Valdai, UN, and a Polycentric World: Putin’s Big Picture, Nebenzya’s Candid Briefing, and What’s Next

Tonight’s International Flavor dives into two pivotal spotlights: Vladimir Putin’s wide-ranging Valdai address laying out a polycentric world, and Russia’s UN envoy Vasily Nebenzya’s unusually candid 54-minute English-language press Q&A as Moscow assumes the UN Security Council presidency for October. We sample Putin’s key lines on multipolarity, Europe, sanctions, and Ukraine, plus Nebenzya’s take on what’s realistic at the Council. Also noted: highlights from Maria Zakharova’s weekly Moscow briefing. Substance over spin—clips, context, and why these remarks matter now. International Flavor: Where the Truth Just Tastes Better. 

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Episode Transcript

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Hello, good evening. Welcome. I am samuel trapped. This is international flavor
It is 9 p.m
at the lake ozark real estate of the art studio
And lots and lots of content, uh to go through but i'm gonna focus on two

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Huge events that occurred one in new york
in the other one
in sochi russia
and the first was
Uh, by the way, if you feel like calling in five seven three seven four six eighty twenty
um, if not don't and because I have plenty to go through today and the

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first in new york
uh un
security council meeting, uh
Appearance press conference of uh, nibin's. Yeah, who's the
um
He was or nibin's yet. Yeah. I don't know the I was just gonna start speaking in russian

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I don't know the uh the stress on the syllable and I think it's nibin's. Yeah, but I could be incorrect there
It doesn't matter but uh, he
Gave a a very good
54 minute
press conference with a lot of questions about what russia intends to do as the president of the security council, uh this

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time
There are some big meetings coming up and one of the questions was extremely interesting said
So there's nothing on the security council agenda
about ukraine
It was he said well, how come there's nothing on he goes all people will be trying to get it in
There will be some debates, but we don't plan on calling anything up

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It's kind of pointless because anything that did come up we would veto it
Anyway, and that was pretty straightforward pretty direct
and uh, I think that he put
Some some very serious spin if you haven't heard it yet
There is a or you haven't gone to see it. I'm telling you that americans more and more need to see this

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There is a lot of truth in what he said and every word of it was in english
And he he gave the press conference in english. Every question was in english
and so I thought about playing the
whole thing for you because it's a
a
valuable

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Listen
And his name is vasily nebenzia
and he is the
united nations representative
for russia
and he at one point
Said and and this is for sure and if you want to find it out on youtube, you can find it's a 54 minute
video 54 minutes 41 seconds

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And what in what at one point he said, uh, you know
The west especially europe he was complimentary of trump and complimentary of uh,
the united states, but he said
the west especially in europe are warmongers and the days of having
Uh diplomats are long gone in europe

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And he kind of made fun of them. He said, you know
They're they're the giants and he mentioned three or four names, you know the giants of
Politics the giants of diplomacy
Are are just gone. He mentioned charles de gaulle
I believe he mentioned churchill and a couple other names he says but there are no more churchill and everybody that's left

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They are only dwarfs
And you know, he was he was pretty straight up and he was very well spoken even in english
and it was uh, you know interesting because the other day lavrov gave his speech and then he did a
Press conference afterward and somebody asked him if he would uh,

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An american reporter said I know you speak english very well
Would you please respond to this? Uh, you know, I know you've been speaking in russian
Would you uh, please respond? I would like it if you responded in english and he asked his question
Lavrov says no
I'm not going to he says there are two acceptable, you know, uh languages here russian and english

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And uh, I prefer to speak in russian and so that's what i'm gonna do
but nebensia didn't do that and uh, he
It was if you get a chance and i'm going to try to play parts of it if I can but it's hard to
Scroll through it, you know without listening to the whole thing
You know what?
I mean, but I think I also have the transcript in a new program that I use that I can just click on the words

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And it'll play only the words. It's really cool, but I haven't used it yet
live
so I might have to go through and I want to pick a few questions and see if I can get it done, but
That's what happened in new york. That's event number one
Event number two is something called valdai and it's a valdai

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debate club
And it's held in sochi. I read an interesting art and today was the day
That vladimir putin kicked off the plenary session of this
Valdai debate club
And he does it he's done it quite a few years
in a row
And it's an opportunity for him to speak in a little bit less formal

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capacity
There's been a lead-up to this for people who uh, understand what's going on in the world that this uh,
Valdai is a very big deal and it's a a huge debate
You can't get in without an invite, you know, you know, I couldn't just go over there and say hey, geez, you know i've been

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You know, i've got a press credential. Let me in. Nope doesn't work that way. This is by invite only
And you got to be a member and you can only be a member of somebody
another
giant of uh
Politics or something invites you to be a member and those people are are invited in there and I want to

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Because it's vladimir putin and
Putin is more important than nebensia
I'm going to start with um with putin and his address
And what I thought I would and you know what there was a third one as well
This one was in moscow and it's the briefing of uh, marty as a kharava
and she gives every week a uh,

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a two three hour press conference on the status of the war in ukraine status things in
In russia and all of that and uh that that
I try to get content from that for the show fairly frequently because uh, you know, you're getting
a competing, uh side of the tale and so I I definitely uh, like listening, uh to

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All of these people nebensia is is a very talented. Uh
Un representative for russia he is, uh, you know, all of them are
Unforgiving in their critiques of what is going on and if you haven't if you're interested in international things at all
and the

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non
the the
end of hegemony
Vladimir putin's speech is more important, but they're all talking about it and there's article after article after article
About the reality
of
this
Lack of a you know, one size fits all

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Leadership in the world and there was one of the questions for nebensia. For example, they were talking about
Said listen, everybody has been very critical of the un and you were very gracious about the un in the beginning
and he said something along the lines of the the

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Un
Is always only as powerful as its members and you know
The structure is here and I have faith in the un our our colleagues have faith in the un you talk about
Cooperation with the united states. There's a brand new counterpart. He was talking about his new counterpart the new us

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um
Um us un representative and I forget his name
I want to say walls or something like that. Not waltz, but walls and uh, he but I could be incorrect
I know I have it, you know in the
Materials here, uh to to go through if we get that far
But he was saying the cooperation between us. He says, uh, you know, I just met him. He's brand new. It's his first

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Conference and he seems very likable. I I we sat we met
I got a courtesy call from him and we had a discussion and then I met him later
And I I like him and at the risk of sounding, uh
Uh, I don't know
Self-congratulatory, I believe it was mutual. I believe he likes me, too

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And uh, you know personal relationships and diplomacy or what this stuff is is built upon and he says and in the un
You know, we don't always agree, but that doesn't mean we can't work together in areas where we do agree
And he beat up on europe. That's when he started going on about how
how europe

