Trump–Putin Telephone, Passport Plunge, Putin’s Power Plans: Picking Apart Propaganda, Policy, and Partial Kharkiv Pullouts

Tonight Samuel Trapp plates a potent platter of P-topics: the Trump–Putin telephone tête-à-tête and Budapest buzz; India’s MEA puncturing Trump’s Russian-oil claim; Ukraine’s ‘partial’ Kharkiv pullouts versus propaganda; highlights from Putin’s Russian Energy Week power plans; a passport-power plunge; and a spicy Solovyov panel sampler. Expect punchy analysis, translated source lines, and zero patience for pundit puffery. Plus: why Tomahawks aren’t a panacea, what “preparations without delay” actually signal, and how 40-settlement family evacuations fit the Kupyansk front. We also parse Zelensky’s White House optics and why America’s passport places 12th. International Flavor: Where the Truth Just Tastes Better. 

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International flavor I'm here tonight at the
Lake Ozark real estate of the art studio with plenty to talk about
there were several I
Don't know what you want to call them. Let's call them questions as it were ideas in my mind last night

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Wondering what would occur and several of them I find rather entertaining
If you recall I've said several times that I believe that the old Trump monster he
Has a tendency to change everything he says
based on the last person he talked to I was unable to find any

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transcript of it, but today a
Conversation took place between
Trump and Putin it was initiated by Putin is from what I understand and that he called
the old Trump monster and
Spoke with him on a little while and I have some commentary on that. I

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remember quizzing last night myself upon the fact that
the old
Trumpster said that India claimed they were going to stop
Purchasing
oil from Russia, and I said I doubted sincerely that that had occurred and was hoping for some sort of

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Verification or commentary from the other side of the planet
Which you know didn't occur and I will get to those topics. I've
one two three four
Nine or ten
Articles I'd like to share with you discussions of things that are coming out

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Vladimir Putin gave his speech yesterday
At the
Russian energy forum which I think is important to go into because everybody's talking about what will happen and
the theme of that
Appearance of the entire

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Now the Russians have this energy for him
And they invite people from all over the world to come and apparently there were some some American people and people from other
places where they were as well and
Other countries lots of people showed up. It was a very large auditorium pretty cool
Appearance that he gave and what what surprised me, but of course he was at Valdai a couple of weeks ago

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and I brought you all the all the
Statements that he talked about there here. I'm not gonna share the entire
transcript with you about what he said because this is specific to energy, but the the
topic was
Energy until 2050 where where we are where we're going and Russia has a huge amount of

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Of Russian
Russian of energy resources they have plenty of them and
Obviously oil and gas are two of the largest although they got plenty of rare earths and stuff like that, too
and so so
Energy is a very important topic and there could be quite a bit to go over in there

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I've had and I listened to it. It was a good speech, and I've got a summary of it to give to you
We're gonna get into the tomahawk thing a little bit again
because
There's been some commentary on that one of the things that I like to do as I've spoken to you and told you about before
Is that I like to watch a show called?

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Evenings with
Vladimir Solovyov which
According to everybody in the West is nothing but propaganda and in fact. There's plenty of people in
And very leaning very positive
Putin very positive
Russian government and stuff like that and there's plenty of people who actually agree with that

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I don't know that
assessment as well in
In Russia and so but anyway, I I don't care. I watched a I watched a
One of those in the background that I was watching last night
And I saw a good amount of that show and I'd like to share part of it part of the commentary with you

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Because I find it
Entertaining and interesting what they provide but before I get to anything I wanted to you know here
we are again in the US with
You know Vance tells Democrats they need to grow up and
apparently Democrats were attacking a group of the Young Republican National Federation, and they had a bunch of messages leaked

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Online messages, and he said that they need to grow up, but on Tuesday political published
extracts of a telegram group chat
between members of the
Organization aged 18 to 40 which contained
multiple racist sexist insulting messages
among other things

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participants called
African Americans called them watermelon people
described rape as epic and urged political opponents
that their political opponents be placed in gas chambers and
So the Democrats say, you know kicked him out of the party take away their official roles said Kathy Holkel

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California governor Gavin Newsom said the definition of
Conduct that can create a hostile and discriminatory
environment that violates civil rights demands an investigation a
but JD Vance appeared on the Charlie Kirk podcast and
He said that the outrage

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By Democrats is really meant to distract the public from recent scandals in their own party
So this controversy broke out after it was revealed that Virginia Democratic nominee
for Attorney General
Jay Jones
had written in a 2022 text message that

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Then house speaker Todd Gilbert should get quote two bullets in the head and
What Vance said was a person who's about to become one of the most powerful
law enforcement officers in the country Jones
Seriously wishing for political violence is a thousand times worse than what a bunch of young people a bunch of kids

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Say in a group chat, however offensive it might be
if you allow yourself to be distracted by this person's disgusting endorsement of
political assassination by focusing on what kids in a group chat are saying
Grow up. I'm sorry focus on real issues

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He said reality is that
Kids do stupid things especially young boys. I don't know that I agree with him that they're all that young
They were you know aged
Whatever. It was 20 to 40
He goes and by the way, if they were left-wing kids telling stupid left-wing jokes
I would not want their lives ruined because they're saying something stupid in a private group chat

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well, I
Although I appreciate that
You got to stand up for your own
The stupidity in your own stupid words, so and and whatever happens happens, you know what I mean that that was
And I
Don't know. I don't agree with I don't disagree with anything. He said I also think it's it is much more serious

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For a guy gonna become the most powerful guy in state
and so obviously Democrats had to go and look for something similar that they can point the finger at and try to
Did I just end a sentence with I can't believe I ended a sentence with at
at any rate I

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It just seems like a rather small deal for the governor and for
Hockel to be talking about these things and
clearly it is an attempt to
To get out of or to take attention away from or to say look everybody does it but not everybody

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Is running to be a an attorney general
It's a little that guy out of freaking know better didn't say I can't imagine that he wouldn't be thinking of that not to say
The other kids shouldn't know better, but you know, they're not running for attorney general either
And I'm assuming that if they were somebody would bring out what they said, even if it was in a private

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telegram chat and so
Twitter or whatever the hell it was who knows but whatever they were putting out
Anyway, there's more important things to talk about that occurred today
The call to on the Putin the planning for the summit without delay

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Another summit to take place between
Russia in the u.s. And allegedly
Lavrov and Rulio Rulio Lavrov and Rubio are going to
Be communicating here in the next few days and
May be meeting but there was another

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very
interesting
Story that interested me quite a bit
Because for years for many years when I when I was in the military
Years ago and
Doing a lot of traveling
the US

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passport was
Considered to be the best passport in the world
You could go the most places
have the least amount of
Interference least amount of requirements for visas you could go anywhere and

