Trump’s War, Putin’s Patience, and Maria’s Mic Drop: How Sanctions, Sanity, and Sarcasm Collide on International Flavor

Tonight, Samuel Trapp dives headfirst into the tangled world of Trump’s new sanctions, Medvedev’s “this is now Trump’s war” declaration, and Maria Zakharova’s legendary takedown of “democracy—Ukrainian style.” Between laughter, Russian quotes, and sharp analysis, Sam dissects why the EU wants to “borrow” Russia’s money (spoiler: theft by committee) and how the global game of sanctions roulette is spinning out of control. Add a few caller surprises, a dash of satire, and a strong finish on Missouri’s camera-happy sheriffs—because freedom shouldn’t come with surveillance.

 

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
To bring you some incredibly awesome political talk
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I am samuel trap.
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(00:24):
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flavor And i'd be very happy to discuss
anything with you this beautiful thursday night.

(00:45):
It is what it is today today is
the 23rd we are a week away from
halloween That's what's that's what's that's what's upon
us.
It's a coming There's some scary folks out
there.
That's all I can tell you.
They're scary folks.
They don't even need to dress up They're
just scary and I am I am Dealing

(01:06):
with some scary folks in my life even
at present and I think it is Unfortunate
when people's masks are taken off and they're
even uglier when the mask is off.
This is not good Uh And I shall
leave you to ponder what I mean by
that Because I just will not go any

(01:28):
further into it Jr. Has got all the
tvs up in here and i'm being distracted,
but I don't want to turn them off
And on the far left There's the andy
griffith show showing up on pluto and I
always liked watching the andy griffith show It
has nothing to do with the show tonight.
I wanted to tell you a little bit
about events of the day Okay, so first
thing this morning.
Guess what I did.
What did I tell you?
I told you I was having an interview

(01:50):
There was going to be some interviewage of
me on a russian channel in russian and
What I thought I would do because uh,
you know Back in I don't know whenever
I was in russia back in uh, was
it september?
August I don't remember.

(02:11):
It was a late august early september coming
around between belarus.
Um Hanging out in moscow I went to
the tv studio and there spoke for an
hour.
Well If you know me well enough, you
know that I can sometimes just Ramble whether
you want to call it a gift or

(02:32):
less than a gift That's up to you
but I can also ramble in another language
and uh, I Felt like after it was
done The interview went very very well and
I enjoyed it but i've kind of felt
like I should have prepared a little bit
more at least on topics.
I didn't know What they had wanted to

(02:52):
talk about for an hour.
I really didn't know the last time I
had seen the lovely.
Um, A correspondent that was interviewing me We
had been in kazan at the bricks conference
and I thought we might go into some
of that And we did we talked a
little bit about it.
We talked about trump.
We talked about zalinsky We talked about some
other things but I kind of felt like
I hadn't prepared and I probably should have

(03:14):
done something and so before the interview this
time what I did was I got uh,
because she had told me she wanted to
uh, uh, you know quiz me about the
Zelinsky trump the visit it was last friday
and some of the aftermath of that And
some of this crap that I talk on
here on the show all the time.

(03:36):
Anyway, well I what I did was and
I uh, the interview ended up being about
20 minutes, you know, we had several topics
We went through it.
We talked about my my article that they're
going to publish for me Hopefully i'll see
it sometime in a pretty near future that
comes up.
She said it'll be coming out next she
wanted to uh, uh put my um video

(03:58):
in um In the proper format and i'll
have it out here and what I was
wanting to do was uh Take the russian
questions that they asked me and That I
answered in russian, of course and uh translate
them into english and give you the exact

(04:19):
format of the whole the whole shoot and
match and what I Thought I would do
because I did prep for a couple of
the answers one of the things that happened
yesterday And that I have talked about and
that they asked me about and I might
have mentioned some last night But didn't go
too far into was the fact that the

(04:40):
ukraine war Uh, or the war in ukraine
Is now donald trump's war, okay All of
this it is no longer joe biden's war,
you know, you still hear him saying Well,
if I had been in office this war
would have never taken place if you had
done this it would never This wouldn't have
happened and blah blah blah.

(05:01):
But now in my humble opinion this is
Donald trump's war.
It's no longer joe biden's war It's donald
trump's because he has the opportunity to end
it by cutting off ukraine And he won't
do it And he keeps being given the
opportunity he keeps tiptoeing or dancing up to

(05:23):
the line and then He reverses course and
goes back the other direction, which I said
something similar on Uh my russian interview this
morning And so I assume and for them
it was already evening.
So our interview is at nine o'clock
this morning Which meant it was 5 p
.m their time.
So by the time Uh, I get home

(05:44):
after this Broadcast I should be able to
find or maybe it'll come up that before
friday the article That I wrote will be
posted out in russian and the interview that
I gave Will be put out on the
russian sources But so far I haven't seen
it.

(06:04):
You know what?
I suppose I could do I could go
on the old interstellar internet and see If
there's anything out there because perhaps there is
maybe she did get something done Who knows
what happened?
They have things like uh interviews opinions wonder
where I am Maybe I was an interview.

(06:24):
Nope.
Not yet.
Nothing with the old sam wise And I
am not there.
I wonder if i'm on the Opinion page.
I don't know Uh, nope, mikhail pavlov is
there vladimir skotchka Rostislav ishenko And vladimir skotchka

(06:49):
is there again?
Well, but no sammy yet.
I am not there But we shall keep
an eye out and see when that comes
out because I want to put it out
for you but now it probably won't be
until Sunday, in fact, it won't be because
uh, i'm not um I'm not appearing again
until sunday.
That's the way it goes Isn't it?

(07:12):
uh, so at any rate I did want
to go into the I wanted to find
the medvedev because medvedev had a quote and
uh I wanted to tell you what it
was And exactly what he said because frankly
it's hard not to agree with him And

(07:36):
it's in russian.
So i'll have to translate it on the
fly.
But but here's what he said Dmitry medvedev
and he said about trump and the war
and and this is this Truly makes me
sad, you know, I I don't like to
hear This but it's true He said the

(07:57):
u.s is our enemy and their Uh
conversational peace talks mirror towards, uh is now
uh Has become The fields of battle with
russia.

(08:17):
So the peace talks are now the field
of battle with russia It is now his
conflict speaking about trump That's what dmitry medvedev
said yesterday And uh when and and it's
it's unfortunate now dmitry medvedev is kind of
like Medved means bear just so you know,

(08:40):
oh, by the way, um polly if you
happen to be listening Uh, the word is
for your listening pleasure.
Zat knees means shut up.
Is that knees?
and uh, uh That is the actual word
zat z-a-t knees k-n-i
-s and uh means shut up, uh medved

(09:04):
by the way means bear and so medvedev
is You know dmitry bear, you know, that's
him and uh, uh, or dmitry of the
bear depends on how you want, you know
Parse words, which I don't really want to
do.
Anyway, i'm just rambling because um, I Some
of the things that I I got into
on my show this morning And I had

(09:24):
watched because I don't sleep ever and in
the middle of the night last night I
was watching maria zakharova And she had uh
some interesting statements of her own That I
put out there one of them I thought
was hilarious and I and I and I
wanted to share it just because it was
so Funny she said because she is a

(09:48):
pretty What is the name of our girl
who who speaks, uh from the white house
press corps, but that's white house this lady
She speaks from the ministry of foreign affairs
side and she and i've told you about
her before she's got these.
Um, uh two and a half hour three
hour uh press conferences that she gives Uh,