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Doesn't and he and he beat up on biden too. He goes for three and a half years
We had zero contact with our western colleagues. There was
nothing
that was
Nothing that we could discuss nothing in common
Nothing and and he talked about all the rules that are broken continually and and on the on the one side, you know

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They're always permitted to create their own rules
And they don't have to enforce them and nobody ever does and then putin had a similar theme
In his and what I thought I would do
he gave
And and i've been babbling already for nearly 10 minutes just off the top of my head, you know, and about these two

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Appearances which were
These are these are two, you know
Uh, nubenzio is talking about the dwarfs in europe. These are two
giants in politics and these are two
giants in diplomacy and they
They speak the language of diplomacy and it's not go and beat up and tell everybody how horrible they are or anything like that

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Although i'm not saying they don't
Take some of that but usually they receive it far more than they give off but they still
they still
Say their peace and they still say no
We are right and we stand up for what we believe in
And here it is. So I think without further ado i'm gonna do what I said and begin with

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Putin and I thought it would be
Um
cool to talk about or to to give the first brief portion of his
of his statement because
he
Let's see
The he was introduced at the valdai club and it's a this is a straight up translation

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I haven't read the whole thing. I listened to his speech not the questions
But I did and but I have this all downloaded and I can read and follow along
And what I thought I would do would be to start
with his
initial
Uh commentary, but his commentary he spoke for half an hour, but do you know what?

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I think it is truly important to hear the other side of what people are saying
And you won't get it
Anywhere else if you don't go looking for it, and I hope that people come
To my program at international flavor and hear these things
Because they do not tell them to you

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Anywhere, I don't want to say anywhere else, but geez you got to go hunt for it. You know, it's not easy to find
And so I want to read some of his brief introduce. Well, it's not brief is his introduction and then we'll get to some questions
Because a couple of russian news channels were following it live as it went on and they give a shorter version

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And I have it in english as well. So I I think
I'm going to get started and quit talking so damn much and let's get to some
Some vladimir putin, okay
um, he was introduced and
The person introducing him whose name I don't know
Excuse me. This is the plenary session of the 22nd annual forum of the international

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Discussion club of valdai. It's a great honor for me to invite to the stage the president of the russian federation
vladimir putin
Mr. Putin, thank you very much for finding the time to come to us again
The valtai club is an incredible has an incredible advantage
Excuse me and privilege for 23

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Years to meet with you and discuss the most pressing issues. I
Reported on this last year and the year before too
Probably no one can boast about it as much as us the 22nd session of the valdai club
Which took place the preceding three days?
was entitled the

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polycentric world
We are trying to move from the understanding and description of the new world
In application that is an understanding of how to live in this new world because it isn't very clear yet
But we so to speak may be a little bit ahead of everyone else
But we're not the only users of this multicultural world

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and you at least are
One of the mechanics or an engineer in the polycentric world
Therefore we are very much awaiting instruction on the application of this new world from you
So then vladimir putin gets up and he says instructions are unlikely to be

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Formulated and there is no purpose in this because all the instructions advice and inquiries
That we have received prior to this
And he's not he's talking about how to live in the world that we live in right now
The translation just isn't correct
The inquiries are given only so as not to follow them later

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This formula is well known to everyone
I will allow myself to express my opinion on what is happening in the world
Where it is, what is the role of our country and how we see the prospects for development?
The valdai international discussion club has indeed gathered for the 22nd time

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And such meetings have simply become a good and kind tradition
discussions on the valdai platform
Give the opportunity for all parties to assess the situation all over the world
This is called change
Comprehending change, of course the strong features of the valdai club is the desire and ability of participants to look beyond

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the obvious for all of us to see
Not to follow agendas imposed upon us by global information space
especially since the internet brings its own
Good bad and difficult to understand
But to but we do try to ask original questions, but it has its own vision of processes to

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Open the curtain that hides tomorrow
It is not easy for any of us, but it happens that it often works including on the valdai platform
with you
that translation is a little tough, but uh, but we have
Already noted more than once that we live in a time when everything is changing

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And change is coming very quickly
I would say things are changing radically
At the same time none of us can fully predict the future
But this does not free us from the duty to be ready for anything that could happen
Practically as time and recent events have shown us we need to be ready for anything

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Everyone's responsibility in such periods of history is especially great
Both for their own fate for the fate of their own country
And the entire world and the stakes here are extremely high
The annual report of the valdai club is dedicated as has just been said this time to the problem

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of
Multipolar polycentric world this topic has been an agenda for a long time
But now it deserves special attention and I agree with the organizers that this is an important topic
already
The emerging multipolarity is defining the framework from which states are operating

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But I will try to answer the question. What are the peculiarities of today's situation?
First it is much more open you can even say creative space for foreign policy behavior
There is practically nothing
predetermined in advance and
Everything is going differently than it was previously

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Much depends on accuracy reliability degree of endurance thoughtfulness of the actions of the members
of the international community
Moreover in the vast space it is of course easy to get lost
Lose your bearings which we see happens quite often
Secondly the space of multipolarity is extremely dynamic

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Changes occur quickly as i've said and sometimes suddenly
In the over the course of an hour and of course it is difficult to prepare
For such change and sometimes in top possible to predict
You have to react instantly as they say in real time
Hang on one second and we are going to say hello to a caller. Are you with me caller?

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I am with you. Do you not wish to hear the speech of vladimir putin at valdai?
I you know
I i'm i'm
Willing to listen to that speech at valdai and here's think of vladimir putin is saying
is we
as a as a world, uh

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Society of good loving, you know god fearing jesus loving
people
Vladimir putin and his uh, you know, whatever communist society over there or whatever
They're not bad. They're not bad. They're good
they're good and we
Here's what?

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I think we have to say sam. We gotta we gotta learn how to get along
We gotta learn how to get along and vladimir putin is not the bad guy
The russians are not the bad people
you know the americans the uh, the the uh,
Patriots in america are not the bad people

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Who are the bad?
the bad people are those who want to
Subvert
You know goodness to dominate the world with this nonsense that they've been
spouting off for the last 30 years
And and they've been we've been talked exactly sam that's exactly right

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We've been fighting against, you know, supposedly the uh, u.s
You know us has been fighting against them the communist, you know
But but that's not the fact the fact of the matter is it's a battle between good and evil
and uh

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Yeah, we we you what you're doing right now
Is beyond belief my friend you you you are the guy standing in the uh,
in the middle
You know and just just offering information
Day in day out and I think it's information that's important, you know people may not agree

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But you know if you don't think so
Well, you're welcome to find your own what you think is relevant and important information
But the world is changing and our children
Or our youth our country whether it's our children or not
needs to know
that we have

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Consistently without fail for the last 30 to 50 years and probably longer than that
Dominated the world with
misinformation
ourselves
And if anybody stands up to it, we say
They are guilty of disinformation. Well, I don't believe in disinformation

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I believe in information and either you agree with it or you disagree with it
but you should consider all points of view or
Especially those that are contrary to your belief process or thought process or something
You may not have thought of you know, people might go what in the world is he playing that darn vladimir putin?

