we shouldn't
hear both sides, but you only hear about
the evils of russia It's the evils of
war on both sides and uh, i'm not
(01:26:12):
You know i'd like to see The war
over, you know, none of us want it,
you don't want to see people dying Needlessly,
and this is a needless war She then
talked about um Lavrov's near-term diplomatic schedule.
He's going to be in morocco and in
kazakhstan um on october 16th, there will be
(01:26:35):
talks in moscow with morocco's minister Uh morocco
is a really cool country, by the way
And Fantastic highways and i've driven all over
that.
I went to you know, um, casablanca.
That was freaking cool and um geez I
(01:26:55):
I loved it.
You know, i'd love to go back there.
That was several years ago.
I may need to go back um They're
talking about the emphasis on the north african
sahara And the sahara desert out there.
So there's there's plenty going on about that
She talked about the western escalation and uh
ukraine tomahawks rammstein kiv's washington push um She
(01:27:22):
also talked about boris johnson and I found
this rather amusing citing a british press leak
She alleged that uk foreign uk former prime
minister boris johnson blocked talks with russia in
early april of 2022 And pushed kiev to
keep fighting.
We already knew that part and he may
have derived material benefit from this Referencing a
(01:27:46):
1 million pound tie to businessman Guy named
christopher harborn a major shareholder in kinetic which
is um Said kentucky is what I think
it was But anyway, it supplies kiev with
drones and robotics She claims johnson flew harborn
to kiev for closed military technical meetings on
(01:28:08):
september 23rd framing the episode as a emblematic
of western political industrial profiteering In tandem with
kiev corruption her challenge johnson should answer whether
harborn was indeed on the jet Her segment
fits a recurring theme Anti-russia hysteria as
(01:28:30):
a cover for the arms industry to get
rich And western political self-interest like boris
johnson getting rich Intended to undermine moral claims
behind the uk and eu policy and argue
that early diplomatic off-ramps were deliberately sabotaged
by london by british foreign I'm sorry prime
(01:28:54):
minister boris johnson for his own personal gain
This is a british media story and the
ministry of foreign affairs role is to amplify
it And call for some sort of response
And I tell you what I'd like to
see somebody do something like that too many
(01:29:16):
people getting fabulously wealthy off of this war
lots of ukrainians lots of europeans plenty of
americans Just spreading that money around and watching
people die I'm against it.
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I might even answer five seven three seven
four six 80-20 Some pretty hilarious events
(00:42):
of today.
There's some things going on and I normally
don't do this because number one it's oh
It's not international.
I suppose it could be but I like
the international stuff I think JR does a
fantabulous job of of giving us all the
news and events and hilarity of the day
(01:05):
From the national side.
Sometimes I get into it and I complain
because they're all a bunch of Wankers that's
an international word.
If you don't know what a wanker is
perhaps you should find out But I couldn't
resist this one because this one just came
out not long ago Maybe JR had it
earlier and I didn't hear it, but it
(01:27):
says it just happened on October 15 And
it's a Nancy Pelosi clip It is Nancy
Pelosi telling a reporter to shut up So
that word for our Russian word of the
day We're gonna tell you how to say
shut up in Russian and that is one
(01:49):
word is that knees meaning?
Shut it basically is that knees means shut
up and it's rather rude similar to shut
up and Here you go you get a
listen to her tell this reporter and I
haven't been able to figure out the volume
on this so I hope it's not too
(02:10):
loud was pretty loud in my ear.
So, let's see what happens when I play
it Are you at all concerned about the
new January 6th committee finding you liable for
that day Why did you refuse the National
Guard on January 6?
(02:32):
Shut up.
I did not refuse the National Guard.
The president didn't send it Why are you
coming here with Republican talking points as if
you're a serious journalist the American people want
to know we still have questions Thank you
On there and we should have Did she
(02:55):
say they had responsibility ask me in the
middle of the thing, but they've already breached
She's got a mask This part we know
the Capitol Police, I mean the National Guard
why weren't the National Guard there to begin
with?
They thought that they had sufficient that was
(03:16):
not a question about it, but they don't
know They clearly didn't know She's crazy
so Maybe she's not crazy.
Maybe she's just a loony bin.
Maybe she just off her rocker But you
(03:36):
know what?
The fact is that they get in there
and they stay and they never freaky Leave
they just never leave.
It's like they outstay their welcome.
They get fantabulously wealthy and It drives me
Farging bananas.
I do not like this.
(03:57):
I don't like it one little bit.
I Just don't so I was listening to
a lecture by Andre Bezrukov and it is
called Strategic where is that one?
But it's in Russian.
So you don't get a listen and what
I did was I Made sure to get
that thing Get the whole thing for us
(04:22):
hopefully in some of his words and there
it did show up so Basically, this is
some good stuff Because he gave a it's
called his lecture was called strategic foresight from
signal to decision and What he argued why
(04:44):
he argued it the facts and examples he
cited and his concrete recommendations for Russia and
what happens post transition of all of this
because he's he's He's very well spoken and
I like to listen to him let me
give you a hint and we're not going
to get it till later in the show,
(05:05):
but I'll give you a an Executive summary.
Let's call it a a one paragraph core
claim of what he is saying he's saying
the world is entering a once in a
century Technological pivot now we've heard this from
other people too that say that Remember me
(05:27):
talking about this even several months ago that
said that there were That the differences you
are seeing now and the the speed with
technology at which technology is going to advance
is going to be Extremely great in the
next 10 to 20 years.
You're going to see moves like You saw
(05:51):
Only when the telephone the automobile the airplane
when when all of the the radio all
of these things came Just bombarding upon us
and changed the face of the planet so
he's making something similar a similar sort of
comment and He said, you know, it's once
in a century technological pivot AI genetics new
(06:15):
energy industry stacks comparable to 1890 to 1914
shift that reshaped economics and geopolitics and the
big players are already Racing to write the
rules of the next cycle now I've argued
myself that Rick Russia India China are going
(06:35):
to be at the top of this not
only because of the huge Expansive territory that
they cover but the and and all of
the massive resources that Russia has but the
population That they have and the momentum the
they are they are They are the next
(06:55):
cycle.
No, that's that's just me and I have
an economics degree, but I'm not at the
level You know of a Jeffrey Sachs who's
argued something similar or at this guy Andre
Bezrukov, which Bezrukov means no hands hmm, he
didn't have any hands and so Bezrukov It's
just like in In America, you know, we
(07:17):
have last names like Sandman or last names
like I don't know what Miller You know,
what is a Miller?
It's the guy who mills right and but
they have the same thing guy with one,
you know one hand and Anyway, he expects
fragmentation into competing techno economic blocks and a
(07:39):
very turbulent transition Including a extremely deep economic
crisis now I tend to believe this or
Feel the same way we got an economic
crisis coming the dollars gonna collapse in my
opinion And it's you know, we're gonna want
(08:01):
that gold-backed We're gonna want something else
and I believe the rest not we we're
gonna we're gonna wish that our Fearless leaders
had played this a little bit Better than
they have and anyway, he also alleges that
a fight along the southern rim of Eurasia
where new industrial capacity and massive middle class
(08:25):
has arisen Russia might use its own strategic
foresight to build a billion person Economic technological
space with their partners India Iran Southeast Asia
China standardized platforms invest in critical technology chips
radio electronic tronics AI aviation and hardwired scenario
(08:50):
thinking into state management They won't he wants
to forecast forecasting in this his framing is
a memory of the future you plan not
to be right But to become adaptive and
make better decisions sooner.
