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US expands military presence near Russian border

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and I’m very happy

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to see that Scott Ritter joins us now

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former U.S marine officer former

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esteemed weapons inspector and the

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biggest viewed guest on the mother of

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all talk shows by a distance Scott

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Ritter welcome back can we start with

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that minor Point did it come as a

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surprise to you that your Twitter

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account was reinstated

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my Twitter account wasn’t reinstated I I

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reinstated myself

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um the the original Twitter account

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continues to be banned I took advantage

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of um Elon musk’s bold statement that

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the bird is free and so to test that

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theory I reinstated myself onto uh

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Twitter by uh creating an illegal

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account it’s in my name I’m not hiding

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who I am

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um and then I tested Elon Musk by um

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making the following statement uh bucha

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was a war crime Ukraine did it

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and within 12 hours

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Twitter

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Banned Me so I wasn’t reinstated I

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reinstated myself I repeated the same

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type of tweet that got me banned in the

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first place and

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proving that uh there’s truth and wisdom

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to the

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old who song Won’t Get Fooled Again meet

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the new boss

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same as the old bus I’m banned I’m on

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appeal and I’m waiting to find out what

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Elon Musk is going to do about it

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well that is breaking news I must say

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some of the man buns have not yet been

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fired and this might be their uh rear

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guard action uh Scott I certainly hope

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so and I apologize uh for assuming the

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best of Elon Musk in in this particular

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case but leaving aside the minor issue

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of social media platforms we learned

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today uh that uh the British did it it

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was British Special Forces that paved

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the way at least let the path at least

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for the U.S destruction of property

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worth billions belonging to one of their

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allies Germany and their current

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adversary Russia in the north stream

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pipelines and we learned today that the

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reason we know that is that the Russians

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were reading the text messages sent on

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an ordinary iPhone by the British prime

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minister to the U.S Secretary of State

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all of that’s quite uh quite startling

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to me uh Scott how is it to you

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it’s extraordinarily startling it’s uh

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stunning um I mean of course if Ian

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Fleming was alive uh we’d be reading

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about it as you know bold and daring uh

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though He Who Dares kind of stuff but um

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it’s grossly irresponsible because the

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pipeline you know isn’t a Nazi pipeline

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um the pipeline is a multinational

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pipeline uh that Services Germany and

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Europe so um I guess the British decided

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that He Who Dares should dare to attack

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their own allies because that’s what

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this was a a bold and I’m being as

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sarcastic as I as I can be attacked

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against Germany against

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fellow Europeans against the European

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economy against Europe’s Lifeline

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um now Europe will suffer and there’s

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been an effort to blame the Russians but

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the only people apparently they have to

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blame is the British

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and their American Masters by the way

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because I don’t believe for a second

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that the British would have done this

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without a green light from Washington

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D.C

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what do you think of the Court employed

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by the British prime minister it’s done

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she texted to blinken that’s deep cover

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that isn’t it uh extraordinarily Deep

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Cover and um again

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um I think it shows the complicity of

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the United States it’s done meaning that

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um what’s done

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it has to stand for something in this

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case it was the destruction of the north

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stream one and Nordstrom two pipelines

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uh and this also points to

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um earlier collaboration between these

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two countries to take out a piece of

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German slash European energy

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infrastructure it’s done well the only

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thing that’s done is you know her career

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and um anybody else’s career who

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continues to follow down this path this

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is suicidal it’s suicidal for Europe and

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their economy

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um but you know this is dangerous

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because there’s news came out today that

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apparently the Russians have found

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evidence to show that the British were

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behind uh the Ukrainian abuse of the

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humanitarian uh you know outlet that had

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been created for the shipment of food

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using that as a cover to carry out out a

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drone attack against the Russian Fleet

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in Sebastopol

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um and what how has Russia responded

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they’ve shut down the humanitarian

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Channel they’ve closed it saying that

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it’s being abused by the ukrainians and

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by their British Masters so it appears

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that England’s doing everything but

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declaring war against Russia and at some

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point in time Britain has to understand

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that there will be a price to be paid by

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the British people you know right now

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they’re getting away with it because

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apparently Britain falls into the same

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heroic category as the United States

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willing to fight to the last Ukrainian