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He's he's a he's an evil man. Well, you know what you're free to believe that
But if you believe that you should listen listen to some of the things that he has to say
in his own words
And then see if you believe it because if he's evil he is
consistently
Evil without saying things that are evil. He's saying things that are

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forward-looking
even even
Progressive one might say god forbid the word but he's giving things out that are that are you know?
The world isn't what you think it is folks
And and listen up and so when I talk about diplomacy from the other side of the planet, well

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They have it. I'm, not so sure that we do because everything we do is
extremely
targeted
And extra you do not ever give
An opposing point of view and those that have a different point of view aren't people with a different point of view
They're downright evil

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You know and and somehow that just doesn't ring true with me
well
Opposing points of view are critical. I mean it what
the
The thing is this we have got to be open

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to
different
Points of view we've got to be open to them and let them speak
Let them let them do their things and then and then they're eventually they're going to show themselves for what they are
No, and cherry-pick the things you like versus things. You don't like that's what we're supposed to do
You know, I disagree with I disagree with this and I like this, you know

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I really don't and I try to do this myself and say, you know
I really don't see this as being anything positive like like I did when I was talking about
The zaperosia nuclear power plant yesterday, you know, I don't totally agree with what rush is doing there
But why is it so hard? Why is it so hard for us to?
not

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Be able to get along
There there is a brainwashing it's an mk ultra thing that's going on sam and you you've been there
You probably are part of that. I'm gonna guess you are probably
An mk ultra, you know, um

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Tool well, is that a type of beer?
Huh? Is that a type of beer?
maybe
Yeah, I am I am not but you know, i'm a tool of no man except myself so
Right. That's what we have to do my brother. We have to be a no tool

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Except to ourselves exactly
And man, you spend how much time do you spend doing this? And what do you get for it?
Do you get anything for what you're doing? If I didn't i'm gonna do it anyway, and so, uh, you know, I I listen
Anyway, i've always been a bit of a junkie on it and uh, because I speak russian

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And yeah, I had you, uh, stop it. That's your bullet normal. No, I am
Governing the russian
What I said was and I want to listen and learn russian and keep my russian current
You know so that I can always speak it
Well, if I go somewhere, I don't want to go over there and not be able to give get directions give directions have a

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Conversation with somebody or anything like that. I think it is worth the effort to understand other people
And even if it's for nothing more than my selfish desire to travel and see something different
but i've seen some fantastic things
that people who
Either don't learn a language or refuse to travel because they're afraid. Um

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Don't see
And so I I don't know. I like to give my I mean i've been to 57 countries in all 50 states
And I got very little in my life to be extremely proud of but I am proud of both of those things
Because if somebody says something, you know, oh, yeah, i've been there
I can tell you about morocco and what happened over there and how I loved driving there

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You know, I can tell you about portugal and tell you wherever I haven't done enough in the far east
But you know kazakhstan uzbekistan
Kyrgyzstan, those are fantastic places and and you know
I
Hope that my
Ever since I was a little kid my desire to see the world has been

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Extremely large and you know, I don't travel rich. I'm not remotely rich
but I make sure I do it because
What else is there in this life except your experiences that you're going to pass along to others?
And I hope that my experiences do help other people understand that there's a huge part of the world

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That they know very little about
and uh, and and
When you only hear
One point of view all the time that america's great america's great. I happen to agree with that by the way
but that doesn't necessarily mean that everywhere else in the world isn't
Something great and positive as well or that we should

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Dominate everyone because of I I don't know. What do you want to call it? Um
American exceptionalism, you know germans believe in german exceptionalism french believe in french exceptionalism
you know what i'm saying and and it's
There's truth in all of it
So, I don't know. I love the point of view and if I could do anything it would be to try to get people

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To understand oppose that people
In russia are fantastic
They're kind they're uh, not just not just russia, you know, it's everywhere, you know
Everywhere you go you find people that are fantastic. I lived in the middle east for a year and I loved it
And the people are fantastic and they're all muslim and they will help you

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you want it's it's
Knowing or understanding or even brushing up against other culture is something that americans are
in a lot of respects completely lacking
You know, and there's nothing wrong with that either
There's nothing wrong with loving your country and saying I love it so much. I don't want to go anywhere else

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but it does kind of give you a
Skewed reality
On what else is going on in the world and I apologize we've gone way off my topic and I
kind of do want to get back to it, but
You feel right now sam. I mean how what what what what what is
What is the most?

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Thing that you are engaged in
what what what drives you well because
people
People
people need to know that that
We and I don't when I say we you know, I don't mean we but but but america hasn't always been

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that did you watch or know anything about this this 800 generals and
admirals meeting with trump and
Of course seth and all that everybody's been talking about that, right?
Well, I I I listened to the two speeches
um of those two guys and

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At the end of it i'm sitting there going what in the world are you talking about?
I mean
In all seriousness, what?
Was the point of that?
Seriously, let's get ready for war. Let's why are we all fat? Why are we you know, I I

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I think that when I served in the military, I tell you what, you know
It was an embarrassment to be part of the fat boy club
You know you you did not want to be in the fat boy club and they put people out
Because they were in the fat boy club and it was in some respects
Maybe not as nice as it ought to have been but you had a body fat count and if you couldn't make the weight

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They you know that you you
you were
Not trained as it were until you did and if you ultimately didn't or couldn't you were
Put out of the military and when standards get low. I mean, I I agree that standards have failed
I don't want to and I was so embarrassed when that that admiral in a dress

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The man with a dress in there was wearing an admiral's uniform or the sergeant major the male sergeant major
That that had his had breast put on and was wearing a woman's dress and it's so clear that they're men
And you're sitting there going
Oh my god
You know if this guy was going to inspect me and I don't have any problem what you do

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In the privacy of your own home. I give a crap
but
at some you know, the army and the military is
Founded upon the fact that you're a cookie cutter piece and when you die
another cookie cutter piece gets inserted in there

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And you know that cookie cutter piece can do exactly what you could do. There is not supposed to be
any difference you're
Interchangeable
And you can't tell me that this guy coming up to inspect me is going to make me go. Oh my god
The I I can't i'd be thrown out of the military because i'd laugh him in the face

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And and you know, they they go. Oh, jesus. Here's another one. You know, he hates he hates transgenders
No, I don't they can do whatever they want just not in the military
and so I I strongly believe in those sort of things and um,
and and I don't but I don't have any problem with you if you want to

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In private do whatever you want to do. I don't care
Even if you want to wander around in the mall in a dress when it's not part of the military
If you don't mind me interjecting no you please do
But we do have to move on because I do want to finish this topic today and it's no i'm scared. I am I am truly

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Honestly in the heart of my heart scared
That these leftist freaks fags and furries
are
They are going to try to kill us. I am I am fearful of that
And you should be but but you know what I would say to that and this is going to sound horrible, too

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But don't act like the people on the right the extremists on they're going to be doing you any favors either
Because they're gonna start world war three if if if they continue on the paths that they are going on
Where we will be involved in world war three
And this is this is horror story for all of us
So what are your options get killed by a bunch of nut jobs who think that you should honor a man?