It was an Interesting hour and a half
(09:12):
long speech that he gave and so I've
kind of summarized I mean, that's the executive
summary and we're not gonna get to it
because there's plenty of other interesting happy crappy
to get into tonight that we wish to
get to and I have a lot of
Stuff to cover and it's gonna be fun
Why because I said so and I'm gonna
have fun whether you do or not How
(09:34):
do you like them apples friends and neighbors?
Let's see Where what else did I have
in my history channel here of my YouTube's
besides?
Nancy Pelosi snapping we had something else quite
interesting on the old Trumpster and this one
(09:55):
is a very short and I might play
it twice because I found a short one
and Then I found one that was a
little bit longer that kind of got the
whole the whole part of it because this
I Can't really control.
It's only a short, you know, and so
you don't get to see the whole thing,
which is driving me crazy But here, let
(10:17):
me see if I can drag that back
because basically what he is saying is Is
About bricks that he is saying J.
R.
Meyer may have already played this if he
did I'm sorry to repeat but guess what
my program talk about what I want and
he's talking about bricks and I Don't think
(10:38):
he's telling that you know, I See a
Pinocchio nose growing there.
This is not Accurate friends and neighbors, but
let's try it Anyway, just because it's the
Trumpster and we like to listen to him
But I think he has a tendency to
speak first and find the facts later Which
(10:59):
is sometimes happens.
So let's listen to what he has to
say.
I don't anybody wants to bury be in
bricks That's fine, but we're gonna put tariffs
on your nation.
Everybody dropped out They're all dropping out of
bricks bricks was an attack on the dollar
and I said you want to play that
game I'm gonna put tariffs on your on
your all of your product coming into the
u.s They said like I said, we're
(11:21):
dropping out of bricks Dropped out there dropped
out.
They're all dropping out of bricks.
I don't anybody wants to bury there is
nobody that has said that Nobody I did
a I did a search for this.
I tried to find it somebody please find
for me One country who says they are
(11:41):
dropping out of bricks.
I I've been looking ever since I heard
this Late last night and I Got nothing
There's nothing there and they're saying that people
are leaving.
He also said Another Pinocchio in my opinion.
(12:03):
We'll wait and see what that says tomorrow.
But this is a Pinocchio he said Let's
see if I can find it because that
was in a different Clippage that he gave
us and we'll get a little bit more
into it as well, but I want to
play this There's Pelosi again.
Oh, that's one unattractive woman.
You know that Let's see here.
(12:26):
And maybe it's just because do you know
what?
this is sometimes you just look at a
woman or or a person and you're just
repulsed Okay, that's a repulsive woman Just like
Hillary Clinton, I cannot stand it I can't
stand to look at them even because they
(12:46):
don't tell the truth.
I don't think they even believe what they're
saying That's the problem as you sit and
you watch him talking and you're going, you
know If you weren't in public you wouldn't
say that if you were talking to you
know Your loved ones or in a private
place with somebody that you were strategizing with
You would say something different to them then
(13:08):
you're saying to us even now I think
it's nonsense So we're gonna go now and
in the first part of this and I
and I'm not even sure where the Modi
thing is but it comes up in here
in a minute and But but the old
trumpster and in the first part he talks
about bricks again so and you'll get the
(13:28):
full quote of what he was saying about
people leaving and So let us start and
see if and I'll let it play for
a little while just because he's amusing anyway
and Let's see what he has to say
because he also says that Narendra Modi has
assured him that India will no longer be
buying Russian oil Curious that is a complete
(13:54):
turnaround Why would India?
Engage in a complete turnaround you think they're
doing it because 25% 50% I
don't think they're doing it at all and
I need I'm a doubting Samuel as many
of you know And so I need something
more than Trump just saying it Okay, I
(14:16):
don't believe that people are bailing out of
bricks so far Nobody has shown me that
and I went and checked all the bricks
webpages, you know Indonesia was the last to
join back in like February or March or
whatever it was But there hasn't been anybody
bail out that I'm aware of nobody's gone
(14:37):
Nothing that I've been able to find says
that people are leaving bricks, so Sorry, mr.
President Happy birthday mr.
President No, but I need Proof I need
something more Than a guy saying it.
(15:00):
I need a little bit more.
But anyway, let's listen to the story of
what?
These two are saying whoever these people are
once Trump him.
I recognize the other guy thinks Is that
Patel?
I think he was having an FBI briefing,
but I really don't know listen to this
ready That's not trading in conspiracy theories, okay
(15:21):
Mr. President, thank you so much.
Thank you in light of China's export curbs
on rare earths.
Do you view India as a Reliable partner
going forward and are you planning to meet
Prime Minister Modi in Malaysia?
Are you open to talks?
Yes, he's a friend of mine.
We have a great relationship.
He just said that two days ago as
(15:42):
you know We have a great relationship.
No, we were not happy with him buying
oil From Russia Because that lets Russia continue
on with this ridiculous war where they've lost
a million and a half people by the
way Russia's lost a million and a half
people.
Isn't it amusing that he's now talking about
Russia losing people and he's no longer focused
on Ukraine who estimates are far greater than
(16:07):
a million and a half for them Very
odd because he was not too long ago
Saying that Ukraine is lost at least that
amount of people Now he's not saying it
and he's putting it all on Putin because
of what?
It's only the only way this war is
(16:29):
continuing to go on is because India and
China are buying their oil right soldiers mostly
This is a war that should have never
started but it's a war that Russia should
have won in the first week and they're
going into the fourth year and I want
to see it stop So I was not
happy that India was buying oil and he
(16:50):
assured me today that they will not be
buying oil from Russia So today today Narendra
Modi told Our fearless leader and I say
that for real him.
He is fearless, but I told our our
main in the White House That we are
(17:14):
no longer buying Russian oil.
That's what he said We will not be
buying oil from Russia Somehow I doubt that
to be true and we shall have to
see what happens tomorrow And I've gone out
and I've done a search to try to
find any supporting evidence of this the only
(17:34):
supporting evidence are People like 1214 channels repeating
what Trump said, but no comments from Jaishankar
no comments from Modi himself.
No comments from the what do they call
it their?
external affairs MEA Ministry of External Affairs nothing
(17:56):
We don't have that and so sorry, but
I have to see that before I believe
it I I'm not saying it can't happen.
I'm not saying it won't happen I'm saying
there's no Confirmation of that yet.
Let us continue.
That's a big stop Now I got to
(18:16):
get China to do the same thing You
know that that is relatively easy compared to
what we just did over the last Week
in the Middle East Middle East was 3
,000 years.
Yeah, I don't care about it yet stuff
Not that I don't care, but you know
I I have a set of topics related
to India related to bricks and related to
(18:38):
things I want to talk about we may
come back to this possibly Possibly we will
come back, but I'm not positive Okay and
we're gonna jump around a little bit today
because I also listened to Maria's a hot
of us.