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They're sliding, you know, there they are
US has fallen out of the top ten for the most powerful passport
according to the latest Henley passport index
Measures global travel freedom based on the number of destinations you can go without a visa

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This London based citizenship and residency consultancy has compiled this list for 20 years
using International Air Transport Association data
the passport which topped the list in
2014
2014 we were top meaning the the places we could go without a visa was the most

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Now we're tied for we were seventh last year and now we're 12th tied with Malaysia and the decline
stems from the lost visa free access
to Brazil and
China now, although
China was supposedly opening it back up

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But now they have reciprocity issues with the US as well as policy changes in Papua New Guinea
Myanmar Vietnam and Somalia the firm cited low visa openness and
noted that while Americans can still visit
180 of
227
Destinations visa free the u.s. Grants the same privilege to only

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46 countries
the declining strength of the US passport over the past decade is
more than just a reshuffle it signals a fundamental shift in
global mobility and soft power
said the firm's chairman
Christian H Kaelin

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nations that embrace openness and
Cooperation are surging ahead while those resting on past privilege are
being left behind
He also linked the drop to President Trump's immigration crackdown
Which began with illegal migration and drug trafficking but now has expanded to stricter rules for tourists

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foreign workers and students the firm cited the recent visa restriction for travelers from 19 countries and
Trump's threats to ban up to 36 more as key factors
Trump's return to power has brought fresh trade conflicts that weaken America's mobility

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said
Dr. Tim Clottie partner at Grant Thornton in China three Asian countries
lead the index
Singapore with a hundred and ninety three visa free destinations
South Korea with a hundred and ninety and

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Japan with a hundred and eighty nine
accounting for tide scores
36 nations outrank the United States
Including all EU members the UK Switzerland Canada and the United Arab Emirates

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Russia is ranked 50th with only a hundred and fourteen visa free
destinations so
We're still up there, you know, but we're now number 12
Used to be the top of the line
So that that was interesting to me. I hope you found it interesting and well, I

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Have on my passport stamps
57 countries and so
How many I forget how many they said the u.s. Had a hundred and hundred and something, but I already closed that tab
So I can't go back and look
190 180 something 186 I think it was but I don't remember and

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I'll never get to 186
By time, I kicked the old bucket kind of doubt it
But I am hoping to get to a hundred so I got like 43 more to go. I got to get cruising and
I think this year I'm gonna go to

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Latvia
Estonia perhaps I
Hope to get to both of those and would add a couple of more or Finland as well
Because I'm gonna be in st. Petersburg
Early next year and I hope to to travel to those places whilst there
And I can do that without visas to each of those places. So I should be able to do that pretty cool

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And we shall see what happens so that'll get me to 60 I think and that would be cool
And let's see
let us begin at the beginning of where I
am so
We had a bunch
so so I have the almost complete transcript of

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Mr. Putin I have quite a bit of the Vladimir Solovyov
Topic show from tonight, which was pretty pretty cool
well, lots of information anyway, and lots of bitchin and
then I have

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Transcript on the Trump Putin. I don't have a transcript. You know the nobody has released a verbatim
Transcript of the call what we have official
readouts and briefings and media summaries
primarily from Kremlin aid
Yuri Ushakov and what he said on the record plus the u.s. Press statements and Trump's own

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Public comments on the Russian side. Here's what they're saying
Ushakov and others from the Kremlin. They're saying that the call lasted about two and a half hours
Initiated by Moscow. It was the 8th Trump and Putin call this year, which is
excellent because remember the old
Biden Biden team

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Hadn't talked to Russia in years. I mean nonsense
Craziness, how do you expect to get anything done?
the Kremlin
characterizes the call as
extremely frank
Confidential
trustful and quite substantive

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they proposed a
Budapest summit Trump proposed Budapest as the venue now, I may have shared with you. I don't remember
I remember reading it yesterday that
What's his name
Can't believe I forget his name already

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The president prime minister whatever he is of
Damn it. How can I I can't believe I can't remember his name. Well, I'm tired again. So a
continual tiredness on my part
But he offered Budapest as a place said that the two sides
That Russia and the United States need to get together again and offered them to come to

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Budapest and so Trump took him up on it and he proposed
Budapest
Himself and said, all right, let's do it. And so pump Trump proposed Budapest Putin immediately agreed and
Preparation will start without delay. The first step is Lavra from Rubio talking in the coming days

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they said the
Kremlin says they talked about Ukraine and tomahawks
Putin told Trump that supplying tomahawks to Kiev would not change the battlefield
But would seriously damage u.s. Russia relations and
Undercut the peace prospects Russia says it holds strategic initiatives along the front

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These are the summary of what they're saying from the Kremlin after this call and then economics after peace
Ushakov flagged Trump's optimism said that Trump was optimistic about u.s
Russian economic ties once the conflict is resolved frankly, I would love that
I intend when I when I go there over New Year's. I've never been to Russia in the winter

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well, I have when it was really cold and I have I even have seen snow there, but I haven't spent any
Serious time there. I want to go there over New Year's and Christmas. There is on the 7th of January
And so my plan is to go there
And check that part out
Let us see what we can do here

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We have a
Caller hello caller. How may I help you this evening? I
Would like you to help me understand what is going on Sam
What what is going on? Why is Trump?
You know offering to send tomahawks to that little needle dick

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And
And that is the that is the epitome of
Feckless dickless
Autocracy, I mean the guy doesn't even hold Democratic elections the guy
The guy he

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He
Condemns and even I
Don't know. I'm gonna say kills his his political opponents
Well, there's a story today that says he ousted I talked a little bit about it last night
He ousted the mayor of Odessa
because the guy allegedly

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Allegedly had a Russian passport. So he booted him out and
He really is getting rid of any challenge to his his presidency
He does not want this war over. I mean, he's begging for those tomahawks because
Needs this war to keep on going

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Yeah, he's a little creep a little temper. I mean, he's less than I mean Jesus, you know
There's been things going on in the past of you know
Pol Pot and Mao and all those people this dude is out in front of it all he is an
absolute little needle dick
Tin-pot dictator. I don't think he started that way

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I really don't but but but he sure loves his power now and he fell into the role rather quickly
I think he was not that when he first got elected in
2019 or whatever
No, I think he was being used
seriously
but well by by

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It started
Well, well kind of but it started they didn't expect him to win but they jumped on him pretty quick and
All of those they they pounced on him quick because they know he's a
He is very pleased with himself, you know, and and he wants he

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He is manipulable and they can manipulate him zero problem
Just like Lindsey Graham just like him and Lindsey Graham are twins twin brothers from different mothers
So I don't even know I don't I don't call with solutions. I just call with
observations, but if I were the guy in charge if I were Donald Trump if I were the guy that was making the

