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Zelensky and His Generals Embezzled ‘At Least’ $400M from U.S. Aid Last Year, According to Intel.

The Ukrainian authorities in Kiev have embezzled “$400 million last year, at least,” of U.S. taxpayers money, according to veteran American

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is Scott Ritter you’ve come to the right

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place if you want to hear some in-depth

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discussion on the current state of the

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war Scott thanks for uh joining me let

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me uh start with the uh poll question

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that we have posed uh is I didn’t

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include the Ukraine because in a way

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that’s too obvious uh and there’s a war

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already raging but do you think there’s

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going to be a war Indonesia in Iran in

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China

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can we really be talking about war on

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all those fronts

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No I um first of all we we know that the

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United States is backing away from uh

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conflict with China

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um uh lieutenant general in the United

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States Air Force uh General hennot has a

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briefed the White House and the Pentagon

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on the results of uh consecutive uh war

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games that the Pentagon has run uh

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regarding a potential conflict with

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China over Taiwan and the United States

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loses badly every single time and his

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conclusion was there’s no sense in

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getting involved in a course of action

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that could potentially lead to an armed

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conflict because it is a fate of comp

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plea going in that we’re going to lose

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this is why we saw Tony blinken go to

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China to reset uh relations uh Janet

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Yellen as well

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um and then I I think you’re going to

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see a de-escalation uh in China I mean

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there’s still lunacy going on but uh I

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think both sides understand that

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especially after January of next year

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when there’s going to be elections in

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Taiwan that will probably oust the

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current

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um party and replace it with the Coleman

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Tang which is more inclined towards a

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peaceful resolution of these issues that

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the U.S does want to be on the outside

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looking in when it comes to being able

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to influence Taiwan politics so I think

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uh we’re pretty safe there Iran look the

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U.S can send as many ships as it wants

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to the Persian Gulf the reality is

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Iranian military capabilities are such

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that they will sink all of these ships

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uh General Berger the comment on the

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Marine Corps has restructured uh Marine

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Corps amphibious Warfare Doctrine uh

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recognizing that Reliance upon Legacy

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systems such as large amphibious ships

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is suicidal when dealing with the

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anti-shipping uh missile capability of

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Nations such as Iran so this is a show

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of force nothing more I am very

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concerned about Niger we have 1100 U.S

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military forces deployed in a 100

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million dollar base that we purpose

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built uh in in Niger we’re not going to

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give this up easily I you know I I I’m

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concerned about what happens if ecowas

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does mobilize and dispatch a 25 000

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strong military intervention force and

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they get their noses bloodied will the

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United States feel compelled to uh to

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provide support and we could see sort of

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an incremental

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um engagement there I’m hopeful for

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diplomacy but uh I I I I I’m on this one

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sadly I have to uh I have to say uh I

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believe that conflict is the more likely

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outcome I’d love to be proved wrong on

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that but unfortunately I that’s how I

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see well the the the angel of death uh

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Victoria Newland uh paid them a visit

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they seem to have given her short shrift

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maybe she thought a bag of cookies uh

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would suffice uh to bring these uh

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generals to heal didn’t work out that

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way did it

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no not only that

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um it seems that the United States is uh

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scared to death of this organization uh

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called Wagner and she gave a specific

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warning to the Niger government not to

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get involved in Wagner uh or with Wagner

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I I think was you know I’m not here to

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uh you know tout the uh the benefits of

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of working with Wagner what I am here to

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say is that uh the Russians through

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Wagner are providing a um an alternative

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to the post-colonial

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um you know uh deprivations of uh or

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predations of France and England of uh

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the United States Global hegemony uh

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there’s there’s competition right now

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for African security and more and more

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African nations like Mali Burkina Faso

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now perhaps Niger are leaning towards

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the Russians because they trust them

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more they don’t they don’t have the same

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taint of uh of the colonial uh rape I’m

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sorry to use that word of of Africa and

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uh Victoria Newlands seems to be scared

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to death that Wagner uh could or would

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get involved and uh it seems that she’s

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failed on that front as well

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so let’s turn to the to the main uh dish

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uh which is of course the Ukraine war I

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wanted to ask you about the the war of

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wards uh issue that uh the mass of the

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people are being fed

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a daily diet still even now that Ukraine