She had a three-hour briefing and I
listened to a good chunk of that today
(18:59):
as well which was a lot of fun
and You know, she's she's always fairly Entertaining
let's say and some of the things that
she talks about Let's see I Want to
look where am I gonna go?
I have so many places to go that
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it's rather rather Comical where to go I
wanted to talk about one thing from last
night's show So I had to because I
was going a little loopy on this and
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I Went into it in two different ways
first I went into the you know Remember
JR told me I should Get on and
do some research whether it's a I or
any other way and I'll tell you how
this Went off.
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Okay, I Did a bit of a search
and First of all, I asked The AI
goddess, I don't know why but I have
her speak to me in a female voice
and maybe I just like that I don't
know.
Maybe I want somebody to tell me things
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in a female voice and I asked if
I was just lunatic or maybe it's possible
that the caller was a lunatic and that
you can't just take a tomahawk and throw
it into the water and Have it take
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off on its own.
Do you need a launcher?
And so I did a little research So
yes, I thought I had done all the
appropriate research on them yesterday And I must
admit that I haven't been familiar with missiles
for quite a while Because I haven't been
liquidating them as we used to say in
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When I was in the business as it
were and guess what the word is for
liquidation in Russian.
Oh This is difficult Liquidate see Liquidate see
it's liquidation.
And so my old Russian instructor would always
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say Words that are the same in Russian
as they are in English like Telephone Telephone
he'd say he'd say this at the end.
Oh Sam.
Did you know that?
That starter a ruska slova that's an old
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Russian word Because according to him the Russians
invented everything first right and not the other
way around they didn't just they didn't take
our technology and Change it around They do
you know what's really funny and I'm totally
all over the map today, but it just
reminded me of another thing I was over
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there.
Oh One of the first times I was
over there and a show a cartoon came
on TV and Gets guess what this show
was called and I've never researched it never
and I I'm afraid to haven't done it,
but that it's a cartoon show and it's
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about a bear and a a piglet and
an eeyore and They have all these things
and guess what to name it a show
is Vinnie pooh Vinnie pooh Winnie pooh, and
it's Vinnie pooh, and he has a lot
of the same adventures and He's been around
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for at least an equal amount of time
some of their earliest cartoons are a Vinnie
pooh and It made me think man This
is horrible now, they've got me thinking that
maybe what was it a a Milne was
it with the Vinnie pooh?
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That took it over here, and I don't
I don't disbelieve that I'm sure it was
you know some Russian guy stole it and
took it Over there, I don't know, but
they have Vinnie pooh, and we have Winnie
the pooh, and they were nearly the same
But it didn't say The name of the
author of the stuff on their cartoons, and
so I found it rather Interesting anyway back
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to the tomahawks because we got to go
back to the tomahawk a little bit for
our show tonight Because the short answer given
to me was that I Surprise surprise.
I'm not crazy.
I Am not crazy.
You probably can't just throw them into the
water and They will self launch You know
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tomahawks do not self launch if you drop
them in the water they absolutely need a
purpose-built launcher and canister and a fire
control system to work and here's why the
idea of throwing them in the water and
Letting them go just doesn't hold up because
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the canister is The launcher Every tomahawk you
see on a ship a submarine or on
a truck sits in a sealed canister eyes
round with a booster rails umbilicals to connect
and environmental controls that canister provides power communication
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and a safe mechanical interface for ignition and
Separation meaning no canister no launch That's point
one point number two Mission data and crypto
have to be loaded and verified and this
is why the u.s. Providing this data
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is Entering the war that's what's happening.
Not that they're not already in Anyway, but
a tomahawk cannot fly without a full mission
load route altitude corridor constraint no fly boxes
and Crypto keys like you see on you
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know Turn your key meaner shooting off nuclear
weapon.
You gotta have a key, right?
That is done through the tomahawk fire control
System which is shipboard or on the Army's
ground systems.
Yeah, I can't just Turn it on it
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has to be controlled.
Okay number three alignment and arming logic pre
-launch the missiles navigation system needs INS GPS
alignment arming requires a strict chain of consent
interlock environmental queue Acceleration timing safe to arm
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logic programs These are provided in a controlled
sequence by the launcher and the fire control
system Not by the depth of the water
you drop them into Okay number four Physics
itself means this is impossible.
This is actually probably the only one I
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got right Without looking into it, but it
needs to be it needs a guided boost
in a known orientation the tomahawk leaves the
canister under a Solid rocket booster thrust like
any missile, right?
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Then it deploys wings and starts a turbofan
a free floating round in the water would
just tumble Ingest water or break long before
stable flight sub-launched tomahawks aren't loose rounds
they are Encapsulated and ejected from a torpedo
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tube Which I said last night in a
controlled way before the booster lights up Okay,
number five safety and handling a launcher exists
to keep crews and bystanders alive the safe
pins the umbilicals the thermal control the command
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destruct the misfire procedure and Blast and fragment
shielding are all there drop it in and
hope it lights up would fail every safety
and legal standard on earth and the cost
reality Okay The cost reality is this a
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100 million dollar launcher conflates the whole battle
the whole battery launchers plus command vehicle Plus
comms plus spares plus training plus canisters plus
missiles With one single truck, okay So you
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have to have this hundred million dollar launcher
system, which includes all of that, right?
But even a cheap Single cell concept which
they don't do anymore.
I told you they Marines got rid of
it the army never implemented in the first
place It's still need a single cell concept
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would one missile would still need power communications
alignment Direction and thrust fire control and a
certified canister That's the price of making a
complex weapon reliably repeatably safe and the bottom
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line You cannot have a tomahawk without a
launcher is correct Just dropping it in the
water signs sounds like a mashup of how
submarines launch missiles from tubes and encapsulated rounds
and how VLS typhons fire from strike length
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canisters In every case you have to have
launcher plus canister plus fire control.
Those are Non-negotiable and I found it
very interesting because every once in a while
usually about once a week.
I will find a I Assume everybody knows
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who this is But I don't know I
could be one of the nuts that that
does and maybe a lot of people don't
listen to him But there's a guy who
has a Channel, and he's interviewed all the
time by other channels and his name is
Colonel Douglas McGregor and he's been talking about
these topics for a long time about Ukraine
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about Russia about all these things and just
so happened that today I was listening to
his Show and he Guess what?
He was talking about Tomahawks and what he
said was the following Let's see, here's what
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he put He had he had tomahawk remarks
Where'd he go?
what he said about tomahawks was Somewhat similar
to what I said You know the no
canister no fire control no launch and what
he said Not that the tomahawks if given
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to Ukraine Will not be any sort of
strategic game changer He called the tomahawks and
I never thought of this part, but I
but I I mean It's not that I
didn't think about it.
I didn't focus on this part.
He called tomahawks an old system It still
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has its uses But he says that it'll
never settle the war and that Trump and
Zelensky are overestimating this missile and Underestimating any
Russian response to it.
I Can see that and I and I
probably agree with it Range and punch as
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he said it.
He said it reaches a little out a
little further than a thousand miles and I
think It's a little less than a thousand
miles You know according to what what I
recall about it, and then he said it
carries a 3,300 pound warhead, but I
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think he's wrong in that I thought it
was a thousand pound warhead, but maybe it's
3,300 Maybe he's right.