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but if england wants to go ahead and put

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its thumbprint on everything then

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England’s going to pay a price I don’t

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know what that price is I mean I think

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the first price is you’re going to get

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very hungry this winter because all the

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food that was leaving Odessa was

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apparently headed to a British you know

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markets um but this is this is terrible

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I mean what does England think this is

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going to be a free ride you can attack a

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great nation like Russia and just get

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away with it

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hide behind Article 5 forever hide

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behind you know America’s skirts forever

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you’ve been out in England

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you’re a war mongering pathetic little

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excuse of a nation and you’re going to

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pay a price

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well it’s only exactly 100 years ago

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that British forces were fighting in

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Russia to bring about our regime change

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there I’m writing something at the

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moment about that so watch this uh space

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on the war more broadly Scott uh what’s

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your take on the current Battlefield

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situation now and when does General

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winter arrive on the battlefield and

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what will be the impact of that

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well my take is to just take the words

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of um General sirivoki a general

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Armageddon the new Russian Commander the

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situation is tense

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and what I mean by that is

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war is Hell there’s a lot of fighting

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going on and men are dying on both sides

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but primarily on the Ukrainian side uh

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they’re being thrown into battle

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unprepared without little preparation in

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terms of tactics and they’re being

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slaughtered by the Russians who have

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solidified their defenses and are

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fighting for the first time in

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accordance with their Doctrine

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um the Russians are building up their

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strength while the ukrainians are

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depleting their strength and neither

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NATO nor the United States or Great

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Britain are able to provide a resources

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uh in the quantities necessary to

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replace that which is being lost so even

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if they’re willing to fight to the last

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Ukrainian uh the ukrainians are going to

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run out of equipment at a faster rate

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than NATO can replenish it uh General

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winter is on his way

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um

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let’s let’s just be very blunt about

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this in Russia lights will be on

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gas will be provided to homes

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people will not freeze to death in

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Ukraine right now the electric grid is

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being shut down by the Russians

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um the Ukrainian people are going to be

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freezing they’re going to be hungry and

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they’re going to be literally operating

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in the dark

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um that’s never a good thing for troops

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at the front line

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there’s going to be a lot of ukrainians

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worrying about what’s going on back home

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especially those have just been recently

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conscripted forcefully off the streets

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of their will to fight will be minimal

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not only that many of the people who are

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conscripted do not have access to cold

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weather gear so as it gets colder

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they’re getting colder unlike each

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Russian uh soldier who has been recently

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mobilized who has been handed a full

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full complement of cold weather gear the

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Russians have the ability to rotate

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rotate troops out of the front lines

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into the rear areas to get warm to get

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well fed to get rested before they

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rotate back in Ukraine doesn’t have that

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luxury their troops are going to the

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front line where they will stay until

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they either are dead wounded captured or

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they Retreat under pressure from the

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Russian soldiers uh General winter will

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be used to the full advantage of the

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Russians some areas the Russians will

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probably uh call for a lull they’re

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digging in they’re creating defensive

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lines in other areas the Russians will

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continue the attack because the Russians

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are trained to carry out offensive

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operations in the winter and eventually

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um you know General winter will depart

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the area and we will find Ukraine far

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weaker at the end of winter than they

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were going into the winter we’ll find a

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nation nearly evaporated in terms of a

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cohesive uh country that is capable of

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feeding itself uh heating itself it will

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be totally at the mercy of a Europe

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that itself is going to be going through

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difficult times Ukraine is about to

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become the abandoned nation of the world

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and when that happens there’ll be the

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lowest possible fruit to be plugged by

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the Russian military which hasn’t

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forgotten why they’re there to begin

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with

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will the fighting continue a high pitch

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uh notwithstanding the winter weather to

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what extent does heavy snow and very

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very cold conditions out of the uh pace

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and character of events on the

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battlefield

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right now the ukrainians are involved in

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a very intensive offensive operations

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they will not be able to sustain this

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into the winter they will be compelled

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to fall back into prepared defensive

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positions what does the snow do right

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now the ukrainians and prepared

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defensive positions have the luxury of

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having foliage over their head that

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Shields them from drones and

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reconnaissance photographs

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um when the fall the leaves fall and

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when that happens they no longer have