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Moves on whether the bomb Venezuela or the boats or whatever that is coming in. I would eradicate that little
That little
Leftist faggot queer and get him out because he's no good. He is he's he's
less than useless
Yeah, but he didn't used to be I don't think I mean his oh he got elected with like seriously

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he got elected with a nearly 80% of the people of Ukraine and
And
Now he's a very low percentages. They don't like what he's doing. They don't like that. He destroyed the
Russian Orthodox Church, which had to change its name to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

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And then he's he's arresting all of the people because he says they're still subject to the church in Russia
And so they're there but they always have been it was one church and now they're trying to create two
They say that you know, you're following all this stuff up, but it's always been one church
There wasn't a Russian Church and an order in a Ukrainian Church

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It was only one and so he's destroying it only because they're Russian. It's nonsense
I feel that's the easy way out. I feel like what this guy is is a no-count low-life
little bitch-ass punk well, I
agree with you on most of that, but he he I
Don't think he will ever be saved that he's gonna save himself from

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And somebody's gonna reelect him I don't think there's any chance
remotely that he will be
reelected in
Bitch-ass faggot should be hung in front of his entire country. He is a traitor
He's a traitor to decency's a traitor to all that's good. He is no good

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He's a no good little piece of trash built punk
Just like a lot of these rhinos in the United States are you know, and do we hang them? Do we?
believe their own
stories now the way Zelensky came into power is he was on a TV show and this TV show

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No, no, no, that's the comedy show he was on a different show
called man of the people and that show was a story where he was a school teacher and
He went on a rant on some social media thing
about how the government sucked and he should be in charge of the government and then in the in the

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TV show he became president and the story was about how he became president and what he did afterward
And there was some comedy and there were some things about it. Well
He was run by there was a guy who was an oligarch and a bank owner and I forget his name
I wish I could remember it and I've told this story before once or twice

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But I can't remember the guy's name but an oligarch with billions as a banker and owning a couple other things
backed him and created a party called the man of the people party and put Zelensky up as
The person to run for president. Well, everybody loved the idea because he wasn't a politician

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He was a comedian an actor and all that stuff and he instantly rose to the top and when he got into power
One of the first things he did was screw the guy who put him there the oligarch who paid for it all
He he had him chased down
he wasn't jailed or nothing, but but there there was a lot of of

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Corruption allegations against him there was he started he started acting that way
Right away, but the u.s. Was on him all of the PP
He began to believe his own legend like he's somewhat like he's
like he won because
Because of himself he didn't win because of himself he won because he was backed by huge power and big money

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That's why he won and the first thing he did was screw the guy
kind of like Kimmy Jemble
Well, I I don't know enough about him to speak intelligently on that and I've never been a fan of the guy anyway
and but
So so Sam my point is this I call I call into you because I feel like you have a

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Certain degree of discernment, you know
I feel like you're your perspective your points of view. You're you're talking points are
derived from
intelligence, you know from from from gathering and gaining information and using those points of information to
Decide for yourself not anybody

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I'll tell you this right now Sam. I think you were the least influenced speaker of anyone on
Damn radio and I love JR and I love I can I love a lot of other people but but you
You do not subscribe to a lot of these esoteric things
You know that many do like I do too, you know, you're not a god, you know

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I'm not gonna say this in the right words. You're don't hear this wrongly, but you're not a
Godly guy. You're just a very very
Pragmatic guy
And I appreciate and respect that I really do because for so many years
I was the same way and then all of a sudden things just came and swirled upon my head and I became a

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Don't know a believer I guess I don't know just a
devout
you know
believer in Christ and his
His sacrifice on that throne that that cross that that that that cross and Calvary
Where he was nailed him and a couple of his brothers. I think it was Peter and Paul

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I don't know they were nailed to that cross nailed
To the crosses and then and then the crown of thorns were shoved down on their heads
Well, I
I
appreciate what you're saying about the way that I
process things and make my my own opinions and

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Whether it's a curse or a gift. I don't know but I
Don't believe
Believe anything
Anybody puts out and I always have to to attempt to verify it
But then again, I can also be convinced the of something

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I just can't be told what to do and I know I'm not alone in that there are plenty of Americans that way
You know you you you want me to believe what you're telling me
Don't just tell me this is what I have to believe because I will fight you every step of the way
but if you
Convince me. That's a different story all together and and and I feel like

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You know, some things are just some things are absolutely blatantly wrong and you know it right up off off
off the bat
I've always said in
One of the things I remember, you know, and and I know, you know, I'm not all that religious
But one of the things I remember from Sunday school

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Was always this that that said that you know what?
There are a lot of things that people are gonna tell you about what is right and what is wrong and where where
beliefs come from and where
You will know
You just know

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Instinctively that some things are right versus wrong
Like you're not gonna go into a grocery store and pick up. I don't know pick up
And grocery store is probably a bad one
You're not gonna go into the toy store and pick yourself up a new a new table hockey game
You know and walk out with it under your arm and not realize

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That it's wrong. You know what? I mean?
You just know that that's wrong because you wouldn't want somebody to do that to you
So I know that's a basic and simple thing, but you can
Somehow I've always had
It's like I say about Hillary Clinton and her sort of ilk, you know that when they are speaking

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You know there they don't even believe what they're saying
themselves and
you know what I mean and and and you can somehow you just
You just know that there's it's it's it's worse than a salesman
This person isn't trying to do this for his family
They're you know to sell you a car that might not be as I don't know

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What is in as good a shape as it is which you might almost even be able to justify
But these people are just downright
Evil, they're doing it to seize power over you and everyone else and so down by evil
Well, well and and and I truly felt that way every time that woman would open her mouth

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You'd go man. She is so full of crap. She don't even believe this
You know what? I mean is she's selling you stuff that she doesn't even believe that's different
You know, the salesman might be able to convince himself that he believes, you know
if I could send you pictures of
my mother
compared to Hillary Clinton, they're like

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Precise
Doppelgangers. Oh my god. Don't say that about your mother. That's horrible
Dude I'm saying it out loud right now. No, don't say that. You don't want to wish that upon anyone. Don't do that
Wait a minute, but your mom is good. Your mom's good, though
because she is a
representative of Hillary rotten Clinton and

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All that she stands for does that make my mom good? Oh, no, you said she was a doppelganger. That means she looks like her
Looks like her acts like her thinks like her talks like her smells like her filthy
How do you know how Hillary Clinton smells

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I'm just gonna say right now
Something deep down in my heart of hearts. My soul of souls tells me that I am NOT of that
evil
Evil spawn I am NOT spawned from that evil
Woman that that wants to think that she's my mother there's more there's more to this life than than

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Than DNA. There's more to this life than then then
You know family values that we have to understand that there are people in this world that stink
They're fat. They're ugly. They're no good and we have to
Divest ourselves from them because they're gonna do nothing

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But throw well fat fat people don't bother me. Okay, just so you know people that are of large weight. Don't bother me
Do me and well, well, it depends, you know, but you know
I don't I don't judge people based on their weight or based on anything. I what about the gays?
I don't even care. But I mean truthfully, what do I care if you want to be?