I'm not but he says the air and
sea launched uses for Ukraine Just like I
said are Out that they can't launch from
the air because they don't have aircraft you
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know and those are those are not in
existence anyway to launch tomahawks and sea launched
uses there's they don't have anybody that would
definitely have to be America that did it
and So he said those are out and
the only way they can do it is
a ground launched System as the only practical
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path for Ukraine and then surprise surprise What
did he get into ground launch systems?
And he said those are boutique at best
and have to be run by the United
States He described the army version as a
boutique weapon modified by for u.s. Ground
Forces, but really they were only modified in
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The Philippines and He's stressing the mission planning
and execution would lie entirely in US hands
Which is just what I said and what
Moscow keeps saying to that you can't do
that The only people who could fire him
or the u.s. They know their missiles
They were involved in the INF treaty, too
and So they know how these things get
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fired and they sure as hell you don't
just hand a piece of paper and a
missile on a on a Pontoon boat with
a piece of paper saying here's how it's
gonna get here's how it's gonna be targeted
It doesn't work that way So Moscow has
said that if any strike by by a
tomahawk is a strike Against us by the
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United States the end Okay, so containerized deception
and a barge idea I found this funny
as hell because this is JR's idea for
a Pontoon boat, but it's not a pontoon
boat And it's a really freaking big one,
but what he said was he said that
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you could put a 40-foot missile in
a box container up container concept that could
be mounted on a barge and Fired from
the river with other containers as decoys so
they you know, well, you know They don't
just come out with this 40-foot 40
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-foot Missile box and have that immediately blown
up by Russian airstrikes But the but it
would still have to have u.s. Planning
and it would still be Escalatory if they
did this and they'd need a number of
decoys Then he talked about the number and
effectiveness just what I said He said he
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doesn't know how many the u.s. Could
spare.
He said they're hard to make they take
a lot of time and If around 50
were launched Russian integrated air defenses would likely
shoot most of them down, but probably not
all and The estimates are they couldn't get
more than 20 to 50 anyway Likely targets
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if they did use them would be fixed
infrastructure power grids airfields refineries Not moving targets,
but he still doubts any real Strategic effect
because there hasn't been any so far with
any of the other Systems that they've had
he would spend a lot of time on
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calling it a preemption risk any practical launch
setup has to enter crane Ukraine and Get
closer to the targets which are under persistent
Russian surveillance So if they showed up in
Western Ukraine To get to Eastern Ukraine.
They sure as hell can't come to Odessa
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and if they come through Poland They'd be
in Western Ukraine, and they'd be destroyed long
before they hit a place where they would
have a sufficient Range to do significant damage,
so he's saying you know they would they
would be found before they got close Which
is a good point that I didn't mention
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yesterday Nuclear escalation risk medvedev Out of
Russia former president said that his warning was
Russia can't tell in flight if a tomahawk
is nuclear or Conventional so the Russian doctrine
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would reserve the right to escalate I Didn't
think of this either, and I didn't hear
medvedev say this But this is what Colonel
McGregor said he said that medvedev gave a
warning said you know a tomahawk is a
nuclear missile and can carry nuclear payload and
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Now there's an I doubt that the US
would ever give Ukraine any sort of nuclear
payload But who knows we'll find that out
on Friday or maybe tomorrow there was no
news on it today, and we were supposed
to get some kind of News on that
today, which never occurred But anyway medvedev said
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that that would be an escalation and could
cause a nuclear response I think that's just
fear-mongering, but anyway the bottom line is
that tomahawks aren't gonna change the war No
way no, how and I Don't know It's
not there.
They're there.
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No magic bullet.
You know and fingerprints us everywhere u.s.
Planning u.s. Planners u.s. communications u
.s. Mission data Moscow would read that as
Washington firing at Russia not Ukraine, and I
think it's a mistake to do so if
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if the old trumpster give it gives it
but I've Claimed he's made you know quite
a few mistakes on some of this stuff,
and maybe maybe it is just posturing who
the hell knows He also talked about some
non tomahawk topics He talked about Trump was
moving from end the war to bullying and
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that he's becoming More hawkish as he goes
and he's he's listening to these hawkish advisors
once again And you know I always say
that he you know he keeps he swings
like a pendulum.
He turns around Changes and he listens to
the last person that he talked to and
so when he talks to Putin He's gonna
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come out and say pro Putin stuff when
he talks to Zelensky this Friday he'll come
out and he'll say pro Zelensky stuff and
You know change his mind about whatever it
does and You know drives me crazy when
they talk about that This escalation you know
I'm not all for it If they escalate
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and give these tomahawks well What's to stop
the u.s.? From making attacks on I
don't know Lithuania Romania Air bases NATO places
like that where they store and What do
they call that when you?
stage and staging these weapons for delivery to
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Ukraine I Mean arguably would that be a
target.
Do you think could be we don't need
that escalation I say Putin talked about nuclear
testing recently and They talked about Their nuclear
testing You know we should both get back
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Into it instead of getting off of it
and what he said was if other people
are gonna do underground nuclear testing I guess
we are too You know we have stay
current on what's going on because everybody's talking
about it again He blasted von der Leyen
and call us for Repeating the London and
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CIA talking points He the Middle East peace
optics he says Trump's You know Unchanged Israeli
ghost that was kind of cool today to
watch all the stuff was it yesterday whatever
day It was where they were talking all
the stuff that went on in the Middle
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East and all the Magically all the European
leaders showed up.
It's like he he told him get here
So I'm gonna show up Keir Starmer shows
up that guy's you know Trump tells him
to jump because they yes, so yes, so
how I Thought it was pretty comical one
thing that I really got a little bothered
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at today, and he talked about this to
did our Colonel McGregor talked about Venezuela and
regime change and You know there's gonna be
a pretty he talked about and I said
this too but not as maybe not as
clear that there's gonna be a Latin American
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backlash and further risk if Washington digs in
in Venezuela and urges deals on oil and
gas instead of invasion and then finally he
talked about these China and rare earths and
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Tariffs and said that you know China's not
gonna change their tactics.
That's just not gonna happen I tend to
agree with him on that.
I don't see China changing at all I
really don't see India chain at all changing
at all regardless what the old Trumpster said
today.
I just I don't think that's the case
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Let's see where do I want to go
do I want to go to Andre Bezrukov
and his speech Maria Zakharova and her speech
Or do I want to go well her
press conference?
I was three hours long But it was
pretty good.
You know there was there was plenty to
go on and then what did we have
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here?
Who are these folks?
I wanted to talk about these Where did
I start today, I'm you know what I'm
gonna go to the Trump thing where where
go I got a revert to the story
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of bricks in the collapse of bricks because
Trump said so I Did a pretty detailed
search and I found Not one country That
has publicly said they're dropping out of bricks
today or any other time and there's been
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no official Indian Modi or the Ministry of
External Affairs Confirmation that India is going to
stop buying Russian oil what we have is
Trump's claims repeated across Western outlets and The
Kremlin and and he was talking about people
against the dollar Was our Trumpster and the
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Kremlin came back and said look bricks isn't
against the dollar we're not anti dollar It's
like it's like Modi has said it's like
Jaishankar has said we're not anti-west we're
Without the West we're we're You know outside
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of the West we're not We're not anti
them they're just not involved in in this
regional group They're not involved in bricks.