(10:11):
literally two three times a week and so
you can get on there and she always
talks about Uh, she she she points out
all of the attacks on civilians this morning
some of the numbers that she gave and
this is a frightening number She says that
over the course of the war what the
ukrainians have done in attacking Buses beaches hospitals

(10:38):
schools apartment complexes civilian targets cars That over
that period and she always lists, you know
10 15 of these that occur each and
every day and nobody puts this stuff out.
No, i'm not saying War isn't war and
that the same thing doesn't happen on the

(10:58):
ukrainian side all of the time That that
you know, whether it's russian missiles.
I don't believe russians intentionally attack uh civilian
Uh living homes, you know, I don't believe
that happens, you know Uh, I believe they
try to avoid it and they have always
talked about it.
I believe that accidents do occur though and

(11:21):
that You know when a missile is shot
down by air defense Those two things collide
and they can fall and that would kill
civilians and stuff like that I don't think
that they are actually targeting now what happens
though Um when the ukrainians are out there
actually targeting These type of things the one

(11:43):
that got me the most was the beach
in crimea When on a sunday afternoon on
a beach where there's nobody there But families
sending themselves the ukrainians set off cluster rounds
and killed like 130 people something like that.
Not good and uh and those sorts of
things occur And you see stories like those

(12:06):
maria zakharova puts them points them out all
the time well, one of the things she
said and I have to um, um, Uh,
not give you the whole thing.
I'm just telling you a little bit of
the basics about it what she said was
that all of all of you people in
the west who are uh, you know fighting

(12:28):
for A democracy and then she stops and
she pauses and she looks in the camera
and she goes What are you talking about?
There is no democracy in ukraine you forget
That they haven't elected a parliament since you
know Whatever time and they haven't elected their
president since 2019 and he was supposed to

(12:50):
be gone in may of 2024 And nobody
mentions these things and nobody even talks about
it and this is okay but in europe
was still passing out this this illusion these
fake words that Uh, it's all about we're
backing democracy and zelensky gets on tv and
actually says, you know We appreciate people fighting

(13:11):
for our democracy.
You don't have a democracy.
It doesn't exist you aren't having elections for
um your parliament your Duma oh, I forget
what it's called over there your your state
house and you're not having elections for your
president You are arresting Everybody that uh that

(13:35):
offends you you are getting rid of um
uh churches that are associated with russia Um,
you know, there are all kinds of these
things going and by the way i've been
distracted and once again, I want to make
sure I mention this in my my Instant

(13:55):
dislike of how this happens I don't like
it.
They've blown up boat number six I'm gonna
tell you I just but you know on
in the venezuelan international waters because these are
drug dealers, you know Yeah, prove it prove
one and I will shut up prove it

(14:18):
You just this is this is not the
way you target drug dealers So you you
got the freaking navy stop them board the
boat Arrest them jail them Now, you know
or or turn it into a death penalty
to run these and but but still give

(14:39):
them the trial what you're doing Is un
-american and i'm against it now i'm against
drugs, too But I also think that it's
pretty convenient that you just get a blow
up a bunch of boats and say Oh,
but we're doing the right thing.
You're not doing the right thing And and

(15:00):
you cannot Justify this you don't write a
wrong with another wrong It's not that is
un-american It is not what we stand
for and I Personally samuel trap samuel edward
What does jr?
Call me sam you're samuel edward von trap

(15:20):
am I number one or number two?
I can't remember samuel run Sevt2 I think
i'm sevt2.
I don't know why i'm two I should
be number one because i'm certainly the oldest.
Um, my father was michael Actually clifford michael,
but he was And and my oldest brother
was clifford michael and my father's father was
clifford michael.

(15:41):
So there was one two and three But
i'm just plain old ordinary sam the first
I have a son named sam.
He's the second.
So there you go.
I cannot be Sevt2 I can be sevt1
I suppose However, anyway, i'm rambling again.
Sorry about that.
Uh, we're gonna continue.

(16:01):
Um, let's see The India and sanctions.
Okay, so I saw some uh, Some news
that uh india and sanctions um That allegedly
ross neft and luke oil.
The indians are going to cut off purchases

(16:24):
from ross neft and luke oil I was
and I told you last night to keep
track of that and really pay attention that
in this morning in the news They said
that the largest Refiner of indian oil the
biggest company that Has they have said and

(16:47):
they have already started trying to move around?
uh contracts To stop the purchase of russian
oil from luke oil and ross neft and
Uh that I it so far hasn't happened
xi jingping and and trumpster are meeting in

(17:08):
on on what the 30th I think next
thursday That they're gonna meet and they haven't
met since 2019 And the alleged agenda of
that is to convince xi jingping to stop
buying russian oil and gas too and force
this to uh to uh Take place and
stop the war We already know how to

(17:31):
stop the war if these a-holes would
only listen to me this would be resolved
already But it's not same old crap different
day and but once again Did you see
the headline today?
Here we go.
Let's let's laugh over this for just a
tiniest of bits.
Okay Uh, what is her name?

(17:52):
The the the highly attractive in my humble
view, of course I don't know.
Maybe i'm maybe i'm weird, but I think
she's pretty Um, let's see.
What is her name though?
I can't remember there it is.
I found it good.
At least I got to read it I'm,
i'm i've always been sort of bad with
names and I really apologize for that but

(18:13):
Here you go from the white house itself.
So where were we yesterday?
Oh, we're not gonna go to budapest.
There is no budapest that is put off.
It's canceled.
We're not doing it now The putin trump
summit is not off the table said the
white house a summit between us president donald

(18:33):
trump and russian president vladimir vladimirovich putin is
Not completely off the table said the white
house press secretary the highly attractive carolyn levitt
In a press briefing on thursday.
So just today yesterday off the table today
back on the table These people You know

(18:57):
changed underwear the underwear said, you know the
tag in the back said back on And
then when they take the underwear off, it'll
be back off.
That's how it works Trump called off a
planned summit with putin in budapest a day
earlier After it was announced last week that
there would be one And it was canceled
put back on canceled put back on and

(19:18):
now it was canceled and now It's not
completely off the table.
It's just falling.
Okay, so we we don't know what the
hell's going on Levitt was asked to comment
on the decision and the recent us sanctions
on major russian oil companies A meeting between

(19:39):
these two leaders is not completely off the
table.
She said I think the president and the
entire administration hopes that one day that can
happen again She said trump has not seen
enough interest in enough action Hmm from russia,
so why aren't we sanctioning ukraine too for

(20:02):
god's sake?
Force them to the table.
They're not at the table Doesn't it take
two to tango?
Curiouser and curiouser as I read once in
a book Moscow has maintained that it remains
fully committed to a diplomatic solution Not just

(20:24):
to ceasefire a solution to the ukraine contract
Conflict provided the root causes are addressed But
the lovely and talented carolyn levitt also addressed
sanctions on russia that were unveiled by the
u.s treasury department wednesday The president has
always maintained that he would implement sanctions on

(20:46):
russia when he felt it was appropriate and
necessary and Yesterday was that day?
She said Putin speaking to the press also
on thursday noted that the unfriendly move causes
harm to russian and u.s Relations, which
he said have just begun to recover Despite

(21:09):
this the sanctions will not significantly impact the
russian economy He said the restrictions are yet
another attempt by the u.s to strong
arm russia He said and stressed that no
self-respecting country makes decisions under pressure The
president confirmed president putin that is that the