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Okay
Thing that I have said the only thing that I have said is that if you wish to be
transgender
Fine, but I don't want it in the military and I don't want you selling that pile of crap to my kids or my grandkids

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III
Think but but do I agree?
Absolutely, not but I will also say I
Don't give a rip what you do in your own spare time or in your own home for the most part
Just don't be abusing your kids. Don't be pumping that crap down their throats. I

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disagree
but I but but I
Couldn't tell you that that you don't have the right if you want to call it that
To you know dress up dress up like like a monkey if you want to every day, you know
but I don't want but if you but if I'm your lawyer worker your

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Workplace says, you know, you can't drum dress up in a monkey suit every day
That doesn't mean you should be able to but wait identifies a monkey
it's it's it's
nonsensical and I don't like it and
your right to
That sort of behavior, I think stops at certain places

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So
But do I care if you do it?
Absolutely, not and in fact, I would I would even fight for your right to do it
In the right places in your own stuff. I would fight for that, right?
But I don't want it in the military
I think it's just downright wrong and I don't want it in my schools, you know for my children

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you know until you're an adult and can make up your own mind and I don't want you pumping that crap down my kids throat in
The school and telling him that it's alright when I as a parent say no, that's not alright
I don't want there to be a conflict in it. I don't want that
Do you have do you have children? Yes

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So we've had this discussion before
Yeah, none of your children. I'm gonna guess our furries or fags or freaks or fairies
I'm just gonna guess just because of the kind of guy you are and listen, you know
We can use different words to describe this, you know
It's all fine and dandy and I think this is the best thing we can do Sam this
discussion that is on this platform that you are engaging in and that

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JR
Offers to us all these are the important things that we need to
Embrace we need to be able to speak freely, you know and without violence without without swords and without
guns and without
You know, just just hateful

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maybe hateful rhetoric is
welcome, but without
Violence, you know just well, I
Support your ability to call people those sorts of names
I might not agree with it on my show, but I support your ability to do whatever you want
Okay, I would caution you that you shouldn't do it to their faces, you know you I wouldn't want you to get you know

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You know attacked by a bunch of nuts
either and and I don't I don't
Like escalation or violence or anything like that, I'm not for it
But then again, you're free to think and say what you
but and I absolutely
Defend your right to say things even if they are offensive and they may even be

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Offensive to me, but I support your right to say them
As in and so I I don't know how
Big you know in America we have or we're supposed to have and I don't think that we always get that
there's been a
great effort over the last

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many years to
destroy what
Freedom of speech we do have by by
cancelling
people that might say some of the things that that you say and
So
Cancelling people is just as bad in my opinion. I'd like to leave you with two examples of what you just said

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Alex Jones
Infowars same guy Alex Jones at Infowars and Mike Lindell of my pillow. They are being
Cancelled that's right. Okay. They're being cancelled. Their First Amendment right is being cancelled. So so that said
I would say that the most important thing we can do is no matter how drastic and how

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romantic or how
how
how
Constitutionally correct we can be is we cannot let Alex Jones be cancelled. We cannot let Mike
My pillow Michael and L be cancelled because they stand for freedom of speech, bro

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Just like I stand for years. Well, they tried to cancel
Charlie Kirk forever, you know and say killed. Well, I understand that and they tried to cancel him and and it's
It's really depressing to me that people are killed
Jr. They killed they cancelled jrk rm. Yeah, but they did they cancelled jr four or five times before that

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I don't mean that horribly but jr's got a long history with them and they would cancel him and bring him back cancel him bring
Him back and and they've done that over and I'm not justifying not at all
I'm just saying that that jr is finally taking the step and created
God love him for it because it gives me a place to spread my bile around the planet. You know what I mean?

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And I enjoy it. So
For me and you I don't know Sam one of my favorite things is
Discussing having a weekly call or so with you because you you're smart. You're a smart guy. I wouldn't go that far
But I will say you may strike me down
But if you do I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine

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Frickin Kenobi, that's right
It's like a
Obi, so listen, I don't know how many people are listening right now
And I and I hope the people that disagree with us mostly are listening and I challenge them
I challenge those people that don't think
With a similar congruent point of view to call in and and and help us understand

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Why why you guys you left his freaks bags and fairies are so so
Violent
You know
Violent is is now it comes on both sides
But I must say it's far more prevalent on the left than it is on the right

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All right, brother. Listen, I so much enjoy your I really enjoy
Having this opportunity to share thoughts with you, so
Well, I appreciate you I thank you for calling and you have a very good evening what's left of it
Bye-bye and

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There he goes if you would like to call in anybody else 5 7 3 7 4 6 8 0 2 0 and
Commentary I was in the middle of prior to the call telling you about the Russian side of what
They were saying about the Trump Putin side, let's talk about what was said on the

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On this side of the pond
What is on the record now Trump made a few comments in a?
Press conference he was given today and he called the talk with Putin very productive
Said that great progress was made and he announced himself a meeting with Putin in Budapest

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Within weeks no fixed date yet now he meets
Zelensky the old Z monster the old green goblin
Who's now the black goblin because he's wearing black instead green these days and he may even wear a suit jacket tomorrow
I'm very interested in what in knowing about that and how he's gonna how he's gonna do the dress code these days

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I think he's he's ramping it up to impress the Donald right and
He's meeting there there Friday October the 17th
He gonna be at the White House for the third time
Since the old Trump monster took office and we shall see what happens
So there's of course people asked about what about the tomahawks

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Donald what about them and
US coverage of these says that Trump said something to Putin about them and
Putin
Didn't like the idea and
Trump also mentioned though here he goes changing his mind again

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He said we have some stockpile
Constraints, and I want to be very cautious about depleting our
Supply
This guy
You gotta love Donald Trump, but it's whoever he talks to last that he thinks about and maybe he was listening to my show

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Over the last couple of days where I've said listen
Everybody's real or maybe to other reports. It says you only got 20 to 50 you can deploy anyway, and you got no way to
Just throw them into the water and let him work
You're gonna have to come up with some some launcher platforms for him to where you gonna get him
You're not

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Gonna find them very easily because they're just not around
But anyway on the US side they also talked about next steps the White House
and line and press briefings also point to Rubio Lavrov
Contacts to shape the agenda before any leaders meeting now

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I read some RT Russia Today news articles on it as well
And there's an article it says Trump announces plan to meet Putin in Budapest
preparation starting immediately
Hungary's readiness is to host this and
These are underscoring Moscow's framing of momentum and u.s.