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Did you hear about the guy that took took a 10-day prison sentence? Where was it france or I think it was france
that he
uh
Post he put a post on the internet
on on whatever
Service it was x or something and the post said as follows and I tell you what i've said this exact thing myself

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on dozens of occasions
I have said well, I suppose if you want my total view on transgenderism, I don't give a crap what you do
Which I just said and it doesn't bother me if you want to dress up like a woman or as a man dress up
Or as a woman dress up like a man great good for you
I know people that are into that and I don't care as long as it's not something in the public sphere that is

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Making a laughingstock of the military or whatever those things I draw the line, okay
And you can have a different opinion of that. But this guy said and what I always said exact same
Is unfortunately for these people and I don't say you got mental problems. I don't say anything like that
I maybe you just prefer women's underwear. I don't know. I don't care

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but but
in 200 years somebody did he said it exactly like this and it's funny because it's the exact same thing that I say in
200 years when they dig up this body of this man pretending to be a woman
Guess what?
They're gonna find a different pelvic bone
And if it says here buried a woman and the world has changed dramatically in 200 years and this is not

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Common anymore. They're not gonna say here was buried a woman. They're gonna go. Oh, yeah
Here's a male a male skeleton and they don't you know, nobody's gonna remember me 200 years from now
What do they care?
And if I claim to be a woman my entire life 200 years now, they're gonna dig me up and you cannot fight reality
So this guy said something along that lines

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And first he was fined five hundred dollars. He refused to pay it
Then he was fined a thousand dollars and he refused to pay it
Then the judge brought him in and said well, you don't do this. I'm gonna put you in jail for 10 days
He goes well better put me in jail for 10 days because I ain't gonna pay it
And he went to jail for 10 days because he said that your bones in 200 years are going to identify you as a male

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Whether you claim to be a woman on this earth or not
And that is what's going on in our world and that is dangerous and I want my kids to know that you know what?
Maybe you should take a stand like that and stand up. I you shouldn't have to
But I would respect you if you ever did I don't know this guy in france or wherever the hell it was

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But I respect him making that stand and and and it's a stand that I would make also, you know
It's it's a it's a nonsensical world out there
But I don't feel any better about the uh those on the far right, you know your your kellogs and your keens of the world
Driving us as fast as they can toward world war three. It's nonsense

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I must have lost him or are you there?
No, i'm
I'm here. Okay, cool. I mean something happened on your on your deal. Anyway, that is my commentary
I so much appreciate your call. I really do but I think that the words of uh, mr. Putin are
important i'm very glad that you're here to listen to them and uh,

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but I do want to continue especially with some of the questions and answers that they get this, uh,
Nubenzia the well the the go ahead
Bro, sam. Here's the thing
the thing is that
Uh, vladimir putin is
Is a uh

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He's a guy
That's not gonna stand for this
Ridiculous leftist bullshit that's going on
He
And he does not do you know one of the questions that was asked in here was exactly what I just said
They have they are they are giving they are giving

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free visas and new new passports to westerners who want to move to russia and and a u.s a u.s woman
Very famous. I forget her name tara something. I can't remember
But i'll get to it if if I get there she she asked him a question and said listen
the people are moving here from the west because they do not like what the west is becoming and

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russia has consistently said
we
Honor your like what? I just said you want to do what you want in the privacy of your own home
There's nobody going to interfere with it
But you're not going to teach it to our kids and you're not going to do it, you know out in public and be waving
You know transgender flags and all these other things we're not going to put up with it

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Right exactly
Pardon me. So russia and the united states are we we are we are aligned with
freedom and peace, you know, we are aligned with uh
Just the right thing and then there's these leftists these communists these
These these three you started out by calling um calling putin a communist and he isn't

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No, no, no, no, no. No, no
the guy the guy
uh
Putin is he's he's a good guy
As trump is a good guy and what we're fighting against are these these

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these sick this
Decrepit
people
That want to control
The population and the planet and not just here, but everywhere
Everywhere everywhere my friends. So what we are driving us to war in the middle east
They are driving it and they are driving it because russia is otherwise occupied

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They are driving us to war in venezuela. Why because russia is otherwise occupied and what they're going to do is wake up
China wake up india. They're already saying listen
You do what you want on your side of the world, but quit telling us who we have to have as enemies. Stop it
We're not interested

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and we will trade with who we wish to trade with and quit trying to
To force us to believe what you believe because we do not
Precisely
And so there's guys like you and there's guys like me and there's guys like this that and the other that want to

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you know
Push these things forward. Here's the thing
the thing is this is that we cannot let the
Deep state
Ridiculous
They're trying hard
Is

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We can't let up we gotta we we have to stand against yeah, but the deep state isn't only the leftists dude
They're on the right too. We have a unit party. That's it. And so so don't
I I don't believe
I always told say to everyone that that my rule is

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No lifetime politician meaning if somebody has been in office
More than two terms
He will never get my vote. I don't care which side. So what do we do Sam?
What do we you quit voting for the same old jokers all the time these what do we do you stop?
Can you vote for somebody else?

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It doesn't even matter if it's the guy on the other side you get rid of the lifetime
Politician and I think it ought to be done at anybody over a gs level call it 13
15 whatever those people can't serve in i'd be i'd be much better
Uh might be much more agreeable if they got a lifetime

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Uh after 20 25 years that they would would would be a senior manager
In the government that after 25 years
You're out. You can't be elected. You can't be part of the government. You can't be anything
I'll give you a full salary. I don't care just get out
And let's you know, so so you don't have
idiots sitting up there like uh, nancy pelosi chuck schumer all the same old standard a-holes

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Doing the same old standard a-hole thing and stealing money and getting in fabulously and incredibly wealthy
off of us
And and and they know all the little scams that are going on or sending money to their nephew, you know
Oh, geez, you know, we got this new project coming in. We need somebody to run it
Well, you back my nephew for this and i'll back your nephew for that. Don't tell me that

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Stuff doesn't happen because it does
We know it all we know it all bro. We know it all you know it. I know it. We all know it
So, how do we deal with it? How?
how do we deal with it on just a uh, you know, I don't know a uh,
Just a
Daily thing. Well, if you're aware of it, you can you can hopefully