(21:32):
summit with trump is postponed What can I
say dialogue is always better than confrontations disputes
or even more so War said putin adding
that russia has always supported and continues to
support diplomacy Let's talk about what an analyst

(21:58):
said about these, uh These sanctions I gave
you a little bit yesterday But now we're
going to take somebody who's an economist and
went on into this a little bit further
It's a little bit longer piece, but I
think we should talk about it um washington's
nine-month pause On new restrictions against russia

(22:20):
has come to an end as donald trump
imposed his first sanctions of his second term
Targeting two of russia's biggest oil companies rosneft
and luke oil along with their subsidiaries the
move presented by the white house as a

(22:41):
push to Encourage moscow to agree to a
ceasefire Comes alongside postponement of the anticipated summit
between trump and putin in budapest While the
administration insists the meeting is merely delayed not
cancelled The twin decisions have reignited debate in

(23:02):
moscow about trump's real intentions I'm, not sure.
He knows what his real intentions are.
Hello.
How's the family?
this guy Will change his underwear tomorrow and
uh, you know, it'll be all about how
much we don't like zelensky Then we'll go
back to hating putin again, then we won't

(23:23):
like zelensky I don't know at least uh,
at least uh, how does that statement go?
You don't like the weather in north texas
Uh stick around five minutes.
It'll change, you know, you don't like trump's
underwear.
Wait a minute.
He'll change him any minute now And about

(23:43):
who truly sets the tone for us policy
toward russia nobody Sets the tone for us
policy toward russia.
There is no policy All it is Is
throw a dart at a dart board and
hope you hit something reasonable, you know And

(24:06):
it doesn't matter if you do or don't
because it's just you know One one one
split red one's black one's bullseye one's outer
ring.
That's where it's gonna be You never know
what the hell's gonna be happening Below is
a roundup of reactions from leading russian experts
and commentators on this Debacle Ivan timofeyev who's

(24:32):
a program director at the valdai club remember
when?
Putin gave a three and a half hour
speech at the valdai club, uh several weeks
ago Two of russia's largest energy companies and
their subsidiaries have just been hit with blocking
financial sanctions The energy sector is already under
heavy pressure.
Not the least of which is because Uh

(24:55):
of extensive export control Uh, well, let's see.
Maybe someone has something exciting to tell us
let us Find out and begin at the
beginning.
Yes kind sir.
How may I help you?
So, hey trapper, what do you think about
john brennan I keep trying to think but
nothing happens Okay, maybe I should rephrase the

(25:20):
question uh, john brennan is what the was
the former cia director under uh, barry satoro
bathhouse bears Keep going So, uh, so this
guy is a devout muslim He's he's whiter

(25:41):
than the driven snow.
And why is this bad?
What well because he's a traitor What wait,
wait, wait, wait, are you saying that all
muslims are traitors?
uh No, not necessarily But I I would
lean I would lean Heavily in that direction

(26:01):
just given the history Of of you know,
they're they're uh, they're uh You know, I
will tell you that I think that is
a mistake.
Um, are you aware That I have been
married to a muslim No, i'm not Pray
tell what do you what do you know

(26:22):
about muslims in all seriousness?
The only thing I know about muslims are
there's a thing called sharia law.
That's all I know Okay, well that I
will tell you is a fear tactic now.
I'm not telling you there aren't extreme wings
of muslimism just like there are of many

(26:44):
other Organizations, uh religions, however, you want to
put it.
Um there are I don't want this to
sound really bad But the quickest example I
can think of is there are murderous are
murderous arms of a highly religious israel Organizations,

(27:04):
okay.
Oh, I agree and and so to lump
all Israelis or all jewish people into that
would be a huge mistake to lump all
Muslims into sharia law is an equally large
mistake And there are bad people everywhere when

(27:28):
charlie kirk got killed they tried to paint
the murdering a-hole who did it as
a uh mormon And I believe he did
grow up that way if if he you
know was the guy that murdered him I
don't get into any of that stuff But
i'm saying they tried to paint it that
way as they did with another couple of

(27:48):
uh of actions that come up And and
i'm not saying that doesn't exist.
I'm not even saying that they aren't I
don't know and so what I am saying
is I reserve judgment until I personally know
and when somebody wants to extrapolate Some bad
act by a bad person in a religion

(28:10):
to the entire religious realm of that religion
I am against that And so that's the
only caution I will give you I don't
know much about john brennan or or what
you know He has done.
Maybe he's a sharia law god, and I
don't know maybe that it's I don't know

(28:30):
I don't know either sam, but see these
are the conversations the conversations that we we
need to have as uh, you know right
thinking open-minded liberal Minded and I don't
mean leftist.
I mean open-minded liberalism We need to
engage in these conversations and get to the
bottom of this and I think weed out

(28:53):
The uh, the the ne'er-do-wells
and the bad ones that are trying to
there are there are bad ones But let
me tell you an opposite story.
You you are aware.
I think that I lived in qatar for
a year.
Yes Yeah, I remember you talking.
Well, well one of the things I lived
and and I told this story to somebody
else tonight And and so it's just fresh
on my mind and I forgot about this.

(29:14):
It's hilarious when I lived over there I
lived in a villa with uh, seven European
um men and one, uh, there was an
american girl in there and there was uh,
The wife of one of the the guy
from amsterdam his wife was there as well
So there were like eight or nine of
us that lived in this huge villa three

(29:36):
floors Several wings right on the ocean.
It was really cool and uh, uh all
Fairly well to do except me, of course,
but the rest of them were were fairly
well off that and uh, um Had had
pretty cool jobs all of us were there
building things.
Well, one of my buddies My my my

(29:56):
my friend for a year who lived there
with me was an engineer a really cool
guy from south africa named warren And warren
was a very good friend of mine and
we would go out and uh, you know
The culture is so completely different over there
You work two parts of the day you

(30:16):
have a quick morning because the afternoon it's
too hot to work in and then you
work Again later in the evening for several
hours.
And so especially in the hot months.
It's all split up And the story I
told to people was about ramadan and people
don't understand this It's a religious a religious
celebration around the whole country Well, it is

(30:36):
rude to not at least pay attention to
the highly religious Nation in which you are
living and so most Europeans that live there,
although most are christian and or most or
you know, whatever agnostic or whatever They still
tried to follow and not, you know, offend
the host nation And so the rule during

(30:59):
ramadan, it's not a rule is that that
you don't eat from Sunrise to sunset it's
you fast during the day but at night
when the when the sun goes down There's
something called iftar And iftar you anywhere you
go in the city of doha Anywhere you

(31:20):
go The food is free And they have
a banquet and you go to these restaurants
and it is fantastic and they are extremely
kind people and uh in during during ramadan,
they are Extremely, you know, they're they're Worshipping
right and they have their worships that they
do during the day But they limit how

(31:42):
much work people can do they limit where
they you know where they are, but it's
not anything horrifying right and and so I
was extremely glad to have run into this
because I didn't know much about the uh,
you know, the muslim religion I had heard
stuff and I was pretty well read and
I knew things but I never experienced it

(32:04):
firsthand well this is why a lot of
people around the rest of the world think
that the we americans are just ignorant Because
we don't know these things We we we
we just hear a tiny little bit about
it and everybody says oh gee they wear
black robes Well my the reason I told

(32:24):
you about my buddy warren and the reason
I told you about the kind people Because
warren was one hilarious dude and he and
I had so much fun some just running
around Buying pizza.
He would always go in the way.
He spoke.
He'd go sam sam We need to get
a we would have just gone to dinner
We went somewhere and had curry somewhere some

(32:45):
indian food fantastic curry that they had all
over The city or we'd go buy something
and have dinner and on the way home
He'd go sam sam, you know what we
need i'd say.
What do we need?
He'd go.
We need a whopper We need whopper whopper
whopper and we He would always go to
burger king and we would get whoppers Well,
the only reason these are stupid stories, but

(33:06):
i'm getting to a point And the point
and several times over the course of the
year that I lived there and he and
I were running around together he Uh, we
would go out and and the women are
all in black the men, you know the
the qatari women and they have the uh
The hijab and they're they have the robes
that they're wearing and they're all in black.