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Receptiveness to talking about them TASS
Interfax he nois which is
Chinese they reinforced the two and a half hour length
Moscow has having the initiative on the battlefield
Frank and
trustful tone established between the two the Kremlin's warnings about tomahawks and

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You know these are all
What they talk about and pretty much mirror what the Kremlin has put out today?
What has not been publicly disclosed nobody on either side that I've been able to find has provided a
Transcript or a detailed agenda no firm date or time for Budapest and no published concession by either side

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All sides are sticking to generalities. They're pending working level talks Rubio and Lavrov
well last time Lou Rubio and Lavrov met I believe was in Istanbul and
They were and that was or were they yeah, I was Istanbul the last time before that they went to to
UAE

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Well, I can't remember it was in in it was in the Middle East somewhere, but
unfortunately, I don't remember off the top of my head and
They have been Russia has been complaining about the
Initiative for settlement being stalled
Because

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Ukraine Zelensky have never followed up on any of the working group
meetings in Istanbul after they met and came up with a
Sort of a schedule of where they were gonna go said we need this we need this we need that
All they did was switch some dead bodies sent them over to Ukraine

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They exchanged some prisoners and that was that and they did prisoners swaps and body swaps twice
And that's it. And so when Ukraine meets them, they it's big talk
It's all for show cuz Zelensky doesn't want this war over
Europe doesn't want this war over. What are they gonna do? What's gonna happen when this war is over?

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Let's let's talk about that for a second. So Russia is kicking the crap out of Ukraine
Militarily
Now I had so I watched an interesting
our
interesting
video on YouTube today that
Said that Russia yesterday. Yeah or overnight on the on this on the 15th

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That they had sent over
377
377
Whatever it was close. Let's call it 370 something, right and that Ukraine
Announced that they had shot down

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290 something so 70 something got through right and those numbers aren't exact
I'm tell you know, but it was not quite 400. It was around
375 ish caught and
They shot down about 300. So that means 75 got through right of these most were

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Shahid drones or or UAVs that were were piloted in and but
There were 28
28
Missiles
Missiles that Russia shot over they sent over missiles and

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Ukraine didn't stop any of them not one
That that and this is from the Ukrainian side the Ukraine said that they hadn't stopped
They were there that 28 out of 28 got through of these
Russian cruise missiles that came over the

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And and the
orator the person given the the video said that he believes this is
Intentional that either there's it's only one of two possibilities is what he says. So either you have to believe that

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Ukraine has absolutely no air defense
Available on the one hand, which is possible their Patriots are depleted
I've seen plenty of reports that say most of the if not all of the Patriots that have been
Delivered over the last couple of years. They are gone. You know that they're

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destroyed and
So
The other point of view is
Quite a bit more cynical
But some people think this is true and
The it's the only other thing that you can believe is that Ukraine

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Has air defense
but allowed all
28 missiles to come through and
the these are they allowed them to come through and
You know, why?
Why would they allow them to come through well the cynical view is they allowed them to come through

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because
Zelensky is coming to Washington tomorrow and
he's
Setting the stage to say look at what's happening here. We don't have any air defense
We don't have missiles. We really need those tomahawks
We need those tomahawks. We got to be able to fight back now, by the way as I've said over the last

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Two days a week whatever when talking about these tomahawks. They're not a game-changer no matter how you slice it and
You know, we've had plenty of game-changers before that aren't game-changers. We haven't had you know, we haven't had
F-16 game-changers. We haven't had any
Patriot game-changers there have been no game-changers

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Ukraine still isn't winning their problems are they do not have enough
Men, and they won't have enough men. They arguably could bring on another
400,000 men if they lowered the draft age from 25 to 18

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but they're losing and
Even if they do how fast can they train those?
400,000 not very fast and you know, there was an article I read about
Nazi
Insignia this was a bad one
this was a bad article that I read that they have arrested a bunch of people who are

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Man I got to find that article and these were
you know Nazis sorts of people that are
intimidating
Interrogating and beating all kinds of people and doing it to civilians too that aren't coming into the to the army
And they got arrested for all kind, you know, even in Ukrainian news

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They are putting out that some of these guys they've been picked up
for for what they are doing on the Nazi side stage and the Russians have been talking about this for a long time not
suffocation and the
Honoring of what they're doing on the Ukrainian side pushing this Nazi narrative

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Pushing like it's okay, you know and and moving all of these
You know, they've come over to take these people and force them into service on the front lines and they're not there themselves and
and it's
These are not good things. There's there are plenty of bad stories going around in Ukraine about how these things

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are
working between the people
Which where do I want to go after this I wanted to get to the theme and the topic on the Vladimir
Solovyov show, you know where all the propaganda comes from and they had several roundtable themes and and I've told you before I
Really would love to have a show like this myself

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The format is freaking
Fantastic, and why do I like to show?
First of all, I want to hear the other side of the tale second of all I like having
Listening to these in Russian
Because it keeps my Russian fresh and and and if I can understand talk at this level

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certainly, I should be able to
Put out my own point of view in Russian as well and I can and I make grammatical mistakes
It's a extremely difficult language
but
but I
Speak pretty smoothly and I don't necessarily worry and and and I don't necessarily make all that many mistakes
And I just noticed them when I make them at any rate the roundtable themes that these guys talk about he'll have

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six guys in a room each one standing in a podium Vladimir Solovyov will come out and give his point of view and
Or give his topic for the night and he'll talk for 10-15 minutes
Then he goes around the room and lets each person either respond reply
change the topic talk about something like

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Solovyov will say something about how the war is going and then the next person will talk about the
economics of war and what it's causing in the country and the next person will talk about his thoughts on
Mobilization or something like that. All of them are related as they go around and they'll have and sometimes they'll get into

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Fights verbal fights against each other and disagreements. It's great. I love the format. It's great
it's like having a you know a
War of words in or not a war sometimes they agree. Sometimes they disagree. It's good stuff
Anyway, the topics tonight for the show. Well for them, it's actually

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October 17th
And so was the the show there and the Tomahawk debate was the first one and the end whether it's going to cause escalation
That's a good topic to whether Kiev is headed toward a mass and total
Mobilization and how it would work because people are still talking about
including in Kiev they're talking about

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lowering the draft age to
to
18
And or at least 20, you know moving it moving it some and how it would work logistically third topic EU and NATO
Financing schemes Europe pays the US sells, you know, and that's US involved too and the political economy of war