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is winning the war that the Russian

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military is decrepit and running out of

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this and that cannibalizing washing

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machines and uh Ukrainian women are

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bringing down uh uh Russian ordinance

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from uh via tins of tomatoes thrown out

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of their their windows and all of this

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bilge but in the heavyweight newspapers

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in the New York Times The Washington

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Post the times the telegraph in London

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they’re actually inching closer towards

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the truth that Ukraine has

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comprehensively lost this war and the

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only question now is how far the

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Russians are going to go how do how is

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the public going to be as it were LED

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from one of these positions to the other

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well it’s interesting though because

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what we’re seeing at the same time that

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as you call it the heavyweight uh

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newspapers who had previously been seen

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actually printing some of the stories

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that you talked about that they’re not

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that heavyweight George they’re capable

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of uh you know imbecilic uh juvenile

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reporting but you know they are

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confronted with a reality now that they

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have to adjust to that reality is that

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Russia is running this war Russia will

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win this war the Ukraine’s defeat will

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be um uh strategic in nature

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comprehensive in nature so at the same

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time they’re doing this though we have

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Tony blinken and we have Joe Biden

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saying uh Putin has lost this war Russia

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has lost this war it’s it seems

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nonsensical to have the simultaneous

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broadcasting of what appears to be

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contradictory messages but they’re not

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because you have to put this in

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perspective of what just transpired in

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Jeddah Saudi Arabia last week where uh I

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think 40 nations came together to talk

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about uh you know zielinski’s 10-point

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peace plan of course it’s 10 points that

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require Russia to surrenders turn over

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their uh to Putin to war crimes to give

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up Crimea give up territory Etc et

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cetera et cetera none of these 10 points

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will ever be implemented and this is the

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reality that Ukraine was confronted with

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by the rest of the world who said now

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you’re really going to have to start

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thinking about uh accepting reality give

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up this territory that Russia is already

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occupied it might not ever be a member

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of NATO there you know things are things

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are like that

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how do you get

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the United States because this is a

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political question how do you get the

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American people to accept the

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inevitability of a negotiated settlement

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it can’t be because Russia won

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it has to be because Russia lost I know

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it sounds silly but if we convince the

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American people that an eventual

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negotiated settlement even if zonski

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gets none of the 10 points is because

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Russia was compelled to come to the

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table to accept these terms the American

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people trust me are dumb enough to

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believe this and say ah yeah look how

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good we were we we compelled Russia to

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come to the table and accept these terms

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but the reality is Russia is defeating

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the Ukrainian military defeating NATO

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and it’s NATO and the United States that

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are coming to the table they’re going to

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bring Ukraine with them

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um but it’s going to be spun because

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it’s all about spinning this it’s going

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to be spun that Russia lost this war

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Russia realized it couldn’t continue

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this war so Russia accepted peace terms

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but look at the peace terms it’s

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everything that Russia is going to be

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demanding and again if Ukraine doesn’t

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you know bend on this this war will

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continue and as you said uh Ukraine will

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lose more and I think that’s going to be

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the culminating point when the military

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chapters when the air defense collapses

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when it becomes clear that if Ukraine

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continues the conflict it will lose

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significantly more territory that’s when

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I think you’re going to see Ukraine flip

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and accept peace terms that Russia is

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demanding but it will be spun that

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Russia lost this war

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unless of course uh zelinski is removed

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from office before that I’ve asked you

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this before but the more I look at the

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appalling losses of the Ukrainian armed

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forces and the extreme difficulty they

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are now having in drafting off the

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street uh press ganging uh and and

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drafting even physically and mentally

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disabled people and sending them to the

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front the more I look at that the more

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it seems to me inevitable it’s certainly

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in other parts of the world or other

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times where a class of Military Officers

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say uh we we can’t do this anymore and

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if the politicians insist that we do

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we’ll have to change the politicians is

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I ask you again you said no last time

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but have you changed your mind at all on

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that might there be a removal of

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zelensky from office

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you know uh Politico uh ran an article

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that hypothesized that but it said what

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happens if Russia removes zelinski from

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office I don’t think Russia is going to

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be moving zielinski from office

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zielinski is the best weapon they ever

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had his incompetence

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um has has facilitated the scope and