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Encourage new blood somehow. It's the only way you win is encourage the new blood, bro
Well, I don't know. I I wish I knew I I really wish I knew i'm not saying I have all the answers i'm saying
That as long as people start to realize it ultimately it will change
Do you know you used to be able to say I mean imagine this when the x-files were on you were a nut for watching it

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Right. Nobody would believe that kind of thing if you think on it this year
it's like it's a pretty regular thing for people to think there are
Whether it's aliens or whether it's the deep state whether it's some guy that was involved in killing
kennedy that they they put out on on x-files remember the the
The horror story that they talked about back then oh, geez these people these conspiracy theory nuts

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They're all crazy. And now that is a regular part and and there are tons of
Mainstreamers that believe that all this stuff that's being released now
Is scary stuff when I heard what what johnson was saying? I'm like, oh my god that guy that guy offed him
You know, that was my very first thought when I hear him talking about what he did. I was like

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That guy offed the president. He disagreed with him and he offed him now. That's probably crap
But I mean, well
But then again, it may not be
You know, it's like when you listen to them. These people are evil
And and you know, they're not supposed to be
So what do we do what thomas jefferson said?

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Go ahead and say that a little revolution every once in a while is a good thing
And with that I gotta let you go because I really do want to get to the rest of this
this has some very good content and I hope you continue to listen because
Many of these things that you and I have just discussed actually show up in some of the things that he said and it's pretty sad

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That you got to listen to these sorts of things from the other side of the world, which are the evil people
according to everything that you get to hear in the united states nonsense, and I think uh, you know, it's just
It's not evil. It's different
That's it

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Okay. Well, sir, I very much appreciate your call and I thank you for calling in very interesting discussion
Feel free to call back anytime
Good night. Good night
And there he goes
Well, I want to continue on with the old vladimir vladimirovich and and you know what I will do

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I will say to you there there are a couple of the trouble is when you watch these on youtube and you don't
Have the entire translation
All they're trying to give you are the little nuggets
And you don't get the whole
Show of what he's talking about and so I want to get

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where we're in about 10 15 minutes and then get to his questions the entire speech that he gave the
Plenary speech was only about 25
maybe 30 minutes
and uh, he
um
You know, I was only about five six minutes in
um, let's see

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Changes occur quickly blah blah blah. You have to react instantly as they say in real time
It is important that this space is much more democratic
It opens the way for a large number of political and economic players. He's talking about multipolarity
Perhaps there have never been so many countries in the world that influence or strive to influence

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Important regional and global processes
A cultural historical
civilization
Civilizational specificity of different parties plays a greater role than ever before
Wow, that is a comment. It is necessary to look for points of contact and coincidence of interest

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Incidents that coincide in other words. No one is ready to play by the rules set by someone alone
And somewhere far away
as one very famous
Shansani song
There beyond the fog or there beyond the ocean in this regard any decisions are possible

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Only on the basis of agreement that suit all interested parties or a vast majority
Otherwise, there's never a viable solution, but only loud phrases and fruitless games of ambition
Is that where we are now thus to achieve a result of harmony and balance

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Activity is needed
finally and possible the boss
The possibility and danger of the multipolar world polar world are inseparable from each other
The weakening of the dictate the present and he's talking about the west the presence of which
Has been distinguished in the previous period the solution and the space of freedom for all

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Is undoubtedly a blessing at the same time such conditions are more and more difficult to find
and establish
In this very strong balance balance, which is itself a clear and extreme risk
That's pretty damn deep
Such a situation on our planet, which I try to outline quite briefly is a qualitative new phenomenon

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International relations are undergoing a cardinal transformation
Paradoxically
Multipolarity has become a direct consequence
of an attempt to establish and preserve
global hegemony
So multipolarity exists because people don't like

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Hegemony one size fits all that's what he's saying
And the answer of the international system and history itself
Is an obsessive desire to build everyone into one hierarchy
At the top of which are the countries of the west the failure of such as an idea was a matter of time

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Which by the way, everyone has always talked about he talked about it in 2007
At the munich security conference when he he stood up in front of um
dick cheney
and uh
Told him, you know, you you guys are the bad guys
The world doesn't like what you are doing and everybody ignored it

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But it was a famous speech and it was a hell of a speech and he was much younger than two
I mean, geez, it was 18 years ago
Anyway historically it's happening anyway, and it's happening quite quickly
35 years ago when it seemed that the confrontation of the cold war was coming to an end

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We were hoping as as was I by the way as a russian interpreter for the army
We were hoping for the advent of a real era of cooperation
It seemed that there were no
Ideological or other obstacles to prevent us from jointly solving
common problems of humanity

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and regulating
resolving
inevitable disputes and conflicts based on a mutual respect for each other and
consideration of everyone's interests
Let me make a small historical
Digression here our country seeking to liquidate the basis for a bloc confrontation

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To create a common space of security twice declared our readiness to join nato
the first time in 1954
Back in the days of the ussr
The second time during the visited visit of the president of the united states to moscow
I already talked about this in 2000 when we also talked about this

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And both times we received a rejection
From the very beginning I repeat
We were ready for joint work for non-linear steps in the sphere of security
and global stability
But our western colleagues turned out to be not ready to free themselves from the captivity

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Of geopolitical and historical stereotypes
from simplified schematic pictures of the world
I spoke publicly when I spoke with mr. Clinton with president clinton and he said, you know
I think it's interesting. I think it's possible and then later that evening. He said I consulted with my people

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It is unreal now. It is unreal and I said when will it be real?
He said and anyway, he said that's it. It was gone, by the way
We all had a real chance at another positive vector of development of international relations
But the top alas took a different approach

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Western countries did not resist the temptation of absolute power
Well, the temptation was quite serious in order to resist the temptation
It would have been necessary to have a historic perspective in mind and a good level of preparation
including
intellectual

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historical preparation
Those who made the decision then
Apparently and simply had no such preparation
Yes, the power of the united states and its allies in the late 20th century
Definitely had reached its peak, but there will be no force that would be able to rule the world
Prescribe what everyone will do and how they will do it how they will breathe

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This is tough, isn't it?
Well there have never been such attempt where there have always been such attempts
And they have all ended in failure at the same time. It is worth noting that the so-called liberal world order
Turned out to be acceptable to a lot
And to in some ways even convenient

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Yes, the hierarchy limits the possibility
Of those who are not on the upper floor of the pyramid
If you would allow me to say at the top of the food chain, but those who live far down on its base
But it takes away a significant share of responsibility from them such a position. What are the rules?