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Trump topic for Trump's performative diplomacy
They're talking about Budapest and
Sharm el-sheikh and what went on and what Moscow should infer from the discussions and that was post
discussion not post phone call post announcement of
The Zelensky one for sure, but I don't think it included the

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The Putin Trump meeting they were talking about risks of multi-front conflict
Ukraine Middle East and Southeast Asia for Russia what that would mean
Number six Russia's internal economic management during the war. That's always an important topic for me. I like to know about that
seven domestic Ukrainian politics, including the Odessa mare case

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I told you about and using it as a tool for suppressing protest
Under winter energy strikes because there's no energy back in if they don't settle this case somehow
Or settle this war somehow in Ukraine
They're they're in for a horrific winter
Let's put it that way the eighth topic Western rhetoric mark Ruta

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Stoltenberg that I told you about Ruta yesterday and
They're just not serious people according to the framing of the host here the table
Repeated really frames tomahawks as a political provocation with a low military payoff, but high nuclear risk
arguing Ukraine's manpower and industrial limits

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make total
mobilization just impossible and
Calls for harder Russian counters or they still want Russia to ramp up some more range from intensified energy grid strikes
They want Russia to blow up even more this this platform anyway this talk show
Suggests that you need to blow up even more

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energy grid in Ukraine to
also overt threats against u.s. Tomahawk programming sites because
trust me as soon as a tomahawk platform if they can get one and
The only one they have is the one that would include hauling around a trailer
They might be able to bring a couple of those in from Europe if they're there

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but I believe the only place they're really deployed is in the Pacific in the Philippines and
But if they do they say there should be threats against u.s.. Tomahawk programming
Sites inside Ukraine, and they demand more centralized war economy management at home

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They want they want the government take even more control of it so very interesting show overall on these topics
and Solov Yov set the tone in the beginning, and he says the world smells like
The world like a big war and if the West pushes this long-range escalation

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Tomahawks from Ukraine Russia's response will immediately jump categories
Potentially targeting critical infrastructure and the destruction of that would produce cross-border
Consequences he warns that strikes on the nuclear plant like I've been warning about forever that
Ukraine has been attacking nuclear plants with drones, and they've bounced off nuclear drone

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Cooling towers twice, it's not good, and that would push
You know if they're they struck a nuclear plant that would push the fallout in the winter toward Poland or that
The aging Kiev Dam could fail
He ridicules the imagined

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US concept of hitting sites the Ikela booga and stresses Western ignorance of modern Russian production
And how that actually would work and what he was talking about there was the same thing that I brought up last night that says
Where are you gonna?
Take these missiles to where you gonna get him the only way to get him into Ukraine is from West from the West through Poland

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And the only way to get them near the front lines far enough or close enough that it would really matter is
You got a haul him through the countryside, and if you think the Russians wouldn't know and try to take him out on the way
I think they'd like they've done with quite a few Patriot systems like they've done with a number of

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f-16
Iterations as soon as they land on the airfield in Ukraine. They're getting attacked and blown up
So they've started storing them in Romania, and they got a fly and that means they have a very short air time
Inside of Ukraine or near the front so it really hasn't been that much of a game-changers. They got all these problems

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The Western ignorance of modern Russian production because the production is
fantastic he riffs on the Polish policy policy as
Self-defeating that they bankroll Banderites like that Bandera who historically killed tons of Poles
And then he hammers the math of
Ukrainian losses

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Thousand hundreds of thousands dead
With a million and a half at least
severely wounded
by simple ratio
Asking where Kiev would find another two and a half million bodies if the West now talks of a three-year
continuation of the war

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He made fun of Mark Rutte as a WWF style trash talker
That was funny. You don't know that he knows
WWF but apparently he does and then he returned to the tomahawk trigger logic a tomahawk launch is
Assumed to be nuclear capable and might incur
instant Russian retaliation and Kiev wouldn't have time to celebrate any strike by a tomahawk and

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then he
goads the panelists to talk about if if tomahawks fly
America is file is
Firing them. I believe that too with the u.s. Cruise u.s. Programming. So responses should be aimed accordingly

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domestically, he talks about forecasts that undercut the
Commander-in-chief's growth targets. He blasts central bankers for cooling an economy at war
He because they've raised interest rates. He calls for plan driven
Direct state financing not bank centric procedures and
You know World War two style emergency governance. He's talking about he plays he he he always

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You know
Tries to keep people on point when they're talking them
And so it's pretty good. He had quite a few people in here talking about it
And so it was an interesting show
I don't think I'm gonna go a whole lot further into it and
Tell you more because I'd also wanted to get to

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Vladimir Vladimirovich and his his discussion, but before I get to Vladimir there is a talk that
Northeast Kharkiv is
being
Evacuated. Okay, and so I had heard something and so I did a little bit of research on this and now what's actually being
Evacuated in Northeast Kharkiv according to Ukrainian

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Sources and not according to Russian sources or American sources that we never hear about this in America. Anyway, I'm probably one of
One of one who is actually telling telling the tales of woe
for America
Because nobody tells you the truth about or talks about it at all

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When's the last time you heard anything about what's going on in Ukraine except here?
Because they don't talk about it. They want to they want you to assume that a Ukraine is winning, you know, and and it's nonsense
But now they're saying that they're evacuating Northeast Kharkiv and our kids a pretty big city
Ukraine is expanded a mandatory evacuation

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for families with children from 40 settlements in
Kupyansk, which is in the heart of obelisk and it's not a full evacuation of the whole Northeast Kharkiv region
It covers three communities
Velikiya Burlyk, which is 27 localities
Vilk who Vilk who vodka?

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all
Kovatska and
Shevchenkiv sky with
409 families
601 children slated for relocation due to the situation in Kupyansk
Along that whole front because of Ukraine is losing their asses up there
This comes from Ukraine's own regional authorities and is echoed across Ukraine and some

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international wires on the English
version Ukrainian line Kharkiv Regional Defense Council
forcibly evacuating family with children from 40 settlements
in connection with aggravation of the Suri security situation and the and
The place is about to be overrun, you know

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They got to get these kids out of there and the families several reports lists the exact breakdown
as like I told you about the
601
children 409 families
Russian language and local outlets described the expansion
also due to as a response to Russian pressure around Kupyansk and

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International wires are saying the same thing that they're evaluating it a full evacuation is not
Occurring but that's what it is, but it is a forced
evacuation and they got to get out of there and
So they also talked about some clarification on this Trump Putin meeting and what's going on there

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but it was only a phone call and so they talked a little bit about that stuff and so
Let's see, where else were we gonna go to day I want to get down to
the we already went through solid view if I got although I got plenty of more on some of the some of the topics discussed