(33:28):
Um, uh, you know limousines and black Escalades
and you know highly expensive cars and several
times during the year uh warren Would go
up to these people would be parked like
at a gas station or somewhere like that
and and he would go up And knock
on the window And I was like, what

(33:49):
are you doing?
You know, why are you harassing the qataris?
He said sam watch watch Watch this is
how it goes and I never did this
myself.
Just so you know, but I did Laugh
my ass off with warren about it later,
you know, and and it was he he
would knock on the door And that's it
or knock on the door of the window
of the car And the qatari woman who

(34:09):
would be riding in the back.
She has a driver and she has all
that stuff There's so much money over there.
They all got tons of money and especially
during iftar or during ramadan I mean he
would knock on the windows and They would
roll down the window And he would ask
them for money now warren made extremely good
money.
Everybody over there was making reasonably good money

(34:30):
I mean we were westerners in a in
an arabic country.
You made some pretty good money And uh,
he would knock on the window and ask
for money.
I said warren.
Why are you doing that?
He goes because if you ask them for
money, they have to give it to you.
I said what?
He goes.
Yes.
This is it's part of their religious code
in their religion He goes, you know, I
was like, you're not telling me You just
go knock on the window and people give

(34:51):
you money And I watched him do it
and I swear to god this guy came
back with four $100 bills that somebody just
passed out the window to him now You
could say they're just fabulously wealthy people and
they do you know, they do all this
stuff warren Warren was taking advantage Obviously and
I and I I thought that guy we
had we had a lot of fun He

(35:12):
was a very good guy highly professional engineer
and did some stuff But he knew how
to have fun and do some other stuff.
And the only reason I tell you that
whole story is because There is a certain
amount of and and so when you say
something about oh gee, he's muslim, you know
that And nothing else that you said and

(35:33):
it's not offensive to me.
I just want you to take a different
perspective I very much apologize for for for
jumping back on you with that And I
don't hope you don't take it as anything
offensive because I don't mean it that way
But a lot of times you don't understand
the perspective of where they're coming and here
in america I don't want to say we're
ignorant, but a lot of times we're ignorant,

(35:54):
you know, and The only reason i'm not
is because I at least on that topic
is because I have experienced it.
Does that make sense?
Of course it does sam and and i'm
going to be the first one to confess
right now.
I am ignorant I don't know that but
I have an equally interesting story I I
used to be in the trucking business.

(36:15):
We hauled gasoline diesel fuel, you know, jet
fuel rocket fuel, etc so on a very
very highly volatile Commodity that we transported from
a to b and there's a gentleman.
His name's clyde.
I don't remember his last name uh, he's
a Black guy, you know just a regular
old american black guy clyde and he and

(36:37):
I got along so well together And he
worked in doha And he would tell me
stories About just making so much money over
there and never feeling in fear of his
life You know, he never never never that
was an extremely safe place Yeah, and he
was a marine.
I think you know, I don't remember the
marine detachment he was with but so this

(36:59):
guy comes back over here on a I
don't know dd 21 or whatever 214 214
Discharged came back over here highly qualified uh
applicant and driver and we hired him and
I thought he was just Phenomenal honest nice
Wonderful guy and he shared Deep stories with

(37:23):
me.
I mean deep what I believe are true
stories and just like what you said in
doha It was just like a paradise and
so he comes and making tons of money
And then he comes back over here and
he works for a company i'm not going
to divulge the name because I don't think
that'd be fair, but But works for the
company that I worked for making a tenth

(37:45):
one tenth Of what he made while he
was working over there as a marine supply
sergeant and Reason I say this is i'm
not against muslims.
I'm not against uh, Israelis i'm not against
uh buddhists or hindus or any other thing
like that What I am against is is

(38:05):
them they or whomever that Whatever it might
come from is coming over here and trying
to insurrect or redirect our Representative constitutional republic
and that's why I call out that guy

(38:26):
that Traitor yeah, well, I haven't read his
whole story and I don't know it and
and uh, and so I I couldn't speak
intelligently on it That's fine.
I'm just i'm telling you this right now.
I am probably um, one of the least
most racist or or misogynistic or or fascist

(38:49):
or whatever those leftists want to try to
try to couch a You know an old
white guy in an old white christian in
I believe that we should all get along
and not effing fight And and there are
factions out there amongst us man, and it's

(39:09):
it's not the muslims so much They've just
been gymmed up ginned up and it's not
the uh, you know, it's not the hindus.
It's not the african-americans It's not the
you know, white rednecks it's there's a class
of people out there that have learned how
to Manipulate people through mind control and propaganda

(39:32):
to create Consistent dissent.
It's called cloward and piven if you haven't
heard of it, look it up.
I have not and I shall Oh do
do it and it's designed to destroy the
uh Um decent infrastructure of getting along and

(39:52):
and create social Turmoil So that so that
supposedly when that turmoil and civil war hits
The hegelian dialectic, you know problem reaction solution.
They can swoop in and offer us some
sort of uh, You know solution that's going
to save us, you know this utopian You

(40:13):
know central bank Uh, you know cbdc's Good
luck with that.
That ain't gonna work and then one world
religion And then the the other thing I
love talking to you because you're so smart
and you're so experienced And then the other
thing i'm gonna leave you with is project
blue beam.
Have you heard about the atlas?

(40:34):
Uh, the three eye atlas thing.
Yeah, you told me that Yeah, yeah look
into that too.
And then on the heels of that is
going to come a thing called project project
blue beam and it's going to be these
mind controlling Holographic images that are going to
come down And try to capture the mind

(40:54):
of I don't know at least 20 maybe
40 percent of the the uninformed you know
human population to to to to Gen them
up and turn them into bloodthirsty Vampires and
killers bro.
It's a true thing.

(41:15):
It's out there I know it sounds crazy
and and I know I might be a
little bit, uh, you know out there on
the fringe, but I I've looked into this
i've deep dived into this and bro.
It's a thing.
It is a thing that's going on and
Russia, they're they're not our enemies man.
They're our friends and nope and they're trying

(41:37):
And ukraine is nothing but a tool and
it's depressing what they're doing to those people
what we are doing to those people we
america and the Deep state a holes in
the eu Are doing to that country It's
a shame brother.
It's a shame.
So I'm, so glad I don't know how

(41:58):
you wound up on this radio station.
I listened to you years and years ago.
I paid jr Is that right?
Yeah, I remember listening to you on krms
years ago on saturday afternoons That's right And
and I my show was called question everything
because I always question stuff And did they

(42:19):
kick you off or did you?
No, no, no.
No, I I I ran my uh contract
length and I just didn't renew It was
uh, I enjoyed it and then You know,
I sponsored the trip to mexico quite a
few times So when they did that and
they let me speak down there and I
have no problem with krms at all.