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that cover and while you might be safe

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in a bunker

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meaning you could avoid detection

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eventually you’ll have to depart that

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bunker to get resupplied

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to take care of

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Mother Nature uh whatever and when you

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do that your Footprints will be shown

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leaving the bunker and coming back into

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the bunker and a Russian drone is going

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to see that and they’re going to drop a

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bomb on you they’re going to hit you

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with artillery shells as your vehicles

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move in the tracks when the little

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arrows straight to where the vehicles

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are and they will be destroyed Russia

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has an overwhelming superiority both in

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the ability to cut Targets on the

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ukrainians but then put Steel on those

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Targets this winter is going to be all

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about dead ukrainians the Russians are

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going to be stacking them like firewood

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this is going to be a very very

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difficult winter for the ukrainians uh

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the majority of the soldiers who are

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going to be on the front lines are going

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to either be killed or wounded there

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won’t be too many of them left when this

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done

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now the last time you were here Scott

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you introduced us all to the uh exotic

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practice of sheep dipping into which

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I’ve been looking uh more closely I’ve

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been looking at the names of many of the

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Dead the passports uh pictures of many

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of the Dead on the Ukrainian side those

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are very remarkable number of Polish

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names and polish passports there how

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many do you think uh foreign soldiers

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either

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mercenaries or maybe even Special Forces

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from foreign countries are fighting on

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the Ukrainian side

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well it’s a significant number I I would

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be loath to try and put a precise number

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on it because Frankly Speaking I don’t

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know I do know that the Russians have

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claimed to kill tens of thousands of

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them primarily poles a lot of Romanians

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um and also a smattering of people from

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from Western countries I do know that

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Russian intelligence has been speaking

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of tens of thousands of polls polish

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soldiers who have been brought over and

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transformed into Ukrainian soldiers

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since uh this summer and that practice

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is continuing

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um you know the

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the Ukrainian Army uh there was an

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interview done with a Ukrainian Special

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Forces Colonel uh and he’s you know his

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unit was NATO capable uh trained

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alongside NATO prior to this conflict

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was considered to be interoperable with

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his NATO counterparts and he said I’ve

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lost 80 percent of my men eighty percent

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and everybody they replaced them with

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have no training these guys don’t know

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what to do so you call me Special Forces

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there’s nothing special about what my

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guys do right now we we can’t do

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anything special that’s the entire

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Ukrainian Army uh they they’re they’re

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recruiting people mobilizing people

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bringing them to the front lines but

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they’re not well trained they’re not

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Elite by any sense of the word

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um and they lack motivation this is the

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importance of the mercenaries because

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these mercenaries are either

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um sheep dipped polish troops sheep dip

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Romanian troops or they are not the uh

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Airsoft

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um you know

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fake wannabes that came over early on

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you know former guys who served as an

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admin clerk during the Afghan war who

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suddenly wanted to become a combat

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veteran and came to uh came to Ukraine

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only to die uh the guys that are coming

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now are recruited as you know by uh

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these these private military contractors

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who are looking for what they call

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executive protection experience that’s

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code word for the kind of bodyguard

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service that special forces provide and

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um these guys are leading the assault

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and there’s lots of them we see video

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after video of people speaking uh

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English uh with various accents

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um but the other thing about them is um

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like the ukrainians they’re dying in

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large numbers they’re not going to turn

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the tide of battle I do think we’re

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going to see more and more polish troops

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come in as Poland prepares for what I be

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believed to be a foolish Gambit and that

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is to

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um see East Western Ukraine it won’t

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involve the Polish Army pouring across

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the border because

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the Polish Army’s already in Ukraine

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entire battalions are coming over sheep

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dip and then joining the Ukrainian

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service and those battalions can you

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know be cleansed of whatever it is that

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transformed them from a wolf to a sheep

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and go back to being a wolf right there

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on Western Ukraine

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um and this is an escalation that I’m uh

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I’m very concerned about as Ukraine uh

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is more and more comprehensively

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defeated uh on the Eastern front on the

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southern front that Poland is going to

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say now is the time we need to act now

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Scott Richter I do hope your appeal

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succeeds on the Twitter but whether it

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does or whether it doesn’t you’re always

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more than welcome on the mother of all

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talk shows

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