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The rules are just accept the proposed conditions join our system
Take the share that you get and be happy do not think about anything
Others will think and decide for you
And no matter what you say no matter who tries to cover up there now
It really was so and the experts who are sitting

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Here perfectly remember and understand all of this. I understand it and I recall it
Some self-satisfied believe that they had the right to teach everyone else
others a preferential way to play along to be an obedient object of trade and exchange in order

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to avoid unnecessary problems and get some albeit small but
Confident bonus for doing so
And by the way, there are still enough such politicians in the old parts of the world in europe
Those who objected tried to defend their own interests and views

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Considered at best so to speak
Were weirdos
Hinted that nothing would work out for you. Anyway, so it's better to just humble yourself
Admit that there is nothing to gain
Except an empty place and with all of the restrictions and the self-proclaimed
global grants

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They were bought
by this
concept
They did not hesitate and therefore
Made everybody understand that resistance is useless. He's talking all over eastern europe
This did not lead to anything good
None of the world's problems were solved

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But constantly new ones have been added
the global governance
Institutions created in the previous era were either working or not working at all and to a large extent
Most lost their effectiveness either way
No matter how much potential a particular country or group of countries accumulated

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Every power still had a limit while the russian side as this audience knows we have an expression in our people
There is no
Reception against a break except for another break and it always appears you see
This is the essence of what is happening in the world a break always appears

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in addition
an attempt to control everything
and uh
the well he meant
It's not translating the way and and everything around the world creates an additional tension
And it beats to an internal instability that causes citizens of countries
That are trying to play this role of grants to be citizens of countries to raise legal questions

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Why are we doing all of this?
Some time ago. I had to hear something like this from our american colleagues who said we have gained peace
But lost america
I would like to ask the question
Was it worth it? And did you gain anything at all by this?

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in societies led by western european states
The obvious rejection of the excessive ambition of the political elite of these countries is growing
The barometer of public opinion shows this everywhere
The establishment does not want to give power away
It goes for direct deception of its own citizens

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oppresses them
And oppresses the situation
on every external contour
goes for any
Intimidation within its own country more often on the verge of or even beyond their own law
But it will not be possible to infinitely turn democratic electoral procedures

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Into a farce or manipulate the will of the people. This is how it was in romania
Let's not go into details. It is happening in many countries
In some countries they are they ban their political opponents who are already gaining legitimacy
And more confidence from the electorate. We know this happened in the soviet union

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Do you remember visotsky's song and uh visotsky?
I've given uh lectures on him. I really liked him. I've been to a couple of his museums in russia
I had all of his albums and poetry vladimir visotsky was
Anti-soviet, but he wasn't you know, he was just uh, he he told it like it was in song

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And so uh putin is a fan that is they even banned military parades soon
Everything will be banned to hell, but this does not work
Bans do not work the will of the people the will of the citizens of these countries is simple
Let the leaders of the countries deal with the problems of the citizens take care of their safety and quality of life

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But do not chase chimeras
The united states where the request of the people led to a rather radical change in the political vector
Is a clear example of this
For other countries I can say examples are you know, somewhat contagious?
Submission of the majority to the minority is inherent in national and international relations

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In the period of the dominance of western countries
That's given this has given way to more multilateral
more cooperative approach based on agreements of the leading players
And taking into account or trying to take into account the interests of all

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This of course does not guarantee absolute harmony or non-conflict
The interests of the countries never completely coincide and the whole history of international relations
Is certainly a struggle for their implementation
But the fundamentally new world atmosphere

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the tone that the countries of the world's majority are increasingly asking for
Allows us to hope that all players
One way or another will have to take into account the interests of each other when working out
solutions to regional and global problems
after all
It's a fact no one can achieve these goals alone in isolation from the others the world

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despite the exacerbation of conflict the crises the previous model of globalization the
fragmentation of the world economy
remains a whole
Interconnected and interdependent. We know this from our own experience
You know how much effort our opponents have made in recent years to

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roughly speaking
Kick russia out of the world system drive us into political cultural
informational isolation
and economic autarky
In terms of the number of and volume of punitive measures introduced against us, which are shamefully called sanctions

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Russia is an absolute record holder in world history
30 or even more
restriction in
restrictions, so what
He said so what we have achieved our goal
I think those present here do not need to explain these efforts that have they have suffered a complete collapse

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Russia has shown the world the highest degree of stability the ability to withstand the strongest external
pressures, which would break not only a single country but an entire coalition of states and
Of course, we feel pride in Russia in our citizens in our armed forces

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But I wish to say more than that it turned out that Russia
Simply does not let go of the very world system from which they wanted to drive us out
because Russia needs it as a very important part of common balance and
Not only because of its territory its people its defense

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technology and industrial pretends
Potential its useful minerals, although of course everything I have just listed is very very important
Those are very important factors
But most important because world balance cannot be built without Russia
not economically not

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strategically not
culturally not logistically
Not at all
That's powerful friends and neighbors. Well, I think and he continues. Well, I think that those who tried to destroy all
Of us were just can have finally been convinced of this some however

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Persistently hope to achieve this goal to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia as they say
well, if they do not see the inevitability of the failure of this plan, I
Hope that life will show it and it will reach
the most stubborn of stubborn people
It seems that they have already made this noise more than once threatened full blockades

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Tried to make people of Russia as they themselves express themselves and choose the rice right words to be ashamed
They want to make the people of Russia suffer. They build plans one
Fantastic plan after another it seems to me that it is time to calm down
Look around

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Understand reality and somehow
build relations in a completely different direction is
And I'm gonna pause right here. I'm telling you this is important to read because you will not hear this
Here you won't hear any of it
All you will hear is a couple of things where he says, you know, Russia can withstand your sanctions

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That's all you'll hear you won't hear these words or he says look we're trying to play well with others
but you don't want to you disagree because you want to
Have you need to have an enemy and that has been us consistently since Clinton. He's telling us

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We also understand that the polycentric world is also very dynamic
It is fragile and unstable because it is impossible to fix the position of such things forever
To determine the alignment of forces for a very long time
After all there are very many participants in the process and these forces are the most

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Asymmetrical complex all have their own winning sides and competitive advantages
Which in each case create a unique combination and composition
Today's world is extremely complaint
Complex and a multi-aspect system and to describe it correctly to comprehend it
There are not enough simple laws of logic the reason for the investigative

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Connections arises out of this pattern here. You need a philosophy of complexity
Something similar to quantum mechanics which is wiser but more complex than
Classical physics it is precisely. Thanks to this complexity of the world that the overall
Compatibility in my opinion is still

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Rising after all a linear one-sided solution is impossible and a nonlinear
multi-sided solution requires very serious
professional
unpretentious
creative at times
non-standard
diplomacy
Therefore I am convinced that we will witness a kind of Renaissance

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the revival of a high diplomatic art and its essence is in the ability to engage in dialogue and
negotiate with your neighbors and like-minded people and
What is no less important, but more difficult even with your opponents
It is in this spirit the spirit of the 21st century diplomacy that new institutions are developing