(42:39):
I I enjoyed my I enjoyed my time
there and Uh, and I enjoy the people
and I knew them and uh, you know,
do I always agree with them?
No, but do I always agree with anybody?
No, not usually Well, you're a treasure brother
and jr has done a great thing by
uh capturing you on this this airwaves and

(43:01):
And I feel lucky.
I really feel lucky to get to listen
to your insight and your experience and i'm
not blowing smoke up Your ass i'm i'm
telling you I choose wisely what I engage
in and listen to Well, i'm glad you
do.
I appreciate that Yeah, and and and and
i'm just telling you right now That you've

(43:22):
got a You've got something special about you.
I don't quite know exactly i'm still trying
to figure that out You know one one
day, you know one day I will do
something special.
We remember, uh, The movie the jerk with
naven johnson.
I love that movie I'm somebody Somebody You

(43:44):
got a special purpose.
That's right.
You got a special purpose.
That's right.
Remember he was somebody because his name was
in the phone book Naven r johnson.
He's trying to shoot the cans He hates
these cans How about this one i'm picking
out a thermos for you?

(44:06):
I am picking out a thermos.
I was born a poor black child, right,
right, right, right Dude, so see that's the
kind of connection and and then uh, jr
has the connection with smoky and the bandit
Those are the simple little connections that convince
me When I get home i'm gonna punch

(44:27):
your mama in the mouth There is no
way You came from my loins Right, okay
Man, it's so much i'm talking to you.
I have a great night.
I look forward to every You know minute
of conversation we get to share brother.
Just just god bless you I know you're
not into that but but just just just

(44:49):
just just be a blessed soul And continue
to do what you're doing because you're adding
value To the value added stream.
I'm i'm a value added good thing.
There's no vat tax here Because jr'd be
losing his ass because i'm adding some value
You'd be asked.
All right, brother.
I'll let you go.

(45:10):
Good night.
Sam.
Thanks for calling Yeah, my pleasure And there
he goes, you know That reminded me of
something that I wished to opine upon um,
I listened today to um The show of

(45:31):
uh, uh polly, um Eye of the beholder
comes in on fridays and I uh, uh
Sometimes get a chance to listen to it.
I try to if I can and there
was a discussion about the old eyester and
uh, some of the things that uh, uh,
and and I listened to some of the

(45:53):
commentary and It is definitely a different perspective
and uh I did a show about ike
Uh, and what happened to him?
when um Um, he pleaded guilty, uh To
this nonsensical nonsense of taking down the camera

(46:18):
And you know, I did somewhat of a
dive into the legality of it all and
some of the things that should come up
I was unaware until listening to polly's show
That there were even more cameras put up
I agree with him for some of the
uh, uh idiocy That is going on in

(46:41):
the county uh, I I hate to say
her name wrong, but i've always known her
as rochelle Different last name, but I can't
remember what it is now.
So I don't want to say it but
prosecutor in the county And I think what
she did is a dastardly deed and i'm
disgusted by what she did I don't like

(47:02):
it and I think she should be called
out upon it Uh, and I think also
there, you know Ethical concerns never hit the
the those sorts of people But I think
it's an ethical concern to be a witness
in a case And then be also the
person who begs someone to prosecute someone I

(47:25):
think is just wrong And I didn't like
it then I don't like it now And
somebody would have to convince me that i'm
incorrect and good luck with that Uh to
say that what she did was just wrong
And uh, and I and I I cannot
stand up for that kind of thing Um,
I also think that ike being targeted is

(47:47):
the biggest pile biggest lump of dog Excrement
on the planet it is not right and
although I Understand that he should maybe stand
up for the people of Camden county, I

(48:08):
believe he did.
I also believe that he still has the
opportunity to do so And I hope he
does And I believe and I and I
went through it on the the one time
after he pleaded guilty And I think I
did one before he pleaded guilty severally.
I I remember talking to him about maybe

(48:29):
we should be out there Broadcasting this all
the time But and I agree that it
does kind of shut people up but remember
it is his choice And i'm not saying
that polly can't have his opinions of you
know, i'm Those are his opinions.
I wouldn't change them I understand them and
I get it and I get I get

(48:49):
I get what he's saying and I listen
to it and you know A part of
me is supportive of that kind of thing
and I get it And and I cannot
certainly understand that point of view he backs
it up however, I also think that Ike
backed up his um that that that Until

(49:11):
you're the one going through it and you
understand how the system Is stacked in what
they're doing to you and how they're destroying
And what point you are in your life
and the various things that are going on
in different areas that affect you your family
and what you know the the frightening nature

(49:31):
of it all and you know there but
for the grace of god go I that
kind of thing and uh, uh, you know
You can always It's easy to look at
Anything I mean pick it with hindsight I

(49:52):
do it every night You know you go
back and you look and you judge and
you say something I try hard Not to
judge and I don't judge Ike for what
he did.
I think that uh, That he could have
gone either way, but it's a risk and
it's always a risk and whose risk was
it?
It wasn't the counties It was Ike's and

(50:13):
these people are screwing with him Now did
I think that he would have had a
a strong?
likelihood of winning those And would probably have
won on appeal And would probably have have
gotten more out of it.
Had he fighted Fighted did I say fighted?

(50:34):
Oh my god.
I'm done.
I quit All right, i've rehired myself i'm
gonna do it again, but I apologize for
that and uh, You know who's to say
that if he fought He would have won
um, and for a perspective on this I
fought the corrupt missouri bar for how long?

(50:56):
How long friends and neighbors 10 years and
I am right they are wrong But I
didn't win Who's still the guy without his
law license?
Samuel edward von trapp second or first.
I remember jr knows and uh, me in

(51:17):
other words, I I Because they're corrupt a
-holes And they have a system that isn't
that is not constitutional by any stretch They
have not been granted authority by the supreme
court to do what they did they have
not been granted any authority by the Governor

(51:37):
by the executive branch, so they have no
judicial no executive and no statutory Authority in
the missouri bar at all for the arm
that they are trying to replace And the
u.s. Supreme court of the missouri had
zero rule that applies to it And however,
that doesn't mean they aren't going to use

(51:59):
it to stick it up the tailpipe of
samuel trapp And it's uh, it's it's just
not right what they did but but people
like The rochelles of the world they'll get
away with it.
But who's to say?
That ike would have okay.
No, did I think he was he would
have been in the right to do so?

(52:19):
Absolutely, would it be uh worth the risk?
Maybe so But it's not my choice It's
not polly's And in you know, I very
much enjoyed the perspective of polly on that
on that show and I think there's a
a lot proper to be said there, but
Not your choice You know the the choice

(52:41):
and and by the way paying a freaking
lawyer to do that forever and ever and
have the risk of losing and then losing
and having to appeal and the constant worry
and Borrowing money or having have people raise
money for you the argument that the the
county should have paid yeah, I could see
that argument, but You know the the rochelles

(53:04):
of the world would fight that too and
then he would you know, maybe they'll charge
him with something for that crap and uh,
and so Until you're saddled with someone else's
burden It is easy to say, you know,
this is what I what you should have
done or this is what you know we
paid you to do or Whatever.