You know nothing like that so It's a
it's a distinction, and it might be narrow,
but it's still a distinction But Trump claiming
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that that and he told lots of reporters
this he was pretty blatant about it I
I played that for you, but there's no
Indian government Confirmation as of this moment Well
right before the show there was no statement
from Modi the PMO the MEA confirming Trump's
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version AP noted that the Indian Embassy had
not yet commented Kremlin and Kremlin says Moscow
rejects Trump's broader bricks narrative so Peskov comes
out and he says and he's a like
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oh I don't know a press secretary it
for the Kremlin and he came out and
said bricks isn't about Undermining the dollar it's
about providing alternatives, and they've been highlighting India's
ongoing purchases that have even risen in October
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and then they talked about settlements and that
not being anti dollar But that they're being
paid in you want and in Indian rupees
And it cuts against the idea that India
is bailing out This dropping out of bricks
again.
There's nothing there India joined Brazil has publicly
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reaffirmed its commitment to bricks the only person
that he's even been invited and is not
fully in is Saudi Arabia, but there's still
a An offeree a partner, but they haven't
said no they haven't said yes either But
everybody else that's been invited is either fully
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in or fully out.
You know and the only one that's in
the middle hell bricks denied Pakistan entry because
they're still in a conflict with India That's
the only one I'm aware of at all
that was a couple a couple of years
ago For context as recently as August Indian
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officials signaled zero change in policy under u
.s. Tariff pressure Ministry of External Affairs said
steady and time-tested Russian partnership New Delhi
hasn't said anything that I'm aware of so
the collapse of bricks I doubt it's imminent
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I doubt that it's gone and The Kremlin
says Trump's framing is incorrect and bricks is
cooperation focus and RT's India desk the Russia
Today newspaper their desk reports like I said
higher October imports from India and alternative payments
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without the dollar no halt continuity and until
Modi or the MIA M E a say
something different Russia says the status quo is
still going So they they listened they heard
what Trump said, but so far we got
nothing We got the old zipster.
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Okay, so I watch some of the front
line I wanted to do a quick look
at the front line In light of what
Trump is saying that Russia's you know losing
all kinds of people and people are dying
in light of his comment that Russia hasn't
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They didn't win they everybody expected him to
win in a few weeks, that's old news
by the way and That said that they
they aren't fighting it that way and They're
they're not trying to win it all that
way And I'm not so sure that they've
lost a million and a half men I
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know that Ukraine has lost at least a
million and a half men by any Reasonable
estimate, but I don't know where he's getting
these numbers on the Russian side and any
valid sort of Or Reputable, let's say War
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analyst is saying the opposite that Ukraine has
losing at least three to one to Russia
and men dying and Maybe as high as
Six to one one estimate.
I saw said that it was nine or
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ten to one Now I still believe there's
a lot of young men getting killed that
are Russian Nobody knows those numbers because Russia
doesn't publicize them But there's far more Ukrainian
loss of life than there is Russian and
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I think that is Something to To talk
about but anyway when I was watching one
of the ones that I watched quite a
bit at least to get my updates on
the front lines because they have mapping and
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It's called the military summary channel.
I like listening to him.
I'm not gonna play any of it well,
maybe I'll play the first few minutes because
but because he talked a little bit about
the The Tomahawks to I wonder if that
would be worthwhile Do you know what I
think I will play a small part of
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that for you Because I I like listening
to him anyway Not as much as the
Pelosi monster when she's on a roll But
let's see because he had and I won't
go I won't go all the way through.
It's a it's a long like 18 minute
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clip for them and for him and I
don't want to Go that far.
Let's see if I can Get to where
he is Okay, let us let us listen
to a few minutes of what he has
to say ready The day we've been waiting
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whether the United States of America will announce
additional help to Ukraine and will the United
States of America Provide Ukrainians with Tomahawk missiles,
but nothing like this happened today We got
report that Pentagon chief Hexhead arrived in Brussels
where a meeting of NATO defense Ministers and
the Ukraine arms contact group Rammstein will take
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place and upon arrival He called on NATO
countries to allocate more funds for the purchase
of American weapons for Ukraine and that's it
So nobody announced that Ukraine will get some
of our missiles Maybe this is going to
happen tomorrow or the day after maybe today
the minister Hexhead was talking with European countries
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and leaders with the purpose to understand whether
they're planning to allocate additional funds or not
So today we most likely we will not
understand anything Most likely after this meeting Hexhead
will turn back to Washington and then the
president of the United States of America Will
make a final decision But at the same
time we see that Ukraine continues suffering huge
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problems with electricity By the end of the
15th of October 2025, we got report that
almost the entire Ukraine has no electricity Did
this part is interesting not just about the
electricity about what their plans are for winter?
I forgot all about this but pay attention
to this just several regions So Ukraine still
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have some power and that's it.
And obviously this is the beginning of disaster
We see that the Russians stopped attacking the
territory Ukraine most likely they also see the
picture across Ukraine and the picture is very
bad furthermore today We got reports that Ukrainians
began preparing of buses and trucks for evacuation
purposes The Ukrainians are evacuating not just sounds
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and settlements along the line of combat contact
where the Russians are advancing The Ukrainians began
thinking how to evacuate the entire population of
Ukraine from the territory Ukraine in the direction
of Western countries And we're talking not about
several thousands of people.
We're talking about millions of Ukrainians So this
is the reality on the ground Zelensky needs
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these Tomahawk missiles to begin attacking deep inside
of the territory of the Russian Federation But
it seems that he he is the only
person who understand this need Most likely nobody
else understands what exactly deep credence key is
planning to achieve with this Now let's discuss
this yeah now he's gonna talk about situation
on the front but I forgot that part
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and because He is not the only person
that said something like this Zelensky needs a
game-changer.
I argue Douglas McGregor colonel argues that the
Tomahawk is not a game-changer The f
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-16 was not a game-changer.
They're all gone Patriot missile not a game
-changer The attack comes missiles not a game
-changers any of the other missiles from East
from the Western European countries no game-changers
anywhere Russia is still advancing along the front
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lines and there is nothing different now Russia
over the last month has Completely destroyed the
entire energy infrastructure There's no gas for the
winter.
I told you that they shortened it again
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yet another month that they shortened the the
gas or the heat season when you will
get heat which is dictated by the government
You know heat won't be turned on just
because it's cold It's turned on because the
government says it's cold how much you want
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to bet.
It's nice and warm in in The president's
living quarters or any of those places, but
the normal people are gonna freeze their testicles
off it's not gonna be good and And
this is the second or third person that
I have heard talk about a massive form
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of evacuation about what is going on because
Winter is coming and these guys have nothing
and they they the Situation is quite bad
and along the front lines people are just
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Dying.
I mean, that's all there is to it
there were some discussions about where these About
the surrenders that are going they're saying that
there are people on the front lines Ukrainian
that the only way they had water and
food delivered Were by drones, but that the
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Russians are controlling the airspace and knocking out
all the drones So the deliveries of food
and water because they can't have You know
when I was in the military and we
were out in the field and you were
playing war games or whatever I was not
in I was in during wartime, but I
was a Russian interpreter.
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I didn't end up going to Iraq or
anything like that, you know what I mean?