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These are the expanded bricks
community and
organizations of large regions for example the Shanghai cooperation
organization in Eurasia and more compact, but no less regional associations and
There are many of them around the world now
I will not list them all most of you know about them already all these new structures are different

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But they are united by the most important of qualities. They do not function according to the principle of hierarchy
Subordinating to someone else or to the one that is the most important they are not against someone they are for
Themselves I repeat once again the modern world needs agreement and not the imposition of someone else's will

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Hegemony and any hegemony simply will not cope with the scale of the tasks of the world
ensuring international security in these conditions is
extremely pressing and complex issue
The
Growing number of players with different goals and political cultures with their own traditions all this global

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Complexity makes a development of approaches to the security issue much more complicated than simple
However, it opens up new opportunities for all of us
block tricks
Deliberately programmed for confrontation are certainly now
anachronistic and meaningless

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We see for example how hard our European neighbors are trying to patch up the cracks in the buildings of Europe
However, they want to overcome the split to strengthen the collapsed unity to which they have been previously bound
Not at all by effective solutions to internal problems, but by blowing up the image of the enemy

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This is an old example, but the point is that people in these countries see and understand everything
Anyway, that is why they take to the streets despite the pressure as I've already said of the situation of the external
Contour and in search of this internal enemy
Moreover they are recreating an enemy of Russia, which was invented

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Centuries ago most people in Europe cannot understand why they are so afraid of Russia
That in order to confront Russia
they need to tighten their belts more and more and forget their own interests simply give them up and
clearly damage their own
Policy but the ruling elites of United Europe continue impose to impose hysteria

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It turns out that war with Russian is almost on the verge
They repeat this nonsense this mantra over and over again
To be honest, I sometimes look at what they say, but I do not believe it
They can't that that they do not believe it
They cannot believe what they are saying that Russia is going to attack NATO

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It is impossible to believe this and they still try to persuade their own people
What kind of people are these?
They are either very incompetent if they really believe this because it is impossible to believe this nonsense
or they are simply
Disorderly people because they themselves do not believe this and their citizens are trying then they are trying to

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Convince their own citizens, but what other options are there?
To be honest, I just want to say go to sleep sleep quietly and finally deal with your own problems
Look at what is happening on the streets of European cities. What is happening to the economy industry?
European culture and identity

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huge debt in an increasing crisis of their social systems, which have come out of
lack of control of migration
the growth of violence including political violence
radicalization of the left-wing
ultra-liberal racist and marginal societies pay attention to how Europe is

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sliding
to the periphery of global competition
We are well aware of how all the threats against Russia
Russia's aggressive plans which Europe itself
Intimidates us with we're sucked out of our fingers as I have said this self-indulgence is a dangerous thing

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And we cannot ignore what is happening
We have no right to do this for the sake of ensuring our own security
But we do this for our defense and our own security therefore
We closely monitor the growing force of militarization in Europe
Is it just words or is it time for us to take our own?

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responsible countermeasures
We hear and you know about it for example in the FRG Federal Republic of Germany
They say that the German army should be the most powerful in Europe again
Well, we're listening very carefully to that we look at what is meant
I think that no one has any doubt that such measures by Russia will not make themselves wait very long

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this threat of
Retaliation against us seems to put it mildly very convincing
It will be very convincing the response
We ourselves have never initiated a military confrontation
It is pointless unnecessary and absurd it leads to real problems and challenges and

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Society sooner or later will ask its leaders. What are their hopes desires and needs?
And they do not wish to be ignored by these elites in their own countries
But if someone still has a desire to compete with us in the military
sphere as we say let them try
Russia has proven more than once that when there is a threat to its security peace and tranquility of its citizens our

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Sovereignty and statehood we will respond quickly. There is no need to provoke us
There was no case that in the end it did not end badly for the provocateur himself
There is no need to wait for exceptions here or in the future
There will not be any our history has proven that weakness is unacceptable because it creates a temptation an

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Illusion that some issue can be resolved against us with force
Russia will not
This is not a correct translation. Russia will never lose to weakness and indecisiveness
Let those remember this whom we interfere with

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That's a bad translation to let those remember this that attempt to interfere with our very
Existence those who dream of defeating us strategically
speaking of those
Who actively talk about this as we say there? They are far away. Where are these actors?

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He's talking about Europe. There are so many objective problems associated with the factors of natural technolog
Technogenic and social nature in the world that it is unacceptable to spend force and energy on
artificial invented
Conflict it is unacceptable
exhausting and simply stupid

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international security is a
multifaceted and indivisible
Phenomenon that no geopolitical value
Valuable demarcation can break it
Only meticulous I gotta get to the end of this him how much further does it have to go?
Because I don't think I'm gonna make it

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Yeah, no, he he spoke for 45 minutes, and I don't have enough time to finish it
If you have the
Opportunity I do want to get to his
questions, but
man, I
Am I am gonna run out tonight, unfortunately of time perhaps on Sunday night. I will put together a

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a
Summary because it's very important to listen to new Ben's. Yeah, and I I do want to
Talk about some of the things that are going to be coming up in Russia's presidency of the United Nations
Security Council, which is all of October. I

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Rid of that King that they that the the West appointed
they were talking a lot about Iran and
how
the West
bent the rules
That Iran has been trying to get something to work out and the West without any

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Consensus without a vote without anything
Renewed
They claim sanctions and the Ben's you're going. No, we don't recognize those and the guy says well, what about these?
He you know, he goes what about all these sanctions? He goes they don't exist. They were not properly implemented and they expire and

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The West can't just say oh geez. We renewed these UN sanctions
there are no UN sanctions against Iran after whatever day it was the 18th and
I really wish I had enough time to go through the entire
Vladimir Vladimirovich speech because I think

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aside from the fact that
Well, you know what let's get to the part on Ukraine
Where is that?
Because what did he say on Ukraine?
There are other factors and other geopolitical interests, this is back to Vladimir Vladimirovich it turned out that

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Ideological contradictions have nothing to do with
Resolving problems in multi polarity. How can problems be resolved in a polycentric world?
Yes, and how would the situation in Ukraine be resolved with multi polarity? I think if there was
multi-polarity
It's different polls would try to adjust a situation around the Ukraine conflict

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What it called on itself to those potential zones of tension to the breakdowns that exist in their own region
and then a
Collective decision would be much more responsible and weighted
Based on adjustments, it would be necessary to understand that all participants in this difficult

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Situation have their own interests. They are justified by objective and subjective
Circumstances and should not be ignored
They can go on for a while, you know and what they're gonna do to expand NATO
He took goes into bricks in China and India and Brazil
It's a it's a long speech, but it doesn't look like I'm gonna get there

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I did want to go through some of the questions because there were so
Many questions and what I thought I would do when the day started because I was reading
There was an interesting
opinion piece
Where was it out of France?
I think that they were talking about this Valdai debate club and how Putin is

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always
one of the keynote
Speakers and it always I think it always is in Sochi
And I'd love to just hang out outside
And see if I could talk to some of these people. I think it would be you know extremely I
Don't know what it would certainly be worth a trip even if you were just hanging out outside in Sochi

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So she's beautiful anyway from everything that I've heard. I had a trip. I was supposed to go to Sochi in fact
That's why they booted me out of the army. I got screwed on that deal and
I should have retired from the military
But they booted me out because I was in the middle of law school
And they were they were sending me to Sochi and I said you can't send me to Sochi

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I'm I'm in law school cost me 40 grand a year. I can't just quit and they said well
We won't make you go
But if you don't go you can't reenlist as IQ a holes, you know, and it's like well
I can't what am I supposed to do? Are you gonna pay for next year's 40 grand?