(53:27):
Do I think ike was was right and
justified in taking down that idiotic camera?
I do do I think he was uh
justified in pleading to a misdemeanor to forego
the pleasure of having to fight off A
and have a debacle for himself and his
family and go through the destruction of that

(53:48):
process I honor his choice and the choice
is his and so I I I don't
have anything Negative to say in fact, I
have a lot of support for what uh,
what paulie said he backed it up Like
I said, so I honor everybody else's opinion.
I get that I honor ike's choice and

(54:09):
ike's opinion and I honor what ike is
doing There were a couple of things that
I can't speak to.
I don't know whether ike is, you know
back slapping somewhere I don't know.
I don't see ike that way and I
know ike It's not like we're best of
buddies or anything, but i've i've known ike
for a while and uh, and i'm, you
know, we're Certainly on a first name basis,

(54:32):
you know And I have no problem chatting
with him and no problem believing in him
Um, and I don't condemn the choice he
had to make I think it's unfortunate That
the county did what they did if there
really are and I didn't know this and
and I assume it's true That they have
five more cameras.

(54:53):
I still want somebody and maybe many of
us To file a class action of the
type that is filed currently in richmond in
the eastern district of virginia and do something
similar to what they do with these, um
Uh, and then it's also flocked there, but
they didn't sue flock They sued the police

(55:13):
chief because and they sued on the basis
of an illegal search and seizure And we
should do somebody should do something similar here.
Maybe in one or two places Maybe it
would be joined in the same case in
uh in uh, richmond Maybe I mean maybe
they would combine the cases that's possible and
they I forget what they call it the

(55:34):
inter inter uh jurisdictional Court or something like
that where in a federal court if you
file something and it's very similar to something
in another jurisdiction They put the two together
and I don't remember what the name of
it, but I want to say interjurisdictional court
or the court of the court of uh
inter inter judicial shit inter State jurisdiction or

(55:58):
something like that.
I can't remember what it's called, but it's
on the federal level But I think that
if there are now five or six cameras
and they are tracking us Or they have
the ability to track us and they are
doing the same thing here that the flock
system is doing there you could almost copy
the uh, uh, The petition and go against

(56:18):
the sheriff here For refusing to take them
down and I think somebody should hell i'll
draft it for you I don't i've done
it somebody else could file it, you know,
hell if I said it was myself Because
they're tracking me now I could uh, uh
file it myself pro se and just say
i'm going to do it as a Mass
action for everybody else that is in the

(56:39):
state of missouri and is going through this
because of what they are doing It's bs
I don't like it either.
I am against these cameras and I think
somebody ought to do it and all you
need is a Oh, there it is.
Again.
Heg seth says two narco terrorists killed in
a boat strike in the pacific b s
friends and neighbors Show me where the drugs

(57:01):
are, you know, show me some residue show
me something Alleged drug boat is all they
can call it.
It's an alleged drug boat and we're just
executing people willy-nilly because we say they
are um Drug runners.
Anyway, sorry jr.
Your tv's distracting me I gotta turn these

(57:23):
damn things off, but you told me not
turn them off because sometimes it Causes issues.
So anyway, i'll try to quit looking at
them and go back to what I said
But I think that that the the ikes
of the world are really the good guys
no matter how you slice it anyway and
that uh, you know if he's if he's
out back slapping his uh, his uh Polly

(57:43):
called it and by the way I like
me probably shows a good show and I
think his opinion is fantastic too and I
and I Honor it.
I honor them both and uh, you know,
I hope uh, I hope they continue to
have a uh, a decent dialogue between each
other without um you know, uh any sort
of uh bad blood because You know It

(58:07):
doesn't you can have your opinion and you
can speak it here on this station and
I believe it's a good a good spot
to do it and uh, I I believe
that uh I'm, not sure what I would
have done where I ike but I honor
what he had to do and I honor
the the fact that he was Put in

(58:28):
a position that nobody would like to be
put in and I you know, there could
be people that are pissed off about it
Well, i'm sure there are because I heard
about it and uh, but i'm not pissed
off.
I understand it and uh, i'm pissed off
more at the camera bs Than I ever
would be at ike skeleton.

(58:49):
So Uh, I believe that's all the further
I will go into that But uh, you
know my little own my own personal little
diatribe on that but I did mean to
speak on that and uh, I I nearly
forgot to do so and I wanted to
go into a little bit more of the
uh world um Events so one of the

(59:13):
one of the Things, uh, did I finish
the story I was reading?
I don't think I did Because I was
reading about uh, where to go Oh, yes,
I was talking about mr.
Timofeyev from the valdai club on the two
people meeting meeting on on trump hitting moscow
about these sanctions And i'm I I don't

(59:34):
I think that what putin said today in
response to these sanctions is the same thing
Regardless of what you're doing on the sanctions.
It will not change what we are doing
to Finalize our special military operation in ukraine

(59:59):
And we've been very steadfast and steady with
what we're going to say And you know
the part where he said, you know the
the Any self-respecting country wouldn't allow itself
to be forced especially if you're another nuclear
power I mean, it's nonsense Do I think

(01:00:20):
that trump's going to be successful in forcing
gd xingping to do anything you know It'd
be nice Well, I suppose if you go
from the point of view that the entire
world Runs on money whether it's the dollar
or on anything else what donald trump is

(01:00:41):
doing um And and I just saw it
The hill is predicting donald trump says he
will have a deal on everything So, you
know my assumption is that the tail twister
is going to be you quit buying oil
from russia buy it from us instead and
um We'll get rid of all these tariffs

(01:01:05):
on you I don't think it's going to
work russia and China are very very close
And getting closer and I think what these
sanctions and I think what these back and
forths and turnarounds of trump and changes of
direction and trump That's only going to make

(01:01:26):
it further and remember this has nothing to
do with trump what it has to do
with is the indecision the Instability if you
will and that's a hard word, but but
it's exactly that the instability of america We

(01:01:50):
are unstable And why are we unstable?
Because every four years it changes And I
told you before i'll tell you again China
has 50-year plans 30-year plans.
They have long term plans that go past

(01:02:13):
Changes in The parliament changes they have they
have these long plans Wouldn't it be nice
and I talked about this when we were
talking about finances Several months ago a couple
months ago.
I don't know how long ago actually But
it but it was after my trip to
russia, so it really couldn't have been that
long um that if we had some sort

(01:02:37):
of government planning office some something else that
was that was Infrastructure bound of something and
allegedly these are your professional bureaucrats But they're
all crooks and and you know, I have
no faith in any of that That is

(01:02:58):
not planning.
That's politics and if every president can come
in And have his 225 or whatever brand
new Executive orders on the desk and that
he can sign with a flourish and hold
them all up and say Well, here's the

(01:03:18):
new one.
You can't do this.
We're gonna take the nordster the keystone pipeline
and Dismantle it Donald trump look who we
did to you you said it was good,
but we don't like it because i'm joe
biden and uh I think that thing needs
to go.
So what if it's 10 billion dollars, what's

(01:03:39):
10 billion dollars among friends, you know, no
problem Anyway, I think that sanctions are in
that category and that uh long-term sanctions
aren't the answer so As I was saying
ivan timofeyev, this is good Before the caller
even ivan timofeyev who's the program director at

(01:04:01):
the vault die club?
Said the energy sector was already under pressure
not the least of which is because of
extensive export controls in practical terms sanctioning two
more industry Giants doesn't change a whole lot
What matters is the political message?