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there was a
female
Commentator and I didn't get her name
But she was talking about diplomacy the UN and Armenia and there was a pretty good amount of stuff that she talked about
but I
wanted to get to
India and

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Trump's claim and I don't think I've done this yet. I really hope I've got repeat myself. I truly don't think I am
I said I was gonna get to it, but I didn't get there and there's a
A
Speaker guy's name is Shri Randhir Jaiswal
he's the official spokesman from the Ministry of External Affairs MEA government of India and

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Basically he was at the press briefing in New Delhi
on October 16th, so which is today, but they're ahead of us. So obviously 17th there now and
What he said about Trump's claim
His first claim was that hey, by the way
There wasn't a call

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between
Trump and Modi the call didn't occur. So Trump being at that press conference saying I just gotta had a phone call with
Narendra Modi
And he told me he's gonna stop by an oil. Not only did the statement not occur. Neither did the call
And according to the Indians and there's the Ministry of External Affairs says there was no call and

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Asked about whether Pia Modi had spoken with President Trump the day Trump claimed India pledged to stop buying oil
Jaiswal said no conversation. There was a call on October 9th
Not on you know, not yesterday, but not about stopping Russian oil
He confirmed an October 9 Modi Trump call and he said that the readout covered

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congratulations on the Gaza peace plan a
Review of trade talks and an agreement to stay in touch
Nothing about halting
Russian oil and if he was the one nothing about OG
I'm leaving bricks like Trump was talking about yesterday. I believe that Trump likes to

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Whether you want to call it lying or not, I don't care in in in the legal spheres
there's something that is referred to as
puffing
okay, and puffing is it relates to what a
Let's say a salesman might do and for lack of a better one, let's let's use a

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Used car salesman. Oh
This is the best car in the city. This is the best car on the lot. Oh this you know, there's a
Listen, this is your grandmother'd be well off in this car. It's be great for your grandmother
I mean, you know, yeah sure she'd be safe in it something like that. These things are referred to as
puffing and the reason is because they are

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Nonspecific, okay, if you say well this engine was rebuilt, you know two weeks ago
That's an outright lie. Okay, but puffing, you know saying oh this engine will keep you going for years
That is puffing and generally not actionable, right? And so

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Excuse me. You shouldn't listen to those people that are puffing that some are pumping that sunshine into your nether regions
Because that's exactly what they're doing and the old trumpster and I'm being generous and saying
This is just puffery on his part

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because
Frankly, it's not
he didn't talk to Modi the day before Modi didn't say I'm gonna stop buying Russian oil and
He probably if he's alleging that it is this person
He didn't say who but it was Indians all in the room that were interviewing him

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He said Modi said he's gonna get out of bricks or he's dropping bricks and bricks
You know, I say people are gonna be kicked out of while you're not gonna be in bricks anymore
you know those things did not occur and
According to the Indians and so
The policy line is the same as it always has been even according to this

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Jaiswal who is the ministry?
the government he's a
official spokesperson
It's not Jaishankar Jaishankar would be my I'd love to hear him talk about this
but I couldn't find anything on him, but Jaiswal who is a
spokesman gave a
Press conference today presser very well 16th

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And he said that he he repeatedly pointed reporters to minister
Ministry of External Affairs same-day statements on energy sourcing stressed
That here's his quote
India does not subscribe to
unilateral sanctions
energy security for Indian consumers is

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Paramount and there should be no double standards in energy trade. I hardly think that's a glowing
Recommendation for the old Trumpster from them
he declined to endorse any commitment to reduce or stop Russian oil or to switch to a US supply and
Instead he referred back to his prior statement, which I just read to you. What are we Indian wires?

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saying
Indian and international reports matched a briefing no Wednesday call no pledge to halt Russian oil and energy security first
Detailed rundown of the briefing itself beyond the Trump and oil exchange in the briefing
They also talked about Afghanistan and Pakistan. They talked about India's Kabul mission

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Operational since 2022 will transition into full embassy. They talked about Myanmar
They talked about India and UK the MEA noted strong momentum past
Post Keir Starmer's visit China and rare-earths end-user certificates in the trade going on in that
area

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UK sanctions on nyara energy because they're they're buying
Russian
Gas the MEA went went on about the no unilateral sanctions
No, damn double standards line again and energy security is paramount
Bottom line India's official position
Flatly denies Trump's line

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No call no pledge to stop buying and no shift away from their long-standing doctrine of energy sovereignty
Consumer interests first no unilateral sanctions and no double standards. That's the way it is
Okay
Trump and his he had some Oval Office

(01:15:38):
Announcements today, which I've told you some of and they had to do with in vitro fertilization
Affordability and he's price cutting some drugs and doing some things like that. But there were some
questions and answers
afterward that came up afterward and
Some of these they he got into the Hamas thing that you threatened some Hamas gangs on true social

(01:16:02):
He said that the deal is being violated
It's a tough neighborhood and he expects behavior consistent with commitments now
These people lined up seven people in front of him and shot him in the head
No, this is Hamas after the deal right and Trump's response was oh gee
There's some tough gangs tough neighborhood. They're cleaning out their own

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Party and stuff like that. I
You know what? I think I think they released all these Hamas people and said you're not going to be in charge
But if you clean house in the meantime, we're not gonna do anything with it
Just don't let this screw with what we're doing in the area. I wonder if that's really the case or true
I don't know, but it's not good to see people just shot in the head. That's nonsense

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Anyway, he got asked about the timeline for the Putin meeting in Hungary and his specific answer was within two weeks or so
Is what he said?
Rubio and Lavrov Lavrov will meet first and set the time in place. He'll brief Zelensky
He's gonna brief Zelensky tomorrow and the relationship between Kiev and Moscow is terrible

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so there may be separate meetings and so he's not necessarily inviting the z-monster there and
Somebody asked him you said there was great progress on the Putin call what changed any message for Zelensky?
He said no specific. He says he makes deals. He has ended wars before believes
This will be number nine. He's working level prep comes first between Rubio vice president those people

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He said did you discuss Tomahawk missiles?
He said a little bit he emphasized the u.s. Needs their own Tomahawks and can't deplete its own
Its own stocks called them powerful and accurate. Okay, why would a second Putin meeting yield a different result?
He argued the Biden's missteps created the World War three risk under him there would be have been no war

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He's doing this to save souls. He can end it and help Europe the meeting his meeting could succeed and
Where else talked about John Bolton getting indicted?
He said and he also was asked in the same question. Can your deal-making end the shutdown?
He said he hadn't heard, but he called Bolton a bad person

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and that
You know on the shutdown he wants a simple extension and accused opponents of a 1.5 trillion dollars for illegal
immigrants
Let's see sanctions bill on Russia. There's a new G. Here's a surprise senator Thune and speaker Johnson
He said the timings not