And So I didn't see this in wartime,
but I know how it worked.
They You Know you would have You're like
if you had a platoon and you have
four squads in a platoon Each squad is
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it has its duties in a different location
the platoon sergeant two three times a day
You would have one meal a day.
That was an MRE maybe two and in
the winter or the cold or hot, you
know They would dictate whether you got a
hot meal in the morning You had to
have one hot meal a day Or whatever
if you had and so you you would
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have your platoon sergeant would pick them up
and deliver you these hot meals one time
per day and then you would have have
two MREs or vice versa or Sometimes they
would have to cancel the hot meal because
you know, whatever there was no way to
get you there or whatever And you all
these things came in these little cards that
they opened up that were random and they
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said here's your wartime Scenario and they would
follow the wartime scenario.
That was a random sort of scenario, right?
Well, what they're saying is is that in
Ukraine there aren't any hot meals their hell
and then now there aren't even any meals
because the only way they can deliver them
is by is by Drone and the Russians
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are knocking out all the drones.
And so these are bad times over there
and The Same is true Because the Russians
are knocking out bridges a lot of bridges
on the western parts of Ukraine that supply
the front lines are being destroyed and all
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the railroads are being destroyed and therefore none
of the None of the resupply is getting
to the front lines So this is very
terrible for the people that are on the
front lines but it's equally as terrible for
anybody left in any city near the front
and most of them are Evacuating because they're
(58:23):
all getting bombed anyway and they're trying to
get everybody that is east of the Dnieper
River to the west part of Ukraine that
wants to go and So they're saying they
got all these buses that are going back
and forth and carting them back You know
trying to get them out and evacuate them
and they're allowing people to leave the country
(58:44):
as well.
So it's It's a hell of a scenario
that they're going through and on these These
massive power outage and mass civilian evacuation westward
is With him and just a couple other
(59:06):
sources But no mass media is talking about
it and you won't get that from any
Ukrainian newspaper you just won't so wherever he's
getting this information He's usually pretty Solid as
far as the front lines go.
He's talking about Kherson Dnieper Delta and Kherson
(59:29):
City, there are conflicting reports that Russian infantry
tried to land on Karabakh some maps show
the south part as Russian held meaning they
crossed another river and So there you know
if they can and then they were driven
back and if they can get back across
that side of the river This is really
bad for Ukraine heavy crashes Clashes around Poltavka
(59:52):
and Who's been if cub and Poltavka could
we will probably fall within the week is
what he is saying Tass is highlighting Russian
gains on the Eastern battle group, which is
Nova Veselovskaya and Yonchua River and so they're
they're marching but the Russians are along this
(01:00:14):
and on the Volga River Alexeyevka is There's
they're they're taking more and more places and
the Ukrainians are you know backtracking pretty seriously
and so since October 9 or 10 this
(01:00:34):
show has tracked a Russian push on the
southern Myrnogrodd arc and the Kazachskaya Moskovskaya Balagan
Novopavlovka all of these cities near Myrnogrodd Which
are both all southeast east northeast to cut
the southern half of the city and they're
all being squeezed out of yet another city
(01:00:55):
and Pokrovsk is you know We've been fighting
over that one for a while and the
Russians are already like 60% Into Pokrovsk
and Pokrovsk was a pretty good-sized city
in Kharkiv same thing Sumy You know is
holding firm and you know per this episode
(01:01:15):
What he is saying is that momentum is
still with the Russians All the bridges are
destroyed power grids are gone Let's see.
I covered all this stuff already and they
are just you know, the frontline winds of
the Russians are just a bunch of them
(01:01:36):
and And I don't know If they don't
find a game changer It's gonna be a
long winter but what they're saying is is
they're gonna This is gonna keep on going
for several years I know we're trying to
fund it for years, which I think is
(01:01:59):
nonsense, but I'm not sure where to go
with this With the war, it's freaking war,
you know, who knows who's telling the who's
telling the truth on there I did want
to go into Everybody knows well, maybe everybody
(01:02:19):
doesn't know but I like to listen to
several people that That have pretty good Programs
and I was on the program with Alex
and Alex Um, alex christoforou And I forget
the other alex the guy from the guy
from england and the other guy that's greek
(01:02:40):
I think And he travels around a lot
and alex christoforou.
I listen to more than I do the
other alex But both of them have pretty
good shows And you can listen to him
on a show called the duran if you're
interested and um And and alex christoforou has
his own show.
I don't listen to the duran much anymore
(01:03:02):
um At least not the joint ones.
I listen to alex christoforou and he Always
has a pretty good Take on the news
and today he uh Gave some some pretty
good news And he's always I like to
listen to him because he's freaking funny And
(01:03:24):
uh, I I would replay a little a
few parts of his show But he jumps
around so much that uh, it's hard to
um To track them all you know what
I mean where i'd have to sit down
and say oh geez at minute number Eight,
you know, here's where this is And I
really don't have time for that.
(01:03:45):
So I don't really do it.
So I kind of uh, take notes on
what I liked on it and then uh,
uh, make sure to get to a couple
of those points and he he um Get
some of the uh He he was making
fun in the start of his show maybe
I should play the mark ruda place because
(01:04:08):
That was pretty funny ruda saying that um
Uh, in fact, I you know what?
I think I will maybe i'll play a
little bit Of his first part of his
show because it was damn comical Um what
he was telling us And it was about
mark ruda and mark ruda is no genius.
Let's uh Let's put it that way this
(01:04:30):
guy I I you wonder where they're getting
their info from you know um in order
to talk about and he's basically Let's see
at the very beginning.
Yep.
It's ruta at the very beginning that he
is talking about so Let's see what he
says um Hang on one second because he's
(01:04:54):
mocking russia, right?
And uh, and it's more it's more bs.
This is like that idiot kellogg over here
Talking about you know, russia.
It's trump calling it a paper tiger and
they well if it's a paper tiger Why
do we so that say the same thing
that you're saying about?
oh gee um How come if they're a
(01:05:16):
paper tiger?
How come ukraine can't take them out?
If ukraine's so powerful with all these western
weapons and we've put Basically 300 billion between
the allies and us In ukraine 300 billion
and you still can't beat them.
I mean we could say the same thing
You know, that's what we're going doing.
(01:05:37):
And so ruda made some idiotic comments in
there You should hear them.
This guy's a genius ready Russia's military is
stretched there and elsewhere Its mediterranean task force
was once a mix of surface ships submarines
and support vessels Now in effect, there is
(01:05:58):
hardly any russian naval presence in the mediterranean
left There is a lone and broken russian
submarine limping home from patrol What a change
from the 1984 tom clancy novel the hunt
for red october Today it seems more like
(01:06:18):
the hunt for the nearest mechanic is that
they are saying if a plane Would pose
a threat we have the authorities to do
if necessary the ultimate But if the plane
is not posing a threat, we are not
going to shoot it down And then we
will gently guide it outside the airspace This
is exactly what they should do and I
totally agree with that approach because we are
(01:06:39):
so strong It's proportional response exactly and and
we are so much stronger than the russians
We don't have to take down russian airplanes
because they enter our airspace We do it
if they enter our airspace and also pose
a threat if we were weak You might
maybe think okay.
We are weak.