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scale of the Russian Victory but you are

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right we could be reaching a uh karinsky

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um

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1917 moment where the um where where the

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military just says we’re done we’re

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putting down our weapons we’re moving to

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uh we’re moving to Kiev to get rid of

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the government that’s uh that’s forcing

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this this down our throat and the more

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these brigades get destroyed the more

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um the desperation become apparently all

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parties involved the more likely that

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outcome is and it that’s problematic

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though for all parties except the

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military because remember we we preface

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this by talking about the the absolute

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reality of a negotiated settlement there

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will be and negotiated into this war

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Russia doesn’t want to

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right they don’t have the force

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structure to do that right now it’s not

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their goal that’s not their objective

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they want the war to end on their terms

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a negotiated settlement all negotiations

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that have taken place to date have been

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through the the zielinski government if

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you remove him you can’t predict who’s

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going to replace him you can’t say it’s

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going to be somebody who is suing for

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peace it might be somebody who is saying

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we need to wage this conflict in a more

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competent fashion which then extends the

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war so I don’t think either Russia or

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the collective West

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um would stand by idly while a Ukrainian

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military I don’t know what’s happened

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no

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everything just went black

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okay sure yeah yeah

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um so I I’m I’m um

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you know I’m concerned about uh you know

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zielinski’s future to be honest because

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I think that the the fastest Pathway to

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peace is to keep zelinski in power and

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because he has set that defined the four

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corners of involvement to look at his

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desperation he came out of you know they

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came out of Jeddah Saudi Arabia and he

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was briefed by his diplomats on what the

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rest of the world was saying uh he went

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on TV and uh gave one of the most

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remarkably

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um uh farcical and fanciful uh

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presentations regarding Crimea and how

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the the

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fixes in Ukraine’s going to retake

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Crimea they’re going to begin the

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process of rebuilding it repopulating it

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making it all wonderful and wonderful he

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had to say that because everything the

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Ukrainian people were reading out of a

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Jetta said that the world is saying that

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there must be territorial concessions

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inclusive of Crimea and politically

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zelinski had no choice but to uh to make

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this statement but it’s an absurd

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statement they’ll never get in here’s

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the last thing I and I bring this up you

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mentioned Oppenheimer in your lead up

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today is the 78th anniversary of the

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Nagasaki bombing nobody talks about we

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always talk about Hiroshima on August

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6th and then we forget the fact that a

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second bomb was dropped

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um nuclear war is an ever-present

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reality and for those people who say hey

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it’s okay for Ukraine to want to get

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back Crimea and it’s good for the West

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to try and Empower that what you’re

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saying is you want to die you because

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Crimea is Russia and if anything happens

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that made a Ukrainian victory over

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Crimea possible there’s a 100 certainty

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that Russia would use nuclear weapons

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and then we’re all going to die so if

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you say we need to help Ukraine win this

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conflict by retaking Crimea what you’re

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really saying is I want to commit

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suicide because that’s the end result

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you’ll be dead we’ll all be dead this is

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why we need to push for a negotiated

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into this war that meets Russia’s terms

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and conditions and it’s not unjust to

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say that Russia deserves to get what it

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wants it wasn’t Russia that launched the

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coup d’etat in 2014. it was the CIA it

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was in Russia that empowered the

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Banderas Nazis to take over it wasn’t

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Russia that inflicted ethnic genocide on

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the russian-speaking populations

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um so I I think you know history shows

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that Russia is on the right side of

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history in this conflict war is never a

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good thing it’s never the ideal option

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and the best thing we could do is try

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and facilitate the conditions under

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which this war can come to a rapid

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conclusion but it’s not going to be on

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the terms dictated by zielinski it’s

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going to be on the terms dictated by

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Russia

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uh lastly I was ruminating in my uh

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monologue about the the sheer I don’t

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know hypocrisy doesn’t sum it up but you

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know you talked about Niger

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it is completely unacceptable for a coup

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to remove the elected President of Niger

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but we’re on the brink of World War III

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over a coup that removed the elected

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president of Ukraine which we didn’t

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just support we actually helped organize

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Victoria Newland was on the streets

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giving out the cookies I mean you’ve

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been pretty near the top Scott you know

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these people does this double standard