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Perfect given a productive call that he joked about giving Ukraine a couple thousand Tomahawks and Putin didn't like the idea
That's what he said
So that's where that went to day
Let's see
They had a

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Question and answer where was this one?
Andre Kalin
Kellan who's and he was being interviewed by end of Brady and this is a
TRT world
And
What's his name Kellan is the ambassador he's Andre Kellan the ambassador Russian ambassador to

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Britain and he he's well-spoken. I like listening to him
he was being interviewed as well, and he got quizzed about Tomahawks to Ukraine and
He said Trump the question was Trump's considering giving Ukraine long-range Tomahawk missiles
Capable of striking Moscow
What is Russia's reaction and he said Russia is waiting to see Trump's actual decision

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Tomahawk the missile isn't new to Moscow. We've known about them since the late
1980s talks he said a single missile type going to Ukraine isn't a big thing
but any launchers or
Pre-launch prep would necessarily mean that US personnel were involved which Moscow views as a

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serious escalation
Echo again, and he said because the Tomahawk has a new Tomahawk has a nuclear capable variant
Russia must assume worst case if they see a Tomahawk coming across the border small numbers aren't gonna change the battlefield anyway
You know of these sorts of missiles even without nuclear warhead, but escalation is very very real

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is what he said and
Then he was asked is the Kremlin Kremlin taking Trump seriously he said
You know Peskov called this a dramatic moment Medvedev warned it could end badly especially for Trump
Are you taking this seriously in the in the ambassador said yes, Moscow monitors all White House statements

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But doesn't yet understand Washington's real
intent
regardless of stated aims to avoid
Escalation the Tomahawk would definitely mark a new level of escalation again repeat
He said what would Russia do if a Tomahawk were fired, then you must have an idea
What would be the response and he said I won't speculate on a specific response, but

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the Tomahawk being used wouldn't improve the battlefield situation wouldn't improve the political situation and would likely
sideline any mediation and create a new political picture and
Every that everyone must deal with which is quite true
They he asked they were asked about this

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and this is a popular question on the Russian side, and they keep being asked about the Alaska of
Momentum and the question was after Putin and Trump met in Alaska
there seemed to be a momentum toward a ceasefire that is now evaporated is that fair and
He

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You know is that fair meeting is that correct and what he said was no
That you know it's not fair to say that the meeting produced a joint vision
for resolving the conflict
Not for a ceasefire in other words
They keep trying to trap people into the ceasefire talk and none of them are playing

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He said that Kiev
Rejected this resolving the conflict conflict when it was conveyed to them
He said work continues at a working level though political progress hasn't really followed
battlefield developments continue
with gradual Russian advances just like always and

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He said the next question was is Russia open to peace talks while continuing to fight until it gets its aims
And here that is a valid question and that means something he said Russia supports a diplomatic
Resolution, but it has to be long-term
resilient
Comprehensive and reflect Russian interests and those of its neighbors a mere immediate ceasefire without addressing the root causes is

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Unacceptable these guys have been a broken record for how many years I mean since 2022
This is what they've been saying and even before that it never should have happened if they had if people had taken
anything that Russia said ever
Seriously, and hadn't been playing because they thought they could just wipe rush off the map quickly

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Which is what everybody thought everybody thought Ukraine was gonna kick the crap out of them. That's what they thought
Ukraine with their million man army, where is it at now?
He they asked do Trump's tomahawk threats damage ceasefire prospects
Well, of course, you know Western threats don't influence Russian policy

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Our goals are fixed and will be pursued Russia's too big to listen to threats. He said and
Then
He was asked you're approaching the fourth anniversary of this special military operation
you still haven't met the goals and

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He said is that is that correct?
He said don't mix earlier phrases with today's reality
There is no time limit Russia is moving forward
The process is continuing and nobody is making any prediction that it will end by the four-year mark

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He said
Will Putin and meet with Zelensky?
He said only if a comprehensive draft agreement is prepared and leaders resolve a few remaining issues
It's not and not a mere photo opportunity any bilateral or even trilateral with Trump
Meeting must be carefully prepared and produce a serious final result

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And he said after nearly four years can either side win. This looks like a sale stalemate
He said it's not a stalemate
He said local Ukrainian successes are media spin to keep Europe financing the war
So if you hear anything positive on the Ukrainian side, it's only to get money

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Russia has the initiative and is advancing daily along the front lines and that's true
I've been bringing that to you for a long time
How long can Russia's economy sustain the war?
He said years our economy is self-sustained and autonomous the EU narratives about chip shortages are total nonsense
Russia's defense production doesn't need any external aid and resources exist internally for everything

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He said
Another winter what has to happen for a ceasefire before the year's end?
He said if armed supplies to Ukraine are cut off a ceasefire would only be weeks of months away
Russia's facing NATO as a system, which makes progress slower, but not impossible

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Then they got into the Norway and Denmark
German Poland drone
Nonsense
He said Denmark and Norway offered no evidence. No characteristic of drones
Only Poland is worth of discussion and even theirs were unarmed decoy
Herbera drones that fall into Ukraine. They cannot fly from Russia to Poland

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So they had to come from Ukraine is what he said. He said that Russia proposed expert level
Consultations Warsaw went to NATO instead and on the house strike the debris as I've brought to you before is about fallen
anti-aircraft missiles
not Russian drones and
The possible cause were Ukrainian redirection or jamming or deliberate provocations by Ukraine

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They talked a little bit about peace plan in Gaza, but I'm not gonna get to that. We're running out of time
Can Trump deliver peace in Ukraine?
Yes, if he's serious about peace rather than one-sided support to give in my experience Trump listens
And this is Kellen speaking listens

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Understands roots of the conflict better than his predecessors and his team is interested in solutions
Great power agreements should be used to work issues not drive further
Consultations and the last question had to do with Moldova and Czechia elections in the EU path

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interference in such elections the West claims that Russia interfered in the
elections Moldova, you know
He rejects any interference, especially in Moldova and argues that it was the EU that poured money in
Visitor backed pro-eu parties with lots of money polling station allocations abroad

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Disadvantaged Moldovans residing in Russia like I brought to you before
Moldova to the EU he doubts they'll be admitted in the near future
They're the poorest country in Europe
And the Balkans are still waiting to be admitted says EU propped up a failing party
Elections were distorted by pro-eu actors and Western money and that Russia didn't have any interference and

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when he was pressed he said
Russians exist in
Lots of places and the country is split 50-50 and he condemns the EU side
distortion not
Kremlin
Operations and so I finished just about everything I wanted to get to today

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it was a
pretty good set of interviews and
information that I heard I
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