So we have to immediately show them That
whenever they enter our airspace we shoot them
(01:07:00):
down But if they don't pose a threat
being so much stronger than the russians I
think it is much stronger that our reaction
is as it is Proportionate and of course
making clear to the to the to the
russians that we are not too happy about
these incursions this So i'm i'm gonna let
you listen to alex because he gives some
pretty funny commentary on that But did you
(01:07:22):
hear that this guy's saying we are so
much more powerful than russia.
Oh, really?
If that's the case Then Why are you
giving all your crap to ukraine and nothing
is happening with your powerful weapons that are
there?
Russia is defeating all of nato Including you
mark ruta the nato chief, right?
(01:07:44):
If you got all these powerful nato weapons
How come ukraine doesn't have them?
You've been passing them out to them forever
And the the patriot isn't defending anything.
There's very few left over there I'd like
to know what exactly You mean by that?
Mr. Ruta now, we'll listen to alex because
(01:08:06):
he he was pretty funny on this topic
is my video update on this wednesday afternoon
october the 15th coming to you from nicosia
cyprus Let's talk about some news And let's
(01:08:28):
start things off with nato ceo mark ruta
Who was at a nato event discussing?
How to make it easier for uh for
nato to shoot down russian fighter jets over
nato airspace and mark ruta he said that
(01:08:51):
That if a russian fighter jet is over
Nato airspace and it does not pose a
military threat to to nato then what nato
should do is that they should escort that
fighter jet Out of nato airspace.
They should not shoot that fighter jet down
if it does not pose an Immediate direct
(01:09:14):
military threat to nato and the reasoning according
to mark ruta for this is that That
nato is much more powerful Than russia nato's
military is much Much more powerful than the
russian military.
It is infinitely more powerful than the russian
(01:09:38):
military and shooting down a russian fighter jet
that does not pose a military threat to
nato would be A sign of weakness and
nato should not display weakness towards a russian
military that is So much more weaker than
(01:10:01):
nato because according to ruta nato is much
much much more powerful Than the russian military.
So if there is a fighter jet over
nato airspace And it is not a threat
to nato then escort it out of nato
airspace And nato should not show any any
weakness because it is the much stronger military
(01:10:23):
much much stronger than the russian military ruta
made it a point to say that nato
is much much stronger than the russian military
nonsense Yeah, that's crazy stuff.
Um But I like listen to alex, that's
(01:10:46):
uh, that's funny stuff and he has a
good he has a good program alex christoforo
He's also got like 245 000 subscribers So
that's pretty cool.
Um good for him.
I like that.
Um I what else did he talk about
on his show?
The the he did talk about the russian
navy being down to one lone Submarine it's
(01:11:11):
it's mockery which they're doing, you know on
purpose.
Um If you remember from and in he
he did it in his show just like
uh, the the prior guy that was talking
about The tom hawks that nobody's talking about
yet uh, we shall see and um The
(01:11:34):
kiev team, um is in Washington already waiting
for the z-man to show up and
talk to uh, trumpster on friday and uh
right now That's sphere sphere dinka and yermak
and the u.s. Treasury.
Um, that guy's a genius, too Uh besant,
(01:11:58):
he says the kiev's team met the u
.s. Leadership Uh scott besant discussing money and
pressure on russia and how to get more
money This is not good.
They're gonna finance the next escalation and we're
gonna end up paying for it You know
that that is What's becoming clear and I
(01:12:18):
think we're gonna be on the hook and
so this war Is gonna end up being
trump's war not biden's it'll be trump's war
But he still likes to keep saying that
war never would have happened if I was
If I hadn't lost, you know if I
was still in office or if I hadn't
had the election stolen from me however, you
(01:12:40):
want to put it but uh, uh now
Now it's going to be if he escalates
And i've said this about a couple of
things and I actually believe if it's not
already his escalation will definitely make it his
but that's what rubios of the world and
Whoever I talked about in a long time
(01:13:01):
Lindsey graham.
Lindsey graham wants it to be our war
for sure.
You know you want it um And so
the the ukrainian delegation is already in got
their hands out Zelensky will come here have
his hand even further out and want to
know where those uh, Where the tomahawks come
(01:13:23):
on, give me some tomahawks Give me a
few give me some tomahawks and a bunch
of pontoon boats and we're gonna we're gonna
take these to the creek down down past
the farm and we're gonna we're gonna drop
them in the creek and they'll they'll uh
Take out them bad russians.
(01:13:43):
It'll just take them out, right?
I don't know.
We also got the bailout of argentina going
on to about 20 billion and uh Trump
is gonna, you know generosity depends on the
election outcome, which is pretty funny and uh,
(01:14:07):
he he so whether or not trump gives
money to argentina of the 20 billion Depends
on how the election turns out.
Sorry yawning.
It's getting a little bit late for me.
I'm i'm i'm Um either old or tired.
I suppose I could be both but uh
(01:14:28):
There you go Uh trump saying that putin
should have won in a week He claims
1.5 million russian casualties and still is
claiming gas lines in russia trump is and
and uh I don't Remember seeing any gas
lines in russia and I got around some
(01:14:50):
in there There aren't lines to get gas.
They have plenty of gas And I don't
understand Why this claim is still out there
um But I think that that trump is
back to russia bashing um, and and I
(01:15:10):
think that's uh Uh unfortunate And let's see.
What else did he talk?
Oh, he said something about um a power
move By zelensky in odessa by getting rid
of the mayor who's a guy named trukhanov
(01:15:30):
and uh, he said he had a russian
passport And he was he installed instead some
kind of a military administration and um but
then he said That uh, it's a just
a power grab to lock down the port
And wants to uh preempt any pro-russia
(01:15:54):
mood if the front um the war front
Hits to odessa But I think it's already
going there, you know, odessa has always been
a russian city And I and and you
know, there's been a lot of talk for
a lot of time about um About odessa
(01:16:15):
Transferring to russian hands and I that part
If this drags on for several more years
I believe that nikolaeva and and odessa Will
be russian and will link to transnistria, which
is moldova That's that's me.
That's a prediction.
(01:16:36):
I had months and months ago and several
people Have also had that.
Um I don't remember when the first time
was but uh I know i've thought about
that for quite a while that it could
be a Something that could happen um, I
(01:16:57):
watched on the news here on all the
All the tvs going on here in uh
in studio And saw this and I had
actually seen it a little bit earlier in
the day And I meant to comment on
it because i'm very very much against this
(01:17:19):
But we've done it again um the u
.s Sank another boat near venezuela it's the
fifth such strike on alleged smugglers Um in
a boat in international waters, they killed six
people Um I still say there's no reason
(01:17:43):
they couldn't have stopped the boat Bordered boarded
it Shown me even if it's only me
that uh, there were some drugs aboard and
that these were people transporting drugs and then
Taking them into custody this in my humble
(01:18:06):
opinion Is just downright un-american you don't
just go blow up a boat Because somebody's
drug running you're not calling them terrorists.
Well, you're trying to but you're not a
drug runner It's not a terrorist.
Okay, you don't get to call them a
(01:18:27):
foreign enemy combatant or anything like that It's
a guy running drugs And they might be
bad people.
Well Kill them while they're doing something bad
besides Running drugs.
I'm not saying drugs are good Arrest them
take them into custody in international waters and
Prove it.