(01:04:21):
Washington had held off on new sanctions since
trump returned to the white house even as
The eu and the uk pressed ahead with
more now, they've got the 19th packet of
sanctions We always get to call them packets
the return to sanctions is a very negative

(01:04:41):
sign It suggests that hopes for a political
settlement in ukraine are fading Officially the u
.s. Presents these measures as leverage for a
ceasefire But moscow doesn't make decisions under pressure
russia's position has long been clear A ceasefire

(01:05:04):
won't solve anything.
It will only deepen the crisis The new
sanctions mark a new phase This means the
conflict will continue with both sides seeking stronger
negotiating positions the western hawks Enter lindsey graham
have managed to push washington their way But

(01:05:28):
ukraine will continue to pay the price So
that was Ivan timofeyev the program director of
all die Here's another one Konstantin kasachov deputy
speaker of the federation council Washington's decision to
sanction rosneft and luke oil fits perfectly into

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trump's familiar logic Raise the stakes turn up
the pressure Go into negotiations from what he
sees as a position of strength But in
this case, I believe the outcome will be
exactly the opposite agreed New sanctions will not
bring success at the negotiating table They will

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only bring trump closer to the very approach
he used to criticize joe biden Those who
convinced him that more sanctions more missiles longer
ranges will make russia more compliant Are in
fact undermining him Far from strengthening trump's hand

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They are sharply limiting his role as a
potential mediator and peacemaker agreed And that is
precisely what the alliance of democrats and euro
globalist want Because trump is a much greater
obstacle to them Than he is to the

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conflict in ukraine itself Anyone who truly understands
the realities and origins of the conflict in
ukraine As well as russia's interests therein which
have nothing to do with imperial conquest and
everything to do with removing Existential threats will

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realize that sanctions and missiles are gasoline poured
onto a fire They will not bring peace
but more casualties and they will only deepen
this crisis given russia's history and capability It
is I'm adding the word Extremely naive to

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believe the country would make a forced concession
That could later turn into a fatal long
-term risk The expectation that the u.s.
President will now approach Talks with russia holding
Stronger cards is a major miscalculation In reality

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his position is weaker Not stronger instead of
acting as an arbiter Trump is moving in
step with globalist forces that benefit from prolonging
the conflict Becoming hostage both to those forces
and to his own sanctions, which are always

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harder to lift than to impose of course
Washington may hope to later portray any peace
Even one achieved on terms acceptable to russia
as the result of sanctions and tough measures
But by raising the stakes and misreading the

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driving forces of the war Trump risks losing
control of the situation altogether much to the
delight of his domestic and foreign opponents who
will happily brand him once again as impulsive
donald Acting blindly in someone else's interests And

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I agree with that guy, uh, that is
constantine Uh, kasa choffe and I think it's
choffe might be chev Konstantin kosa choffe is
what I think it is And uh that
I you know, that was very well put
and here Dmitry Novikov Associate professor of the

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higher school of economics america's latest zigzag can
be explained by two simple factors First washington
still believes that contact with the u.s.
Is something russia values for its own sake
Canceling a meeting or limiting access to the
american president is meant to make moscow think

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twice But these contacts are purely functional for
russia not symbolic I think I think trump
did this, you know, I think this was
planned, you know and I think it was
planned because remember i'm 90 certain that putin
called him the day before the Zelensky visit

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and trump was immediately very very positive and
over the next four three or four days
after the horrible meeting with the old z
man and everybody else Trump reverse course and
and if he really thinks and if this
dmitry novikov is right He thinks that he's
more important than he is to putin And
you know what that also makes a decent

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point anyway, there is his analysis continues second
Americans think there is no rush.
The goal is to soften Moscow's demands before
the summit to avoid another anchorage style showdown
and show progress But pressure even limited is

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still pressure and Moscow doesn't make concessions Underpressure
notice he said the exact same thing and
they don't they never have They never will
if you think they will you don't know
russians at all It's like you don't know
traps at all if you think you're gonna
force me to do something because you know

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You told me so well, you better think
again that it's not how it works or
you're gonna pressure me You put pressure on
me, you know, I'm Pressure back.
That's it Anyway, there's no detente yet for
the simple reason that the time hasn't begun
both sides are still maneuvering All right.

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Here's another one guy named Dimitri signs TV
host and professor The ghost of Joe Biden
is still haunting the Oval Office Trump keeps
insisting the Ukraine war isn't his that it
wouldn't have happened under him True the war
began under Biden but during Trump's first term

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the u.s. expanded sanctions started supplying Ukraine
with lethal weapons and refused to discuss security
guarantees for Russia Still Moscow took Trump seriously
when he said he wanted normalization and a
broader solution to the crisis Yet he has
now postponed Budapest citing a vague feeling and

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imposing Sanctions that were drafted under Biden, but
never enacted Trump has effectively continued Biden's policy
That's a shame in itself people while pleasing
the very people who once branded him a
Kremlin agent in Russia Analysts see Trump's move

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as yet another zigzag Assigned that despite his
rhetoric he remains Constrained by the same forces
that shaped his predecessors foreign policy Public opinion
is hardening around one conclusion Trump and Biden
were cut from the same cloth and Moscow

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expects Putin to stand firm against them both
That's pretty harsh.
Isn't it people that was Dimitri signs?
Here's another one Valentin Bogdanov who's a bureau
chief in New York the sanctions against Luke
oil and Rosneft are The first anti-russian

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strict restrictions of Trump's second term the key
point isn't the sanctions themselves But the vulnerability
Trump reveals in writing not just with words
by signing off on sanctions he's admitting that
Washington has no real leverage over India or
China and That his own opponents still have

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leverage over him after his call with Putin
the Hawks struck back and Trump took the
hit his disclaimer that the sanctions might not
last long Only confirms his own uncertainty unable
to fight the globalist establishment alone Trump has

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turned his fire on media allies attacking the
Wall Street Journal For reporting on long-range
missiles for Ukraine yet He confirmed their existence
himself as if Ukraine could use them without
NATO guidance Trump also said he wouldn't send
Tomahawks to Kiev Arguing that only US troops
could operate them a sign that he's still

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leaving himself an exit route I believe I
said that yesterday He's even voiced a support
for extending the new START treaty a gesture
toward De-escalation and express confidence in a
future meeting with Putin But the contours of
that future are being drawn increasingly shit Increasingly

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by someone else's hand that was Valentin Bogdanov.
Here's another one Oleg Tsarev former Ukrainian Politician
the meeting hasn't been canceled just postponed and
most likely it will still take place in
Budapest There is no better location since Zelensky

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refused to give up Donbass Voluntarily the summit
summit has been delayed until the Russian army
takes it by force After that, there will
be room for negotiations But on entirely new
terms because Russia will already have it Malik
Dudikov a political analyst specializing in US affairs

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Pressure from Hawks on both sides of the
Atlantic has worked Trump postponed the Budapest meeting
and refused to send new weapons to Ukraine
a positive sign The sanctions are more nuanced.
They're the first major measures of Trump's second
term But they could later serve as proof
that sanctions don't work Russia will simply reroute

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its trade flows and Trump can then push
back against the Hawks Arguing that he tried
sanctions they failed and there's no point repeating
them He's playing a multi-layered game trying
to strengthen the u.s. Negotiating position Resist
internal pressure and use sanctions as leverage in

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talks with India and China Russia's top oil
buyers.
This is what I think too He's unlikely
to succeed in coercing either India or China
or in hurting Russia's economy I agree with
that too, but he might succeed in buying
himself some time from the Hawks That's an

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interesting perspective Here's another guy Dmitry Drobnitsky a
political analyst and American affairs expert Trump has
chosen the least Strategic path.
He believes he can end the war in
Ukraine quickly through deal-making and creative Diplomacy
without addressing the underlying causes.