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never occur to them it would to me I

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promise you it would to me

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well first of all George I just want to

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compliment you on your monologue um a

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I’ve never laughed so hard and I’ve

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never wanted to cry so hard your uh your

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content is is so disturbing but your

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method of uh of of tell your rhetoric is

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masterful and I applaud you for it

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please continue doing what you’re doing

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uh and the answer of course George you

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know this answer you were in Parliament

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the answer is they know they’re

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hypocritical but that’s okay because

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they will spin it these are Spin Masters

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they are experts at information Warfare

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they run information operations designed

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to shape perceptions to meet their needs

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this isn’t about doing what’s right this

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is about doing what’s

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which supports their greed supports

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their you know their their their dreams

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of Empire their dreams of hegemony their

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corruption uh you’ve talked about the

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Biden corruption and you rightly pointed

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out that every Administration leading up

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to that was as corrupt or even more

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corrupt than Joe Biden that that’s

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possibly imaginable you can’t be that

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corrupt in power if things like

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hypocrisy disturb you these are people

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who hypocrisy is a way of life but they

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are masters of rhetoric not like you you

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use rhetoric to tell the truth use

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Reddit to inform they use rhetoric to

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manipulate to deceive to lie is shape to

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get a result that otherwise wouldn’t be

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accomplished if they even had a common

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courtesy and courage to speak truth on

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occasion

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Scott

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here’s a

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I I miss that question if you could

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repeat it we had a technical glitch I

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think a hiccup good evening Georgian

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team and good evening Scott Ritter thank

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you to you all for all of the hard work

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that you put into these shows

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um and for for letting us know what’s

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really going on a message to Scott my

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question is America spent

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877 billion

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on the military on their military last

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year my question is why are they running

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out of weapons and why are they so slow

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to manufacturing new weapons or

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replacement weapons when they’re

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chucking that much money at the military

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where’s all the money going

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Scott it’s a good question isn’t it

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if I could answer that

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um I mean I can’t answer it but uh I

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shouldn’t be the one answering it An

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Inspector General should be an answer

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but you know what we have the United’s

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the Pentagon doesn’t even hide the fact

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that over the course of the last decade

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there’s a trillion dollars they can’t

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account for they just don’t know where

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to win it’s gone trillion that’s with a

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t not a b b is big enough I mean

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and M is big enough you give me an M

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illian I’m very happy you put a B on it

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t I can’t even imagine the Pentagon has

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lost a trillion dollars they don’t know

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where it went look the United States

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budget isn’t about National Security

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that’s the first thing people have to

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understand the United States budget is

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about greed it’s about corruption we

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don’t build weapons that are designed to

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help the service members Prevail in

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combat we build weapons to keep the

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manufacturers of weapons in their luxury

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apartments in their big cars and their

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vacation getaways that’s what it’s all

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about when we procure a weapon system it

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takes forever they bid low as they go in

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it gets changed it’s a game that’s

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played with Congress Congress knows this

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they accept the low bid and then they

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accept the contract extensions because

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the contract extensions are tied to

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factories in their jurisdictions where

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jobs are more money is pouring into this

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jurisdiction it is a drift left on the

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American taxpayer to take money from the

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American taxpayer and use it as a jobs

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program to enhance the political

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viability of these candidates they will

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never change this because this is how

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they stay in power we can’t build the

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weapons you’re talking about because

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defense industry is not there to do the

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right thing for the National Security

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they can’t make money building artillery

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shells for Ukraine because it would

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require them to capitalize new

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production lines and they don’t want to

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do that they won’t don’t want to do that

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unless there’s a big contract that

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they’re going to stretch out stand as

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part of a program to grift to skill to

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to see the American taxpayer the

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pentagon’s budget is a criminal

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Enterprise look the honest to God fact

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is that we could slash easily 400

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billion dollars from the pentagon’s

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budget and have a stronger military

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today than the one that we exist the

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reality is the bigger the budget is a

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week America becomes because the more it

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becomes about enriching defense industry

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and the less it becomes about doing

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what’s right for the Marine Soldier the

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Sailor the Airmen for the American

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people this is one of the biggest

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criminal Enterprises that has ever

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existed on the planet

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um but there it is right in front of you

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I wish I could say something different