(01:18:48):
That's all i'm saying.
I want some proof That's what I want
um this also came out about Uh maria,
uh corrina macado Said something to trump jr
And remember me talking about this when the
(01:19:09):
nobel prize she's the lady who actually won
the nobel prize And trump didn't get it.
Well, she passed out something to uh, Uh
trump jr and kind of was pretty vocal
about it and she's been saying the same
thing I said some not the same thing,
but I talked about it last week um
on uh This oil and the platforms and
(01:19:34):
letting u.s firms come in and profit
after She takes over as president and the
u.s being engaged in regime change This
is this is how you get nobel peace
prizes You get to go out as the
nobel peace prize winner gets to go well
regime change then But as long as you're
(01:19:54):
u.s backed, it doesn't matter You know
that that doesn't hurt anything if the u
.s has a coup somewhere nobody's supposed to
say a word And if you u.s
regime change, that's a you know That's just
par for the course.
It's the uh, it's the way it's supposed
to go, you know We have the ci
op cia operating in venezuela This is bs
(01:20:17):
and they're going to go down there and
kill people and change the regime That's what
we do And then all of the oil
and gas and all the stuff goes and
then what do we get to say?
Oh, well maria macado.
She can be the president and because she
just won the nobel peace prize So she's
one of the good guys and she's been
fighting for democracy for 20 years, right?
(01:20:38):
like she's going to be any different than
um, what is her name sandu and moldova,
uh, whether she's going to be any different
than Zelensky or any predecessor of his and
after 2014 They won't be any different.
All they are are u.s puppets and
we're doing the exact same regime change Did
(01:21:02):
I say regime regime change bs that we've
been engaging in for?
freaking ever And I don't like it, but
that's me um Let's see Uh, let's see,
let's see, where are we going?
(01:21:23):
I had one more do you remember how
I started this?
We had maria zakharova and we had the
uh gentleman who had the Economic discussion.
Mr. Bezrukov and I talked about his his
forecasting um I tell you what, I I
(01:21:44):
wish I could provide maybe i'll do it
tomorrow night And use him as a start
for tomorrow and then talk about some of
the um Topics that maria zakharova talked about
because she had quite a few of them
the first one That she always talks about
(01:22:06):
so Her briefing that she gives at least
once a week and usually two or three
times a week are three hours long, right?
And but you know when you listen to
him the first 10 minutes is about attacks
on civilians by ukrainians So ukraine they talk
(01:22:28):
about this kind of thing a lot and
they like to say.
Oh, jeez russia's killing civilians I don't believe
that and I don't see it, you know
And they lied about bucha and they lie
about a lot of stuff over there and
this could be political propaganda I don't think
it is, you know, they they uh, you
know They talk about the same things and
if you go back and you see it,
(01:22:50):
it's the same But basically she all of
her opening segments She says that kiev continues
strikes on civilian targets in russia across multiple
russian regions From the 8th to the 14th
of october.
They killed in in inside of russia by
attacking civilian targets They killed 21 people injured
(01:23:14):
83 including six children examples, she lists october
8th Maslava priestin with a grad mlrs Hit
a sports and health complex and killed three
people including a 25 year old school teacher
12 people were injured in the same on
(01:23:35):
the same day Then mishona strike injured a
child on october 9th Inova devolzhenko a drone
injured an eight-year-old girl on october
10th.
A couple was wounded in Gorodovrin on october
10th and 11th drones hit cars cars in
Uh, coke, what's this one?
(01:24:02):
Four were wounded from that on october 12th
and shebakin There was a blast near a
housing unit that injured four including two ten
-year-old boys um on proletarskiy Uh, they
had a drone attack that wounded two uh
dorokozhen Bach, uh Bachovka a drone drop injured
(01:24:24):
a driver of a combine a farmer She
cited further hits in eniel by mortars two
bus attacks in gorlovka A drone wounded seven
including two teenagers on october 12th a drone
wounded six including a teenager damaged to a
kindergarten residential administration buildings on october 13th an
(01:24:46):
ammo drop caused casualties in ilkova and gorlovka
one later died in her son Uh on
october 9th burivka in gola pristin.
There was shelling and two died Civilians are
all these um a shell killed a 49
year old woman in bactory and another one
(01:25:07):
was seriously hurt by By uh the same
strike novaya mayachka um I think that stress
is wrong should be mayachka And uav hits
a grocery store On october 14th novaya zabarovka
shelling killed an 80 year old woman Uh
near chernyanka a trucker was injured by a
(01:25:29):
drone She accuses ukrainian units of looting and
arson in areas.
They still control and lists oh this was
they also list all the russian court sentences
against ukrainians who are accused of crimes for
killing civilians and uh Said that zelensky has
(01:25:50):
approved further special ukrainian forces operations inside of
russia And so I mean they always talk
about that and we never hear anything about
any of that I'm, not saying we shouldn't
hear both sides, but you only hear about
the evils of russia It's the evils of
war on both sides and uh, i'm not
(01:26:12):
You know i'd like to see The war
over, you know, none of us want it,
you don't want to see people dying Needlessly,
and this is a needless war She then
talked about um Lavrov's near-term diplomatic schedule.
He's going to be in morocco and in
kazakhstan um on october 16th, there will be
(01:26:35):
talks in moscow with morocco's minister Uh morocco
is a really cool country, by the way
And Fantastic highways and i've driven all over
that.
I went to you know, um, casablanca.
That was freaking cool and um geez I
(01:26:55):
I loved it.
You know, i'd love to go back there.
That was several years ago.
I may need to go back um They're
talking about the emphasis on the north african
sahara And the sahara desert out there.
So there's there's plenty going on about that
She talked about the western escalation and uh
ukraine tomahawks rammstein kiv's washington push um She
(01:27:22):
also talked about boris johnson and I found
this rather amusing citing a british press leak
She alleged that uk foreign uk former prime
minister boris johnson blocked talks with russia in
early april of 2022 And pushed kiev to
keep fighting.
We already knew that part and he may
have derived material benefit from this Referencing a
(01:27:46):
1 million pound tie to businessman Guy named
christopher harborn a major shareholder in kinetic which
is um Said kentucky is what I think
it was But anyway, it supplies kiev with
drones and robotics She claims johnson flew harborn
to kiev for closed military technical meetings on
(01:28:08):
september 23rd framing the episode as a emblematic
of western political industrial profiteering In tandem with
kiev corruption her challenge johnson should answer whether
harborn was indeed on the jet Her segment
fits a recurring theme Anti-russia hysteria as
(01:28:30):
a cover for the arms industry to get
rich And western political self-interest like boris
johnson getting rich Intended to undermine moral claims
behind the uk and eu policy and argue
that early diplomatic off-ramps were deliberately sabotaged
by london by british foreign I'm sorry prime
(01:28:54):
minister boris johnson for his own personal gain
This is a british media story and the
ministry of foreign affairs role is to amplify
it And call for some sort of response
And I tell you what I'd like to
see somebody do something like that too many
(01:29:16):
people getting fabulously wealthy off of this war
lots of ukrainians lots of europeans plenty of
americans Just spreading that money around and watching
people die I'm against it.
My name is samuel trap.
This is international flavor.
You can join me every night Sunday through
(01:29:37):
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