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It's not gonna work His vanity has been
his undoing the Euro Atlantic elite figured him
out and learned how to manipulate him Flattering
him through the media while threatening his legitimacy
through Congress He should have purged his administration
early on Instead he avoided conflict even alienated

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Elon Musk who could have helped him clean
house Now anyone who might have backed his
foreign policy agenda is being sidelined leaving him
dependent on the media Europe and a Congress
where MAGA Republicans are outnumbered After his call

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with Putin Europe rushed to Washington to steer
Trump back on to the Into the Euro
Atlantic fold mark Ruta.
It's now clear There is no independent Trump
foreign policy not without a broader change in
the US Establishment his line about hoping the

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sanctions won't be needed for long Shows that
he didn't really want them There may still
be another meeting with Putin another phone call
may be limited contacts, but Trump is no
longer an independent player all that can be
said in his favor is that he tried

(01:18:32):
to resist and Gave Russia nearly nine months
free of new sanctions and direct funding for
the Ukrainian Army That was Dmitry Drobnitsky a
political analyst and Those are the opinions of

(01:18:53):
what has happened What they think is going
to happen because of these sanctions and I
think Most of them are dead on and
I think and I've said it before Trump
is listening to the wrong folks whether it's

(01:19:13):
pressure or whether he has to whether it's
EU and all of this He's trying to
stop them from stealing Russian money Brussels is
even pushing back.
I don't know if you're aware of that
story, but The the EU is trying to
steal Russia's money and give it to Ukraine

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What's the scheme the EU is proposing to
borrow Russia's money?
Some 160 billion from Euro clear who's holding
it a private company in Belgium with all
member states promising to pay it back when
as They put it Ukraine wins the war

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and Russia agrees to pay reparations.
That's the scheme Do you hear that when
Ukraine wins the war and Russia agrees to
pay reparations?
That's when they agree to pay it back.
So that's not really borrowing it.
Is it?
So the second question isn't that wishful thinking

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the reparations loan idea assumes both that Ukraine
will win the war and That Russia will
agree to pay reparations neither of those is
likely or even Possible it's nonsense How would
it work then the EU would then forgive

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the debt to Kiev but would still have
to repay the money it borrowed from euro
clear So who ultimately would have to pay
it back probably European taxpayers not a politically
popular or sustainable idea in a block where
the far right is surging electorally and Brussels
forces through an agenda on militarization So what

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about the bankers European central bankers fear a
legal precedent that could undermine global financial stability
I think it's idiotic if they do it
as well as destroying the euro's reputation as
a safe space You want to see people
abandon the euro and probably the dollar to?

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Steal Russia's money and watch how fast all
the banks pull them out and go to
China Pull them out and go to Saudi
Arabia UAE somewhere in BRICS There was an
article I read that said hungry one to
go to BRICS.
I don't believe it you know, I think
it was a you know, definitely propaganda, but
there it was and You know anyway, well,

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let's let's go on with this because there's
still a few more to go Okay, so
the EU wants to take and use Russian
money held privately in Belgium who has said
what?
Belgian Prime Minister Bart de Weaver whose country
hosts euro clear Has warned that quote.
There's no free money.
There are always Consequences.

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I want their signatures saying if we take
Russian President Vladimir Putin's money.
We're all going to be responsible if it
goes wrong This was Luxembourg Prime Minister Luke
Frieden voiced a similar apprehension D Weaver has

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refused to move unless he gets 100%
backing from EU members Belgium will not support
the EU's plan to use frozen Russian assets
as collateral for a massive loan to Ukraine
Unless the financial risks are shared across all
member states The ECB's Christian Lagarde has warned

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that breaking the law Which is what this
is to steal Russia's money will crash the
euro's reputation as a stable currency I say
the same a legally contentious move will undermine
the euro's credibility deter investment in Euro denominated
assets and pose a risk to global financial

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Stability from my vantage point and In mind
and with in mind financial stability and the
strength of the euro We will be looking
very attentive attentively to make sure that what
is proposed is in accordance with international law
and is mindful of financial stability Lagarde said

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days before the EU summit Italy's Giorgia Maloney
warned the bloc's leaders to respect international law
France wants the money to be spent on
European weapons and financing the Ukraine state Germany
wants to be money money to be spent
on weapons only other EU members think Kiev

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should decide how to spend the money Does
Kiev even have a say?
Kiv insists that there be no restrictions on
how they spend the money a stance widely
regarded with skepticism you think Given the risk
of the cash being siphoned off into Ukraine's
notorious graft channels, which are abundant What does

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Russia think and what is it warned of
Russia is thought to hold some 200 billion
in?
EU funds most of which is privately owned
Hmm wonder what they're gonna do.
Let us read further Russian planet president Putin
said last month that smarter governments opposed the

(01:24:46):
seizure of Russian assets because they understand that
it would fundamentally undermine all principles of international
economic activity and without a doubt cause enormous
harm to the international financial system Kremlin spokesman
Dmitry Peskov warned of a boomerang if Russian

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assets are tapped to finance Kiev Telling reporters
this month that these plans are all about
the illegal seizure of Russian property We are
talking about theft said Peskov on Wednesday if
someone wants to steal our property our assets
and illegally appropriate them They will be subject

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to legal prosecution in one way or another
These are all steps toward the complete destruction
of trust in the principle of property inviolability
The boomerang will hit countries which host the
main Depositories and are interested in investment attractiveness

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He warned Peskov has likened the EU to
a group of mobsters planning their next heist
They all look like a gang Someone keeps
lookout somebody robs and somebody like Belgium shouts
guys.
Let's share Responsibility.
So what's the bottom line if?

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the EU Engages in what Russia sees as
theft We will see a euro slump while
Kiev prepares for a much longer curious curious
curious We are a bunch of crooks It's

(01:26:32):
it's nonsense that we're even talking about it.
It is nuts There's another article that says
that they've delayed it Belgium's demanding robust legal
guarantees You know, they want, you know According
to Bloomberg and political EU officials made very
little headway at the Brussels summit on Thursday

(01:26:54):
in the plan to steal this money to
create a repatriation loan Moscow repeats again that
this is theft Politico Reported the talks were
thrown into disarray after that Bart DeWeaver took
what one official described as a surprisingly uncompromising

(01:27:15):
position what be this he's a he's a
smart man a Belgium which has legal control
over the bulk of the funds through the
Brussels based euro clear Consistently demands that all
your EU members share responsibility if they take
Russia's money, so Belgium did back a compromise

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text that delayed any firm commitment the current
draft seen by Politico Invites the EU Commission
to present as soon as possible options for
financial support replacing earlier language that called for
a legal proposal Belgians Belgium's opposition left some

(01:27:59):
EU officials unhappy Yeah, we want to steal
the money and you're not letting us with
one source telling Politico Nobody wants to be
seen to be responsible for Ukraine running out
of money.
I Don't give a crap if they run
out of money.
I think if they run out of money
the war is over But there's nothing agreed

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yet to actually send them any money according
to Bloomberg EU leaders plan to review the
possibilities at the next summit with the goal
being To get a final agreement by the
end of the year on how to steal
Russia's money Dmitry Peskov once again warned that

(01:28:43):
using these assets is It's you know, it's
just illegal and we're gonna submit them, you
know We're trying to submit them to legal
prosecution in one way or another I suppose
the bigger picture for me is it doesn't
change anything All the money in the world
isn't gonna change the result here You don't

(01:29:08):
have anybody to fight You can't mobilize people
that you just can't do it.
You have no soldiers Pokrovsk is gone life
sucks for you.
You need to figure out how to end
this My name is Samuel trap.
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