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What am I supposed to do? It was a bad deal. And so, you know
And you know why they wanted me to go that was even the worst part of it
They wanted me to go because the guy in fact there was a guy that was gonna outrank me
But I was gonna go because I was the only one in the unit that had any in Russia
Experience and they wanted me to go over and be in charge

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Even though I wasn't there was a couple of people that outranked me
But they wanted me to go and be in charge and I said, why can't he go?
Let him let him do it. Well, first of all, his Russian was horrible and second of all
He had a drinking problem and I was like, well, I'm not his babysitter
I'm supposed to give up loss. Anyway, I'm totally sidetracked and but that just the only time I was supposed to go to Sochi

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I didn't get a go and I was like I would go anytime other than
You know to miss a semester of law school. I'm not gonna do that, you know
Unless you pay me the money back. Well, they wouldn't do that either obviously
But who paid the paid the freight on that old Sammy?
There you have it. I got screwed again by the government

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Anyway, you don't need to hear that story at all, but you did anyway
There you have it
Well, I wanted to get to a couple of the questions and answers because there were so many
He was on the stage the video if you go back and see this video
His video is like three hours and 40 minutes that he was on the stage taking questions

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So let me tell you what is the Valdai discussion club for those who are unfamiliar?
It's a the Valdai discussion club was set up in 2004
Takes its name from the Lake Valdai near Valiki Novgorod the site of the club's first meeting the
Symbolizing the club's importance Russian President Putin was among the officials to attend the first gathering more than 20 years ago

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This year's forum in Sochi is the 22nd annual gathering in
2014 management of the club was taken over by Valdai club
Under the auspices of Russian think-tank the Council of foreign and defense policy the Russian
international affairs council
Moscow State Institute of international relations and the higher school of economics

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The discussion club is headed by regular RT contributor fielder Lukyanov and is regarded as the most
influential forum bringing together Russia experts and
policymakers
Lukyanov I read I read some stories of his from you and

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several times
Symbolizing its reach this year's events brings together
140 participants speakers from 42 countries
including Algeria Brazil China Egypt Ethiopia Germany India Indonesia Iran Kazakhstan
Malaysia Pakistan Russia South Africa United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States

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Uzbekistan and Venezuela among others, of course
There were plenty. Let's see
Putin is expected to address together. This is at noon today is expected to address the gathering in Sochi before taking part in a question-and-answer
Kremlin spokesman Peskov has teased Putin's address this year by saying without

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Exaggeration the whole world is eagerly awaiting this speech as a rule
It turns out to be extremely substantive and is discussed and analyzed for a long time and I'm gonna do it again
Naturally because it's a it's a hell of a topic
You're getting you're getting this guy got up there and spoke for an answered questions for three and a half hours

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This is important stuff
Putin's address is expected to focus on polycentric world order. You heard about half of it. You didn't get it all
Putin was scheduled to speak from 4 p.m. Local time
But it might be another hour. Let's see. Then they showed
some highlights of previous speeches

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when he was speaking
He said there is no
well, no, that wasn't him that was
Lavrov I want to get back to some of the questions when they get there
Um
Peskov was still speaking before he came out and he said there's been an unhinged position being taken by

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European backers of Ukraine and in a rather abstract stance that shows Kiev itself
Doesn't add predictability or stability to the situation around the conflict. They don't want continued negotiations
They don't want to try to reach an agreement on anything
He said but nevertheless
We must proceed calmly and maintain an openness to dialogue and communication with all parties

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Let's see
There's Peskov again. I want to get to the questions that well, there's so many questions
one of the
Here's here's one of the key comments, which I believe I shared with you
multilateral solutions require

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Considerable in PR impartiality and sometimes a non-standard diplomacy
Putin says I am convinced we will witness a renaissance of higher
Diplomacy that aims at coming to term with your own neighbors
New institutions are being developed like bricks Shanghai cooperation

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They are different but united on the same trait not on subordination
They are not against anyone but for themselves
Tell you what, this is this is a hell of a speech and if you're unfamiliar with it find something here is the lady
Where is she?

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former US Senate aide for Joe Biden
Tara Reid
Asked the Russian president about his take on the inflow of nationals of Western countries
Who seek to move to Russia?
Reid herself gained Russian citizenship
Last month two years after she applied for asylum in the country. I

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Cannot say there's been a huge influx
Said Putin, but there's still been thousands of people
Indeed people are coming especially from European countries not for political
Reasons, but for the sake of values
Because there's a sort of gender terrorism

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I would say many people are unhappy with the treatment of their children and
People are looking for safe havens to escape that he said, can you believe that?
I mean, I mean, it's exactly what I was talking about on the phone
earlier
crazy

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Stuff
Russian president accused France of piracy when asked about a recent raid on an oil tanker
I don't know if you heard about that
Alleging that the Russian vessel was part of a shadow fleet and he said they were apparently looking for military
Cargo drones and other such things. There is nothing of the kind there

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There never was and there cannot be he said
If you if the EU wishes to be a powerful
Civilizational center it is now in decline
He said and he invoked an assessment made by then German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in the early 90s

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If Europe wants to remain one of the independent centers of the world civilization
Then it must be with Russia Kohl said at the time. Do you remember that? I do remember that
Well, there's all kinds of stuff to go into here and I I encourage you all to
Seek further information

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Whether you get it from me or not. I am here nightly
From Sunday through Thursday. It's my last night of the week for the show
I will be here on Sunday night for a deep dive and I believe I will continue
with this trend because I think it is important to listen to nebensia and
to go into some of the discussions that Vladimir Putin was having many things are happening in the world right now and

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he
If you listen to him closely, he's saying we will defend our interests
to the maximum
but we're ready to work with the rest of the world and we always have been I
You know hate to say it
But it's hard not to agree with him when he's been saying the same thing since Bill Clinton times

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